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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6331. Mr. DURBIN (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Duckworth, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Booker) 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 C of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1229A. BALTIC SECURITY ASSESSMENT.
(a) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) supporting and strengthening the security of Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania (referred to in this section as the
“Baltic countries”) is in the national security interests
of the United States;
(2) continuing to strengthen and update the security
cooperation roadmap for the United States and the Baltic
countries is critical to achieving strategic security
priorities as the Baltic countries face ongoing belligerence
and threats from the Russian Federation, including amid the
Russian Federation's illegal and unprovoked war in Ukraine
that began on February 24, 2022;
(3) the Baltic countries have been valued members of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and continue to
contribute to NATO's collective security and partnership; and
(4) improved economic ties between the United States and
the Baltic countries, including to counter economic pressure
by the People's Republic of China, offer an opportunity to
strengthen the United States-Baltic strategic partnership.
(b) Report on Emerging Threats to the Baltic Countries.—
(1) In general.—Not later than 180 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 on—
(A) emerging military, cyber, hybrid, and political threats
to the Baltic countries;
(B) the roles of the Russian Federation, the Republic of
Belarus, the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic
of Iran, and other malign actors in advancing such threats;
(C) the current posture and presence of United States and
NATO forces in the Baltic region for the purpose of deterring
such threats;
(D) recommendations for strengthening the deterrence
posture, cybersecurity infrastructure, and democratic
resilience of the Baltic countries; and
(E) opportunities to enhance bilateral and multilateral
defense cooperation between the United States and the Baltic
countries, including through the Baltic Security Initiative
established under section 1247 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (Public Law 119-60;
138 Stat. 1106; 10 U.S.C. 333 note).
(2) Form.—The report required by paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified
annex.
(3) Appropriate committees of congress defined.—In this
subsection, the term “appropriate committees of Congress”
means—
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on
Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on
Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.