[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 119 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2389]
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  SA 201. Mr. SCHMITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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 I, insert the following:

     SEC. __. SENSE OF SENATE ON PROCUREMENT OF OUTSTANDING F/A-18 
                   SUPER HORNET PLATFORMS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds that Congress appropriated 
     funds for twelve F/A-18 Super Hornet platforms in fiscal year 
     2022 and eight F/A-18 Super Hornet platforms in fiscal year 
     2023, but the Navy has yet to enter into any contracts for 
     the procurement of such platforms.
       (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) the Secretary of the Navy should expeditiously enter 
     into contractual agreements to procure the twenty F/A-18 
     Super Hornet platforms for which funds have been 
     appropriated; and
       (2) the Senate urges the Secretary of the Navy to comply 
     with congressional intent and applicable law with appropriate 
     expediency to bolster the Navy's fleet of strike fighter 
     aircraft and avoid further disruption to the defense 
     industrial base.
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