[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 121 (Friday, July 14, 2023)]
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[Pages H3581-H3600]
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        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 583 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 2670.
  Will the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Stauber) kindly take the 
chair.

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                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the state of the Union for the further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 2670) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 
for military activities of the Department of Defense and 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, with Mr. Stauber (Acting Chair) in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The Acting CHAIR. When the Committee of the Whole rose on Thursday, 
July 13, 2023, amendment No. 62, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Burlison), had been 
disposed of.


                 Amendment No. 63 Offered by Mr. Banks

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 63 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. BANKS. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:
       At the end of subtitle G of title V, insert the following:

     SEC. 5__. PROHIBITION ON USE OF QUOTAS BASED ON RACE OR 
                   ETHNICITY IN SERVICE ACADEMY ADMISSIONS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for the military service 
     academies for fiscal year 2024 may be used to discriminate or 
     to use quotas in admissions on the basis of race or 
     ethnicity.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Indiana (Mr. Banks) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Indiana.
  Mr. BANKS. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, this amendment would prohibit the use of funds to 
discriminate on the basis of race and ethnicity in admissions to the 
military service academies.
  Currently, all of the military service academies use race and 
ethnicity as selection criteria for admissions. Not only is this a 
violation of the Constitution, as recently affirmed by the U.S. Supreme 
Court, but it is a violation of the military's longstanding 
meritocratic principles.
  The military service academies are elite universities that train and 
educate the future leaders of our armed services. We need the best and 
the brightest, the most fit cadets and midshipmen, regardless of their 
skin color and ethnicity. To consider immutable characteristics like 
race and ethnicity is blatantly discriminatory.
  For our national security, we must uphold the ideals of our country 
and put hard work, dedication, and service above all.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Washington is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chair, Mr. Banks' amendment to prohibit our Nation's service 
academies from promoting diverse experiences and backgrounds as part of 
its missions policy will do nothing but weaken our military.
  The Supreme Court recently recognized in its decision to leave 
service academies out of its ruling on affirmative action that our 
academies are not laboratories for ideological gerrymandering. They are 
institutions that are foundational to our national security.
  Our service academies are responsible for providing a higher 
education but also for training our Nation's men and women to serve as 
global leaders. Many graduates will serve in the highest levels of our 
military and government, where success depends on maintaining an open 
mind, building diverse coalitions, and drawing on broad experiences. 
They will lead as part of a military that has never been more diverse, 
more capable, or more lethal. Soon, nearly half of our servicemembers 
will be people of color, but only a fraction serve as officers and even 
a smaller fraction as senior leaders.
  We learned bitter and painful lessons in World War II, Korea, and 
Vietnam, when leaders neither understood nor looked like the formations 
they led.
  It is 2023, not 1952. If my colleagues across the aisle knew more 
about the painful history of this country, perhaps last night one of 
them would not have referred to Black servicemembers as ``colored 
people.''
  Let's not move our country backward. I oppose this amendment, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BANKS. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman).
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from Indiana for 
introducing this amendment.
  I think it is a commonsense amendment. Right now, there are all sorts 
of rumors out there that when people are admitted to the service 
academies--who, after all, are going to wind up running our military, 
the one part of our government that cannot fail--preferences are being 
given and they are not always taking the best people that they can.
  I want to point out something that is a little bit offensive about 
this whole diversity thing. Diversity for people like the Democratic 
Party, sadly, is solely determined by your genetics or your DNA or 
where your ancestors were 200 years ago.
  I will give you an example to show the foolishness of it and that the 
real goal here, I think, is to divide Americans.
  If I am one-quarter Peruvian, I can identify as Hispanic. I can 
identify as Hispanic despite the fact I have never spoken a word of 
Spanish and never been south of the border in my life. The people who 
just want to divide America would say that I have a unique perspective 
growing up in a Milwaukee suburb, despite the fact that I am one-
quarter from a different part of the world.
  This is preposterous on its face, and it will inevitably lead to 
division as we are educating our military that they should look at 
people by where their ancestors came from, not as individuals.
  This true racism, which is what it absolutely is because that is how 
they determine which silo you fit into, has to be ripped away from our 
society and the military, in particular.
  The idea that we have different viewpoints because of where our 
ancestors came from despite the fact that we have not been there and 
know nothing of them is preposterous.
  Like I said, in addition to the divisiveness, you are going to wind 
up with people who are not necessarily the best people to lead our 
military. Anybody familiar with military history knows the important 
decisions that have to be made during wartime. We want those decisions 
made by the brightest people we have, not by people who have been 
picked based upon where their DNA was 2,000 years ago.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Kim), the ranking member

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of the Military Personnel Subcommittee.
  Mr. KIM of New Jersey. Mr. Chair, I want to respond to what was just 
said.
  It is absolutely important that we set straight that diversity does 
not mean we are talking about people who are less qualified. We are not 
talking about reducing standards. We are talking about recognizing one 
part of the decision as one part of many.
  This is not a situation where it is the overriding factor. I agree 
with what Chairman Banks said, which is that we want the best and 
brightest, but what we recognize when it comes to our service 
academies, in particular, is that this is a situation where we are 
trying to also build a force.

  This is not just about an individual. Yes, we want the best and 
brightest, but we also want the most cohesive and effective fighting 
force for our country.
  We recognize we are building an entity where our servicemembers are 
part of something bigger than all of them.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from New Jersey.
  Mr. KIM of New Jersey. I think about this brief that was put forward 
to the Supreme Court that was written by former military officials that 
said: ``The importance of maintaining a diverse, highly qualified 
officer corps has been beyond legitimate dispute for decades. History 
has shown that placing a diverse Armed Forces under the command of 
homogenous leadership is a recipe for internal resentment, discord, and 
violence.''
  This is written by former military leaders who are advising us to 
make sure that we let the military be able to control and be able to 
have the tools they need to build a force that our country needs.
  Mr. BANKS. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Mast), a real American hero.
  Mr. MAST. Mr. Chair, I am amazed at the bigoted comments I am hearing 
from the other side right now, literally stating that units need to 
look a certain way. There have to be people of certain colors in these 
units. It is purely idiotic. It is dangerous.
  War is not a game. It is always dangerous. It is very often deadly. I 
damn near gave my life for this country, and I can tell you the last 
thing I cared about was the color of the snipers that had my back or 
the color of the medics that were putting tourniquets on each of my 
legs and my left arm when I was injured on the battlefield. It didn't 
matter if they were Black, White, Brown.
  None of that mattered when they were recruited into the military, and 
it didn't matter as they were serving. It has absolutely zero place, 
and you are literally putting the lives of our servicemembers in 
danger. You are concretely saying that units need to look a certain way 
by color.
  I just pose this quick question. I don't know how much time I have 
remaining, but I will bet you all over there can't tell me what my 
background is. Am I part Black? Part Brown? Part White? What am I?
  I yield time to you for a colloquy if you want to answer that. What 
am I?
  The Acting CHAIR. Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the 
Chair.
  Mr. MAST. Mr. Chair, I will bet they can't tell me. I hear silence 
because you don't know what I am. You don't know that I am half 
Mexican. You can't look at me and see that, but you believe that units 
should be made up of something that you can't see and that you can't 
ask about. It is idiotic policy and dangerous for our servicemembers, 
and they deserve better from the other side.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair would again remind Members to direct 
their remarks to the Chair.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Ryan), vice ranking member of the House Armed Services 
Committee.
  Mr. RYAN. Mr. Chair, I thank my colleague for his service.
  Mr. Chair, I rise as a proud graduate of the United States Military 
Academy at West Point and a representative of the academy today. 
Whether my colleagues want to recognize it or not, particularly those 
on the far right, we have an increasingly growing diverse force.
  As Mr. Kim said, unit cohesion, we can all agree, is essential and 
critical, both in the heat of battle and in training and preparation. 
This amendment would unequivocally, as you heard from retired military 
officers across the world, weaken unit cohesion. Even the 
considerably--to be generous--conservative Supreme Court has recognized 
the distinct interests of these service academies in the Court's recent 
decision that came down just a few weeks ago.
  We have made great strides at the academies with a focus and 
bipartisan commitment for decades. West Point has gone from 20 percent 
to 36 percent cadets of minority backgrounds, and the Naval Academy 
from 19 percent to 37 percent, but we still have work to do to achieve 
unit cohesion.
  Mr. BANKS. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is simple. It ensures our 
military service academies are in line with the Supreme Court's recent 
decision on the unconstitutionality of race-based affirmative action, 
and it strives to uphold the ideals of meritocracy, which is nowhere 
more important than in the United States military.
  Mr. Chair, I urge all Members to support this amendment, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to the time remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 1 minute remaining.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Mr. Chair, today's military leaders are unequivocal in their support 
of diversity and leadership. Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley considers it 
fundamental. Army Chief McConville calls it a crucial competitive 
advantage. Then-Air Force Chief CQ Brown called diversity an 
imperative. Marine Corps Commandant Berger said the core of America's 
strength lies in its diversity.
  The very government assembled here today, in its amicus brief to the 
Supreme Court, characterized a diverse pool of academy graduates as a 
vital interest on which the Nation's future depends.
  The American people expect and demand that our academies are given 
every tool and advantage to train leaders capable of fighting and 
winning our Nation's wars. Make no mistake, diversity is not synonymous 
with less qualified. We want the best. We want the brightest. We need 
the most diverse.

  This amendment attempts to weaken a concept foundational to our 
current and future military supremacy, that diversity translates into 
capability and lethality.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Banks).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. STRICKLAND. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Indiana will 
be postponed.

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                  Amendment No. 64 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 64 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT CERTAIN 
                   EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense for 
     fiscal year 2024 may be used to implement any of the 
     following executive orders:
       (1) Executive Order 13990, relating to Protecting Public 
     Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle 
     the Climate Crisis.
       (2) Executive Order 14008, relating to Tackling the Climate 
     Crisis at Home and Abroad.
       (3) Section 6 of Executive Order 14013, relating to 
     Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle Refugees and 
     Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration.
       (4) Executive Order 14030, relating to Climate-Related 
     Financial Risk.

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       (5) Executive Order 14057, relating to Catalyzing Clean 
     Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.
       (6) Executive Order 14082, relating to Implementation of 
     the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation 
     Reduction Act of 2022.
       (7) Executive Order 14096, relating to Revitalizing Our 
     Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Roy) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, we have spent the better part of the last several 
days making clear to the American people that this side of the aisle 
wants to see a Department of Defense that is focused on its core 
mission, defending the United States of America, rather than divvying 
us up by race and dividing us and separating us.
  I rise today to ensure that the Department of Defense is focused on 
its core mission rather than pursuing the political agenda of climate 
change to the detriment of the national security of the United States.
  In 2021, Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby refused to say 
that China is a bigger national security threat to the United States 
than climate change. He called them equally important and said it 
doesn't do any good to make a relative assessment of national security 
issues.
  Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said climate change is an 
existential threat to our Nation's security.
  Next week, Secretary of State John Kerry literally travels to China 
to discuss climate change, not China's increased aggression against 
Taiwan, not its expansion in the Pacific, not its oppression of its 
people, not the fact that they produce two new coal-fired plants per 
week on top of the 1,100 they have while we undermine our national 
security to pursue the climate-fetish agenda of the other side of the 
aisle.
  President Biden's executive orders have served as the catalyst for 
massive reforms at the Department of Defense that compromise national 
security to advance this climate fetish.
  The amendment that I offer would prohibit any of the funding in the 
National Defense Authorization Act, or that flows from that 
authorization, from being used to carry out President Biden's executive 
orders on climate change.
  The Department of Defense's climate adaptation plan includes radical 
proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the expense of our 
warfighting capabilities. According to the plan, the DOD has identified 
climate change as a critical national security issue. It mandates 
environmental justice because why miss an opportunity to push divisive 
ideology?
  The DOD says it will transition to 100 percent carbon-free 
electricity, meaning America's war machine will literally depend on the 
wind and the sun.
  No one, including anyone on this side of the aisle, believes that we 
shouldn't pursue every advantage and technology to harness energy, no 
one. In Texas, we have embraced wind and we have embraced solar, but to 
our detriment when we have interfered with the market and interfered 
with our ability to have energy at our disposal and at our demand. We 
undermine our grid. We undermine our national security. We undermine 
reliability. We cause energy prices to go up.
  In this case, in the context of the National Defense Authorization 
Act, we should not be pursuing this politically motivated climate 
fetishization that undermines our national security.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Three quick points here. First of all, it is interesting. You can go 
back to 2008 and look at John McCain's campaign and, entertainingly, 
Sarah Palin's Vice Presidential statements about how climate change was 
an existential threat, and this was a bipartisan issue where we talked 
about why this was a significant challenge that we needed to address.
  Then, of course, Barack Obama had the audacity to get elected 
President and pursue that agenda, so suddenly it became political.
  I just want to make this very, very clear. The belief here is that 
digging up fossil fuels from below the ground and burning them is bad 
for life, it is bad for the planet, and it will eventually exterminate 
the planet.
  Now, if you want to disagree with that, you want to have a little 
argument about whether or not that is true, we can. I mean, the 
overwhelming majority of scientists seem to agree with that, but let's 
hear the argument. It just kills me to sit here and listen to the other 
side claim that this is a political agenda.
  Now, I understand why they do that, because that skips past the messy 
part of where you have to actually argue the facts and you can just 
dismiss it as politics and everyone robotically goes: Oh, yes, 
politics, that is bad. We can't have that.
  If we can have an actual discussion about this, if you believe, as 
the administration does and as, again, I don't know, 80 percent of the 
scientists believe, that climate change could destroy the fricking 
planet, then it is worth saying that that's a national security threat 
at least equivalent to China.
  Yes, there is the possibility of global nuclear war with China that 
could exterminate the planet, but climate change, the argument is, 
would exterminate the planet, so I think that is worth thinking about.
  Please believe me when I say this is not a political agenda. It is a 
heartfelt belief that we have a distinct problem here that needs to be 
addressed.
  Second: How to address it. Come up with alternative sources of energy 
and make those investments. This is also very important, because even 
if this wasn't destroying the planet, our dependency upon oil has been 
problematic.
  I know there is this fantasy that we are going to become energy 
independent. Nobody is energy independent. Oil is a global marketplace. 
Even if we generate enough energy, we sell it overseas, and Saudi 
Arabia and OPEC therefore have an enormous amount of control over that 
market.
  As I have said over and over again, the true answer to this problem 
is, when gas prices go up, wouldn't it be great to say: That is 
wonderful, but we don't need that, we have other sources of energy to 
go to. Nothing is more important in the military than energy and access 
to it. Wars are started over having access to the energy that you need. 
To say that this doesn't involve national security literally hurts my 
brain. You need these alternatives.
  The last argument is on the market: We will let the market decide. 
The market subsidized the living hell out of the oil industry for 175 
years. They have an enormous advantage. The pipelines, the system, the 
entire thing that was built, was built on our taxpayer dollars. Now, 
what we are saying is if we are going to develop an alternative to 
that, then we are going to have to help that, as we helped nuclear 
energy, and a whole of bunch other different things.
  I don't think I hear the other side complaining about the government 
subsidizing nuclear energy because that fits within their politics.
  If I ask nothing else, could we please just have a rational 
discussion that understands that this is a legitimate policy issue? It 
isn't a fetish. It isn't a political debate. It is the fate of the 
planet and how we manage energy policy, both of which--I am going to 
take a real bold step here--actually impact national security. I 
believe that they do, and I believe that anybody would agree with that 
statement.
  Please, defeat this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROY. Mr. Chair, I appreciate my colleague for basically making 
the case for the very climate fetish that I describe. When he talks 
about the need for energy and its existence for national security, my 
point is having reliable energy. We have to have energy that is 
available and reliable and dependable. That is the whole point.
  My colleague talks about nuclear power. Great. I am waiting with 
bated breath for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to 
embrace and promote and push noncarbon-producing nuclear power.
  We haven't generated a new nuclear power plant since when, the 1970s?

