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The Senate version has the same language:

S.853br> North American Cooperative Security Act (Introduced in Senate)

SEC. 5. IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF MEXICO'S SOUTHERN BORDER.

And here's SEC. 6. (which I did NOT SEE in the House Bill, also):

SEC. 6. NORTH AMERICAN DEFENSE INSTITUTIONS.

      (a) In General- The Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Secretary of State, shall examine the
feasibility of--

          (1) strengthening institutions for consultations
on defense issues among the United States, Mexico, and
Canada, specifically through--

               (A) the Joint Interagency Task Force South;

               (B) the Permanent Joint Board on Defense;

               (C) joint-staff talks; and

               (D) senior Army border talks;

          (2) proposing mechanisms to reach agreements with
the Government of Canada or Mexico regarding contingency
plans for responding to threats along the international
borders of the United States;

          (3) in consultation with the Governments of Canada
and Mexico, and with input from the United States Northern
Command--

               (A) developing bilateral and trilateral
capabilities and coordination mechanisms to address common
threats along shared borders; and

               (B) work together to clearly define the term
'threats' to only encompass military or defense-related
threats, rather than other threats to homeland security;

          (4) offering technical support to willing regional
parties to maintain air space security, including
consultation mechanisms with the Joint Interagency Task
Force and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, to
improve security in the North American and Central American
space; and

          (5) proposing mechanisms to strengthen
communication information and intelligence sharing on
defense issues among the United States, Mexico, and Canada.