Sec. 2. Sense of congress
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It is the sense of Congress that— it is a United States national security priority that United States Government mission personnel are able to fully execute their duties, including— providing United States citizen services that are often a matter of life and death in insecure places; meeting with foreign officials, including government and nongovernment, civil society, private sector, and members of the press, to advance United States national security priorities; and understanding, engaging, and reporting on foreign political, social, and economic conditions; a risk-averse environment that inhibits the execution of these fundamental duties undermines the national security interests of the United States and contributes to the further militarization of United States foreign policy as military and intelligence agencies may experience fewer security restrictions and greater risk tolerance in the wake of security incidents; and Congress has a role to play in addressing the negative impacts of an increasingly risk-averse culture at the Department of State and United States Agency for International Development and helping to create an appropriate balance of security and safety for United States diplomats and personnel with greater flexibility to carry out their most important duties, and in removing politics from the review of post-security incident evaluations.