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United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill declares that it is U.S. policy to increase engagement with the governments of the Caribbean region, including the private sector, and with civil society in both the United States and the Caribbean.
(Sec. 3) The Department of State shall submit to Congress a multi-year strategy for U.S. engagement to support the efforts of interested nations in the Caribbean region that:
identifies State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) priorities for U.S. policy towards the Caribbean region;
(Sec. 4) The State Department shall offer to annually brief the appropriate congressional committees on efforts to implement such strategy.
(Sec. 5) The President shall report within two years on progress made in implementing such strategy.
(Sec. 6) The Foreign Service Act of 1980 is amended to eliminate from the State Department's Foreign Service workplace report descriptions of steps taken in furtherance of compatibility and the development of uniform procedures and consolidated personnel functions.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4939 as public Law on Dec 16, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Jun 13, 2016
United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016
Passed · Two-thirds required
386 Yea 6 Nay 42 not voting
Crossed both parties 6 of 392 voting members broke with their own party: 6 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
434 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 4939 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 4939 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
1 disclosure names this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.