[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6127. Mr. COTTON 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. _____. EQUAL ENFORCEMENT OF EXPENDING ONLY AUTHORIZED 
                   APPROPRIATIONS UNDER CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) The national security of the United States suffers 
     greatly from continuing appropriation Acts due to the 
     inability of the Department of Defense to execute new starts 
     or production increases under the standardized language of 
     continuing resolutions.
       (2) No other executive branch agency receives similar 
     treatment under the standardized language of continuing 
     resolutions.
       (3) The theory that the prohibitions under a continuing 
     resolution on new starts and production increases at the 
     Department of Defense increase pressure for negotiations has 
     not been supported by the significant and growing length of 
     the period during which funding is provided under a 
     continuing resolution for a fiscal year over the past 15 
     years.
       (4) Experimentation with alternative methods of increasing 
     pressure for negotiations could result in more efficient and 
     effective outcomes for national security and the taxpayers of 
     the United States.
       (b) Equal Enforcement.--No amounts made available under an 
     appropriation Act providing continuing funding for a fiscal 
     year shall be made available to any department, agency, 
     corporation, or other organization unit of the Federal 
     Government for production of items, procurement of materials, 
     construction of facilities, research and development, 
     execution of contracts, or any other use of funds not 
     specifically provided for in the annual appropriation Act for 
     the preceding fiscal year.
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