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Senator Maria Cantwell (D–WA) managed hours of debate yesterday on the Endless Frontier Act. U.S. Senate Senate panel backs funding ban on U.S. researchers in Chinese talent programs May. 13, 2021 , 10:25 AM The U.S. Senate’s commerce committee has voted to ban any U.S. scientist who participates in a Chinese-sponsored talent recruitment program from receiving or making use of federal funding. Yesterday’s vote—just the first step toward making the provision law—represents a ratcheting up of current U.S. efforts to block the Chinese government from stealing or gaining imprope...

Schumer, GOP to Test Bipartisan Possibility With China Bill Bloomberg 3 hrs ago Daniel Flatley (Bloomberg) -- An effort in the Senate to ramp up federal support for U.S. research and development in the aim of better competing with China heads toward an initial vote on Wednesday, posing a test of lawmakers’ ability to bridge sharp partisan differences across most of the congressional agenda. The Commerce Committee is expected to vote on whether to send the package, framed around a $100 billion, five-year injection to American colleges and universities, to the full Senate. W...

Schumer, GOP to Test Bipartisan Possibility With China Bill Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Daniel Flatley (Bloomberg) -- An effort in the Senate to ramp up federal support for U.S. research and development in the aim of better competing with China heads toward an initial vote on Wednesday, posing a test of lawmakers’ ability to bridge sharp partisan differences across most of the congressional agenda. The Commerce Committee is expected to vote on whether to send the package, framed around a $100 billion, five-year injection to American colleges and universities, to the full Senate. W...

11 May 2021Washington, DC Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the powerful chairwoman of the Senate Commerce Committee, plans to attempt to use a bipartisan piece of legislation meant to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s technological advances to instead steer what could end up being a huge boon of a federal contract worth billions of dollars to a company operating in her home state owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Cantwell, the chair of the panel that will consider the supposedly anti-China bill on Wednesday, is proposing amendment language to the plan that would authorize a second contract fr...

An effort in the Senate to ramp up federal support for U.S. research and development in the aim of better competing with China heads toward an initial vote on Wednesday, posing a test of lawmakers’ ability to bridge sharp partisan differences across most of the congressional agenda.