H.R. 6711 — Introduced in House

I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6711 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 11, 2022Ms. Herrell (for herself, Mr. Banks, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Hern, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Norman, Mr. Posey, Mr. Hudson, and Mrs. Cammack) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology A BILL To prohibition Federal spending on funding research in China, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stop Funding Our Adversaries Act of 2022. 2. Prohibition on funding research in China The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Energy, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or any other Federal agency may not directly or indirectly conduct or support, through grants, subgrants, contracts, cooperative agreements or other funding vehicles, research that will be conducted by— (1) the Government of the People’s Republic of China or any agent or instrumentality of the Government of the People’s Republic of China or any entity owned by or controlled by the People’s Republic of China; or (2) the Chinese Communist Party or any agent or instrumentality of Chinese Communist Party or any entity owned by or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.