S.Amdt. 3952

SA 3952. Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mr. Kennedy) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr.
Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A,
insert the following:
Sec. ___.  Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit
to the congressional defense committees an addendum to the
30-year shipbuilding plan of the Navy that sets forth in
detail the manner in which the Department of the Navy will
take into account in such plan each of the following:
(1) Appropriate diversification among small-sized and
medium-sized surface ships.
(2) Existing programs and designs in production of Armed
Forces other than the Navy that could be used to achieve a
Navy of 355 surface ships in a more expeditious and cost-
effective manner than is currently contemplated by the plan.
(3) Capacity in the shipbuilding industry as of the date of
the report.
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