Steve Chabot: “A free and open Indo-Pacific is critical to the U.S.'s economic future.”

The CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, sees information as power.

The breadth and depth of information about nearly every American held by private companies is breathtaking and can easily be abused if adequate safeguards are not in place.

I urge all colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Now, may not be the time, despite what the Biden Administration and any of my colleagues believe, to release drug traffickers and dealers back into our communities and neighborhoods.