[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 83 (Wednesday, May 25, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4163. Mr. RUBIO (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, and Mr. Gardner) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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:

       After section 1243, insert the following:

     SEC. 1243A. GRANT OF OBSERVER STATUS TO THE MILITARY FORCES 
                   OF TAIWAN AT RIM OF THE PACIFIC EXERCISES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall grant 
     observer status to the military forces of Taiwan in any 
     maritime exercise known as the Rim of the Pacific Exercise.
       (b) Effective Date.--This section takes effect on the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, and applies with respect to any 
     maritime exercise described in subsection (a) that begins on 
     or after such date.
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