[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5091-S5092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3297. Mr. LEE (for himself and Mr. Curtis) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel

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strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. __. EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON CONSTRUCTION OF NAVAL 
                   VESSELS IN FOREIGN SHIPYARDS.

       Section 8679 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``subsection (b)'' and 
     inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``to do so.'' and 
     inserting the following: ``to do so, provided that--
       ``(A) the foreign shipyard concerned is located in a North 
     Atlantic Treaty Organization member country or a country in 
     the Indo-Pacific Region that is party to a mutual defense 
     treaty with the United States; and
       ``(B) the cost of the construction concerned is less than 
     the cost would be if such construction occurred in a domestic 
     shipyard.''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) Before the construction of a naval vessel, or a major 
     component of the hull or superstructure of a naval vessel, 
     may commence at a foreign shipyard pursuant to this 
     subsection, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to 
     Congress a certification that the foreign shipyard is not 
     owned or operated by a Chinese company or a multinational 
     company domiciled in the People's Republic of China.''.
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