Bipartisanshio alive and well protecting critical infrastructure
The Hill
August 3, 2018
Despite increasingly partisan rhetoric on a range of national security issues, this week showed us that bipartisanship is still alive and well when it comes to protecting American rail and other critical infrastructure against underhanded practices by foreign nations with questionable motives.
This proved true recently as the Senate "minibus" spending bill, H.R. 6147, was passed with language prohibiting the use of federal dollars from subsidizing Chinese state-owned enterprises that are increasingly targeting American rail manufacturing.
The measure, led by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), disallows recipients of Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funds from using those dollars to contract out an array of bus and rail transit transit projects to Chinese government-owned or (government)-controlled companies.
The amendment received broad bipartisan support; co-sponsors ranged from Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.),
among others.
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