[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 22 (Thursday, February 3, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H944]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       LOSING THE RACE WITH CHINA

  (Mr. BURCHETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURCHETT. Madam Speaker, imagine you are an inventor with a new 
idea. You put a lot of time, effort, and money into everything it takes 
for your idea to become a reality. Finally, after all your hard work, 
you have a successful product. However, a foreign competitor copied 
your intellectual property, and your property is now worthless.
  This is a serious problem facing American investors, entrepreneurs, 
and businesses, and the Chinese Communist Party is typically the 
culprit behind intellectual property theft. It is totally wrong that 
this happens right under our government's nose, but we haven't done a 
daggum thing to stop the exploitation.
  House Democrats are putting on the floor a bogus China competition 
bill that does nothing to actually solve this problem. In fact, they 
even rejected several amendments that address the lack of intellectual 
property protections in their bill.
  My Trade Related Intellectual Property Protection Act was among the 
amendments Democrats rejected. It would require Congress to approve the 
sharing of any intellectual property with the World Trade Organization 
member states, giving us a chance to make sure Americans' hard work 
does not get stolen by the Communist Chinese.
  By excluding my commonsense amendment, Democrats missed an 
opportunity to make their bill a legitimate response to Communist 
China's attacks on America's brightest minds.
  Madam Speaker, we are in a race with China to be the world's 
technology superpower and we are giving in to the Communist Chinese 
wishes.

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