House Panels Turn Focus to China Competitiveness Legislation
- Measure to confront China, boost chip making a Biden priority
- House and Senate will have to negotiate differences in bills
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A House panel is set to begin work Tuesday on its version of legislation to strengthen U.S. research and development in answer to China’s economic rise, aiming to come up with a bill that can mesh with a Senate-passed measure and be sent to President Joe Biden by August.
The House Science Committee will consider two bills that would bolster research funding at the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy and will form the basis for the House measure. Like the Senate legislation, a new technology directorate would be created at the National Science Foundation to support research and technology development.