[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5068]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2844. 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. IMPORTANCE OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND 
                   UNIVERSITIES AND MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS.

       (a) Increase.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     fiscal year 2025 by section 201 is hereby increased by 
     $20,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available 
     for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-
     wide, Basic Research, for Historically Black Colleges and 
     Universities/Minority Institutions [(PE 0601228D8Z)], as 
     specified in the funding table in section 4201.
       (b) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     fiscal year 2025 by section 301 is hereby reduced by 
     $20,000,000, with the amount of the reduction to be derived 
     from Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide, Administration 
     and Service-wide Activities, for the Office of the Secretary 
     of Defense [(line 490)], as specified in the funding table in 
     section 4301.
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