S.Amdt. 2734

SA 2734. Mr. CRUZ 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 end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1239. FEASIBILITY REPORT ON PERMANENT STATIONING OF
ADDITIONAL ARMORED BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM IN
EUROPE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on
the feasibility and efficiency of, in response to recent
aggression by the Russian Federation, permanently stationing
in Europe an additional armored brigade combat team of the
United States Army for the purpose of strengthening
deterrence and reassuring Eastern European member countries
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) An examination of, at a minimum, basing solutions in
Poland and Germany.
(2) An analysis on the impact of such basing on the
deployment tempo of armored brigade combat teams of the
United States Army based in the continental United States.
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