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Georgia isn't even off the ground because of Federal regulation and 
interference.
  The fact is, we are subsidizing and promoting unreliable wind and 
solar while subsidizing the hell out of electric vehicles, and my 
colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to use the Defense 
Department to continue to promote it, when it engaged in crony 
capitalism to enrich a small handful of elitists on the back of the 
hardworking American people while we subsidize China and make ourselves 
reliable on China for their minerals and what they produce.
  It is absolutely astonishing that we would turn over our national 
defense capability to China at this point in time to pursue this 
radical agenda.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I would just note that we 
actually are making investments in nuclear power. It is really 
expensive and difficult to develop, but the investments are being made. 
That is part of the agenda.
  Mr. Chair, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Garamendi).
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Chair, I am actually quite amazed that we are 
allowing a political ideology to get in the way of reality and facts.
  The fact of the matter is that the U.S. military, more than a decade 
ago, noticed that the climate was changing and they needed to address 
it. Also, the fact is that the largest solar and wind energy systems in 
the Nation are in Texas, and Texas is dependent upon those for their 
power when a heat wave arrives.
  Let's be smart here. Let's not let ideology and the fact that we want 
to get into a fight over climate change get in the way of good public 
policy. It is absolutely essential that the military build for the 
future, that they build for resiliency.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I demand a recorded vote.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further 
proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will 
be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 65 will not be offered.


                Amendment No. 66 Offered by Mr. Davidson

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 66 
printed in House Report 118-142.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, I have an amendment at the desk.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       At the end of subtitle D of title XVI, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 16__. EXCLUSIVE MEANS FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TO 
                   ACQUIRE LOCATION INFORMATION, WEB BROWSING 
                   HISTORY, INTERNET SEARCH HISTORY, AND FOURTH 
                   AMENDMENT-PROTECTED INFORMATION.

       (a) Exclusive Means.--
       (1) Foreign intelligence purposes.--Title I and sections 
     303, 304, 703, 704, and 705 of the Foreign Intelligence 
     Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq., 1823, 1824, 
     1881b, 1881c, 1881d) shall be the exclusive means by which 
     the Secretary of Defense acquires location information, web 
     browsing history, Internet search history, and Fourth 
     Amendment-protected information of United States persons or 
     persons inside the United States for foreign intelligence 
     purposes.
       (2) Law enforcement purposes.--A warrant obtained by 
     demonstrating probable cause shall be the exclusive means by 
     which the Secretary of Defense acquires location information, 
     web browsing history, Internet search history, and Fourth 
     Amendment-protected information of United States persons or 
     persons inside the United States for law enforcement 
     purposes.
       (b) Third Party.--If the interception, or compelled 
     production, or physical search or seizure of information 
     inside the United States by the Secretary of Defense would 
     require a warrant, court order, or subpoena under law, the 
     Secretary may not obtain that information from a third party 
     in exchange for anything of value without obtaining the 
     warrant, court order, or subpoena that would be required for 
     such interception, compelled production, or physical search 
     or seizure.
       (c) Exception.--Notwithstanding subsection (b), the 
     Secretary of Defense may acquire the types of information 
     specified in subsection (b) in exchange for something of 
     value if--
       (1) the information is aggregated or anonymized in such a 
     way that it cannot reasonably be de-anonymized or otherwise 
     linked to any individual or specific group of individuals; 
     and
       (2) the Secretary does not disclose the information to any 
     Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency or to any 
     other element of the intelligence community, or any official 
     of such an agency or element.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``Fourth Amendment-protected information'' 
     means information the compelled production of which would 
     require a warrant for law enforcement purposes.
       (2) The term ``location information'' means information 
     derived or otherwise calculated from the transmission or 
     reception of a radio signal that reveals the approximate or 
     actual geographic location of a customer, subscriber, or 
     device.
       (3) The term ``United States person'' has the meaning given 
     that term in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence 
     Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801).

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Davidson) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Ohio.
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chair, the amendment I have offered would prevent 
the Department of Defense from purchasing data that would otherwise 
require a warrant, court order, or subpoena. The amendment would also 
end unauthorized surveillance practices.
  The government is currently circumventing the Fourth Amendment by 
purchasing location data, internet browsing data, and other sensitive 
information. The so-called data broker loophole is a severe threat to 
the right to privacy in the United States.
  Freedom surrendered is rarely reclaimed, but we must defend our 
Fourth Amendment.
  Government surveillance programs are routinely misused and targeted 
at Americans. The FBI, in fact, admits it conducted 278,000 improper 
searches of American citizens in 2020 alone. If the government can buy 
its way around the Fourth Amendment, there will be few meaningful 
limits on government surveillance.
  We need to pass this amendment. It at least stops the Department of 
Defense from doing that inside the United States of America.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to 
the amendment, although I am not opposed to the amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman 
from Alabama?
  There was no objection.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman for offering 
the amendment.
  Ubiquitous commercial data collection and bulk data sales represent a 
privacy concern for all Americans. Companies and governments alike have 
access to once unimaginable amounts of user data through commercial 
channels. This development and the Fourth Amendment questions that come 
with it deserve full consideration.
  I look forward to working with the gentleman on this amendment to 
ensure that these issues are addressed in a manner that does not unduly 
burden the Department of Defense relative to the rest of the Federal 
Government while ensuring its operational needs are met.
  I think Congress will spend a substantial amount of time on the 
privacy concerns addressed by this amendment in the coming months, and 
I welcome that discussion.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.

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  Mr. DAVIDSON. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the support of my colleagues 
to get this amendment to this point and, frankly, the commitment to the 
work ahead. It is important for our national security, but the whole 
premise of the Department of Defense is to support and defend the 
Constitution of the United States. The way we go about that has to 
preserve the way of life that our Constitution establishes, that the 
Bill of Rights guarantees that our protections will exist, and we have 
a lot of work to do to restore the protections of our Fourth Amendment.

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  This amendment is an important first step, and I ask all of our 
colleagues to unite and make it a fully bipartisan level of support.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. JACOBS. Mr. Chair, I want to thank the Gentleman from Ohio for 
your partnership on this amendment.
  My team and I have loved working with you and your team on this issue 
and appreciate your commitment to making this a bipartisan effort.
  Right now, an existing data broker loophole allows our government to 
make an end-run around our 4th amendment rights to access our personal 
information without a warrant, court order, or subpoena.
  How? Because they're buying it.
  Cash doesn't hold the same legitimacy and authority as a warrant--but 
right now, it's treated like it does.
  This is wrong.
  I'm sure that many of my colleagues don't want the Department of 
Defense to see what they're looking at online. . . . but there's 
nothing right now to prevent that.
  Our search and browsing history, location data, health information--
all of this should be off-limits unless a court order says otherwise.
  And that's why I'm so proud to lead this bipartisan amendment to 
prevent the Department of Defense from purchasing data that would 
otherwise require a warrant, court order, or subpoena.
  Our amendment would rein in unauthorized surveillance practices and 
take a big step forward to protect Americans' privacy.
  I urge my colleagues to support it.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair understands that amendment No. 67 will 
not be offered.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 68 will not be offered.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 69 will not be offered.


       Amendments En Bloc No. 1 Offered by Mr. Rogers of Alabama

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, pursuant to House Resolution 583, I 
offer amendments en bloc.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc.
  Amendments en bloc No. 1 consisting of amendment Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 
8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26, 29, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 
43, 44, 53, 54, 60, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 
and 80, printed in House Report 118-142, offered by Mr. Rogers of 
Alabama:


           amendment no. 2 offered by mr. green of tennessee

       At the appropriate place in subtitle E of title XII, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. __. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR PRODUCTION OF FILMS 
                   AND PROHIBITION ON USE OF SUCH FUNDS FOR FILMS 
                   SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS ON CONTENT OR ALTERED FOR 
                   SCREENING IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA OR 
                   AT THE REQUEST OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

       (a) Limitation on Use of Funds.--The Secretary of Defense 
     may only authorize the provision of technical support or 
     access to an asset controlled by or related to the Department 
     of Defense to enter into a contract relating to the 
     production or funding of a film by a United States company if 
     the United States company, as a condition of receiving the 
     support or access--
       (1) provides to the Secretary a list of all films produced 
     or funded by that company the content of which has been 
     submitted, during the shorter of the preceding 10-year period 
     or the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, to an official of the Government of the People's 
     Republic of China (PRC) or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 
     for evaluation with respect to screening the film in the PRC;
       (2) includes, with respect to each such film--
       (A) the title of the film; and
       (B) the date on which such submission occurred;
       (3) enters into a written agreement with the Secretary of 
     Defense not to alter the content of the film in response to, 
     or in anticipation of, a request by an official of the 
     Government of the PRC or the CCP; and
       (4) submits such agreement to the Secretary.
       (b) Prohibition With Respect to Films Subject to Conditions 
     on Content or Altered for Screening in China.--
     Notwithstanding subsection (a), the President may not 
     authorize the provision of technical support or access to any 
     asset controlled by the Federal Government for, or authorize 
     the head of a Federal agency to enter into any contract 
     relating to, the production or funding of a film by a United 
     States company if--
       (1) the film is co-produced by an entity located in the PRC 
     that is subject to conditions on content imposed by an 
     official of the Government of the PRC or the CCP; or
       (2) with respect to the most recent report submitted under 
     subsection (c), the United States company is listed in the 
     report pursuant to subparagraph (C) or (D) of paragraph (2) 
     of that subsection.
       (c) Report to Congress.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress a report on films disclosed under 
     subsection (a) that are associated with a United States 
     company that has received technical support or access to an 
     asset controlled by the Department of Defense for, or has 
     entered into a contract with the Federal Government relating 
     to, the production or funding of a film.
       (2) Elements.--Each report required by paragraph (1) shall 
     include the following:
       (A) A description of each film listed pursuant to the 
     requirement under subsection (a)(1), the content of which was 
     submitted, during the shorter of the preceding 10-year period 
     or the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, by a United States company to an official of the 
     Government of the PRC or the CCP for evaluation with respect 
     to screening the film in the PRC, including--
       (i) the United States company that submitted the contents 
     of the film;
       (ii) the title of the film; and
       (iii) the date on which such submission occurred.
       (B) A description of each film with respect to which a 
     United States company entered into a written agreement with 
     the Department of Defense providing the support or access, as 
     applicable, pursuant to the requirement under subsection 
     (a)(2) not to alter the content of the film in response to, 
     or in anticipation of, a request by an official of the 
     Government of the PRC or the CCP, during the shorter of the 
     preceding 10-year period or the period beginning on the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, including--
       (i) the United States company that entered into the 
     agreement; and
       (ii) the title of the film.
       (C) The title of any film described pursuant to 
     subparagraph (A), and the corresponding United States company 
     described pursuant to clause (i) of that subparagraph--
       (i) that was submitted to an official of the Government of 
     the PRC or the CCP during the preceding 3-year period; and
       (ii) for which the Secretary assesses that the content was 
     altered in response to, or in anticipation of, a request by 
     an official of the Government of the PRC or the CCP.
       (D) The title of any film that is described in both 
     subparagraph (A) and subparagraph (B), and the corresponding 
     one or more United States companies described in clause (i) 
     of each such subparagraph--
       (i) that was submitted to an official of the Government of 
     the PRC or the CCP during the preceding 10-year period; and
       (ii) for which the Secretary assesses that the content was 
     altered in response to, or in anticipation of, a request by 
     an official of the Government of the PRC or the CCP.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
     ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Armed Services of the Senate and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
     Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
       (2) Content.--The term ``content'' means any description of 
     a film, including the script.
       (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
     of Defense.
       (4) United states company.--The term ``United States 
     company'' means a private entity incorporated under the laws 
     of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United 
     States.


            amendment no. 3 offered by mr. green of tennesee

       At the appropriate place in title VI, insert the following:

     SEC. 6__. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF CHINESE GOODS IN COMMISSARY 
                   STORES AND MILITARY EXCHANGES.

       The Secretary of Defense shall prohibit the sale, at a 
     commissary store or military exchange, of goods--
       (1) manufactured in China;
       (2) assembled in China; or
       (3) imported into the United States from China.


          amendment no. 4 offered by ms. stefanik of new york

       Strike section 1308 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1308. MODIFICATION OF INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT PROTECTION 
                   OF NATIONAL SECURITY ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS FROM 
                   UNDUE INFLUENCE AND OTHER SECURITY THREATS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1286(c)(8)(A)(iii) of the John S. 
     McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     2019 (10 U.S.C. 4001 note) is amended--
       (1) in subclause (I), by striking ``or'' at the end; and
       (2) by adding at the end of the following:
       ``(III) to provide documented support to a defense or an 
     intelligence agency of the applicable country; or''.
       (b) Prohibition on Availability of Funds.--
       (1) In general.--None of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for 
     fiscal year 2024 or any subsequent fiscal year for the 
     Department of Defense for research, development,

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     test, and evaluation may be provided to an entity that 
     maintains a contract between the entity and an academic 
     institution of the People's Republic of China, the Russian 
     Federation, or another country that--
       (A) is identified on the list developed under section 
     1286(c)(8)(A) of the John S. McCain National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (10 U.S.C. 4001 note) 
     (as amended by subsection (a)); and
       (B) is included on such list because the institution meets 
     the criteria specified in clause (ii) or clause (iii) of such 
     section.
       (2) Waiver.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary of Defense may waive the 
     prohibition under paragraph (1) with respect to an entity, on 
     a case-by-case basis, if the Secretary determines that such a 
     waiver is appropriate.
       (B) Reporting.--Not later than 30 days after issuing a 
     waiver under subparagraph (A), the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the House of Representatives a report that explains the 
     Secretary's reasons for issuing the waiver.


          amendmen no. 6 offered by mr. gallagher of wisconsin

       At the end of subtitle B of title II, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 2__. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR FUNDAMENTAL 
                   RESEARCH COLLABORATION WITH CERTAIN 
                   INSTITUTIONS.

