To express the sense of the Senate that the Department of Defense should fund initiatives to increase the domestic manufacturing capability to produce ceramic armor and its requisite components.

SA 518. Mr. BUNNING submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1268, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 231, between lines 3 and 4, insert the following:

SEC. . SILICON CARBIDE ARMOR INITIATIVE.

Of amounts available to the Department of Defense in this Act, $5,000,000 may be used for the purpose of funding a silicon carbide armor initiative to meet the critical needs for silicon carbide powders used in the production of ceramic armor plates for military vehicles.