[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 108 (Thursday, June 27, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H4354-H4389]
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             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2025


                             General Leave

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to 
include extraneous material on H.R. 8774, and that I may include 
tabular material on the same.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ellzey). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316 and rule 
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the state of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 8774.
  The Chair appoints the gentleman from North Dakota (Mr. Armstrong) to 
preside over the Committee of the Whole.

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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 consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 8774) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes, with Mr. 
Armstrong in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read the 
first time. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not 
exceed 1 hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
  The gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) and the gentlewoman from 
Minnesota (Ms. McCollum) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise today to offer H.R. 8774, the 2025 Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act. I want to start by thanking Chairman Cole for his 
leadership in this process. I also thank the Defense Subcommittee 
ranking member, Ms. McCollum, for her friendship and partnership 
through this. Finally, I thank the Defense Subcommittee staff for their 
tireless work on this year's bill.
  H.R. 8774 provides $833 billion for the Department of Defense and the 
intelligence community. Consistent with the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 
this is 1 percent, or $8.5 billion, above fiscal year 2024 enacted 
levels.
  While $833 billion is the discretionary cap, the subcommittee has 
little discretion over 62 percent of this bill. The funding goes toward 
must-pay bills, including troop and civilian pay; military benefits, 
medical care, and family services; sustainment of current weapons 
systems; fuel, utilities, IT, basic supplies; and training and 
education. This is to say nothing of necessary investments in major 
weapons systems to keep our military dominant in an intensifying threat 
environment.
  These factors are why I believe the current defense top line is too 
low for today's needs.
  Present and emerging threats mandate a robust U.S. military, which, 
as former Secretary of Defense James Mattis said, requires at least 3 
to 5 percent real growth above inflation.
  Finally, due to the decision to consolidate our defense industry over 
30 years ago, America's defense industrial base is brittle and unable 
to mobilize without significant investment.
  While the defense allocation under the FRA is too low to meet 
America's national security needs, it is the law of the land. This bill 
is written to be consistent with this law.

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  Today's threats mandate a resolute United States made credible with a 
capable, lethal, and ready military.
  The Appropriations Defense Subcommittee scrutinized the fiscal year 
2025 budget request line by line and conducted rigorous oversight. This 
resulted in $18 billion in cuts of requests that were unnecessary or 
unjustified. This bill provides no blank checks.
  Instead, this bill builds on the priorities from fiscal year 2024. 
These include prioritizing the fight against China, promoting 
innovation and modernization, supporting our servicemembers and their 
families, optimizing the Pentagon's civilian workforce, increasing the 
Department's role in countering the flow of illicit fentanyl and 
synthetic opioids, supporting America's close ally, Israel, and 
ensuring the Department focuses on its core mission of training and 
equipping our warfighters and not culture wars.

  Time is not on our side. President Xi is planning to invade Taiwan 
potentially by 2027, if not sooner. The only way to prevent Chinese 
aggression is by fielding and operating capabilities that demonstrate 
America's military advantage.
  To this end, the bill increases investments in fifth- and sixth-
generation aircraft, procures deliverable capability including several 
INDOPACOM unfunded priorities. It prohibits the divestment of certain 
naval and air assets that are still combat-credible. It provides $200 
million for Taiwan security cooperation programs while prioritizing 
defense articles and services to the threatened island.
  The bill also continues investments in the reawakening and 
acceleration of American defense innovation. Our defense industrial 
base is fragile, and competition is stifled. Almost every major defense 
acquisition program is plagued by persistent inflation, an aging 
workforce, costly infrastructure, weak supply chains, overly optimistic 
schedules, unrealistic budgets, and ultimately overpromised results.
  We can trace this back to then-Secretary of Defense Aspin's defense 
contractor version of the Last Supper back in 1993 when the defense 
industrial base consolidated from two dozen defense prime contractors 
to the five that we have today. The consequences of this decision 
mandate action, which must be achieved through an innovation 
intervention. America's legacy of innovation and entrepreneurs gives us 
an asymmetric advantage our competitors could never replicate.
  This bill seeks to tap into that opportunity with over $1.3 billion 
for the Department of Defense Innovation Unit and related innovation 
efforts, including $400 million for the highly successful APFIT 
program.
  Modern and innovative practices are needed in more than just our 
defense capability. The Pentagon workforce and business practices also 
need to enter into the 21st century. This bill cuts $916 million in 
unjustified civilian workforce requests and finds more efficient ways 
to do business.
  Recognizing the national security threat posed by China's supply of 
fentanyl-based chemicals to Mexican drug cartels, this bill maintains 
high levels of funding for DOD's drug interdiction and counterdrug 
activities with $1.14 billion. This includes an increase for the 
National Guard Counterdrug Program and the National Guard Youth 
Challenge Program, empowering States to take a more active role in the 
defense of their communities from our number one foreign adversary.
  This bill also transfers Mexico from NORTHCOM to SOUTHCOM for 
improved coordination and prioritization.
  As I mentioned at the outset, this bill focuses the Department on its 
warfighting mission. The bill includes multiple general provisions from 
the House fiscal year 2024 bill that pivot the Pentagon away from 
divisive partisan policies and toward military readiness.
  Finally, underpinning all of these priorities funded in the bill is 
the imperative to support our servicemembers and their families. The 
bill includes a 4.5 percent pay raise for all military personnel plus 
$2.5 billion toward an additional 15 percent pay raise for junior 
enlisted servicemembers. This will have a positive effect on 
recruitment and retention and will improve the quality of life for our 
servicemembers and their families serving with them.
  I am proud of this year's Defense appropriations bill, which adheres 
to the fiscal year constraints while providing a strong military to 
defend America, our allies, and our partners.
  This bill procures where we can, trains where we must, and invests in 
capability that will make our adversaries wake up every day and say: 
Today is not the day to provoke the United States of America.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise today in opposition to H.R. 8774, the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2025, but I want to start by recognizing the 
outstanding work of the staff: Jennifer Chartrand and Jason Gray on the 
minority side here with me, Ben Peterson and my Defense fellow, Patrick 
Carr, in my personal office. I also acknowledge the great work of the 
majority staff, with a big shout-out to Johnnie Kaberle. I thank them 
for their hard work.
  I thank Chairman Calvert as well for his leadership on the 
subcommittee and for his warm friendship.
  I recognize three Members particularly because this will be their 
last Defense bill. First and foremost is Chairwoman Kay Granger, the 
very first woman to lead this subcommittee, and on my side of the aisle 
are Dutch Ruppersberger and Derek Kilmer. We will miss them greatly. I 
thank each and every one of them for their years of work on our 
subcommittee and for their commitment to America's national security.
  Turning to the bill, the fiscal year 2025 Defense Appropriations Act 
totals $833 billion, slightly over President Biden's budget request. I 
appreciate that the bill conforms to the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 
however, I do have deep concerns with this bill on how it will impact 
our military's readiness and unit cohesion.
  To honor the sacrifice of those who have fought for freedom, we need 
to foster a climate in our military that appreciates and supports all 
Americans who choose to take the oath to serve. Unfortunately, at this 
time, this bill does not reflect that sentiment.
  In 1948, in a speech to the British House of Commons, Winston 
Churchill said: ``Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to 
repeat it.''
  The bill before us repeats the same mistakes as the FY24 House 
proposal. Once again, this bill includes partisan social riders that 
led to continuing resolutions spanning over 5 months of this fiscal 
year. All these riders were just rejected in the FY24 conference 
committee agreement we passed in March.

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  Now, we all understand we are in a new geopolitical era where our 
Nation faces grave threats that we must respond to swiftly, but once 
again, the majority has included riders that they know will not become 
law. This will only serve to repeat a process that nearly ended in a 
full-year continuing resolution.
  If that is not enough, there are provisions in this bill that are 
simply outside the jurisdiction of the Defense Subcommittee. That 
includes prohibiting funds for the United Nations Relief and Works 
Agency, an organization the Department of Defense has never funded, or 
a provision related to the IRS tax treatment of individuals who hold a 
belief that marriage is a union between one man and one woman only.
  These provisions, and some of the amendments yet to be considered, 
are just not germane to this bill. This subcommittee, I believe, must 
stop wasting valuable time on issues outside of our jurisdiction 
because our national security cannot afford to waste another 5 months 
as we did last year.
  These provisions, again, only create division in Congress, which will 
impact our Armed Forces. I will address a few of them.
  This bill, once again, prohibits the Department of Defense's policy 
to ensure that servicemembers and their families have access to leave 
and travel allowances for basic reproductive healthcare.
  I am extremely disappointed that the Rules Committee failed to make 
my amendment in order, which would have struck down this outrageous 
provision from the bill. We know that the Department's policy is legal 
under Federal law. The Justice Department has

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concluded that fact. In fact, the Department of Justice stated: ``The 
Department of Defense may lawfully expend funds to pay for 
servicemembers and their dependents to travel to obtain abortions that 
DOD cannot itself perform due to statutory requirements.''
  The statutory requirement that they are talking about is the Hyde 
amendment, Mr. Chair.
  To be clear, I do not support the Hyde amendment. Like last year, I 
think it is important to address it and for America to understand what 
the provision in this bill does to the services that would be legally 
provided under the Hyde amendment.
  Hyde prohibits the DOD from using funds or facilities to perform 
abortions except in the case of rape, incest, or when the life of the 
mother is in danger.
  Eighteen States have enacted total or 6-week abortion bans. Some of 
these States do not even have an exception for rape or for incest. This 
bill interprets the Hyde amendment in a way that it was never intended.
  If your assigned duty station is one of these 18 States, you have no 
access to the Hyde amendment exceptions. You must travel for your 
healthcare, and you are entitled to do that.
  Those living in the 18 States comprise 80,000 servicewomen and 
170,000 spouses. That is a total of 250,000 women in military 
communities without access to reproductive healthcare.
  This language is a de facto national abortion ban for women who serve 
alongside and in the military. Women will exit the force because of 
this. Husbands and fathers will not want to serve in States where their 
families could be negatively impacted.
  I only wish the majority would have had the courage to bring my 
amendment to the floor. Our servicemembers and their families deserve 
that debate.
  Once again, there are provisions in this bill that disenfranchise 
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender servicemembers, rather than 
making our military a welcoming and inclusive place for all of those 
who wish to serve this country. There are approximately 79,000 LGBTQ+ 
Americans that serve in our Armed Forces, yet these provisions included 
in this bill needlessly attack the inclusion efforts and the diversity 
efforts by the Department.
  Our military is the only institution in our country that most broadly 
reflects the entire American population, and that includes over one-
third of Active-Duty servicemembers who identify with a minority group.
  We know we are facing recruitment challenges in the service, but we 
did hear from the Army and the Navy this year that they are seeing 
improvements in their recruitment numbers. That is great news. Why 
would this Congress want to include provisions that might dissuade any 
American, regardless of their background, from taking the oath of 
service?
  Beyond the contentious social policies, there are other elements of 
this bill I cannot support. First, the bill continues to treat climate 
change as if it is not happening and it is not a national security 
threat. We know for a fact that it is.
  We have seen the impacts of severe weather events on installations 
year after year. Just look at Guam as a recent example. Over $50 
billion in repairs will be needed for the installations on Guam which 
were damaged by a typhoon last year. With all of the military 
construction funding going to Guam, the infrastructure vulnerability on 
this island is very clear, and we must address it.
  Then there is Alaska. Alaska continues to experience melting 
permafrost, which damages runways and radar stations all across the 
State.
  We are spending sustainment and research dollars to protect these 
installations in the best way we can. By cutting climate programs, we 
harm resiliency, and, Mr. Chair, we are going to pay for it on the back 
end.
  Second, the bill cuts the security funding for the Ukraine Security 
Assistance Initiative. I recently met with President Zelenskyy, and he 
expressed how grateful the Ukrainian people were that the United States 
had finally delivered additional ammunition to help Ukraine repel 
Putin's invasion.
  We know this bill should include the long-term assistance that 
Ukraine needs. This funding has been in the base bill, in fact, since 
2016. The funding that we put in the base bill signals that the West 
stands with them in their fight for their own self-determination. It is 
assistance that will continue to enhance Ukraine's military ability to 
work with NATO forces.

  Failure to continue funding that has been a longstanding, bipartisan 
initiative to support Ukraine sends a terrible signal that will only 
embolden Putin.
  Third, the bill again limits the ability of our government to address 
disinformation. Our foreign adversaries use social media to spread 
disinformation here at home in the United States.
  Just look at what Russia did leading up to the invasion in Ukraine. 
Russia used social media to spread harmful lies about nonexistent 
Ukrainian-American chemical and biological weapons programs. None of it 
was true. None of it existed.
  What was true is that Russia had an active chemical weapons program 
of their own. They were in violation of the international obligations 
under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
  This bill deprives the Department of their responsibility to set the 
facts straight. It would let bad actors like Russia continue to spread 
disinformation unchallenged, and that is downright dangerous.
  Mr. Chair, regrettably, at this time I will be unable to vote for 
passage of this bill, and I cannot recommend to my colleagues that they 
support it.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Ellzey), a member of the Defense Subcommittee.
  Mr. ELLZEY. Mr. Chair, today, I rise in strong support of this bill 
as a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
  I commend Chairman Calvert and his team behind us for legislation 
that makes investments in our national defense. This bill invests in 
technology, innovation, and people with an eye on tomorrow while 
sustaining today's important platforms, such as the F-35 strike 
fighter.
  If we prioritize social issues over lethality, our enemies will take 
note. Our colleagues across the aisle seem to prioritize shaking a fist 
at Mother Nature over standing strong against our enemies.
  Make no mistake: This bill comes at a time of global conflict. Today 
seems a lot more like June 1938 than June 2024.
  In the Middle East, Iran is sponsoring Houthis to shut down commerce 
in the Red Sea, which directly affects prices here at home. They are 
sponsoring, training, funding, and directing Hamas and Hezbollah in 
conflict with our good friends in Israel.
  On the European Continent, for the first time since World War II and 
the formation of both NATO and the U.N., Russia's full-scale invasion 
of Ukraine foreshadows more imperial expansion and the desire to 
reconstitute the Soviet Union.
  On the Korean Peninsula, we are technically still at war.
  Finally, China is waging cyber warfare and chemical warfare here in 
our own homes and on our own border. Through the proliferation of 
fentanyl, all of the compounds which come from China, they are killing 
our future cops, teachers, servicemembers, and welders at numbers not 
seen since World War II, to the tune of 300 Americans every day.
  They aspire to control the entire South China Sea, the maritime 
highway for one-third of the world's commerce. If they shut that down, 
imagine what happens to prices here at home and indeed world trade.
  With a jealous eye on Taiwan, they are watching our every move to 
understand how the U.S. responds, or more importantly doesn't respond, 
to unprovoked attacks on our allies.
  This bill counters those threats in a sensible way, and that is why I 
am proud to support it.
  The CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the 
gentleman from Texas.
  Mr. ELLZEY. Mr. Chair, it contains important investments that I 
supported in satellite technology, advanced manufacturing, autonomous 
air and surface vehicles, tankers and fighting aircraft, cutting-edge 
software, and advanced projectiles.

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  I am proud of the work of the Appropriations Committee. Through this 
bill, we will maintain our edge and we will win, if necessary.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I yield 6 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the distinguished ranking member of the 
Appropriations Committee, who is a great mentor.
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the Republican 
majority's Defense appropriations bill.
  First, I would also like to thank the majority and minority staff, 
particularly Jennifer Chartrand and Jason Gray for their efforts, and I 
extend my deep thanks to Chairman Calvert and Ranking Member McCollum 
for their work on this bill. Unfortunately, I cannot support this bill 
at this time.

  With this bill, Congress has the unique and solemn responsibility of 
appropriating the funds necessary to defend and to protect our Nation.
  I come from a defense-dependent State. I understand the importance of 
making investments and the kinds of investments we make in this bill, 
but this bill still does not advance our national defense capabilities.
  There is a path laid out for us to responsibly strengthen America's 
national security and support our armed servicemembers. Instead, under 
the majority's partisan process, we are considering a bill that 
promotes chaos in Congress over prioritizing our national security, 
which sows division instead of supporting our servicemembers' morale 
and unity. This bill undermines democracy here and around the world, 
and it disarms our military in the face of the climate crisis.
  Especially in an election year, we should not consider legislation 
that would neutralize the Department of Defense's ability to counter 
disinformation campaigns when we know foreign actors and our 
adversaries are seeking to meddle in our elections and our democratic 
processes.
  Why, after this Congress has repeatedly demonstrated broad bipartisan 
support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian tyranny, are we 
considering a bill that fails to fund the Ukraine Security Assistance 
Initiative, rewarding Russia? In addition to fighting Russian 
aggression, USAI helps Ukraine integrate with NATO and Western forces, 
directly supporting our broader national security and defense 
objectives.
  Recklessly, this bill ignores our military leaders. Even under 
President Trump, our military acknowledged and warned about the dangers 
of climate change, what it poses to our national security, our military 
assets, and our servicemembers around the world.
  Secretary Mattis said in testimony to the Senate Armed Services 
Committee: ``Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the 
world where our troops are operating today. It is appropriate for the 
Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact 
the security environment in their areas into their planning.''

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  We ought to be ensuring our military's readiness and adaptability in 
the face of a changing climate and worsening disasters, not denying the 
scientific and strategic reality of the threats that we face.
  Finally, this bill contains a laundry list of partisan proposals that 
divide Americans and divide the Congress, including provisions that 
hurt women and LGBTQ+ servicemembers and obstruct diversity efforts.
  It furthers Republicans' goal of making abortion illegal nationally 
by making it harder for women in our military to obtain reproductive 
care. No woman deserves to have her healthcare and family planning 
decisions made by politicians, but especially those who have put their 
lives on the line to protect Americans' rights and freedoms.
  Every servicemember who wears our Nation's flag is a critical piece 
of our national defense. American servicemembers come from all over the 
country and the world. The sum of their skills, their determination, 
their experiences, and their perspectives is the greatest asset our 
military has.
  Fostering an environment where every American, who would willingly 
put their lives on the line to protect and serve this Nation, feels 
that they are welcome and supported should not be controversial.
  These policy riders do not belong in appropriations bills, and like 
last year, we will defeat them, but it is disappointing that we are 
going through this charade again just months after Republicans and 
Democrats voted for the 2024 appropriations bills.
  Looking across all 12 appropriations bills, the majority is failing 
to meet the agreement signed into law. The Democrats will accept 
nothing less than a 1 percent increase over 2024 in defense and 
nondefense funding. That is what the law provides for.
  I cannot support this bill. I urge my colleagues to focus on the end 
goal of funding our government and preserving America's military 
strength rather than pushing messaging bills that have no future. 
Please join us at the table to protect our national security and our 
military readiness. It is time to govern.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentlewoman from Missouri 
(Mrs. Wagner) for the purpose of engaging in a colloquy.
  Mrs. WAGNER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman very, very much for 
engaging me in this colloquy and for his work on this very important 
piece of legislation.
  Last year's National Defense Authorization Act, which passed on an 
overwhelmingly bipartisan basis, expressed serious concern that our 
Nation's tactical fighter capacity is not sufficient to meet combatant 
commander warfighting requirements. Yet, the Air Force is proposing the 
premature closure of one of the United States' two major fighter 
manufacturing lines, the F-15EX.
  The F-15EX is a critical asset, particularly for the National Guard. 
The National Guard's unfunded priorities list included a request for 
additional EX production.
  If this line shuts down in the fiscal year 2025, as proposed in the 
President's budget, the U.S. will be down to a single tactical aviation 
manufacturing line, and this is unacceptably risky.
  Over 44 Members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, supported the 
additional funding to keep the important F-15EX program going.
  I understand that top-line constraints this year present tough 
challenges, Mr. Chairman, but this manufacturing line is in my home 
State of Missouri, and it is a strategic asset and a national security 
imperative.
  May I have your commitment, sir, to work with me on the issue as the 
process continues?
  Mr. CALVERT. This committee recognizes the importance and the role of 
the F-15EX. I thank the gentlewoman from Missouri for raising this 
issue, and I look forward to working with her as we move forward with 
this bill.
  Mrs. WAGNER. I thank the chairman for agreeing to work with me on 
this critically important issue and for his leadership on this 
legislation and in so many other important things that come before this 
body.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Hawaii (Mr. Case).
  Mr. CASE. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this measure as 
currently drafted. I do so with true regret because hidden inside all 
of the rhetoric and surplusage of this measure as drafted is, in fact, 
the foundation of a solid and responsible bill to fund our national 
defense as our chair and ranking member have both highlighted.
  This is very regrettable overall since our national defense funding 
measure has largely escaped these diversions and focused on national 
defense. However, instead, we have before us today, in reality, a 
proposal that is crippled by avoidance of inconvenient realities, 
sacrifice of long-term goals for short-term expediency, pandering to 
extreme viewpoints, and to my friend and colleague, the chair's 
comments in opening statements, too narrow, I believe, a definition of 
warfighting and military readiness.
  Especially telling in all of this is that in virtually all of these 
categories, our military disagrees with the deletions, with the cuts, 
and with the initiatives.
  Our military has a broader view. Our military, I believe, does have 
the proper perspective on the panoply of efforts that are required for 
true warfighting and military readiness.

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  There are many, many examples. We are going to hear about them. We 
already have. We are debating them in amendments, but I want to 
highlight two that are perhaps small in the big picture but that I 
think illustrate exactly what the issue is that we face with this 
particular measure.
  First of all, I would highlight environmental remediation. Our 
military is, obviously, out there in our country and in our world, and 
their activities have consequences to our environment. They are charged 
with avoiding those consequences and with remediating where there are 
consequences. Yet, this particular bill would slash the environmental 
remediation and restoration activities budget, which is a small part in 
the big picture of the Defense Department's budget, by somewhere around 
10 percent. This is of great concern to all of us because this is part 
of warfighting and military readiness.

  I would just cite a small example of this to make the point. In my 
home State of Hawaii, a major center of our military activities on the 
island of Maui, on the top of Mount Haleakala, the largest mountain, 
there is an effort by the U.S. Space Force to build seven small 
telescopes that are critical to the national defense, as anybody who 
knows this knows. In the vicinity is an Air Force facility at which 
there was a fuel spill. That fuel spill is being remediated by the Air 
Force right now. It is critical. The Air Force is committed to 
remediating it. It obviously needs the funding to do so.
  Whether the military, through the Air Force, does, in fact, remediate 
fully, fairly, and completely is a major issue to the community in 
whether they will support critically important Space Force telescopes. 
There is, obviously, a direct line in terms of the efforts to remediate 
to a national security interest, which I think we would all agree is 
truly in the range of military readiness.
  Another small example is the Readiness and Environmental Protection 
Integration program, or REPI, which includes the acquisition of real 
property interest in land from willing landowners to prevent 
development and encroachment around our military facilities. It 
fulfills the military's own desire to protect native habitat and 
improve our military installation resilience to climate change and 
extreme weather.
  This program is also the subject of the budget cutting knife under 
this program. The military wants REPI. They realize the benefit of REPI 
to their military readiness, to their warfighting capability. These, 
again, are very, very small examples, but I hope that they illustrate 
the basic point that when we take a look at the larger Defense budget, 
if we allow ourselves to get distracted, to exercise on denial 
tendencies, to focus on the short term without contemplating the long 
term, by taking extreme viewpoints into these areas, and, again, by 
constructing too narrow a definition of warfighting and military 
readiness, then we are going to miss the mark on this Defense budget. 
Mr. Chair, I believe in this draft we, unfortunately, have.
  Luckily we are early in this process. I think there is plenty of room 
for us to debate and discuss these issues. I very much hope that we 
correct these deficiencies and that we produce a bill, as I hope and 
believe we have in the past and will again, that I can support.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Louisiana (Mr. Higgins).
  Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the work that 
has been done on the underlying bill.
  I rise on behalf of my amendment No. 60 to H.R. 8774, the Department 
of Defense Appropriations Act for 2025.
  My amendment specifies that the United States Navy shall use $19.44 
million to procure 40-foot patrol boats. The Navy has a stated need for 
these new boats to replace the aging feet, the old 38-foot boats. In 
today's battle environment, it is essential that we have the most 
advanced technology and capabilities.
  It is well understood the 40-foot patrol boats are essential to the 
Navy's mission, and the Navy requires the shipyards by contract to be 
capable of producing one boat every 45 days in order to sustain maximum 
efficiency. Yet, the Navy does not fully fund the program through the 
President's budget request year after year to ensure this objective is 
accomplished.
  My amendment does not increase the actual cost of the 40-foot patrol 
boat program. Instead, the amendment simply specifies within 
appropriations the funds needed for the efficiency of the Navy and the 
shipyards working together to build these vessels.
  Overall efficiency requires that the rate of funding match the rate 
of vessel production, and any pause in the delivery of funding leads to 
a loss of the existing workforce, the supply chain, the vendors, the 
materials, et cetera. Coordinating funding with production is 
essential, and we should support this commonsense funding delivery 
adjustment which is essentially what my amendment calls for.
  It is critical that we ensure our Armed Forces have the vessels and 
technology required to secure America. I will always advocate for a 
strong maritime industry that bolsters our national security and 
supports thousands of American jobs.
  I am grateful for this opportunity to speak on behalf of my 
amendment, Mr. Chairman.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr.  Mike Garcia), who is a member of the Defense 
Subcommittee.
  Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California. Mr. Chair, I thank the chairman of the 
subcommittee,   Ken Calvert, who has been a true leader on the bill.
  Mr. Chair, I rise in support of the bill.
  The minority will talk about environmentalism and social justice 
messaging, but the reality is that this bill goes beyond those. We must 
remember that the goal of the military is to deter a war, and if unable 
to deter a war, then to win a war.
  Today, especially, the pacing threat is China.
  This bill does just that. It helps us not only accelerate programs 
but keep pace with China in a budget constrained environment of only 
$833 billion. We are trying to gain efficiency so that it behaves like 
$1 trillion.
  It supports all the weapons systems from high to low, B-21s, as well 
as supporting and protecting U-2 classified programs.
  In my opinion, the most important thing is a 20 percent pay raise for 
E-1s through E-4s.
  I strongly urge support of the Defense appropriations bill, and I 
applaud Chairman Calvert's leadership on this issue as we try to make 
the world a safer place.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, this bill is a good bill. It moves the 
country in the right direction. I encourage all our Members to support 
the bill.
  Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nunn).

                              {time}  1345

  Mr. NUNN of Iowa. Mr. Chair, I thank my colleagues for their work on 
H.R. 8774.
  Mr. Chairman, as a counterintelligence officer who operated against 
China, I have witnessed firsthand how the Chinese Communist Party can 
threaten our national security. Therefore, this bill is critical to our 
Nation's security.
  The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025, will fight 
against Communist China by strengthening our military deterrence 
efforts and investing in the next generation of military technology, 
innovation, and our workforce.
  I thank Chairman Calvert for including my amendment to increase 
research and development of cutting-edge drone technology. Wireless 
power transfer for U.S.-made drones allows for providing endurance, 
long-range capabilities, and dual-use technology to help protect 
America both at home and abroad. This includes our border security, 
counter-drug operations, extensive terrain mapping in the case of 
natural disasters, even air-to-air refueling, and, certainly, extending 
communications networks in contested environments. Most importantly, 
they are highly effective, low-cost capabilities with a high-yield 
impact when it comes to kinetic conflict.
  I appreciate the work and leadership of the chairman and the work of 
the committee, and I urge Members on both sides of the aisle to 
continue to

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support our advance in drone technology made domestically, independent 
of China, for a safer, stronger America.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, may I inquire if the majority has additional 
speakers.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I have no additional speakers.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process 
was plagued by continuing resolutions and a wasted 5 months of this 
fiscal year.
  I know Chairman Cole and Chairman Calvert agree with me that we live 
in an increasingly dangerous world, and I look forward to working with 
Chairman Calvert to improve this bill.
  We know how this process ends. The partisan riders will come out, 
just like they did in 2024. We have a blueprint on how to write these 
bills, and I am ready to get this appropriations process back on track 
and not waste time as we did last year.
  Let's give our servicemembers and their families the bipartisan 
Defense bill they deserve.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to oppose this bill at this time, and 
I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this bill. I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania). All time for general 
debate has expired.
  Pursuant to the rule, the bill shall be considered for amendment 
under the 5-minute rule.
  An amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of 
Rules Committee print 118-40 shall be considered as adopted and the 
bill, as amended, shall be considered as an original bill for the 
purpose of further amendment under the 5-minute rule and shall be 
considered as read.
  The text of the bill, as amended, is as follows:

                               H.R. 8774

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
     Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2025, for military functions 
     administered by the Department of Defense and for other 
     purposes, namely:

                                TITLE I

                           MILITARY PERSONNEL

                        Military Personnel, Army

       For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
     interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
     travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
     movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
     permanent duty stations, for members of the Army on active 
     duty (except members of reserve components provided for 
     elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; for members of the 
     Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and for payments pursuant 
     to section 156 of Public Law 97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
     402 note), and to the Department of Defense Military 
     Retirement Fund, $51,485,904,000.

