S.Amdt. 858

SA 858. Mr. MURPHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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 VIII of the amendment,
add the following:

SEC. 835. RESTRICTION OF ACQUISITIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION
225.872-1 OF THE DEFENSE FEDERAL ACQUISITION
REGULATION SUPPLEMENT.

The Secretary of Defense may restrict acquisitions pursuant
to section 225.872-1(c) of the Defense Federal Acquisition
Regulation Supplement to domestic sources or reject an
otherwise acceptable offer from a qualifying country listed
in subsection (a) of such section (or any successor
regulation), for national defense reasons, which may include
situations when restricting the acquisition would improve the
capacity of the domestic defense industrial base to support
the National Defense Strategy and the efforts detailed in the
Department of Defense's report, ``Assessing and Strengthening
the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply
Chain Resiliency of the United States''.
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