[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 121 (Friday, July 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H3602-H3603]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   A TROUBLING AMENDMENT TO THE NDAA

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to point out just one of the 
very troubling and extreme amendments in the NDAA, specifically Mr. 
Green's amendment which would effectively cut all Federal Government 
support to filmmakers who distribute films in China.
  This amendment takes a page right out of 1950s McCarthyism, and it 
will devastate the film industry. It requires the DOD to create a 
blacklist of studios that often, by necessity, have made changes to 
films in anticipation of distribution in China.
  It would decide, without any evidence necessary, to withhold 
assistance for filmmakers who edit sexual or violent scenes to make 
films more appropriate for children. Further, it would ensure that 
these American filmmakers can no longer film on U.S. public lands or 
access resources paid for by American taxpayers.
  Filmmaking is a First Amendment right, and this amendment attacks 
that right by allowing the DOD to censor content and editorial 
viewpoints of American films. The Green amendment could also push film 
production overseas.
  In my home State of California, this amendment would devastate an 
industry that brings in $226 billion alone in jobs and economic 
activities.
  Sadly, this amendment is just one of many dangerous and extreme MAGA

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amendments attached to what has been a historically bipartisan bill. 
This amendment would hurt American industries and workers, and it does 
not belong in the NDAA.

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