gressional committees under this Act that are subject to 
deadlines for submission consisting of the same units of 
time may be consolidated into a single report that is sub-
mitted to appropriate congressional committees pursuant 
to such deadlines and that contains all information re-
quired under such reports. 
(b) FORM OF REPORTS.—Each report required to be 
submitted to the appropriate congressional committees 
under this Act and any consolidated report described in 
subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 
may contain a classified annex. 
TITLE I—POLITICAL 
LEADERSHIP AND REGIONALISM 
SEC. 101. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Pacific Islands— 
(A) are home to roughly 10,000,000 resi-
dents; 
(B) are spread across an expanse of the 
Pacific Ocean equivalent to 15 percent of the 
Earth’s surface, including the three subregions 
of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia; and 
(C) face shared challenges in development 
that have distinct local contexts, including cli-
mate change and rising sea levels, geographic 
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distances from major markets, and vulnerability 
to external shocks such as natural disasters in 
both slow and sudden onset situations. 
(2) The United States is a Pacific country with 
longstanding ties and shared values and interests 
with the Pacific Islands, including through the Com-
pacts of Free Association with the Freely Associated 
States, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the 
Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of 
Palau. 
(3) The United States has vital national secu-
rity interests in the Pacific Islands, including— 
(A) protecting regional peace and security 
that fully respects the sovereignty of all nations; 
(B) advancing economic prosperity free 
from coercion and unfair practices through 
trade and sustainable development; and 
(C) supporting democracy, good govern-
ance, the rule of law, and human rights and 
fundamental freedoms. 
(4) Successive United States administrations 
have recognized the importance of the Pacific region, 
including the Pacific Islands, in high-level strategic 
documents, including the following: 
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(A) The 2015 National Security Strategy, 
which first declared the rebalance to Asia and 
the Pacific, affirmed the United States as a Pa-
cific nation, and paved the way for subsequent 
United States engagement with the Pacific Is-
lands, including several new policies focused on 
conservation and resilience to climate change 
announced in September 2016. 
(B) The 2017 National Security Strategy, 
which includes a commitment to ‘‘shore up 
fragile partner states in the Pacific Islands re-
gion to reduce their vulnerability to economic 
fluctuations and natural disasters’’. 
(C) The 2019 Indo-Pacific Strategy Re-
port, which identified the Pacific Islands as 
‘‘critical to U.S. strategy because of our shared 
values, interests, and commitments’’ and com-
mitted the United States to ‘‘building capacity 
and resilience to address maritime security; Ille-
gal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing; drug 
trafficking; and resilience to address climate 
change and disaster response’’. 
(D) The 2022 Indo-Pacific Strategy Re-
port, which recognized the need to engage fur-
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ther with the Pacific Islands on shared security 
goals. 
(E) The 2022 Strategy for Pacific Island 
Partnership, which outlined goals and methods 
for deepening the United States partnerships 
with Pacific Island nations. 
(5) The United States has deepened its diplo-
matic engagement with the Pacific Islands through 
several recent initiatives, including— 
(A) the Pacific Pledge, which provided an 
additional 
$100,000,000 
in 
2019 
and 
$200,000,000 in 2020, on top of the approxi-
mately $350,000,000 that the United States 
provides annually to the region to support 
shared priorities in economic and human devel-
opment, climate change, and more; 
(B) the Small and Less Populous Island 
Economies (SALPIE) Initiative launched in 
March 2021 to strengthen United States col-
laboration with island countries and territories, 
including in the Pacific Islands, on COVID–19 
economic challenges, long-term economic devel-
opment, climate change, and other shared inter-
ests; 
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(C) the declaration on U.S.-Pacific Part-
nership of 2022 in which the United States and 
the Pacific Islands resolved to strengthen their 
partnership, bolstering Pacific regionalism; and 
(D) the Partners in the Blue Pacific Initia-
tive, a new initiative, to increase diplomatic en-
gagement and coordination in the region. 
(6) The Boe Declaration on Regional Security, 
adopted by leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum in 
2018, affirmed that climate change ‘‘remains the 
single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security, and 
wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific’’ and asserted 
‘‘the sovereign right of every Member to conduct its 
national affairs free of external interference and co-
ercion’’. 
(7) The Asian Development Bank has estimated 
that the Pacific Islands region needs upwards of 
$2,800,000,000 a year in investment needs through 
2030, in addition to $300,000,000 a year for climate 
mitigation and adaptation over the same period. 
(8) Since 1966, thousands of Peace Corps vol-
unteers have proudly served in the Pacific Islands, 
building strong people-to-people relationships and 
partnerships demonstrating the United States com-
mitment to peace and sustainable development in the 
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