[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 119 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2373-S2374]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 164. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 
to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 
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

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year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in title IV, insert the following:

     SEC. __. REPORTING ON END STRENGTH RATIONALES.

       Section 115a(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary'';
       (2) by inserting ``, including an assessment of the most 
     important threats facing the United States by regional 
     command and how personnel end strength level requests address 
     those specific threats'' after ``in effect at the time''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Not later than May 1 each year, the Secretary shall 
     provide a briefing to Congress including--
       ``(A) the rationale for recommended increases or decreases 
     in active, reserve, and civilian personnel for each component 
     of the Department of Defense;
       ``(B) the rationale for recommended increases or decreases 
     in active, reserve, and civilian personnel for each of the 
     regional combatant commands;
       ``(C) the primary functions or missions of military and 
     civilian personnel in each regional combatant command; and
       ``(D) an assessment of any areas in which decreases in 
     active, reserve, or civilian personnel would not result in a 
     decrease in readiness.''.
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