Disapproving the Rule Submitted By the Department of Commerce Relating to ``Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord with Presidential Proclamation

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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 327, I call up the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 39) disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Commerce relating to ``Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord With Presidential Proclamation 10414'', and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.

Mr. Speaker, today, we take a bipartisan step toward holding China accountable for its trade abuses.

These trade abuses are well known to all of us in this Chamber. Most recently, this past December, President Biden's Department of Commerce found that China is circumventing tariffs on imports into the U.S. by shipping solar products through, not one country, not two countries, not even three countries, but in fact, four countries in Southeast Asia.

These tariffs were put in place by President Obama since 2012 to provide a level playing field for American manufacturers who were facing unfair competition in the U.S. market from solar products that China was subsidizing and selling at unfairly low prices. By circumventing these tariffs by shipping its products through Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, China has set up a solar panel export scheme that cheats American workers and consumers.

So we know there is wrongdoing going on. We know China is cheating. That is precisely why Members from both parties were stunned and disappointed when the White House made the misguided decision to halt for 2 years additional tariffs on Chinese solar products being sent through these four countries.

At a time when China has a dominant position in solar production, despite longstanding American innovation in this sector, should we really be telling the world that there will be less accountability for unfair trade practices?

The answer is not just no. Mr. Speaker, it is absolutely no.

But the President's proclamation to halt any new countervailing duties and tariffs does just that. What is worse, it establishes a lesser standard of accountability for China than the rest of the world.

The legislation before us today, H.J. Res. 39, Congressional Review Act legislation on solar tariffs, will stop President Biden's proclamation that has given a free pass for 2 years to unfair solar imports from China that circumvent our trade laws.

The United States must maintain crucial protections for American workers and our economy as a whole. We cannot surrender to China or any other country and put American workers at a disadvantage.

This resolution has bipartisan support. I thank Representative Posey for leading this initiative, and Committee on Ways and Means members Dan Kildee of Michigan, Greg Murphy of North Carolina, Bill Pascrell of New Jersey, Nicole Malliotakis of New York, and Claudia Tenney of New York. The fact that Democrats and Republicans on our committee are original cosponsors of this resolution shows just how bipartisan the issue is.

We have to confront the Chinese Communist Party's bad behavior. We have to hold it accountable.

Mr. Speaker, I urge votes in favor of this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I also want to highlight another member of the House Committee on Ways and Means that is a cosponsor and a supporter of this resolution, Ms. Terri Sewell from Alabama.

Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a letter from the Auxin Solar founder and CEO thanking Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans for bringing this resolution to the House floor. Auxin is a small California company with 37 full-time employees that filed a petition last year asking the Department of Commerce to investigate whether Chinese firms were circumventing existing tariffs. Auxin strongly supports this resolution so that the company and its workers can get relief from unfair Chinese competition and end what it calls the get- out-of-jail-free card that President Biden gave to duty evaders. Auxin Solar, San Jose, CA, April 27, 2023. Hon. Kevin McCarthy, Speaker, House of Representatives, Washington, DC.

Dear Mr. Speaker: I'm writing to you on behalf of myself, my business partner Sherry Tai, the 37 full-time employees of Auxin Solar, and our families to thank you for bringing to the floor for a vote H.J. Res.39, the Congressional Review Act resolution.

By just bringing this resolution to the floor for a vote, you are sending a strong signal that the United States Congress will stand up against the Chinese Communist Party and their unfair trade practices on behalf of American manufacturers and our workers. More importantly, when we see Congress vote on this resolution, you will be giving me and Sherry the strength to continue our fight against unfairly traded solar imports and the confidence to continue to reinvest our personal finances into making Auxin Solar a leader in U.S. solar manufacturing.

Sherry and I co-founded Auxin Solar in 2008 and, since that time, we have been providing high-paying jobs to our employees in Silicon Valley, California. In 2008, we forecasted that solar cells and solar modules would eventually become commodity products that could compete on a cost basis with traditional energy sources. That has come true. Solar deployment is reaching year-over-year all-time highs because of the cost parity with traditional energy sources. With our low overhead, competitive costs, and high employee retention rates, we should have been printing money in a growing demand environment. But what we didn't forecast when we started Auxin Solar was the anticompetitive behavior of China and the success that China would have in dominating the solar supply chain.

