[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 114 (Wednesday, July 10, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4504]
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  SA 2229. Mr. HAWLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 727, strike lines 22 through 24 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(3) A list of equipment and supplies, which shall be 
     limited to materials relating to asymmetric defense 
     capabilities or a denial defense, and estimated quantities of 
     such equipment and supplies, required for such stockpile.''.
       On page 728, strike lines 6 through 14 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
     `appropriate committees of Congress' means--
       ``(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate; and
       ``(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
     House of Representatives.
       ``(2) Asymmetric defense capabilities.--The term 
     `asymmetric defense capabilities' includes, in such 
     quantities as the Secretary of Defense determines to be 
     necessary to achieve the purpose specified, the following:
       ``(A) Mobile, ground-based coastal defense cruise missiles 
     and launchers.
       ``(B) Mobile, ground-based short-range and medium-range air 
     defense systems.
       ``(C) Smart, self-propelled naval mines and coastal 
     minelaying platforms.
       ``(D) Missile boats and fast-attack craft equipped with 
     anti-ship and anti-landing craft missiles.
       ``(E) Unmanned aerial and other mobile, resilient 
     surveillance systems to support coastal and air defense 
     operations.
       ``(F) Equipment to support target location, tracking, 
     identification, and targeting, especially at the local level, 
     in communications degraded or denied environments.
       ``(G) Man-portable anti-armor weapons, mortars, and small 
     arms for ground combat operations.
       ``(H) Equipment and technical assistance for the purpose of 
     developing civil defense forces, composed of civilian 
     volunteers and militia.
       ``(I) Training and equipment, including appropriate war 
     reserves, required for Taiwan forces to independently 
     maintain, sustain, and employ capabilities described in 
     subparagraphs (A) through (H).
       ``(J) Concept development for coastal defense, air defense, 
     decentralized command and control, civil defense, logistics, 
     planning, and other critical military functions, with an 
     emphasis on operations in a communications degraded or denied 
     environment.''.
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