S.Amdt. 6475

SA 6475. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2027 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 XI, insert the following:

SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON LITERACY SCREENERS FOR
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY
SCHOOLS.

It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense
should use amounts available for the Department of Defense
Education Activity to hire literacy screeners to help
identify children at schools operated by the Activity who are
struggling with reading at an early age.
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