{"id":1401880,"date":"2022-03-26T13:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401880"},"modified":"2022-03-26T13:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T17:29:47","slug":"bernie-sanders-secures-deal-to-remove-amazon-corporate-welfare-from-china-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-secures-deal-to-remove-amazon-corporate-welfare-from-china-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Secures Deal to Remove Amazon, Corporate Welfare from China Bill"},"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%2Fbernie-sanders-secures-deal-to-remove-amazon-corporate-welfare-from-china-bill%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=1401880&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) secured a promise from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to remove corporate welfare from the Democrats\u2019 China competition bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is set to vote on Monday on H.R. 4521, the America COMPETES Act of 2022. The Senate invoked cloture on the bill, and senators have voted for the procedural motions on the bill with a strong bipartisan coalition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The cloture motion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1172\/vote_117_2_00097.htm\">received<\/a> 66 votes, with 29 votes against and five senators not voting for either for or against the bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As the bill remains poised to pass next week, Sanders wanted to ensure that he could remove corporate welfare from the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/huddle\/2022\/03\/25\/guilty-guilty-guilty-fortenberrys-three-felonies-00020405?nname=huddle&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b4be0000&#038;nrid=0000014f-bdae-dcaf-ab5f-fdeff4d00001&#038;nlid=630309\">struck <\/a>a deal with Sanders to \u201cdo whatever I can\u201d to get an agreement to have votes on his two motions after the House sends the bill to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/huddle\/2022\/03\/25\/guilty-guilty-guilty-fortenberrys-three-felonies-00020405?nname=huddle&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b4be0000&#038;nrid=0000014f-bdae-dcaf-ab5f-fdeff4d00001&#038;nlid=630309\">remove <\/a>a provision that would provide $10 billion for a NASA project contracted to Jeff Bezos\u2019s space company, Blue Origin.\u00a0 His other motion would remove $50 billion for the microchip industry; Sanders has said that the industry is already \u201cvery profitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the legislation has received bipartisan support, many conservatives have lambasted the bill for becoming stuffed with leftist pet projects and failing to hold China accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI voted against the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act before it got to the House, and now Nancy Pelosi has turned it into a Trojan Horse for Build Back Better: this bill fails to meaningfully hold China accountable, is packed with unrelated junk, and will spend hundreds of billions we don\u2019t have \u2013 adding to the national debt which is our biggest threat to competing with China in the long run,\u201d Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) said in a statement this week after the vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) secured a promise from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to remove corporate welfare from the Democrats\u2019 China competition bill. 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