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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5375 
To require a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation between 
the United States, Australia, India, and Japan and to seek to establish 
a Quad Intra-Parliamentary Working Group to facilitate closer coopera-
tion on shared interests and values. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023 
Mr. MEEKS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require a strategy for bolstering engagement and coopera-
tion between the United States, Australia, India, and 
Japan and to seek to establish a Quad Intra-Parliamen-
tary Working Group to facilitate closer cooperation on 
shared interests and values. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening the 
Quad Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
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(1) as a Pacific power, the United States should 
continue to strengthen joint cooperation between the 
United States, Australia, India, and Japan (com-
monly referred to as the ‘‘Quadrilateral Dialogue’’ or 
‘‘Quad’’ and referred to as such in this Act) to en-
hance and implement a shared vision to meet re-
gional challenges and to promote a free, open, inclu-
sive, resilient, and healthy Indo-Pacific, that is char-
acterized by respect for democratic norms, rule of 
law, and market-driven economic growth, and is free 
from undue influence and coercion; 
(2) the United States should expand dialogue 
and cooperation through the Quad with a range of 
partners to support peace and prosperity, the rule of 
law, freedom of navigation and overflight, the peace-
ful resolution of disputes, and democratic resilience 
in the Indo-Pacific; 
(3) the pledge from the first-ever Quad leaders 
meeting on March 12, 2021, to respond to the eco-
nomic and health impacts of COVID–19, and to ad-
dress shared challenges, including in cyberspace, 
critical technologies, counterterrorism, quality infra-
structure investment, and humanitarian assistance 
and disaster relief, as well as maritime domains, laid 
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the foundation for critical cooperation among Quad 
countries; 
(4) the Quad countries, working through insti-
tutions, including the United States International 
Development Finance Corporation, the Japan Inter-
national Cooperation Agency, and the Japan Bank 
for International Cooperation, and through partner-
ships with multilateral development banks such as 
the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, 
should finance development and infrastructure 
projects in the Indo-Pacific region that are competi-
tive, transparent, and sustainable; 
(5) President Biden’s decision to elevate the 
Quad to the leaders level was critical to bolstering 
cooperation, and all four countries should work to 
ensure that the Quad Leaders’ Summit continues to 
take place regularly; 
(6) the ambitious framework for ongoing co-
operation laid out by the four leaders at the fifth 
convening of the Quad Leaders’ Summit in Hiro-
shima on May 20, 2023, should continue; and 
(7) the formation of a Quad Intra-Parliamen-
tary Working Group will— 
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(A) sustain and deepen engagement be-
tween senior officials of the Quad countries on 
a full spectrum of issues; and 
(B) be modeled on the successful and long- 
standing bilateral intra-parliamentary groups 
between the United States and Mexico, Canada, 
and the United Kingdom, as well as other for-
mal and informal parliamentary exchanges. 
SEC. 3. STRATEGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a strategy for bolstering engagement and cooperation with 
the Quad. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The strategy re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include the following: 
(1) A description of how the United States in-
tends to demonstrate democratic leadership in the 
Indo-Pacific through quadrilateral engagement with 
India, Japan, and Australia on shared interests and 
common challenges. 
(2) A summary of— 
(A) current and past Quad initiatives 
across the whole of the United States Govern-
ment, including to promote broad based and in-
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clusive economic growth and investment, and to 
advance technology cooperation, energy innova-
tion, climate mitigation and adaptation, phys-
ical and digital infrastructure development, edu-
cation, disaster management, and global health 
security; 
(B) proposals agreed to by all Quad coun-
tries since January 2021 to deepen existing se-
curity cooperation, intelligence sharing, eco-
nomic partnerships, and multilateral coordina-
tion; and 
(C) initiatives and agreements undertaken 
jointly with Quad countries, in addition to other 
like-minded partners in the Indo-Pacific, on 
areas of shared interest since January 2021. 
(3) A description of efforts, since January 
2021, to jointly— 
(A) expand ongoing COVID–19 coopera-
tion to prepare for the next pandemic by focus-
ing on medium-term vaccine and medical supply 
production and building a broader dialogue on 
global public health; 
(B) develop international technology stand-
ards and share or co-develop new innovative 
technologies of the future; 
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