In the early 2010s, China was so far behind the United States in solar technology and know-how. To catch up, CCP agents stole our intellectual property. Then the CCP used draconian duties to effectively prohibit U.S. polysilicon companies from selling into the Chinese market. When the U.S. imposed duties to offset predatory pricing in solar, China used its industrial policies to assist major Chinese CCP- connected solar companies in their move out of China to circumvent U.S. trade laws. It took just ten years but now, China dominates the entire solar supply chain. They use forced labor practices to mine polysilicon. They use coal- fired energy to power ingot and wafer-making. And they use Southeast Asia as screw-driver operations to circumvent trade laws.

In the face of predatory Chinese pricing in the United States, and when our domestic competitors closed, Auxin continued to operate. Sadly, what we've learned in the last five years is that the trade remedy laws are not designed for medium-sized enterprises like Auxin. Take for example what happened during the initial solar safeguard. Although demand continued to grow with duties in place in 2018, major energy companies complained and lobbied to attain an exclusion for bifacial panels. Bifacial panels are solar modules that generate electricity using both sides of the panel. Since 2016--well before the safeguard even started--Auxin Solar was one of the only companies to produce bifacial panels in America. Our bifacial panels were used in major utility-scale projects in Lumberton, New Jersey and by Georgia Power at the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. They were also used in Columbus, Ohio on the largest ever commercial rooftop solar array ever installed. Since an exclusion for bifacial panels was granted, bifacial panel pricing premiums collapsed and bifacials quickly became the majority of imports. In fact, just to avoid duties, companies will go so far as to put bifacial panels on residential homes even though only one side of the panel is used. This is done simply to avoid duties and has the direct result of undermining Auxin's business.

The same thing happened again when Auxin tried to stand up and combat the surge in panels from Southeast Asia, which consist almost entirely of Chinese content. Had these exact same panels come directly from China, they would have been subject to duties put in place by the U.S. International Trade Commission. Although others in the domestic industry wanted this circumvention loophole closed, we were the only ones willing to publicly put our name on a filing. We were immediately subjected to online harassment, cyber intrusion, and attempted physical break-ins to our facility. Our stellar Google reviews, which we use to pitch to potential employees, became single star reviews accompanied by hateful language. A website called ``ExposeAuxin.com'' was created to spread lies and disinformation about us.

Against it all, we continued to have faith that the Commerce Department's quasi-judicial process would work to instill price discipline in the market and close the duty evasion loophole. But President Biden mistakenly intervened in our circumvention case because of a loud misinformation campaign lead by Chinese special interests. The resulting tariff-free holiday for all imports from Southeast Asia is bad policy because it acts as a ``get out of jail free'' card to duty evaders and sends a signal to law-abiding importers that it doesn't pay to follow the law and pay a fair price for a solar panel.

Today at Auxin Solar, we're operating at a fraction of our capacity utilization because of the concerted effort to silence us and scare us into withdrawing our trade fight. Our ability to raise capital, hire new employees for expansion, and secure new sales opportunities continue to be hampered. Sherry and I are first generation immigrants. We are a minority- and woman-owned medium sized business. When politicians talk about how Washington should work better for middleclass Americans, the ``tariff holiday'' does not do that. Instead, it provides a windfall for Wall Street and doesn't give a fighting chance to American workers to compete against Chinese solar.

On broad policy, we must counteract the Chinese dominance of the solar supply chain for our energy security. We should be asking ourselves whether we want the Chinese Communist Party to control our electricity grid. We should be asking ourselves if the Chinese Communist Party will stifle our ability to meet our carbon-neutral goals by imposing export restraints on key technology or halting sales of solar to the U.S. And we should be asking if we are okay with meeting our carbon objectives on the back of forced labor, from massive expansions in coal-fired power plants, and from intellectual property theft. I've been in the solar business for 15 years and solar deployment is good for business. But there are bigger issues here than quarterly profits and investor returns. This is why I strongly support your creation of the bipartisan Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, which should continue to shed light on these issues for the American people to understand.

