S.Amdt. 2626

SA 2626. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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, insert the following:

SEC. __. REPORTING ON END STRENGTH RATIONALES.

Section 115a of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Congress'' and
inserting ``to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
and the House of Representatives, and make available to any
Member upon request,''; and
(2) in subsection (b)--
(A) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
(B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) The justification and explanation required by
paragraph (1) shall include the following:
``(A) 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.
``(B) The rationale for recommended increases or decreases
in active, reserve, and

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civilian personnel for each component of the Department of
Defense.
``(C) The rationale for recommended increases or decreases
in active, reserve, and civilian personnel for each of the
regional combatant commands.
``(D) The primary functions or missions of military and
civilian personnel in each regional combatant command.
``(E) An assessment of any areas in which decreases in
active, reserve, or civilian personnel would not result in a
decrease in readiness.
``(F) The actual end strength number for each armed force
for the prior fiscal year, compared to authorized end
strength levels.
``(G) The shortfall in recruiting by each armed force as a
percentage, as appropriate.
``(H) The number of applicants who were found to be
ineligible for service by the Department in the prior fiscal
year as a result of current enlistment standards,
disaggregated by armed force and reason for
disqualification.''.
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