Expected Majority Leader Announces Legislation for First Two Weeks
Rep. Steve Scalise, the House Majority Leader-elect, told his colleagues in a Dec. 30 letter that he plans to bring 11 pieces of legislation for a vote during the first two weeks of the 118th Congress, including a bill that would establish a Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
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The 16-person committee would not be able to introduce bills, but is designed to "submit policy recommendations on the status of the Chinese Communist Party’s economic, technological, and security progress and its competition with the United States."
The committee was announced earlier in December, and Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., was named chair. He and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Congress needs to address an overreliance on China for active pharmaceutical ingredients and antibiotics, as well as what they called a dangerous dependency on China for rare earth metals, alloys and permanent magnets (see 2212090056).