S.Amdt. 710

SA 710. Mr. YOUNG 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 C of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1018. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NAMING OF A DDG-51 CLASS
VESSEL IN HONOR OF THE HONORABLE RICHARD G
LUGAR.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar was born in
Indianapolis, Indiana in 1932 and graduated from Shortridge
High School in 1950 in Indianapolis, Indiana, as an Eagle
Scout and American Legion Boys Nation delegate.
(2) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar volunteered for the
United States Navy and served his country as an officer from
1957-1960, including as an intelligence briefer to the Chief
of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke.
(3) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar was elected to the
United States Senate in 1976, and served from January 3,
1977, to January 3, 2013.
(4) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar was one of only two
senators in history to serve 34 years on the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate, including two terms as chair
from 1985 to 1987 and from 2003 to 2007.
(5) As a leader in reducing the threat of nuclear,
chemical, and biological weapons, the Honorable Richard G.
Lugar passed and oversaw the implementation of the bipartisan
Nunn-Lugar program, which deactivated more than 7,600 nuclear
warheads, millions of chemical munitions, and several
thousand nuclear capable missiles, and continues to perform
non-proliferation missions in more than 40 countries.
(6) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar played an essential role
in the enactment of sanctions on the Apartheid government of
South Africa, the United States recognition of President
Corazon Aquino as the winner of the 1986 Philippines
election, the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization alliance, the construction and passage of the
United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
initiative to combat the global AIDS epidemic, and the
ratification of numerous arms control and anti-terrorism
treaties.
(7) On November 20, 2013, the Honorable Richard G. Lugar
was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
(8) On April 28, 2019, at 87 years of age, the Honorable
Richard G. Lugar died in Falls Church, Virginia.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the Secretary of the Navy should name the next unnamed vessel
of the DDG-51 Flight III class of destroyer warship in honor
of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar.
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