Earlier this week, Speaker Mike Johnson outlined his foreign policy approach in a speech at the Hudson Institute that was dubbed by the WSJ editorial board as “the most important speech of the week.”  On the same day, the RNC Platform Committee approved the 2024 GOP Platform, a document personally edited by former president Donald […]

Background It has been nine months since President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) finding that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has engaged in advancing sensitive technologies that threaten U.S. national security. The President’s EO directed Treasury Secretary Yellen to issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to limit new investment in certain national security technologies (semiconductors, quantum computing, […]

Late last evening, the House Rules Committee reconvened and reported a rule providing for consideration of three security supplementals and the TikTok (and related items) “sidecar” bill: H.R. 8034, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act H.R. 8035, the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act H.R. 8036, the Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriations Act H.R. 8038, the 21st […]

This week is shaping up to be one of the more consequential of the Congress, which is quite the statement given all that has transpired to date. Please see below for our latest state of play, with an emphasis on the House. Security Supplemental Package As has been reported and was detailed in our note […]