[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 13, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3919-S3920]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2896. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and 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 F of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 12__. REPORT RELATING TO FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in coordination 
     with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the 
     appropriate committees of Congress a report that examines the 
     feasibility of requiring by 2025 a tour of not less than one 
     year in the Department of Defense, excluding educational 
     opportunities, for any foreign service officer of the 
     Department of State to be considered for the senior foreign 
     service.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:

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       (1) The number of senior foreign service officers who, as 
     of the date of the enactment of this Act, have done a tour of 
     at least one year in the Department of Defense.
       (2) The total number of senior foreign service officers.
       (3) The average number of senior foreign service officers 
     inducted annually during the 10 years preceding the date of 
     the enactment of this Act;
       (4) The total number of Department of State political 
     advisors stationed in the Department of Defense, including in 
     which commands or offices such political advisors serve;
       (5) The total number of Department of Defense military 
     advisors stationed in the Department of State (excluding 
     defense attaches, senior defense officials, and other 
     Department of Defense personnel stationed in embassies) and 
     the offices in which such military advisors serve.
       (6) A description of the process and an assessment of the 
     resources needed for the tour requirement to begin in 2025.
       (7) Any costs associated with such requirement.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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