{"id":1270943,"date":"2022-02-04T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1270943"},"modified":"2022-02-04T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:38:04","slug":"house-passes-enormous-china-competitiveness-bill-but-it-faces-huge-roadblocks-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-enormous-china-competitiveness-bill-but-it-faces-huge-roadblocks-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Enormous China Competitiveness Bill, But It Faces Huge Roadblocks In The Senate"},"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\">28<\/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-passes-enormous-china-competitiveness-bill-but-it-faces-huge-roadblocks-in-the-senate%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=1270943&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>The House of Representatives passed a bill to bolster American competitiveness against China on a near party-line vote Friday, but the legislation may not pass the Senate, multiple sources reported.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, titled the America COMPETES Act, was the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/26\/house-democrat-china-competitiveness-semiconductor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House\u2019s version<\/a> of a bipartisan bill that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/chuck-schumer-china-manufacturing-semiconductors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed the Senate in June 2021<\/a> meant to boost domestic manufacturing and semiconductor chip production and ease supply chain shortages. But unlike the Senate\u2019s legislation, which passed with the support of 18 Republicans, the House bill passed with only Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger voting in favor, while Florida Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy voted no.<\/p>\n<p>Since the House version differs from the Senate\u2019s, the two chambers will have to conference in order to resolve their differences and compromise on a bill that can pass with enough bipartisan support to secure 60 votes in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, like the Senate version, allocates $52 billion to boost domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing and $45 billion to support and enhance supply chains burdened by unprecedented strains in recent months, worsening decades-high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe America Competes Act will ensure that America is preeminent in manufacturing, innovation and economic strength, and can out-compete any nation,\u201d House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7366339\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7366339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reps. Richard Neal, Eddie Bernice Johnson and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speak about the COMPETES Act at the Capitol on Friday.<br \/>(Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The bill also took steps to sanction the Chinese Communist Party for its ongoing genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the northwest part of the country, and it would condemn the authoritarian government for its crackdown against Hong Kong and its residents\u2019 once-promised freedoms. <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>Despite the bill\u2019s passage, House Republicans slammed the bill throughout the week as it was brought to the floor and saw votes on hundreds of amendments. Most of the Republicans\u2019 complaints centered around the bill\u2019s omission of provisions to ensure that sensitive research is not conducted by adversarial foreign agents, provisions that passed on a bipartisan basis in the past, with Republicans arguing that the bill would do little do actually weaken the communist country. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/31\/china-competitiveness-bill-jim-banks-republican-study-committee-memo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republicans Staunchly Opposed To House Dems\u2019 China Bill, Potentially Delaying Its Passage)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans also railed against the climate provisions in the bill, warning that the legislation was cover for Democrats\u2019 \u201cfar-left agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it contains some provisions supported by Republicans, Speaker Pelosi is holding these good ideas hostage by using this 3,000 page bill as a vehicle for the party\u2019s far-left agenda,\u201d said House Minority Leader <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Kevin McCarthy<\/span> ahead of the vote. \u201cFrankly, it\u2019s too little, too late,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cI bet you China laughs, just like they laugh at this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some moderate House Democrats, including Murphy, also complained that party leadership transformed a bipartisan bill into a partisan package. Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin even voted against a procedural rule advancing the bill over her leadership\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a shot across the bow to the Democratic leadership to make clear that they need to get serious about compromising with the Senate to get this bill signed into law,\u201d Slotkin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSlotkin\/status\/1489005394345222151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Wednesday. \u201cPassing a bill just through the House will do nothing to get microchips to the auto plants I represent.\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>The House of Representatives passed a bill to bolster American competitiveness against China on a near party-line vote Friday, but the legislation may not pass the Senate, multiple sources reported.The &#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-1270943","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\/1270943","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=1270943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270943\/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=1270943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}