{"id":555248,"date":"2021-06-07T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=555248"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:35:53","slug":"senate-set-to-pass-bipartisan-china-bill-after-week-long-republican-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-set-to-pass-bipartisan-china-bill-after-week-long-republican-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Set To Pass Bipartisan China Bill After Week-Long Republican Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fsenate-set-to-pass-bipartisan-china-bill-after-week-long-republican-delay%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=555248&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 Senate is poised to pass a sweeping bill aimed at improving America\u2019s manufacturing and technological edge against China after Republican objections to certain provisions stalled it for over a week.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, dubbed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/1260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Competition and Investment Act<\/a>, would inject $250 billion towards <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/06\/semiconductors-microchips-intel-technology-china-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">semiconductor manufacturing<\/a>, artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing and more, and could be voted on as soon as Tuesday. It advanced in the chamber with 68 votes before senators left for Memorial Day Weekend, making it one of the few major bills to receive significant bipartisan support from this Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround the globe, authoritarian governments smell blood in the water,\u201d said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the Senate floor amid the bill\u2019s debate. \u201cThey believe that squabbling democracies like ours can\u2019t come together and invest in national priorities the way a top-down, centralized and authoritarian government can. They are rooting for us to fail so they can grab the mantle of global economic leadership and own the innovations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, I think China has left us no option but to make these investments,\u201d Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/07\/us\/politics\/senate-china-semiconductors.html?action=click&#038;module=Spotlight&#038;pgtype=Homepage\">told The New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/capitol-riot-chuck-schumer-ron-johnson-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Senate Punts On Bipartisan China Bill After Republican Objections)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7207669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7207669\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7207669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7207669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Republican Senators Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, Rand Paul Tommy Tuberville speak about their objections to the Chinese trade bill on May 28. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Though the bill finally seems set to pass, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/senate-fails-china-us-digital-infrastructure-chuck-schumer-todd-young\/\">delayed for hours<\/a> during a cloture vote in May after Republicans withheld their support over what they said was a lack of GOP amendment votes.<\/p>\n<p>The vote took over three hours, and passed after last-minute deliberations secured enough Republican support.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours after it advanced, however, several Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/senate-limbo-republican-objections-grind-chamber-halt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ground the chamber to a halt<\/a>, keeping the chamber in session until after 3 a.m. the next day while speaking for hours about their continued objections to a bill that they said was too expensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think this bill makes us stronger,\u201d Kentucky Republican Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/senator-rand-paul-whips-props-costly-research-cocaine-risky-sex-habits-quail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rand Paul<\/a> said during a 32-minute speech touching on an array of topics. \u201cIn fact, I think the Chinese sit back \u2026 and laugh at America thinking we\u2019re going to be stronger by borrowing more money from China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the bill\u2019s delay jeopardized votes on a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/capitol-riot-chuck-schumer-mitch-mcconnell-911-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan commission<\/a> to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and other nominations, Schumer and Republicans reached a deal to vote on the bill after the congressional recess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something we proposed,\u201d Schumer said on the Senate floor.\u00a0\u201cIt assures that the vote on the U.S. Competition Act will take place when we return in June.\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 Senate is poised to pass a sweeping bill aimed at improving America\u2019s manufacturing and technological edge against China after Republican objections to certain provisions stalled it for over a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279438,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Set To Pass Bipartisan China Bill After Week-Long Republican Delay","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1320515447-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Set To Pass Bipartisan China Bill After Week-Long Republican Delay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555248","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=555248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}