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    <item congress="119" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5240" measure-id="id119hr5240" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2025-09-09" update-date="2025-09-18">
        <title>Fully Funding our National Security Priorities Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119hr5240v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2025-09-18">
            <action-date>2025-09-09</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Fully Funding our National Security Priorities Act</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Department of State to submit an annual report to Congress regarding unfunded State Department priorities.</p><p>Under the bill, an <em>unfunded priority</em> generally refers to a program, activity, or mission requirement of the State Department that was not funded in the President's budget and is necessary to fulfill a foreign policy or national security objective or to satisfy an information requirement associated with a goal or objective outlined in the Joint Strategic Plan agreed upon by the State Department.</p><p>The report must be submitted no later than 10 days after the President's budget is submitted to Congress and must include specified details regarding each unfunded priority, including&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><ul><li>a description of the priority, including the objectives to be achieved if the priority is funded;</li><li>the amount of additional funding that is needed to achieve the objective; and</li><li>certain budget information (e.g., the appropriation account and the project).&nbsp;</li></ul>]]></summary-text>
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