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“Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. McCaul), who is the Republican leader of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, last year, the CCP's hypersonic weapons program successfully launched a missile that traveled all the way around the world. That program was built on the backbone of U.S. technology. And as we speak, the Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide against their own people. Women are forced to abort their children. Families are ripped apart. And all the while, American IP is being used to build the CCP's police state to help the CCP surveil and imprison the ethnic and religious minorities that they torture. A substantive bill that counters the CCP isn't just a national security issue; it is a moral issue. That is why any serious legislation must include export controls to keep U.S. technology out of the hands of the CCP's military and surveillance state. The stakes could not be higher, and the outcome hinges on a technology race. Unfortunately, this bill takes no meaningful step to address this significant risk to U.S. national security. Instead, it is a Trojan horse being used to inject $8 billion worth of taxpayer money into an unaccountable United Nations slush fund. {time} 1445 That is more than double the amount of money authorized for actual foreign policy programs. This U.N. slush fund has already provided at least $100 million directly to China, U.S.…”