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National SecurityH.R. 1263Comments

Strengthening the Quad Act

Official title: To require a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan and to seek to establish a Quad Inter-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values.

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What This Bill Does

This bill directs the Department of State to seek to establish a working group with Japan, Australia, and India to facilitate closer cooperation on shared interests and values. (The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, also known as the Quad, is a coalition comprised of the United States and these three countries.)

The bill also requires the State Department to report to Congress a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with the Quad. The strategy shall summarize current and past Quad initiatives, including those to promote broad-based and inclusive economic growth, technology cooperation, energy innovation, and resilient supply chains. The strategy shall also recommend (1) how Congress can help address certain barriers to implementing and expanding Quad cooperation, (2) new authorities needed to strengthen U.S. leadership in and contributions to Quad initiatives, and (3) additional resources needed to expand successful initiatives.

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Timeline

  1. SenateReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
  2. House floor actionsMr. Huizenga moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  3. Floor Vote
  4. Passed the House
  5. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  6. House floor actionsReferred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
  7. Introduced
  8. Committee

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