[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1818. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Carper) 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:

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

     SEC. 6302. BRIEFING ON REPORT RELATED TO PROCESS FOR 
                   EXCLUDING ARTICLES IMPORTED FROM THE PEOPLE'S 
                   REPUBLIC OF CHINA FROM CERTAIN DUTIES IMPOSED 
                   UNDER SECTION 301 OF THE TRADE ACT OF 1974.

       Not later than 90 days after the publication by the 
     Comptroller General of the United States of the report 
     requested by Congress on July 16, 2019, for an audit into the 
     process by which the United States Trade Representative has 
     excluded articles imported from the People's Republic of 
     China from certain duties imposed under section 301 of the 
     Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2411), the Trade Representative, 
     or a designee of the Trade Representative, shall brief the 
     Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways 
     and Means of the House of Representatives on the manner in 
     which the Trade Representative is responding to the findings 
     contained in that report.
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