[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5046]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2796. 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 C of title VIII, the following:

     SEC. 855. REPORT ON DOMESTIC SHORTFALLS OF INDUSTRIAL 
                   RESOURCES, MATERIALS, AND CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY 
                   ITEMS ESSENTIAL TO THE NATIONAL DEFENSE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
     Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House 
     of Representatives a report that--
       (1) identifies current or projected domestic shortfalls of 
     industrial resources, materials, or critical technology items 
     essential to the national defense;
       (2) assesses strategic and critical materials for which the 
     United States relies on the People's Republic of China as the 
     sole or primary source; and
       (3) includes recommendations relating to the use of 
     authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 
     U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) to make investments to reduce the 
     reliance of the United States on the People's Republic of 
     China for strategic and critical materials.
       (b) Form of Report.--The report required by subsection (a) 
     shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``critical 
     technology item'', ``industrial resources'', ``materials'', 
     and ``national defense'' have the meanings given those terms 
     in section 702 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 
     U.S.C. 4552).
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