S.Amdt. 2091

SA 2091. Mr. CORNYN 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 division A, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. CENTRAL AMERICA STRATEGY.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the
``Central America Strategy Act of 2020''.
(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
(2) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;
(3) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs of the Senate;
(4) the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate;
(5) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;
(6) the Committee on Finance of the Senate;
(7) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
(8) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
of the Senate;
(9) the Caucus on International Narcotics Control of the
Senate;
(10) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives;
(11) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of
Representatives;
(12) the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives;
(13) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the
House of Representatives;
(14) the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives;
(15) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of
Representatives; and
(16) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.
(c) Strategy.--
(1) Development.--Not later than 1 year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in
consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, the
Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence,
the Attorney General, the Secretary of Commerce, the
Administrator of the United States Agency for International
Development, the Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy, the Chief Executive Officer of the
Development Finance Corporation, and the Chief Executive
Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation shall
develop, consistent with the safeguards protecting certain
national security information from unauthorized disclosure,
and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
strategy for--
(A) reducing the flow of narcotics into the United States
and combating the influence of transnational criminal
organizations through law enforcement and cooperation with
international partners;
(B) strengthening democratic institutions, the rule of law,
anti-corruption policies, and human rights efforts in Central
America; and
(C) curtailing unauthorized immigration to the United
States by addressing the root causes of migration in Central
America.
(2) Activities.--The strategy developed under this
subsection shall include--
(A) supporting anti-corruption efforts that strengthen the
capacities of law enforcement, the justice sector, and
financial institutions;
(B) establishing and reinforcing regional counternarcotics
trafficking initiatives to interdict flow of narcotics,
including cocaine, fentanyl, and fentanyl precursors and
analogs, being smuggled into the United States;
(C) establishing a multilateral Commission Against Illicit
Opioids, Narcotics, and International Organized Crime among
the United States, Mexico, and countries in Central America
and South America to regularly review the results of enhanced
law enforcement and justice cooperation;
(D) creating a regional Commission for the Northern
Triangle to coordinate anti-corruption initiatives that
strengthen domestic institutions and provide technical
assistance to local prosecutors;
(E) supporting national, local, and community-based crime
and violence prevention efforts;
(F) assessing port security and opportunities to promote
trade through enhanced partnership, leadership training,
technology modernization, and trusted trader programs;
(G) establishing and reinforcing reintegration programs for
repatriated persons that reduce the likelihood for repeated
unauthorized migration to the United States;
(H) developing a market-based approach to investment and
development that identifies opportunities for private
investment and roles for the United States International
Development Finance Corporation, the Millennium Challenge
Corporation, and the United States Agency for International
Development;
(I) promoting the establishment and supervision of
effective tax collection and enforcement systems;
(J) identifying opportunities for regional and
international partnerships;
(K) providing a comprehensive assessment of the current
sanctions regime and making recommendations for the most
efficient use of sanctions to deter corruption, insecurity,
and the key drivers of migration;
(L) assessing the resources necessary to promote the
strategy; and
(M) providing legislative recommendations that are
necessary to implement the strategy.
(d) Report.--In conjunction with the submission of the
strategy under subsection (c), the Secretary of State shall
submit a comprehensive report to the appropriate
congressional committees that--
(1) identifies all United States aid programs benefitting
Central American countries;
(2) indicates which of these programs are consistent with
the strategy under subsection (c);
(3) provides measurable outcomes regarding the progress
made by each such program; and

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(4) includes recommendations regarding which of these
programs should be maintained, modified, or eliminated.
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