Lawmakers Hope New House China Panel Will Find Bipartisan Solutions

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) speaks to reporters after a House Republican Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 21, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Lawmakers are hoping the bipartisan support for creating the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will translate into solutions that a majority of Americans and the rest of the world will support.

Last month, the House voted 365–65 in favor of forming the new committee—one of the few issues that has won strong bipartisan support in the now Republican-controlled House. The 65 votes against the new committee came from Democrats.