Senators Introduce Bill To Protect US Colleges From CCP Influence

A group of Republican senators on Thursday introduced new legislation that would require U.S. colleges to disclose their financial ties with the CCP.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (L) (R-Tenn.) speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 13, 2020. (Samuel Corum/POOL/AFP via Getty Images); Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) speaks to members of the media at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 23, 2020. Alex Wong/Getty Images

A group of Republican senators on Thursday introduced new legislation that would require U.S. colleges to disclose their financial ties with the Chinese regime, and counter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) economic influence in higher education.

The Foreign Funding Accountability Act (pdf) was introduced by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), to combat malign foreign influence in American colleges and universities, by amending disclosure requirements of foreign gifts and contracts under the 1965 Higher Education Act.