3.0.0 229 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z House H HR 2023-01-09 118 <pre>[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 7 (Monday, January 9, 2023)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. WITTMAN:H.R. 229.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 18[Page H114]</pre> hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2023-01-20T22:15:14Z Referred To 2023-01-09T22:15:05Z hsed00 Education and Workforce Committee House Standing Referred To 2023-01-09T22:15:00Z hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing Referred To 2023-01-09T22:14:50Z hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Referred To 2023-01-09T22:14:45Z 2023-01-20 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Committee 2023-01-09 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2023-01-09 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsed00 Education and Workforce Committee 2023-01-09 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2023-01-09 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2023-01-09 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2023-01-09 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress W000804 Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1] Robert Wittman R VA J. 1 N International Affairs Asia 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Cardiovascular and respiratory health 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z China 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Congressional oversight 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Contracts and agency 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Education programs funding 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Emergency medical services and trauma care 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Employment discrimination and employee rights 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Foreign property 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Government information and archives 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Government studies and investigations 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Health programs administration and funding 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Higher education 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Human rights 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Infectious and parasitic diseases 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z International organizations and cooperation 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z News media and reporting 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Political parties and affiliation 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Public contracts and procurement 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Sanctions 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z Taiwan 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z Visas and passports 2023-03-16T14:30:25Z World health 2023-03-16T14:30:26Z International Affairs 2023-01-23T15:15:19Z

00 2023-01-09 Introduced in House 2023-01-26T11:22:47Z <p><strong>World Deserves To Know Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires sanctions on certain members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and officials of Chinese health agencies. It also addresses related issues.</p> <p>The President must impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on any foreign person who is a CCP official and who is knowingly responsible for or complicit in (1) the disappearances of whistleblowers and citizen journalists in China relating to COVID-19, or (2) limiting free speech and academic freedom in China relating to COVID-19. </p> <p>The President must also impose such sanctions on specified individuals who have leadership positions in China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention and China's National Health Commission (NHC).</p> <p>The authority to impose such sanctions shall end when the President certifies to Congress that an independent and unimpeded investigation into the potential origin of COVID-19 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has taken place.</p> <p>The bill also bars federal funds and certain federal student assistance from going to institutions of higher education that enter into a contract with any element or China-based affiliate of the NHC.</p> <p>Federal funding to the National Academy of Sciences may not be used to enter into a contract with any element or China-based affiliate of the NHC.</p> <p>The Government Accountability Office must report to Congress a review of all funds that the National Institutes of Health have made available to the NHC since FY2010. This report must also be publicly available.</p>

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