[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4996-S4997]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2693. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 title X, insert the following:

     SEC. __. REPORT ON SURVEILLANCE AND COLLECTIONS APPARATUS OF 
                   THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA LOCATED IN CUBA.

       (a) In General.--Not later than March 31, 2025, the 
     Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of 
     Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a classified report on the threats posed by and a 
     strategy to counter surveillance and collections apparatus of 
     the People's Republic of China located in Cuba.
       (b) Elements.--The report submitted pursuant to subsection 
     (a) shall address the following in relation to surveillance 
     and collections apparatus of the People's Republic of China 
     located in Cuba:
       (1) An analysis of the capabilities and potential expansion 
     of such apparatus.
       (2) An assessment of possible targets and the success of 
     such engagement against them.
       (3) An assessment of vulnerabilities and threats to United 
     States national security and economic interests posed by such 
     apparatus.

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       (4) An assessment of the security risk to United States 
     operations at United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, 
     Cuba, posed by such apparatus.
       (5) An assessment of the role such apparatus plays in the 
     space-based capabilities of the People's Republic of China.
       (6) A plan and policy recommendations to mitigate 
     vulnerabilities and threats posed by such apparatus.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
     of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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