[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3512]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2063. Mr. GARDNER 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 appropriate place in subtitle E of title XII, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 12__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE 
                   AND THE ASIA REASSURANCE AND INITIATIVE ACT OF 
                   2018.

       It is the sense of Congress that the Pacific Deterrence 
     Initiative is designed to implement the strategic and policy 
     objectives articulated by Congress in the Asia Reassurance 
     Initiative Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-409; 132 Stat. 5387) 
     and by the executive branch in the National Security 
     Strategy, the ``Free and Open Indo-Pacific'' strategy of the 
     Department of State, the National Defense Strategy, and the 
     Indo-Pacific strategy report of the Department of Defense, 
     which states that the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018 
     (Public Law 115-409; 132 Stat. 5387) ``enshrines a 
     generational whole-of-government policy framework that 
     demonstrates U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific 
     region and includes initiatives that promote sovereignty, 
     rule of law, democracy, economic engagement, and regional 
     security''.
                                 ______