S.Amdt. 2791

SA 2791. Mr. BROWN 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 D of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. 2857. POLICY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RELATING TO
CERTAIN CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS MADE IN THE
UNITED STATES.

The Secretary of Defense shall issue a policy to require
that when considering an offer for a contract for work on a
military construction project in the United States, including
for construction on barracks, family housing, or any other
facility on an installation of the Department of Defense,
each Secretary of a military department shall consider
collated steel fasteners, including collated steel nails and
staples, that are manufactured in the United States for all
wood on wood construction projects.
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