[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2540-S2541]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 367. Mr. JOHNSON 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, insert the following:

     SEC. __. STUDY ON PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS.

       The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall seek to 
     enter into an agreement with the RAND Corporation under which 
     the RAND Corporation--
       (1) studies--
       (A) the extent to which drug manufacturers use foreign 
     sources for precursor chemicals and active pharmaceutical 
     ingredients for the manufacture of drugs for the United 
     States market; and
       (B) any statutory, regulatory, or other barriers to 
     domestic production of such chemicals and ingredients; and

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       (2) submits a report on such study to the Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services and Congress.
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