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H.R. 1263 (119th): Strengthening the Quad Act

Strengthening the Quad Act 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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The bill directs the State Department to seek to establish a working group with Japan, Australia, and India to promote closer cooperation on shared interests and values within the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. It also requires the State Department to report to Congress a strategy for strengthening engagement with the Quad. That strategy must summarize past and current Quad initiatives on inclusive economic growth, technology, energy innovation, and resilient supply chains, and recommend barriers to address, new authorities, and additional resources. The title identifies only a motion to suspend the rules and pass, so the bill's enacted text is not separately shown.

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Theological note: Diplomatic coordination among allied nations falls within ordinary civil governance, which Scripture permits and which can serve the common good through peace and mutual cooperation. The bill raises no direct moral evil on its face, but it touches foreign entanglement and the proper scope of executive diplomacy, which call for prudential judgment and ordinary scrutiny rather than a hard moral verdict.

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Roll 132 · 19-May-2025 6:53 PM · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass · Passed

Yea 334 · Nay 51 · Other 47

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