S.Amdt. 464

SA 464. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him
to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018
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. ___. ANNUAL REPORTS ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
COMMON DEFENSE.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the President should seek from each ally or partner country
of the United States acceptance of international security
responsibilities and agreements to make contributions to the
common defense commensurate with the economic resources and
security environment of such country.
(b) Reports.--
(1) In general.--Not later than March 1, 2018, and annually
thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report containing a
description of--
(A) the annual defense spending by each ally or partner
country of the United States, including available data on
nominal budget figures and defense spending as a percentage
of such country's gross domestic product for the fiscal year
immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the report is
submitted;
(B) the activities of each such country to contribute to
military or stability operations in which the Armed Forces of
the United States are a participant;

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(C) any limitations placed by any such country on the use
of such contributions; and
(D) any actions undertaken by the United States or by other
countries to minimize such limitations.
(2) Form.--Each report under paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified
annex.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
(2) The term ``ally'' includes the following:
(A) Any signatory of a mutual defense treaty with the
United States.
(B) Any country designated as a ``major non-NATO ally''
under section 2350a of title 10, United States Code, or
pursuant to section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
(22 U.S.C. 2321k).
(C) Any other ally or partner with a security memorandum of
understanding or other security arrangement with the United
States.
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