       (a) Limitation.--Except as provided in subsection (b), none 
     of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or 
     otherwise made available for any fiscal year for the 
     Department of Defense may be provided directly or indirectly 
     to an institution of higher education for conducting 
     fundamental research in collaboration with any of the 
     following:
       (1) An entity of concern.
       (2) An academic institution of a military, law enforcement, 
     intelligence, or security agency of the People's Republic of 
     China, including any institution specified in subsection (e) 
     or identified on the list published under subsection (g)(1) 
     (as applicable), or any individual or entity acting for or on 
     behalf of such an institution.
       (3) Any component of the defense laboratory system in the 
     People's Republic of China, including--
       (A) any Defense Science and Technology National Laboratory, 
     Defense Science and Technology Key Laboratory, Defense Core 
     Laboratory, or any other laboratory specified in subsection 
     (f) or identified on the list published under subsection 
     (g)(2) (as applicable); or
       (B) any individual or entity acting for or on behalf of 
     such a laboratory.
       (b) Waiver.--The Secretary of Defense may waive the 
     limitation under subsection (a), on a case-by-case basis, 
     with respect to a principal investigator at an institution of 
     higher education, if the Secretary of Defense determines that 
     such a waiver is in the national security interests of the 
     United States.
       (c) Certifications of Compliance.--
       (1) Funding certification.--As a condition of receiving 
     funds from the Department of Defense, an institution of 
     higher education shall certify to the Secretary of Defense 
     that the principal investigator of the project of the 
     institution that is applying for funding from the Department 
     of Defense--
       (A) is not conducting fundamental research in collaboration 
     with an entity described in subsection (a) as of the date of 
     the certification; and
       (B) will not conduct fundamental research in collaboration 
     with such an entity during the period for which such funding 
     is received.
       (2) Contract certification.--As a condition of maintaining 
     a contract with the Department of Defense, an institution of 
     higher education shall--
       (A) using publicly available information, perform due 
     diligence on any academic institution or laboratory the 
     institution is collaborating with, or intends to collaborate 
     with, under the contract; and
       (B) certify to the Secretary of Defense that the principal 
     investigator of the project of the institution to which the 
     contract pertains--
       (i) has not conducted fundamental research in collaboration 
     with an entity described in subsection (a) at any time during 
     the period in which such contract was in effect, up to and 
     including the date of the certification; and
       (ii) will not conduct fundamental research in collaboration 
     with such an entity during any period in which such contract 
     is in effect.
       (3) Frequency.--An institution of higher education shall--
       (A) submit the certification under paragraph (1) on an 
     annual basis during each year in which the institution 
     receives funds from the Department of Defense; and
       (B) submit the certification under paragraph (2) on an 
     annual basis during each year in which a contract is in 
     effect between the institution and the Department.
       (d) Report.--
       (1) In general.--On an annual basis, the Secretary of 
     Defense shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report on the compliance of the Department of 
     Defense and institutions of higher education with the 
     requirements of this section. Each report shall include, for 
     each waiver issued under subsection (b) in the period covered 
     by the report--
       (A) a justification for the waiver; and
       (B) a detailed description of the type and extent of any 
     collaboration between an institution of higher education and 
     an entity described in subsection (a) allowed pursuant to the 
     waiver, including identification of the institution and 
     entities involved, the type of technology involved, the 
     duration of the collaboration and terms and conditions on 
     intellectual property assignment, as applicable, under the 
     collaboration agreement.
       (2) Form; public availability.--Each report under paragraph 
     (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form and shall be made 
     available on a publicly accessible website of the Department 
     of Defense.
       (e) Chinese Academic Institutions Specified.--Beginning on 
     the date of the enactment of this Act and continuing until 
     the date of the publication of the first updated list under 
     subsection (g)(1), the academic institutions referred to in 
     subsection (a)(2) are the following:
       (1) Military academic and research institutions of the 
     People's Republic of China identified by the China Aerospace 
     Studies Institute (or successor organization) of the 
     Department of Air Force on the publicly available list titled 
     ``Academic and Research Institutions of the People's Republic 
     of China, the Communist Party of China, including the CCP 
     People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police''.
       (2) Academic institutions of the Chinese law enforcement, 
     including the following:
       (A) People's Public Security University of China.
       (B) Chinese People's Police University.
       (C) Criminal Investigation University of China.
       (D) Railway Police College.
       (E) Nanjing Forest Police College.
       (3) Academic institutions of Chinese intelligence and 
     security agencies, including the University of International 
     Relations.
       (4) Chinese civilian institutions identified by the 
     Department of Defense for engaging in problematic activities 
     on the list included in the publication of the Department of 
     Defense titled ``Countering Unwanted Influence in Department-
     Funded Research at Institutions of Higher Education'' and 
     dated June 30, 2023.
       (5) Any successor to an institution specified in paragraphs 
     (1) through (4).
       (f) Chinese Defense Laboratories Specified.--Beginning on 
     the date of the enactment of this Act and continuing until 
     the date of the publication of the first list under 
     subsection (g)(2), the components of the defense laboratory 
     system in the People's Republic of China referred to in 
     subsection (a)(3) are the following:
       (1) The laboratories identified by the China Aerospace 
     Studies Institute (or successor organization) of the 
     Department of Air Force on the publicly available list titled 
     ``Academic and Research Institutions of the People's Republic 
     of China, the Communist Party of China, including the CCP 
     People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police''.
       (2) Any successor to a laboratory specified in paragraph 
     (1).
       (g) Annual Updates.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than 
     annually thereafter, the Secretary of Defense, in 
     consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, 
     shall--
       (1) publish an updated list of academic institutions of the 
     People's Republic of China for purposes of subsection (a)(2) 
     which shall include, at a minimum, each institution specified 
     in subsection (e) (if still in operation) or any successor to 
     such an institution; and
       (2) publish an updated list of entities that comprise the 
     defense laboratory system of the People's Republic of China 
     for purposes of subsection (a)(3) which shall include, at a 
     minimum, each laboratory specified in subsection (f) (if 
     still in operation) or any successor to such a laboratory.
       (h) Effective Date.--The limitation under subsection (a) 
     shall apply with respect to the first fiscal year that begins 
     after the date that is one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and to any subsequent fiscal year.
       (i) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``entity of concern'' has the meaning given 
     that term in section 10114 of the Research and Development, 
     Competition, and Innovation Act (42 U.S.C. 18912).
       (2) The term ``institution of higher education'' has the 
     meaning given that term in section 102 of the Higher 
     Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002) and includes--
       (A) any department, program, project, faculty, researcher, 
     or other individual, entity, or activity of such institution; 
     and
       (B) any branch of such institution within or outside the 
     United States.
       (3) The term ``fundamental research'' means basic and 
     applied research in science and engineering, the results of 
     which are expected to be published and shared broadly within 
     the scientific community. Such term does not include research 
     that is proprietary or classified and subject to access 
     restrictions under other provisions of Federal law.
       (4) The term ``collaboration'' means any level of 
     coordinated activity between an institution of higher 
     education and an entity described in subsection (a), whether 
     direct or indirect, formal or informal, and includes--
       (A) sharing of research facilities, resources, or data;
       (B) transfer, sharing, or dissemination of technology, 
     information, or any technical know-how;
       (C) any financial or in-kind contribution intended to 
     produce a research product;

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       (D) sponsorship or facilitation of research fellowships, 
     visas, or residence permits;
       (E) joint ventures, partnerships, or other formalized 
     agreements for the purpose of conducting research or sharing 
     resources, data, or technology;
       (F) inclusion of researchers as consultants, advisors, or 
     members of advisory or review boards; and
       (G) such other activities as may be determined by the 
     Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Secretary of 
     State and Director of National Intelligence.
       (5) The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Science, Space, and Technology of the House of 
     Representatives; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
     Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
     Senate.


         amendment no. 7 offered by mr. gallagher of wisconsin

       At the appropriate place in title VXIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 18__. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH CERTAIN 
                   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS.

       (a) In General.--The head of an executive agency may not--
       (1) procure or obtain or extend or renew a contract to 
     procure or obtain any covered biotechnology equipment or 
     service; or
       (2) enter into a contract or extend or renew a contract 
     with any entity that--
       (A) uses covered biotechnology equipment or services 
     acquired after the date of the enactment of this Act; or
       (B) that enters into any contract the performance of which 
     such entity knows or has reason to believe will require the 
     direct use of covered biotechnology equipment or services.
       (b) Prohibition on Loan and Grant Funds.--The head of an 
     executive agency may not obligate or expend loan or grant 
     funds to--
       (1) procure or obtain or extend or renew a contract to 
     procure or obtain any covered biotechnology equipment or 
     service: or
       (2) enter into a contract or extend or renew a contract 
     with an entity described in subsection (a)(2).
       (c) Effective Date.--The prohibitions under subsections (a) 
     and (b) shall take effect 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (d) Waiver Authorities.--
       (1) Specific biotechnology exception.--
       (A) Waiver.--The head of an executive agency may waive the 
     prohibition under subsection (a) and (b) on a case-by-case 
     basis--
       (i) with the approval of the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget, in consultation with the Federal 
     Acquisition Security Council and the Secretary of Defense; 
     and
       (ii) if such head submits a notification and justification 
     to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 30 
     days after granting such waiver.
       (B) Duration.--
       (i) In general.--Except as provided in clause (ii), a 
     waiver granted under subparagraph (A) shall last for a period 
     of not more than 180 days.
       (ii) Extension.--The Director of the Office of Management 
     and Budget, in consultation with the Federal Acquisition 
     Security Council and the Secretary of Defense, may extend a 
     waiver granted under subparagraph (A) one time, for a period 
     up to 180 days after the date on which the waiver would 
     otherwise expire, if such an extension is in the national 
     security interests of the United States and the Director 
     submits to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     notification of such waiver.
       (2) Overseas health care services.--The head of an 
     executive agency may waive the prohibitions under subsections 
     (a) and (b) with respect to a contract, subcontract, or 
     transaction for the acquisition or provision of health care 
     services overseas on a case-by-case basis--
       (A) if the head of such executive agency determines that 
     the waiver is--
       (i) necessary to support the mission or activities of the 
     employees of such executive agency described in subsection 
     (e)(2)(A); and
       (ii) in the interest of the United States;
       (B) with the approval of the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget, in consultation with the Federal 
     Security Acquisition Council and the Secretary of Defense; 
     and
       (C) if such head submits a notification and justification 
     to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 30 
     days after granting such waiver.
       (e) Exceptions.--The prohibitions under subsections (a) and 
     (b) shall not apply to--
       (1) any activity subject to the reporting requirements 
     under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
     3091 et seq.) or any authorized intelligence activities of 
     the United States;
       (2) the acquisition or provision of health care services 
     overseas for--
       (A) employees of the United States, including members of 
     the uniformed services (as defined in section 101(a) of title 
     10, United States Code), whose official duty stations are 
     located overseas; or
       (B) employees of contractors or subcontractors of the 
     United States--
       (i) who are performing under a contract that directly 
     supports the missions or activities of individuals described 
     in subparagraph (A); and
       (ii) whose primary duty stations are located overseas; or
       (3) the acquisition, use, or distribution of genetic 
     sequencing data, however complied, that is commercially 
     available.
       (f) Evaluation of Certain Biotechnology Entities.--Not 
     later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary of Defense shall determine whether Wuxi 
     AppTec, AxBio, and any subsidiary, affiliate, or successor of 
     such entities, or any other entity headquartered in or 
     organized under the laws of the People's Republic of China 
     are a biotechnology company of concern.
       (g) Regulations.--
       (1) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 
     Budget, in coordination with the Federal Acquisition Security 
     Council, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, the 
     Secretary of Defense, and other heads of Executive agencies 
     as determined appropriate by the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget, shall establish guidance, as 
     necessary, to implement the requirements of this section.
       (2) Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council shall 
     revise the Federal Acquisition Regulation as necessary to 
     implement the requirements of this section.
       (h) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committees on Armed Services and on Homeland 
     Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Oversight and 
     Accountability, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the 
     Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United 
     States and the Chinese Communist Party of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (2) Biotechnology company of concern.--The term 
     ``biotechnology company of concern'' means--
       (A) the BGI Group, MGI Group, or Complete Genomics, or any 
     subsidiary, parent, affiliate, or successor of such entities; 
     and
       (B) any entity that--
       (i) is subject to the jurisdiction, direction, or control 
     of a foreign adversary;
       (ii) operates primarily in the biotechnology industry; and
       (iii) the Secretary of Defense deems to pose a risk to the 
     national security of the United States.
       (3) Biotechnology equipment or service.--The term 
     ``biotechnology equipment or service'' means--
       (A) any instrument, apparatus, machine, or device, 
     including components and accessories thereof, that is 
     designed for use in the research, development, production, or 
     analysis of biological materials as well as any software, 
     firmware, or other digital components that are specifically 
     designed for use in, and necessary for the operation of, such 
     an instrument, apparatus, machine, or device;
       (B) any service for the research, development, production, 
     analysis, detection, or provision of information related to 
     biological materials, including--
       (i) advising, consulting, or support services provided by a 
     biotechnology company of concern with respect to the use or 
     implementation of a instrument, apparatus, machine, or device 
     described in subparagraph (A); and
       (ii) disease detection, genealogical information, and 
     related services; and
       (C) any other service, instrument, apparatus, machine, 
     component, accessory, device, software, or firmware that the 
     Federal Acquisition Security Council, in coordination with 
     the Secretary of Defense and such other heads of Executive 
     agencies (as determined by the Federal Acquisition Security 
     Council), determines appropriate.
       (4) Control.--The term ``control'' has the meaning given to 
     that term in section 800.208, Tile 31, Code of Federal 
     Regulations, or any successor regulations
       (5) Covered biotechnology equipment or service.--The term 
     ``covered biotechnology equipment or service'' means a 
     biotechnology equipment or service produced or provided by a 
     biotechnology company of concern.
       (6) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
     the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United 
     States Code.
       (7) Foreign adversary.--The term ``foreign adversary'' has 
     the meaning given the term ``covered nation'' in section 
     4872(d) of title 10, United States Code.
       (8) Overseas.--The term ``overseas'' means any area outside 
     of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a 
     territory or possession of the United States.


         Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Gallagher of Wisconsin

       At the end of subtitle B of title II, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 2__. AUDIT TO IDENTIFY DIVERSION OF DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE FUNDING TO CHINA'S RESEARCH LABS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Department of Defense Office 
     of Inspector General shall conduct a study, and submit a 
     report to Congress, regarding the amount of Federal funds 
     awarded by the Department of Defense (whether directly or 
     indirectly) through grants, contracts, subgrants, 
     subcontracts, or any other type of

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     agreement or collaboration, during the 10-year period 
     immediately preceding such date of enactment, that--
       (1) was provided, whether purposely or inadvertently, to--
       (A) the People's Republic of China;
       (B) the Communist Party of China;
       (C) the Wuhan Institute of Virology or any other 
     organization administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences;
       (D) EcoHealth Alliance Inc., including any subsidiaries and 
     related organizations that are directly controlled by 
     EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.; or
       (E) any other lab, agency, organization, individual, or 
     instrumentality that is owned, controlled (directly or 
     indirectly), or overseen (officially or unofficially) by any 
     of the entities listed in subparagraphs (A) through (D); or
       (2) was used to fund research or experiments that could 
     have resulted in the enhancement of any coronavirus, 
     influenza, Nipah, Ebola, or other pathogen of pandemic 
     potential or chimeric versions of such a virus or pathogen in 
     the People's Republic of China or any other foreign country.
       (b) Identification of Countries and Pathogens.--The report 
     required under subsection (a) shall specify--
       (1) the countries in which the research or experiments 
     described in subsection (a)(2) was conducted; and
       (2) the pathogens involved in such research or experiments.


         Amendment No. 9 Offered by Mr. DesJarlais of Tennessee

       At the end of subtitle C of title XVIII, add the following:

     SEC. _. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     may be used to engage in direct, bilateral cooperation with 
     the Government of the People's Republic of China or China-
     affiliated organizations on biomedical research programs 
     without explicit authorization from the Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation and unless such activities are specifically 
     authorized by a law enacted after the date of enactment of 
     this Act.


         Amendment No. 11 Offered by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania

       Add at the end of subtitle A of title XVIII the following:

     SEC. 18__. LIMITATION ON FUNDS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
     otherwise made available by this Act may be used by a Federal 
     department or agency to refer to Taiwan as anything other 
     than ``Taiwan'' in a publication or on a departmental or 
     agency website.


         Amendment No. 12 Offered by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania

       At the end of subtitle A of title XIII, add the following:

     SEC. __. LIMITATION ON FUNDS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or 
     otherwise made available by this Act may be used to promote a 
     ``one country, two systems'' solution for Taiwan.


         Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Perry of Pennsylvania

       At the appropriate place in subtitle A of title XIII:

     SEC. __. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS WITH RESPECT TO TAIWAN 
                   MILITARY OFFICERS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense may 
     be used to forbid active duty military officers of Taiwan 
     from wearing their uniforms during visits to the United 
     States.


           Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Ogles of Tennessee

       At the end of subtitle A of title XIII, add the following:

     SEC. _. OVERSIGHT OF TAIWAN ENHANCED RESILIENCE ACT.

       (a) Oversight of Taiwan Security Programs.--Section 5502 of 
     the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263; 136 Stat. 2395; 22 
     U.S.C. 3351) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (e)(2)(A), by inserting ``not later than 
     1 year after the date of enactment of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 and'' before ``not 
     less than annually''; and
       (2) in subsection (f)(2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (L), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) in subparagraph (M), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting a semicolon; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(N) a description of actions taken to establish or expand 
     a comprehensive training program with Taiwan pursuant to 
     section 5504;
       ``(O) a description of actions taken to establish a joint 
     consultative mechanism with appropriate officials of Taiwan, 
     and the multi-year plan to provide for the acquisition of 
     appropriate defensive capabilities by Taiwan, pursuant to 
     section 5506 ; and
       ``(P) the list compiled pursuant to section 5507(a), and a 
     description of actions taken pursuant to sections 5507(b) and 
     5507(c).''.
       (b) Oversight of Regional Contingency Stockpile for 
     Taiwan.--Section 5503 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117-263; 
     136 Stat. 2395) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(e) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In 
     subsection (d), the term ``appropriate committees of 
     Congress'' means--
       ``(1) the congressional defense committees; and
       ``(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate.''.


          Amendment No. 15 Offered by Mrs. McClain of Michigan

       Page 1033, after line 14, add the following:

     SEC. 1859. DEFUND WUHAN INSITITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND ECOHEALTH 
                   ALLIANCE, INC.

       (a) Wuhan Institute of Virology.--None of the funds 
     authorized to be appropriated under this Act may be made 
     available for the Wuhan Institute of Virology for any 
     purpose.
       (b) EcoHealth Alliance, Inc..--None of the funds authorized 
     to be appropriated under this Act may be made available for 
     any purpose to--
       (1) EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.;
       (2) any subsidiary of EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.;
       (3) any organization that is directly controlled by 
     EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.; or
       (4) any organization or individual that is a subgrantee or 
     subcontractor of EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.


          Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mr. Molinaro of New York

       Page 74, line 18, strike the semicolon and insert ``and the 
     identification of potential vulnerabilities in the military 
     systems and infrastructure of the United States that could be 
     exploited by adversarial artificial intelligence applications 
     used by the People's Republic of China, the Russian 
     Federation, and other nefarious actors of concern;''.


        Amendment No. 17 Offered by Mr. Garamendi of California

       At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title VIII, 
     insert the following:

     SEC. 8__. STRENGTHENING TRUTHFUL COST OR PRICING DATA 
                   REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Required Cost or Pricing Data and Certification.--
     Section 3702(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``only expected to receive one bid shall 
     be required'' and inserting ``only expected to have one 
     offeror, or for which award of a cost-reimbursement contract 
     is contemplated regardless of the number of offers received, 
     shall be required''.
       (b) Exceptions.--Section 3703(a) of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``adequate 
     competition'' and all that follows through ``bids'' and 
     inserting ``adequate price competition, except for the award 
     of a cost-reimbursement contract, that results in at least 
     two responsive and viable competing offerors''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``based on adequate 
     price competition that results in at least two responsive and 
     responsible offers'' after ``commercial service''.
       (c) Conforming Amendment Related to Civilian Contracts.--
     Section 3503(a)(2) of title 41, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting ``based on adequate price competition 
     that results in at least two responsive and responsible 
     offers'' after ``commercial service''.


     Amendment No. 18 Offered by Mr. Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania

       At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. _. REPORT.

       (a) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to Congress a report on whether any products sold at 
     commissary or exchange stores in fiscal years 2022 or 2023 
     were produced by companies described in paragraph (2) that 
     have participated in a boycott action against the State of 
     Israel.
       (2) Companies described.--The companies described in this 
     paragraph are companies that--
       (A) have entered into a contract with the Department of 
     Defense to sell products described in paragraph (1) the total 
     value of which exceeds $100,000; or
       (B) companies that have more than 10 full-time employees.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--Congress is concerned about the 
     antisemitic efforts of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions 
     (BDS) movement against the State of Israel, including its 
     efforts to delegitimize, isolate, and ultimately destroy the 
     Jewish state.
       (c) Definition.--In subsection (a), the term ``boycott 
     action against the State of Israel'' means engaging in a 
     boycott action targeting the State of Israel, companies or 
     individuals doing business in or with the State of Israel, or 
     companies authorized by, licensed by, or organized under the 
     laws of the State of Israel to do business.


          amendment no. 19 offered by mr. lamborn of colorado

       At the appropriate place in title VIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 8__. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH CERTAIN ENTITIES.

       (a) Prohibition.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided under subsection (b), 
     the Department of Defense may not enter into, renew, or 
     extend a contract for the procurement of goods or services 
     with an entity described in paragraph (2).
       (2) Entities described.--An entity described in this 
     paragraph is an entity that is engaged in a boycott of the 
     State of Israel.
       (b) Exceptions.--
       (1) National security.--The prohibition under subsection 
     (a) does not apply--
       (A) to the procurement of defense articles or defense 
     services under existing contracts

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     or subcontracts, including the exercise of options, for 
     production quantities to satisfy requirements essential to 
     the national security of the United States;
       (B) if the President determines in writing that--
       (i) the entity otherwise sanctioned pursuant to subsection 
     (a) is a sole source supplier of the defense articles or 
     services;
       (ii) the defense articles or services are essential; and
       (iii) alternative sources are not readily or reasonably 
     available;
       (C) if the President determines in writing that such 
     articles or services are essential to the national security 
     under defense production agreements; or
       (D) to the procurement of--
       (i) spare parts that are essential to United States 
     products or production;
       (ii) component parts essential to United States products or 
     production;
       (iii) routine servicing and maintenance of products, to the 
     extent that alternative sources are not readily or reasonably 
     available; or
       (iv) information and technology essential to United States 
     products or production.
       (2) National security waiver.--The President may waive the 
     application of subsection (a) on a case-by-case basis for 
     periods not to exceed 180 days if the President--
       (A) determines that the waiver is in the vital national 
     security interest of the United States; and
       (B) submits to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     report on the determination and the reasons for the 
     determination.
       (3) Intelligence waiver.--The President may waive the 
     application of subsection (a) on a case-by-case basis for 
     periods not to exceed 180 days if the President--
       (A) determines that the waiver is necessary to prevent the 
     disclosure of intelligence sources or methods; and
       (B) submits to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     report, consistent with the protection of intelligence 
     sources and methods, on the determination and the reasons for 
     the determination.
       (c) Requirement to Revise Regulations.--Not later than 90 
     days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal 
     Acquisition Regulation, the Defense Federal Acquisition 
     Regulation Supplement, and the Uniform Administrative 
     Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for 
     Federal Awards shall be revised to implement subsection (a).
       (d) Remedies for False Information.--If the head of an 
     executive agency determines that an entity has submitted 
     false information pursuant to the requirements of subsection 
     (a) on or after the date on which the applicable revision of 
     regulations required under subsection (c) becomes effective--
       (1) the head of the executive agency shall terminate any 
     contract awarded to such entity as a result of such false 
     information and debar or suspend such person from eligibility 
     for Federal contracts for a period of not less than 4 years 
     in accordance with the procedures that apply to debarment and 
     suspension under the Federal Acquisition Regulation; and
       (2) the Administrator of General Services shall include the 
     entity on the ``List of Parties Excluded from Federal 
     Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs'' maintained by the 
     Administrator under part 9 of the Federal Acquisition 
     Regulation.
       (e) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``boycott action'' means refusing to deal, 
     terminating business activities, or limiting commercial 
     relations.
       (2) The term ``boycott of the State of Israel'' means 
     engaging in a boycott action targeting--
       (A) the State of Israel; and
       (B)(i) companies or individuals doing business in or with 
     the State of Israel; or
       (ii) companies authorized by, licensed by, or organized 
     under the laws of the State of Israel to do business.
       (3) The term ``entity'' includes--
       (A) a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, 
     or similar entity; and
       (B) any wholly-owned subsidiary, majority-owned subsidiary, 
     parent company, or affiliate of an entity described in 
     subparagraph (A).


        amendment no. 26 offered by mr. desjarlais of tennessee

       At the end of subtitle C of title XVIII, add the following:

     SEC. _. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS.

       None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act 
     may be used to further any nuclear agreement with Iran that 
     has not received explicit Congressional approval.


           amendment no. 29 offered by mr. donalds of florida

       At the end of subtitle C of title XXXI, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 31__. MILITARY DEPARTMENT USE OF ADVANCED NUCLEAR 
                   REACTORS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of each of the military 
     departments shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a statement that, if the military department 
     concerned certifies in such statement that it is interested 
     in potentially using advanced nuclear technology, an 
     identification of what the individual branch would need in 
     regards to enhancing regulatory certainty relating to 
     deploying advanced nuclear reactors for military operations 
     and logistical support.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, 
     Energy and Commerce, and Natural Resources of the House of 
     Representatives; and
       (B) the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, 
     Environment and Public Works, and Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the Senate.
       (2) The term ``advanced nuclear reactor'' means--
       (A) a nuclear fission reactor, including a prototype plant 
     (as defined in sections 50.2 and 52.1 of title 10, Code of 
     Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)), with 
     significant improvements compared to reactors operating on 
     October 19, 2016, including improvements such as--
       (i) additional inherent safety features;
       (ii) lower waste yields;
       (iii) improved fuel and material performance;
       (iv) increased tolerance to loss of fuel cooling;
       (v) enhanced reliability or improved resilience;
       (vi) increased proliferation resistance;
       (vii) increased thermal efficiency;
       (viii) reduced consumption of cooling water and other 
     environmental impacts;
       (ix) the ability to integrate into electric applications 
     and nonelectric applications;
       (x) modular sizes to allow for deployment that corresponds 
     with the demand for electricity or process heat; and
       (xi) operational flexibility to respond to changes in 
     demand for electricity or process heat and to complement 
     integration with intermittent renewable energy or energy 
     storage;
       (B) a fusion reactor; and
       (C) a radioisotope power system that utilizes heat from 
     radioactive decay to generate energy.


            amendment no. 36 offered by mr. jackson of texas

       At the appropriate place in subtitle A of title V, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 5__. PROHIBITIONS ON CERTAIN ADVERSE ACTIONS REGARDING A 
                   CADET, MIDSHIPMAN, OR APPLICANT TO A SERVICE 
                   ACADEMY, WHO REFUSES TO RECEIVE A VACCINATION 
                   AGAINST COVID-19.

       (a) Adverse Action.--No adverse action may be taken against 
     a cadet or midshipman at a Service Academy solely on the 
     basis that such cadet or midshipman refuses to receive a 
     vaccination against COVID-19.
       (b) Enrollment.--An individual may not be refused 
     enrollment at a Service Academy solely on the basis that such 
     individual refuses to receive a vaccination against COVID-19.
       (c) Service Academy Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``Service Academy'' has the meaning given such term in 
     section 347 of title 10, United States Code.


            amendment no. 37 offered by mr. wenstrup of ohio

       At the appropriate place in subtitle C of title VII, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 5__. STUDY ON BLOOD WORK OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES 
                   REGARDING COVID-19.

