[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5095-S5098]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3318. Mr. LEE 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

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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 F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1067. EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON CONSTRUCTION OF COAST 
                   GUARD VESSELS IN FOREIGN SHIPYARDS.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (b) of section 1151 of title 
     14, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(b)(1) The President may authorize exceptions to the 
     prohibition in subsection (a) when the President determines 
     that it is in the national security interest of the United 
     States 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.
       ``(2) The President shall transmit notice to Congress of 
     any such determination, and no contract may be made pursuant 
     to the exception authorized until the end of the 30-day 
     period beginning on the date the notice of such determination 
     is received by Congress.
       ``(3) Before the construction of a Coast Guard vessel, or a 
     major component of the hull or superstructure of a Coast 
     Guard vessel, may commence at a foreign shipyard pursuant to 
     this subsection, the Commandant 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.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 8679(a) of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting ``and section 
     1151(b) of title 14'' after ``in subsection (b)''.
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