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Republican Senators Urge Commerce Department to Put Chinese Artificial Intelligence Companies on Entity List
Five Republican Senators – Tom Cotton (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Bill Hagerty
(R-TN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) -- sent a letter
[https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-call-on-secretary-raimondo-to-blacklist-companies-that-provide-ai-technology-to-the-
GOP Senators Send Letter to U.S. International Development Finance Corporation on Solar Panels and Forced Labor
On November 4, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Rick Scott
(R-FL), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Jerry Moran (R-KS) sent
a
letter
[https://www.rubio.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=E6762115-790A-42E5-AED1-
U.S. Senators Introduce New Bill to Broaden CFIUS
On November 2, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) introduced
a bill to expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the
United States (CFIUS) to review foreign investments where sensitive personal
information is involved.
The bill, S. 3130
[https://www.congress.gov/bill/
New U.S. Law Further Restricts Use of Equipment from Huawei, ZTE, Others
After the U.S. House of Representatives passed
[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3919/actions] similar
legislation on October 20, yesterday the Senate passed its own version
[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1790/text] of a law
designed to tighten existing restrictions
U.S. Senators Challenge China's Procurement Practices for Medical Devices
Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Todd Young (R-IN) wrote
to
[https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/10/carper-young-letter-seeks-to-protect-medical-device-jobs-and-hold-china-accountable]
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai "express[ing] concern
GOP Members of Congress Call On Biden Administration To Crack Down On Sharing Critical U.S. Technology With China
The Republican-led China Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo calling for a crack down on sharing critical U.S. technology with China, and in particular for enforcement of U.S. export control laws to be tightened. The China
Nomination Hearing for Two USTR Positions Discusses China Trade Issues
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today on the Nominations of Maria Pagan to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Geneva Office) and Christopher Wilson to be USTR's Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator (as well as Brent Neiman to be Deputy Under Secretary of the