[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 122 (Thursday, July 2, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4238]
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  SA 2429. Mr. BENNET (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Brown, and Mr. 
Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 
2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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, insert the following:

     SEC. 549. 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) If the disciplinary action authorized for violations of 
     policies against the affiliations described in paragraph (1) 
     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.
       (5) An identification and assessment of the extent to which 
     the number of violations described in paragraph (4) is on the 
     increase, and a description and assessment of any trends in 
     the number of such violations.
       (6) 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.
       (c) Additional Reports in Connection With Increase in 
     Violations.--If the report under subsection (a) in any of 
     2022 through 2027 identifies an increase in violations 
     described in subsection (b)(4) between the two years 
     preceding the year in which such report is submitted, 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.
       (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)(4) 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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