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As a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, protecting American research from theft and national security threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a top priority.
For more than a decade now, I have called attention to and warned that the CCP represents a serious and persistent threat to our national security. We are now becoming even more aware of just how deeply the CCP’s threat reaches into the United States homeland.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 24, 2025) , the U.S. House of Representatives passed Representative Mike Kennedy, Representative Nick Begich’s (AK-R), and Representative George Whitesides' (CA-27) bipartisan legislation, the DOE and NASA Interagency Research Coordination Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 24, 2025)— The United States House of Representatives passed the United States Research Protection Act today, led by Representative Mike Kennedy (R-UT-03) and Representative Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the House, and introduced by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Senate. This critical legislation aims to strengthen the security and integrity of America’s innovation sector. It amends a key provision of the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, focusing on bolstering research security.