S.Amdt. 583

SA 583. Mr. JOHNSON (for himself and Ms. Baldwin) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1790, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle D of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 843. SENSE OF SENATE ON IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING A
STABLE DEFENSE SUPPLY INCLUDING SMALL BUSINESS
SUPPLIERS.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) it is in the national security interest of the United
States to maintain a stable defense supply base that includes
small business suppliers;
(2) small businesses within the defense supply base are
especially vulnerable to significant changes in funding for
acquisition programs; and
(3) the Department of Defense should avoid, to the extent
possible, drastic acquisition program changes in order to
provide more predictability and opportunities for defense
suppliers, particularly small businesses, to adapt.

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