At Auxin Solar we've withstood Chinese predatory behavior for 15 years. I refuse to let the Chinese prevail and put Auxin Solar out of business. Right now we're in the midst of a major capacity expansion at Auxin Solar funded by me, Sherry, and our families. Once we have our expansion online, we would be pleased to welcome you to visit so that we can thank you in person for bringing H.J. Res. 39 to the floor for an up-or-down vote. Sincerely, Mamun Rashid, CEO.

Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.J. Res. 39.

We are here today because the Biden administration is hell-bent on making the United States energy dependent upon China. They are hell- bent on signing this Nation's death warrant. In pursuit of everything green, the Biden administration has given a free pass for Chinese solar imports to flow into this country by all means, using an emergency proclamation.

The last time a President used an emergency proclamation was for lumber in 1946 when American World War II veterans were returning home and needed homes.

Today, Mr. Biden, or whoever is running the White House, is using it to waive tariffs on Chinese solar panels coming through Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam for 2 years.

Helping war heroes is an emergency, but speeding up total dependence on our greatest adversary is another. It is an absolute abuse of executive power. It is helping our greatest adversary take control of this country.

Why on God's green Earth are we handing this Nation's keys to the nation of China?

Chinese producers and the CCP are taking advantage of this system to circumnavigate the tariffs. They are cheating. Don't just take my word. Take the President's own Department of Commerce who determined that this would happen, even before President Biden did his emergency proclamation.

This is simply un-American and a crystal clear abuse of emergency power by this American President.

We need to prioritize American manufacturing, not Chinese manufacturing. We need to produce the energy here in the United States, not handing this to China, our greatest adversary.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this bill, H.J. Res. 39.
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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record an article from Politico called ``Trio of Democratic senators back resolution to undue Biden's solar tariff pause.'' [From POLITICO PRO, Apr. 26, 2023] Trio of Democratic Senators Back Resolution To Undo Biden's Solar Tariff Pause (By Kelsey Tamborrino)

Three Democratic senators said Wednesday they'd vote to rescind President Joe Biden's two-year pause on new solar import tariffs from four Southeast Asian countries--raising the stakes on the measure that is set to force Democrats to weigh both trade and climate considerations.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced Wednesday that he'd sign on to the resolution, marking another rebuke of the Biden administration's energy agenda from the West Virginia Democrat. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) separately also said Wednesday they'd support the measure should it get a vote on the Senate floor.

The House is poised to vote this week on the measure, which Biden has promised to veto should it reach his desk.

The resolution would undo the president's 24-month pause on new import tariffs on solar cells and modules from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam following the start of a Commerce Department probe that roiled the solar industry.

Commerce released initial results in December that found companies were circumventing tariffs on Chinese solar equipment by routing them through the four nations. A final determination is expected next month.

Lawmakers, led by Reps. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) and Bill Posey (R-Fla.) in the House and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) in the Senate, introduced a resolution to rescind the rule enacting Biden's two-year moratorium.

Manchin said Wednesday he would join the Senate resolution as a co-sponsor, Scott's office and a Manchin spokesperson confirmed.

While the Congressional Review Act resolution has bipartisan support in the House, it so far had only Republican cosponsors in the Senate.

``The United States relies on foreign nations, like China, for far too many of our energy needs, and failing to enforce our existing trade laws undermines the goals of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act to onshore our energy supply chains, including solar,'' Manchin said in a statement. ``I cannot fathom why the Administration and Congress would consider extending that reliance any longer and am proud to join this CRA to rescind the rule.''

Manchin on Wednesday also joined all 49 Republicans in support of a separate CRA resolution that would overturn EPA's recent rule limiting emissions of nitrogen oxides.

Wyden, the chair of the Finance Committee, told reporters that he too would vote in favor of the solar resolution, should it come to a vote on the floor.

``I have told the administration that over the 10-year period, when I was writing the clean energy bill, it was always about manufacturing. Red, white and blue. Got to get the jobs here.'' he said. ``So I'm going to be supporting the manufacturing proposal.''

Brown shortly after released a statement that he was in favor of the resolution.

``My whole career--I don't care what presidents think about this--I've taken on presidents of both parties, starting with Clinton on [North American Free Trade Agreement]. And when they're wrong on trade, it costs American jobs, and this is the right decision,'' he said in an interview.

