S.Amdt. 761

SA 761. Mr. BROWN 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 end of subtitle C of title VIII, insert the
following:

SEC. 836. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO RUBBER SUPPLY.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the Department of Defense should take all appropriate
action to lessen the dependence of the Armed Forces on
adversarial nations for the procurement of strategic and
critical materials, and that one such material in short
supply according to the most recent report from Defense
Logistics Agency Strategic Material is natural rubber,
undermining our national security and jeopardizing the
military's ability to rely on a stable source of natural
rubber for tire manufacturing and production of other goods;
and
(2) the Secretary of Defense should take all appropriate
action, pursuant with the authority provided by the Strategic
and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98a et
seq.) to engage in activities that may include stockpiling,
but shall also include research and development aspects for
increasing the domestic supply of natural rubber.
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