[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 3, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S1473]
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                     Congressional Review Act Votes

  Mr. President, on another matter, today the Senate has two 
opportunities to roll back this administration's overreach and redtape.
  The first resolution is from our colleague Senator Marshall. It 
builds on bipartisan efforts to remedy a hugely painful side effect of 
the Endangered Species Act that is holding American farms, ranches, and 
other small businesses hostage to an animal called the lesser prairie-
chicken--the lesser prairie-chicken. Americans in Kansas and Oklahoma 
were already striking a careful balance between prosperity and 
conservation without Washington meddling. A voluntary partnership 
between local landowners and officials had already secured 15 million 
acres of potential habitat.
  Since 2013, the population of this particular bird is actually up. 
But the Biden administration wants to plow ahead anyway, throw the book 
at these Americans, and threaten nearly $14 billion in agricultural 
production.
  The second resolution tackles an issue that is top of the mind for 
many Senators: winning the economic competition with the Chinese 
Communist Party.
  Last June, President Biden issued an emergency proclamation to let 
unfairly traded Chinese solar panels enter U.S. markets without 
additional tariffs that should have applied. In other words, the 
Democrats went soft on China for the sake of their Green New Deal 
daydreams. At the time, President Biden's own Commerce Department was 
investigating Chinese producers for circumventing solar panel tariffs 
by rerouting products through other countries.
  American workers and manufacturers were counting on the results of 
that investigation to reestablish a fair and level playing field. In 
December, a preliminary report did find the Chinese companies had 
cheated, but the administration threw in the towel and gave China a 
win.
  Today, the Senate can join the House and take bipartisan action to 
freeze the President's so-called emergency proclamation and make his 
administration hold China's unfair trade practices actually to account. 
I hope each of my colleagues will join me in supporting both of these 
commonsense resolutions.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority whip.