[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5576]
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  SA 6042. Mr. TOOMEY (for himself and Mr. Portman) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1276. RESPONSIBILITY OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR 
                   INVESTIGATIONS UNDER SECTION 232 OF THE TRADE 
                   EXPANSION ACT OF 1962.

       (a) In General.--Section 232(b) of the Trade Expansion Act 
     of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``the Secretary of 
     Commerce (hereafter in the section referred to as the 
     `Secretary')'' and inserting ``the Secretary of Defense''; 
     and
       (B) in subparagraph (B)--
       (i) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting ``The 
     Secretary of Defense''; and
       (ii) by striking ``the Secretary of Defense'' and inserting 
     ``the Secretary of Commerce'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking ``the 
     Secretary'' and inserting ``the Secretary of Defense''; and
       (ii) in clause (i), by striking ``the Secretary of 
     Defense'' and inserting ``the Secretary of Commerce''; and
       (B) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
       ``(B) Upon the request of the Secretary of Defense, the 
     Secretary of Commerce shall provide to the Secretary of 
     Defense an assessment of the quantity of imports of any 
     article that is the subject of an investigation conducted 
     under this subsection and the circumstances under which the 
     article is imported.'';
       (3) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) in the first sentence, by striking ``the Secretary 
     shall submit'' and all that follows through ``recommendations 
     of the Secretary'' and inserting ``the Secretary of Defense 
     and the Secretary of Commerce shall jointly submit to the 
     President and Congress a report on the findings of the 
     investigation and, based on such findings, the 
     recommendations of the Secretary of Commerce''; and
       (ii) in the second sentence--

       (I) by striking ``Secretary finds'' and inserting 
     ``Secretaries find''; and
       (II) by striking ``Secretary shall'' and inserting 
     ``Secretaries shall''; and

       (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``by the Secretary''; 
     and
       (4) in paragraph (4), by striking ``Secretary'' and 
     inserting ``Secretary of Defense''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 232 of the Trade 
     Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1862) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)(1)(A)--
       (A) by striking ``in which the Secretary'' and inserting 
     ``that''; and
       (B) in clause (i), by striking ``of the Secretary'';
       (2) in the first subsection (d), by striking ``the 
     Secretary and the President'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 
     Commerce, and the President'';
       (3) by redesignating the second subsection (d) as 
     subsection (e); and
       (4) in paragraph (1) of subsection (e), as redesignated by 
     paragraph (2), by striking ``the Secretary'' and inserting 
     ``the Secretary of Defense''.
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