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<item congress="115" measure-type="s" measure-number="3198" measure-id="id115s3198" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2018-07-11" update-date="2018-08-08">
<title>Allied Burden Sharing Report Act of 2018</title>
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<action-date>2018-07-11</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>Allied Burden Sharing Report Act of 2018</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Defense to submit an annual report to Congress describing: </p> <ul> <li>each allied nation's annual defense spending, its contributions to military or stability operations in which the United States participates, and limitations it places on such contributions' use; and </li> <li>actions taken by the United States or by other countries to minimize such limitations. </li> </ul>]]></summary-text>
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