To provide, with an offset, additional funding for missile defense testing and operations.

SA 4471. Mr. SESSIONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2007 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 C of title II, add the following:

SEC. 236. TESTING AND OPERATIONS FOR MISSILE DEFENSE.

(a) Additional Amount for Missile Defense Agency.--Of the
amount authorized to be appropriated by section 201(4) for
research, development, test, and evaluation for Defense-wide
activities, the amount that is available for the Missile
Defense Agency is hereby increased by $45,000,000.
(b) Availability of Amount.--Of the amount authorized to be
appropriated by section 201(4) for research, development,
test, and evaluation for Defense-wide activities and
available for the Missile Defense Agency, as increased by
subsection (a), $45,000,000 may be available for Ballistic
Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment (PE #63882C)--
(1) to accelerate the ability to conduct concurrent test
and missile defense operations; and
(2) to increase the pace of realistic flight testing of the
ground-based midcourse defense system.
(c) Supplement.--Amounts available under subsection (b) for
the program element referred to in that subsection are in
addition to any other amounts available in this Act for that
program element.
(d) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by
section 201(4) for research, development, test, and
evaluation for Defense-wide activities that is available for
any purpose other than the Missile Defense Agency is hereby
reduced by $45,000,000.

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