[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 123 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S3083]
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  SA 906. Mr. SCHMITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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

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

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