- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 23, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 5999. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1__. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO CONTRACTING
PREFERENCES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN BUSINESSES.
It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense
shall uphold the obligation of the Department to implement
Federal contracting preference programs for entity-owned
Native American businesses, including businesses owned by
Tribal organizations, Alaska Native Corporations, and Native
Hawaiian organizations, including through the business
development program under section 8(a) of the Small Business
Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)).