S.Amdt. 4308

SA 4308. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Mr. Tillis) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr.
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 E of title III, add the following:

SEC. 376. BRIEFING ON SPENDING RELATING TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY,
AND INCLUSION INITIATIVES OF DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

The Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), with the
submission of the annual budget of the Department of Defense
submitted by the President under section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, for fiscal year 2023, shall brief the
congressional defense committees on--
(1) all spending planned to implement guidance or
recommendations from the workforce council of the Deputy
Secretary of Defense, including the activities specified in
the memorandum of the Deputy Secretary of Defense dated March
11, 2021;
(2) all spending planned to implement guidance or
recommendations from the Countering Extremism Working Group
of the Department; and
(3) a financial accounting of planned expenditures for the
implementation of paragraphs (1) or (2), including--
(A) amounts requested for appropriation for operation and
maintenance for the Department for full-time equivalent
employees for such implementation; and
(B) amounts requested for appropriation for military
personnel for the Department for man hours of members of the
Armed Forces for such implementation.
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