[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4527]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 528. Mr. LEAHY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 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:

       On page 603, after line 25, add the following:
       (e) Comptroller General of the United States Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than May 1, 2018, the 
     Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress a report that sets forth 
     the following:
       (A) A description of the mechanisms and authorities used by 
     the Department of Defense and the Department of State to 
     conduct training of foreign security forces on human rights 
     and international humanitarian law.
       (B) A description of the funding used to support the 
     training described in paragraph (1).
       (C) A description and assessment of the methodology used by 
     each of the Department of Defense and the Department of State 
     to assess the effectiveness of such training.
       (D) Such recommendations for improvements to such training 
     as the Comptroller General considers appropriate.
       (E) Such other matters relating to such training as the 
     Comptroller General considers appropriate.
       (2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     House of Representatives.
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