                        Military Personnel, Navy

       For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
     interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
     travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
     movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
     permanent duty stations, for members of the Navy on active 
     duty (except members of the Reserve provided for elsewhere), 
     midshipmen, and aviation cadets; for members of the Reserve 
     Officers' Training Corps; and for payments pursuant to 
     section 156 of Public Law 97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 
     note), and to the Department of Defense Military Retirement 
     Fund, $39,103,278,000.

                    Military Personnel, Marine Corps

       For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
     interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
     travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
     movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
     permanent duty stations, for members of the Marine Corps on 
     active duty (except members of the Reserve provided for 
     elsewhere); and for payments pursuant to section 156 of 
     Public Law 97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to 
     the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
     $16,261,321,000.

                     Military Personnel, Air Force

       For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
     interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
     travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
     movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
     permanent duty stations, for members of the Air Force on 
     active duty (except members of reserve components provided 
     for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; for members of 
     the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and for payments 
     pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97-377, as amended (42 
     U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense Military 
     Retirement Fund, $37,376,591,000.

                    Military Personnel, Space Force

       For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
     interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
     travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
     movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
     permanent duty stations, for members of the Space Force on 
     active duty and cadets; for members of the Reserve Officers' 
     Training Corps; and for payments pursuant to section 156 of 
     Public Law 97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to 
     the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
     $1,308,675,000.

                        Reserve Personnel, Army

       For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
     travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army 
     Reserve on active duty under sections 10211, 10302, and 7038 
     of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on active 
     duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, 
     in connection with performing duty specified in section 
     12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing 
     reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent 
     duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 
     of title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the 
     Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
     $5,584,691,000.

                        Reserve Personnel, Navy

       For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
     travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Navy 
     Reserve on active duty under section 10211 of title 10, 
     United States Code, or while serving on active duty under 
     section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in 
     connection with performing duty specified in section 12310(a) 
     of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve 
     training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and 
     expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 10, United 
     States Code; and for payments to the Department of Defense 
     Military Retirement Fund, $2,607,677,000.

                    Reserve Personnel, Marine Corps

       For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
     travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Marine 
     Corps Reserve on active duty under section 10211 of title 10, 
     United States Code, or while serving on active duty under 
     section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in 
     connection with performing duty specified in section 12310(a) 
     of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve 
     training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and 
     for members of the Marine Corps platoon leaders class, and 
     expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 10, United 
     States Code; and for payments to the Department of Defense 
     Military Retirement Fund, $948,708,000.

                      Reserve Personnel, Air Force

       For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
     travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Force 
     Reserve on active duty under sections 10211, 10305, and 9038 
     of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on active 
     duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, 
     in connection with performing duty specified in section 
     12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing 
     reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent 
     duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 
     of title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the 
     Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
     $2,619,717,000.

                     National Guard Personnel, Army

       For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
     travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army 
     National Guard while on duty under sections 10211, 10302, or 
     12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States 
     Code, or while serving on duty under section 12301(d) of 
     title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, 
     in connection with performing duty specified in section 
     12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing 
     training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty or 
     other duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 
     10, United States Code; and for payments to the Department of 
     Defense Military Retirement Fund, $9,975,860,000.

                  National Guard Personnel, Air Force

       For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
     travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air 
     National Guard on duty under sections 10211, 10305, or 12402 
     of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States Code, 
     or while serving on duty under section 12301(d) of title 10 
     or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, in 
     connection with performing duty specified in section 12310(a) 
     of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing 
     training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty or 
     other duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 
     10, United States Code; and for payments to the Department of 
     Defense Military Retirement Fund, $5,383,100,000.

                                TITLE II

                       OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

                    Operation and Maintenance, Army

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance of the Army, as authorized by law, 
     $59,178,129,000:  Provided, That not to exceed $7,000,000 may 
     be used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be 
     expended upon the approval or authority of the Secretary of 
     the Army, and payments may be made upon the Secretary's 
     certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes.

                    Operation and Maintenance, Navy

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine Corps, 
     as authorized by law, $74,754,688,000:  Provided, That not to 
     exceed $7,000,000 may be used for emergencies and 
     extraordinary expenses, to be expended upon the approval or 
     authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and payments may be 
     made upon the Secretary's certificate of necessity for 
     confidential military purposes.

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                Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, as authorized 
     by law, $10,454,504,000.

                  Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as authorized by 
     law, $64,560,558,000:  Provided, That not to exceed 
     $7,000,000 may be used for emergencies and extraordinary 
     expenses, to be expended upon the approval or authority of 
     the Secretary of the Air Force, and payments may be made upon 
     the Secretary's certificate of necessity for confidential 
     military purposes.

                 Operation and Maintenance, Space Force

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance of the Space Force, as authorized 
     by law, $5,146,272,000.

                Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance of activities and agencies of the 
     Department of Defense (other than the military departments), 
     as authorized by law, $53,074,990,000:  Provided, That not 
     more than $2,981,000 may be used for the Combatant Commander 
     Initiative Fund authorized under section 166a of title 10, 
     United States Code:  Provided further, That not to exceed 
     $10,000,000 may be used for emergencies and extraordinary 
     expenses, to be expended upon the approval or authority of 
     the Secretary of Defense, and payments may be made upon the 
     Secretary's certificate of necessity for confidential 
     military purposes:  Provided further, That of the funds 
     provided under this heading, not less than $22,738,000 shall 
     be made available for the Procurement Technical Assistance 
     Cooperative Agreement Program, of which not less than 
     $5,000,000 shall be available for centers with eligible 
     entities defined in 10 U.S.C. 4951(1)(D):  Provided further, 
     That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to plan or implement the 
     consolidation of a budget or appropriations liaison office of 
     the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the office of the 
     Secretary of a military department, or the service 
     headquarters of one of the Armed Forces into a legislative 
     affairs or legislative liaison office:  Provided further, 
     That of the funds provided under this heading, $3,000,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2026, shall be available 
     only for expenses relating to certain classified activities:  
     Provided further, That of the funds provided under this 
     heading, $26,777,000, to remain available until expended, 
     shall be available only for expenses relating to certain 
     classified activities, and may be transferred as necessary by 
     the Secretary of Defense to operation and maintenance 
     appropriations or research, development, test and evaluation 
     appropriations, to be merged with and to be available for the 
     same time period as the appropriations to which transferred:  
     Provided further, That any ceiling on the investment item 
     unit cost of items that may be purchased with operation and 
     maintenance funds shall not apply to the funds described in 
     the preceding proviso:  Provided further, That of the funds 
     provided under this heading, $2,107,432,000, of which 
     $1,423,630,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, 
     shall be available to provide support and assistance to 
     foreign security forces or other groups or individuals to 
     conduct, support or facilitate counterterrorism, crisis 
     response, or other Department of Defense security cooperation 
     programs:  Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 
     shall provide quarterly reports to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     on the use and status of funds made available in this 
     paragraph:  Provided further, That the transfer authority 
     provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
     transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act.

                   Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund

       For the ``Counter-Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Train and 
     Equip Fund'', $528,699,000, to remain available until 
     September 30, 2026:  Provided, That such funds shall be 
     available to the Secretary of Defense in coordination with 
     the Secretary of State, to provide assistance, including 
     training; equipment; logistics support, supplies, and 
     services; stipends; infrastructure repair and renovation; 
     construction for facility fortification and humane treatment; 
     and sustainment, to foreign security forces, irregular 
     forces, groups, or individuals participating, or preparing to 
     participate in activities to counter the Islamic State of 
     Iraq and Syria, and their affiliated or associated groups:  
     Provided further, That amounts made available under this 
     heading shall be available to provide assistance only for 
     activities in a country designated by the Secretary of 
     Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, as 
     having a security mission to counter the Islamic State of 
     Iraq and Syria, and following written notification to the 
     congressional defense committees of such designation:  
     Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall ensure 
     that prior to providing assistance to elements of any forces 
     or individuals, such elements or individuals are 
     appropriately vetted, including at a minimum, assessing such 
     elements for associations with terrorist groups or groups 
     associated with the Government of Iran; and receiving 
     commitments from such elements to promote respect for human 
     rights and the rule of law:  Provided further, That the 
     Secretary of Defense shall, not fewer than 15 days prior to 
     obligating from this appropriation account, notify the 
     congressional defense committees in writing of the details of 
     any such obligation:  Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     Defense may accept and retain contributions, including 
     assistance in-kind, from foreign governments, including the 
     Government of Iraq and other entities, to carry out 
     assistance authorized under this heading:  Provided further, 
     That contributions of funds for the purposes provided herein 
     from any foreign government or other entity may be credited 
     to this Fund, to remain available until expended, and used 
     for such purposes:  Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     Defense shall prioritize such contributions when providing 
     any assistance for construction for facility fortification:  
     Provided further, That the United States may accept equipment 
     procured using funds provided under this heading that was 
     transferred to security forces, irregular forces, or groups 
     participating, or preparing to participate in activities to 
     counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and returned by 
     such forces or groups to the United States, and such 
     equipment may be treated as stocks of the Department of 
     Defense upon written notification to the congressional 
     defense committees:  Provided further, That equipment 
     procured using funds provided under this heading and not yet 
     transferred to security forces, irregular forces, or groups 
     participating, or preparing to participate in activities to 
     counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria may be treated as 
     stocks of the Department of Defense when determined by the 
     Secretary to no longer be required for transfer to such 
     forces or groups and upon written notification to the 
     congressional defense committees:  Provided further, That 
     stipend support for the Kurdish Peshmerga may only be reduced 
     commensurate with support provided from other sources, 
     including Iraqi national funds:  Provided further, That none 
     of the funds made available under this heading may be used to 
     procure or transfer man-portable air defense systems:  
     Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall provide 
     quarterly reports to the congressional defense committees on 
     the use of funds provided under this heading, including, but 
     not limited to, the number of individuals trained, the nature 
     and scope of support and sustainment provided to each group 
     or individual, the area of operations for each group, and the 
     contributions of other countries, groups, or individuals.

                Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance, including training, organization, 
     and administration, of the Army Reserve; repair of facilities 
     and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and 
     transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of 
     services, supplies, and equipment; and communications, 
     $3,279,177,000.

                Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance, including training, organization, 
     and administration, of the Navy Reserve; repair of facilities 
     and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and 
     transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of 
     services, supplies, and equipment; and communications, 
     $1,333,993,000.

            Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance, including training, organization, 
     and administration, of the Marine Corps Reserve; repair of 
     facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
     travel and transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; 
     procurement of services, supplies, and equipment; and 
     communications, $338,080,000.

              Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     operation and maintenance, including training, organization, 
     and administration, of the Air Force Reserve; repair of 
     facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
     travel and transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; 
     procurement of services, supplies, and equipment; and 
     communications, $4,062,711,000.

             Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard

       For expenses of training, organizing, and administering the 
     Army National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment 
     and related expenses in non-Federal hospitals; maintenance, 
     operation, and repairs to structures and facilities; hire of 
     passenger motor vehicles; personnel services in the National 
     Guard Bureau; travel expenses (other than mileage), as 
     authorized by law for Army personnel on active duty, for Army 
     National Guard division, regimental, and battalion commanders 
     while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard 
     Bureau regulations when specifically authorized by the Chief, 
     National Guard Bureau; supplying and equipping the Army 
     National Guard as authorized by law; and expenses of repair, 
     modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and 
     equipment (including aircraft), $8,591,745,000.

             Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard

       For expenses of training, organizing, and administering the 
     Air National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment 
     and related expenses in non-Federal hospitals; maintenance, 
     operation, and repairs to structures and facilities; 
     transportation of things, hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
     supplying and equipping the Air National Guard, as authorized 
     by law; expenses for repair, modification, maintenance, and 
     issue of supplies and equipment, including those furnished 
     from stocks under the control of agencies of the Department 
     of Defense; travel expenses (other than mileage) on the same 
     basis as authorized by law for Air National Guard personnel 
     on active Federal duty, for Air National Guard commanders 
     while inspecting units in compliance with National Guard 
     Bureau regulations when specifically authorized by the Chief, 
     National Guard Bureau, $7,270,145,000.

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          United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

       For salaries and expenses necessary for the United States 
     Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, $21,035,000, of which 
     not to exceed $10,000 may be used for official representation 
     purposes.

                    Environmental Restoration, Army

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the Department of the Army, $268,069,000, to remain 
     available until transferred:  Provided, That the Secretary of 
     the Army shall, upon determining that such funds are required 
     for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
     hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris of 
     the Department of the Army, or for similar purposes, transfer 
     the funds made available by this appropriation to other 
     appropriations made available to the Department of the Army, 
     to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes 
     and for the same time period as the appropriations to which 
     transferred:  Provided further, That upon a determination 
     that all or part of the funds transferred from this 
     appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
     herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this 
     appropriation, to be merged with and to be available for the 
     same purposes and for the same time period as this 
     appropriation: Provided further, That amounts transferred 
     back under the preceding proviso, and amounts credited to 
     appropriations made under this heading pursuant to section 
     2703(e) of title 10, United States Code, are available until 
     transferred under conditions set forth in the preceding 
     provisos:  Provided further, That the transfer authority 
     provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
     transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act.

                    Environmental Restoration, Navy

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the Department of the Navy, $343,591,000, to remain 
     available until transferred:  Provided, That the Secretary of 
     the Navy shall, upon determining that such funds are required 
     for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
     hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris of 
     the Department of the Navy, or for similar purposes, transfer 
     the funds made available by this appropriation to other 
     appropriations made available to the Department of the Navy, 
     to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes 
     and for the same time period as the appropriations to which 
     transferred:  Provided further, That upon a determination 
     that all or part of the funds transferred from this 
     appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
     herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this 
     appropriation, to be merged with and to be available for the 
     same purposes and for the same time period as this 
     appropriation: Provided further, That amounts transferred 
     back under the preceding proviso, and amounts credited to 
     appropriations made under this heading pursuant to section 
     2703(e) of title 10, United States Code, are available until 
     transferred under conditions set forth in the preceding 
     provisos:  Provided further, That the transfer authority 
     provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
     transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act.

                  Environmental Restoration, Air Force

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the Department of the Air Force, $320,256,000, to 
     remain available until transferred:  Provided, That the 
     Secretary of the Air Force shall, upon determining that such 
     funds are required for environmental restoration, reduction 
     and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings 
     and debris of the Department of the Air Force, or for similar 
     purposes, transfer the funds made available by this 
     appropriation to other appropriations made available to the 
     Department of the Air Force, to be merged with and to be 
     available for the same purposes and for the same time period 
     as the appropriations to which transferred:  Provided 
     further, That upon a determination that all or part of the 
     funds transferred from this appropriation are not necessary 
     for the purposes provided herein, such amounts may be 
     transferred back to this appropriation, to be merged with and 
     to be available for the same purposes and for the same time 
     period as this appropriation: Provided further, That amounts 
     transferred back under the preceding proviso, and amounts 
     credited to appropriations made under this heading pursuant 
     to section 2703(e) of title 10, United States Code, are 
     available until transferred under conditions set forth in the 
     preceding provisos:  Provided further, That the transfer 
     authority provided under this heading is in addition to any 
     other transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act.

                Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the Department of Defense, $8,800,000, to remain 
     available until transferred:  Provided, That the Secretary of 
     Defense shall, upon determining that such funds are required 
     for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
     hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris of 
     the Department of Defense, or for similar purposes, transfer 
     the funds made available by this appropriation to other 
     appropriations made available to the Department of Defense, 
     to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes 
     and for the same time period as the appropriations to which 
     transferred:  Provided further, That upon a determination 
     that all or part of the funds transferred from this 
     appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
     herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this 
     appropriation, to be merged with and to be available for the 
     same purposes and for the same time period as this 
     appropriation: Provided further, That amounts transferred 
     back under the preceding proviso, and amounts credited to 
     appropriations made under this heading pursuant to section 
     2703(e) of title 10, United States Code, are available until 
     transferred under conditions set forth in the preceding 
     provisos:  Provided further, That the transfer authority 
     provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
     transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act.

         Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For the Department of the Army, $234,475,000, to remain 
     available until transferred:  Provided, That the Secretary of 
     the Army shall, upon determining that such funds are required 
     for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of 
     hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris at 
     sites formerly used by the Department of Defense, transfer 
     the funds made available by this appropriation to other 
     appropriations made available to the Department of the Army, 
     to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes 
     and for the same time period as the appropriations to which 
     transferred:  Provided further, That upon a determination 
     that all or part of the funds transferred from this 
     appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
     herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this 
     appropriation, to be merged with and to be available for the 
     same purposes and for the same time period as this 
     appropriation: Provided further, That amounts transferred 
     back under the preceding proviso, and amounts credited to 
     appropriations made under this heading pursuant to section 
     2703(e) of title 10, United States Code, are available until 
     transferred under conditions set forth in the preceding 
     provisos:  Provided further, That the transfer authority 
     provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
     transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act.

             Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid

       For expenses relating to the Overseas Humanitarian, 
     Disaster, and Civic Aid programs of the Department of Defense 
     (consisting of the programs provided under sections 401, 402, 
     404, 407, 2557, and 2561 of title 10, United States Code), 
     $115,335,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026.

                  Cooperative Threat Reduction Account

       For assistance, including assistance provided by contract 
     or by grants, under programs and activities of the Department 
     of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program authorized 
     under the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction 
     Act, $246,876,000, to remain available until September 30, 
     2027.

    Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Account

       For the Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce 
     Development Account, $56,176,000:  Provided, That no other 
     amounts may be otherwise credited or transferred to the 
     Account, or deposited into the Account, in fiscal year 2025 
     pursuant to section 1705(d) of title 10, United States Code.

                               TITLE III

                              PROCUREMENT

                       Aircraft Procurement, Army

       For construction, procurement, production, modification, 
     and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including ordnance, 
     ground handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories 
     therefor; specialized equipment and training devices; 
     expansion of public and private plants, including the land 
     necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
     lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
     and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
     and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
     other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
     $3,518,727,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

                       Missile Procurement, Army

       For construction, procurement, production, modification, 
     and modernization of missiles, equipment, including ordnance, 
     ground handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories 
     therefor; specialized equipment and training devices; 
     expansion of public and private plants, including the land 
     necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
     lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
     and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
     and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
     other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
     $5,175,541,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

        Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army

       For construction, procurement, production, and modification 
     of weapons and tracked combat vehicles, equipment, including 
     ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized 
     equipment and training devices; expansion of public and 
     private plants, including the land necessary therefor, for 
     the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, 
     may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to 
     approval of title; and procurement and installation of 
     equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and 
     private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-
     owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 
     foregoing purposes, $3,624,159,000, to remain available for 
     obligation until September 30, 2027.

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                    Procurement of Ammunition, Army

       For construction, procurement, production, and modification 
     of ammunition, and accessories therefor; specialized 
     equipment and training devices; expansion of public and 
     private plants, including ammunition facilities, authorized 
     by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, and the land 
     necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
     lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
     and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
     and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
     other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
     $2,675,456,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

                        Other Procurement, Army

       For construction, procurement, production, and modification 
     of vehicles, including tactical, support, and non-tracked 
     combat vehicles; the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
     replacement only; communications and electronic equipment; 
     other support equipment; spare parts, ordnance, and 
     accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training 
     devices; expansion of public and private plants, including 
     the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and 
     such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
     and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
     and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
     other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
     $8,460,305,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

                       Aircraft Procurement, Navy

       For construction, procurement, production, modification, 
     and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including ordnance, 
     spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized equipment; 
     expansion of public and private plants, including the land 
     necessary therefor, and such lands and interests therein, may 
     be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to 
     approval of title; and procurement and installation of 
     equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and 
     private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-
     owned equipment layaway, $17,073,401,000, to remain available 
     for obligation until September 30, 2027.

                       Weapons Procurement, Navy

       For construction, procurement, production, modification, 
     and modernization of missiles, torpedoes, other weapons, and 
     related support equipment including spare parts, and 
     accessories therefor; expansion of public and private plants, 
     including the land necessary therefor, and such lands and 
     interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
     prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and 
     procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, and 
     machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and 
     Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 
     $6,049,095,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

            Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine Corps

       For construction, procurement, production, and modification 
     of ammunition, and accessories therefor; specialized 
     equipment and training devices; expansion of public and 
     private plants, including ammunition facilities, authorized 
     by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, and the land 
     necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
     lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
     and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
     and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
     other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
     $1,599,221,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

                   Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy

       For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisition, 
     or conversion of vessels as authorized by law, including 
     armor and armament thereof, plant equipment, appliances, and 
     machine tools and installation thereof in public and private 
     plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 
     equipment layaway; procurement of critical, long lead time 
     components and designs for vessels to be constructed or 
     converted in the future; and expansion of public and private 
     plants, including land necessary therefor, and such lands and 
     interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
     prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title, as follows:
       Columbia Class Submarine, $3,346,235,000;
       Columbia Class Submarine (AP), $6,215,939,000;
       Carrier Replacement Program (CVN-80), $1,123,124,000;
       Carrier Replacement Program (CVN-81), 674,930,000;
       Virginia Class Submarine, $3,615,904,000;
       Virginia Class Submarine (AP), $3,720,303,000;
       CVN Refueling Overhauls, $1,061,143,000;
       DDG-1000 Program, $61,100,000;
       DDG-51 Destroyer, $6,409,190,000;
       DDG-51 Destroyer (AP), $41,724,000;
       LPD Flight II, $1,561,963,000;
       LHA Replacement (AP), $61,118,000;
       TAO Fleet Oiler (AP), $334,461,000;
       Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship, $60,000,000;
       Medium Landing Ship, $29,668,000;
       Ship to Shore Connector, $417,000,000;
       Service Craft, $41,426,000;
       Auxiliary Personnel Lighter, $76,168,000;
       LCAC SLEP, $45,087,000;
       Auxiliary Vessels, $204,939,000;
       For outfitting, post delivery, conversions, and first 
     destination transportation, $585,967,000; and
       Completion of Prior Year Shipbuilding Programs, 
     $1,930,024,000.
       In all: $31,617,413,000, to remain available for obligation 
     until September 30, 2029:  Provided, That additional 
     obligations may be incurred after September 30, 2029, for 
     engineering services, tests, evaluations, and other such 
     budgeted work that must be performed in the final stage of 
     ship construction:  Provided further, That none of the funds 
     provided under this heading for the construction or 
     conversion of any naval vessel to be constructed in shipyards 
     in the United States shall be expended in foreign facilities 
     for the construction of major components of such vessel:  
     Provided further, That none of the funds provided under this 
     heading shall be used for the construction of any naval 
     vessel in foreign shipyards:  Provided further, That funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act for 
     Columbia Class Submarine (AP) may be available for the 
     purposes authorized by subsections (f), (g), (h) or (i) of 
     section 2218a of title 10, United States Code, only in 
     accordance with the provisions of the applicable subsection.

                        Other Procurement, Navy

       For procurement, production, and modernization of support 
     equipment and materials not otherwise provided for, Navy 
     ordnance (except ordnance for new aircraft, new ships, and 
     ships authorized for conversion); the purchase of passenger 
     motor vehicles for replacement only; expansion of public and 
     private plants, including the land necessary therefor, and 
     such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
     and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
     and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway, 
     $15,510,478,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027:  Provided, That such funds are also 
     available for the maintenance, repair, and modernization of 
     ships under a pilot program established for such purposes.

                       Procurement, Marine Corps

       For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, 
     and modification of missiles, armament, military equipment, 
     spare parts, and accessories therefor; plant equipment, 
     appliances, and machine tools, and installation thereof in 
     public and private plants; reserve plant and Government and 
     contractor-owned equipment layaway; vehicles for the Marine 
     Corps, including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
     replacement only; and expansion of public and private plants, 
     including land necessary therefor, and such lands and 
     interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
     prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title, 
     $3,804,948,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

                    Aircraft Procurement, Air Force

       For construction, procurement, and modification of aircraft 
     and equipment, including armor and armament, specialized 
     ground handling equipment, and training devices, spare parts, 
     and accessories therefor; specialized equipment; expansion of 
     public and private plants, Government-owned equipment and 
     installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures, 
     and acquisition of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
     lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 
     layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing 
     purposes including rents and transportation of things, 
     $20,842,652,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

                     Missile Procurement, Air Force

       For construction, procurement, and modification of 
     missiles, rockets, and related equipment, including spare 
     parts and accessories therefor; ground handling equipment, 
     and training devices; expansion of public and private plants, 
     Government-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 
     plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 
     the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, 
     may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to 
     approval of title; reserve plant and Government and 
     contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses 
     necessary for the foregoing purposes including rents and 
     transportation of things, $4,016,939,000, to remain available 
     for obligation until September 30, 2027.

                  Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force

       For construction, procurement, production, and modification 
     of ammunition, and accessories therefor; specialized 
     equipment and training devices; expansion of public and 
     private plants, including ammunition facilities, authorized 
     by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, and the land 
     necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
     lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
     construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 
     and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
     and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
     and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
     other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
     $629,930,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027.

                      Other Procurement, Air Force

       For procurement and modification of equipment (including 
     ground guidance and electronic control equipment, and ground 
     electronic and communication equipment), and supplies, 
     materials, and spare parts therefor, not otherwise provided 
     for; the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement 
     only; lease of passenger motor vehicles; and expansion of 
     public and private plants, Government-owned equipment and 
     installation thereof in such plants, erection of

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     structures, and acquisition of land, for the foregoing 
     purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be 
     acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon, prior to 
     approval of title; reserve plant and Government and 
     contractor-owned equipment layaway, $29,865,521,000, to 
     remain available for obligation until September 30, 2027.

                        Procurement, Space Force

       For construction, procurement, and modification of 
     spacecraft, rockets, and related equipment, including spare 
     parts and accessories therefor; ground handling equipment, 
     and training devices; expansion of public and private plants, 
     Government-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 
     plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 
     the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, 
     may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to 
     approval of title; reserve plant and Government and 
     contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses 
     necessary for the foregoing purposes including rents and 
     transportation of things, $3,933,719,000, to remain available 
     for obligation until September 30, 2027.

                       Procurement, Defense-Wide

       For expenses of activities and agencies of the Department 
     of Defense (other than the military departments) necessary 
     for procurement, production, and modification of equipment, 
     supplies, materials, and spare parts therefor, not otherwise 
     provided for; the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
     replacement only; expansion of public and private plants, 
     equipment, and installation thereof in such plants, erection 
     of structures, and acquisition of land for the foregoing 
     purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be 
     acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to 
     approval of title; reserve plant and Government and 
     contractor-owned equipment layaway, $5,691,355,000, to remain 
     available for obligation until September 30, 2027.

                    Defense Production Act Purchases

       For activities by the Department of Defense pursuant to 
     sections 108, 301, 302, and 303 of the Defense Production Act 
     of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4518, 4531, 4532, and 4533), $446,377,000, 
     to remain available for obligation until expended, which 
     shall be obligated and expended by the Secretary of Defense 
     as if delegated the necessary authorities conferred by the 
     Defense Production Act of 1950.

              National Guard and Reserve Equipment Account

       For procurement of rotary-wing aircraft; combat, tactical 
     and support vehicles; other weapons; and other procurement 
     items for the reserve components of the Armed Forces, 
     $800,000,000, to remain available for obligation until 
     September 30, 2027:  Provided, That the Chiefs of National 
     Guard and Reserve components shall, not later than 30 days 
     after enactment of this Act, individually submit to the 
     congressional defense committees the modernization priority 
     assessment for their respective National Guard or Reserve 
     component:  Provided further, That none of the funds made 
     available by this paragraph may be used to procure manned 
     fixed wing aircraft, or procure or modify missiles, 
     munitions, or ammunition.

                                TITLE IV

               RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION

            Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army

       For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
     research, development, test and evaluation, including 
     maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of 
     facilities and equipment, $15,335,703,000, to remain 
     available for obligation until September 30, 2026.

            Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy

       For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
     research, development, test and evaluation, including 
     maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of 
     facilities and equipment, $26,668,304,000, to remain 
     available for obligation until September 30, 2026:  Provided, 
     That funds appropriated in this paragraph which are available 
     for the V-22 may be used to meet unique operational 
     requirements of the Special Operations Forces.

         Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force

       For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
     research, development, test and evaluation, including 
     maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of 
     facilities and equipment, $48,648,586,000, to remain 
     available for obligation until September 30, 2026.

        Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Space Force

       For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
     research, development, test and evaluation, including 
     maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of 
     facilities and equipment, $18,279,469,000, to remain 
     available until September 30, 2026.

        Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide

       For expenses of activities and agencies of the Department 
     of Defense (other than the military departments), necessary 
     for basic and applied scientific research, development, test 
     and evaluation; advanced research projects as may be 
     designated and determined by the Secretary of Defense, 
     pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, and 
     operation of facilities and equipment, $36,742,144,000, to 
     remain available for obligation until September 30, 2026.

                Operational Test and Evaluation, Defense

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     independent activities of the Director, Operational Test and 
     Evaluation, in the direction and supervision of operational 
     test and evaluation, including initial operational test and 
     evaluation which is conducted prior to, and in support of, 
     production decisions; joint operational testing and 
     evaluation; and administrative expenses in connection 
     therewith, $348,709,000, to remain available for obligation 
     until September 30, 2026.

                                TITLE V

                     REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS

                     Defense Working Capital Funds

       For the Defense Working Capital Funds, $1,712,921,000.
       

              National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund

       For the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund, 
     $7,629,000, for activities pursuant to the Strategic and 
     Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98 et seq.).

                                TITLE VI

                  OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS

                         Defense Health Program

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical and 
     health care programs of the Department of Defense as 
     authorized by law, $41,159,039,000; of which $38,521,736,000 
     shall be for operation and maintenance, of which not to 
     exceed one percent shall remain available for obligation 
     until September 30, 2026, and of which up to $20,299,477,000 
     may be available for contracts entered into under the TRICARE 
     program; of which $398,867,000, to remain available for 
     obligation until September 30, 2027, shall be for 
     procurement; and of which $2,238,436,000, to remain available 
     for obligation until September 30, 2026, shall be for 
     research, development, test and evaluation:  Provided, That 
     of the funds provided under this heading for research, 
     development, test and evaluation, not less than 
     $1,164,000,000 shall be made available to the Defense Health 
     Agency to carry out the congressionally directed medical 
     research programs:  Provided further, That, notwithstanding 
     any other provision of law, of the amount made available 
     under this heading for research, development, test and 
     evaluation, not less than $12,000,000 shall be available for 
     HIV prevention educational activities undertaken in 
     connection with United States military training, exercises, 
     and humanitarian assistance activities conducted primarily in 
     African nations:  Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees 
     quarterly reports on the current status of the electronic 
     health record program:  Provided further, That the 
     Comptroller General of the United States shall perform 
     quarterly performance reviews of the electronic health record 
     program.

           Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction, Defense

       For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
     destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal chemical 
     agents and munitions in accordance with the provisions of 
     section 1412 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 
     1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521), $775,507,000, of which $20,745,000 
     shall be for operation and maintenance for the Chemical 
     Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, consisting of 
     $13,945,000 for activities on military installations and 
     $6,800,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, to 
     assist State and local governments; and of which 
     $754,762,000, to remain available until September 30, 2026, 
     shall be for research, development, test and evaluation and 
     shall only be for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives 
     program.

         Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense

                     (including transfer of funds)

       For drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of the 
     Department of Defense, for transfer to appropriations 
     available to the Department of Defense for military personnel 
     of the reserve components serving under the provisions of 
     title 10 and title 32, United States Code; for operation and 
     maintenance; for procurement; and for research, development, 
     test and evaluation, $1,143,269,000, of which $673,702,000 
     shall be for counter-narcotics support; $139,567,000 shall be 
     for the drug demand reduction program; $305,000,000 shall be 
     for the National Guard counter-drug program; and $25,000,000 
     shall be for the National Guard counter-drug schools program: 
      Provided, That the funds appropriated under this heading 
     shall be available for obligation for the same time period 
     and for the same purpose as the appropriation to which 
     transferred:  Provided further, That upon a determination 
     that all or part of the funds transferred from this 
     appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
     herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this 
     appropriation:  Provided further, That the transfer authority 
     provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
     transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act:  Provided 
     further, That funds appropriated under this heading may be 
     used to support a new start program or project only after 
     written prior notification to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate.

                    Office of the Inspector General

       For expenses and activities of the Office of the Inspector 
     General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
     General Act of 1978, $539,769,000, of which $536,533,000 
     shall be for operation and maintenance, of which not to 
     exceed $700,000 is available for emergencies and 
     extraordinary expenses to be expended upon the approval or 
     authority of the Inspector General, and payments may be made 
     upon the Inspector

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     General's certificate of necessity for confidential military 
     purposes; of which $1,336,000, to remain available for 
     obligation until September 30, 2027, shall be for 
     procurement; and of which $1,900,000, to remain available 
     until September 30, 2026, shall be for research, development, 
     test and evaluation.

                               TITLE VII

                            RELATED AGENCIES

   Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund

       For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement 
     and Disability System Fund, to maintain the proper funding 
     level for continuing the operation of the Central 
     Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, 
     $514,000,000.

               Intelligence Community Management Account

       For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Community 
     Management Account, $641,585,000.

                               TITLE VIII

                           GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 8001.  No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not 
     authorized by the Congress.
       Sec. 8002.  During the current fiscal year, provisions of 
     law prohibiting the payment of compensation to, or employment 
     of, any person not a citizen of the United States shall not 
     apply to personnel of the Department of Defense:  Provided, 
     That salary increases granted to direct and indirect hire 
     foreign national employees of the Department of Defense 
     funded by this Act shall not be at a rate in excess of the 
     percentage increase authorized by law for civilian employees 
     of the Department of Defense whose pay is computed under the 
     provisions of section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, or 
     at a rate in excess of the percentage increase provided by 
     the appropriate host nation to its own employees, whichever 
     is higher:  Provided further, That this section shall not 
     apply to Department of Defense foreign service national 
     employees serving at United States diplomatic missions whose 
     pay is set by the Department of State under the Foreign 
     Service Act of 1980:  Provided further, That the limitations 
     of this provision shall not apply to foreign national 
     employees of the Department of Defense in the Republic of 
     Turkey.
       Sec. 8003.  No part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
     fiscal year, unless expressly so provided herein.
       Sec. 8004.  No more than 20 percent of the appropriations 
     in this Act which are limited for obligation during the 
     current fiscal year shall be obligated during the last 2 
     months of the fiscal year:  Provided, That this section shall 
     not apply to obligations for support of active duty training 
     of reserve components or summer camp training of the Reserve 
     Officers' Training Corps.

                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8005.  Upon determination by the Secretary of Defense 
     that such action is necessary in the national interest, the 
     Secretary may, with the approval of the Director of the 
     Office of Management and Budget, transfer not to exceed 
     $6,000,000,000 of working capital funds of the Department of 
     Defense or funds made available in this Act to the Department 
     of Defense for military functions (except military 
     construction) between such appropriations or funds or any 
     subdivision thereof, to be merged with and to be available 
     for the same purposes, and for the same time period, as the 
     appropriation or fund to which transferred:  Provided, That 
     such authority to transfer may not be used unless for higher 
     priority items, based on unforeseen military requirements, 
     than those for which originally appropriated and in no case 
     where the item for which funds are requested has been denied 
     by the Congress:  Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     Defense shall notify the Congress promptly of all transfers 
     made pursuant to this authority or any other authority in 
     this Act:  Provided further, That no part of the funds in 
     this Act shall be available to prepare or present a request 
     to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate for reprogramming of funds, 
     unless for higher priority items, based on unforeseen 
     military requirements, than those for which originally 
     appropriated and in no case where the item for which 
     reprogramming is requested has been denied by the Congress:  
     Provided further, That a request for multiple reprogrammings 
     of funds using authority provided in this section shall be 
     made prior to June 30, 2025:  Provided further, That 
     transfers among military personnel appropriations shall not 
     be taken into account for purposes of the limitation on the 
     amount of funds that may be transferred under this section.
       Sec. 8006. (a) With regard to the list of specific 
     programs, projects, and activities (and the dollar amounts 
     and adjustments to budget activities corresponding to such 
     programs, projects, and activities) contained in the tables 
     titled Explanation of Project Level Adjustments in the 
     explanatory statement regarding this Act and the tables 
     contained in the classified annex accompanying this Act, the 
     obligation and expenditure of amounts appropriated or 
     otherwise made available in this Act for those programs, 
     projects, and activities are hereby required by law to be 
     carried out in the manner provided by such tables to the same 
     extent as if the tables were included in the text of this 
     Act.
       (b) Amounts specified in the referenced tables described in 
     subsection (a) shall not be treated as subdivisions of 
     appropriations for purposes of section 8005 of this Act:  
     Provided, That section 8005 of this Act shall apply when 
     transfers of the amounts described in subsection (a) occur 
     between appropriation accounts, subject to the limitation in 
     subsection (c):  Provided further, That the transfer amount 
     limitation provided in section 8005 of this Act shall not 
     apply to transfers of amounts described in subsection (a) if 
     such transfers are necessary for the proper execution of such 
     funds.
       (c) During the current fiscal year, amounts specified in 
     the referenced tables in titles III and IV of this Act 
     described in subsection (a) may not be transferred pursuant 
     to section 8005 of this Act other than for proper execution 
     of such amounts, as provided in subsection (b).
       Sec. 8007. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Department of Defense shall submit 
     a report to the congressional defense committees to establish 
     the baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer 
     authorities for fiscal year 2025:  Provided, That the report 
     shall include--
       (1) a table for each appropriation with a separate column 
     to display the President's budget request, adjustments made 
     by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if 
     appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level;
       (2) a delineation in the table for each appropriation both 
     by budget activity and program, project, and activity as 
     detailed in the Budget Appendix; and
       (3) an identification of items of special congressional 
     interest.
       (b) Notwithstanding section 8005 of this Act, none of the 
     funds provided in this Act shall be available for 
     reprogramming or transfer until the report identified in 
     subsection (a) is submitted to the congressional defense 
     committees, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies in 
     writing to the congressional defense committees that such 
     reprogramming or transfer is necessary as an emergency 
     requirement:  Provided, That this subsection shall not apply 
     to transfers from the following appropriations accounts:
       (1) ``Environmental Restoration, Army'';
       (2) ``Environmental Restoration, Navy'';
       (3) ``Environmental Restoration, Air Force'';
       (4) ``Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide'';
       (5) ``Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense 
     Sites''; and
       (6) ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Activities, 
     Defense''.

                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8008.  During the current fiscal year, cash balances 
     in working capital funds of the Department of Defense 
     established pursuant to section 2208 of title 10, United 
     States Code, may be maintained in only such amounts as are 
     necessary at any time for cash disbursements to be made from 
     such funds:  Provided, That transfers may be made between 
     such funds:  Provided further, That transfers may be made 
     between working capital funds and the ``Foreign Currency 
     Fluctuations, Defense'' appropriation and the ``Operation and 
     Maintenance'' appropriation accounts in such amounts as may 
     be determined by the Secretary of Defense, with the approval 
     of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 
     except that such transfers may not be made unless the 
     Secretary of Defense has notified the Congress of the 
     proposed transfer:  Provided further, That except in amounts 
     equal to the amounts appropriated to working capital funds in 
     this Act, no obligations may be made against a working 
     capital fund to procure or increase the value of war reserve 
     material inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has 
     notified the Congress prior to any such obligation.
       Sec. 8009.  Funds appropriated by this Act may not be used 
     to initiate a special access program without prior 
     notification 30 calendar days in advance to the congressional 
     defense committees.
       Sec. 8010.  None of the funds provided by this Act shall be 
     available to initiate: (1) a multiyear contract that employs 
     economic order quantity procurement in excess of $20,000,000 
     in any one year of the contract or that includes an unfunded 
     contingent liability in excess of $20,000,000; or (2) a 
     contract for advance procurement leading to a multiyear 
     contract that employs economic order quantity procurement in 
     excess of $20,000,000 in any one year, unless the 
     congressional defense committees have been notified at least 
     30 days in advance of the proposed contract award:  Provided, 
     That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
     be available to initiate a multiyear contract for which the 
     economic order quantity advance procurement is not funded at 
     least to the limits of the Government's liability:  Provided 
     further, That no part of any appropriation contained in this 
     Act shall be available to initiate multiyear procurement 
     contracts for any systems or component thereof if the value 
     of the multiyear contract would exceed $500,000,000 unless 
     specifically provided in this Act:  Provided further, That no 
     multiyear procurement contract can be terminated without 30-
     day prior notification to the congressional defense 
     committees:  Provided further, That the execution of 
     multiyear authority shall require the use of a present value 
     analysis to determine lowest cost compared to an annual 
     procurement:  Provided further, That none of the funds 
     provided by this Act may be used for a multiyear contract 
     executed after the date of the enactment of this Act unless 
     in the case of any such contract--
       (1) the Secretary of Defense has submitted to Congress a 
     budget request for full funding of units to be procured 
     through the contract and, in the case of a contract for 
     procurement of aircraft, that includes, for any aircraft unit 
     to be procured through the contract for which procurement 
     funds are requested in that budget request for production 
     beyond advance procurement activities in the fiscal year 
     covered by the budget, full funding of procurement of such 
     unit in that fiscal year;
       (2) cancellation provisions in the contract do not include 
     consideration of recurring manufacturing costs of the 
     contractor associated with the production of unfunded units 
     to be delivered under the contract;
       (3) the contract provides that payments to the contractor 
     under the contract shall not be made

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     in advance of incurred costs on funded units; and
       (4) the contract does not provide for a price adjustment 
     based on a failure to award a follow-on contract.
       Funds appropriated in title III of this Act may be used for 
     multiyear procurement contracts for CH-53K Heavy Lift 
     helicopters, and USS Virginia Class (SSN-774).
       Sec. 8011.  Within the funds appropriated for the operation 
     and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are hereby 
     appropriated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, United 
     States Code, for humanitarian and civic assistance costs 
     under chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code:  Provided, 
     That such funds may also be obligated for humanitarian and 
     civic assistance costs incidental to authorized operations 
     and pursuant to authority granted in section 401 of title 10, 
     United States Code, and these obligations shall be reported 
     as required by section 401(d) of title 10, United States 
     Code:  Provided further, That funds available for operation 
     and maintenance shall be available for providing humanitarian 
     and similar assistance by using Civic Action Teams in the 
     Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands and freely 
     associated states of Micronesia, pursuant to the Compact of 
     Free Association as authorized by Public Law 99-239:  
     Provided further, That upon a determination by the Secretary 
     of the Army that such action is beneficial for graduate 
     medical education programs conducted at Army medical 
     facilities located in Hawaii, the Secretary of the Army may 
     authorize the provision of medical services at such 
     facilities and transportation to such facilities, on a 
     nonreimbursable basis, for civilian patients from American 
     Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
     Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, 
     and Guam.
       Sec. 8012. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate a report on excessive 
     contractor payments that exceed the thresholds established in 
     10 U.S.C. chapter 271 ``Truthful Cost or Pricing Data (Truth 
     in Negotiations)'' or 41 U.S.C. chapter 35 ``Truthful Cost or 
     Pricing Data'' and with respect to which none of the 
     exceptions to certified cost or pricing data requirements 
     apply.
       (b) The report required by subsection (a) shall also 
     include the following:
       (1) The amounts collected, adjusted, or offset from 
     contractors as a result of providing defective cost and 
     pricing data;
       (2) The mechanisms used to identify violations of 10 U.S.C. 
     chapter 271 or 41 U.S.C. chapter 35;
       (3) Disciplinary actions taken by the Department of Defense 
     when violations of 10 U.S.C. chapter 271 or 41 U.S.C. chapter 
     35 are identified, regardless of whether they are included in 
     the System for Award Management; and
       (4) Any referrals made to the Department of Justice.
       Sec. 8013.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act shall be used in any way, directly 
     or indirectly, to influence congressional action on any 
     legislation or appropriation matters pending before the 
     Congress.
       Sec. 8014.  None of the funds available in this Act to the 
     Department of Defense, other than appropriations made for 
     necessary or routine refurbishments, upgrades, or maintenance 
     activities, shall be used to reduce or to prepare to reduce 
     the number of deployed and non-deployed strategic delivery 
     vehicles and launchers below the levels set forth in the 
     report submitted to Congress in accordance with section 1042 
     of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     2012.

                          (transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8015. (a) Funds appropriated in title III of this Act 
     for the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege Program 
     may be transferred to any other appropriation contained in 
     this Act solely for the purpose of implementing a Mentor-
     Protege Program developmental assistance agreement pursuant 
     to section 4902 of title 10, United States Code, under the 
     authority of this provision or any other transfer authority 
     contained in this Act.
       (b) The Secretary of Defense shall include with the budget 
     justification documents in support of the budget for fiscal 
     year 2026 (as submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 
     of title 31, United States Code) a description of each 
     transfer under this section that occurred during the last 
     fiscal year before the fiscal year in which such budget is 
     submitted.
       Sec. 8016.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be available for the purchase 
     by the Department of Defense (and its departments and 
     agencies) of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain unless 
     the anchor and mooring chain are manufactured in the United 
     States from components which are substantially manufactured 
     in the United States:  Provided, That for the purpose of this 
     section, the term ``manufactured'' shall include cutting, 
     heat treating, quality control, and testing of chain and 
     welding (including the forging and shot blasting process):  
     Provided further, That for the purpose of this section 
     substantially all of the components of anchor and mooring 
     chain shall be considered to be produced or manufactured in 
     the United States if the aggregate cost of the components 
     produced or manufactured in the United States exceeds the 
     aggregate cost of the components produced or manufactured 
     outside the United States:  Provided further, That when 
     adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet 
     Department of Defense requirements on a timely basis, the 
     Secretary of the Service responsible for the procurement may 
     waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying 
     in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives and the Senate that such an acquisition 
     must be made in order to acquire capability for national 
     security purposes.
       Sec. 8017.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act shall be used for the support of 
     any nonappropriated funds activity of the Department of 
     Defense that procures malt beverages and wine with 
     nonappropriated funds for resale (including such alcoholic 
     beverages sold by the drink) on a military installation 
     located in the United States unless such malt beverages and 
     wine are procured within that State, or in the case of the 
     District of Columbia, within the District of Columbia, in 
     which the military installation is located:  Provided, That, 
     in a case in which the military installation is located in 
     more than one State, purchases may be made in any State in 
     which the installation is located:  Provided further, That 
     such local procurement requirements for malt beverages and 
     wine shall apply to all alcoholic beverages only for military 
     installations in States which are not contiguous with another 
     State:  Provided further, That alcoholic beverages other than 
     wine and malt beverages, in contiguous States and the 
     District of Columbia shall be procured from the most 
     competitive source, price and other factors considered.
       Sec. 8018.  None of the funds available to the Department 
     of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dispose of M-1 
     Carbines, M-1 Garand rifles, M-14 rifles, .22 caliber rifles, 
     .30 caliber rifles, or M-1911 pistols, or to demilitarize or 
     destroy small arms ammunition or ammunition components that 
     are not otherwise prohibited from commercial sale under 
     Federal law, unless the small arms ammunition or ammunition 
     components are certified by the Secretary of the Army or 
     designee as unserviceable or unsafe for further use.
       Sec. 8019.  No more than $500,000 of the funds appropriated 
     or made available in this Act shall be used during a single 
     fiscal year for any single relocation of an organization, 
     unit, activity or function of the Department of Defense into 
     or within the National Capital Region:  Provided, That the 
     Secretary of Defense may waive this restriction on a case-by-
     case basis by certifying in writing to the congressional 
     defense committees that such a relocation is required in the 
     best interest of the Government.
       Sec. 8020.  Of the funds made available in this Act under 
     the heading ``Procurement, Defense-Wide'', $25,169,000 shall 
     be available only for incentive payments authorized by 
     section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 
     1544):  Provided, That a prime contractor or a subcontractor 
     at any tier that makes a subcontract award to any 
     subcontractor or supplier as defined in section 1544 of title 
     25, United States Code, or a small business owned and 
     controlled by an individual or individuals defined under 
     section 4221(9) of title 25, United States Code, shall be 
     considered a contractor for the purposes of being allowed 
     additional compensation under section 504 of the Indian 
     Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544) whenever the prime 
     contract or subcontract amount is over $500,000 and involves 
     the expenditure of funds appropriated by an Act making 
     appropriations for the Department of Defense with respect to 
     any fiscal year:  Provided further, That notwithstanding 
     section 1906 of title 41, United States Code, this section 
     shall be applicable to any Department of Defense acquisition 
     of supplies or services, including any contract and any 
     subcontract at any tier for acquisition of commercial items 
     produced or manufactured, in whole or in part, by any 
     subcontractor or supplier defined in section 1544 of title 
     25, United States Code, or a small business owned and 
     controlled by an individual or individuals defined under 
     section 4221(9) of title 25, United States Code.
       Sec. 8021. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     the Secretary of the Air Force may convey at no cost to the 
     Air Force, without consideration, to Indian tribes located in 
     the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
     Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and Washington relocatable 
     military housing units located at Grand Forks Air Force Base, 
     Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mountain Home Air Force Base, 
     Ellsworth Air Force Base, and Minot Air Force Base that are 
     excess to the needs of the Air Force.
       (b) The Secretary of the Air Force shall convey, at no cost 
     to the Air Force, military housing units under subsection (a) 
     in accordance with the request for such units that are 
     submitted to the Secretary by the Operation Walking Shield 
     Program on behalf of Indian tribes located in the States of 
     Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, 
     Minnesota, and Washington. Any such conveyance shall be 
     subject to the condition that the housing units shall be 
     removed within a reasonable period of time, as determined by 
     the Secretary.
       (c) The Operation Walking Shield Program shall resolve any 
     conflicts among requests of Indian tribes for housing units 
     under subsection (a) before submitting requests to the 
     Secretary of the Air Force under subsection (b).
       (d) In this section, the term ``Indian tribe'' means any 
     recognized Indian tribe included on the current list 
     published by the Secretary of the Interior under section 104 
     of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Act of 1994 (Public 
     Law 103-454; 108 Stat. 4792; 25 U.S.C. 5131).
       Sec. 8022.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of 
     Defense under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Defense-Wide'', not less than $19,861,000 may be made 
     available only for the mitigation of environmental impacts, 
     including training and technical assistance to tribes, 
     related administrative support, the gathering of information, 
     documenting of environmental damage, and developing a system 
     for prioritization of mitigation and cost to complete 
     estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands resulting from 
     Department of Defense activities.
       Sec. 8023.  Funds appropriated by this Act for the Defense 
     Media Activity may not be used for