       (a) Study Required.--Not later than September 30, 2024, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall conduct a study to test the blood 
     of members of the Armed Forces relating to relating to COVID-
     19.
       (b) Elements.--The study under this section shall include 
     the following elements:
       (1) Testing to detect nucleocapsid protein immunoglobin-G 
     antibodies relating to COVID-19.
       (2) Testing to detect T-cell immune response to COVID-19.
       (3) An assessment of the efficacy of each vaccine for 
     COVID-19 in comparison to--
       (A) each other such vaccine; and
       (B) infection-acquired immunity.
       (4) An accounting of adverse events (including hyperimmune 
     response), disaggregated by--
       (A) each vaccine described in paragraph (3); and
       (B) history of infection.
       (c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after completing the 
     study, the Secretary shall submit a report on such study to 
     the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of 
     Representatives.


            amendment no. 38 offered by mr. banks of indiana

       Page 194, line 12, insert ``or, with respect the Coast 
     Guard, the Secretary of the department in which the Secretary 
     is operating when the Coast Guard is not operating as a 
     service in the Navy,'' after ``military department 
     concerned''.
       Page 195, line 20, insert ``Coast Guard,'' before ``or 
     Space''.
       Page 196, line 20, insert ``Coast Guard,'' before ``or 
     Space''.
       Page 197, line 9, insert ``or, with respect the Coast 
     Guard, the Secretary of the department in which the Secretary 
     is operating when the Coast Guard is not operating as a 
     service in the Navy'' after ``military departments''.
       Page 197, line 25, insert ``Coast Guard,'' before ``or 
     Space''.


        amendment no. 39 offered by mr. norman of south carolina

       At the end of subtitle B of title VII, add the following 
     new section:

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     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION OF MASK MANDATE TO PREVENT THE SPREAD 
                   OF COVID-19 ON A MILITARY INSTALLATION IN THE 
                   UNITED STATES.

       The Secretary of Defense may not require that an individual 
     wear a mask, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, on a 
     military installation inside the United States.


            amendment no. 42 offered by mr. pfluger of texas

       At the end of title XVIII, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PRIOR NOTIFICATION OF HOUSING MIGRANTS ON MILITARY 
                   BASES.

       The Secretary of Defense shall notify local, State, and 
     Federal elected officials not later than 90 days before the 
     Department of Defense uses, creates, or repurposes a military 
     base to house migrants.


            amendment no. 43 offered by mr. biggs of arizona

       Add at the end of subtitle B of title XII the following:

     SEC. 1220A. REPORT ON AGREEMENTS MADE BY THE UNITED STATES 
                   WITH THE TALIBAN.

       (a) Congressional Review of Agreements Made With the 
     Taliban.--The Secretary of State, in coordination with the 
     Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the United 
     States Agency for International Development, shall submit to 
     the appropriate congressional committees the following:
       (1) Any agreement made and entered into by the United 
     States and the Taliban. Submission thereof shall occur not 
     later than 30 days prior to entry absent notification to the 
     appropriate congressional committees, in which case 
     submission thereof shall occur not later than 10 days prior 
     to taking effect.
       (2) Any agreement made and entered into by third parties 
     and the Taliban or notice of any such agreement. Submission 
     of any such agreement or notice thereof shall occur not later 
     than 30 days after custody by the United States.
       (b) Report on Prior Agreements With the Taliban.--Not later 
     than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of 
     Defense and the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
     International Development, shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees any agreements made and entered into 
     by the United States or third parties and the Taliban from 
     August 1, 2021, until such date of enactment.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Agreement.--The term ``agreement'' includes memoranda 
     of understanding and other manifestations of mutual assent.
       (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the 
     congressional defense committees, the Committee on Foreign 
     Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate.
       (3) Third parties.--The term ``third parties'' means 
     organizations or entities in receipt of United States 
     Government funding, including sub-recipients thereof.


          amendment no. 44 offered by mr. rosendale of montana

       At the end of subtitle D of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF ARMED FORCES TO DETAIN 
                   CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.

       Section 1021(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112-81; 10 U.S.C. 801 note) 
     is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
     inserting ``, other than a citizen of the United States,'' 
     after ``any person''.


        Amendment No. 53 Offered by Mr. Norman of South Carolina

       At the end of subtitle A of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. AUDIT REQUIREMENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   COMPONENTS.

       (a) In General.--During fiscal year 2024, and during each 
     of the nine fiscal years thereafter, each component of the 
     Department of Defense shall be subject to an independent 
     audit. Any such component that fails to be subject to such an 
     audit during any fiscal year shall have 1.5 percent of 
     unobligated amounts available for the component be cancelled 
     and returned to the general fund of the Treasury for deficit 
     reduction, except as provided in subsection (b).
       (b) Exceptions.--The following accounts are excluded from 
     any reductions:
       (1) Military personnel, reserve personnel, and National 
     Guard personnel accounts of the Department of Defense.
       (2) The Defense Health Program account of the Department of 
     Defense.


            Amendment No. 54 Offered by Mr. Biggs of Arizona

       At the end of subtitle A of title X, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 10__. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SPENDING REDUCTIONS IN 
                   ABSENCE OF SUBMITTED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OR 
                   FAILURE TO ACHIEVE UNQUALIFIED OR QUALIFIED 
                   INDEPENDENT AUDIT OPINION.

       (a) Applicability.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), this section 
     applies to the Department of Defense, including military 
     departments and Defense Agencies thereof.
       (2) Separate applicability.--If a military department or 
     Defense Agency is identified by the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget as required to have its own audited 
     financial statement under section 3515 of title 31, United 
     States Code, that military department and Defense Agency 
     shall be treated separately from the Department of Defense 
     for purposes of application of this section.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The terms ``financial statement'' and ``external 
     independent auditor'' have the meanings given those terms in 
     section 3521(e) of title 31, United States Code.
       (3) The term ``unqualified'', with respect to the audit 
     status of a financial statement, includes the 
     characterizations clean and unmodified.
       (2) The term ``qualified'', with respect to the audit 
     status of a financial statement, includes the 
     characterization modified.
       (c) Adjustments for Financial Accountability.--
       (1) In general.--On March 2 of each fiscal year, the 
     discretionary budget authority available for the Department 
     of Defense (or a military department or Defense Agency 
     covered by subsection (a)(2)) for such fiscal year shall be 
     adjusted as provided in paragraph (2).
       (2) Adjustment.--If the Department of Defense (or a 
     military department or Defense Agency covered by subsection 
     (a)(2)) has not submitted a financial statement for the 
     previous fiscal year, or if such financial statement has not 
     received either an unqualified or a qualified audit opinion 
     by an independent external auditor, the discretionary budget 
     authority available for the Department of Defense, the 
     military department, or the Defense Agency (as the case may 
     be) shall be reduced by .5 percent, with the reduction 
     applied proportionately to each account (other than an 
     account listed in subsection (d) or an account for which a 
     waiver is made under subsection (e)).
       (3) Minimizes national security effects.--Consistent with 
     applicable laws, the Secretary of Defense may make any 
     reduction under paragraph (2) in a manner that minimizes any 
     effect on national security.
       (4) Deficit reduction.--An amount equal to the total amount 
     of any reduction under paragraph (2) shall be retained in the 
     general fund of the Treasury for the purposes of deficit 
     reduction.
       (d) Accounts Excluded.--The following accounts are excluded 
     from any reductions referred to in subsection (c)(2):
       (1) Military personnel, reserve personnel, and National 
     Guard personnel accounts of the Department of Defense.
       (2) The Defense Health Program account of the Department of 
     Defense.
       (e) Waiver.--The President may waive subsection (c)(2) with 
     respect to an account if the President certifies that 
     applying the subsection to that account would harm national 
     security or members of the Armed Forces who are deployed in 
     combat zones.
       (f) Report.--Not later than 60 days after an adjustment 
     under subsection (c), the Director of the Office of 
     Management and Budget shall submit to Congress a report 
     describing the amount and account of each adjustment.


            Amendment No. 60 Offered by Mr. Gosar of Arizona

       At the end of subtitle G of title X, insert the following:

     SEC. 10__. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF AFGHANISTAN WAR RECORDS.

       The Secretary of Defense shall expeditiously disclose to 
     the public all records relating to the war in Afghanistan.


           Amendment No. 65 Offered by Mr. Luttrell of Texas

       At the end of subtitle B of title XII, add the following 
     new section:

     SEC. 12__. REPORT ON PROVISION OF FUNDING AND OTHER 
                   ASSISTANCE TO IRAQI POPULAR MOBILIZATION 
                   FORCES.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the 
     Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the 
     Secretary of State, shall jointly submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report containing--
       (1) an assessment of whether United States assistance has 
     been provided to, or has benefitted, the Iraqi Popular 
     Mobilization Forces for military training or professional 
     military education, including through assistance provided to 
     the Ministry of Defense of Iraq;
       (2) an assessment of whether United States assistance has 
     been provided to, or has benefitted, any person who is--
       (A) a member of any organization designated a foreign 
     terrorist organization by the Secretary of State under 
     section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1189); or
       (B) a person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to 
     be a specially designated national.
       (3) a description of how the government of Iraq and the 
     Federal budget of such government provide direct funding to 
     the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces; and
       (4) an assessment of how the relationship and interactions 
     between the Ministry of Defense of Iraq and the Iraqi Popular 
     Mobilization Forces affect the Strategic Framework Agreement 
     for a Relationship of Friendship and Cooperation between the 
     United States and the Republic of Iraq, done at Baghdad on 
     November 17, 2008, and entered into force January 1, 2009.
       (b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--

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       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the Senate.


       Amendment No. 67 Offered by Mr. Mike Garcia of California

       At the end of subtitle A of title V, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 6__. INCREASES TO MONTHLY RATES OF BASIC PAY FOR CERTAIN 
                   ENLISTED MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.

       (a) Establishment of Certain Minimum Rates.--Beginning on 
     January 1, 2024, the rate of monthly basic pay for certain 
     enlisted members of the uniformed services shall be paid in 
     accordance with the following:
       (1) In the case of a member in grade E-1 with more than 
     four months of service, such rate may not be less than 
     $2,600.60.
       (2) In the case of a member in grade E-2, such rate may not 
     be less than $2,799.20.
       (3) In the case of a member in grade E-3--
       (A) with less than three years of service, such rate may 
     not be less than $2,900.90;
       (B) with at least three, but less than four, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $2,950.60;
       (C) with at least four, but less than six, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $3,000.60; and
       (D) with at least six years of service, such rate may not 
     be less than $3,050.60.
       (4) In the case of a member in grade E-4--
       (A) with less than two years of service, such rate may not 
     be less than $3,010.50;
       (B) with at least two, but less than three, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $3,060.60;
       (C) with at least two, but less than three, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $3,100.10;
       (D) with at least four, but less than six, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $3,150.80;
       (E) with at least six, but less than eight, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $3,210.30; and
       (F) with at least eight years of service, such rate may not 
     be less than $3,260.30.
       (5) In the case of a member in grade E-5--
       (A) with less than two years of service, such rate may not 
     be less than $3,100.30;
       (B) with at least two, but less than three, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $3,150.20;
       (C) with at least two, but less than three, years of 
     service, such rate may not be less than $3,200.20; and
       (D) with at least four years of service, such rate may not 
     be less than $3,250.20.
       (6) In the case of a member in grade E-6 with less than two 
     years of service, such rate may not be less than $3,210.
       (b) Adjustment.--Any adjustment, under section 1009 of 
     title 37, United States Code, and effective on January 1, 
     2024, to a rate of basic monthly pay for a member described 
     in subsection (a), shall be an adjustment to the applicable 
     rate established by such subsection.


          Amendment No. 68 Offered by Mrs. Boebert of Colorado

       In subtitle D of title XXVIII, add at the end the 
     following:

     SEC. 28__. CLOSURE AND DISPOSAL OF THE PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT, 
                   PUEBLO COUNTY, COLORADO.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army shall close 
     Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo County, Colorado (in this 
     section referred to as the ``Depot''), not later than one 
     year after the completion of the chemical demilitarization 
     mission in such location in accordance with the Chemical 
     Weapons Convention Treaty.
       (b) Procedures.--The Secretary of the Army shall carry out 
     the closure and subsequent related property management and 
     disposal of the Depot, including the land, buildings, 
     structures, infrastructure, and associated equipment, 
     installed equipment, material, and personal property that 
     comprise the Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, in 
     accordance with the procedures and authorities for the 
     closure, management, and disposal of property under the 
     appropriate base closure laws (as defined in section 101 of 
     title 10, United States Code).
       (c) Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation 
     Activities.--The Office of Local Defense Community 
     Cooperation of the Department of Defense may make grants and 
     supplement other Federal funds pursuant to section 2391 of 
     title 10, United States Code, to support closure and reuse 
     activities of the Depot.
       (d) Treatment of Existing Permits.--Nothing in this section 
     shall be construed to prevent the removal or demolition by 
     the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons 
     Alternatives of the Department of the Army of existing 
     buildings, structures, infrastructure, and associated 
     equipment, installed equipment, material, and personal 
     property of the Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant at the 
     Depot in accordance with the existing Hazardous Waste Permit 
     Number CO-20-09-02-01 under the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 
     U.S.C. 6901 et seq.) (commonly known as the Resource 
     Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) issued by the State of 
     Colorado, or any associated or follow-on permits under such 
     Act.
       (e) Homeless Use.--Given the nature of activities 
     undertaken at the Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant at 
     the Depot, such land, buildings, structures, infrastructure, 
     and associated equipment, installed equipment, material, and 
     personal property comprising the Chemical Agent-Destruction 
     Pilot Plant is deemed unsuitable use to assist the homeless, 
     and in carrying out any closure, management, or disposal of 
     property under this section, need not be screened for use to 
     assist the homeless pursuant to section 2905(b) of the 
     Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of 
     title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note).


             Amendment No. 70 Offered by Mr. Cloud of Texas

       At the end of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC.___ . REVIEW OF PROPOSED ACTIONS.

       Section 183a(c)(3) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting ``The Clearinghouse shall ensure that a 
     governor has at least 120 days after the date on which the 
     governor receives the notice of presumed risk to provide any 
     such comments and shall provide detailed information and 
     other information necessary to ensure that the governor can 
     fully understand the nature of the presumed risk'' after the 
     first sentence.


         amendment 71 offered by mr. edwards of north carolina

       At the end of subtitle E of title XXVIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 28__. SURVEY OF CERTAIN COUNTIES FOR PLACEMENT OF 
                   FACILITIES.

