Is the recently announced agreement on gun safety a harbinger of more bipartisan agreements in the weak months of the 117th Congress? The fate of the America Competition Act, now stalled in a House-Senate convention committee, will be a crucial test.
Here is the story so far. On May 27, 2020, the bipartisan duo (Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Todd Young in the Senate, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Mike Gallagher in the House) introduced the Endless Frontiers Act, which is designed to address the strategic lack of American innovation and competition. was designed to be removed. Promoting domestic production of semiconductor chips was a major objective, as was promoting federal support for applied research.
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Is the recently announced agreement on gun safety a harbinger of more bipartisan agreements in the weak months of the 117th Congress? The fate of the America Competition Act, now stalled in a House-Senate convention committee, will be a crucial test.
Here is the story so far. On May 27, 2020, the bipartisan duo (Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Todd Young in the Senate, Democrat Ro Khanna and Republican Mike Gallagher in the House) introduced the Endless Frontiers Act, which is designed to address the strategic lack of American innovation and competition. was designed to be removed. Promoting domestic production of semiconductor chips was a major objective, as was promoting federal support for applied research.