[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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