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     any national or international political or psychological 
     activities.
       Sec. 8024. (a) Of the funds made available in this Act, not 
     less than $73,500,000 shall be available for the Civil Air 
     Patrol Corporation, of which--
       (1) $56,500,000 shall be available from ``Operation and 
     Maintenance, Air Force'' to support Civil Air Patrol 
     Corporation operation and maintenance, readiness, counter-
     drug activities, and drug demand reduction activities 
     involving youth programs;
       (2) $15,000,000 shall be available from ``Aircraft 
     Procurement, Air Force''; and
       (3) $2,000,000 shall be available from ``Other Procurement, 
     Air Force'' for vehicle procurement.
       (b) The Secretary of the Air Force should waive 
     reimbursement for any funds used by the Civil Air Patrol for 
     counter-drug activities in support of Federal, State, and 
     local government agencies.
       Sec. 8025. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to establish a new 
     Department of Defense (department) federally funded research 
     and development center (FFRDC), either as a new entity, or as 
     a separate entity administrated by an organization managing 
     another FFRDC, or as a nonprofit membership corporation 
     consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs and other 
     nonprofit entities.
       (b) Except when acting in a technical advisory capacity, no 
     member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, Overseers, Advisory 
     Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting Committee, or any 
     similar entity of a defense FFRDC, or any entity that 
     contracts with the Federal government to manage or operate 
     one or more FFRDCs, or any paid consultant to a defense FFRDC 
     shall receive funds appropriated by this Act as compensation 
     for services as a member of such entity:  Provided, That a 
     member of any such entity shall be allowed travel expenses 
     and per diem as authorized under the Federal Joint Travel 
     Regulations, when engaged in the performance of membership 
     duties:  Provided further, That except when acting in a 
     technical advisory capacity, no paid consultant shall receive 
     funds appropriated by this Act as compensation by more than 
     one FFRDC in a calendar year.
       (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
     funds available to the department from any source during the 
     current fiscal year may be used by a defense FFRDC, through a 
     fee or other payment mechanism, for construction of new 
     buildings not located on a military installation, for payment 
     of cost sharing for projects funded by Government grants, for 
     absorption of contract overruns, or for certain charitable 
     contributions, not to include employee participation in 
     community service and/or development.
       (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 
     funds available to the department during fiscal year 2025, 
     not more than $2,886,300,000 may be funded for professional 
     technical staff-related costs of the defense FFRDCs:  
     Provided, That within such funds, not more than $461,300,000 
     shall be available for the defense studies and analysis 
     FFRDCs:  Provided further, That this subsection shall not 
     apply to staff years funded in the National Intelligence 
     Program and the Military Intelligence Program:  Provided 
     further, That the Secretary of Defense shall, with the 
     submission of the department's fiscal year 2026 budget 
     request, submit a report presenting the specific amounts of 
     staff years of technical effort to be allocated for each 
     defense FFRDC by program during that fiscal year and the 
     associated budget estimates, by appropriation account and 
     program.
       Sec. 8026.  For the purposes of this Act, the term 
     ``congressional defense committees'' means the Armed Services 
     Committee of the House of Representatives, the Armed Services 
     Committee of the Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
     Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, 
     and the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate.
       Sec. 8027.  For the purposes of this Act, the term 
     ``congressional intelligence committees'' means the Permanent 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
     Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and the 
     Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of 
     the Senate.
       Sec. 8028.  During the current fiscal year, the Department 
     of Defense may acquire the modification, depot maintenance 
     and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels as well as the 
     production of components and other Defense-related articles, 
     through competition between Department of Defense depot 
     maintenance activities and private firms:  Provided, That the 
     Senior Acquisition Executive of the military department or 
     Defense Agency concerned, with power of delegation, shall 
     certify that successful bids include comparable estimates of 
     all direct and indirect costs for both public and private 
     bids:  Provided further, That Office of Management and Budget 
     Circular A-76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under 
     this section.
       Sec. 8029. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
     may be expended by an entity of the Department of Defense 
     unless the entity, in expending the funds, complies with the 
     Buy American Act. For purposes of this subsection, the term 
     ``Buy American Act'' means chapter 83 of title 41, United 
     States Code.
       (b) If the Secretary of Defense determines that a person 
     has been convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing 
     a ``Made in America'' inscription to any product sold in or 
     shipped to the United States that is not made in America, the 
     Secretary shall determine, in accordance with section 4658 of 
     title 10, United States Code, whether the person should be 
     debarred from contracting with the Department of Defense.
       (c) In the case of any equipment or products purchased with 
     appropriations provided under this Act, it is the sense of 
     the Congress that any entity of the Department of Defense, in 
     expending the appropriation, purchase only American-made 
     equipment and products, provided that American-made equipment 
     and products are cost-competitive, quality competitive, and 
     available in a timely fashion.
       Sec. 8030.  None of the funds appropriated or made 
     available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy, 
     or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned facility 
     or property under the control of the Department of Defense 
     which were not melted and rolled in the United States or 
     Canada:  Provided, That these procurement restrictions shall 
     apply to any and all Federal Supply Class 9515, American 
     Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) or American Iron and 
     Steel Institute (AISI) specifications of carbon, alloy or 
     armor steel plate:  Provided further, That the Secretary of 
     the military department responsible for the procurement may 
     waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying 
     in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives and the Senate that adequate domestic 
     supplies are not available to meet Department of Defense 
     requirements on a timely basis and that such an acquisition 
     must be made in order to acquire capability for national 
     security purposes:  Provided further, That these restrictions 
     shall not apply to contracts which are in being as of the 
     date of the enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 8031. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after 
     consultation with the United States Trade Representative, 
     determines that a foreign country which is party to an 
     agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the terms 
     of the agreement by discriminating against certain types of 
     products produced in the United States that are covered by 
     the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall rescind the 
     Secretary's blanket waiver of the Buy American Act with 
     respect to such types of products produced in that foreign 
     country.
       (2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any 
     reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of understanding, 
     between the United States and a foreign country pursuant to 
     which the Secretary of Defense has prospectively waived the 
     Buy American Act for certain products in that country.
       (b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Congress a 
     report on the amount of Department of Defense purchases from 
     foreign entities in fiscal year 2025. Such report shall 
     separately indicate the dollar value of items for which the 
     Buy American Act was waived pursuant to any agreement 
     described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade Agreements Act of 
     1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any international agreement 
     to which the United States is a party.
       (c) For purposes of this section, the term ``Buy American 
     Act'' means chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code.
       Sec. 8032.  None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
     be used for the procurement of ball and roller bearings other 
     than those produced by a domestic source and of domestic 
     origin:  Provided, That the Secretary of the military 
     department responsible for such procurement may waive this 
     restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 
     to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate, that adequate domestic 
     supplies are not available to meet Department of Defense 
     requirements on a timely basis and that such an acquisition 
     must be made in order to acquire capability for national 
     security purposes:  Provided further, That this restriction 
     shall not apply to the purchase of ``commercial products'', 
     as defined by section 103 of title 41, United States Code, 
     except that the restriction shall apply to ball or roller 
     bearings purchased as end items.
       Sec. 8033.  None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
     purchase any supercomputer which is not manufactured in the 
     United States, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies to 
     the congressional defense committees that such an acquisition 
     must be made in order to acquire capability for national 
     security purposes that is not available from United States 
     manufacturers.
       Sec. 8034. (a) The Secretary of Defense may, on a case-by-
     case basis, waive with respect to a foreign country each 
     limitation on the procurement of defense items from foreign 
     sources provided in law if the Secretary determines that the 
     application of the limitation with respect to that country 
     would invalidate cooperative programs entered into between 
     the Department of Defense and the foreign country, or would 
     invalidate reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of 
     defense items entered into under section 4851 of title 10, 
     United States Code, and the country does not discriminate 
     against the same or similar defense items produced in the 
     United States for that country.
       (b) Subsection (a) applies with respect to--
       (1) contracts and subcontracts entered into on or after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act; and
       (2) options for the procurement of items that are exercised 
     after such date under contracts that are entered into before 
     such date if the option prices are adjusted for any reason 
     other than the application of a waiver granted under 
     subsection (a).
       (c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a limitation regarding 
     construction of public vessels, ball and roller bearings, 
     food, and clothing or textile materials as defined by section 
     XI (chapters 50-65) of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
     United States and products classified under headings 4010, 
     4202, 4203, 6401 through 6406, 6505, 7019, 7218 through 7229, 
     7304.41 through 7304.49, 7306.40, 7502 through 7508, 8105, 
     8108, 8109, 8211, 8215, and 9404.
       Sec. 8035.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used for the purchase or 
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     of the United States unless such flags are treated as covered 
     items under section 4862(b) of title 10, United States Code.
       Sec. 8036.  During the current fiscal year, amounts 
     contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military 
     Facility Investment Recovery Account shall be available until 
     expended for the payments specified by section 2687a(b)(2) of 
     title 10, United States Code.
       Sec. 8037.  During the current fiscal year, appropriations 
     which are available to the Department of Defense for 
     operation and maintenance may be used to purchase items 
     having an investment item unit cost of not more than 
     $350,000:  Provided, That upon determination by the Secretary 
     of Defense that such action is necessary to meet the 
     operational requirements of a Commander of a Combatant 
     Command engaged in a named contingency operation overseas, 
     such funds may be used to purchase items having an investment 
     item unit cost of not more than $500,000.
       Sec. 8038.  Up to $8,132,000 of the funds appropriated 
     under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'' may be 
     made available for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative 
     Program for the purpose of enabling the United States Indo-
     Pacific Command to execute Theater Security Cooperation 
     activities such as humanitarian assistance, and payment of 
     incremental and personnel costs of training and exercising 
     with foreign security forces:  Provided, That funds made 
     available for this purpose may be used, notwithstanding any 
     other funding authorities for humanitarian assistance, 
     security assistance or combined exercise expenses:  Provided 
     further, That funds may not be obligated to provide 
     assistance to any foreign country that is otherwise 
     prohibited from receiving such type of assistance under any 
     other provision of law.
       Sec. 8039.  The Secretary of Defense shall issue 
     regulations to prohibit the sale of any tobacco or tobacco-
     related products in military resale outlets in the United 
     States, its territories and possessions at a price below the 
     most competitive price in the local community:  Provided, 
     That such regulations shall direct that the prices of tobacco 
     or tobacco-related products in overseas military retail 
     outlets shall be within the range of prices established for 
     military retail system stores located in the United States.
       Sec. 8040. (a) During the current fiscal year, none of the 
     appropriations or funds available to the Department of 
     Defense Working Capital Funds shall be used for the purchase 
     of an investment item for the purpose of acquiring a new 
     inventory item for sale or anticipated sale during the 
     current fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year to customers 
     of the Department of Defense Working Capital Funds if such an 
     item would not have been chargeable to the Department of 
     Defense Business Operations Fund during fiscal year 1994 and 
     if the purchase of such an investment item would be 
     chargeable during the current fiscal year to appropriations 
     made to the Department of Defense for procurement.
       (b) The fiscal year 2026 budget request for the Department 
     of Defense as well as all justification material and other 
     documentation supporting the fiscal year 2026 Department of 
     Defense budget shall be prepared and submitted to the 
     Congress on the basis that any equipment which was classified 
     as an end item and funded in a procurement appropriation 
     contained in this Act shall be budgeted for in a proposed 
     fiscal year 2026 procurement appropriation and not in the 
     supply management business area or any other area or category 
     of the Department of Defense Working Capital Funds.
       Sec. 8041.  None of the funds appropriated by this Act for 
     programs of the Central Intelligence Agency shall remain 
     available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, 
     except for funds appropriated for the Reserve for 
     Contingencies, which shall remain available until September 
     30, 2026:  Provided, That funds appropriated, transferred, or 
     otherwise credited to the Central Intelligence Agency Central 
     Services Working Capital Fund during this or any prior fiscal 
     year shall remain available until expended:  Provided 
     further, That any funds appropriated or transferred to the 
     Central Intelligence Agency for advanced research and 
     development acquisition, for agent operations, and for covert 
     action programs authorized by the President under section 503 
     of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3093) shall 
     remain available until September 30, 2026:  Provided further, 
     That any funds appropriated or transferred to the Central 
     Intelligence Agency for the construction, improvement, or 
     alteration of facilities, including leased facilities, to be 
     used primarily by personnel of the intelligence community, 
     shall remain available until September 30, 2027.
       Sec. 8042. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and 
     (c), none of the funds made available by this Act may be 
     used--
       (1) to establish a field operating agency; or
       (2) to pay the basic pay of a member of the Armed Forces or 
     civilian employee of the Department of Defense who is 
     transferred or reassigned from a headquarters activity if the 
     member or employee's place of duty remains at the location of 
     that headquarters.
       (b) The Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military 
     department may waive the limitations in subsection (a), on a 
     case-by-case basis, if the Secretary determines, and 
     certifies to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate that the granting of the 
     waiver will reduce the personnel requirements or the 
     financial requirements of the department.
       (c) This section does not apply to--
       (1) field operating agencies funded within the National 
     Intelligence Program;
       (2) an Army field operating agency established to 
     eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised 
     explosive devices, and, as determined by the Secretary of the 
     Army, other similar threats;
       (3) an Army field operating agency established to improve 
     the effectiveness and efficiencies of biometric activities 
     and to integrate common biometric technologies throughout the 
     Department of Defense; or
       (4) an Air Force field operating agency established to 
     administer the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Program and 
     Mortuary Operations for the Department of Defense and 
     authorized Federal entities.
       Sec. 8043. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act shall be available to convert to 
     contractor performance an activity or function of the 
     Department of Defense that, on or after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, is performed by Department of Defense 
     civilian employees unless--
       (1) the conversion is based on the result of a public-
     private competition that includes a most efficient and cost 
     effective organization plan developed by such activity or 
     function;
       (2) the Competitive Sourcing Official determines that, over 
     all performance periods stated in the solicitation of offers 
     for performance of the activity or function, the cost of 
     performance of the activity or function by a contractor would 
     be less costly to the Department of Defense by an amount that 
     equals or exceeds the lesser of--
       (A) 10 percent of the most efficient organization's 
     personnel-related costs for performance of that activity or 
     function by Federal employees; or
       (B) $10,000,000; and
       (3) the contractor does not receive an advantage for a 
     proposal that would reduce costs for the Department of 
     Defense by--
       (A) not making an employer-sponsored health insurance plan 
     available to the workers who are to be employed in the 
     performance of that activity or function under the contract; 
     or
       (B) offering to such workers an employer-sponsored health 
     benefits plan that requires the employer to contribute less 
     towards the premium or subscription share than the amount 
     that is paid by the Department of Defense for health benefits 
     for civilian employees under chapter 89 of title 5, United 
     States Code.
       (b)(1) The Department of Defense, without regard to 
     subsection (a) of this section or subsection (a), (b), or (c) 
     of section 2461 of title 10, United States Code, and 
     notwithstanding any administrative regulation, requirement, 
     or policy to the contrary shall have full authority to enter 
     into a contract for the performance of any commercial or 
     industrial type function of the Department of Defense that--
       (A) is included on the procurement list established 
     pursuant to section 2 of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (section 
     8503 of title 41, United States Code);
       (B) is planned to be converted to performance by a 
     qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or by a qualified 
     nonprofit agency for other severely handicapped individuals 
     in accordance with that Act; or
       (C) is planned to be converted to performance by a 
     qualified firm under at least 51 percent ownership by an 
     Indian tribe, as defined in section 4(e) of the Indian Self-
     Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
     450b(e)), or a Native Hawaiian Organization, as defined in 
     section 8(a)(15) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
     637(a)(15)).
       (2) This section shall not apply to depot contracts or 
     contracts for depot maintenance as provided in sections 2469 
     and 2474 of title 10, United States Code.
       (c) The conversion of any activity or function of the 
     Department of Defense under the authority provided by this 
     section shall be credited toward any competitive or 
     outsourcing goal, target, or measurement that may be 
     established by statute, regulation, or policy and is deemed 
     to be awarded under the authority of, and in compliance with, 
     subsection (h) of section 2304 of title 10, United States 
     Code, for the competition or outsourcing of commercial 
     activities.

                             (rescissions)

       Sec. 8044.  Of the funds appropriated in Department of 
     Defense Appropriations Acts, the following funds are hereby 
     rescinded from the following accounts and programs in the 
     specified amounts:  Provided, That no amounts may be 
     rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress 
     as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent 
     resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
     Deficit Control Act of 1985:
       ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'', 2023/2025, $49,963,000;
       ``Aircraft Procurement, Air Force'', 2023/2025, 
     $201,420,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', 2024/2025, 
     $50,000,000;
       ``Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund'', 2024/2025, 
     $50,000,000;
       ``Cooperative Threat Reduction Account'', 2024/2026, 
     $91,000,000;
       ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'', 2024/2026, $17,468,000;
       ``Other Procurement, Navy'', 2024/2026, $22,872,000
       ``Procurement, Marine Corps'', 2024/2026, $71,257,000;
       ``Aircraft Procurement, Air Force'', 2024/2026, 
     $90,000,000;
       ``Other Procurement, Air Force'', 2024/2026, $532,994,000;
       ``Procurement, Defense-Wide'', 2024/2026, $6,077,000; and
       ``Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy'', 2024/
     2025, $25,000,000.
       Sec. 8045.  None of the funds available in this Act may be 
     used to reduce the authorized positions for military 
     technicians (dual status) of the Army National Guard, Air 
     National Guard, Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve for the 
     purpose of applying any administratively imposed civilian 
     personnel ceiling, freeze, or reduction on military 
     technicians (dual status), unless such reductions are a 
     direct result of a reduction in military force structure.

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       Sec. 8046.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available in this Act may be obligated or expended for 
     assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 
     unless specifically appropriated for that purpose:  Provided, 
     That this restriction shall not apply to any activities 
     incidental to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency mission 
     to recover and identify the remains of United States Armed 
     Forces personnel from the Democratic People's Republic of 
     Korea.
       Sec. 8047.  In this fiscal year and each fiscal year 
     thereafter, funds appropriated for operation and maintenance 
     of the Military Departments, Combatant Commands and Defense 
     Agencies shall be available for reimbursement of pay, 
     allowances and other expenses which would otherwise be 
     incurred against appropriations for the National Guard and 
     Reserve when members of the National Guard and Reserve 
     provide intelligence or counterintelligence support to 
     Combatant Commands, Defense Agencies and Joint Intelligence 
     Activities, including the activities and programs included 
     within the National Intelligence Program and the Military 
     Intelligence Program:  Provided, That nothing in this section 
     authorizes deviation from established Reserve and National 
     Guard personnel and training procedures.
       Sec. 8048. (a) None of the funds available to the 
     Department of Defense for any fiscal year for drug 
     interdiction or counter-drug activities may be transferred to 
     any other department or agency of the United States except as 
     specifically provided in an appropriations law.
       (b) None of the funds available to the Central Intelligence 
     Agency for any fiscal year for drug interdiction or counter-
     drug activities may be transferred to any other department or 
     agency of the United States except as specifically provided 
     in an appropriations law.
       Sec. 8049.  In addition to the amounts appropriated or 
     otherwise made available elsewhere in this Act, $49,000,000 
     is hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense:  
     Provided, That upon the determination of the Secretary of 
     Defense that it shall serve the national interest, the 
     Secretary shall make grants in the amounts specified as 
     follows: $24,000,000 to the United Service Organizations and 
     $25,000,000 to the Red Cross.
       Sec. 8050.  Notwithstanding any other provision in this 
     Act, the Small Business Innovation Research program and the 
     Small Business Technology Transfer program set-asides shall 
     be taken proportionally from all programs, projects, or 
     activities to the extent they contribute to the extramural 
     budget. The Secretary of each military department, the 
     Director of each Defense Agency, and the head of each other 
     relevant component of the Department of Defense shall submit 
     to the congressional defense committees, concurrent with 
     submission of the budget justification documents to Congress 
     pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a 
     report with a detailed accounting of the Small Business 
     Innovation Research program and the Small Business Technology 
     Transfer program set-asides taken from programs, projects, or 
     activities within such department, agency, or component 
     during the most recently completed fiscal year.
       Sec. 8051.  None of the funds available to the Department 
     of Defense under this Act may be obligated or expended to pay 
     a contractor under a contract with the Department of Defense 
     for costs of any amount paid by the contractor to an employee 
     when--
       (1) such costs are for a bonus or otherwise in excess of 
     the normal salary paid by the contractor to the employee; and
       (2) such bonus is part of restructuring costs associated 
     with a business combination.

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8052.  During the current fiscal year, no more than 
     $30,000,000 of appropriations made in this Act under the 
     heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'' may be 
     transferred to appropriations available for the pay of 
     military personnel, to be merged with, and to be available 
     for the same time period as the appropriations to which 
     transferred, to be used in support of such personnel in 
     connection with support and services for eligible 
     organizations and activities outside the Department of 
     Defense pursuant to section 2012 of title 10, United States 
     Code.
       Sec. 8053. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may permit the use of 
     equipment of the National Guard Distance Learning Project by 
     any person or entity on a space-available, reimbursable 
     basis. The Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall establish 
     the amount of reimbursement for such use on a case-by-case 
     basis.
       (b) Amounts collected under subsection (a) shall be 
     credited to funds available for the National Guard Distance 
     Learning Project and be available to defray the costs 
     associated with the use of equipment of the project under 
     that subsection. Such funds shall be available for such 
     purposes without fiscal year limitation.
       Sec. 8054. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this or prior Acts may be obligated or 
     expended to retire, prepare to retire, or place in storage or 
     on backup aircraft inventory status any C-40 aircraft.
       (b) The limitation under subsection (a) shall not apply to 
     an individual C-40 aircraft that the Secretary of the Air 
     Force determines, on a case-by-case basis, to be no longer 
     mission capable due to a Class A mishap.
       (c) If the Secretary determines under subsection (b) that 
     an aircraft is no longer mission capable, the Secretary shall 
     submit to the congressional defense committees a 
     certification in writing that the status of such aircraft is 
     due to a Class A mishap and not due to lack of maintenance, 
     repairs, or other reasons.
       (d) Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on the necessary 
     steps taken by the Department of Defense to meet the travel 
     requirements for official or representational duties of 
     members of Congress and the Cabinet in fiscal years 2025 and 
     2026.
       Sec. 8055. (a) None of the funds appropriated in title IV 
     of this Act may be used to procure end-items for delivery to 
     military forces for operational training, operational use, or 
     inventory requirements:  Provided, That this restriction does 
     not apply to end-items used in development, prototyping in 
     accordance with an approved test strategy, and test 
     activities preceding and leading to acceptance for 
     operational use.
       (b) If the number of end-items budgeted with funds 
     appropriated in title IV of this Act exceeds the number 
     required in an approved test strategy, the Under Secretary of 
     Defense (Research and Engineering) and the Under Secretary of 
     Defense (Acquisition and Sustainment), in coordination with 
     the responsible Service Acquisition Executive, shall certify 
     in writing to the congressional defense committees that there 
     is a bonafide need for the additional end-items at the time 
     of submittal to Congress of the budget of the President for 
     fiscal year 2026 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 
     States Code:  Provided, That this restriction does not apply 
     to programs funded within the National Intelligence Program.
       (c) The Secretary of Defense shall, at the time of the 
     submittal to Congress of the budget of the President for 
     fiscal year 2026 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 
     States Code, submit to the congressional defense committees a 
     report detailing the use of funds requested in research, 
     development, test and evaluation accounts for end-items used 
     in development, prototyping and test activities preceding and 
     leading to acceptance for operational use:  Provided, That 
     the report shall set forth, for each end item covered by the 
     preceding proviso, a detailed list of the statutory 
     authorities under which amounts in the accounts described in 
     that proviso were used for such item:  Provided further, That 
     the Secretary of Defense shall, at the time of the submittal 
     to Congress of the budget of the President for fiscal year 
     2026 pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States 
     Code, submit to the congressional defense committees a 
     certification that funds requested for fiscal year 2026 in 
     research, development, test and evaluation accounts are in 
     compliance with this section:  Provided further, That the 
     Secretary of Defense may waive this restriction on a case-by-
     case basis by certifying in writing to the Subcommittees on 
     Defense of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate that it is in the national 
     security interest to do so.
       Sec. 8056.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this or other Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Acts may be obligated or expended for the 
     purpose of performing repairs or maintenance to military 
     family housing units of the Department of Defense, including 
     areas in such military family housing units that may be used 
     for the purpose of conducting official Department of Defense 
     business.
       Sec. 8057.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     funds appropriated in this Act under the heading ``Research, 
     Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'' for any new 
     start defense innovation acceleration or rapid prototyping 
     program demonstration project with a value of more than 
     $5,000,000 may only be obligated 15 days after a report, 
     including a description of the project, the planned 
     acquisition and transition strategy and its estimated annual 
     and total cost, has been provided in writing to the 
     congressional defense committees:  Provided, That the 
     Secretary of Defense may waive this restriction on a case-by-
     case basis by certifying to the congressional defense 
     committees that it is in the national interest to do so.
       Sec. 8058.  The Secretary of Defense shall continue to 
     provide a classified quarterly report to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate, Subcommittees on Defense on certain matters as 
     directed in the classified annex accompanying this Act.
       Sec. 8059.  Notwithstanding section 12310(b) of title 10, 
     United States Code, a servicemember who is a member of the 
     National Guard serving on full-time National Guard duty under 
     section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, may perform 
     duties in support of the ground-based elements of the 
     National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
       Sec. 8060.  None of the funds provided in this Act may be 
     used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity ammunition 
     held by the Department of Defense that has a center-fire 
     cartridge and a United States military nomenclature 
     designation of ``armor penetrator'', ``armor piercing (AP)'', 
     ``armor piercing incendiary (API)'', or ``armor-piercing 
     incendiary tracer (API-T)'', except to an entity performing 
     demilitarization services for the Department of Defense under 
     a contract that requires the entity to demonstrate to the 
     satisfaction of the Department of Defense that armor piercing 
     projectiles are either: (1) rendered incapable of reuse by 
     the demilitarization process; or (2) used to manufacture 
     ammunition pursuant to a contract with the Department of 
     Defense or the manufacture of ammunition for export pursuant 
     to a License for Permanent Export of Unclassified Military 
     Articles issued by the Department of State.
       Sec. 8061.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or their designee, may 
     waive payment of all or part of the consideration that 
     otherwise would be required under section 2667 of title 10, 
     United States Code, in the case of a lease of personal 
     property for a period not in excess of 1 year to any 
     organization specified in section 508(d) of title 32, United 
     States Code, or any other youth, social, or fraternal 
     nonprofit organization as may be approved by the Chief of the

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     National Guard Bureau, or their designee, on a case-by-case 
     basis.

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8062.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under 
     the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', $194,452,598 
     shall remain available until expended:  Provided, That, 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
     Defense is authorized to transfer such funds to other 
     activities of the Federal Government:  Provided further, That 
     the Secretary of Defense is authorized to enter into and 
     carry out contracts for the acquisition of real property, 
     construction, personal services, and operations related to 
     projects carrying out the purposes of this section:  Provided 
     further, That contracts entered into under the authority of 
     this section may provide for such indemnification as the 
     Secretary determines to be necessary:  Provided further, That 
     projects authorized by this section shall comply with 
     applicable Federal, State, and local law to the maximum 
     extent consistent with the national security, as determined 
     by the Secretary of Defense.
       Sec. 8063. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this or 
     any other Act may be used to take any action to modify--
       (1) the appropriations account structure for the National 
     Intelligence Program budget, including through the creation 
     of a new appropriation or new appropriation account;
       (2) how the National Intelligence Program budget request is 
     presented in the unclassified P-1, R-1, and O-1 documents 
     supporting the Department of Defense budget request;
       (3) the process by which the National Intelligence Program 
     appropriations are apportioned to the executing agencies; or
       (4) the process by which the National Intelligence Program 
     appropriations are allotted, obligated and disbursed.
       (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to 
     prohibit the merger of programs or changes to the National 
     Intelligence Program budget at or below the Expenditure 
     Center level, provided such change is otherwise in accordance 
     with paragraphs (1)-(3) of subsection (a).
       (c) The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary 
     of Defense may jointly, only for the purposes of achieving 
     auditable financial statements and improving fiscal 
     reporting, study and develop detailed proposals for 
     alternative financial management processes. Such study shall 
     include a comprehensive counterintelligence risk assessment 
     to ensure that none of the alternative processes will 
     adversely affect counterintelligence.
       (d) Upon development of the detailed proposals defined 
     under subsection (c), the Director of National Intelligence 
     and the Secretary of Defense shall--
       (1) provide the proposed alternatives to all affected 
     agencies;
       (2) receive certification from all affected agencies 
     attesting that the proposed alternatives will help achieve 
     auditability, improve fiscal reporting, and will not 
     adversely affect counterintelligence; and
       (3) not later than 30 days after receiving all necessary 
     certifications under paragraph (2), present the proposed 
     alternatives and certifications to the congressional defense 
     and intelligence committees.

                      (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8064.  During the current fiscal year, not to exceed 
     $11,000,000 from each of the appropriations made in title II 
     of this Act for ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', 
     ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', and ``Operation and 
     Maintenance, Air Force'' may be transferred by the military 
     department concerned to its central fund established for 
     Fisher Houses and Suites pursuant to section 2493(d) of title 
     10, United States Code.

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8065.  In addition to amounts provided elsewhere in 
     this Act, $5,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department 
     of Defense, to remain available for obligation until 
     expended:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
     of law, that upon the determination of the Secretary of 
     Defense that it shall serve the national interest, these 
     funds shall be available only for a grant to the Fisher House 
     Foundation, Inc., only for the construction and furnishing of 
     additional Fisher Houses to meet the needs of military family 
     members when confronted with the illness or hospitalization 
     of an eligible military beneficiary.

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8066.  Of the amounts appropriated for ``Operation and 
     Maintenance, Navy'', up to $1,000,000 shall be available for 
     transfer to the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service 
     Development Trust Fund established under section 116 of the 
     John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Training and 
     Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105).
       Sec. 8067.  None of the funds available to the Department 
     of Defense may be obligated to modify command and control 
     relationships to give Fleet Forces Command operational and 
     administrative control of United States Navy forces assigned 
     to the Pacific fleet:  Provided, That the command and control 
     relationships which existed on October 1, 2004, shall remain 
     in force until a written modification has been proposed to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate:  Provided further, That the 
     proposed modification may be implemented 30 days after the 
     notification unless an objection is received from either the 
     House or Senate Appropriations Committees:  Provided further, 
     That any proposed modification shall not preclude the ability 
     of the commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command to 
     meet operational requirements.
       Sec. 8068.  Any notice that is required to be submitted to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate under section 3601 of title 
     10, United States Code, as added by section 804(a) of the 
     James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 2023 shall be submitted pursuant to that requirement 
     concurrently to the Subcommittees on Defense of the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and the Senate.
       Sec. 8069.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under 
     the headings ``Procurement, Defense-Wide'' and ``Research, 
     Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'', 
     $500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs:  
     Provided, That of this amount, $110,000,000 shall be for the 
     Secretary of Defense to provide to the Government of Israel 
     for the procurement of the Iron Dome defense system to 
     counter short-range rocket threats, subject to the U.S.-
     Israel Iron Dome Procurement Agreement, as amended; 
     $127,000,000 shall be for the Short Range Ballistic Missile 
     Defense (SRBMD) program, including cruise missile defense 
     research and development under the SRBMD program; $40,000,000 
     shall be for co-production activities of SRBMD systems in the 
     United States and in Israel to meet Israel's defense 
     requirements consistent with each nation's laws, regulations, 
     and procedures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production 
     agreement for SRBMD, as amended; $50,000,000 shall be for an 
     upper-tier component to the Israeli Missile Defense 
     Architecture, of which $50,000,000 shall be for co-production 
     activities of Arrow 3 Upper Tier systems in the United States 
     and in Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements 
     consistent with each nation's laws, regulations, and 
     procedures, subject to the U.S.-Israeli co-production 
     agreement for Arrow 3 Upper Tier, as amended; and 
     $173,000,000 shall be for the Arrow System Improvement 
     Program including development of a long range, ground and 
     airborne, detection suite.
       Sec. 8070.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under 
     the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy'', 
     $1,930,024,000 shall be available until September 30, 2025, 
     to fund prior year shipbuilding cost increases for the 
     following programs:
       (1) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2013/2025: Carrier Replacement Program, $236,000,000;
       (2) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2016/2025 DDG 51 Program, $10,509,000;
       (3) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2017/2025 Virginia Class Submarine Program, 
     $219,370,000;
       (4) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2017/2025 DDG 51 Program, $115,600,000;
       (5) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2017/2025 Littoral Combat Ship Program, $8,100,000;
       (6) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2017/2025 LHA Replacement Program, $115,397,000;
       (7) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2018/2025 Virginia Class Submarine Program, 
     $73,634,000;
       (8) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2018/2025 DDG 51 Program, $107,405,000;
       (9) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2018/2025 Littoral Combat Ship Program, $12,000,000;
       (10) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2018/2025 LPD17 (Flight II) Amphibious Transport Dock 
     Program, $19,158,000;
       (11) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2018/2025 Oceanographic Ships Program, $18,000,000;
       (12) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2018/2025 Ship to Shore Connector Program, 
     $14,694,000;
       (13) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2019/2025 Littoral Combat Ship Program, $27,900,000;
       (14) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2019/2025 T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $49,995,000;
       (15) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2019/2025 Ship to Shore Connector Program, 
     $33,345,000;
       (16) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2020/2025 CVN Refueling Overhauls, $669,171,000;
       (17) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2020/2025 T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $151,837,000;
       (18) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2020/2025 Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Program, 
     $978,000;
       (19) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2021/2025 Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Program, 
     $17,375,000;
       (20) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2022/2025 T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $13,222,000;
       (21) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2022/2025 Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Program, 
     $4,234,000; and
       (22) Under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'', 2023/2025 T-AO Fleet Oiler Program, $12,100,000.
       Sec. 8071.  Funds appropriated by this Act for intelligence 
     and intelligence-related activities are deemed to be 
     specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of 
     section 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 
     U.S.C. 3094(a)(1)) until the enactment of the Intelligence 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025.
       Sec. 8072.  None of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
     available for obligation or expenditure through a 
     reprogramming of funds that creates or initiates a new 
     program, project, or activity unless such program, project, 
     or activity must be undertaken immediately in the interest of 
     national security and only after written prior notification 
     to the congressional defense committees.
       Sec. 8073.  None of the funds in this Act may be used for 
     research, development, test, evaluation, procurement or 
     deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense 
     system.

