S.Amdt. 1553

SA 1553. Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Kaine) 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. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE EXPORTATION OF SURPLUS
COVID-19 VACCINES TO COUNTRIES IN NEED.

It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State, in
coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services
and the Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development, should--
(1) immediately engage in multilateral and bilateral
negotiations to provide surplus COVID-19 vaccines held by the
United States to countries in need of such vaccines with the
best opportunity for impact;
(2) evaluate the perception of people throughout the world
regarding--
(A) the efforts made by the United States to supply COVID-
19 vaccines to countries in need of such vaccines; and
(B) the contributions made by other countries to supply
COVID-19 vaccines to countries in need of such vaccines; and
(3) integrate public diplomacy with the technical response
to the worldwide COVID-19 vaccine shortage to the fullest
extent practicable.
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