[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2868]
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  SA 761. Mr. BROWN 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 end of subtitle C of title VIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 836. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO RUBBER SUPPLY.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the Department of Defense should take all appropriate 
     action to lessen the dependence of the Armed Forces on 
     adversarial nations for the procurement of strategic and 
     critical materials, and that one such material in short 
     supply according to the most recent report from Defense 
     Logistics Agency Strategic Material is natural rubber, 
     undermining our national security and jeopardizing the 
     military's ability to rely on a stable source of natural 
     rubber for tire manufacturing and production of other goods; 
     and
       (2) the Secretary of Defense should take all appropriate 
     action, pursuant with the authority provided by the Strategic 
     and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98a et 
     seq.) to engage in activities that may include stockpiling, 
     but shall also include research and development aspects for 
     increasing the domestic supply of natural rubber.
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