[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 21, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S840]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on CHIPS, today, the administration
released a number of proposed guardrails that will ensure the Chinese
Communist Party does not benefit from our efforts to increase chip
production here at home.
We first put these guardrails into the CHIPS and Science bill, which
we enacted into law last summer--something we are very proud of and
that I am very proud of. We put them in because we didn't want to see
companies getting help to expand operations in America and then using
other dollars to expand operations in countries like China. I am glad
the administration is implementing this law with good, strong
guidelines--with good, strong regulations.
Specifically, the Department of Commerce and the Treasury have
proposed new restrictions, which the Senate approved through the CHIPS
and Science Act, on the amount companies receiving CHIPS money can
invest in projects located within countries of concern. That includes
Russia and China. Abusing CHIPS funding to expand projects in China-
based markets would be self-defeating, and it would endanger our
national security. This is what we passed into law in the CHIPS bill,
and this proposed rule will implement it in a strong way. If we are
serious about investing in domestic chip production, the last thing we
should be doing is allowing companies to take CHIPS dollars and use
them to build facilities in China that benefit the CCP.
I applaud the administration. I applaud our great Secretary of
Commerce for this proposed rule, which I called on them to fast-track
weeks ago, and I am glad they are doing it.
I am also glad this week that the administration is rolling out
proposed guidance for implementing the CHIPS investment tax credit--the
ITC. I fought relentlessly to get this tax credit into CHIPS and
Science. We knew, without it, our new factories here in America that
are going to make advanced computer chips would not grow as quickly and
as well.
I want to thank Senators Wyden, Brown, Casey, Tester, Kelly, Warner,
Cantwell, and many others for joining me in this effort.
As I have said many times, President Xi and the Chinese Communist
Party are on an all-out campaign to replace the United States as the
global force in the 21st century. Look no further than the headlines
today. President Xi is being wined and dined by Vladimir Putin, leaving
no doubt that the CCP is rooting for Putin to prevail in Ukraine.
But it is not just on military matters that China wants to dominate.
For decades, the CCP has rapaciously stolen American, European, and
Japanese technologies and intellectual property. The CHIPS and Science
Act was designed to halt this bleeding and bring semiconductor jobs
back to our shores. But, if that is going to happen, we can't allow
taxpayer dollars to expand projects in China to begin with. So I
applaud the administration for introducing this proposed rule today.
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