The solar tariff resolution is expected to put Democrats in a tricky position, given supporters' argument that the resolution is meant to enforce U.S. trade laws and combat Chinese influence, while those opposing it argue it will undercut solar energy progress.

Brown and Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania previously called on the president to terminate the two-year suspension, and Casey told POLITICO last month that he was inclined to support the resolution should it come to the floor.

Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, who has previously voted to undo another Biden rule, told POLITICO he has not yet made a decision on the solar resolution.

The resolution advanced out of the House Ways and Means Committee last week with Democratic support and is poised for a floor vote later this week in the House.

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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, this article notes that three Democratic Senators, including the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Wyden, Senator Manchin from West Virginia, and Senator Brown from Ohio, have publicly supported rescinding President Biden's action to pause tariffs on Chinese solar panels, even before the CRA has even passed the House.

Mr. Speaker, I understand that at least one more Democratic Senator has also expressed support. I thank my Democratic colleagues in the House and in the Senate for joining me in standing up for American workers by supporting consistent enforcement of our trade laws against China's unfair trade practices.

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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a statement from the Uyghur Human Rights Project in support of H.J. Res. 39. Uyghur Human Rights Project, April 18, 2023.

To the Members of the Committee: I write in strong support of H.J. Res. 39. This bipartisan bill would repeal the Biden Administration's Solar Emergency Declaration, a harmful rule issued in June 2022 that protects Chinese solar manufacturers that the Department of Commerce has determined are illegally avoiding U.S. tariffs.

As you know, both the President Biden and President Trump administrations have determined that the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples, including state-imposed forced labor, mass forced sterilization, and mass enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) found in its authoritative August 31, 2022 report (the ``Bachelet Report'') that the PRC is responsible for ``serious human rights violations'' that ``may constitute crimes against humanity.''

In response to the Uyghur human-rights crisis, the U.S. government has taken action to ban products made with forced labor from China, including solar equipment, among 100+ human-rights sanctions including export bans, investment bans, visa bans, and Global Magnitsky targeted human rights OFAC SDN designations. Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which came into force on June 21, 2022, no products are exempt from the ``rebuttable presumption'' that all products mined, grown, or manufactured in the Uyghur Region are banned under Section 307 of the U.S. Tariff Act. The law is applicable regardless of the needs of particular industries or the scarcity of alternative supplies.

No economic or environmental imperative can justify profits from the genocidal state-imposed forced labor of Uyghurs.

The reality is that the Chinese polysilicon and solar- component industries are highly dependent on mining and manufacturing in the Uyghur homeland, using central government subsidies and incentives, and under the auspices of the government of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

In our view, it is clear that an increase in solar imports from Chinese solar manufacturers--regardless of whether these imports are from China or Chinese controlled factories in Southeast Asia--directly supports the Chinese solar industry's use of Uyghur forced labor. According to government data, imports of solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam have risen 69 percent since 2019.

It is unconscionable to believe that the U.S. should build a clean-energy future that relies on products made under the combination of dirty coal plants and China's genocidal forced-labor inputs. As the AFL- CIO pointed out in a major statement in October 2021, the ``solar industry and its entire value chain, should exemplify how the United States meets the climate, equity and economic challenges of the 21st century.'' It's a false choice to think we can achieve climate goals by abandoning our core values.

As H.J. Res. 39 comes before the Ways and Means Committee, we urge you to support this bipartisan, common-sense measure. It is indefensible to allow Chinese solar manufacturers that profit from Uyghur forced labor to be exempted from compliance with U.S. trade law. Louisa Greve, Director of Global Advocacy.

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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, the statement highlights the close connection between the CCP solar industry and the ongoing human rights abuses and forced labor being perpetrated against the Uyghurs. This is bipartisan consensus that these practices are unacceptable and must be stopped.