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       Sec. 8074.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be obligated or expended for 
     the purpose of decommissioning any Littoral Combat Ship or 
     the U.S.S. Lake Erie.
       Sec. 8075.  For purposes of section 1553(b) of title 31, 
     United States Code, any subdivision of appropriations made in 
     this Act under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'' shall be considered to be for the same purpose as any 
     subdivision under the heading ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
     Navy'' appropriations in any prior fiscal year, and the 1 
     percent limitation shall apply to the total amount of the 
     appropriation.
       Sec. 8076.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act shall be used to reduce or 
     disestablish the operation of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance 
     Squadron of the Air Force Reserve, if such action would 
     reduce the WC-130 Weather Reconnaissance mission below the 
     levels funded in this Act:  Provided, That the Air Force 
     shall allow the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron to 
     perform other missions in support of national defense 
     requirements during the non-hurricane season.
       Sec. 8077.  None of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
     available for integration of foreign intelligence information 
     unless the information has been lawfully collected and 
     processed during the conduct of authorized foreign 
     intelligence activities:  Provided, That information 
     pertaining to United States persons shall only be handled in 
     accordance with protections provided in the Fourth Amendment 
     of the United States Constitution as implemented through 
     Executive Order No. 12333.
       Sec. 8078.  None of the funds appropriated by this Act for 
     programs of the Office of the Director of National 
     Intelligence shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
     current fiscal year, except for funds appropriated for 
     research and technology, which shall remain available until 
     September 30, 2026.
       Sec. 8079. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence 
     shall submit a report to the congressional intelligence 
     committees to establish the baseline for application of 
     reprogramming and transfer authorities for fiscal year 2025:  
     Provided, That the report shall include--
       (1) a table for each appropriation with a separate column 
     to display the President's budget request, adjustments made 
     by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if 
     appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level;
       (2) a delineation in the table for each appropriation by 
     Expenditure Center and project; and
       (3) an identification of items of special congressional 
     interest.
       (b) None of the funds provided for the National 
     Intelligence Program in this Act shall be available for 
     reprogramming or transfer until the report identified in 
     subsection (a) is submitted to the congressional intelligence 
     committees, unless the Director of National Intelligence 
     certifies in writing to the congressional intelligence 
     committees that such reprogramming or transfer is necessary 
     as an emergency requirement.
       Sec. 8080.  Any transfer of amounts appropriated to the 
     Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce Development 
     Account in or for fiscal year 2025 to a military department 
     or Defense Agency pursuant to section 1705(e)(1) of title 10, 
     United States Code, shall be covered by and subject to 
     section 8005 of this Act.
       Sec. 8081. (a) None of the funds provided for the National 
     Intelligence Program in this or any prior appropriations Act 
     shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 
     reprogramming or transfer of funds in accordance with section 
     102A(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
     3024(d)) that--
       (1) creates a new start effort;
       (2) terminates a program with appropriated funding of 
     $10,000,000 or more;
       (3) transfers funding into or out of the National 
     Intelligence Program; or
       (4) transfers funding between appropriations, unless the 
     congressional intelligence committees are notified 30 days in 
     advance of such reprogramming of funds; this notification 
     period may be reduced for urgent national security 
     requirements.
       (b) None of the funds provided for the National 
     Intelligence Program in this or any prior appropriations Act 
     shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a 
     reprogramming or transfer of funds in accordance with section 
     102A(d) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
     3024(d)) that results in a cumulative increase or decrease of 
     the levels specified in the classified annex accompanying the 
     Act unless the congressional intelligence committees are 
     notified 30 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds; 
     this notification period may be reduced for urgent national 
     security requirements.
       Sec. 8082. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in 
     this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on 
     the public website of that agency any report required to be 
     submitted by the Congress in this or any other Act, upon the 
     determination by the head of the agency that it shall serve 
     the national interest.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if--
       (1) the public posting of the report compromises national 
     security; or
       (2) the report contains proprietary information.
       (c) The head of the agency posting such report shall do so 
     only after such report has been made available to the 
     requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for no less 
     than 45 days.
       Sec. 8083. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be expended for any Federal 
     contract for an amount in excess of $1,000,000, unless the 
     contractor agrees not to--
       (1) enter into any agreement with any of its employees or 
     independent contractors that requires, as a condition of 
     employment, that the employee or independent contractor agree 
     to resolve through arbitration any claim under title VII of 
     the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or any tort related to or 
     arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including 
     assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional 
     distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, 
     supervision, or retention; or
       (2) take any action to enforce any provision of an existing 
     agreement with an employee or independent contractor that 
     mandates that the employee or independent contractor resolve 
     through arbitration any claim under title VII of the Civil 
     Rights Act of 1964 or any tort related to or arising out of 
     sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, 
     intentional infliction of emotional distress, false 
     imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, or retention.
       (b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be expended for any Federal 
     contract unless the contractor certifies that it requires 
     each covered subcontractor to agree not to enter into, and 
     not to take any action to enforce any provision of, any 
     agreement as described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
     subsection (a), with respect to any employee or independent 
     contractor performing work related to such subcontract. For 
     purposes of this subsection, a ``covered subcontractor'' is 
     an entity that has a subcontract in excess of $1,000,000 on a 
     contract subject to subsection (a).
       (c) The prohibitions in this section do not apply with 
     respect to a contractor's or subcontractor's agreements with 
     employees or independent contractors that may not be enforced 
     in a court of the United States.
       (d) The Secretary of Defense may waive the application of 
     subsection (a) or (b) to a particular contractor or 
     subcontractor for the purposes of a particular contract or 
     subcontract if the Secretary or the Deputy Secretary 
     personally determines that the waiver is necessary to avoid 
     harm to national security interests of the United States, and 
     that the term of the contract or subcontract is not longer 
     than necessary to avoid such harm. The determination shall 
     set forth with specificity the grounds for the waiver and for 
     the contract or subcontract term selected, and shall state 
     any alternatives considered in lieu of a waiver and the 
     reasons each such alternative would not avoid harm to 
     national security interests of the United States. The 
     Secretary of Defense shall transmit to Congress, and 
     simultaneously make public, any determination under this 
     subsection not less than 15 business days before the contract 
     or subcontract addressed in the determination may be awarded.

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8084.  From within the funds appropriated for 
     operation and maintenance for the Defense Health Program in 
     this Act, up to $162,500,000, shall be available for transfer 
     to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans 
     Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund in accordance 
     with the provisions of section 1704 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, Public Law 111-84:  
     Provided, That for purposes of section 1704(b), the facility 
     operations funded are operations of the integrated Captain 
     James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, consisting of the 
     North Chicago Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Navy 
     Ambulatory Care Center, and supporting facilities designated 
     as a combined Federal medical facility as described by 
     section 706 of Public Law 110-417:  Provided further, That 
     additional funds may be transferred from funds appropriated 
     for operation and maintenance for the Defense Health Program 
     to the Joint Department of Defense-Department of Veterans 
     Affairs Medical Facility Demonstration Fund upon written 
     notification by the Secretary of Defense to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
     Senate.
       Sec. 8085.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used by the Department of 
     Defense or a component thereof in contravention of the 
     provisions of section 130h of title 10, United States Code.
       Sec. 8086.  Notwithstanding price or other limitations 
     applicable to the purchase of passenger carrying vehicles, 
     appropriations available to the Department of Defense may be 
     used for the purchase of: (1) heavy and light armored 
     vehicles for the physical security of personnel or for force 
     protection purposes up to a limit of $450,000 per vehicle; 
     and (2) passenger motor vehicles up to a limit of $75,000 per 
     vehicle for use by military and civilian employees of the 
     Department of Defense in the United States Central Command 
     area of responsibility.

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8087.  Upon a determination by the Director of 
     National Intelligence that such action is necessary and in 
     the national interest, the Director may, with the approval of 
     the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, transfer 
     not to exceed $1,500,000,000 of the funds made available in 
     this Act for the National Intelligence Program:  Provided, 
     That such authority to transfer may not be used unless for 
     higher priority items, based on unforeseen intelligence 
     requirements, than those for which originally appropriated 
     and in no case where the item for which funds are requested 
     has been denied by the Congress:  Provided further, That a 
     request for multiple reprogrammings of funds using authority 
     provided in this section shall be made prior to June 30, 
     2025.
       Sec. 8088.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act for 
     ``Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy'', $204,939,000, to 
     remain available for obligation until September 30, 2029, may 
     be used for the purchase of two used sealift vessels for the 
     National Defense Reserve Fleet, established under section 11 
     of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of

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     1946 (46 U.S.C. 57100):  Provided, That such amounts are 
     available for reimbursements to the Ready Reserve Force, 
     Maritime Administration account of the United States 
     Department of Transportation for programs, projects, 
     activities, and expenses related to the National Defense 
     Reserve Fleet:  Provided further, That notwithstanding 
     section 2218 of title 10, United States Code, none of these 
     funds shall be transferred to the National Defense Sealift 
     Fund for execution.
       Sec. 8089.  The Secretary of Defense shall post grant 
     awards on a public website in a searchable format.
       Sec. 8090.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used by the National Security Agency to--
       (1) conduct an acquisition pursuant to section 702 of the 
     Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for the purpose 
     of targeting a United States person; or
       (2) acquire, monitor, or store the contents (as such term 
     is defined in section 2510(8) of title 18, United States 
     Code) of any electronic communication of a United States 
     person from a provider of electronic communication services 
     to the public pursuant to section 501 of the Foreign 
     Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
       Sec. 8091.  None of the funds made available in this or any 
     other Act may be used to pay the salary of any officer or 
     employee of any agency funded by this Act who approves or 
     implements the transfer of administrative responsibilities or 
     budgetary resources of any program, project, or activity 
     financed by this Act to the jurisdiction of another Federal 
     agency not financed by this Act without the express 
     authorization of Congress:  Provided, That this limitation 
     shall not apply to transfers of funds expressly provided for 
     in Department of Defense Appropriations Acts, or provisions 
     of Acts providing supplemental appropriations for the 
     Department of Defense.
       Sec. 8092.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act for 
     ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', $769,047,000, to remain 
     available until expended, may be used for any purposes 
     related to the National Defense Reserve Fleet established 
     under section 11 of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 (46 
     U.S.C. 57100):  Provided, That such amounts are available for 
     reimbursements to the Ready Reserve Force, Maritime 
     Administration account of the United States Department of 
     Transportation for programs, projects, activities, and 
     expenses related to the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
       Sec. 8093. (a) None of the funds provided in this Act for 
     the TAO Fleet Oiler program shall be used to award a new 
     contract that provides for the acquisition of the following 
     components unless those components are manufactured in the 
     United States: Auxiliary equipment (including pumps) for 
     shipboard services; propulsion equipment (including engines, 
     reduction gears, and propellers); shipboard cranes; spreaders 
     for shipboard cranes; and anchor chains, specifically for the 
     seventh and subsequent ships of the fleet.
       (b) None of the funds provided in this Act for the FFG(X) 
     Frigate program shall be used to award a new contract that 
     provides for the acquisition of the following components 
     unless those components are manufactured in the United 
     States: Air circuit breakers; gyrocompasses; electronic 
     navigation chart systems; steering controls; pumps; 
     propulsion and machinery control systems; totally enclosed 
     lifeboats; auxiliary equipment pumps; shipboard cranes; 
     auxiliary chill water systems; and propulsion propellers:  
     Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall incorporate 
     United States manufactured propulsion engines and propulsion 
     reduction gears into the FFG(X) Frigate program beginning not 
     later than with the eleventh ship of the program.
       Sec. 8094.  None of the funds provided in this Act for 
     requirements development, performance specification 
     development, concept design and development, ship 
     configuration development, systems engineering, naval 
     architecture, marine engineering, operations research 
     analysis, industry studies, preliminary design, development 
     of the Detailed Design and Construction Request for Proposals 
     solicitation package, or related activities for the T-ARC(X) 
     Cable Laying and Repair Ship or the T-AGOS(X) Oceanographic 
     Surveillance Ship may be used to award a new contract for 
     such activities unless these contracts include specifications 
     that all auxiliary equipment, including pumps and propulsion 
     shafts, are manufactured in the United States.
       Sec. 8095.  No amounts credited or otherwise made available 
     in this or any other Act to the Department of Defense 
     Acquisition Workforce Development Account may be transferred 
     to:
       (1) the Rapid Prototyping Fund established under section 
     804(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 2016 (10 U.S.C. 2302 note); or
       (2) credited to a military-department specific fund 
     established under section 804(d)(2) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (as amended by section 
     897 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     2017).
       Sec. 8096.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used for Government Travel Charge Card expenses by 
     military or civilian personnel of the Department of Defense 
     for gaming, or for entertainment that includes topless or 
     nude entertainers or participants, as prohibited by 
     Department of Defense Instruction 1015.10 (enclosures 3 and 
     14b).
       Sec. 8097. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to maintain or 
     establish a computer network unless such network is designed 
     to block access to pornography websites.
       (b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of funds 
     necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
     enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out criminal 
     investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities, or 
     for any activity necessary for the national defense, 
     including intelligence activities.
       Sec. 8098.  None of the funds provided for, or otherwise 
     made available, in this or any other Act, may be obligated or 
     expended by the Secretary of Defense to provide motorized 
     vehicles, aviation platforms, munitions other than small arms 
     and munitions appropriate for customary ceremonial honors, 
     operational military units, or operational military platforms 
     if the Secretary determines that providing such units, 
     platforms, or equipment would undermine the readiness of such 
     units, platforms, or equipment.
       Sec. 8099. (a) None of the funds made available by this or 
     any other Act may be used to enter into a contract, 
     memorandum of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, 
     make a grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any 
     corporation that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that 
     has been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
     remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that is not 
     being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement with 
     the authority responsible for collecting such tax liability, 
     provided that the applicable Federal agency is aware of the 
     unpaid Federal tax liability.
       (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply if the applicable 
     Federal agency has considered suspension or debarment of the 
     corporation described in such subsection and has made a 
     determination that such suspension or debarment is not 
     necessary to protect the interests of the Federal Government.
       Sec. 8100. (a) Amounts appropriated under title IV of this 
     Act, as detailed in budget activity eight in the tables 
     titled Explanation of Project Level Adjustments in the 
     explanatory statement regarding this Act, may be used for 
     expenses for the agile research, development, test and 
     evaluation, procurement, production, modification, and 
     operation and maintenance, only for the following Software 
     and Digital Technology Pilot programs--
       (1) Defensive CYBER (PE 0608041A);
       (2) Risk Management Information (PE 0608013N);
       (3) Maritime Tactical Command and Control (PE 0608231N);
       (4) Space Domain Awareness/Planning/Tasking SW (PE 
     1208248SF);
       (5) Global Command and Control System (PE 0303150K);
       (6) Acquisition Visibility (PE 0608648D8Z); and
       (7) Cyber Operations Technology Support (PE 0306250JCY).
       (b) None of the funds appropriated by this or prior 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Acts may be obligated or 
     expended to initiate additional Software and Digital 
     Technology Pilot Programs in fiscal year 2025.
       Sec. 8101.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to transfer the 
     National Reconnaissance Office to the Space Force:  Provided, 
     That nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit or 
     prohibit cooperation, collaboration, and coordination between 
     the National Reconnaissance Office and the Space Force or any 
     other elements of the Department of Defense.
       Sec. 8102.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to transfer any 
     Federal mission, covered member of the National Guard (as 
     defined in section 1733(g) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31)), 
     or covered space function of the National Guard (as defined 
     in section 924(e) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31)), from the National 
     Guard to the United States Space Force in contravention of 
     section 104 of title 32, United States Code, or section 18238 
     of title 10, United States Code.
       Sec. 8103.  None of the funds made available in this Act 
     may be used in contravention of the following laws enacted or 
     regulations promulgated to implement the United Nations 
     Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or 
     Degrading Treatment or Punishment (done at New York on 
     December 10, 1984):
       (1) Section 2340A of title 18, United States Code.
       (2) Section 2242 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and 
     Restructuring Act of 1998 (division G of Public Law 105-277; 
     112 Stat. 2681-822; 8 U.S.C. 1231 note) and regulations 
     prescribed thereto, including regulations under part 208 of 
     title 8, Code of Federal Regulations, and part 95 of title 
     22, Code of Federal Regulations.
       (3) Sections 1002 and 1003 of the Department of Defense, 
     Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes 
     in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 
     (Public Law 109-148).
       Sec. 8104.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to provide arms, 
     training, intelligence, or other assistance to the Azov 
     Battalion, the Third Separate Assault Brigade, or any 
     successor organization.
       Sec. 8105.  During the current fiscal year, the Department 
     of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of not to 
     exceed $350,000,000 for purposes specified in section 
     2350j(c) of title 10, United States Code, in anticipation of 
     receipt of contributions, only from the Government of Kuwait, 
     under that section:  Provided, That, such contributions 
     shall, upon receipt, be credited to the appropriations or 
     fund which incurred such obligations.
       Sec. 8106.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under 
     the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', for 
     the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, $1,423,630,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2026, shall be available 
     for International Security Cooperation Programs and other 
     programs to provide support and assistance to foreign 
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     groups or individuals to conduct, support or facilitate 
     counterterrorism, crisis response, or building partner 
     capacity programs:  Provided, That the Secretary of Defense 
     shall, not less than 15 days prior to obligating funds made 
     available in this section, notify the congressional defense 
     committees in writing of the details of any planned 
     obligation:  Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 
     shall provide quarterly reports to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     on the use and status of funds made available in this 
     section.
       Sec. 8107.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under 
     the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', for 
     the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, $61,406,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2026, shall be for 
     payments to reimburse key cooperating nations for logistical, 
     military, and other support, including access, provided to 
     United States military and stability operations to counter 
     the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria:  Provided, That such 
     reimbursement payments may be made in such amounts as the 
     Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary 
     of State, and in consultation with the Director of the Office 
     of Management and Budget, may determine, based on 
     documentation determined by the Secretary of Defense to 
     adequately account for the support provided, and such 
     determination is final and conclusive upon the accounting 
     officers of the United States, and 15 days following written 
     notification to the appropriate congressional committees:  
     Provided further, That these funds may be used for the 
     purpose of providing specialized training and procuring 
     supplies and specialized equipment and providing such 
     supplies and loaning such equipment on a non-reimbursable 
     basis to coalition forces supporting United States military 
     and stability operations to counter the Islamic State of Iraq 
     and Syria, and 15 days following written notification to the 
     appropriate congressional committees:  Provided further, That 
     the Secretary of Defense shall provide quarterly reports to 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate on the use and status of funds 
     made available in this section.
       Sec. 8108.  Of the amounts appropriated in this Act under 
     the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', for 
     the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, $380,000,000, to 
     remain available until September 30, 2026, shall be available 
     for support authorized by subparagraphs (A) through (E) of 
     section 1226(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2016 (22 U.S.C. 2151 note), of which not less 
     than $150,000,000 shall be for support authorized by 
     subparagraph (A) of such section:  Provided, That the 
     Secretary of Defense shall, not less than 15 days prior to 
     obligating funds made available in this section, notify the 
     congressional defense committees in writing of the details of 
     any planned obligation and the nature of the expenses 
     incurred:  Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense 
     shall provide quarterly reports to the Committees on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
     on the use and status of funds made available in this 
     section.
       Sec. 8109.  The Secretary of Defense shall, not less than 
     15 days prior to taking any action to pause, suspend, or 
     eliminate assistance to a country made available by this Act 
     or prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of 
     Defense, notify the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives and the Senate.
       Sec. 8110.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used in contravention of 
     the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.).
       Sec. 8111.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act for excess defense articles, 
     assistance under section 333 of title 10, United States Code, 
     or peacekeeping operations for the countries designated 
     annually to be in violation of the standards of the Child 
     Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-457; 22 
     U.S.C. 2370c-1) may be used to support any military training 
     or operation that includes child soldiers, as defined by the 
     Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008, unless such assistance 
     is otherwise permitted under section 404 of the Child 
     Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008.
       Sec. 8112.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be made available for any 
     member of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Taliban.
       Sec. 8113.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be made available for the 
     United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
       Sec. 8114.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
     transfer of funds, appropriated or otherwise made available 
     by this Act, for support to friendly foreign countries in 
     connection with the conduct of operations in which the United 
     States is not participating, pursuant to section 331(d) of 
     title 10, United States Code, shall be made in accordance 
     with section 8005 of this Act.
       Sec. 8115. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this or any other Act may be used by the 
     Secretary of Defense, or any other official or officer of the 
     Department of Defense, to enter into a contract, memorandum 
     of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, or make a 
     grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to 
     Rosoboronexport or any subsidiary of Rosoboronexport.
       (b) The Secretary of Defense may waive the limitation in 
     subsection (a) if the Secretary, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence, 
     determines that it is in the vital national security interest 
     of the United States to do so, and certifies in writing to 
     the congressional defense committees that--
       (1) Rosoboronexport has ceased the transfer of lethal 
     military equipment to, and the maintenance of existing lethal 
     military equipment for, the Government of the Syrian Arab 
     Republic;
       (2) the armed forces of the Russian Federation have 
     withdrawn from Ukraine; and
       (3) agents of the Russian Federation have ceased taking 
     active measures to destabilize the control of the Government 
     of Ukraine over eastern Ukraine.
       (c) The Inspector General of the Department of Defense 
     shall conduct a review of any action involving 
     Rosoboronexport with respect to a waiver issued by the 
     Secretary of Defense pursuant to subsection (b), and not 
     later than 90 days after the date on which such a waiver is 
     issued by the Secretary of Defense, the Inspector General 
     shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
     containing the results of the review conducted with respect 
     to such waiver.
       Sec. 8116.  The Secretary of Defense shall notify the 
     congressional defense committees in writing not more than 30 
     days after the receipt of any contribution of funds received 
     from the government of a foreign country for any purpose 
     relating to the stationing or operations of the United States 
     Armed Forces:  Provided, That such notification shall include 
     the amount of the contribution; the purpose for which such 
     contribution was made; and the authority under which such 
     contribution was accepted by the Secretary of Defense:  
     Provided further, That not fewer than 15 days prior to 
     obligating such funds, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to the congressional defense committees in writing a 
     notification of the planned use of such contributions, 
     including whether such contributions would support existing 
     or new stationing or operations of the United States Armed 
     Forces.
       Sec. 8117. (a) The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in 
     coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments 
     and the Chiefs of the Armed Forces, shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees, not later than 30 days 
     after the last day of each quarter of the fiscal year, a 
     report on the use of operation and maintenance funds for 
     activities or exercises in excess of $5,000,000 that have 
     been designated by the Secretary of Defense as unplanned 
     activities for fiscal year 2025.
       (b) Each report required by subsection (a) shall also 
     include--
       (1) the title, date, and location, of each activity and 
     exercise covered by the report;
       (2) an identification of the military department and units 
     that participated in each such activity or exercise 
     (including an estimate of the number of participants);
       (3) the total cost of the activity or exercise, by budget 
     line item (with a breakdown by cost element such as 
     transportation); and
       (4) a short explanation of the objective of the activity or 
     exercise.
       (c) The report required by subsection (a) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
     annex.
       Sec. 8118.  Concurrent with any exercise of the drawdown 
     authority provided by Section 506 of the Foreign Assistance 
     Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2318), the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit a written report to the Committees on Appropriations 
     of the House of Representatives and the Senate that contains 
     a description of the defense articles and defense services to 
     be furnished, including the quantity, approximate value, and 
     a timeline for the delivery of such defense articles and 
     defense services, as well as an estimate of the cost to 
     replace such article or an equivalent capability.
       Sec. 8119.  Not later than 15 days after the date on which 
     any foreign base that involves the stationing or operations 
     of the United States Armed Forces, including a temporary 
     base, permanent base, or base owned and operated by a foreign 
     country, is opened or closed, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     notify the congressional defense committees in writing of the 
     opening or closing of such base:  Provided, That such 
     notification shall also include information on any personnel 
     changes, costs, and savings associated with the opening or 
     closing of such base.
       Sec. 8120.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this or any other Act shall be obligated or 
     expended by the United States Government for any of the 
     following purposes:
       (1) To establish any military installation or base for the 
     purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United 
     States Armed Forces in Iraq.
       (2) To exercise United States control over any oil resource 
     of Iraq or Syria.
       Sec. 8121.  Up to $500,000,000 of the funds appropriated by 
     this Act under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, 
     Defense-Wide'' for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency 
     may be used to support the armed forces of Jordan.
       Sec. 8122.  Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, United States Southern Command shall 
     assume combatant command responsibility for activities 
     related to Mexico.
       Sec. 8123.  The total amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in title II of this Act is hereby reduced by 
     $500,000,000 to limit excessive growth in the procurement of 
     advisory and assistance services, as follows:
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', $138,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', $68,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps'', $52,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force'', $77,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Space Force'', $9,500,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', $143,000,000; 
     and
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard'', 
     $12,500,000:
       Provided, That this section shall not apply to 
     appropriations for the National Intelligence Program and 
     Military Intelligence Program.

