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Home » House Unveils China, Chips Bill, Paving Way for Senate Deal

House Unveils China, Chips Bill, Paving Way for Senate Deal

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January 25, 2022
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The House of Representatives unveiled its legislation to bolster U.S. research and development to better compete with China and aid the domestic semiconductor industry, in a bid to negotiate a final bill this year with the Senate.

“Major components of this package have already passed the House with overwhelmingly bipartisan votes, and we look forward to conferencing this bill with the Senate to get legislation to the President’s desk as soon as possible,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.

The bill is a priority for President Joe Biden’s administration, particularly the nearly $52 billion in grants and incentives for the semiconductor industry amid a global chip shortage.

“I’m heartened by Congress’ bipartisan work so far, and its commitment to quick action to get this to my desk as soon as possible,” Biden said in a statement on Tuesday evening. 

Progress had been stalled since the Senate passed its version of the legislation last June. Two House committees approved bills with similar elements but they were not packaged together. 

The House bill includes the same $52 billion in emergency appropriations to help the semiconductor industry that the Senate bill incorporated as part of the CHIPS for America Act. In addition, it also authorizes $45 billion for grants and loans to support supply chain resilience and manufacturing of critical goods in the U.S.

It also includes climate-related provisions of the House Foreign Affairs’ EAGLE Act, which aides say are critical to ensuring the U.S. takes the lead on combating climate change. Those provisions drew the ire of committee Republicans and resulted in that bill being passed along party lines.

On Tuesday, Republicans signaled they would oppose the released bill over several objections, calling the legislation no more than a futile messaging attempt. 

“If the Pelosi-led bill includes the partisan EAGLE Act that prioritizes funding a green energy slush fund over substantive measures to countering China, reflects almost no Republican input, and — to be frank — is likely dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate, it will prove Democrat leaders are not serious about confronting the CCP,” said Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs panel. 

Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced in November an agreement to work out differences between their two chambers to come up with a single legislative package.

“We have no time to waste,” Schumer said Tuesday in a statement about the legislation and its path forward in both chambers.

Several Republicans opposed an earlier version of the bill, called the Endless Frontier Act, saying it wasn’t hard enough on China. At the same time, progressive groups, led by People’s Action in a letter last week, warned members against any bill that would “lead to more U.S.-China antagonism.” 

Representative Ro Khanna, a California Democrat whose district includes part of Silicon Valley, called those concerns “abstractions.” 

“The real question people need to ask themselves is, ‘Do you think it’s a good thing that Intel is putting $20 billion in New Albany, Ohio, and creating 3,000 manufacturing jobs and 7,000 construction jobs,” Khanna said in an interview. “That’s what this bill is about. If you’re for that, then you should vote for this bill. If you’re against that then you should vote against the bill.”

Khanna, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and one of the original sponsors of the Endless Frontier Act, said the legislation seeks to make more technology investments in “middle American and in Black and Brown communities.”

Read more: Intel’s $20 Billion Ohio Chip Hub Will Be World’s Largest

“I believe that overwhelmingly the bill has the support of the Democratic caucus and I think it will have the support of some Republicans,” he added.

Khanna predicted the House would vote on the bill by mid-February. Senator Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, told Punchbowl News earlier Tuesday, that he hoped the bill would pass both houses of Congress by the Memorial Day holiday in late May.

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