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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record a press release from President Biden's Department of Commerce that states the Department determined in December 2022, after a thorough investigation, that Chinese solar companies are circumventing U.S. tariffs on solar products. [From U.S. Department of Commerce, Dec. 2, 2022]

Department of Commerce Issues Preliminary Determination of

Circumvention Inquiries of Solar Cells and Modules Produced in China (Office of Public Affairs)

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced its prelimiary determinations in the circumvention inquiries of solar cells and modules from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Commerce examined a complaint alleging that eight solar companies that manufacture solar cells and modules are manufactured the components in the PRC, then sending those cells and modules to Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and/or Vietnam for minor processing before being exported to the United States. Such actions amount to an effort to evade the existing antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on solar cells and modules from the PRC. Today's preliminary determination underscores Commerce's commitment to holding the PRC accountable for its trade distorting actions, which undermine American industries.

Under U.S. law, Commerce may conduct a circumvention inquiry when evidence suggests that merchandise subject to an existing AD/CVD order is completed or assembled in third countries from parts and components imported from the country subject to the order. AD/CVD orders are designed to provide relief to the U.S. domestic industries when they are facing unfair competition. Circumvention of these duties threatens to undermine American industries, workers, and businesses.

After a thorough, transparent, and data-driven investigation of eight companies across the four countries, Commerce preliminarily found that four of the eight companies being investigated are attempting to bypass U.S. duties by doing minor processing in one of the Southeast Asian countries before shipping to the United States.

The preliminary findings are as follows:

Third Country, Company, Finding:

Cambodia: BYD Hong Kong, Circumventing; New East Solar, Not Circumventing.

Malaysia: Hanwha, Not Circumventing; Jinko, Not Circumventing.

Thailand: Canadian Solar, Circumventing; Trina, Circumventing.

Vietnam: Boviet, Not Circumventing; Vina Solar, Circumventing.

Further, some companies in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam did not respond to Commerce's request for information in this investigation, and consistent with longstanding practice, will be found to be circumventing.

Because Commerce preliminarily found that circumvention was occurring through each of the four Southeast Asian countries, Commerce is making a ``country-wide'' circumvention finding, which simply designates the country as one through which solar cells and modules are being circumvented from the PRC. This does not constitute a ban on imports from those countries. Companies in these countries will be permitted to certify that they are not circumventing the AD/CVD orders, in which case the circumvention findings will not apply. With regard to the companies under investigation that were not circumventing the AD/CVD duties, no action will be taken as long as their production process and supply chain do not change.

These findings are preliminary, and as a next step, Commerce will conduct in-person audits in the coming months to verify the information that was the basis of its finding. Furthermore, all parties will have an opportunity to comment on Commerce's finding, which Commerce will fully consider before issuing its final determination, which is currently scheduled for May 1, 2023.

Independent of Commerce's final determination, the Presidential Proclamation issued on June 6, 2022, provides that duties will not be collected on any solar module and cell imports from these four countries until June 2024, as long as the imports are consumed in the U.S. market within six months of the termination of the President's Proclamation. This provides U.S. solar importers with sufficient time to adjust supply chains and ensure that sourcing isn't occurring from companies found to be violating U.S. law. Solar cells made in one of the four Southeast Asian countries, even if made from wafers from China, that are then exported to a non-inquiry country and further assembled into modules or other products there, are not subject to Commerce's preliminary circumvention findings.

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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, the evidence is clear. Chinese companies have set up shop in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam to get around U.S. tariffs that were put in place in 2012 by President Obama, yet the Biden administration is turning a blind eye on American workers and American manufacturers by waiving additional tariffs while it acknowledges cheating by Chinese companies.

Mr. Speaker, my grandfather always told me that actions speak louder than words. We have heard a lot of words about people standing up to China. This resolution will give every Member in this body the opportunity to stand up to China, and this is the way to do it.

Mr. Speaker, I am so thankful that we have Democratic Senators-- including my counterpart, Senator Wyden--on the other side of the aisle who are willing to do the right thing for the American worker and to do what President Obama did in 2012 to make sure that the solar industry works for America and does not become beholden to China.

Today, the U.S. Congress has the opportunity to send a direct message to China, and really any country that thinks about violating trade policies or attempts to cheat American workers, that the U.S. will not tolerate such behavior. I appreciate the fact that this can be a bipartisan message.

The White House made a very misguided decision when it chose to lift additional tariffs from China for 2 years. That action, in my view, sends the wrong message to the world, particularly when we know, based on findings by the President's own Commerce Department, that China is cheating American workers and consumers by circumventing tariffs right now.

