[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4956]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2629. Mr. LEE 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:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL VESSELS IN SHIPYARDS IN NORTH 
                   ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION COUNTRIES.

       Section 8679 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsection (b)'' and 
     inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)'';
       (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
     subsection (c):
       ``(c) Construction of Naval Vessels in Shipyards in NATO 
     Countries.--The Secretary of the Navy may construct a naval 
     vessel in a foreign shipyard if--
       ``(1) the shipyard is located within the boundaries of a 
     member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and
       ``(2) the cost of construction of such vessel in such 
     shipyard will be less than the cost of construction of such 
     vessel in a domestic shipyard.''.
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