[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5023]
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  SA 2734. Mr. CRUZ 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 end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1239. FEASIBILITY REPORT ON PERMANENT STATIONING OF 
                   ADDITIONAL ARMORED BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM IN 
                   EUROPE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 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 feasibility and efficiency of, in response to recent 
     aggression by the Russian Federation, permanently stationing 
     in Europe an additional armored brigade combat team of the 
     United States Army for the purpose of strengthening 
     deterrence and reassuring Eastern European member countries 
     of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) An examination of, at a minimum, basing solutions in 
     Poland and Germany.
       (2) An analysis on the impact of such basing on the 
     deployment tempo of armored brigade combat teams of the 
     United States Army based in the continental United States.
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