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       Sec. 8124.  The total amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in title II of this Act is hereby reduced by 
     $100,000,000 to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies 
     and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous 
     or other contracts in the military departments, as follows:
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', $21,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', $25,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps'', $3,500,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force'', $22,000,000;
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Space Force'', $1,700,000; and
       ``Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide'', $26,800,000:
       Provided, That this section shall not apply to 
     appropriations for the National Intelligence Program and 
     Military Intelligence Program.
       Sec. 8125.  The amounts appropriated in title II of this 
     Act are hereby reduced by $300,000,000 to reflect excess cash 
     balances in Department of Defense Working Capital Funds, as 
     follows:
       (1) From ``Operation and Maintenance, Army'', $150,000,000; 
     and
       (2) From ``Operation and Maintenance, Navy'', $150,000,000.
       Sec. 8126.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     Act, to reflect savings due to favorable foreign exchange 
     rates, the total amount appropriated in this Act is hereby 
     reduced by $250,000,000.
       Sec. 8127. (a) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall allocate amounts made available 
     from the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce 
     Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Defense Fund for fiscal 
     year 2025 pursuant to the transfer authority in section 
     102(b)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of Public Law 
     117-167), to the account specified, in the amounts specified, 
     and for the projects and activities specified, in the table 
     titled ``Department of Defense Allocation of Funds: CHIPS and 
     Science Act Fiscal Year 2025'' in the explanatory statement 
     regarding this Act.
       (b) Neither the President nor his designee may allocate any 
     amounts that are made available for any fiscal year under 
     section 102(b)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 if there is in 
     effect an Act making or continuing appropriations for part of 
     a fiscal year for the Department of Defense:  Provided, That 
     in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso shall 
     not apply to the allocation, apportionment, or allotment of 
     amounts for continuing administration of programs allocated 
     using funds transferred from the CHIPS for America Defense 
     Fund, which may be allocated pursuant to the transfer 
     authority in section 102(b)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 only 
     in amounts that are no more than the allocation for such 
     purposes in subsection (a) of this section.
       (c) The Secretary of Defense may reallocate funds allocated 
     by subsection (a) of this section, subject to the terms and 
     conditions contained in the provisos in section 8005 of this 
     Act:  Provided, That amounts may be reallocated pursuant to 
     this subsection only for those requirements necessary to 
     carry out section 9903(b) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 
     (Public Law 116-283).
       (d) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of the 
     President for fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
     of Representatives and the Senate proposed allocations by 
     account and by program, project, or activity, with detailed 
     justifications, for amounts made available under section 
     102(b)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for fiscal year 2026.
       (e) The Department of Defense shall provide the Committees 
     on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 
     quarterly reports on the status of balances of projects and 
     activities funded by the CHIPS for America Defense Fund for 
     amounts allocated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, 
     including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated funds.
       Sec. 8128.  In carrying out the program described in the 
     memorandum on the subject of ``Policy for Assisted 
     Reproductive Services for the Benefit of Seriously or 
     Severely Ill/Injured (Category II or III) Active Duty Service 
     Members'' issued by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
     Health Affairs on April 3, 2012, and the guidance issued to 
     implement such memorandum, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     apply such policy and guidance, except that--
       (1) the limitation on periods regarding embryo 
     cryopreservation and storage set forth in part III(G) and in 
     part IV(H) of such memorandum shall not apply; and
       (2) the term ``assisted reproductive technology'' shall 
     include embryo cryopreservation and storage without 
     limitation on the duration of such cryopreservation and 
     storage.
       Sec. 8129.  The Secretary of Defense may obligate funds 
     made available in this Act for procurement or for research, 
     development, test and evaluation for the F-35 Joint Strike 
     Fighter to modify up to six F-35 aircraft, including up to 
     two F-35 aircraft of each variant, to a test configuration:  
     Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall, with the 
     concurrence of the Secretary of the Air Force and the 
     Secretary of the Navy, notify the congressional defense 
     committees not fewer than 30 days prior to obligating funds 
     under this section:  Provided further, That any transfer of 
     funds pursuant to the authority provided in this section 
     shall be made in accordance with section 8005 of this Act.
       Sec. 8130.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this or any other Act may be obligated to 
     integrate an alternative engine on any F-35 aircraft.
       Sec. 8131.  The Secretary of Defense may use up to 
     $650,000,000 of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
     available in this Act to the Department of Defense for the 
     rapid acquisition and deployment of supplies and associated 
     support services pursuant to section 3601 of title 10, United 
     States Code, but only for the purposes specified in clauses 
     (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) of subsection (c)(3)(B) of such 
     section and subject to the applicable limits specified in 
     clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of such subsection and, in the 
     case of clause (iv) of such subsection, subject to a limit of 
     $50,000,000, or for the purposes specified in section 229 of 
     the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 
     (Public Law 118-31) and subject to a limit of $100,000,000:  
     Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall notify the 
     congressional defense committees promptly of all uses of this 
     authority.
       Sec. 8132.  There is appropriated to the ``Department of 
     Defense Credit Program Account'' established pursuant to 
     section 903(b)(5) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31), $89,049,000, to 
     remain available until expended, for the cost of loans and 
     loan guarantees pursuant to section 903(b) of such Act for a 
     pilot program on capital assistance to support defense 
     investment in the industrial base, of which up to $7,900,000 
     may be used for administrative expenses to carry out the 
     capital assistance and technical assistance programs 
     authorized by such section:  Provided, That such costs, 
     including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
     defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
     1974:  Provided further, That such amounts are available to 
     subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of 
     direct loans, and total loan principal, any part of which is 
     to be guaranteed, not to exceed $8,000,000,000: Provided 
     further, That the Secretary of Defense may assess 
     administrative fees to recover all, or a portion, of the 
     costs to administer loan and loan guarantees authorized under 
     such section 903(b), and may credit fee receipts to the 
     Department of Defense Credit Program Account, to be available 
     until expended to cover such expenses:  Provided further, 
     That, for the purposes of carrying out the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974, the Director of the Congressional Budget 
     Office may request, and the Secretary shall promptly provide, 
     documentation and information relating to a project 
     identified by the Department of Defense pursuant to a Notice 
     of Funding Availability for applications for credit 
     assistance under such section 903(b).
       Sec. 8133.  Notwithstanding section 8055 of this Act, 
     amounts appropriated under the heading ``Research, 
     Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide'' of this Act, 
     as detailed in budget activity eight in the tables titled 
     Explanation of Project Level Adjustments in the explanatory 
     statement regarding this Act for ``Defense Innovation Unit 
     (DIU) Fielding'' line 294A, that exceed the amounts requested 
     may be used for expenses for agile research, development, 
     test and evaluation, procurement, production, modification, 
     and operation and maintenance requirements, including the 
     initial acquisition of end-items for operational use:  
     Provided, That none of these funds may be obligated or 
     expended until 15 days after the Secretary of Defense 
     provides the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate a detailed execution plan for 
     such funds.
       Sec. 8134.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to support, directly 
     or indirectly, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any 
     laboratory owned or controlled by the governments of the 
     People's Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Islamic 
     Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 
     the Russian Federation, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 
     under the Maduro regime, or any other country determined by 
     the Secretary of Defense, with the concurrence of the 
     Secretary of State, to be a foreign adversary.
       Sec. 8135.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to fund any work to be 
     performed by EcoHealth Alliance, Inc.
       Sec. 8136.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available in this or any other Act may be used to 
     transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or 
     within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
     Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who--
       (1) is not a United States citizen or a member of the Armed 
     Forces of the United States; and
       (2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at United 
     States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Department 
     of Defense.
       Sec. 8137.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available in this Act may be used to transfer any 
     individual detained at United States Naval Station Guantanamo 
     Bay, Cuba, to the custody or control of the individual's 
     country of origin, any other foreign country, or any other 
     foreign entity except in accordance with section 1034 of the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 
     (Public Law 114-92) and section 1035 of the John S. McCain 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 
     (Public Law 115-232).
       Sec. 8138. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available in this or any other Act may be used to 
     construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 
     States, its territories, or possessions to house any 
     individual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of 
     detention or imprisonment in the custody or under the 
     effective control of the Department of Defense.
       (b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to 
     any modification of facilities at United States Naval 
     Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
       (c) An individual described in this subsection is any 
     individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 
     States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who--
       (1) is not a citizen of the United States or a member of 
     the Armed Forces of the United States; and
       (2) is--
       (A) in the custody or under the effective control of the 
     Department of Defense; or

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       (B) otherwise under detention at United States Naval 
     Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
       Sec. 8139.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
     may be used to carry out the closure or realignment of the 
     United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
       Sec. 8140.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be made available to remove a 
     Chinese military company from the list required by section 
     1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283), except in accordance with 
     subsection (b)(3) of such section and 15 days following 
     written notification to the congressional defense committees.
       Sec. 8141.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to enforce any COVID-
     19 mask mandates.
       Sec. 8142.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to require a member of 
     the Armed Forces or a civilian employee of the Department of 
     Defense to receive a vaccination against COVID-19.
       Sec. 8143.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to require vaccination 
     against COVID-19 as a prerequisite for student attendance at 
     a Department of Defense Education Activity school.
       Sec. 8144.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used, with regards to a 
     member of the Armed Forces with a minor dependent child 
     enrolled in an Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP)--
       (1) to provide gender transition procedures, including 
     surgery or medication, to such child through such EFMP;
       (2) to provide a referral for a procedure described in 
     paragraph (1) to such child through such EFMP; or
       (3) to approve a change of duty station for such member 
     through such EFMP for the purpose of providing such child 
     with access to procedures described in paragraph (1).
       Sec. 8145. (a) In General.--Notwithstanding section 7 of 
     title 1, United States Code, section 1738C of title 28, 
     United States Code, or any other provision of law, none of 
     the funds provided by this Act, or previous appropriations 
     Acts, shall be used in whole or in part to take any 
     discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially, 
     on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance 
     with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction, 
     that marriage is, or should be recognized as, a union of one 
     man and one woman.
       (b) Discriminatory Action Defined.--As used in subsection 
     (a), a discriminatory action means any action taken by the 
     Federal Government to--
       (1) alter in any way the Federal tax treatment of, or cause 
     any tax, penalty, or payment to be assessed against, or deny, 
     delay, or revoke an exemption from taxation under section 
     501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of, any person 
     referred to in subsection (a);
       (2) disallow a deduction for Federal tax purposes of any 
     charitable contribution made to or by such person;
       (3) withhold, reduce the amount or funding for, exclude, 
     terminate, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, any Federal 
     grant, contract, subcontract, cooperative agreement, 
     guarantee, loan, scholarship, license, certification, 
     accreditation, employment, or other similar position or 
     status from or to such person;
       (4) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make 
     unavailable or deny, any entitlement or benefit under a 
     Federal benefit program, including admission to, equal 
     treatment in, or eligibility for a degree from an educational 
     program, from or to such person; or
       (5) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, or otherwise make 
     unavailable or deny access or an entitlement to Federal 
     property, facilities, educational institutions, speech fora 
     (including traditional, limited, and nonpublic fora), or 
     charitable fundraising campaigns from or to such person.
       (c) Accreditation; Licensure; Certification.--The Federal 
     Government shall consider accredited, licensed, or certified 
     for purposes of Federal law any person that would be 
     accredited, licensed, or certified, respectively, for such 
     purposes but for a determination against such person wholly 
     or partially on the basis that the person speaks, or acts, in 
     accordance with a sincerely held religious belief or moral 
     conviction described in subsection (a).
       Sec. 8146.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to grant, renew, or 
     maintain a security clearance for any individual listed as a 
     signatory in the statement titled ``Public Statement on the 
     Hunter Biden Emails'' dated October 19, 2020.
       Sec. 8147.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to--
       (1) classify or facilitate the classification of any 
     communications by a United States person as mis-, dis-, or 
     mal- information; or
       (2) partner with or fund nonprofit or other organizations 
     that pressure or recommend private companies to censor lawful 
     and constitutionally protected speech of United States 
     persons, including recommending the censoring or removal of 
     content on social media platforms.
       Sec. 8148.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to carry out any 
     program, project, or activity that promotes or advances 
     Critical Race Theory, any concept associated with Critical 
     Race Theory, or that teaches or trains any idea or concept 
     that condones an individual being discriminated against or 
     receiving adverse or beneficial treatment based on race or 
     sex, that condones an individual feeling discomfort, guilt, 
     anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on 
     account of that individual's race or sex, as well as any idea 
     or concept that regards one race as inherently superior to 
     another race, the United States or its institutions as being 
     systemically racist or sexist, an individual as being 
     inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive by virtue of that 
     individual's race or sex, an individual's moral character as 
     being necessarily determined by race or sex, an individual as 
     bearing responsibility for actions committed in the past by 
     other members of the same race or sex, or meritocracy being 
     racist, sexist, or having been created by a particular race 
     to oppress another race.
       Sec. 8149.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to finalize, 
     promulgate, or implement the rule proposed by the Department 
     of Defense titled ``Federal Acquisition Regulation: 
     Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related 
     Financial Risk'' (87 Fed. Reg. 68312; November 14, 2022), or 
     to propose, promulgate, or implement any substantially 
     similar rule or policy.
       Sec. 8150.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act shall be used to implement, 
     administer, or otherwise carry out the Department of Defense 
     memorandum dated October 20, 2022, or any successor to such 
     memorandum, or to propose, promulgate, or implement any 
     substantially similar rule or policy.
       Sec. 8151.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used or transferred to 
     another Federal agency, board, or commission to recruit, 
     hire, or promote any person who has been convicted of a 
     Federal or State child pornography charge, has been convicted 
     of any other Federal or State sexual assault charge, or has 
     been formally disciplined for using Federal resources to 
     access, use, or sell child pornography.
       Sec. 8152.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to promote, host, 
     facilitate, or support events on United States military 
     installations or as part of military recruiting programs that 
     violate the Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation or 
     bring discredit upon the military, such as a drag queen story 
     hour for children or the use of drag queens as military 
     recruiters.
       Sec. 8153.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used for surgical 
     procedures or hormone therapies for the purposes of gender 
     affirming care.
       Sec. 8154.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to carry out section 
     147 of title 10, United States Code, and sections 554(a) and 
     913(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283).
       Sec. 8155.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to implement, 
     administer, apply, enforce, or carry out the Diversity, 
     Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan of the 
     Department of Defense, or Executive Order 13985 of January 
     20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial 
     equity and support for under-served communities through the 
     Federal Government), Executive Order 14035 of June 25, 2021 
     (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, equity, 
     inclusion, and accessibility in the Federal workforce), 
     Executive Order 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 
     10825, relating to further advancing racial equity and 
     support for underserved communities through the Federal 
     government), or shall be used to execute activities that 
     promote or perpetuate divisive concepts related to race or 
     sex, such as the concepts that one race or sex is inherently 
     superior to another, or that an individual's moral character 
     or worth is determined by their race or sex.
       Sec. 8156.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to pay for the costs 
     of teleworking or remote working for any employee or 
     contractor of the Department of Defense on a regular and 
     recurring basis.
       Sec. 8157.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to provide assistance 
     to the Department of Homeland Security to house persons on a 
     military installation located in the United States.
       Sec. 8158.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used for any office of 
     diversity, equity, or inclusion.
       Sec. 8159.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be made available to NewsGuard 
     Technologies Inc.
       Sec. 8160.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to implement any of 
     the following executive orders:
       (1) Executive Order No. 13990, relating to Protecting 
     Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To 
     Tackle the Climate Crisis.
       (2) Executive Order No. 14008, relating to Tackling the 
     Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.
       (3) Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, relating to 
     Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle Refugees and 
     Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration.
       (4) Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Climate-Related 
     Financial Risk.
       (5) Executive Order No. 14057, relating to Catalyzing Clean 
     Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.
       (6) Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Implementation 
     of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation 
     Reduction Act of 2022.
       (7) Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Revitalizing Our 
     Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.
       Sec. 8161.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used in contravention of 
     Department of Defense Instruction 3216.01, ``Use of Animals 
     in DoD Conducted and Supported Research and Training'', dated 
     March 20, 2019.
       Sec. 8162.  From amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by title II of this Act

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     under the heading ``Operation and Maintenance, Air Force'', 
     the Secretary of Defense may reimburse the Federated States 
     of Micronesia in an amount not to exceed $34,000,000 for land 
     acquisition costs for defense sites in Yap: Provided, That 
     the Secretary shall, not less than 15 days prior to making 
     such reimbursement, notify the Committees on Appropriations 
     of the House of Representatives and the Senate in writing of 
     the details of any proposed reimbursement.
       Sec. 8163.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to divest or prepare 
     to divest any U-2 aircraft.
       Sec. 8164.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used to divest or prepare 
     to divest any F-15 aircraft unless the Secretary of Defense 
     certifies to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate that such aircraft will be 
     replaced in a manner that maintains the current total 
     aircraft assigned at a given unit and the readiness of such 
     unit.

                     (including transfer of funds)

       Sec. 8165.  The Secretary of Defense may transfer funds 
     from any available Department of the Navy appropriation 
     (except military construction) to any available Navy ship 
     construction appropriation for the purpose of liquidating 
     necessary changes resulting from inflation, market 
     fluctuations, or rate adjustments for any ship construction 
     program appropriated in law: Provided, That the Secretary may 
     transfer not to exceed $20,000,000 under the authority 
     provided by this section: Provided further, That the 
     Secretary shall, not less than 30 days prior to the transfer 
     of any funds, notify the Committees on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate in writing of the 
     details of any proposed transfer: Provided further, That any 
     funds transferred pursuant to this section shall retain the 
     same period of availability as when originally appropriated: 
     Provided further, That the transfer authority provided under 
     this section is in addition to any other transfer authority 
     provided elsewhere in this Act.
       Sec. 8166. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be made available to withhold, 
     halt, reverse, or cancel the delivery of defense articles or 
     defense services from the United States to Israel.
       (b) Any defense article and defense service withheld from 
     delivery to Israel by the Department of Defense as of the 
     date of the enactment of this Act shall be delivered to 
     Israel not later than 15 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act.
       (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall obligate any remaining unobligated 
     balances of funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
     before the date of the enactment of this Act for the 
     Department of Defense for assistance for Israel not later 
     than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       Sec. 8167.  None of the funds made available by this Act or 
     any other Act may be made available for--
       (1) The Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore capabilities in the 
     vicinity of Gaza; or
       (2) The construction, assembly, maintenance, or operation, 
     of any pier, dock, landing, wharf, or any other structure in 
     the vicinity of Gaza.
       Sec. 8168.  None of the funds made available by this Act or 
     any other Act may be used for hiring practices based on 
     gender, religion, political affiliation, or race.
       Sec. 8169.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
     made available by this Act may be used in contravention of 
     section 1052 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2024.

                       spending reduction account

       Sec. 8170.  $0.
       This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Defense 
     Appropriations Act, 2025''.

  The Acting CHAIR. No further amendment to the bill, as amended, shall 
be in order except those printed in part A of House Report 118-559, 
amendments en bloc described in section 3 of House Resolution 1316, and 
pro forma amendments described in section 4 of that resolution.
  Each further amendment printed in part A of the report shall be 
considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 
by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, 
shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided 
and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject 
to amendment except as provided by section 4 of House Resolution 1316, 
and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
  It shall be in order at any time for the chair of the Committee on 
Appropriations or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting 
of further amendments printed in part A of House Report 118-559 not 
earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to section 3 
of House Resolution 1316 shall be considered as read, shall be 
debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their 
respective designees, shall not be subject to amendment except as 
described in section 4 of House Resolution 1316, and shall not be 
subject to a demand for division of the question.
  During consideration of the bill for amendment, the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations or their respective 
designees may offer up to 10 pro forma amendments each at any point for 
the purpose of debate.


     Amendments En Bloc No. 1 Offered by Mr. Calvert of California

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, pursuant to House Resolution 1316, 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. 3, 6, 14, 18, 
28, 31, 34, 42, 43, 44, 59, 75, 76, 80, 88, 89, 93, 95, 98, 99, 102, 
104, 117, 119, 124, 125, 131, 134, 141, 143, 144, 146, 149, 155, 160, 
161, 162, 182, 184, 185, 186, and 189, printed in part A of House 
Report 118-559, offered by Mr. Calvert of California:

           AMENDMENT NO. 3 OFFERED BY MR. AMO OF RHODE ISLAND

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $8,000,000) (reduced by $8,000,000)''.


            AMENDMENT NO. 6 OFFERED BY MR. BACON OF NEBRASKA

       Page 9, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 14 OFFERED BY MR. BILIRAKIS OF FLORIDA

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $4,500,000) (increased by $4,500,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 18 OFFERED BY MR. BUCHANAN OF FLORIDA

       Page 8, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 28 Offered by Ms. Castor of Florida

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 31 Offered by Mr. Cohen of Tennessee

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $8,000,000) (increased by $8,000,000)''.


        Amendment no. 34 Offered by Mr. Davis of North Carolina

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $8,000,000) (increased by $8,000,000)''.


            Amendment no. 42 Offered by Mr. Fallon of Texas

       Page 27, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $25,000,000) (increased by $25,000,000)''.


            Amendment no. 43 Offered by Mr. Fallon of Texas

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $26,000,000) (increased by $26,000,000)''.


            Amendment no. 44 Offered by Mr. Feenstra of Iowa

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


            Amendment no. 59 Offered by Mr. Hern of Oklahoma

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000)''.


        Amendment no. 75 Offered by Mr. Keating of Massachusetts

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 76 Offered by Mr. Kelly of Mississippi

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 80 Offered by Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia

       Page 9, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)(increased by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 88 Offered by Mr. LaLota of New York

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 89 Offered by Mr. LaLota of New York

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 93 Offered by Mr. Lamborn of Colorado

       Page 39, line 19, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $20,000,000)(increased by $20,000,000)''.


            Amendment No. 95 Offered by Mr. Landsman of Ohio

       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)(reduced by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 98 Offered by Mr. Lawler of New York

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''.


          Amendment no. 99 Offered by Ms. Letlow of Louisiana

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.

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          Amendment no. 102 Offered by Ms. Letlow of Louisiana

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $12,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 104 Offered by Mr. Luttrell of Texas

        Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment no. 117 Offered by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $8,500,000) (increased by $8,500,000)''.


            Amendment no. 119 Offered by Mr. Miller of Ohio

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 124 OFFERED BY MR. MILLS OF FLORIDA

       Page 38, line 9, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(decreased by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


         AMENDMENT NO. 125 OFFERED BY MR. MOLINARO OF NEW YORK

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


            AMENDMENT NO. 131 OFFERED BY MR. MOYLAN OF GUAM

       Page 36, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $800,000) (increased by $800,000)''.


    AMENDMENT NO. 134 OFFERED BY MS. NORTON OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $4,500,000) (reduced by $4,500,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 141 OFFERED BY MR. OGLES OF TENNESSEE

       Page 8, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 143 OFFERED BY MR. PENCE OF INDIANA

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


         AMENDMENT NO. 144 OFFERED BY MR. PETERS OF CALIFORNIA

       Page 24, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $5,800,000) (increased by $5,800,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 146 OFFERED BY MR. PFLUGER OF TEXAS

       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


        AMENDMENT NO. 149 OFFERED BY MR. AUSTIN SCOTT OF GEORGIA

       Page 8, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 155 OFFERED BY MR. STEIL OF WISCONSIN

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 160 OFFERED BY MR. STRONG OF ALABAMA

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 161 OFFERED BY MR. STRONG OF ALABAMA

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 162 OFFERED BY MR. STRONG OF ALABAMA

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 182 OFFERED BY MR. WENSTRUP OF OHIO

       Page 38, line 9, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $63,000,000) (increased by $63,000,000)''.


         AMENDMENT NO. 184 OFFERED BY MR. WILLIAMS OF NEW YORK

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $4,500,000) (reduced by $4,500,000)''.


       AMENDMENT NO. 185 OFFERED BY MR. WILSON OF SOUTH CAROLINA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


       AMENDMENT NO. 186 OFFERED BY MR. WILSON OF SOUTH CAROLINA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


       AMENDMENT NO. 189 OFFERED BY MR. WILSON OF SOUTH CAROLINA

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $15,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $15,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Calvert) and the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. 
McCollum) each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, these are noncontroversial messaging 
amendments supported by both sides. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I also support this amendment. As was 
stated, it contains a series of bipartisan amendments that are 
supported by Members on both sides. I have no objection and encourage 
the adoption of this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Amo).
  Mr. AMO. Mr. Chair, I hail from Rhode Island, the Ocean State. We 
know a thing or two about the sea and protecting our national security.
  Unmanned undersea vehicles, or underwater drones, have become an 
increasingly important tool in our national security arsenal. This 
technology plays a critical role in Ukraine's counterattacks against 
Russia's naval aggression and helps allies monitor activity throughout 
the Indo-Pacific. Underwater drones allow our Navy to conduct dangerous 
and covert missions without putting American lives directly at risk.
  As we look at our naval inventory, it is clear that the United States 
needs more underwater drones. We need them quickly, and we need them 
affordably.
  My amendment in this en bloc encourages the development of additive 
manufacturing of underwater drones.
  My other amendment that will be considered later encourages the 
development and enhancement of the payload capabilities of underwater 
drones. Our Ocean State is doing excellent work to train workers, 
develop technology, and produce many of our underwater drones.
  I am proud to lead these amendments that will support good-paying 
jobs in Rhode Island and advance our national security.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I have no other speakers, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of the package, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of my bipartisan 
Amendment No. 143, included in En Bloc 1.
  I would first like to thank my colleagues, Representatives Carson, 
Mrvan, and Donalds for cosponsoring this important amendment. It will 
provide additional funds, fully offset, for reducing critical risk and 
bolstering the power-producing capacity of the DoD's Transportable 
Microreactor program, which is set to deliver the nation's first 
advanced reactor into operation through Project PELE.
  Transportable nuclear technology, offering uninterrupted mission 
power in remote and strategically important locations, will not only 
strengthen operational resilience--it will save lives. As we learned in 
Iraq and Afghanistan, the necessity of hauling fuel into combat areas 
comes at a tremendous price.
  Able to operate for years without refueling, transportable reactors 
can untether America's warfighter and ensure credible operational 
resilience.
  I am thrilled that Rolls-Royce LibertyWorks in Indianapolis, Indiana 
is providing the Power Conversion Module and Heat Exchange Module for 
Project PELE and for the hundreds of Hoosier jobs this project 
supports.
  I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bipartisan En Bloc and 
support the underlying Defense Appropriations Bill.
  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Pfluger). The question is on the amendments en 
bloc offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert).
  The en bloc amendments were agreed to.


     Amendments En Bloc No. 2 Offered by Mr. Calvert of California

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, pursuant to House Resolution 1316, I offer 
amendments en bloc.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc.
  Amendments en bloc No. 2 consisting of amendment Nos. 2, 7, 10, 23, 
26, 27, 30, 45, 48, 54, 60, 67, 77, 81, 82, 86, 90, 91, 100, 101, 110, 
118, 120, 122, 132, 135, 142, 145, 151, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 169, 
180, 183, 187, 188, and 190, printed in part A of House Report 118-559, 
offered by Mr. Calvert of California:


           Amendment no. 2 Offered by Mr. Amo of Rhode Island

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $3,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000)''.

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            Amendment no. 7 Offered by Mr. Bacon of Nebraska

       Page 33, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,000,000) (reduced by $2,000,000)''.


            Amendment no. 10 Offered by Mr. Banks of Indiana

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


             Amendment no. 23 Offered by Mr. Carey of Ohio

       Page 35, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,300,000) (reduced by $2,300,000)''.


           Amendment no. 26 Offered by Mr. Carter of Georgia

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(reduced by $4,500,000)''.
       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $4,500,000)''.


           Amendment no. 27 Offered by Ms. Castor of Florida

       Page 16, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 30 OFFERED BY MR. COHEN OF TENNESSEE

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $8,000,000) (increased by $8,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 45 OFFERED BY MR. FINSTAD OF MINNESOTA

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $2,000,000) (increased by $2,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 48 OFFERED BY MR. FINSTAD OF MINNESOTA

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 54 OFFERED BY MR. GIMENEZ OF FLORIDA

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 60 OFFERED BY MR. HIGGINS OF LOUISIANA

       Page 31, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $19,440,000) (reduced by $19,440,000)''.


            AMENDMENT NO. 67 OFFERED BY MR. JACKSON OF TEXAS

       Page 38, line 16, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


          Amendment no. 77 Offered by Mr. Kelly of Mississippi

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,500,000) (reduced by $2,500,000)''.


          Amendment no. 81 Offered by Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


          Amendment no. 82 Offered by Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $9,000,0000) (increased by $9,000,0000)''.


          Amendment no. 86 Offered by Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia

       Page 8, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 90 Offered by Mr. LaLota of New York

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 91 Offered by Mr. LaLota of New York

       Page 29, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.


          Amendment no. 100 Offered by Ms. Letlow of Louisiana

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $19,000,000) (increased by $19,000,000)''.


          Amendment no. 101 Offered by Ms. Letlow of Louisiana

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


         Amendment no. 110 Offered by Mr. McCormick of Georgia

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment no. 118 Offered by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $11,000,000) (increased by $11,000,000)''.


       Amendment no. 120 Offered by Mrs. Miller of West Virginia

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $25,000,000) (increased by $25,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 122 Offered by Mr. Mills of Florida

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)' ''.


       Amendment no. 132 Offered by Mrs. Napolitano of California

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $37,411,000) (decreased by $37,411,000)''.


    AMENDMENT NO. 135 OFFERED BY MS. NORTON OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $8,000,000) (reduced by $8,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 142 OFFERED BY MR. OGLES OF TENNESSEE

       Page 117, line 12, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''.


         AMENDMENT NO. 145 OFFERED BY MS. PETTERSEN OF COLORADO

       Page 39, line 1, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 151 OFFERED BY MS. SEWELL OF ALABAMA

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


            AMENDMENT NO. 153 OFFERED BY MR. SOTO OF FLORIDA

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,800,000) (increased by $10,800,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 156 OFFERED BY MR. STEIL OF WISCONSIN

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


          Amendment no. 157 Offered by Mr. Steil of Wisconsin

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $12,000,000) (increased by $12,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 158 Offered by Mr. Strong of Alabama

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 159 Offered by Mr. Strong of Alabama

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment no. 169 Offered by Mr. Timmons of South Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000) (increased by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 180 Offered by Mr. Waltz of Florida

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000) (reduced by $10,000,000)''.


         Amendment no. 183 Offered by Mr. Williams of New York

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $3,000,000) (reduced by $3,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 187 Offered by Mr. Wilson of South Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 188 Offered by Mr. Wilson of South Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 190 Offered by Mr. Wilson of South Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Calvert) and the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. 
McCollum) each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, these are noncontroversial, bipartisan 
messaging amendments supported by both sides. I reserve the balance of 
my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I support this amendment.
  As with the other one, it contains a series of bipartisan amendments 
that are supported by Members on both sides.
  Mr. Chair, I encourage the adoption of this amendment, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of the package, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SOTO. Mr. Chair, I appreciate consideration of my amendment No. 
153 to provide an $10.8 million increase within the RDT&E-Defense Wide 
Account for the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program's 
(IBAS) advanced packaging infrastructure enablement of standardized 
assembly design kits program. This program will support innovative 
semiconductor manufacturing processes critical to national security.
  Semiconductors support nearly all Department of Defense (DoD) 
activities. Ensuring secure access to leading-edge semiconductors, 
however, is a challenge.
  The IBAS Program ensures that the DoD is positioned to effectively 
address industrial base issues and support the National Security

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Innovation Base. Its mission includes strengthening and protecting the 
domestic semiconductor supply chain to provide access to leading-edge 
products and capabilities. One of the next-generation semiconductor 
technologies that IBAS is focusing on is advanced packaging.
  Advanced packaging is an innovative semiconductor manufacturing 
process that fully integrates all component chips into a single, highly 
functional chip. Currently, 98 percent of advanced packaging integrated 
processes are done in Asia, where foreign entities can insert malicious 
processes in a way that is not easily identifiable. IBAS is working to 
provide secure, credible, and reliable domestic advanced packaged 
semiconductor manufacturing capability.
  The design, fabrication, and packaging of leading-edge advanced 
package chips are becoming substantially more complex. To manage this 
complexity and ensure compatibility across different systems, 
standardized assembly design kits are essential. These kits provide a 
set of design rules and guidelines that streamline the manufacturing 
process. By establishing a uniform framework, standardized kits enable 
faster development and deployment of advanced packaging technologies, 
which is critical for meeting the DoD's high-performance and security 
standards. My amendment will allow the Department of Defense to 
leverage existing public-private partnerships to quickly expand 
domestic U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturing development platforms 
for critical advanced semiconductor system integration, including 
through the enablement of standardized design kits.
  U.S. global leadership in semiconductors depends on U.S. owned firms 
operating at the leading edge of advanced packaging technologies. The 
next generation of electronic devices will require significantly 
greater functional density, in other words, packing chips together even 
more tightly than current technology allows. This requires technical 
leadership in semiconductor advanced packaging processes, including the 
enablement of standardized assembly kits.
  I believe Congress should continue to allocate the necessary 
resources to update our domestic microelectronics security framework. I 
am proud of the work being done in NeoCity, my district's semiconductor 
technology hub, to advance domestic semiconductor manufacturing 
technology. This development is vital to strengthening our defense 
supply chain. I look forward to working with my colleagues to support 
this critical goal.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered 
by the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert).
  The en bloc amendments were agreed to.


