S.Amdt. 2896

SA 2896. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 12__. REPORT RELATING TO FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of State, in coordination
with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report that examines the
feasibility of requiring by 2025 a tour of not less than one
year in the Department of Defense, excluding educational
opportunities, for any foreign service officer of the
Department of State to be considered for the senior foreign
service.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:

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(1) The number of senior foreign service officers who, as
of the date of the enactment of this Act, have done a tour of
at least one year in the Department of Defense.
(2) The total number of senior foreign service officers.
(3) The average number of senior foreign service officers
inducted annually during the 10 years preceding the date of
the enactment of this Act;
(4) The total number of Department of State political
advisors stationed in the Department of Defense, including in
which commands or offices such political advisors serve;
(5) The total number of Department of Defense military
advisors stationed in the Department of State (excluding
defense attaches, senior defense officials, and other
Department of Defense personnel stationed in embassies) and
the offices in which such military advisors serve.
(6) A description of the process and an assessment of the
resources needed for the tour requirement to begin in 2025.
(7) Any costs associated with such requirement.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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