[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3332]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2428. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 XII, add the following:

     SEC. 12__. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMBINED MARITIME TASK FORCE 
                   PACIFIC.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the President shall establish a 
     task force, to be known as the Combined Maritime Task Force 
     Pacific, to protect a free and open Indo-Pacific maritime 
     region.
       (b) Consultation.--In establishing the task force under 
     subsection (a), the President shall seek the participation of 
     partner nations that are interested in goals of the task 
     force.
       (c) Leadership.--The United States Navy shall lead the task 
     force established under subsection (a).
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