[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S336]
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  SA 75. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 5, setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 
2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 2022 through 2030; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in title IV, add the following:

     SEC. 4___. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST AUTHORIZING FEDERAL FUNDING 
                   FOR ANY PUBLIC HEALTH, ACADEMIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, 
                   OR SCIENTIFIC INITIATIVE OR PROGRAM THAT 
                   PROMOTES JOINT RESEARCH OR PROFESSIONAL 
                   EXCHANGE WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 
                   PERTAINING TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER THAT IS A 
                   KNOWN PRIORITY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY'S 
                   MILITARY-CIVIL FUSION STRATEGY.

       (a) Point of Order.--It shall not be in order in the Senate 
     to consider any bill, joint resolution, motion, amendment, 
     amendment between the Houses, or conference report that 
     authorizes Federal funding for any public health, academic, 
     technological, or scientific initiative or program that 
     promotes joint research or professional exchange with the 
     People's Republic of China pertaining to any subject matter 
     that is a known priority of the Chinese Communist Party's 
     military-civil fusion strategy.
       (b) Waiver and Appeal.--Subsection (a) may be waived or 
     suspended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three-
     fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. An affirmative 
     vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
     chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal of 
     the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
     subsection (a).
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