     Amendments En Bloc No. 3 Offered by Mr. Calvert of California

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, pursuant to House Resolution 1316, I offer 
amendments en bloc.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc.
  Amendments en bloc No. 3 consisting of amendment Nos. 1, 4, 5, 12, 
16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 35, 37, 41, 49, 51, 65, 69, 70, 74, 78, 83, 97, 
106, 112, 114, 123, 137, 138, 148, 150, 152, 154, 166, 168, 172, 173, 
174, 175, 177, 178, 179, and 193, printed in part A of House Report 
118-559, offered by Mr. Calvert of California:


           Amendment No. 1 Offered by Mr. Alford of Missouri

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Armstrong of North Dakota

       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $7,500,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $7,500,000)''.


            Amendment No. 5 Offered by Mr. Bacon of Nebraska

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $16,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $16,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 12 Offered by Mr. Bergman of Michigan

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


            Amendment No. 16 Offered by Mr. Bost of Illinois

       Page 8, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $9,500,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $9,500,000)''.


          Amendment No. 17 Offered by Mr. Buchanan of Florida

       Page 8, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000)''.
       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $1,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 21 Offered by Mrs. Cammack of Florida

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $8,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $8,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 22 Offered by Mr. Carbajal of California

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $2,500,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,500,000)''.


            Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Carl of Alabama

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


            Amendment No. 35 Offered by Mr. Dunn of Florida

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $7,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $7,000,000)''.


            Amendment No. 37 Offered by Mr. Dunn of Florida

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $6,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $6,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 41 Offered by Mr. Ezell of Mississippi

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 49 Offered by Mr. Fitzgerald of Wisconsin

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 51 Offered by Mr. Fong of California

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $4,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $4,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 65 Offered by Mr. Hudson of North Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 32, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 69 Offered by Mr. James of Michigan

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 70 Offered by Mr. James of Michigan

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $12,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $12,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 74 Offered by Mr. Keating of Massachusetts

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 78 Offered by Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 83 Offered by Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia

       Page 8, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $2,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 97 Offered by Mr. Langworthy of New york

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 106 Offered by Mr. Luttrell of Texas

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $21,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $21,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 112 Offered by Mr. McCormick of Georgia

       Page 9, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $8,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $8,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 114 Offered by Mr. McCormick of Georgia

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $7,700,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $7,700,000)''.


           Amendment No. 123 Offered by Mr. Mills of Florida

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $6,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $6,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 137 Offered by Mr. Obernolte of California

       Page 36, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $5,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 138 Offered by Mr. Obernolte of California

       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $4,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $4,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 148 Offered by Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia

       Page 9, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduce 
     by $2,500,000)''.

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       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,500,000)''.


           Amendment No. 150 Offered by Mr. Sessions of Texas

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 152 Offered by Mr. Sorensen of Illinois

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 154 Offered by Mrs. Steel of California

       Page 8, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $7,000,000)''.
       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $7,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 166 Offered by Ms. Tenney of New York

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $15,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $15,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 168 Offered by Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania

       Page 10, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $32,262,000)''.


       Amendment No. 172 Offered by Mrs. Trahan of Massachusetts

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 173 Offered by Mrs. Trahan of Massachusetts

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


            Amendment No. 174 Offered by Mr. Turner of Ohio

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


            Amendment No. 175 Offered by Mr. Turner of Ohio

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $7,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $7,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 177 Offered by Mr. Van Drew of New Jersey

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(reduced by $1,000,0000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $1,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 178 Offered by Ms. Van Duyne of Texas

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $7,500,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $7,500,000)''.


          Amendment No. 179 Offered by Mrs. Wagner of Missouri

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $6,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $6,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 193 Offered by Mr. Yakym of Indiana

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $90,000,000)''.
       Page 27, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $90,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Calvert) and the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. 
McCollum) each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, these are noncontroversial bipartisan 
amendments supported by both sides. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, once again, I support this amendment. It 
contains a series of bipartisan amendments that are supported by 
Members on both sides. I have no objection. I encourage adoption of the 
amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania 
(Mr. Thompson), the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture.
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chair, I thank the chairman for his 
leadership with this bill.
  Mr. Chair, I rise today in support of this en bloc, which includes an 
amendment that I was proud to introduce.
  Amendment No. 168 will restore funding for the APEX Accelerator 
program to the fiscal year `24 enacted level.
  APEX accelerators provide individualized, no-cost assistance and 
training for businesses to identify and compete for defense and other 
government contracts. With 97 APEX accelerators across all 50 States, 
this program serves as the access for existing and new businesses to 
strengthen the defense industrial base by accelerating innovation, 
fostering ingenuity, and bolstering supply chains.
  The success of the APEX Accelerator program speaks for itself. In 
2023 alone, APEX accelerators counseled more than 62,000 businesses 
that received more than $28 billion in contracts.
  Our Nation faces unprecedented national security challenges. We must 
continue to invest in our small businesses to spur innovation, 
strengthen a resilient supply chain, and diversify our industrial base.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this en bloc.

                              {time}  1400

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Langworthy).
  Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Calvert) for yielding.
  Mr. Chair, I rise today to support my amendment to provide the Navy's 
Science and Technology for Nuclear Re-entry Systems with $5 million for 
the next-generation control system, ensuring that it is budget neutral.
  In an era when our adversaries are ramping up their nuclear 
capabilities, we face growing threats that demand a swift and decisive 
response. The strategic community is clamoring for upgrades to our 
aging weapons delivery systems, and the development of this next-
generation control system is vital.
  This technology will minimize delays and enable precise vehicle 
control at hypersonic speeds. We are in a new Cold War with China, and 
complacency is not an option. My amendment will ensure America leads in 
innovation, maintaining our military's unparalleled superiority.
  I also support Representative Trahan's amendment No. 173. Our brave 
men and women in uniform currently face a dangerous technology gap in 
close-quarters reconnaissance and intelligence during combat and rescue 
missions. The Army Special Operations Command is addressing this with 
tactical throwable cameras, providing real-time, lifesaving situational 
awareness. This small tool can make a huge impact, saving countless 
lives.
  The only hurdle is the funding required for the Army's operational 
evaluation, a critical step toward procurement. We owe it to our troops 
to provide them with the best tools to succeed on the battlefield, and 
this technology is crucial for their success.
  Mr. Chair, these amendments are not just about technology or budget 
lines. They are about safeguarding our Nation and ensuring that our 
troops have what they need to protect and serve.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support these amendments en bloc 
today for the security and future of our country.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chairman, I urge the adoption of the package, 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 California (Mr. Calvert).
  The en bloc amendments were agreed to.


     Amendments En Bloc No. 4 Offered by Mr. Calvert of California

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, pursuant to House Resolution 1316, I offer 
amendments en bloc.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc.
  Amendments en bloc No. 4 consisting of amendment Nos. 9, 11, 13, 19, 
20, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 40, 46, 50, 52, 53, 55, 61, 62, 64, 66, 68, 73, 
79, 87, 92, 94, 103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 121, 136, 165, 170, 176, 
181, 191, and 192, printed in part A of House Report 118-559, offered 
by Mr. Calvert of California:


            AMENDMENT NO. 9 OFFERED BY MR. BANKS OF INDIANA

       Page 8, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $11,000,000)''.


            AMENDMENT NO. 11 OFFERED BY MR. BANKS OF INDIANA

       Page 27, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $2,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 13 OFFERED BY MR. BERGMAN OF MICHIGAN

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $7,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $7,000,000)''.

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          AMENDMENT NO. 19 OFFERED BY MR. BUCHANAN OF FLORIDA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $3,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $3,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 20 OFFERED BY MRS. CAMMACK OF FLORIDA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $8,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $8,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 32 OFFERED BY MR. COSTA OF CALIFORNIA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


             AMENDMENT NO. 33 OFFERED BY MR. CURTIS OF UTAH

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


            AMENDMENT NO. 36 OFFERED BY MR. DUNN OF FLORIDA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


            AMENDMENT NO. 38 OFFERED BY MR. DUNN OF FLORIDA

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 39 OFFERED BY MR. EZELL OF MISSISSIPPI

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 40 OFFERED BY MR. EZELL OF MISSISSIPPI

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 46 OFFERED BY MR. FINSTAD OF MINNESOTA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 50 Offered by Mr. Fitzgerald of Wisconsin

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


           Amendment No. 52 Offered by Mr. Fong of California

       Page 8, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $4,000,000)''.
       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $4,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 53 Offered by Mr. Garbarino of New York

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 55 Offered by Mr. Graves of Louisiana

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $9,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $9,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 61 Offered by Mr. Himes of Connecticut

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


            Amendment No. 62 Offered by Mrs. Hinson of Iowa

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $12,500,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $12,500,000)''.


        AMENDMENT NO. 64 OFFERED BY MR. HUDSON OF NORTH CAROLINA

       Page 8, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


        AMENDMENT NO. 66 OFFERED BY MR. HUDSON OF NORTH CAROLINA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 68 OFFERED BY MR. JAMES OF MICHIGAN

       Page 8, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $15,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $15,000,000)''.


         AMENDMENT NO. 73 OFFERED BY MR. JOYCE OF PENNSYLVANIA

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 36, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


          AMENDMENT NO. 79 OFFERED BY MRS. KIGGANS OF VIRGINIA

       Page 8, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


           AMENDMENT NO. 87 OFFERED BY MR. LALOTA OF NEW YORK

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 16, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 92 Offered by MR. Lamborn of Colorado

       Page 9, line 13, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $2,500,000)''.
       Page 9, line 19, after the first dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $2,500,000)''.


          Amendment no. 94 Offered by Mr. Lamborn of Colorado

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 103 Offered by Mr. Lieu of California

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 8, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment no 105 Offered by Mr. Luttrell of Texas

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $9,500,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $9,500,000)''.


         Amendment no 107 Offered by Ms. Mace of South Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $20,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $20,000,000)''.


         Amendment no. 108 Offered by Ms. McClellan of Virginia

       Page 27, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


         Amendment no. 109 Offered by Mr. McCormick of Georgia

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $4,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $4,000,000)''.


         Amendment no. 111 Offered by Mr. McCormick of Georgia

       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


           Amendment no. 121 Offered by Mr. Mills of Florida

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


             Amendment no. 136 Offered by Mr. Nunn of Iowa

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


          Amendment no. 165 Offered by Ms. Tenney of New York

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $15,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $15,000,000)''.


       Amendment no. 170 Offered by Mr. Timmons of South Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $6,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $6,000,000)''.


            Amendment no. 176 Offered by Mr. Turner of Ohio

       Page 9, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.


     Amendment no. 181 Offered by Ms. Wasserman Schultz of Florida

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $10,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $10,000,000)''.


       Amendment no. 191 Offered by Mr. Wilson of South Carolina

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $6,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $6,000,000)''


           Amendment no. 192 Offered by Mr. Yakym of Indiana

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $8,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $8,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Calvert) and the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. 
McCollum) each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, these are noncontroversial, bipartisan 
amendments supported by both sides. I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I support this amendment. It contains, once 
again, bipartisan amendments that Members on both sides have agreed to. 
I have no objection.
  Mr. Chair, we encourage the adoption of this amendment, and I yield 
back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I have no additional speakers. I urge the 
adoption of the package, and I yield back the balance of my time.

[[Page H4381]]

  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendments en bloc offered 
by the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert).
  The en bloc amendments were agreed to.


     Amendments En Bloc No. 5 Offered by Mr. Calvert of California

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, pursuant to House Resolution 1316, I offer 
amendments en bloc.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendments en bloc.
  Amendments en bloc No. 5 consisting of amendment Nos. 8, 15, 47, 63, 
84, 85, 96, 113, 115, 116, 126, 127, 128, 130, 147, and 167, printed in 
part A of House Report 118-559, offered by Mr. Calvert of California:


            Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Banks of Indiana

       Page 41, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


      Amendment No. 15 Offered by Ms. Blunt Rochester of Delaware

       Page 40, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 47 Offered by Mr. Finstad of Minnesota

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $3,000,000)''.
       Page 40, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $3,000,000)''.


        Amendment No. 63 Offered by Mr. Hudson of North Carolina

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $3,000,000) (increased by $3,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 84 Offered by Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia

       Page 40, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''.


          Amendment No. 85 Offered by Mrs. Kiggans of Virginia

       Page 40, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $1,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 96 Offered by Mr. Langworthy of New York

       Page 41, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by $5,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 113 Offered by Mr. McCormick of Georgia

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 39, line 1, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 115 Offered by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $8,000,000) (increased by $8,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 116 Offered by Mr. McGovern of Massachusetts

       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $9,500,000) (increased by $9,500,000)''.


         Amendment No. 126 Offered by Mr. Molinaro of New York

       Page 40, line 22, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $4,000,000) (increased by $4,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 127 Offered by Mr. Molinaro of New York

       Page 41, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $9,000,000) (increased by $9,000,000)''.


         Amendment No. 128 Offered by Mr. Molinaro of New York

       Page 41, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


             Amendment No. 130 Offered by Mr. Moore of Utah

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $9,850,000) (increased by $9,850,000)''.


         Amendment No. 147 Offered by Mr. Phillips of Minnesota

       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''.


       Amendment No. 167 Offered by Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania

       Page 9, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced 
     by $5,000,000)''.
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $5,000,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Obernolte). Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, 
the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) and the gentlewoman from 
Minnesota (Ms. McCollum) each will control 10 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, these are noncontroversial, bipartisan 
amendments supported by both sides, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I support this amendment. As with all the 
others, it contains a series of bipartisan amendments with the support 
of Members on both sides of the aisle. I have no objections, and I 
encourage the adoption of this amendment.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Langworthy).
  Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Calvert) for yielding.
  Mr. Chair, I rise today to support my amendment that seeks to bring 
much-needed attention to the development and procurement of advanced 
medical devices specifically designed for the treatment and prevention 
of infections associated with osseointegrated prosthetics.
  Osseointegrated prosthetics are cutting-edge technology that involves 
directly anchoring a prosthetic limb to the bone, offering improved 
mobility and comfort for amputees compared to traditional prosthetics.
  Our servicemembers who have sacrificed so much for our Nation deserve 
nothing less than the best care that we as a nation can provide them. 
This work, however, extends beyond our heroes in uniform. It has the 
potential to significantly impact the lives of thousands of Americans 
who have lost limbs and are determined to regain their independence and 
continue to live full and productive lives.
  The challenge of infections in osseointegrated prosthetics is a 
serious one, with potential complications that can hinder recovery and 
diminish quality of life. By prioritizing the availability of effective 
treatments and preventative measures, we can ensure that all Americans, 
whether they are veterans or civilians, receive the highest standard of 
care. This will not only reduce complications but will also promote 
faster recovery and better outcomes overall.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support the en bloc, which 
includes this amendment. By doing so, we stand with our servicemembers, 
our veterans, and every American facing the trials of limb loss. We 
send a message to those families that their struggles are not 
forgotten, and their journey to recovery and well-being is a priority 
for this Congress.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for his comments. I 
urge adoption of the package, 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 California (Mr. Calvert).
  The en bloc amendments were agreed to.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair understands that amendment No. 25 will 
not be offered.
  It is now in order to consider amendment No. 29 printed in part A of 
House Report 118-559.


           Amendment No. 56 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 56 
printed in part A of House Report 118-559.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  The salary of Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense, 
     shall be reduced to $1.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentlewoman 
from Georgia (Ms. Greene) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Georgia.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment uses the Holman rule 
to slash Secretary Lloyd Austin's salary to no more than $1.
  Lloyd Austin has failed in his role as Secretary of Defense and has 
jeopardized the national security of the United States. He botched the 
American withdrawal from Afghanistan, which resulted in the deaths of 
13 American soldiers, along with the abandonment of American civilians 
and military equipment. This remains today as a large stain on our 
Nation and a wound in the hearts of every veteran who served in 
Afghanistan.
  He is, in large part, responsible for handing over control of 
Afghanistan to the Islamic extremists, the Taliban.
  During Secretary Austin's tenure, military recruitment has reached 
historic lows. Instead of recruiting new soldiers, Secretary Austin has 
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his efforts on purging the military through oppressive vaccine mandates 
and so-called extremism stand-downs.
  More than 8,000 troops were kicked out of the military for refusing 
the vaccine. Thousands more sought religious and medical exemptions, 
many of which were still pending when the DOD rescinded the mandate.
  For too long, our soldiers have been punished because the current 
administration is hellbent on forcing them to take a dangerous vaccine 
and submit to this practice.
  We also don't know how many of our military members have been harmed 
by these vaccine mandates, and we know they have been harmed.
  While the United States is being ravaged by an invasion at our 
southern border, Lloyd Austin continues to prefer to write blank checks 
for Ukraine. Lloyd Austin's open-ended support of Ukraine has depleted 
our defense capabilities and pushed the United States even closer to 
world war III.
  Secretary Austin has betrayed the American people and lost the 
public's trust. The American people should no longer have to reward his 
failures by paying his salary.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chairman, the Secretary of Defense serves at the 
pleasure of the President of the United States. He implements the 
President's policies.
  We have, in many ways, been addressing our serious differences with 
the Department and this administration. We have done so on multiple 
occasions, and we have done so within this bill.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose this amendment, and I yield to the gentlewoman 
from Minnesota (Ms. McCollum).
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I thank the chairman of the full committee 
for yielding.
  Mr. Chair, I am very disappointed by these types of amendments that 
have been offered today. Secretary Austin has dedicated his life to the 
service of the United States with over 41 years in the Army, rising to 
the rank of four-star general. I could go on with his accomplishments.
  This is a man who is a patriot for our country, certainly someone who 
has not betrayed the American people.
  Mr. Chair, I thank the chairman for the time.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, I would argue that the families 
of the 13 American soldiers who were killed in the failure of the 
withdrawal in Afghanistan do not agree with my colleague's statement.
  This Nation is too important, our national security is too important, 
and our military members are too important to be under the direction 
and the leadership of Lloyd Austin, who failed our entire military and 
failed our country in Afghanistan.
  Also, our country deserves defense, and our country and our States 
are left defenseless when the DOD's main focus is securing borders in 
foreign countries, specifically in Ukraine.
  It moved me to anger when I heard Lloyd Austin directly tell me that 
our cousins, our uncles, and our sons could be sent to fight on the 
ground in Ukraine one day. I think that is appalling when 300 Americans 
are being killed by fentanyl every single day and when America's young 
women are being raped and murdered by illegal aliens. This is becoming 
something so frequent in the news that it is shocking and appalling.
  This is absolutely not what the DOD is supposed to be for. The DOD 
should be defending America and defending our national security. I 
think many Americans would agree that Secretary of Defense Lloyd 
Austin's salary should be reduced to $1 because that is the exact job 
performance that he has given to America and our national security.
  Also, it is absolutely embarrassing that young people today do not 
want to serve in our military. Having the lowest recruitment numbers in 
probably history is appalling. It is embarrassing.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues in this House to pass this 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. 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 gentlewoman from Georgia 
will be postponed.

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           Amendment No. 57 Offered by Ms. Greene of Georgia

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 57 
printed in part A of House Report 118-559.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. 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 the bill (before the short title), add the 
     following:

     TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL LIMITATION PROVISION

       Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used for assistance to Ukraine.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentlewoman 
from Georgia (Ms. Greene) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Georgia.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, my amendment would ensure that no 
additional military funding is authorized for the war in Ukraine.
  To date, Congress has appropriated $174.2 billion of American's hard-
earned, taxpayer dollars in emergency supplemental funding for Ukraine.
  Of this amount, about $116 billion, 67 percent, has been provided 
through the U.S. Department of Defense. While our southern border is 
invaded by murderers, rapists, and terrorists, the Biden administration 
cares more about protecting the borders of Ukraine than the country he 
swore to protect and that many people in this body swore to protect.
  Now, Ukraine is using American weapons to bomb civilian beaches in 
Russian territory.
  Ukraine is recruiting an untold number of their own men in Ukraine to 
fight in this war that they cannot win. Anyone that says Ukraine can 
win is being completely dishonest.
  We know how Russia will respond to this aggression because they 
already are. Just recently, we saw reports of Russian warships off the 
coast of Florida in the Caribbean. How much longer will the United 
States provoke Russia before we fall into world war III, or have 
American boots on the ground in Ukraine, which the American people do 
not support?
  As a matter of fact, over half of America thinks that the U.S. is not 
only spending too much money to help Ukraine, they disagree with the 
war.
  In a recent CBS poll, over 60 percent of Republicans do not support 
additional aid to Ukraine, and even one in four Democrats don't support 
it anymore.
  By the way, we are at $34.5 trillion in debt. It is unreal that 
anyone in this body who votes to appropriate money can go home to their 
folks in their district and say more of your money should be put in 
debt to go to defend some country that most of you can't find on a map.
  It is truly disturbing to watch Americans' hard-earned, taxpayer 
dollars go down the drain because this government, this body, and many 
people in Washington think they have to go fight a war or pay for a war 
and send weapons to a war in a country that does not touch our borders. 
Yet we are completely ignoring the war on our own border, the war on 
our own people that is waged on us every single day by the cartels.
  I don't understand why we can't come together in this United States 
House of Representatives to defend the American people and recognize 
who our true enemies are. There are people invading our country from 
over 160 countries around the world, including the international crime 
organizations that are murdering Americans every single day, 
trafficking children, trafficking women, trafficking drugs. That is the

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only thing that we should be talking about, and if we have a Department 
of Defense that should be our focus.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I include in the Record a letter dated 
November 1, 2023, and it is signed by some distinguished Members of 
this body: Roger Wicker, Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services 
Committee; James E. Risch, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign 
Relations Committee; Chairman   Mike Rogers, Armed Services Committee; 
and Chairman McCaul of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

                                Congress of the United States,

                                 Washington, DC, November 1, 2023.
     President Joseph R. Biden,
     The White House,
     Washington, D.C.
       Dear President Biden: We welcome reports that your 
     administration has finally provided some limited range Army 
     Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine. We remain 
     concerned that the transfers of these shorter-range ATACMS 
     occurred more than a year after Ukraine's public request for 
     this capability, and we believe it demonstrates that your 
     administration's reticence toward arming Ukraine continues.
       Although this transfer is a positive step, the job on 
     ATACMS is only half-done: the United States has only provided 
     a small number of the Anti-Personnel/Anti-Materiel (APAM) 
     variant of ATACMS and these have a shorter range. We urge you 
     to provide the unitary warhead variant of ATACMS which has a 
     substantially longer range than the APAMS. In addition, we 
     call on you to deliver the balance of U.S. APAMs given the 
     Department of Defense's repeated inability to articulate a 
     clear, current requirement for this weapon.
       Ukraine's requirement for deep-strike capability remains 
     urgent, particularly to range targets throughout Crimea. 
     Recent successful strikes on Russian targets in Crimea, 
     including on Black Sea Fleet assets, demonstrate the 
     strategic significance of long-range strike options and the 
     relevance of the longer range ATACMS. It is a sad reflection 
     that Ukraine had to rely, in part, on long-range missiles 
     provided by allies to reach these targets in the face of your 
     administration's continued self-deterrence. Ukraine must have 
     the ability to break Russia's logistics network for Ukraine's 
     offensive operations to truly be successful.
       We also regret that the administration has yet to provide 
     Congress with the definitive status of the ATACMS inventory 
     and warfighting requirements. We have received at least three 
     documents from the Pentagon with substantively different 
     numbers. Given the bipartisan congressional support for 
     providing long-range ATACMS, we cannot understand the 
     Department of Defense's inability to articulate ATACMS 
     requirements.
       The bottom line is this: Ukraine has requested long-range 
     ATACMS. Ukraine has demonstrated the ability to employ long-
     range missiles in a responsible and effective manner. Allies 
     have already provided Ukraine with these capabilities, and 
     Russia has clearly declined to escalate upon usage of deep-
     strike missiles. The United States has an arsenal of long-
     range unitary warhead ATACMS, a hot production line to 
     backfill them, and affordable and executable paths to speed 
     up delivery of the Precision Strike Missile follow-on 
     capability. Clearly, it is time for you to finish the job on 
     ATACMS. The costs of failing to do so not only risks 
     stalemate on the battlefield and the further protraction of 
     this war, but also threatens further global instability as 
     our adversaries conduct influence operations around the 
     globe.
           Sincerely,
     Roger F. Wicker,
       Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee.
     Mike Rogers,
       Chairman, House Armed Services Committee.
     James E. Risch,
       Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
     Michael T. McCaul,
       Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. The gentlewoman is certainly entitled to her own 
opinion, but the reason why I am entering this letter into the Record 
is that there are Members on her side of the aisle that strongly 
disagree with her original statement talking about how weapons are 
used. I will just read a couple highlights.
  It says: ``Dear President Biden, we welcome reports that your 
administration has finally provided some limited range Army Tactical 
Missile Systems . . .''--the shorter range.
  ``Although this transfer is a positive step, the job on ATACMS is 
only half-done . . . . We urge you to provide the unitary warhead 
variant of ATACMS which has a substantially longer range than the 
APAMS.'' The ones that they are currently using.
  ``Ukraine's requirement for deep-strike capability remains urgent, 
particularly to range targets throughout Crimea.''
  It goes on to say: ``Ukraine has requested long-range ATACMS. Ukraine 
has demonstrated the ability to employ long-range missiles in a 
responsible and effective manner.''
  In other words, they are asking in a letter that they sent that these 
ATACMS be given to Ukraine, the full inventory, that they can use to do 
the strikes that Ukraine thinks they need to do.
  I will point out, Mr. Chair, that even on the other side of the 
aisle, the Republican side of the aisle, there is a difference of 
opinion from what the gentlewoman stated.
  I will point out that the majority has already eliminated funding for 
the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative in this bill, something the 
chairman and I disagree on in the way that it is done.
  We have another amendment that will also prohibit any further support 
to Ukraine as they fight an illegal invasion in their country. It is 
just morally wrong, in my opinion.
  Putin is attempting to rewrite the map of Europe, and he is doing it 
through force. He is doing it in violation of international law. He is 
deliberately killing civilians. He is attacking hospitals and daycare 
centers. They are targeting grocery stores. On top of that, they are 
kidnapping Ukrainian children, which is something that I find very 
disturbing.
  Putin and his thugs are committing war crimes on a mass scale, and 
the United States and the democracies around the world must continue to 
strongly oppose him.
  If we do not, then he and other authoritarian leaders will do 
something like this again, either in Ukraine or somewhere else in the 
world.
  America is not alone in our military support for Ukraine. Our NATO 
and European allies have provided close to $50 billion in military 
assistance. We are donating tanks, air defense systems, artillery, 
vehicles, rockets, and infantry fighting vehicles, and the list does go 
on.
  Let us not abandon our EU and NATO allies now. Let us not abandon 
Ukraine. I know there are those who express concerns about how some of 
the munitions are being provided to Ukraine, particularly the cluster 
munitions. We have an amendment to consider that deal and how to 
specifically work on that.
  I understand the difficult position that Ukraine and President 
Zelenskyy have been in with respect to shortages of ammunition because 
of our failure to get the funding to them on time.
  The Ukrainian people, Mr. Chair, did not ask for this war. They did 
not ask for their children to be kidnapped. They did not ask for their 
economy to be destroyed.
  They faced daunting odds against Russian forces. They have taken up 
the mantle to defend themselves, their values, and their democratic 
principles. I believe they deserve our continued support.
  Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to wholeheartedly oppose this 
amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time 
remaining.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Georgia has 1\1/2\ minutes 
remaining.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. Mr. Chair, it is no wonder that Congress has a 
13 percent approval rating from the American people because Congress is 
an absolute failure to the American people. This Congress has put the 
American people $34.5 trillion in debt because of the ridiculous 
decisions to make our American military the world police and make our 
government the biggest charity in the world just giving away all of 
this money and enslaving Americans in debt. It is also a complete lie 
to say you support Ukraine while you support funding the continual 
murder of Ukrainians in a war Ukraine cannot win.
  The Russian population is 144 million. Ukraine's population is 38 
million.

