Endless Frontier Act: Senate advances a rare bipartisan deal on countering China

By artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 2:32pm |

The nascent agreement, backed by President Joe Biden, is a bright spot for a chamber that has grown increasingly partisan in recent years. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called the bill a “once-in-a-generation investment in American science and American technology.”

By Andrew Desidero @ Politico.com, May 17

The Senate voted on Monday to advance a broad bipartisan effort to counter China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions, though negotiators are still hammering out critical details of the legislation.

Senators voted 86-11 to move forward on the Endless Frontier Act, the base for the larger China bill. Ultimately it's expected to include additional measures boosting technology research and development, revitalizing manufacturing sectors, and outlining a diplomatic and national security strategy for the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has long pushed for a more hawkish approach to China, is leading the effort alongside Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), a rising voice in his party on foreign affairs.

The final product could pass the Senate before June and would represent the culmination of a two-month effort by Senate committees, at Schumer’s direction, to draw up bipartisan legislation aimed at out-competing China. The nascent agreement is also a bright spot for a chamber that has grown increasingly partisan in recent years [....]

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They're working on it a lot behind closed doors, so the populace can continue to think they are arch enemies on everything and the political can still be distracted with the culture wars and things like systemic racism and CRT, viral brutal police videos, Matt Gaetz, the Qanon shaman, Dr. Seuss, Andrew Yang, Palestinians, etc. whatever's viral on social media du jour:

Endless Frontier Act is definitely happening in Secret Congress — today’s Playbook lead is a long thing about Stephen Miller allegedly tweeting in favor of Andrew Yang to help Eric Adams then after that Endless Frontier plays behind Khalilzad testifying at some House committee pic.twitter.com/ztxecxbloh
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 18, 2021

Meantime corporate heads, business people, investors, and serious policy people will read about what's really going concerning our future at like Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and think tank publications:

The Senate () voted on Monday to move forward on the #EndlessFrontierAct, a bipartisan legislation aimed at out-competing #China and boosting U.S. technology research and development. #WordOfTheWeek
Read more at https://t.co/tvLjWIWdts. pic.twitter.com/aPsYV17nex
— ICAS (@icasDC) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 2:48pm

Here's some tweets I've been collecting on it since I noticed mentions of it yesterday:

#StrategicCompetitionAct #EndlessFrontierAct #HKSafeHarborAct https://t.co/eBv4FQS9UE
— Westportscene (@Westportscene) May 18, 2021

first saw yesterday, and go: what is that?

Chuck Schumer is now talking up the Endless Frontier Act on the Senate floor. Says he greatly looks forward to improving and broadening the legislation over the next two weeks and kicking it over to the House by the end of May.

Gonna be a busy two weeks, folks.
— Brendan Bordelon (@BrendanBordelon) May 17, 2021

did search

The Senate will take up the Endless Frontier Act next week.

It would be one of the most significant investments in American innovation in a generation.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 13, 2021

A bipartisan majority of the Senate Commerce Committee has voted to include my amendment to the #EndlessFrontierAct to fix our outdated labeling laws, promote transparency for products sold online, and help boost the Made in America products of our businesses & manufacturers.
— Sen. Tammy Baldwin (@SenatorBaldwin) May 12, 2021

Yesterday, the Endless Frontier Act advanced out of @CommerceDems & included two of my provisions to bolster manufacturing jobs in GA & R&D at our HBCUs & MSIs. I’m eager to support this bipartisan bill once again when it reaches the floor of the U.S. Senate. pic.twitter.com/vHsneftJXO
— Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) May 13, 2021

The #EndlessFrontierAct to out-compete China just cleared committee. I’m proud my colleagues agreed this bill is one of the best ways to beat our biggest geopolitical foe. Next, the @SenateFloor.

My statement: https://t.co/egMwucn8YL
— Senator Todd Young (@SenToddYoung) May 12, 2021

Schumer says Endless Frontier Act - which proponents say would help US curb China’s influence - will come to the Senate floor this month. It is expected to be approved in committee this week
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 10, 2021

Schumer on Endless Frontier Act: "I greatly look forward to working with all my colleagues during these next few weeks on amending, broadening and passing this legislation before the month is out."
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) May 17, 2021

Bipartisan progress with #EndlessFrontier Act on including "at least" 18 regional technology hubs in new places across America represents an important moment.

