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Boston Field Hearing
February 7, 2024

BOSTON, MA -- The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party will hold a hearing on February 13th at 8:30 a.m., E.T. at the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston, MA. The hearing is titled "Growing Stakes: The Bioeconomy and American National Security."

Issues: Biosecurity

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Witnesses
February 5, 2024

Welcome to The Select, a weekly newsletter on the work of the Congressional Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party led by Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI).

See below for last week's updates.


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hesai
February 2, 2024

Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issued the following statement regarding the Department of Defense’s (DoD) recent inclusion of more than a dozen new People’s Republic of China (PRC) companies – including PRC LiDAR maker Hesai Technology – on its “Chinese Military Companies List”.

 

Issues: Defense

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BGI import
February 2, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party released the below statement commending the bipartisan National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology for its endorsement of the policy behind the bipartisan, bicameral BIOSECURE Act introduced last week by Chairman Gallagher and Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi.

 


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federal maritime commission
February 1, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Rep.

Issues: Critical Infrastructure/Cyber

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cranes
February 1, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee urged the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) to work expeditiously to initiate a rulemaking on shipping exchanges and establish healthy and fair competition in the global shipping market.

 

“CCP state-owned enterprises are quickly gaining market dominance in global shipping exchanges,” said Chairman Gallagher. “The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission must accelerate much-needed regulation to ensure American shippers and exchanges are not steamrolled by their CCP-backed counterparts.”

 


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NPB
February 1, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Last evening, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, addressed religious leaders in a keynote speech at the National Prayer Breakfast Gathering. His remarks addressed the Chinese Communist Party's cooptation of religion and the harsh disparity between faith in God and Communism.

 

Issues: CCP Internal Repression

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Gallagher
February 1, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Last evening, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, addressed religious leaders in a keynote speech at the National Prayer Breakfast Gathering. His remarks addressed the Chinese Communist Party's cooptation of religion and the harsh disparity between faith in God and Communism.


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Witnesses
January 31, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is holding a hearing titled, "The CCP Cyber Threat to the American Homeland and National Security."

Issues: Critical Infrastructure/Cyber TikTok

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Cyber Hearing
January 31, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.- This morning, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, held a hearing titled "The CCP Cyber Threat to the American Homeland and National Security." In the hearing, members heard testimony from U.S. Cyber Command Commander General Paul Nakasone, FBI Director Christopher Wray, CISA Director Jen Easterly, and National Cyber Director Harry Coker.


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cyber
January 31, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is holding a hearing titled, "The CCP Cyber Threat to the American Homeland and National Security."


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AA Hearing
January 30, 2024

WATCH: In the Taiwan Strait, Middle East, & Ukraine, America is not facing isolated challenges, but a global alignment of revisionist powers — led by China — determined to end U.S. leadership.


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pompeo and panetta
January 30, 2024

Today, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is holding a hearing titled, "Authoritarian Alignment: The CCP's Support for America's Adversaries." 

Issues: CCP International Influence Defense

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authoritarian alignment
January 30, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is holding a hearing titled, "Authoritarian Alignment: The CCP's Support for America's Adversaries." 

 


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catl
January 29, 2024

As part of their ongoing investigation into Ford Motor Company’s partnership with China-based EV battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.

Issues: Critical Infrastructure/Cyber

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Ford CATL
January 29, 2024

As part of their ongoing investigation into Ford Motor Company’s partnership with China-based EV battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) to build a Michigan factory, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee uncovered evidence that Ford plans to use technology and software from at least four Chinese companies that supply the same types of IT tools to the Chinese military, North Korean government, and China’s Ministry of Public Security.

 

In letters sent to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the lawmakers requested that the Biden administration immediately blacklist these four companies that Ford plans to use in its new factory with Chinese battery maker CATL.


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BGI import
January 25, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party today introduced the BIOSECURE Act, a bill to ensure foreign adversary biotech companies of U.S. national security concern do not gain access to U.S. taxpayer dollars.

 

Co-leads in the House include Select Committee members Reps. Neal Dunn (R-FL), Seth Moulton (D-MA), and Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), while Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Gary Peters (D-MI) Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Roger Marshall (R-KS) have already introduced corresponding legislation in the Senate.

 

Issues: Biosecurity