Bioeconomy Research and Development Act of 2021

Floor Speech

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Mr. McCAUL. Madam Speaker, if we adopt the motion to recommit, we will instruct the Committee on Science to consider my amendment to ensure that this bill will not fund the Chinese Communist Party.

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Mr. McCAUL. As I said yesterday, the generational threat of the Chinese Communist Party is a test, not only for our national security but for American values. Sadly, this bill fails that test.

The CCP exploits our economy. They are building hypersonic weapons on the backbone of U.S. technology, and they are using American intellectual property to further their genocide.

A substantive bill to counter the CCP isn't just a security issue. It is a moral issue. Yet, this bill takes no meaningful steps to keep U.S. technology out of the hands of the CCP's military.

Even worse, my Democratic colleagues have refused safeguards that would stop this money from financing slave labor and genocide in the Xinjiang province.

Madam Speaker, I, therefore, urge my colleagues to reconsider this Trojan horse bill and to adopt my straightforward amendment. It would stop huge sums of U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to the Chinese Government, from funding their genocide. It would stop research funds in this bill from being used by entities like the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Madam Speaker, this is the test of our time. We must not help the CCP build the future of global energy on a foundation of slave labor and genocide.

I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand on the right side of history and to support my motion to recommit.

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