House Votes 365-65 on China-Focused Committee to Eye Tech Competition Against US
The House voted 365-65 Tuesday on House Resolution 11 to create a select committee on “strategic competition” between the U.S. and China, which will investigate the Chinese Communist Party’s “economic, technological, and security progress.” H. Res. 11 tasks the committee…
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with providing policy recommendations to Congress. The panel, to be chaired by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., will include seven Republicans and five Democrats. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said during floor debate “this will be a bipartisan committee,” though he faulted the Biden administration for executing policies that he believes has weakened the U.S. versus China. It’s “my hope, my desire, my wish that we speak with one voice” on China and focus “on the challenges that we have,” including to secure “our intellectual property.” House Rules Committee ranking member Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said the Democratic caucus is concerned “about this turning into a committee that focuses on pushing Republican conspiracy theories and partisan talking points” and instead wants the panel to produce “bipartisan work with a fact-based tone and approach that could be received by the international community, seriously and substantively.” McGovern cautioned against focusing “myopically” on security challenges posed by China, which could “distract us from the need to build a holistic approach in many areas” given the U.S. faces “technological … challenges from many regions across the globe.”