[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5095]
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SA 3307. 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 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 A of title VI, add the following:
SEC. 605. REPORT ON EXPENDITURES MADE WITH FUNDS COLLECTED
FROM BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR SUBSISTENCE PAYMENTS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller), in consultation with the Director of the
Defense Finance and Accounting Service and the Secretaries of
the military departments, shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report listing all expenditures made
during fiscal year 2024 with funds collected from payments to
members of the Armed Forces for the basic allowance for
subsistence under section 402 of title 37, United States
Code, disaggregated by branch of the Armed Forces.
(b) Availability to Members.--The report required by
subsection (a) shall be made available to any Member of
Congress upon the request of that Member.
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