The bill wants the United States to be good friends with countries near the Indian Ocean by working together on safety, trade, and making sure ships can travel freely in the ocean. It also asks for a plan on how to do this and wants to check regularly to make sure everything is going well.

The U.S. Senate wants to celebrate a friendship promise made with the Philippines 73 years ago to help each other if someone tries to hurt them, especially because a big country called China is being mean in the nearby sea. They want to keep this friendship strong and ask other friendly countries, like Japan and Australia, to work together to keep everybody safe.

H.R. 8378 is a plan to help the United States make friends and work together with other countries around the Indian Ocean to keep it peaceful, safe, and clean. It wants America to team up with lots of countries, like India and Australia, to solve big problems and share the ocean in a fair way.

The bill is about keeping the waters in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden safe for ships to travel. It says that the United States supports working with other countries to stop bad people from causing trouble there and to keep trade moving smoothly.