S.Amdt. 234

SA 234. Mr. BEGICH (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Udall of Colorado, Mr. Cowan, and Mr. Whitehouse) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 8, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023; which was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:

On page 67, line 3, insert “(a) In General.--” before “The Chairman”.

On page 67, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:

(b) Exclusion of Effort on MEADS From Authorized Efforts Covered by Reserve Fund.--

(1) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:

(A) According to a February 2011 Office of the Secretary of Defense Fact Sheet the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) has encountered significant schedule and cost overruns since its inception in the 1990s.

(B) The Fact Sheet states that the restructured acquisition design and development program would end by 2014, consistent with the expiration of the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States, Germany, and Italy, and the cost ceiling negotiated between those parties.

(2) Exclusion of efforts on meads from authorized efforts.--A revision in the allocations of a committee or committees, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments, motions, or conference reports for acquisition or research and development on the Medium Extended Air Defense System would be an increase in the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2018 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2013 through 2023 and would be inconsistent with acquisition reform efforts of the Department of Defense otherwise authorized by subsection (a).