[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3245-S3246]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1735. Mr. BENNET (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Brown, and Mr. 
Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the 
bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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. ___. ANNUAL REPORTS ON MILITARY PERSONNEL AND EXTREMIST 
                   IDEOLOGIES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than February 28 each year, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees a report that sets forth a description and 
     assessment of the interaction between members of the Armed 
     Forces and extremist ideologies during the preceding year.
       (b) Elements.--Each report under subsection (a) shall 
     include, for the year covered by such report, the following:
       (1) A description of the current policies of the Department 
     of Defense, and each Armed Force, on affiliations between 
     members of the Armed Forces and recruits to the Armed Forces 
     and white supremacist, neo-Nazi, terrorist, gang, and other 
     extremist ideologies.
       (2) A description and assessment of the current procedures 
     used by the Department, and each Armed Force, to identify and 
     mitigate the affiliations described in paragraph (1).
       (3) An assessment of the recruitment tactics and practices 
     used by organizations that propound ideologies referred to in 
     paragraph (1) toward members and potential members of the 
     Armed Forces, including a description of the evolution of 
     such tactics and practices.
       (4) A listing of the installations currently subject to 
     orders banning hate speech, and affiliated symbols, among 
     installation personnel.
       (5) The number of violations of policies against the 
     affiliations described in paragraph (1), including hate 
     crimes, and the number of reports of such violations, 
     identified by the Department, and by each Armed Force, and a 
     description of each such violation, (including the nature of 
     such affiliation and the disciplinary or other measures taken 
     in response to such violation).
       (6) If the disciplinary action authorized for violations 
     described in paragraph (5) included administrative separation 
     from the Armed Forces--
       (A) the number of individuals administratively separated 
     from the Armed Forces in connection with such violations; and
       (B) the number of individuals retained in the Armed Forces 
     notwithstanding a substantiated finding of such a violation.
       (7) An identification and assessment of the extent to which 
     the number of such violations is on the increase, and a 
     description and assessment of any trends in the number of 
     such violations.
       (8) A description and assessment of the training provided 
     to members of the Armed Forces in order combat the ideologies 
     referred to in paragraph (1), and an identification of each 
     Armed Force that provides implicit bias training, including a 
     description of such training, the frequency of such training, 
     and the recipients of such training.
       (9) A description and assessment of the frequency of 
     assessments of the culture of diversity, equity, and 
     inclusion in the Armed Forces.
       (10) A description of any programs of the Department, and 
     of the Armed Forces, that showed results in increasing 
     diversity in the Armed Forces and among the grades of the 
     Armed Forces.
       (c) Additional Report in Connection With Increase in 
     Violations.--If the report under subsection (a) in 2022 
     identifies an increase in violations described in subsection 
     (b)(5) between 2020 and 2021, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the House of Representatives an additional report setting 
     forth the results of a study, conducted for purposes of this 
     subsection by an entity outside the Department of Defense 
     selected by the Secretary for purposes of this subsection, on 
     the following:
       (1) The causes of the increase.
       (2) Recommendations for measures to address the increase.

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       (d) Additional Elements on Trends in Violations.--Each 
     report under subsection (a) shall also include the following:
       (1) A description and assessment of the trend in violations 
     described in subsection (b)(5) between the year covered by 
     such report and the year preceding the year covered by such 
     report.
       (2) A description and assessment of the work undertaken by 
     the Department of Defense with other departments and agencies 
     of the Federal Government, including the Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation, to identify the extent and nature of such 
     trend.
       (e) Form.--Each report under this section shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may include information 
     in a classified annex only to the extent that submittal of 
     such information in classified form is the sole basis on 
     which such information is submittable to Congress.
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