I just think we are going a little too far with this.

My straightforward amendment helps further the Federal voting assistance program's strategic plan to provide all servicemen and women the information that they need about the voting process.

Dr. Murphy. No, ma'am.

Now, I don't care what party you are in, this scenario, no matter what the department or the administration, deserves increased oversight.

Time and again, we have requested information and testimony on how this has happened. And then time and again, the Department has failed to be accountable and transparent.

If they are majority U.S.-owned, how can the Chinese Communist Party, through its government, say--why would they say that they could be stopped or changed course because of what the government said in China?

I want to make sure the American taxpayer dollars are spent correctly.

So all the rest of these companies are--if we go in and pick out any one of the ones you named or some others, we are going to find that they don't have these ties to the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Communist Government.

I would like to hear that process, if you would tell us, the process for the vetting of these companies to make sure that they are going to actually be making things in America for Americans by Americans and with American technology being…

It is deeply troubling that a grant for hundreds of millions of American, hard-earned taxpayer dollars was approved for a company like Microvast.

But you are telling me that is when the vetting actually--the in-depth vetting began.

Everyone in this body knows someone who has been affected by the drug overdose epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2022, there were more than 107,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. Sixty-seven percent of…

We do not want to be turning over intellectual property to China. We do not want to be dependent on China for solar panels, components, wind turbines, electric batteries, and components of these.

We are not training any American companies. We are not creating any American companies that will suddenly have this battery capacity.

Our country's national security and economic prosperity depends on stable access to the products and materials our energy producers need.

As these supply chains are currently configured, most of the spending from the IRA will be spent on Chinese-made inputs and will end up enriching Chinese companies.

But I thought the idea behind the bill was to get American companies onboard, and it sounds like you agree with my assessment that at least in the Ford-CATL arrangement, that Ford is subservient.

The Biden administration has extolled the billions of dollars in grants and incentives in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act as a key component of our national strategy to secure our energy-sector…

Unfortunately, we currently depend on international rivals such as China and Russia for much of these energy supply chain inputs.

Americans need more reliable access to lifesaving drugs.

We are also far too dependent on foreign countries for generic drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, especially China and India.

other countries outside of the U.S. are forging trade agreements in a dynamic market like global commodity trade

The extension of the Black Sea Trade Corridor absolutely greatly contributes to food security, and to those areas.

Yes, and that is my concern here, is that, you know, in our race to save a few pennies here and there, we are sacrificing both availability that Ms. Bray talked about and quality.

And then you have taken 60,000 plans nationwide across the board off the table.