       (a) Survey Required.--Not later than one year afer the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to Congress the results of a survey of the counties 
     described in subsection (b) to assess potential placement of 
     operational, training, or other facilities for use by the 
     military departments in such counties.
       (b) Counties Described.--The counties described in this 
     subsection are located in the State of North Carolina and are 
     as follows:
       (1) Buncombe County.
       (2) Cherokee County.
       (3) Clay County.
       (4) Graham County.
       (5) Haywood County.
       (6) Henderson County.
       (7) Jackson County.
       (8) Macon County.
       (9) Madison County.
       (10) McDowell County.
       (11) Polk County.
       (12) Rutherford County.
       (13) Swain County.
       (14) Transylvania County.
       (15) Yancey County.
       (c) Survey Requirements.--The survey required under 
     subsection (a) shall include the following:
       (1) An assessment of the mountainous and varied terrains in 
     the areas described in subsection (b) and the feasibility of 
     programs that use this geography, including programs for 
     basic survival skills, dam and reservoir exercises, 
     whitewater rafting exercises, thick vegetation exercises, air 
     drop exercises, and mountainous warfare exercises.
       (2) An evaluation of defense assets located in the State of 
     North Carolina and the lack of defense assets in the area 
     described in subsection (b).
       (d) Survey Considerations.--The survey shall assesses the 
     feasibility of the placement of operational, training, and 
     other facilities as follows:
       (1) Consideration of relevant civilian assets in the area 
     described in subsection (b).
       (2) Consideration of assets of Department of Defense 
     contractors in such area.
       (3) Proximity of such to current defense assets, including 
     Fort Liberty.
       (4) Consideration of the geographic similarities of such 
     area to geographic regions critical to United States defense 
     policy, including the Indo-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle 
     East, and Africa.


           amendment no. 72 offered by mr. lawler of new york

       At the end of subtitle A of title XIII, insert the 
     following new section:

     SEC. 13__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE SHARING 
                   BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA, JAPAN, AND 
                   TAIWAN.

       It is the sense of the Congress that defense intelligence 
     sharing between the United States and the Republic of Korea, 
     Japan, and Taiwan, is crucial for identifying and countering 
     the malign activities of the People's Republic of China and 
     the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, that threaten the 
     interests of the United States, our allies and partners in 
     the Indo-Pacific region.


         amendment no. 73 offered by mr. gallagher of wisconsin

       At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following 
     new section:

     SEC. 12__. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS PENDING PLAN 
                   REGARDING DELIVERY OF HARPOON MISSILES AND 
                   OTHER COASTAL DEFENSE CAPABILITIES TO SECURITY 
                   PARTNERS.

       (a) Limitation.--Of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
     by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2024, 
     and available for the Office of the Secretary of Defense for 
     the travel of persons, not more than 90 percent may be 
     obligated or expended until the date on which the Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment submits 
     to the congressional defense committees the plan required 
     under subsection (b).
       (b) Plan Required.--

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       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Acquisition and Sustainment shall develop and implement a 
     plan to provide covered Harpoon missiles to security partners 
     pursuant to the authority provided under section 506 of the 
     Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318).
       (2) Elements.--The plan under paragraph (1) shall address 
     the following:
       (A) Lessons learned from any similar experiences in support 
     of military forces of security partners in 2022.
       (B) Consultation with private industry.
       (C) Use of existing ground-based launchers.
       (D) Use of existing vehicles of the Federal Government.
       (E) Integration and modernization of required systems.
       (F) Any security risks, challenges, and mitigation steps 
     required.
       (G) Expected costs.
       (H) A timeline for the delivery of covered Harpoon missiles 
     to security partners.
       (3) Submittal to congress.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of 
     Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees the plan required under 
     paragraph (1).
       (c) Covered Harpoon Missile Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``covered Harpoon missile'' means a block IC Harpoon 
     missile designated with a ``sundown'', ``deep stow'', or 
     ``demilitarized'' condition code and includes missiles with 
     that designation that have been removed from surface vessels 
     of the Navy.


         amendment no. 74 offered by mr. tony gonzales of texas

       At the appropriate place in title XI, insert the following:

     SEC. 11__. NATIONAL DIGITAL RESERVE CORPS.

       (a) In General.--Subpart I of part III of title 5, United 
     States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new chapter:

             ``CHAPTER 104--NATIONAL DIGITAL RESERVE CORPS

``10401. Definitions.
``10402. Establishment.
``10403. Organization.
``10404. Assignments.
``10405. Reservist continuing education.
``10406. Congressional reports.
``10407. Construction.

     ``Sec. 10401. Definitions

       ``In this chapter:
       ``(1) Active reservist.--The term `active reservist' means 
     a reservist holding a position to which such reservist has 
     been appointed under section 10403(c)(2).
       ``(2) Administrator.--The term `Administrator' means the 
     Administrator of the General Services Administration.
       ``(3) Covered executive agency.--The term `covered 
     Executive agency' means an Executive agency as defined in 
     section 105, except that such term includes the United States 
     Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission, and the 
     Executive Office of the President.
       ``(4) Program.--The term `Program' means the program 
     established under section 10402(a).
       ``(5) Reservist.--The term `reservist' means an individual 
     who is a member of the National Digital Reserve Corps.

     ``Sec. 10402. Establishment

       ``(a) Establishment.--There is established in the General 
     Services Administration a program to establish, recruit, 
     manage, and assign a reserve of individuals with relevant 
     skills and credentials, to be known as the `National Digital 
     Reserve Corps', to help address the digital and cybersecurity 
     needs of covered Executive agencies.
       ``(b) Implementation.--
       ``(1) Guidance.--Not later than six months after the date 
     of the enactment of this section, the Administrator, in 
     consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel 
     Management, shall issue guidance for the National Digital 
     Reserve Corps, which shall include procedures for 
     coordinating with covered Executive agencies to--
       ``(A) identify digital and cybersecurity needs which may be 
     addressed by the National Digital Reserve Corps; and
       ``(B) assign active reservists to address such needs.
       ``(2) Recruitment and initial assignments.--Not later than 
     one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the 
     Administrator shall begin recruiting reservists and assigning 
     active reservists under the Program.

     ``Sec. 10403. Organization

       ``(a) Administration.--
       ``(1) In general.--The National Digital Reserve Corps shall 
     be administered by the Administrator.
       ``(2) Responsibilities.--In carrying out the Program, the 
     Administrator shall--
       ``(A) establish standards for serving as a reservist, 
     including educational attainment, professional 
     qualifications, and background checks in accordance with 
     existing Federal guidance;
       ``(B) ensure the standards established under subparagraph 
     (A) are met;
       ``(C) recruit individuals to the National Digital Reserve 
     Corps;
       ``(D) activate and deactivate reservists as necessary;
       ``(E) coordinate with covered Executive agencies to--
       ``(i) determine the digital and cybersecurity needs which 
     reservists shall be assigned to address;
       ``(ii) ensure active reservists have access, resources, and 
     equipment required to address digital and cybersecurity needs 
     which such reservists are assigned to address; and
       ``(iii) analyze potential assignments for reservists to 
     determine outcomes, develop anticipated assignment timelines, 
     and identify covered Executive agency partners;
       ``(F) ensure reservists acquire and maintain appropriate 
     security clearances; and
       ``(G) determine what additional resources, if any, are 
     required to successfully implement the Program.
       ``(b) National Digital Reserve Corps Participation.--
       ``(1) Service obligation agreement.--
       ``(A) In general.--An individual may become a reservist 
     only if such individual enters into a written agreement with 
     the Administrator to become a reservist.
       ``(B) Contests.--The agreement under subparagraph (A) 
     shall--
       ``(i) require the individual seeking to become a reservist 
     to serve as a reservist for a 3-year period, during which 
     such individual shall serve not less than 30 days per year as 
     an active reservist; and
       ``(ii) set forth all other the rights and obligations of 
     the individual and the General Services Administration.
       ``(2) Compensation.--The Administrator shall determine the 
     appropriate compensation for service as a reservist, except 
     that the annual pay for such service shall not exceed 
     $10,000.
       ``(3) Employment protections.--The Secretary of Labor shall 
     prescribe such regulations as necessary to ensure the 
     reemployment, continuation of benefits, and nondiscrimination 
     in reemployment of active reservists, provided that such 
     regulations shall include, at a minimum, those rights and 
     obligations set forth under chapter 43 of title 38.
       ``(4) Penalties.--
       ``(A) In general.--A reservist that fails to accept an 
     appointment under subsection (c)(2) or fails to carry out the 
     duties assigned to a reservist under such an appointment 
     shall, after notice and an opportunity to be heard--
       ``(i) cease to be a reservist; and
       ``(ii) be fined an amount equal to the sum of--

       ``(I) an amount equal to the amounts, if any, paid under 
     section 10405 with respect to such reservist; and
       ``(II) the difference between the amount of compensation 
     such reservist would have received if the reservist completed 
     the entire term of service as a reservist agreed to in the 
     agreement described in paragraph (1) and the amount of 
     compensation such reservist has received under such 
     agreement.

       ``(B) Exception.--
       ``(i) In general.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply with 
     respect to a failure of a reservist to accept an appointment 
     under subsection (c)(2) or to carry out the duties assigned 
     to the reservist under such an appointment if--

       ``(I) the failure was due to the death or disability of 
     such reservist; or
       ``(II) the Administrator, in consultation with the head of 
     the relevant covered Executive agency, determines that 
     subparagraph (A) should not apply with respect to the 
     failure.

       ``(ii) Relevant covered executive agency defined.--In this 
     subparagraph, the term `relevant covered Executive agency' 
     means--

       ``(I) in the case of a reservist failing to accept an 
     appointment under subsection (c)(2), the covered Executive 
     agency to which such reservist would have been appointed; and
       ``(II) in the case of a reservist failing to carry out the 
     duties assigned to such reservist under such an appointment, 
     the covered Executive agency to which such reservist was 
     appointed.

       ``(c) Hiring Authority.--
       ``(1) Corps leadership.--The Administrator may appoint 
     qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service 
     in the General Service Administration for which the primary 
     duties are related to the management or administration of the 
     National Digital Reserve Corps, as determined by the 
     Administrator.
       ``(2) Corps reservists.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Administrator may appoint qualified 
     reservists to temporary positions in the competitive service 
     for the purpose of assigning such reservists under section 
     10404 and to otherwise carry out the National Digital Reserve 
     Corps.
       ``(B) Appointment limits.--
       ``(i) In general.--The Administrator may not appoint an 
     individual under this paragraph if, during the 365-day period 
     ending on the date of such appointment, such individual has 
     been an officer or employee of the executive or legislative 
     branch of the United States Government, of any independent 
     agency of the United States, or of the District of Columbia 
     for not less than 130 days.
       ``(ii) Automatic appointment termination.--The appointment 
     of an individual under this paragraph shall terminate upon 
     such individual being employed as an officer or employee of 
     the executive or legislative branch of the United States 
     Government, of any independent agency of the United States, 
     or of the District of Columbia for 130 days during the 
     previous 365 days.
       ``(C) Employee status.--An individual appointed under this 
     paragraph shall be considered a special Government employee 
     (as such term is defined in section 202(a) of title 18).

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       ``(D) Conflict of interest.--Individuals appointed under 
     this section shall not, as an active reservist, have access 
     to proprietary or confidential information that is of 
     commercial value to any private entity or individual 
     employing such appointee.
       ``(E) Additional employees.--Individuals appointed under 
     this paragraph shall be in addition to any employees of the 
     General Services Administration whose duties relate to the 
     digital or cybersecurity needs of the General Services 
     Administration.

     ``Sec. 10404. Assignments

       ``(a) In General.--The Administrator may assign active 
     reservists to address the digital and cybersecurity needs of 
     covered Executive agencies, including cybersecurity services, 
     digital education and training, data triage, acquisition 
     assistance, guidance on digital projects, development of 
     technical solutions, and bridging public needs and private 
     sector capabilities.
       ``(b) Assignment-specific Access, Resources, Supplies, or 
     Equipment.--The head of a covered Executive agency shall, to 
     the extent practicable, provide each active reservist 
     assigned to address a digital or cybersecurity need of such 
     covered Executive agency under subsection (a) with any 
     specialized access, resources, supplies, or equipment 
     required to address such digital or cybersecurity need.
       ``(c) Duration.--An assignment of an individual under 
     subsection (a) shall terminate on the earlier of--
       ``(1) the date determined by the Administrator;
       ``(2) the date on which the Administrator receives 
     notification of the decision of the head of the covered 
     Executive agency, the digital or cybersecurity needs of which 
     such individual is assigned to address under subsection (a), 
     that such assignment should terminate; or
       ``(3) the date on which the assigned individual ceases to 
     be an active reservist.

     ``Sec. 10405. Reservist continuing education

       ``(a) In General.--Subject to the availability of 
     appropriations, the Administrator may pay for reservists to 
     acquire training and receive continuing education related to 
     the duties assigned to such reservists pursuant to 
     appointments under section 10403(c)(2), including attending 
     conferences and seminars and obtaining certifications, that 
     will enable reservists to more effectively meet the digital 
     and cybersecurity needs of covered Executive agencies.
       ``(b) Application.--The Administrator shall establish a 
     process for reservists to apply for the payment of reasonable 
     expenses related to the training or continuing education 
     described in subsection (a).
       ``(c) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this section, and annually thereafter, the 
     Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on the 
     expenditures under this subsection.

     ``Sec. 10406. Congressional reports

       ``Not later than two years after the date of the enactment 
     of this section, and annually thereafter, the Administrator 
     shall submit to Congress a report on the Program, including--
       ``(1) the number of reservists;
       ``(2) a list of covered Executive agencies that have 
     submitted requests for support from the National Digital 
     Reserve Corps;
       ``(3) the nature and status of such requests; and
       ``(4) with respect to each such request to which active 
     reservists have been assigned and for which work by the 
     National Digital Reserve Corps has concluded, an evaluation 
     of such work and the results of such work by--
       ``(A) the covered Executive agency that submitted the 
     request; and
       ``(B) the reservists assigned to such request.

     ``Sec. 10407. Construction

       ``Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to abrogate or 
     otherwise affect the authorities or the responsibilities of 
     the head of any other Executive agency.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of chapters for part III 
     of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
     the item related to chapter 103 the following new item:

``104. National Digital Reserve Corps.........................10401....
                                                                ''.