We have the opportunity today to act on bipartisan legislation that will turn out the lights on that decision and hold China accountable.

To be clear, U.S. purchasers of fairly traded solar products will not pay a single penny of additional tariffs if this resolution is enacted. This is about protecting American workers and American jobs and holding China accountable.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for introducing this resolution and fighting to protect American workers and American jobs.

Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition of H.J. Res. 39-- Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Commerce relating to ``Procedures Covering Suspension of Liquidation, Duties and Estimated Duties in Accord with Presidential Proclamation 10414''.

This joint resolution nullifies a final rule submitted by the Department of Commerce and was published on September 16, 2022.

H.J. Res. 39 permitted the suspension of tariffs on specific solar panels, also known as crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules.

The regulation specifically applied to solar panels made in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, or Vietnam using parts and components made in China that are not previously covered by an antidumping or countervailing duty order.

Orders for antidumping and countervailing duties are put in place to combat unfair trade practices, such as when a foreign government gives domestic companies subsidies to give them an economic advantage over competitors from abroad.

The restriction that was repealed served to relieve businesses who import solar panels from these nations and make use of Chinese-made parts and components that are exempt from such orders.

By placing large and potentially retroactive duties on some imported solar panels, H.J. Res. 39 would obstruct the supply of solar products to the United States.

President Biden declared an energy emergency on June 6, 2022, to guarantee consistent and inexpensive access to renewable energy.

Following that, the Department of Commerce published a rule to establish a temporary, 24-month freeze on the collection of specific tariffs on solar cells or modules.

The U.S. solar industry was given the opportunity and time to realign supply chains away from China due to this rule and the new domestic manufacturing incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Without a temporary bridge, the price of solar installations will rise dramatically, and less solar project development will be planned.

The shift to clean energy will lead to an increase in employment, manufacturing, and wages here in the United States.

The Inflation Reduction Act represents the single biggest investment in clean energy in American history.

The IRA is starting the nation on the road to sustainable, responsible energy independence.

Additionally, approximately 100,000 jobs for American mechanics, electricians, construction workers, technicians, support personnel, and other professionals have been created as a result of the green tax credits in the IRA.

Ninety new sustainable energy projects have been announced in 31 states in the first half of the year of the law.

Manufacturing facilities for batteries, electric vehicles, and wind and solar energy systems are among these initiatives.

The move by President Biden is a one-time fix to realign American supply lines.

Initiating high, retroactive tariffs right away, harming solar growth, raising energy prices, and reducing supply at a time when we need to ramp up would be the results of ending the President's interim suspension.

By 2030, carbon emissions are expected to be reduced by 40 percent thanks to the clean energy credits provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, providing us a real chance to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement's objectives.

The bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will make unprecedented investments in American workers, communities, and businesses, was signed into law by President Biden last August.

The CHIPS Act will improve American semiconductor development, research, and manufacturing, among other things.

The CHIPS Act forbids recipients of funds from increasing chip manufacture in China and other nations that are legally deemed to pose a threat to American national security.

These historic policies, along with the CHIPS Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, have encouraged businesses to invest more than $200 billion in American manufacturing.

According to Uyghur Human Rights Project (UGRP), a rise in solar imports from Chinese solar manufacturers--regardless of whether such imports come from China or Chinese-controlled facilities in Southeast Asia--directly encourages the Chinese solar industry's use of Uyghur forced labor.

According to UHRP, imports of solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam have increased by 69 percent during 2019.

In addition, UHRP argues that it is intolerable to think that the United States should rely on goods produced by filthy ``coal plants and China's genocidal forced-labor inputs'' to sustain the transition to renewable energy.

Priorities for the environment and a commitment to uphold human rights must go hand in hand.

As a member of the House renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, I strongly oppose H.J. Res. 39 because it will harm solar growth and raise energy prices.

I strongly urge all my colleagues to come in stand in the opposition of H.J. Res. 39, because it is the Republicans' effort to roll back the Inflation Act. We should stop these attempts to undermine our hard- earned win.

