[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5895]
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  SA 6360. Mr. TUBERVILLE 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 in title II, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. FUNDING FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RELATING TO 
                   RARE EARTH ELEMENTS.

       (a) Increase.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the 
     funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be 
     appropriated for the National Defense Stockpile Transaction 
     Fund, as specified the funding table in section 4501, is 
     hereby increased by $2,000,000 (with the amount of such 
     increase to be used to strengthen and implement the domestic 
     industrial base for rare earth metallization related to 
     permanent magnet production and related projects.
       (b) Offset.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the 
     funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be 
     appropriated in section 201 for research, development, test, 
     and evaluation, Army, as specified in the corresponding 
     funding table in section 4201, for system development and 
     demonstration, integrated personnel and pay system-Army 
     (IPPS-A) (PE 0605018A), line 123, is hereby reduced by 
     $2,000,000.
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