Brian Babin: “I stand in strong opposition to what should be called the concedes act. Once again, we are voting on a bill that was…”

“I stand in strong opposition to what should be called the concedes act. Once again, we are voting on a bill that was forced through this Chamber in a partisan fashion, and one that lacks the policies needed to bolster our competitiveness and combat the threats from our foreign adversaries. The hard work and the bipartisan collaboration of the Space, Science, and Technology Committee has, once again, been obliterated so that the left can pass partisan policies. Once again, in a sincere and goodwill attempt to work across the aisle on important policy, I introduced an amendment that would have reauthorized NASA's enhanced-use leasing program for 1 year, a timeline supported by both parties. But to no surprise, the Democrats put messaging over good governance and refused to make that noncontroversial amendment in order. And just a few weeks ago, we had a bipartisan EUL bill that had already passed this House. It was stolen from us, gutted, and turned into a Federal election takeover bill. Instead of focusing on commonsense solutions to our China problems, H.R. 4521 hurts the American people. It lets China off the hook for failing to contain COVID-19. It fails to ban funding to CCP-tied organizations. It fails to punish the CCP for its blatant human rights abuses, and it fails to stop China's theft of America's intellectual property.…”