       (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $30,000,000, to remain available until 
     fiscal year 2025 to carry out the program established under 
     section 10402(a) of title 5, United States Code, as added by 
     this section.
       (d) Transition Assistance Program.--Section 1142(b)(3) of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting ``and 
     the National Digital Reserve Corps'' after ``Selected 
     Reserve''.
       (e) Offset.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the 
     funding tables in division D, the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated in section 301 for operation and maintence, 
     Defense-wide, for Office of the Secretary of Defense, Line 
     490, as specified in the corresponding funding table in 
     section 4301, is hereby reduced by $30,000,000.


         amendment no. 75 offered by mr. gallagher of wisconsin

       At end of subtitle A of title XIII, add the following:

     SEC. __. REPORT ON DEFENSE SUPPORT FOR TAIWAN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress a report containing an 
     evaluation of the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) processes 
     across all military services for the provision of defense 
     articles, defense services, and training to Taiwan pursuant 
     to the Taiwan Relations Act (22 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.).
       (b) Matters to Be Included.--Such report shall contain the 
     following:
       (1) A description of price and availability data with 
     respect to the provision of defense articles, defense 
     services, and training requested by Taiwan during the 2-year 
     period preceding the report.
       (2) A description of timelines from price and availability 
     data requested to price and availability data provided to 
     Taiwan of articles, services, and training described in 
     paragraph (1), including an identification of the specific 
     service lead associated with the provision of such articles, 
     services, and training.
       (3) A description of when articles, services, and training 
     described in paragraph (1) were provided to the Department of 
     State for FMS authorization.
       (4) An evaluation of military training activities conducted 
     with Taiwan during the 2-year period preceding the report, 
     including--
       (A) the objectives of such training activities;
       (B) funding authority, unless national funds were applied; 
     and
       (C) an evaluation of the effectiveness of such training 
     activities, including the strengths and weaknesses in 
     Taiwan's capacity to absorb the training provided.
       (5) A description of the articles, services, and training 
     described in paragraph (1) planned to be provided to Taiwan 
     during the 1-year period after the period covered by the 
     report.
       (6) A description of the timeframe from Department of State 
     authorization to Taiwan signature on the Letter of Offer and 
     Acceptance of articles, services, and training described in 
     paragraph (1) and information on delays in concluding a 
     Letter of Offer and Acceptance.
       (7) A description of timelines the Department of Defense 
     took to work with United States industry in entering into 
     contracts associated articles, services, and training 
     described in paragraph (1), including a description of the 
     average timeframes for Letters of Offer and Acceptance.
       (8) A description of the timeliness of Department of 
     Defense components' reporting of deliveries articles, 
     services, and training described in paragraph (1).
       (c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) may 
     include a classified annex.
       (d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate.


            AMENDMENT NO. 76 OFFERED BY MR. GOOD OF VIRGINIA

       At the appropriate place in subtitle A of title XVIII of 
     division A, insert the following:

     SEC. 18___. REPORT ON CHINA BENEFITTING FROM UNITED STATES 
                   TAXPAYER-FUNDED RESEARCH.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
     Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of State, and the 
     Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the 
     Committee on the Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on the Armed Services of 
     the Senate a report on the extent to which China has 
     benefitted from United States taxpayer-funded research.
       (b) Contents of Report.--The report under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) The extent to which United States taxpayer-funded 
     research has benefitted China, including a list of entities 
     funded by the United States Government or a State government, 
     such as research institutions, laboratories, and institutions 
     of higher education, which have hired Chinese nationals or 
     allowed Chinese nationals to conduct research, including an 
     estimate of the number of nationals hired or involved in 
     research projects.
       (2) A list of United States Government programs, grants, 
     and other forms of research funding in the fields of science, 
     technology, engineering, and math fields that have directly 
     or indirectly cooperated or affiliated with research 
     institutions in China or Chinese Communist Party entities.
       (3) The extent to which China's funding of United States 
     taxpayer-funded research institutions has benefitted China.
       (4) How the Government of China and the Chinese Communist 
     Party have used United States taxpayer-funded research, 
     including as part of China's efforts to support ``civil-
     military fusion'' and human rights abuses.
       Definition.--In this section, the term ``United States 
     taxpayer-funded research'' means research--
       (1) funded by a grant from the Federal Government or a 
     State government; or
       (2) conducted by an institution that receives funding from 
     the Federal Government or a State government.

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           amendment No. 77 Offered by MR. GRAVES OF MISSOURI

       Page 1190, line 8, strike ``include at least one 
     representative from each of'' and insert ``consist of''.
       Page 1190, strike lines 12 through 16 and insert the 
     following:
       (2) the Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine 
     Academy;
       (3) the Commandant of the Coast Guard;
       (4) the Commander of the Military Sealift Command;
       (5) the Secretary of the Navy; and
       (6) at least one representative from each of--
       Page 1190, beginning on line 17, redesignate paragraphs (6) 
     through (14) as subparagraphs (A) through (I) of paragraph 
     (6), respectively.


           Amendment No. 78 Offered by Mr. Graves of Missouri

       At the appropriate place in title XVIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 18__. AUTHORITY FOR REMEMBRANCE OF CONGRESSMAN DON YOUNG 
                   WITH A MEMORIAL MARKER OR NICHE COVER AND 
                   CEREMONY IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.

       Notwithstanding section 2409 of title 38, United States 
     Code, the memory of Congressman Don Young shall be honored 
     with a memorial marker or niche cover and ceremony in 
     Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.


          Amendment No. 79 Offered by Mr. Peters of California

       At the end of subtitle C of title I, insert the following:

     SEC. 1__. LIMITATION ON USE OF GOVERNMENT-OPERATED DRYDOCKS.

       The Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that no Government-
     operated drydock is eligible to compete for the award of a 
     contract for private sector non-nuclear surface ship 
     maintenance unless the Secretary determines, in accordance 
     with section 2466 of title 10, United States Code, that there 
     is not sufficient private sector dock competition.


           Amendment No. 80 Offered by Ms. Tenney of New York

       At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title XVIII:

     SEC. __. REPORT ON EFFORTS TO DISSUADE ALLIES FROM PURCHASING 
                   WEAPONS FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE 
                   PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to 
     the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
     includes--
       (1) a detailed description of efforts to dissuade allies 
     from purchasing weapons from the Russian Federation and the 
     People's Republic of China;
       (2) a list of allies that purchase at least 20 percent of 
     their weaponry by monetary value from the Russian Federation 
     or the People's Republic of China;
       (3) an evaluation of the security and political concerns 
     with allies purchasing weaponry from the Russian Federation 
     or the People's Republic of China; and
       (4) an evaluation of the impact that the Russia-Ukraine War 
     has on allies purchasing weaponry from the Russia Federation.
       (b) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a 
     classified annex.
       (c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 583, the gentleman 
from Alabama (Mr. Rogers) and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Smith) 
each will control 15 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman 
from Iowa (Mr. Nunn), my friend and colleague.
  Mr. NUNN of Iowa. Mr. Chairman, as a nearly 20-year combat veteran 
and head of counterintelligence for cybersecurity, I know firsthand the 
millions of threats that are leveraged against our country on a daily 
basis.
  As we look to strengthen our security with this bill offered by the 
chair and the amendments going forward, I thank those who have worked 
so diligently on our joint effort to create a National Digital Reserve 
Corps to buttress our country against this threat.
  Additionally, I will speak about another win for our military, 
military parents. As both an Air Force officer, Reservist, and National 
Guard member, we have worked on bipartisan legislation, the Reserve 
Component Parental Leave Parity Act, that I helped lead with 
Representative Jeff Jackson from North Carolina.
  Our servicemen and -women deserve time with their new children, and 
this policy will expand parental leave for drilling Reserve and 
National Guard members to match the leave policies of their Active-Duty 
members.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from Iowa.
  Mr. NUNN of Iowa. Mr. Chair, this is a big, bipartisan win to improve 
the lives of our members who are serving, including myself as a parent 
of foster children.
  Unfortunately, as a result of a backroom deal, we were not able to 
serve those who needed help from suicide prevention. In my home State 
of Iowa, we have almost four times the number of individuals who take 
their life after coming back from combat.
  We will not stop fighting for this, and what we can't include in this 
amendment we will move forward with the chairman to make sure we are 
able to protect those who have served overseas and take their own life 
when coming back.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the 
gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stanton).
  Mr. STANTON. Mr. Chairman, moving the National Defense Authorization 
Act forward has almost always been a bipartisan effort. This very bill, 
as originally drafted, passed out of committee with near unanimous 
votes from both Democrats and Republicans, 59-1.
  That is why it is unconscionable that extremist politicians are 
willing to jeopardize our military readiness and our national security 
to push their unpopular partisan agenda.
  In the dead of night, extreme lawmakers tacked on divisive, dangerous 
amendments, including one that would prevent servicewomen from 
accessing critical abortion care.
  More than 400,000 women serve in Active Duty and in the Reserves. At 
great personal sacrifice, these servicewomen have sworn an oath to 
defend the United States and to live, train, and work at assigned duty 
stations often far from home.
  Almost immediately after Roe was overturned last summer, States 
around the country began enacting draconian abortion bans and 
restrictions. Today, nearly half of the servicewomen no longer have 
access to abortion care, and many live hundreds of miles from the 
nearest provider.
  Access to abortion should not depend on where someone lives or where 
they are stationed.
  Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rightly noted that the Dobbs decision 
would ``interfere with the U.S. military's ability to recruit, retain, 
and maintain the readiness of a highly qualified force,'' and announced 
earlier this year that the DOD would cover travel and lodging expenses 
for servicewomen and military family members forced to travel for 
healthcare.
  My colleagues on the other side of the aisle would see that this 
policy is overturned.
  Mr. Chair, I have voted for the NDAA every year that I have served in 
Congress, but I cannot in good conscience vote for this legislation in 
its current form. We must provide for our national defense.
  This bill will egregiously harm nearly one-fifth of this country's 
fighting force. I will not turn my back on our servicewomen and 
military families.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from California (Mr.  Mike Garcia), my friend.
  Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of 
this strong NDAA. It prioritizes the true mission of our U.S. military, 
and that is to deter and to win wars. That is it. It is pretty simple.
  More specifically, it prioritizes America's greatest national 
security asset, our brave men and women in uniform who serve on a daily 
basis. I thank Chairman Rogers for his support of my amendment within 
this en bloc that will secure the highest pay raise in history for 
nearly 1 million of our junior enlisted troops, paid for by the 
appropriations bill.
  This takes the starting salary for an E-1 in the military from about 
$22,000 a year to $31,200 a year. It gets them above the poverty line 
and off of food stamps. These brave men and women are willing to make 
the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedom, and it is 
unacceptable that they were making less than fast-food workers.

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  Mr. Chair, I couldn't be more proud of this historic victory, and I 
couldn't be more eager to continue fighting for those who fight so hard 
to give us our security blanket.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from Wisconsin (Mr. Van Orden), an outstanding freshman.
  Mr. VAN ORDEN. Mr. Chairman, today I rise in opposition of amendment 
No. 3 in the en bloc.
  I have tremendous respect for Chairmen Green and Rogers, and I also 
view the Chinese Communist Party as a threat to world peace.
  I believe the unintended consequences of this amendment will have a 
greater negative financial impact on our junior enlisted servicemen who 
shop at our base exchanges than on the Chinese Communist Party.
  Our junior enlisted currently struggle financially, and 
implementation of this amendment will unintentionally raise the cost of 
everyday goods and further exacerbate this strain.
  Mr. Chair, for this reason alone, I urge my colleagues to oppose this 
amendment.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Jackson), my friend.
  Mr. JACKSON of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I will start by saying that 
despite the objections of many of the folks on the other side of the 
aisle regarding this National Defense Authorization Act, which I 
consider to be an outstanding bill that I am aggressively and 
enthusiastically supporting, and despite the objections on the other 
side of the aisle, most of the controversial amendments in this 
amendment do nothing but return us to the initial and the long-time 
combat readiness attitude that the military has always had and focuses 
all of our efforts on that particular goal.
  Mr. Chair, I rise in support of this en bloc amendment. This en bloc 
includes an amendment of mine which will prohibit cadets or midshipmen 
from being punished for not receiving the COVID vaccine.
  An adverse action documented in a member's service record can have a 
devastating impact, potentially ending a rising military career before 
it even has an opportunity to begin.
  Last year, here on the floor of the House, Ranking Member Smith told 
us that another vaccine mandate could be implemented in the future if 
the Biden administration decided to do so.
  I refuse to sit on the sidelines and let the Biden administration's 
politically motivated efforts to appease the radical left cost young 
men and women their futures.
  Mr. Chair, I strongly urge support of the overall NDAA.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from New York (Mr. Molinaro), my friend.
  Mr. MOLINARO. Mr. Chairman, I rise both in appreciation and support 
of my amendment included in the en bloc, which will require a study to 
identify potential vulnerabilities in U.S. military systems and 
infrastructure that could be exploited by adversarial AI applications 
used by China, Russia, and other adversaries.
  Mr. Chair, I thank the chairman for his leadership in this House and 
for supporting a number of amendments that were included and adopted 
yesterday.
  These amendments will support military families and their children 
with intellectual and developmental disabilities, ensure the DOD 
guarantees full access and coverage to life-saving opioid overdose 
reversal drugs, and requires our Nation's biodefense strategy, along 
with helping the Army meet its goals to modernize aircraft and more.
  Mr. Chair, I extend my appreciation.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, we have no further speakers if the 
gentleman would like to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself 2 minutes.
  Mr. Chair, I will have remarks in a moment while, regrettably, I am 
not supporting this particular bill. That doesn't change how much 
respect I have for the process and for all the people who participated 
in that process. I want to make sure we understand that.
  One of the things I always say, I believe in democracy more than I 
believe in my own opinion, which means that the process is important 
and the way we put that process together and that we move through it.
  In particular, I definitely thank the staff, certainly our staff on 
the House Armed Services Committee that has done an outstanding job, 
the Rules Committee staff, as well, but also the floor staff and the 
parliamentarians and the folks who have to put the amendments together 
and put the legislation together.
  Throughout this process from the very start, when the original bill 
was introduced, to all of the amendments, we have to run through these 
numbers, it is in the thousands, basically, of amendments and ideas 
that are submitted.
  From the moment we put together the initial bill, we amend it in 
committee, they deal with Rules, they amend it on the floor--we are 
talking literally thousands of different pieces of legislation and 
ideas that have to be brought together. Members don't do any of that.
  We spout out ideas, and a whole bunch of staff work really hard to 
get that done. I thank them very, very much for all of that work to 
make this process go forward.
  Mr. Chair, it is a good, robust bipartisan approach. We have the 
amendments, we have the debates, and we resolve it. One thing I will 
make clear, I am not thrilled with the outcome of the Rules Committee, 
but that is the nature of being in the minority.
  When you are in the majority, the Rules Committee does what the Rules 
Committee does, and the minority complains about it. That is the way 
this place works. That is fine. I might have done it differently in 
terms of trying to figure out how to pass the bill.
  At the end of the day, I don't have any process objection here. The 
amendments were put on the floor, and they passed. I am not concerned 
about that. I am concerned about the outcome, and I will explain that 
later.
  Mr. Chair, I will take a moment to really make it clear how much I 
thank all the people who put this process together, in particular, I 
thank Chairman Rogers for his work.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself an additional 30 
seconds.
  Mr. Chair, it is not as easy as it looks. Let me just sum that up. 
There are a whole lot of things you have to manage, including the 
minority part. Chairman Rogers has done an outstanding job of doing 
that in his first year as chair, and I appreciate that and I respect 
that. I thank everybody for the process they put together.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1000