Nation may be ready at last to respond to the nation's regional divides. https://t.co/TsVt3Jv97F
— Mark Muro (@MarkMuro1) May 17, 2021

#LudeMedia May 15 Eve
Senate panel approves the “Endless Frontier” Act
to cut off gov funding to scientists having ties w/
meaning will completely decouple in R&D
Someone posted on Weibo: animation of #Zhurong has a few seconds taken directly from NASA pic.twitter.com/DK4VpLaEA9
— MosTrans (New Account #3) (@No3Mos) May 16, 2021

thread:

"A coalition of >60 anti-war & progressive groups sent a letter to congress. leadership decrying the messaging around the Endless Frontier Act, which they said needlessly casts “the relationship as a zero-sum econ. and mil. struggle between dem. and authoritarianism.”
— Jakub Graca (@graca_jakub) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 3:08pm

President Biden is currently driving a F-150 Lightning through an empty lot, with a Secret Service agent in the passenger seat. "This sucker's quick," he told reporters. pic.twitter.com/KsVzZiVDB6
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 18, 2021

Loves the media https://t.co/m7zro2T6aw
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 18, 2021

The rollout of the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning reinforces what we’ve always known: there’s no limit to what American ingenuity and manufacturing can accomplish, and Michigan’s workers will always come through. pic.twitter.com/2M3TZW5CmV
— Rep. Elissa Slotkin (@RepSlotkin) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 3:36pm

Chuck again, three hours ago:

Last night, we voted to move forward on the Endless Frontier Act

Today, I'll act to pull together legislation from across committees into a comprehensive bill:

The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act

A once-in-a-generation investment in American science, tech, & manufacturing
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 3:53pm

Big DC lobbying firm:

Senators have begun consideration of the bipartisan Endless Frontier Act as additional changes to the legislation are likely on the horizon. Read more in today's TRP Tip Sheet: https://t.co/IqUNm6clrF pic.twitter.com/TEYvq7XKIh
— Thorn Run Partners (@Thorn_Run) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 3:56pm

Working on a post about the recent changes to the Endless Frontier Act. Here's how the latest version authorizes funding.

The Tech Directorate is decimated. Funding for its core R&D mission now get $4.3 billion / five years, while NSF gets >$43 billion in discretionary funding. pic.twitter.com/hsrW44Pn8N
— Samuel Hammond (@hamandcheese) May 18, 2021

cc @BrendanBordelon @calebwatney @ZacharyGraves @patrickc @tylercowen @mishachellam @ATabarrok @ArtirKel @Ben_Reinhardt @jasoncrawford @jonathangruber1 @MarkMuro1

Working from the bill text available here: https://t.co/dpMf2gc27L
— Samuel Hammond (@hamandcheese) May 18, 2021

Watching this happen is... Maddening.
— Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 4:02pm

Coincidence that this op-ed appeared last week?

From @SenatorRomney: We can’t look away from China’s existential threat https://t.co/wCvBR6rklj
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) May 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 11:46pm

again while the bread and circuses of culture wars distract from what's really going on:

Pretty interesting development, leading Dems and GOPs on relevant committee working together to strengthen antitrust laws used to rein in big corporations. https://t.co/ykLyt86V2O
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/22/2021 - 7:20am

After some drama, it's a GO, see major live tweeted story in a thread starting here (includes lots of mentions of "Sen. Crapo":

Cloture vote on the full Endless Frontier package starting now in the Senate.
— Brendan Bordelon (@BrendanBordelon) May 27, 2021

edit to add a clue from later in his thread, that there are times, Virginia, when Mitch doesn't get what he wants from the troops:

Okay, GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy also votes for cloture. So despite McConnell's protests, Republicans are not marching in lockstep in favor of more debate time on Endless Frontier.
— Brendan Bordelon (@BrendanBordelon) May 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/27/2021 - 5:41pm

still not passed, more fiddling to come:

The Senate agreed to delay final passage of a wide-ranging bipartisan bill aimed at confronting China after Republican senators forced a series of procedural hurdles
https://t.co/2LDwUF3ApP
— POLITICO (@politico) May 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/28/2021 - 1:38pm

as of yesterday, the situation and $$$$ numbers were this:

I know the true innovation heads are disappointed by where Endless Frontier ended, but relative to realistic expectations for congressional action on any topic in which your baseline should be "no way no how" I think this is a triumph from Senator Young. pic.twitter.com/gosZSOlbhd
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/28/2021 - 1:48pm

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