[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2824. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
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__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ESTABLISHMENT OF COMBINED 
                   MARITIME TASK FORCE PACIFIC.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) 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;
       (2) in establishing the task force, the President shall 
     seek the participation of partner nations that are interested 
     in goals of the task force; and
       (3) the United States Navy shall lead the task force.
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