; (2) the change in status from Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to a Bureau can be accomplished without increasing the number of personnel or the budget of the current Office; (3) a Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking would be more effective in carrying out duties mandated by Congress in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 if the Bureau were headed by an Assistant Secretary with direct access to the Secretary of State, rather than an Ambassador-at-Large; and (4) the Secretary of State should review the current use of the 24 Assistant Secretary positions authorized by section 1(c)(1) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 ( 22 U.S.C. 2651a(c)(1) ) and make appropriate revisions, consolidations, and eliminations, to ensure that those positions reflect the highest Departmental needs and foreign policy priorities of the United States, including efforts to combat trafficking in persons. 4. Bureau To Combat Trafficking in Persons (a) In general Section 105(e) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(e) ) is amended— (1) in the heading, by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau To Combat Trafficking in Persons ; (2) in paragraph (1)— (A) in the first sentence, by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau to Combat Trafficking in Persons ; (B) in the second sentence, by striking Office and inserting Bureau ; and (C) in the sixth sentence, by striking Office and inserting Bureau