; vacancies Members shall be appointed for the life of the Commission. Any vacancy in the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (c) Prohibition (1) In general The Commission may not include— (A) Members of Congress or any other person serving in an elected office of the Federal government; or (B) any person serving in an elected office of a State or local government. (2) Member of Congress In this subsection, the term Member of Congress includes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress. (d) Duties (1) Threat assessment The Commission shall conduct a comprehensive assessment of the efforts of authoritarian state competitors and non-state actors to undermine the United States, its national interests, and its allies through tools of malign influence, including election interference, dis­in­for­ma­tion, illicit finance, political influence and corruption, energy influence, economic influence, and the use of proxy and state-backed forces in coercive ways, below the threshold of conventional warfare. (2) Review The Commission shall review the current tools of the United States Government that are used or could be used to counter malign influence from authoritarian state competitors and non-state actors, including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. (3) Analysis and recommendations The Commission shall— (A) conduct an analysis of the current preparedness of the United States to counter malign influence described in this subsection, taking into account both the assessment of threat and the ability of the United States Government to respond to such influence