[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5763-S5764]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6238. Mr. INHOFE (for Mr. Rubio) submitted an amendment intended 
to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself 
and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
        At the end of subtitle D of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1254. STRATEGY FOR COUNTERING THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
                   CHINA.

       (a) Identification of Vulnerabilities and Leverage.--Not 
     later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary 
     of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Federal 
     Procurement Policy, and the Director of the Office of Science 
     and Technology Policy, shall submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress a report that identifies--
       (1) goods and services from the United States that are 
     relied on by the People's Republic of China such that that 
     reliance presents a strategic opportunity and source of 
     leverage against the People's Republic of China; and
       (2) procurement practices of the United States Armed Forces 
     and other Federal agencies that are reliant on trade with the 
     People's Republic of China and other inputs from the People's 
     Republic of China, such that that reliance presents a 
     strategic vulnerability and source of leverage that the 
     Chinese Communist Party could exploit.
       (b) Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the submission 
     of the report required by subsection (a)--
       (1) the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of the Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the 
     Secretary of State, the Director of the Office of Federal 
     Procurement Policy, and the Director of the Office of Science 
     and Technology Policy, shall submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress a report, utilizing the findings of 
     the report required by subsection (a), that describes a 
     comprehensive sanctions strategy to advise policymakers on 
     policies the United States and allies and partners of the 
     United States could adopt with respect to the People's 
     Republic of China in response to an invasion of Taiwan by the 
     People's Republic of China that--
       (A) starves the People's Liberation Army of oil, natural 
     gas, munitions, and other supplies needed to conduct military 
     operations against Taiwan, United States facilities in the 
     Pacific and Indian Oceans, and allies and partners of the 
     United States in the region;
       (B) diminishes the capacity of the industrial base of the 
     People's Republic of China to manufacture and deliver defense 
     articles to replace those lost in operations of the People's 
     Liberation Army against Taiwan, the United States, and allies 
     and partners of the United States; and
       (C) inhibits the ability of the People's Republic of China 
     to evade United States and multilateral sanctions through 
     third parties, including through secondary sanctions; and
       (2) the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation the 
     Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Director of 
     National Intelligence, the United States Trade 
     Representative, the Director of the Office of Federal 
     Procurement Policy, and the Director of the Office of Science 
     and Technology Policy, shall submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress a report that--
       (A) identifies critical sectors within the United States 
     economy that rely on trade with the People's Republic of 
     China and other inputs from the People's Republic of China 
     (including active pharmaceutical ingredients, rare earth 
     minerals, and metallurgical inputs), such that those sectors 
     present a strategic vulnerability and source of leverage that 
     the Chinese Communist Party could exploit;
       (B) makes recommendations to Congress on steps that can be 
     taken to reduce the

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     sources of leverage described in subparagraph (A) and 
     subsection (a)(1), including through--
       (i) provision of economic incentives and making other trade 
     and contracting reforms to support United States industry and 
     job growth in critical sectors and to indigenize production 
     of critical resources; and
       (ii) policies to facilitate ``near- or friend-shoring'', or 
     otherwise developing strategies to facilitate that process 
     with allies and partners of the United States, in other 
     sectors for which domestic reshoring would prove infeasible 
     for any reason.
       (c) Form.--The reports required by subsections (a) and (b) 
     shall be submitted in unclassified form but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the 
     Committee on Finance, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
     Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
     Transportation of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, the Committee on Financial Services, the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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