[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6120. Mr. THUNE 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 E of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 372. REPORT ON SUSTAINMENT OF LONG-RANGE STRIKE AND 
                   STEALTH CAPABILITIES IN INDO-PACIFIC REGION.

       Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force, in consultation 
     with the Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, 
     shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
     containing the results of a study on the feasibility and 
     advisability of constructing a low-observable restoration 
     facility and other requisite maintenance facilities in 
     Australia or other locations as determined by the Commander 
     for the purposes of sustaining long-range strike and stealth 
     capabilities and for bolstering logistical flexibility in the 
     Indo-Pacific Region.
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