[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3331-S3332]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4328. Mr. UDALL 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:

       At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1266. REPORT ON SECURITY COOPERATION PROGRAMS AND 
                   ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   INTENDED TO BUILD PARTNER CAPACITY OF FOREIGN 
                   COUNTRIES.

       (a) Report Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the 
     security cooperation programs and activities of the 
     Department of Defense that are intended to build partner 
     capacity of foreign countries.
       (b) Elements.--The report under subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) An identification of each current security cooperation 
     program or activity of the

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     Department of Defense that is intended to build partner 
     capacity of a foreign country.
       (2) A description of the manner in which each program and 
     activity identified pursuant to paragraph (1) is intended to 
     build partner capacity of a foreign country.
       (3) An assessment whether the programs and activities 
     identified pursuant to paragraph (1) have effectively 
     contributed to the accomplishment of strategic-level 
     objectives.
       (c) Assessment.--In preparing the assessment of a program 
     or activity required pursuant to subsection (b)(3), the 
     Secretary shall do a comparative analysis of the short-term, 
     medium-term, and long-term effectiveness of the program or 
     activity from the perspective of the United States Government 
     and from the perspective of the government of the country 
     concerned.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``appropriate 
     committees of Congress'' and ``security cooperation programs 
     and activities of the Department of Defense'' have the 
     meaning given those terms in section 301 of title 10, United 
     States Code, as added by section 1252 of this Act.
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