S.Amdt. 201

SA 201. Mr. SCHMITT submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 appropriate place in title I, insert the following:

SEC. __. SENSE OF SENATE ON PROCUREMENT OF OUTSTANDING F/A-18
SUPER HORNET PLATFORMS.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds that Congress appropriated
funds for twelve F/A-18 Super Hornet platforms in fiscal year
2022 and eight F/A-18 Super Hornet platforms in fiscal year
2023, but the Navy has yet to enter into any contracts for
the procurement of such platforms.
(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the Secretary of the Navy should expeditiously enter
into contractual agreements to procure the twenty F/A-18
Super Hornet platforms for which funds have been
appropriated; and
(2) the Senate urges the Secretary of the Navy to comply
with congressional intent and applicable law with appropriate
expediency to bolster the Navy's fleet of strike fighter
aircraft and avoid further disruption to the defense
industrial base.
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