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I am prepared to close, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the 
gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. Houlahan), who is a member of the 
committee.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Chair, later today, I will offer the motion to 
recommit on this bill.
  I stand with my colleagues who have stood shoulder to shoulder in 
support of our brave servicemembers in an effort to put together this 
bill for the last nearly 1 year. I stand with the spirit of those who 
are currently serving in uniform who are sick and tired of this 
legislative body politicizing their lives, their livelihoods, and their 
bodily autonomy.
  I rise today in honor of my grandfather and my father, who served 
full, distinguished careers in the military, and my mom and my 
grandmother, who served as military spouses, each for over 30 years.
  I rise today as someone who was born and grew up on a military base 
and moved across this Nation and to other countries. I rise as someone 
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the time came. I rise for my cousins who serve today.
  I don't need my colleagues to tell me what it is like to be a mom in 
uniform because I lived that experience, or a child in the military. I 
lived that, too.
  Here I am today, standing up on behalf of all servicewomen and 
military families who are willing to risk their lives for our freedoms, 
yet we are not willing to protect theirs.
  What I have seen on the floor over the past 2 days has really 
saddened me: targeting LGBTQ families like my own, targeting libraries, 
targeting the reproductive freedoms of servicewomen and military 
families stationed in States that do not respect their own bodily 
autonomy.
  Chair, we even saw a colleague refer to our Black servicemembers as 
``colored people.''
  To my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, let me make a few 
things clear. We agree there are threats around the world like China 
that we should be spending our time and efforts on. We agree the 
historic recruitment challenges we face are a risk to our national 
security. We agree the brave men and women who serve in uniform should 
not be used as political pawns.
  So why did this Republican-led body decide to take a historically 
bipartisan piece of legislation from the House Armed Services Committee 
hostage by adding scores of extreme GOP culture war priorities to it, 
including, least of all, a clear-as-day backdoor policy to a national 
abortion ban?
  Chair, I want the American people to know that Democrats support our 
men and women in uniform. We proudly voted forward by 58-1 a bipartisan 
piece of legislation to increase their pay, to improve their housing, 
and to expand their access to childcare.
  However, the GOP is putting that bipartisan progress in jeopardy, and 
the toughest part is that they know it. I have a great deal of respect 
for the handful of my colleagues who recognize the extreme turn that 
this legislation has taken, and I thank them.
  So, I look at them again, and I look to them again. We must do what 
is right by our servicemembers. Put the political gamesmanship aside 
and return this extreme bill back to committee where it can return it 
to its bipartisan nature.
  I will work tirelessly across the aisle to ensure that we give the 
President, our Nation, and, in fact, our globe a bill that truly 
provides for the collective defense of our American values.
  It really saddens me to say that this bill does not do that. This 
bill will hurt our recruitment and retention.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 30 seconds 
to the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania.
  Ms. HOULAHAN. It makes it extremely difficult for a proud veteran 
like myself and so many others to look at future leaders of America and 
say that, yes, this military is a home for you.
  I took the uniform nearly 30 years ago, and it is a travesty that 
servicewomen today will have less freedoms than I did.
  Chair, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support 
this MTR and send this extreme bill back to committee where we can 
truly deliver for those in uniform.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chair, I continue to reserve the balance 
of my time.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. Chair, I thank the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania, who summed it 
up reasonably well, but I really want to make sure people understand 
why we are opposed to this bill.
  We are opposed to this bill because it is our firm belief that this 
will undermine our ability to meet the national security objectives of 
this country.
  I want to explain why. We can start with the issue of access to 
reproductive healthcare for women.
  Because of the Dobbs decision, there are many States now across this 
country where you cannot get access to that care. The Department of 
Defense, faced with that and having a large number of women and family 
members of servicemembers in those States, set up a situation to allow 
those women to get access to that reproductive care. This bill takes 
that away.
  Mr. Chair, if you are a woman concerned about your ability to get an 
abortion, first of all, or concerned about if you are a servicemember 
who has a family member who might be concerned about that, you are 
going to be less likely to join the military.
  I really do want to emphasize one point that came up during this. I 
understand a lot of people oppose abortion. They want to ban it 
outright, and that is why they feel this way. However, do understand 
the negative impact that that will have on a lot of women's willingness 
to join the military.

  It goes beyond abortion, as we have sadly seen. The worst case of 
this is a woman who miscarries midway through her pregnancy cannot get 
treated for that. There was one particular case that was cited during 
the debate of a woman who wound up in the emergency room fighting for 
her life because of an infection because she could not get that care.
  If you are a woman, Mr. Chair, or if you are a man who is 
considering, ``What about my spouse, and what about my children?'' then 
you will be less likely to join the military knowing that you have that 
challenge. So, we are going to have fewer qualified people willing to 
join the military because of what was passed. That will not make our 
military stronger.
  We have also now said, and the debate seems to imply, that trans 
people don't exist so they are not welcome in the military either. Now, 
I am not a doctor and, therefore, don't want to presume what treatment 
someone should have who is in a transgender situation, but what this 
bill says is: Nope, we are not even going to consider it.
  Again, Mr. Chair, if you are a trans person, you are going to be less 
likely to join the military, or, Mr. Chair, if you are someone who 
thinks, ``What if I have a child who is a trans person?'' The military 
is not going to accept them. So, now, Mr. Chair, you can take trans 
people off the table. They are not going to join the military either.
  Then, we have the most difficult aspect of this, and that is the 
diversity, equity, and inclusion piece. This is a very widely 
misunderstood thing, and I tried to explain it throughout the debate.
  Believe it or not, we have a history of discrimination in this 
country. We have a history of bigotry. You can go through slavery, Jim 
Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, and a whole bunch of different things, Mr. 
Chair. We also have a history of incredible discrimination against 
women.
  I cited this before, but as it came out during debate, women who join 
the military, I think, have a very strong understanding that they are 
going to have to work twice as hard, basically, to get the same 
opportunities that a man gets in the military. That is sort of 
understood.
  Because of that historical discrimination, Mr. Chair, you also have 
to wonder, if you are a person of color, whether you are going to get a 
fair shake in the military.
  Now, I will admit there are a lot of people who, even faced with 
those odds, even knowing that they are going to have to work twice as 
hard and face that discrimination, will join, but some will not. So, 
again, there is another group of people who we have now taken off the 
table.
  I want to take a special moment to recognize, on that last point, the 
willingness of people to join the military even if they are facing 
discrimination.
  Where I live in the Seattle-Bellevue area, we have a lot of Nisei 
veterans and family of Nisei veterans, and it is a particularly 
compelling story. These are Japanese Americans who fought and died, in 
many cases, for our country during World War II while their family 
members were unfairly incarcerated back home.
  I know that there are people who will step up and take on that 
challenge anyway, but there will be fewer of them.
  Basically, Mr. Chair, you have this huge group of people now who are 
going to be less likely to join the military because of what this bill 
does.
  I will slightly paraphrase a line from ``A Few Good Men.'' Basically, 
all this bill does is weakens our country. It weakens our ability to 
respect all the people who should be allowed not just to serve but to 
serve with an equal chance of advancement. Whether you

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are talking about women, whether you are talking about trans people, 
whether you are talking about people of color, Mr. Chair, this bill 
says that we are going to make it more difficult for you to get a fair 
shake in the military.
  I do understand the DEI argument, but let me just say two things 
about that as I bring this to a close.
  First of all, there were a lot of very disturbing arguments made. I 
think the base renaming commission argument, even though technically it 
really didn't matter, was the most disturbing of all as we, once again, 
heard all these speeches about how we need to honor our history and 
honor our heritage.
  These are the exact same arguments that were made over 100 years ago 
when this country went through a very concerted effort to make sure 
that we could establish white supremacy as the law of the land. The 
very same arguments that erected these monuments and named these bases 
and gave us the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow were made on the floor of 
this House.
  It is shocking that those arguments were made. It is appalling that 
those arguments carried the day and actually won on all of these 
amendments and found themselves inserted in the bill. All of that is 
very concerning.
  I do understand that there is a different set of arguments and a very 
respectable set of arguments that says that the way we are attempting 
to address the historical discrimination of this country is 
problematic, and that is primarily critical race theory.
  There are certainly some in this country who have a view of this that 
our country is nothing but racist and that basically we have heard--I 
think  Mike Waltz actually read this out in committee, and it is very 
accurate: There are some who believe that all White people are racist, 
that if you are a White person, you are by definition an oppressor, and 
you need to think about that.
  I have seen that, and I have witnessed that, and it is wrong. In my 
opinion, it is not the correct way to approach that. How should we 
handle that? The way we have chosen to handle that is to get rid of 
diversity, equity, and inclusion completely and totally, and that is 
the problem.
  Mr. Chair, if you wanted to say that we are not going to do that part 
of it, fine. That is not what we did.

  To the argument of, ``Well, gee, all that does is makes it fair. We 
shouldn't consider race. We shouldn't consider any of these things in 
determining excellence,'' the problem is that for 400 years we did, and 
at the end of that, one particular group of people got all the 
advantages.
  The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Chair, I urge opposition to this bill, 
but I do thank the people for the process that was put in place.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. Chair, I thank our bipartisan HASC staff for their tremendous 
work. As I talked about yesterday, our committee staff has worked for 
monthslong hours in a very bipartisan fashion to get us where we are 
today.
  I also thank everyone from the Office of the Legislative Counsel, the 
Congressional Budget Office, the Parliamentarian's Office, the Clerk, 
the floor staff, the Rules Committee, and the leadership on both sides 
of the aisle.
  I especially thank my friend, Ranking Member Smith, for his hard work 
and assistance. As a longtime former chairman of this committee, he 
gets the ebbs and flows of this process and has been a very helpful 
partner in helping me lead this committee.
  Mr. Chairman, this is a good bill.
  I will address this to my Conference: There is absolutely no reason 
why any Republican should vote against the bill. It will enhance the 
congressional oversight of the DOD. It will improve the quality of life 
for our servicemembers and their families. It will help build the 
ready, capable, and lethal fighting force we need to deter the Chinese 
Communist Party and other adversaries.
  Mr. Chair, I urge all Members to support the bill, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered 
by the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Rogers).
  The en bloc amendments were agreed to.


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings 
will now resume on those amendments printed in House Report 118-142 on 
which further proceedings were postponed, in the following order:
  Amendment No. 63 by Mr. Banks of Indiana.
  Amendment No. 64 by Mr. Roy of Texas.
  The Chair will reduce to 2 minutes the time for any electronic vote 
after the first vote in this series.


                 Amendment No. 63 Offered by Mr. Banks

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 63, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Banks), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 218, 
noes 210, not voting 11, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 325]

                               AYES--218

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Cuellar
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--210

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost

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     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     James
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--11

     Bowman
     Evans
     Gallego
     Garbarino
     Golden (ME)
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Kelly (PA)
     Radewagen
     Roy
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)

                              {time}  1034

  Messrs. DeSAULNIER and LARSON of Connecticut changed their vote from 
``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. DAVIDSON changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. BOWMAN. Mr. Chair, had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' 
on rollcall No. 325.


                  Amendment No. 64 Offered by Mr. Roy

  The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a 
recorded vote on amendment No. 64, printed in House Report 118-142 
offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), on which further 
proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice 
vote.
  The Clerk will redesignate the amendment.
  The Clerk redesignated the amendment.


                             Recorded Vote

  The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The Acting CHAIR. This is a 2-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 217, 
noes 216, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 326]

                               AYES--217

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Moylan
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NOES--216

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fitzpatrick
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Norton
     Nunn (IA)
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Plaskett
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Sablan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Evans
     Gallego
     Gonzalez-Colon
     Kelly (PA)
     Radewagen
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                    Announcement by the Acting Chair

  The Acting CHAIR (during the vote). There is 1 minute remaining.

                              {time}  1039

  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Curtis). There being no further amendments, 
under the rule, the committee rises.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Weber of Texas) having assumed the chair, Mr. Curtis, Acting Chair of 
the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, reported 
that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 
2670) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense and 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, and, pursuant to House Resolution 583, he reported the bill, 
as amended by House Resolution 582 and by the House on July 13, 2023, 
back to the House with

[[Page H3599]]

sundry further amendments adopted in the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the 
Committee of the Whole? If not, the Chair will put them en gros.
  The amendments were agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.

                              {time}  1045


                           Motion to Recommit

  Ms. HOULAHAN. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

         Ms. Houlahan of Pennsylvania moves to recommit the bill 
     H.R. 2670 to the Committee on Armed Services.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the 
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
  The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5-
minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute 
votes on:
  Passage of the bill, if ordered; and
  Agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the Journal, if ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 210, 
nays 217, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 327]

                               YEAS--210

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                               NAYS--217

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Biggs
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crane
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Brecheen
     Evans
     Gaetz
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining.

                              {time}  1049

  Mr. NUNN of Iowa changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and 
nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219, 
nays 210, not voting 5, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 328]

                               YEAS--219

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Bost
     Brecheen
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     Davis (NC)
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Donalds
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gaetz
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Golden (ME)
     Gonzales, Tony
     Good (VA)
     Gooden (TX)
     Gosar
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harris
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff

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     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luna
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (IL)
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Norman
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Ogles
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Perez
     Perry
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rosendale
     Rouzer
     Roy
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Self
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Spartz
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Vasquez
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                               NAYS--210

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Biggs
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Buck
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crane
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green, Al (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Massie
     Matsui
     McBath
     McClellan
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--5

     Evans
     Gallego
     Kelly (PA)
     Smith (MO)
     Williams (NY)


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining.

                              {time}  1055

  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, had I been present, I would have 
voted: ``yea'' on rollcall No. 325 (Banks Amendment #63 to H.R. 2670), 
``yea'' on rollcall No. 326 (Roy Amendment #64 to H.R. 2670), ``nay'' 
on rollcall No. 327 (On the Motion to Recommit H.R. 2670), and ``yea'' 
on rollcall No. 328 (Final Passage of H.R. 2670).

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