S.Amdt. 3442

SA 3442. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 XII, insert the
following:

SEC. 12__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON INCREASING PORT AND AIRFIELD
CAPACITY OF COUNTRIES IN INDO-PACIFIC REGION.

It is the sense of Congress that, as the People's Republic
of China continues to grow in influence through
infrastructure (specifically infrastructure that can easily
be shifted from economic to military uses), the United States
International Development Finance Corporation should
prioritize providing alternative financing opportunities that
increase port and air field capacity of countries throughout
the Indo-Pacific region that--
(1) are targets of the predatory infrastructure development
scheme of the People's Republic of China; and
(2) are eligible for support provided by the Corporation
under title II of the Better Utilization of Investments
Leading to Development Act of 2018 (22 U.S.C. 9621 et seq.).
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