{"id":1242533,"date":"2022-01-26T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242533"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:52:45","slug":"house-democrats-unveil-bill-to-bolster-competitiveness-against-china-but-disagreements-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-unveil-bill-to-bolster-competitiveness-against-china-but-disagreements-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Unveil Bill To Bolster Competitiveness Against China, But Disagreements Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-democrats-unveil-bill-to-bolster-competitiveness-against-china-but-disagreements-remain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Democrats late Tuesday unveiled a bill aimed at bolstering United States competitiveness with China that jumpstarts domestic research and development and semiconductor chip production.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is the House\u2019s version of legislation that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/chuck-schumer-china-manufacturing-semiconductors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed the Senate last June<\/a> in a bipartisan vote. It includes $45 billion to help ease supply chain shortages, and like the Senate bill, it includes $52 billion to boost semiconductor chip manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would also take aim at China\u2019s genocide against its own Uyghur Muslim population, and it would provide temporary protected status to some Hong Kong residents.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/china-slams-bill-bolstering-american-competitiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Cold War Mentality\u2019: China Doesn\u2019t Like The Bipartisan Bill Bolstering American Competitiveness Against It)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But the House\u2019s version is both different and much longer than the Senate\u2019s, making it unclear when a compromised bill could be agreed upon and sent to President Joe Biden\u2019s desk. Meanwhile, supply chain shortages have worsened the lack of chips, exacerbating bottlenecks of many essential electronic products.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7302198\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7302198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closed factories, clogged ports and a lack truck drivers also worsened supply chain shortages throughout late 2021. (JIM WATSON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to recommit to boldly and strategically investing in our nation\u2019s future, and to do so in a way that strengthens the supply chain, lowers costs and ensures that America can out-compete any nation, today and for decades to come,\u201d House Speaker Pelosi said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/12522-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the bill \u201can important step forward\u201d Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/majority-leader-schumer-statement-on-house-introduction-of-the-america-competes-act-of-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">adding<\/a> that Congress has \u201cno time to waste in improving American competitiveness, strengthening our lead in global innovation, and addressing supply chain challenges, including in the semiconductor industry.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/senate-fails-china-us-digital-infrastructure-chuck-schumer-todd-young\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Bipartisan China Competitive Bill Moves Forward After Hours-Long Talks Secure GOP Support)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And while 18 Senate Republicans supported the bill in June 2021, it remains unclear how many in the House will do the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been in talks with House and Senate committees of jurisdiction for weeks, trying to put together a bipartisan bill that could pass Congress,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov\/press-release\/mccaul-says-pelosis-partisan-so-called-china-bill-proves-democrats-not-serious-about-confronting-china\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Republican Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. \u201cRather than allowing those talks to play out, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have decided to torpedo the chance of a bipartisan, bicameral bill to confront the generational threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats late Tuesday unveiled a bill aimed at bolstering United States competitiveness with China that jumpstarts domestic research and development and semiconductor chip production.The bill is the House\u2019s version &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}