[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2791. Mr. BROWN 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 D of title XXVIII, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 2857. POLICY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RELATING TO 
                   CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS MADE IN THE 
                   UNITED STATES.

       The Secretary of Defense shall issue a policy to require 
     that when considering an offer for a contract for work on a 
     military construction project in the United States, including 
     for construction on barracks, family housing, or any other 
     facility on an installation of the Department of Defense, 
     each Secretary of a military department shall consider 
     collated steel fasteners, including collated steel nails and 
     staples, that are manufactured in the United States for all 
     wood on wood construction projects.
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