Senate Backs Measures Tackling China Tech Investments, CCP Farmland Purchases

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The U.S. Senate on July 25 overwhelmingly adopted two amendments to the proposed defense budget that would require American tech companies to notify the Treasury Department of any dealings with China-based companies and to prevent entities and individuals from four nations, including China, from acquiring agricultural land anywhere in the country.

The โ€œProtection of Covered Sectorsโ€ amendment sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and five bipartisan sponsors was adopted in a 91โ€“6 vote while the agriculture land preemption amendment, filed by Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), also with bipartisan backing, was approved in an 89โ€“8 tally.

Both measures are among the 872 prospective amendments filed by senators since the proposed $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), or annual defense budget, advanced in a 24โ€“1 June 23 vote.

The Democrat-majority Senateย began FY24 NDAA floor deliberationsย on July 18 with at least 90โ€”including 51 submitted by Republicansโ€”amendments set for floor debate.

No โ€˜Culture Warโ€™ Amendments

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) aims to have the Senateโ€™s NDAA adopted by July 28 before the upper chamber adjourns, as the House did last week, for August recess. Neither chamber convenes again until Sept. 5.

Mr. Schumer, in remarks before the somewhat languorous votes on July 25, said he and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), among other chamber leaders, are developing โ€œa second round of amendmentsโ€ for floor discussion in the coming days.

The GOP-majority House on July 14ย approved its preliminary versionย of the proposed defense budgetย in a 219โ€“210 near-total partisan vote with an attached raft of โ€œculture warโ€ amendments unlikely to pass muster in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Those measures include repealingย the Department of Defenseโ€™s (DODโ€™s)ย abortion travel policy, prohibiting DOD health care programs from providing gender transition procedures, a DOD โ€œParentsโ€™ Bill of Rights,โ€ย and a host of other proposed add-ons eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to the must-pass defense budget that is normally approved in bipartisan accord.

Byย John Haughey

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