S.Amdt. 2144

SA 2144. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 XI, insert the following:

SEC. ___. DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY FOR CERTAIN PERSONNEL OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN THE INDO-PACIFIC.

Section 9905(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(15) Any position in Guam, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of Palau, the
Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of the
Marshall Islands supporting military mission or posture
requirements in the Indo-Pacific.''.
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