S.Amdt. 2216

SA 2216. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her 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 end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1262. SENSE OF SENATE ON SECURITY COOPERATION WITH JAPAN
AND AUSTRALIA.

It is the sense of the Senate that it should be the policy
of the United States to continue to develop security
cooperation efforts with the Government of Japan and the
Government of Australia and strengthen military engagement in
the Indo-Pacific region by--
(1) developing a regular trilateral exercise for amphibious
operations among the United States, Japan, and Australia;
(2) conducting frequent submarine and anti-submarine
warfare exercises;
(3) taking advantage of opportunities to build trilateral
humanitarian assistance and disaster response operational
expertise;
(4) cooperating on development of next-generation
platforms;
(5) exploring opportunities to share, develop, and leverage
logistics and distribution capabilities throughout the Indo-
Pacific region; and
(6) encouraging annual leader-level meetings.
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