S.Amdt. 3653

SA 3653. Mr. CRUZ 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:

In section 1504, striking subsection (b) and insert the
following:
(b) Notice and Briefing.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date on
which the assessment guide required by subsection (a) is
published, the Secretary shall--
(A) notify the appropriate committees of Congress of such
publication; and
(B) provide the appropriate committees of Congress with a
briefing on the contents of the assessment guide.
(2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology of the House of Representatives.
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