S.Amdt. 164

SA 164. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him
to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024
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

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year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place in title IV, insert the following:

SEC. __. REPORTING ON END STRENGTH RATIONALES.

Section 115a(b) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary'';
(2) by inserting ``, including an assessment of the most
important threats facing the United States by regional
command and how personnel end strength level requests address
those specific threats'' after ``in effect at the time''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) Not later than May 1 each year, the Secretary shall
provide a briefing to Congress including--
``(A) the rationale for recommended increases or decreases
in active, reserve, and civilian personnel for each component
of the Department of Defense;
``(B) the rationale for recommended increases or decreases
in active, reserve, and civilian personnel for each of the
regional combatant commands;
``(C) the primary functions or missions of military and
civilian personnel in each regional combatant command; and
``(D) an assessment of any areas in which decreases in
active, reserve, or civilian personnel would not result in a
decrease in readiness.''.
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