[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3601]
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  SA 6475. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2027 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 XI, insert the following:

     SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON LITERACY SCREENERS FOR 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY 
                   SCHOOLS.

       It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense 
     should use amounts available for the Department of Defense 
     Education Activity to hire literacy screeners to help 
     identify children at schools operated by the Activity who are 
     struggling with reading at an early age.
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