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Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 221, nays 202, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 202] YEAS--221 Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Armstrong Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Bean (FL) Bentz Bergman Bice Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (NC) Boebert Bost Brecheen Buchanan Buck Bucshon Burchett Burgess Burlison Calvert Cammack Carey Carl Carter (GA) Carter (TX) Chavez-DeRemer Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Crane Crawford Crenshaw Davidson Davis (NC) De La Cruz Deluzio Diaz-Balart Donalds Duarte Duncan Dunn (FL) Edwards Ellzey Emmer Estes Ezell Fallon Feenstra Ferguson Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Foxx Franklin, C. Scott Fry Fulcher Gaetz Gallagher Garamendi Garcia, Mike Gimenez Golden (ME) Gonzales, Tony Good (VA) Gooden (TX) Gosar Granger Graves (LA) Graves (MO) Green (TN) Greene (GA) Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins (LA) Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Issa Jackson (TX) James Johnson (LA) Johnson (OH) Johnson (SD) Jordan Joyce (OH) Joyce (PA) Kaptur Kean (NJ) Kelly (MS) Khanna Kiggans (VA) Kildee Kiley Kim (CA) Kustoff LaHood LaMalfa Lamborn Langworthy Latta LaTurner Lee (FL) Lesko Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luetkemeyer Luna Luttrell Mace Malliotakis Mann Mast McCarthy McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McHenry Meuser Miller (IL) Miller (OH) Miller (WV) Mills Moolenaar Mooney Moore (AL) Moore (UT) Moran Mrvan Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn (IA) Obernolte Ogles Owens Palmer Pascrell Pence Perez Perry Pfluger Posey Reschenthaler Rodgers (WA) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rose Rosendale Rouzer Roy Rutherford Santos Scalise Schweikert Scott, Austin Self Sessions Sewell Simpson Slotkin Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smucker Spartz Stauber Steel Stefanik Steil Steube Stewart Strong Tenney Thompson (PA) Tiffany Timmons Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westerman Williams (NY) Williams (TX) Wilson (SC) Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke NAYS--202 Adams Aguilar Allred Auchincloss Balint Barragan Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bowman Boyle (PA) Brown Brownley Budzinski Bush Caraveo Carbajal Cardenas Carson Carter (LA) Cartwright Casar Case Casten Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar Curtis D'Esposito Davids (KS) Davis (IL) Dean (PA) DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Escobar Eshoo Espaillat Evans Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel, Lois Frost Gallego Garbarino Garcia (IL) Garcia (TX) Garcia, Robert Goldman (NY) Gomez Gonzalez, Vicente Gottheimer Green, Al (TX) Grijalva Harder (CA) Hayes Higgins (NY) Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle (OR) Huffman Ivey Jackson (IL) Jackson (NC) Jackson Lee Jacobs Jayapal Jeffries Johnson (GA) Kamlager-Dove Keating Kelly (IL) Kilmer Kim (NJ) Krishnamoorthi Kuster LaLota Landsman Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lawler Lee (CA) Lee (NV) Lee (PA) Leger Fernandez Levin Lieu Lofgren Lynch Magaziner Manning Massie Matsui McBath McClellan McCollum McGarvey McGovern Meeks Menendez Meng Miller-Meeks Molinaro Moore (WI) Moskowitz Moulton Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Neguse Nickel Norcross Ocasio-Cortez Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Payne Pelosi Peltola Pettersen Phillips Pingree Pocan Porter Pressley Quigley Ramirez Raskin Ruiz Ruppersberger Ryan Salinas Sanchez Sarbanes Scanlon Schakowsky Schiff Scholten Schrier Scott, David Sherman Sherrill Smith (WA) Sorensen Soto Spanberger Stansbury Stanton Stevens Strickland Swalwell Sykes Takano Thanedar Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko Torres (CA) Torres (NY) Trahan Trone Underwood Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velazquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Wexton Wild Williams (GA) Wilson (FL) NOT VOTING--12 DesJarlais Hunt Kelly (PA) Mfume Morelle Peters Ross Salazar Schneider Scott (VA) Turner Watson Coleman

Mr. JACKSON of Illinois changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''

Mr. CARTER of Texas changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''

So the joint resolution was passed.

The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.

A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

Stated against:

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