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“I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 35, after line 14, insert the following: SEC. 22. SENSE OF CONGRESS AND REPORTS. (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that-- (1) the Civilian Property Realignment Commission, should take steps to provide assistance to small, minority, and woman-owned businesses seeking to be awarded contracts to redevelop federal property; (2) the Civilian Property Realignment Commission and other appropriate Federal officials should conduct a public information campaign to advise small, minority, and women- owned business firms with respect to contracts for the sale or redevelopment of Federal property; and (3) firms that are awarded contracts pertaining to the redevelopment of Federal property should, to the maximum extent practicable, seek to award subcontracts for such contracts to small, minority, and women-owned business firms. (b) Progress Reports.--Every 6 months, the Civilian Property Realignment Commission shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress and the President, a report regarding contracting. Each such report shall indicate, as of the date of the submission of such report, the size of all business firms awarded contracts by the Commission and the size of all business firms awarded subcontracts under such contracts The CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 537, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms.…”