[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7989]
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  SA 4493. Mr. RISCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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. 1253. REPORT ON CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT OF INDO-PACIFIC 
                   ALLIES AND PARTNERS.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the Secretary of State should expand and strengthen 
     existing measures under the United States Conventional Arms 
     Transfer Policy to provide capabilities to allies and 
     partners consistent with agreed-on division of responsibility 
     for alliance roles, missions and capabilities, prioritizing 
     allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region in accordance 
     with United States strategic imperatives;
       (2) the United States should design for export to Indo-
     Pacific allies and partners capabilities critical to 
     maintaining a favorable military balance in the region, 
     including long-range precision fires, air and missile defense 
     systems, anti-ship cruise missiles, land attack cruise 
     missiles, conventional hypersonic systems, intelligence, 
     surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, and command 
     and control systems;
       (3) the United States should pursue, to the maximum extent 
     possible, anticipatory technology security and foreign 
     disclosure policy on the systems described in paragraph (2); 
     and
       (4) the Secretary of State, in coordination with the 
     Secretary of Defense, should--
       (A) urge allies and partners to invest in sufficient 
     quantities of munitions to meet contingency requirements and 
     avoid the need for accessing United States stocks in wartime; 
     and
       (B) cooperate with allies to deliver such munitions, or 
     when necessary, to increase allies' capacity to produce such 
     munitions.
       (b) Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In this section, 
     the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
       (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
       (c) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to 
     the appropriate committees of Congress a report that 
     describes United States priorities for building more capable 
     security partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
       (2) Matters to be included.--The report required under 
     paragraph (1) shall--
       (A) provide a priority list of defense and military 
     capabilities that Indo-Pacific allies and partners must 
     possess for the United States to be able to achieve its 
     military objectives in the Indo-Pacific region;
       (B) identify, from the list referred to in subparagraph 
     (A), the capabilities that are best provided, or can only be 
     provided, by the United States;
       (C) identify--
       (i) actions required to prioritize United States Government 
     resources and personnel to expedite fielding the capabilities 
     identified in subparagraph (B); and
       (ii) steps needed to fully account for and a plan to 
     integrate all means of United States foreign military sales, 
     direct commercial sales, security assistance, and all 
     applicable authorities of the Department of State and the 
     Department of Defense;
       (D) assess the requirements for United States security 
     assistance, including International Military Education and 
     Training, in the Indo-Pacific region, as a part of the means 
     to deliver critical partner capability requirements 
     identified in subparagraph (B);
       (E) assess the resources necessary to meet the requirements 
     for United States security assistance, and identify resource 
     gaps;
       (F) assess the major obstacles to fulfilling requirements 
     for United States security assistance in the Indo-Pacific 
     region, including resources and personnel limits, foreign 
     legislative and policy barriers, and factors related to 
     specific partner countries;
       (G) identify limitations on the ability of the United 
     States to provide such capabilities, including those 
     identified under subparagraph (B), because of existing United 
     States treaty obligations, United States policies, or other 
     regulations;
       (H) recommend improvements to the process for developing 
     requirements for United States partner capabilities; and
       (I) identify required jointly agreed recommendations for 
     infrastructure and posture, based on any ongoing mutual 
     dialogues.
       (3) Form.--The report required under this subsection shall 
     be unclassified, but may include a classified annex.
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