[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3594]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4541. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her 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 E of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 565. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REPORT ON 
                   THE DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF THE SERVICE 
                   ACADEMIES.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
     States shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the 
     demographic composition of the service academies.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include, for each service academy, the following:
       (1) The gender and ethnic group (in this subsection 
     referred as the ``demographic composition'') of the recruits 
     in the four most recent matriculating classes.
       (2) The demographic composition of the nominees in the four 
     most recent matriculating classes.
       (3) The demographic composition of the applicants in the 
     four most recent matriculating classes.
       (4) The demographic composition of the four most recent 
     graduating classes.
       (5) The number, demographic composition, and current grades 
     of graduates on active duty of each graduating class that 
     graduated 10 years, 20 years, and 25 years before the current 
     graduating class.
       (c) Service Academies Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``services academies'' means the following:
       (1) The United States Military Academy.
       (2) The Naval Academy.
       (3) The Air Force Academy.
       (4) The Coast Guard Academy.
       (5) The Merchant Marine Academy.
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