[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 90 (Monday, May 24, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3355]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 1944. Mr. RUBIO 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 appropriate place in subtitle A of title I of
division F, insert the following:
SEC. 61__. PROHIBITED USE OF NIH FUNDING.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no amounts made
available to the National Institutes of Health may be used
with respect to activities carried out by any company or its
subcontractors or subsidiaries--
(1) over which control is exercised or exercisable by the
Government of the People's Republic of China, a national of
the People's Republic of China, or an entity organized under
the laws of the People's Republic of China; or
(2) in which the Government of the People's Republic of
China has a substantial interest.
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