To express the sense of the Senate and establish points of order to ensure the United States adequately funds national defense with a whole-of-government investment plan for strategic competition with the People's Republic of China.

SA 1523. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Graham, Mr. Cotton,
Ms. Ernst, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Cramer, Mrs.
Fischer, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Hawley)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502
proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new
Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research,
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical
supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. POINT OF ORDER TO ENSURE UNITED STATES ADEQUATELY
FUNDS NATIONAL DEFENSE.

(a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
(1) Relative to the February 2021 Congressional Budget
Office spending baseline, President Joseph R. Biden has
proposed more than $6,000,000,000,000 in nondefense spending
outside the annual appropriations process.
(2) President Biden's fiscal year 2022 budget request
proposes to increase spending in the nondefense discretionary
category by almost 20 percent while cutting the United States
defense budget in real terms.
(3) This Act contains more than $100,000,000,000 of
authorizations of appropriations without a single additional
dollar authorized to be appropriated for the Department of
Defense.
(4) The United States Armed Forces has lost
$400,000,000,000 relative to inflation since 2011.
(5) The People's Liberation Army has experienced real
budget growth for more than two decades, including 6.8
percent growth in 2021.
(6) A July 22, 2019, statement by Speaker of the House of
Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer stated
that ``Democrats have always insisted on parity in increases
between defense and non-defense''.
(b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate
that Congress should adequately fund national defense with a
whole-of-government investment plan for strategic competition
with the People's Republic of China, including by adhering to
the principle of parity between increases for defense and
nondefense spending, which would result in significant real
growth for the defense budget.
(c) Point of Order for Fiscal Year 2022.--It shall not be
in order in the Senate to consider--
(1) a concurrent resolution on the budget, or an amendment
to, conference report on, amendment between the Houses in
relation to, or a motion on a concurrent resolution on the
budget, that determines and declares as the appropriate level
of new discretionary budget authority for major functional
category 050 (National Defense) for fiscal year 2022 an
amount that is less than the total amount of the appropriate
level of new discretionary budget authority determined and
declared for all major functional categories other than major
functional category 050 for fiscal year 2022;
(2) a bill or joint resolution reported pursuant to section
310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 641),
or an amendment to, conference report on, amendment between
the Houses in relation to, or motion on such a bill or joint
resolution, that appropriates amounts for 1 or more major
functional categories other than major functional category
050 for fiscal year 2022 and does not appropriate amounts for
major functional category 050 for fiscal year 2022 in an
amount that is not less than the amount appropriated under
that measure for all major functional categories other than
major functional category 050 for fiscal year 2022; or
(3) a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for
fiscal year 2022, or an amendment to, conference report on,
amendment between the Houses in relation to, or motion on
such a bill or joint resolution, that would cause the total
amount of appropriations for the revised nonsecurity category
for fiscal year 2022 to exceed the total amount of
appropriations for the revised security category for fiscal
year 2022.
(d) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (c) may be waived or
suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative
vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly
chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of
the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under
subsection (a).
(e) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``revised
nonsecurity category'' and ``revised security category'' have
the meanings given those terms in section 250(c)(4) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2
U.S.C. 900(c)(4)).
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