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The fact is, Ukraine is going to run out of men that are going to die 
on that battlefield, while America beats their chest and talks about 
Putin every single day and keeps sending money and keeps sending 
weapons and keeps causing these people to die.
  We should be pushing for peace in Ukraine. If we are going to defend 
America, we should be fighting together, all of us, for our own border 
and for our own American people that we swore an oath to defend.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I will be clear: The Russians attacked 
Ukraine. Ukraine decided enough is enough. They were going to stand up 
for their rights, for their values, for their people. We as democracies 
around the world have stood together with Ukraine. It is the right 
thing to do.
  Mr. Chair, I urge a ``no'' vote on this amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. Greene).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. GREENE of Georgia. 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 gentlewoman from Georgia 
will be postponed.


                Amendment No. 58 Offered by Ms. Hageman

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 58 
printed in part A of House Report 118-559.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be used for classified teleworking or remote working for any 
     employee of the Department of Defense.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentlewoman 
from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Wyoming.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in favor of my amendment, No. 58 to 
H.R. 8774, which prohibits classified teleworking and remote working 
for DOD employees.
  The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and House Republicans in the 118th 
Congress prioritized returning the Federal workforce to the office and 
cracking down on wasted Federal office space.
  To this extent, last year I sponsored an amendment to the fiscal year 
'24 DOD appropriations bill blocking routine and regular telework and 
remote working, ensuring that DOD personnel who defend the Nation 
operating largely in a classified environment are in the office.
  I thank Chairman Calvert and the committee as similar language is in 
this year's bill, but since last year, new DOD policy may thwart the 
return-to-office needs of the government, while also raising serious 
national security concerns.
  On January 8, 2024, the DOD Office of the Under Secretary of Defense 
for Personnel and Readiness updated the Department's telework and 
remote work policies for the first time since 2012.
  Under this new policy, DOD personnel are qualified for telework and 
remote work when: ``The duties of the position do not require more than 
occasional handling, discussion, or processing of classified 
material.''
  In short, if you handle classified information, you still qualify to 
work from home.
  While this policy permits the handling of information just up to the 
collateral secret level, it requires the DOD to provide the employee 
with a classified teleworking device, which means more resources and 
spending simply to accommodate telework desires in a job not compatible 
with that style of work.
  This is not the only development as the Space Force has awarded 
contracts for the development of a digital environment to integrate 
classified and nonclassified work from a remote location as well.

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  Reporting on the development of this software already shows that 
there is an interest in elevating this technology to top secret and 
special access program level.
  Mr. Chairman, the development of these technologies and DOD policies 
for classified remote and telework are a new concerning trend. They 
risk delaying the return of the Federal workforce to the office, as 
personnel traditionally exempt from telework and remote work are now 
being brought into the system, versus focusing on bringing everyone 
back.
  It also raises significant national security concerns. Homes, coffee 
shops, and other places people choose to remote work from are simply 
not as secure as a DOD facility.
  I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment, and I reserve 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment. I 
understand the desire for all of us to return to a pre-COVID sense of 
normal work routines, but I want to be very clear. This is a total ban 
on telework, and it is excessive.
  I work in the classified realm more than I ever thought I would since 
becoming a Member of Congress in my assigned duties, especially as 
ranking member and former chair of the Defense Committee, and I can 
assure you that our staff does not take classified work home and do 
telework from home. They don't. People don't do that. This is a total 
ban on telework.
  I believe there are certain circumstances where telework may be 
necessary. Let me give you an example that hits close to home. In 2001, 
I had to close my office in Washington because of an anthrax scare. 
That was before we had laptops and were well organized.
  My staff worked from home, and sometimes we worked at home together. 
They were able to get things done for the people that I represent, and 
I thank my staff for working under those extraordinary circumstances.
  Now we have the technology that will allow people to work from home 
when it makes sense to do that. With telework, there isn't a need to 
shut down the government for snow days anymore. If power is available, 
people work from home. They keep the government going.
  Additionally, the Federal Government, including the DOD, is in 
competition with the private sector for certain types of workers. Many 
private-sector jobs offer telework as an option.
  Without being able to have this flexibility, we may find ourselves in 
a more difficult position to fill jobs and to provide services to our 
constituents.
  Telework doesn't make sense for every single employee all the time, 
but options should be available to the Department to improve the 
quality of life for its workers when it makes sense.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose this total ban on telework, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, while I would like to assume that our Federal 
employees charged with handling sensitive information will always act 
responsibly, we cannot control human nature, and, therefore, we cannot 
control where these DOD systems will be opened up in the public.
  Further, the DOD facilities themselves protect information from 
intrusion such as physical break-ins or cyber threats of bad actors 
seeking access to our information. The security simply cannot be 
guaranteed in every household of the DOD workforce.
  I quote the director of a company developing this technology for the 
Space Force. In an article discussing the software and development, the 
director stated: You can't just pop your laptop up at Starbucks. Some 
of the things within that user agreement would be, you know, you are in 
a closed space, there are no windows, there is no one else home, your 
cell phone isn't with you, things of that nature.
  What is being described here is a SCIF, something that DOD personnel 
only have access to at work and not at home. Outside the office, even 
equipped with new technologies, there is too much unpredictability for 
the handling of classified information, and these

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policies should not be allowed to go forward.
  I urge my colleagues to support this amendment, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I will make another statement, and then I 
will yield back my time.
  Let's be really clear here. This is a total ban on working from home. 
Now, I will state it again. I work in the classified area. The chairman 
and I work with people in the Intelligence Committee. I can guarantee 
you even in our committee when things are passed out to Members, do we 
not collect them back, Mr. Chair? People are not taking classified work 
home to telework.
  If they are taking anything out of this Chamber, out of this 
building, or out of any of the departments where it is secure and 
should not leave, they should be prosecuted to the full extent because 
they are breaking the law.
  This is a total ban on telework. We shouldn't support this amendment. 
We should work really hard to make sure that when telework is 
available, it makes sense, it delivers things for our constituents, and 
it makes our government run more efficiently.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. HAGEMAN. Mr. Chair, I believe that my colleague is 
misunderstanding the policy that is being proposed by the Department of 
Defense. This doesn't relate to people on committee work. This has to 
do with the policy that was proposed by the DOD office on January 8, 
2024, that would allow DOD personnel to occasionally handle, discuss, 
or process classified material in an at-home or away-from-work setting.
  The purpose of the amendment is to prohibit that. The idea that this 
is a total ban on telework for Members and staff of Congress, that has 
absolutely nothing to do with this. This is directly related to the DOD 
Office of Under Secretary's personnel and readiness policies that were 
updated earlier this year.
  There is clearly a misunderstanding by my colleagues on the other 
side as to what the purpose of this amendment is.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The Acting CHAIR. The Chair understands that amendment No. 71 will 
not be offered.


                Amendment No. 72 Offered by Ms. Jayapal

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 72 
printed in part A of House Report 118-559.
  Ms. JAYAPAL. 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 the bill (before the short title) insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to carry out section 222a 
     or 222b of title 10, United States Code.
  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentlewoman 
from Washington (Ms. Jayapal) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Washington.
  Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Chair, my bipartisan amendment would prevent funding 
from this bill to be used to require the Defense Department to create 
what is called an unfunded priorities list.
  This list that DOD is required to send to Congress is simply a wish 
list of things that individual commanders and generals would like to 
fund. It has not gone through the level of prioritization and vetting 
that all of the other things that come in the budget do.
  In preparing the White House budget request, the Commander in Chief, 
in consultation with top military brass, determines what is necessary 
to defend the country based on a holistic analysis of our national 
security needs. By definition, anything that is in an unfunded 
priorities list has already been determined to be extraneous by the 
President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  This practice, that wasn't even mandatory until the passage of the 
FY17 NDAA, does not serve the national security interests of the United 
States or the interests of our taxpayers.
  These wish lists are packed with billions of dollars of excessive 
line items, this year totaling more than $27.5 billion on top of the 
$850 billion requested by the White House and a 50 percent increase 
from last year.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this bipartisan and 
commonsense amendment, and I thank my Republican colleagues, 
Congressmen McClintock and Davidson, as well as Congressman Garamendi 
who have joined me to rein in this wasteful spending that has no 
benefit to our national security.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, unfunded priority lists are an important tool 
to provide Congress with unfiltered information on what our military 
services and combatant commanders need. This has been the law of the 
land since FY 2017.
  Unfunded priority lists give military services and the combatant 
commanders a direct channel to Congress, which allows Congress to make 
more informed decisions.
  Mr. Chair, I urge a ``no'' vote, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
Minnesota (Ms. McCollum), my distinguished colleague and the ranking 
member.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I thank the gentlewoman for the time.
  Mr. Chair, I rise in support of my colleague's amendment. We should 
all be supporting funding for national security, but should any 
department or agency really get an opportunity to request additional 
funding that is outside of the President's request by any 
administration's request?
  Either all agencies should have the authority to do it, or none of 
them should. This should not be unique to the Armed Forces and the 
combatant commanders if it is such a good idea.
  The service chiefs appear before the committee each year to discuss 
how their budgets meet the needs included in the national defense 
strategy. Most of the combatant commanders also testify annually before 
the committee.
  Congress is able to assess with stringent oversight what we believe 
the country needs for its national security.
  Therefore, I ask my colleagues to support this amendment. If this 
really is such a fabulous idea that we have these unfunded opportunity 
lists, then we should do it for the EPA. We should do it for the 
National Park Service. I could think of a lot of things that the 
American public would like to know about, if this is such a good idea, 
that aren't able to be funded in the current time in the President's 
budget.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Chair, I understand that it is critical for Congress 
to engage with the Pentagon to accurately meet our country's national 
security needs, but we don't have to spend billions of dollars on wish 
lists and what-ifs to accomplish that.
  I say that the ranking member is absolutely right. If this is such a 
great idea for this agency, let's do it for all the agencies. If it is 
not a great idea for all the agencies, we shouldn't be doing it for the 
Department of Defense.
  Let's be clear. If military leaders want more funding for their wish 
list, there is nothing in this amendment that would prevent DOD from 
supplying an unfunded priorities list to Congress, but this process 
should be optional, just as it was 8 years ago.
  On top of that, most combatant commanders already testify before 
Congress ahead of the appropriations process so Congress can understand 
their needs without these wish lists that undercut the President's 
budget request.
  By law, individual generals and commanders are required to go around 
the Commander in Chief and military leadership to Congress to ask for 
superfluous line items that serve mainly to line the pockets of defense 
contractors. This is corruption, plain and simple.
  These lists get in the way of our military's stated priorities. For 
example, the House passed NDAA authorized funding for some of the 
Army's unfunded priorities while making substantial cuts to the 
requested amounts for the Army's three largest accounts.

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  This is despite Army Chief of Staff General Randy George specifically 
requesting that none of the Army's unfunded priorities displace 
anything on the Army's FY25 budget request.
  I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this sensible, bipartisan 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.
  Ms. JAYAPAL. 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 gentlewoman from Washington 
will be postponed.


           Amendment No. 129 Offered by Mr. Moore of Alabama

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 129 
printed in part A of House Report 118-559.
  Mr. MOORE of Alabama. 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:
       Page 38, line 9, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(increased by $4,910,000)''.
       Page 39, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert 
     ``(reduced by $4,910,000)''.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentleman 
from Alabama (Mr. Moore) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Alabama.
  Mr. MOORE of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of amendment No. 129 that would 
cut $4.91 million from the DOD climate change research and reallocate 
that funding for the enhancements to the Army's unmanned ground 
vehicles, or UGVs.
  I start by thanking my friend and colleague from Alabama, 
Representative Strong, for cosponsoring this important amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, we should not be focusing on climate change research at 
the Department of Defense. Instead, we should be preparing for the next 
conflict and assure that our military is lethal and ready for combat.
  According to the Presidential budget item justification for this 
project submitted by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, they claim 
that climate change will impact the full range of U.S. military 
operating environments. That is complete hogwash. Do we really think 
China cares about climate change that impacts their operations based on 
environment? Absolutely not.
  To better protect American servicemembers from enemy fire, we should 
upgrade unmanned systems that operate in enemy environments. UGVs have 
already demonstrated their transformative potential on the battlefield. 
They can perform a wide range of tasks from reconnaissance to 
surveillance to logistics to explosive ordnance disposal without 
putting human lives at risk.
  By increasing our investment in these technologies, we can 
significantly reduce the casualties and injuries among our troops, 
ensuring that fewer families will have to face the heartache of loved 
ones being harmed in the line of duty.

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  Moreover, enhancing our UGV capabilities will give us a strategic 
edge over our adversaries. As geopolitical tensions rise and threats 
become more and more sophisticated, having a fleet of advanced UGVs 
will enable our forces to respond swiftly and effectively to any 
threat. These vehicles can operate in environments that are too 
dangerous and inaccessible for humans, providing critical support in 
situations where conventional vehicles or personnel could be 
compromised.
  This amendment aligns DOD dollars toward closing the most urgent 
warfighting gaps rather than funding climate research that does nothing 
to enhance national defense.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CASE. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Hawaii is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Mr. CASE. Mr. Chair, first of all, let's take a look at the actual 
language of the amendment. I have heard the arguments from my colleague 
about what this amendment does, but when you take a look at the actual 
language of the amendment, what you discover is uncertainty all over 
the place.
  Let's start with the stated goal of cutting climate research from the 
Defense-wide research and development budget. Well, this doesn't 
specify that in the amendment itself. It talks about Defense-wide 
research and development budget, so I guess that means all Defense 
research and development that in any way, shape, or form may be linked 
in some way, shape, or form to evaluating the effects of the climate on 
defense research and development, so we don't really know what this 
amendment is doing in that department. That is number one.
  Similarly, we have no idea what the increase in the Army's budget for 
unmanned ground vehicles is really all about. It is just a general 
increase. On a very basic level, the amendment just fails for lack of 
certainty and direction to the Defense Department.
  However, let's be clear about what this amendment is actually all 
about. I take for granted that the gentleman, in fact, wants to 
increase funding for unmanned ground vehicles, but it is at the expense 
of further climate-related activities within the Department of Defense.
  We, of course, had this discussion in the Appropriations Committee. 
This is a longstanding discussion. Already, this bill fails because it 
cuts $621 million out of the Defense budget in climate change programs 
that were in the President's budget.
  This bill was screened, scrubbed, and word searched for anything that 
said ``climate change,'' and what was yielded was any program that said 
``climate change.'' I suspect that they found some more somewhere that 
just had the word ``climate'' in them at this point, and that is where 
this $4.9 million, in fact, comes from.
  We have had the discussion on the merits. This is contrary to what 
our own military believes is necessary, and I quote again from the 
Department of Defense's own climate risk analysis, focusing on the 
Indo-Pacific in this case, where we certainly have these issues: ``In 
the Indo-Pacific, sea level rise and more extreme weather events 
complicate the security environment, place key DOD warfighting 
infrastructure and surrounding communities at risk, and challenge local 
capacity to respond.''
  This is our military talking. This is why our military opposes the 
reduction of $621 million to start with, much less to conduct any 
research.
  My colleagues need look no further than our activities in the 
Department of Defense in the Indo-Pacific, in Korea, Okinawa, Japan, 
Guam, and Palau just to start with, where we are investing billions and 
billions of dollars.
  Shall we not ask what the impact of climate change is on those 
installations, in those activities? By the way, shall we not provide 
for resilience, which is basically trying to determine what the actual 
hardening of those facilities or their activities is? Instead, let's 
just wipe out research altogether because that is the target here, of 
course, the research.
  This is not the right approach from the perspective of a reasoned 
military overall. This is not the right approach from the perspective 
of certainty in terms of what we are designating. This amendment should 
not be adopted.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MOORE of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield to the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Strong).
  Mr. STRONG. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of this amendment and in 
support of the Army's continued investment in unmanned ground vehicle 
technology.
  It is an Army priority to provide commanders on the ground with 
enhanced situational awareness and increased flexibility on the modern 
battlefield. This plus-up would take a step in the right direction to 
fill existing command and control capability gaps that would hinder our 
warfighter on the front lines.
  I have been proud to support the provisions in this NDAA and Defense 
appropriations bills the past two cycles,

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not only because of the work done in Huntsville, Alabama, but because 
this is addressing a critical national security need.
  This is why I am here, to do what is best for national security.
  Mr. Chair, I encourage my colleagues to support this amendment.
  Mr. MOORE of Alabama. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my 
time to close.
  Increasing funds for Army UGVs is not just a matter of military 
necessity. It is an investment in safety, security, and the future of 
our Nation. Let us act decisively to equip our forces with the tools 
they need to protect and serve.
  I urge the adoption of my amendment, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mr. CASE. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time to close.
  I appreciate my colleagues being focused on the unmanned ground 
vehicle program, and obviously, that is where they are focused. I would 
simply make the observation that we can have that debate as a matter of 
priorities, as to whether we invest in the unmanned ground vehicle 
program, but we should do it with certainty, with direction. We should 
not do it at the further expense of any research and development 
related to the impacts of climate on military readiness and warfighting 
capabilities.
  Mr. Chair, I urge Members to oppose this amendment, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Moore).
  The question was taken; and the Acting Chair announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.
  Mr. CASE. 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 Alabama will 
be postponed.
  The Chair understands that amendment No. 133 will not be offered.


                 Amendment No. 139 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 139 
printed in part A of House Report 118-559.
  Mr. OGLES. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be made available to remove a 
     Chinese military company from the list required by section 
     1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 2021.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chairman, the section 1260H was established by the 
fiscal year 2021 NDAA to blacklist Chinese companies with close ties to 
the People's Liberation Army as well as other companies, so-called 
civil-military fusion contributors. The FY 2023 NDAA went even further, 
applying sanctions for those entities on the list.
  Section 1260H addition certainly hurts a company's shareholder value, 
which is the point. It protects American investors from unwittingly 
supporting companies underwriting China's military modernization and/or 
genocide.
  This amendment simply ensures that for the coming fiscal year, the 
Biden administration cannot remove any CCP company designated for the 
Department of Defense section 1260H list.
  I understand there is similar language in the underlying bill, but 
the language has a waiver so broad you could drive a Chinese tank 
through it. I am therefore offering it as a stand-alone to continue to 
push for full funding prohibition.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition.
  As was pointed out, section 1260H of the FY21 NDAA requires the 
Secretary of Defense to maintain a list of Chinese military companies 
that are operating directly or indirectly in the United States and 
publicly report such a list. This list is required to be submitted 
annually until December 31, 2030. We have oversight over that, and we 
should exercise our oversight.
  The NDAA gave the Secretary the authority to make additions and 
deletions to the list in subsection (b)(3). The FY25 bill already 
includes this provision, consistent with current law, so this has been 
the law since FY 2021, when the NDAA required the Secretary of Defense 
to maintain these lists.
  The amendment would remove the Secretary's ability to modify the 
list, and it is an expansion of current law. If the Secretary were to 
modify the list, Congress would know about it, and Congress could do 
its oversight and due diligence if they thought there was something out 
of order.
  Given that the bill already includes this language, and the amendment 
would remove the authority of the Secretary to make the necessary 
judgments, I oppose this amendment. This amendment, and the gentleman 
can correct me if I am wrong, would suppose that the Secretary would 
disregard the law flagrantly and not fulfill their obligation, and I 
believe the Secretary will, whether it is a Republican Secretary of 
Defense or Democratic Secretary of Defense, fulfill the law and do 
their work correctly. Congress sees the report, and if Congress thinks 
there is something amiss, we do our oversight.
  Mr. Chair, I oppose the amendment, and I reserve the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chair, this amendment is necessitated by the fact 
that, at every opportunity, our President has chosen to placate rather 
than punish China. Appeasement has long been a failed strategy, and it 
continues to fail us today.
  Last year, Joe Biden unilaterally removed 27 CCP entities from 
Commerce's unverified list, all to ensure that Gina Raimondo could 
simply secure a meeting with her CCP counterpart.
  Similarly, in November, Joe Biden removed an agency of China's 
police, an agency which uses DNA to collect genetic information on 
Uyghur detainees from Commerce's entity list. Joe Biden made this 
decision on a mere commitment from China that they would cooperate with 
us on confronting drug trafficking.
  I can tell my colleagues that the drug overdoses in my State and your 
States last night would conflict with this idea that China is 
cooperating with us, that they are doing anything to stem the flow of 
precursor chemicals for fentanyl into this country, so this amendment 
is quite necessary.
  The gentlewoman is right that it amends the law. It removes the 
Secretary's ability to do so, and it puts Joe Biden in a box, where 
hopefully he can't get lost.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I am in opposition. I have the right to 
close, do I not, Mr. Chair?
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman is correct.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chairman, increased scrutiny of these companies is a 
national security imperative, and delisting these companies, these 
Chinese military companies, cooperators in genocide, and proponents of 
the PLA's military modernization, must be an absolute nonstarter. We 
have to put America first, whether that is at our border, whether that 
is in commerce, and most certainly for our military.

  We have to take a stand and put Biden in his place and not let him 
delist these companies for political or monetary gain.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, the gentleman who is offering the amendment 
is entitled to his opinions, but I do believe when we are talking about 
the President of the United States on the House floor, are we not 
supposed to refer to Mr. Biden as the President?
  I see the Parliamentarian is here discussing this. I won't ask for 
any more time to have you answer the question because they would give 
you the advice on that. There have been times, Mr.

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Chair, when I have been in your position when things were happening, 
pretense before about conversations, and it was my understanding, but I 
will move forward.
  The gentleman, as I said, is entitled to his own opinion, and his 
opinion is that he does not trust the President of the United States, 
and he does not trust the Secretary of Defense. I do. I believe that 
they will carry forward and uphold the law.
  The gentleman did point out something about these precursor drugs 
that I think the gentleman, the Chair, and I agree with, and that is 
China needs to crack down on them more. That means we need to crack 
down on China, but as soon as we list one of these chemical 
combinations, they come up with another one, so I have been urging, 
along with other people in the White House, to figure out how we write 
this in a way that we can make sure that we capture all these chemicals 
that are used to murder Americans.

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  The last thing I would say on that, we just did the border security 
bill, the Homeland Security bill, and some of the technology provisions 
that would have allowed us to capture a lot of this at the border 
unfortunately were cut by the Republicans' bill that they put forward.
  There is work to do. I agree. I do trust the Secretary of Defense, 
and I do trust the President of the United States to uphold the law of 
the land.
  Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  The amendment was agreed to.


                 Amendment No. 140 Offered by Mr. Ogles

  The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 140 
printed in part B of House Report 118-559.
  Mr. OGLES. 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 the bill (before the short title), insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  None of the funds made available by this Act may 
     be made available to enforce subsection (b) of section 1259 
     of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2019.

  The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 1316, the gentleman 
from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles) and a Member opposed each will control 5 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chair, this is an important issue. We are going to 
talk about RIMPAC for a moment. It has direct impact on Taiwan and also 
the United States of America, our beloved country.
  RIMPAC, Rim of the Pacific, is the world's largest international 
maritime warfare exercise, involving coordination of dozens of 
countries. The 2024 RIMPAC exercise will showcase the participation of 
nearly 30 countries, 40 surface ships, 3 submarines, 14 national land 
forces, over 150 aircraft, and more than 25,000 personnel.
  RIMPAC promotes a free and open Indo-Pacific, which itself promotes 
fairly commonsense priorities, including that all nations, big and 
small, have the right to freedom of the seas and the right to pursue 
economic growth consistent with international law and the principles of 
fair competition.
  This vital naval exercise deepens interoperability and resiliency 
with our allies and partners. It serves as a bulwark against malign 
major powers. It pursues deterrence for the sake of peace and 
stability.
  Genocidal nations, like the People's Republic of China, have no 
business going anywhere near the RIMPAC exercises.
  This amendment would defund enforcement subsection (b) of section 
1259 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2019. That subsection is a waiver that, if utilized, would 
effectively allow the People's Republic of China to participate 
alongside the United States Navy in the RIMPAC exercises, no questions 
asked.
  Consider just how peculiar it is that the Chinese Communist Party, 
our adversary, can be eligible to participate in this naval exercise. 
It is all because of a waiver Congress wrote several years ago.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I claim the time in opposition to the 
amendment.
  The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Minnesota is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, the reason why I claim the time in 
opposition to this amendment is because it is completely unnecessary. 
Of course, China does not participate in the Rim of the Pacific, or 
RIMPAC, as it was referred to.
  RIMPAC is a tool that we use to build alliances with our allies. It 
is an opportunity to deter China's activities. Why would the Department 
of Defense invite them in? They are not going to.
  This is another attempt by the majority to load up this bill with 
unnecessary provisions and will only delay us moving forward in 
conference negotiations with the Senate.
  If you have a problem with the way the authorizers wrote the bill, I 
suggest you go to the authorizing committee, Mr. Chair. This is the 
Appropriations Committee. I know full well that the Department of 
Defense is not going to be inviting China to join us in RIMPAC.
  This is unnecessary. Provisions like this just make the process take 
longer. It is wasting time and money. I think the gentleman is entitled 
to his opinions, and his opinion, once again, is he does not trust the 
President of the United States or the Secretary of Defense to make 
decisions that are not only lawful but are in the best interests of 
this country.
  I oppose the amendment, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chair, keep in mind that China is a country that 
steals hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of U.S. intellectual 
property every year. They commit espionage against the United States on 
an unparalleled scale every year. They are doing the bare minimum to 
prevent fentanyl precursors from flooding into Mexico en route to the 
southern border. They are directly supporting every single designated 
state sponsor of terrorism on the State Department's list: Cuba, Syria, 
North Korea, and Iran.
  Even considering all of this, Beijing is not fully excluded from 
participating in RIMPAC. For robust democratic allies like Taiwan, 
however, participation currently is impossible.
  The existence of the waiver undermines the precondition on China's 
participation in RIMPAC. Currently, the Secretary of Defense must 
certify to the congressional defense committees that China has stopped 
all land reclamation activities in the South China Sea, removed all 
weapons from land reclamation sites, and established a consistent 4-
year track record of taking actions toward stabilizing the region. If 
they do all those things, China could be invited to RIMPAC.
  It is important that we send a message to our adversary that they are 
a bad actor, it is time for them to behave and to understand that 
countries in their region, like Taiwan, have a right to participate in 
the free market, to be free and democratic, and not to be under their 
thumb.
  Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I have the right to close, and I reserve the 
balance of my time.
  Mr. OGLES. Mr. Chair, in the fiscal year 2021 NDAA, Congress included 
a fourth precondition stopping the ongoing genocide against the 
Uyghurs. We have already seen President Biden placate China in more 
ways than one, in addition to the unilateral delisting of dozens of 
entities from Commerce's unverified list.
  Mr. Chair, we are the leader of the free world. Who else is going to 
hold China accountable?
  Who else is going to send a message that enough is enough?
  They are a bad actor on the global stage. They undermine us at every 
turn.
  Yes, this is an amendment. Yes, it may take a moment to work through 
it. Yes, that may require more time, but this is the people's House. We 
do the work, we take the time, and we get it right.
  Mr. Chair, I urge adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.

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  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the gentleman's passion on 
this, but this is an appropriations bill. An authorizing bill is the 
appropriate place to do it.
  I would be happy to look at working with Mr. Ogles on the authorizing 
bill to take care of the issues that you care about, but I right now 
oppose it on this bill.
  Mr. Chair, before I close, we had a previous amendment that the 
gentlewoman from Georgia had in which she made statements about 
Secretary of Defense Austin.
  I follow the advice of a very wise President of the United States. I 
kind of trusted my memory, but I decided to verify.
  I will, for the record, state that Secretary Austin did not make any 
statement in any way, shape, or form that U.S. men and women would be 
fighting in Ukraine. He did say--and I did hear him say this in some of 
the earlier briefings--that if we don't stop the Russian aggression in 
Ukraine, it will spread into NATO and it could result in the United 
States and NATO sons and daughters fighting--``could,'' and that is if 
Russia spread beyond Ukraine.
  Mr. Chair, I want my colleagues to know how strongly I oppose this 
amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Ogles).
  The amendment was agreed to.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chair, I move that the Committee do now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Ogles) having assumed the chair, Mr. Obernolte, 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. 8774) 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2025, and for other purposes, had come to no 
resolution thereon.

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