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Directs the Secretary of State to produce a written strategy (within 180 days) for strengthening U.S. engagement with the Quadrilateral partners (Australia, India, Japan, and the United States) and pushes the U.S. to deepen diplomatic, development, and parliamentary cooperation across the Indo‑Pacific. It also requires the Secretary to seek a written agreement (within 60 days) with the other three Quad countries to create a Quad Inter‑Parliamentary Working Group and, if agreed, establishes a U.S. congressional delegation to participate with rules for membership, meetings, reporting, and limited gift acceptance.
The law is procedural and organizational: it sets timelines and content requirements for the administration’s strategy, encourages expanded Quad dialogues and infrastructure financing through development institutions, and creates a formal mechanism for legislative-to-legislative engagement without authorizing new appropriations.
Introduced February 12, 2025 by Gregory W. Meeks · Last progress May 20, 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 334 - 51 (Roll no. 132). (text: CR H2119-2120)
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2135-2136)