[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 124 (Wednesday, July 19, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3421-S3422]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 981. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Boozman, Mr. 
Coons, and Mr. Cassidy) 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 year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1299L. INVESTMENT, TRADE, AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA AND 
                   LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN.

       (a) Strategy Required.--
       (1) In general.--The President shall establish a 
     comprehensive United States strategy for public and private 
     investment, trade, and development in Africa and Latin 
     America and the Caribbean.
       (2) Focus of strategy.--The strategy required by paragraph 
     (1) shall focus on increasing exports of United States goods 
     and services to Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean by 
     200 percent in real dollar value by the date that is 10 years 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (3) Consultations.--In developing the strategy required by 
     paragraph (1), the President shall consult with--
       (A) Congress;
       (B) each agency that is a member of the Trade Promotion 
     Coordinating Committee;
       (C) the relevant multilateral development banks, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury and the 
     respective United States Executive Directors of such banks;
       (D) each agency that participates in the Trade Policy Staff 
     Committee established;
       (E) the President's Export Council;
       (F) each of the development agencies;
       (G) any other Federal agencies with responsibility for 
     export promotion or financing and development; and
       (H) the private sector, including businesses, 
     nongovernmental organizations, and African and Latin American 
     and Caribbean diaspora groups.
       (4) Submission to appropriate congressional committees.--
       (A) Strategy.--Not later than 200 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to 
     Congress the strategy required by subsection (a).
       (B) Progress report.--Not later than 3 years after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to 
     Congress a report on the implementation of the strategy 
     required by paragraph (1).
       (b) Special Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean 
     Export Strategy Coordinators.--The Secretary of Commerce 
     shall designate an individual within the Department of 
     Commerce to serve as Special Africa Export Strategy 
     Coordinator and an individual within the Department of 
     Commerce to serve as Special Latin America and the Caribbean 
     Export Strategy Coordinator--
       (1) to oversee the development and implementation of the 
     strategy required by subsection (a);
       (2) to coordinate developing and implementing the strategy 
     with--
       (A) the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee;
       (B) the Director General for the U.S. and Foreign 
     Commercial Service and the Assistant Secretary for Global 
     Markets;
       (C) the Assistant United States Trade Representative for 
     African Affairs or the Assistant United States Trade 
     Representative for the Western Hemisphere, as appropriate;
       (D) the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs or 
     the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere 
     Affairs, as appropriate;
       (E) the Foreign Agricultural Service of the Department of 
     Agriculture;
       (F) the Export-Import Bank of the United States;
       (G) the United States International Development Finance 
     Corporation; and
       (H) the development agencies; and
       (3) considering and reflecting the impact of promotion of 
     United States exports on the economy and employment 
     opportunities of importing country, with a view to improving 
     secure supply chains, avoiding economic disruptions, and 
     stabilizing economic growth in a trade and export strategy.
       (c) Trade Missions to Africa and Latin America and the 
     Caribbean.--It is the sense of Congress that, not later than 
     one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of Commerce and other high-

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     level officials of the United States Government with 
     responsibility for export promotion, financing, and 
     development should conduct joint trade missions to Africa and 
     to Latin America and the Caribbean.
       (d) Training.--The President shall develop a plan--
       (1) to standardize the training received by United States 
     and Foreign Commercial Service officers, economic officers of 
     the Department of State, and economic officers of the United 
     States Agency for International Development with respect to 
     the programs and procedures of the Export-Import Bank of the 
     United States, the United States International Development 
     Finance Corporation, the Small Business Administration, and 
     the United States Trade and Development Agency; and
       (2) to ensure that, not later than one year after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act--
       (A) all United States and Foreign Commercial Service 
     officers that are stationed overseas receive the training 
     described in paragraph (1); and
       (B) in the case of a country to which no United States and 
     Foreign Commercial Service officer is assigned, any economic 
     officer of the Department of State stationed in that country 
     receives that training.
       (e) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
     Finance, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
     Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Ways 
     and Means, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
     House of Representatives.
       (2) Development agencies.--The term ``development 
     agencies'' means the United States Department of State, the 
     United States Agency for International Development, the 
     Millennium Challenge Corporation, the United States 
     International Development Finance Corporation, the United 
     States Trade and Development Agency, the United States 
     Department of Agriculture, and relevant multilateral 
     development banks.
       (3) Multilateral development banks.--The term 
     ``multilateral development banks'' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 1701(c)(4) of the International Financial 
     Institutions Act (22 U.S.C. 262r(c)(4)) and includes the 
     African Development Foundation.
       (4) Trade policy staff committee.--The term ``Trade Policy 
     Staff Committee'' means the Trade Policy Staff Committee 
     established pursuant to section 2002.2 of title 15, Code of 
     Federal Regulations.
       (5) Trade promotion coordinating committee.--The term 
     ``Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee'' means the Trade 
     Promotion Coordinating Committee established under section 
     2312 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4727).
       (6) United states and foreign commercial service.--The term 
     ``United States and Foreign Commercial Service'' means the 
     United States and Foreign Commercial Service established by 
     section 2301 of the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 
     4721).
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