A bipartisan Senate coalition introduced legislation June 18 designed to put an end to “nearly two decades” of federal officials being “asleep at the wheel” as China stole valuable U.S. knowledge and technology to build up its economy and military.
The Safeguarding American Innovation Act’s chief co-sponsors are Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), who together have led a two-year investigation of Chinese commercial, academic, and technological espionage against the United States. Portman is chairman of the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, while Carper is the most senior Democratic member.
