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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6263. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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 D of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1252. INITIATIVE FOR ENHANCED COOPERATION WITH JAPAN AND
THE PHILIPPINES.
(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall
establish an initiative to enhance trilateral cooperation
among the United States, Japan, and the Philippines (referred
to in this section as the “Initiative”).
(b) Elements.—The Initiative shall address the following
issues:
(1) Maritime cooperation and information sharing.
(2) Economic security.
(3) Digital, cyber, and technology cooperation.
(4) Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
(5) Any other matter the Secretary of State considers
appropriate.
(c) Designated Official.—
(1) In general.—The Secretary of State shall designate an
employee of the Department of State to be responsible for the
Initiative.
(2) Additional roles.—The official designated under
paragraph (1) may carry out additional roles within the
Department of State.
(d) Trilateral Working Group.—The Secretary of State shall
seek to establish, within the United States Embassy in
Manila, a trilateral working group to support the Initiative
that includes representatives from the Government of the
Philippines and the Embassy of Japan in Manila.
(e) Congressional Engagement.—Not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
State shall—
(1) notify the appropriate committees of Congress of the
official designated under subsection (c)(1); and
(2) make such official available to provide briefings to
Congress on plans to enhance trilateral cooperation under the
Initiative.
(f) Report.—
(1) In general.—Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the
Secretary of State, in coordination with head of any relevant
Federal department or agency, shall submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a report that—
(A) details the results of cooperation under the
Initiative;
(B) describes trilateral engagements and initiatives; and
(C) explains any barriers to enhanced cooperation.
(2) Form.—Each report required by paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.
(g) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.—In this
section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress”
means—
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Armed Services of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Armed Services of the House of Representatives.