# 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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: alliance_cooperation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: indo_pacific. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: unclear. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 132: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a prudential foreign-policy measure that seeks diplomatic cooperation, reporting, and strategy development. It does not directly advance a named moral harm or directly restrain one. Its merits turn on prudential questions about alliance strategy, resources, and foreign entanglement, so 'mixed' fits better than a hard verdict.
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.

## Recorded votes

Roll 132: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 334 · Nay 51 · Other 47.

HTML: https://justmeasure.org/bill/hr-1263-119/