[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3202-S3203]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1705. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:


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  At the end of title III of division B, add the following:

     SEC. 2309. PROHIBITION AGAINST NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
                   FUNDING FOR FOREIGN ENTITIES OF CONCERN.

       (a) Ineligibility for National Science Foundation 
     Funding.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Director of the National Science Foundation may not issue an 
     award to a foreign entity of concern (as defined in section 
     2307(a)(1)).
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