Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in - United States ...

(II) unemployment and poverty levels.
(I) For counter-narcotics efforts, an assessment of the activities of the
Department of Defense in Afghanistan, as described in subsection (c)(4),
and the effectiveness of such activities.
(J) Key measures of political stability relating to both central and local
Afghan governance.
(K) For public corruption and rule of law, an assessment of anti-corruption
and law enforcement activities at the local, provincial, and national levels
and the effectiveness of such activities.
(e) FORM.—The report required under subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form,
but may include a classified annex, if necessary.
(f) CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFINGS.—The Secretary of Defense shall supplement the report
required under subsection (a) with regular briefings to the appropriate congressional committees
on the subject matter of the report.
(g) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED.—In this section, the term
‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ means—
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
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