S.Amdt. 1530
What it does: Adds SEC. 1023. SENSE OF SENATE ON SECOND HOMEPORT FOR NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ON THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES at the end of subtitle B of title X
Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL)What it changes
1 change to S. 1042 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 1023. SENSE OF SENATE ON SECOND HOMEPORT FOR NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ON THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES at the end of subtitle B of title X
Adds a sectionIn S. 1042 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(d) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may require such additional terms and conditions in connection with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United States.
Inserted: SEC. 1023. SENSE OF SENATE ON SECOND HOMEPORT FOR NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ON THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
Inserted: (a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
Inserted: (1) The Navy has long recognized the need for sufficient deepwater ports, in both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, to adequately protect its fleet.
Inserted: (2) The Chief of Naval Operations testified before Congress in 2005 that the Navy needs two homeports capable of handling aircraft carriers on each coast of the United States for strategic and security purposes.
Inserted: (3) The Navy currently maintains two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast of the United States.
Inserted: (4) The scheduled decommissioning of the two remaining conventional carriers would leave the Navy with an aircraft carrier fleet consisting entirely of nuclear aircraft carriers.
Inserted: (5) The Navy currently possesses only one homeport on the East Coast of the United States capable of handling nuclear aircraft carriers.
Inserted: (6) Dispersing the Atlantic aircraft carrier fleet at two ports on the East Coast of the United States is a strategic and security imperative.
Inserted: (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that a second homeport capable of handling nuclear aircraft carriers should be established on the East Coast of the United States as soon as possible after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle B of title X, add the following:
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As printed
SA 1530. Mr. MARTINEZ (for himself and Mr. Nelson of Florida) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle B of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1023. SENSE OF SENATE ON SECOND HOMEPORT FOR NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ON THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES.
(a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
(1) The Navy has long recognized the need for sufficient deepwater ports, in both the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, to adequately protect its fleet.
(2) The Chief of Naval Operations testified before Congress in 2005 that the Navy needs two homeports capable of handling aircraft carriers on each coast of the United States for strategic and security purposes.
(3) The Navy currently maintains two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast of the United States.
(4) The scheduled decommissioning of the two remaining conventional carriers would leave the Navy with an aircraft carrier fleet consisting entirely of nuclear aircraft carriers.
(5) The Navy currently possesses only one homeport on the East Coast of the United States capable of handling nuclear aircraft carriers.
(6) Dispersing the Atlantic aircraft carrier fleet at two ports on the East Coast of the United States is a strategic and security imperative.
(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that a second homeport capable of handling nuclear aircraft carriers should be established on the East Coast of the United States as soon as possible after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Senate amendment submitted
July 25, 2005