S.Amdt. 2824

SA 2824. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019
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 E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 12__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ESTABLISHMENT OF COMBINED
MARITIME TASK FORCE PACIFIC.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) not later than one year after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the President shall establish a task force, to
be known as the Combined Maritime Task Force Pacific, to
protect a free and open Indo-Pacific maritime region;
(2) in establishing the task force, the President shall
seek the participation of partner nations that are interested
in goals of the task force; and
(3) the United States Navy shall lead the task force.
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