[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3265-S3266]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1840. Mr. THUNE 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 subtitle A of title II of division C, add 
     the following:

     SEC. 3219L. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NEED FOR REFORMS TO RULES OF 
                   THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION.

       It is the sense of Congress that--

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       (1) although the United States finds value and usefulness 
     in the World Trade Organization in fulfilling the needs of 
     the United States and other free and open economies in the 
     21st century, significant reforms at the World Trade 
     Organization are needed; and
       (2) the United States must continue to demonstrate 
     leadership to achieve reforms that restore the effectiveness 
     of the rules of the World Trade Organization for special and 
     differential treatment to ensure those rules promote 
     advancement for truly developing countries, rather than 
     becoming tools for globally competitive countries such as the 
     People's Republic of China to be designated as developing 
     countries to engage in protectionism and market distortions.
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