S.Amdt. 2063

SA 2063. Mr. GARDNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 appropriate place in subtitle E of title XII, insert
the following:

SEC. 12__. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE
AND THE ASIA REASSURANCE AND INITIATIVE ACT OF
2018.

It is the sense of Congress that the Pacific Deterrence
Initiative is designed to implement the strategic and policy
objectives articulated by Congress in the Asia Reassurance
Initiative Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-409; 132 Stat. 5387)
and by the executive branch in the National Security
Strategy, the ``Free and Open Indo-Pacific'' strategy of the
Department of State, the National Defense Strategy, and the
Indo-Pacific strategy report of the Department of Defense,
which states that the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018
(Public Law 115-409; 132 Stat. 5387) ``enshrines a
generational whole-of-government policy framework that
demonstrates U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific
region and includes initiatives that promote sovereignty,
rule of law, democracy, economic engagement, and regional
security''.
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