[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2577]
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  SA 396. Mr. LANKFORD 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 subtitle B of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 101__. NATIONAL SECURITY-BASED THREAT ASSESSMENT.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, in conjunction 
     with the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and 
     Security and the Director of National Intelligence, shall 
     develop and submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security of 
     the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the House of Representatives a threat assessment 
     that--
       (1) is related to the technologies that are commonly used 
     to construct illicit, cross-border tunnels;
       (2) is focused on--
       (A) identifying the technologies that could be used to 
     construct such tunnels;
       (B) how such technologies can be acquired; and
       (C) whether such technologies should be subject to 
     additional regulations, export controls, or other regulatory 
     measures to safeguard the national security of the United 
     States; and
       (3) considers whether any entities should be added to the 
     Entity List maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security 
     of the Department of Commerce and set forth in Supplement No. 
     4 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations.
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