China AI Power Report Act

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Bill ID: 119/hr/6275
Last Updated: August 31, 2026

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Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]

ID: M001219

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The bill

China AI Power Report Act

HR. 6275, 119th Congress — read as touching Semiconductors & Hardware.

The sponsor

Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]

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The money

$55,750 raised

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The alignment

85% match to Project 2025

This bill's text tracks the "Trade" section, p. 852-854 of the Mandate for Leadership.

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Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 47 - 0.

January 20, 2026

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Bill Summary

Another brilliant example of congressional theater, where our esteemed representatives pretend to care about national security while lining their pockets with lobbying cash. The China AI Power Report Act, because what's more pressing than creating a new bureaucracy to "monitor" China's AI capabilities?

**Main Purpose & Objectives:** The bill's primary objective is to require the Secretary of Commerce to submit an annual report on China's advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. Because, you know, we didn't already have enough redundant reports and committees. This one will surely be different, I'm sure.

**Key Provisions & Changes to Existing Law:** The bill demands a comprehensive report on China's AI capabilities, including assessments of integrated circuits, semiconductor fabrication facilities, and software ecosystems. Oh, and it also requires the Secretary of Commerce to consult with "covered agency heads," because who doesn't love a good game of bureaucratic telephone? The real change here is that it creates another layer of regulatory oversight, which will undoubtedly be exploited by special interest groups.

**Affected Parties & Stakeholders:** The usual suspects: China (because we need to keep pretending they're the boogeyman), the Secretary of Commerce (who gets to add another report to their already overflowing inbox), and the various lobbying groups that will inevitably use this bill as a vehicle to push their own agendas. Don't forget the poor souls who will have to actually write these reports, only to have them collect dust on some forgotten shelf in a congressional office.

**Potential Impact & Implications:** The impact will be minimal, aside from providing a new avenue for politicians to grandstand about national security while doing nothing meaningful to address it. The real implication is that this bill will further entrench the revolving door between government and industry, as former officials become lobbyists and vice versa. It's a never-ending cycle of corruption, and we're all just along for the ride.

In conclusion, the China AI Power Report Act is a masterclass in legislative theater, designed to create the illusion of action while actually accomplishing nothing. It's a symptom of a deeper disease: the chronic inability of our government to address real problems, instead opting for superficial fixes and PR stunts. So, let's all just take a deep breath and pretend that this bill will somehow make a difference. After all, as the great philosopher once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

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Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]

Congress 119 • 2024 Election Cycle

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Cosponsors & Their Campaign Finance

This bill has 7 cosponsors. Below are their top campaign contributors.

Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7]

ID: V000138

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Rep. Huizenga, Bill [R-MI-4]

ID: H001058

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Rep. Shreve, Jefferson [R-IN-6]

ID: S001229

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ZINK DISTRIBUTING • CHAIRMAN / CEO
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Rep. Tran, Derek [D-CA-45]

ID: T000491

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FEHER, ERICA
FEHER LAW • MARKETING
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$3,300
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AUTO FRAUD LEGAL CENTER • ATTORNEY
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Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]

ID: L000599

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Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-32]

ID: S000344

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Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3]

ID: L000590

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Industry Impact

Which industries are materially affected by specific provisions in this bill. 3 harmed.

  • Section 3(b)(1)-(4) requires detailed reporting on Chinese semiconductor design, fabrication, equipment, and EDA software, which could inform future export controls or restrictions that would negatively impact the semiconductor industry's ability to operate in or with China.

  • Section 3(b)(6)-(10) mandates assessment of Chinese AI models, compute infrastructure, and data center capabilities, which could lead to regulatory scrutiny or limitations on AI/cloud services involving Chinese technology, affecting AI & cloud infrastructure providers.

  • −Big Tech Platformsconfidence 0.80

    Section 3(b)(11) assesses AI-powered applications developed by Chinese entities, including their use in the United States, which could result in restrictions on deployment or use of such platforms, impacting big tech platforms that may rely on or compete with these technologies.

Project 2025 Policy Matches

This bill shows semantic similarity to the following sections of the Project 2025 policy document.AI-enhanced analysis provides detailed alignment ratings.

Trade

Strong
Vector: 66%
Pages: 852-854AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"The bill's focus on monitoring and reporting China's AI capabilities aligns with Project 2025's trade section concerns about China's economic aggression, technology transfer, and intellectual property threats, aiming to safeguard U.S. technological competitiveness and national security."

Key themes:China technology threatnational securityexport controlsintellectual propertytrade competitiveness

— 819 — Trade 14. Adam Behsudi, “Duffy Finds 18 Co-sponsors for Bill to Increase Trump’s Tariff Powers,” Politico, January 24, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/24/duffy-finds-18-co-sponsors-for-bill-to-increase-trumps- trade-powers-2555509 (accessed February 26, 2023). 15. FTAs like NAFTA represent a carve-out from the WTO’s unconditional MFN rule and generally lead to tariffs that tend to be set at more reciprocal levels. 16. H.R.764, United States Reciprocal Trade Act, § 3(b)(1) and (b)(2). 17. Damian Paletta, “Speaker Ryan Admits Defeat, Giving up on Border Adjustment Tax,” The Washington Post, July 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/27/paul-ryan-admits-defeat-giving- up-on-border-adjustment-tax/ (accessed February 25, 2023). 18. This section draws on analyses in White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World, June 2018, https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FINAL-China-Technology- Report-6.18.18-PDF.pdf (accessed February 25, 2023). 19. Bloomberg News, “Xi’s Vow of World Dominance by 2049 Sends Chill Through Markets,” October 26, 2022, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-26/xi-s-vow-of-world-dominance-by-2049-sends-chill- through-markets?leadSource=uverify%20wall (accessed February 25, 2023). 20. Executive Office of the President, United States Trade Representative, 2017 Report to Congress on China’s WTO Compliance, January 2018, https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/China%202017%20 WTO%20Report.pdf (accessed February 25, 2023). 21. White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World. 22. The National Medium- and Long-Term Program for Science and Technology Development Plan (2006–2020): An Outline, The State Council, The People’s Republic of China, p. [55], https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/ Cybersecurity/Documents/National_Strategies_Repository/China_2006.pdf (accessed March 21, 2023). 23. Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, Update to the IP Commission Report: The Theft of American Intellectual Property: Reassessments of the Challenge and United States Policy, February 2017, pp. 2, 11, and 12, http://www.ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_Update_2017.pdf (accessed February 25, 2023). 24. The laws, which have been put in place for national security purposes, have been promulgated under the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), 22 U.S.C. Ch. 39, §§ 2751–2756, 2761–2781, 2785, and 2791–27999aa-2, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/chapter-39 (accessed February 25, 2023) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. Ch. 35, §§ 1701–1708, https://www.law.cornell.edu/ uscode/text/50/chapter-35 (accessed February 25, 2023). 25. Ministry of Education, People’s Republic of China, “Statistics on Studying in China in 2018,” http://www.moe. gov.cn/was5/web/search?searchword=Statistics+on+Studying+in+China+in+2018&channelid=254028&page=1 (accessed March 21, 2023). 26. Michael Brown and Pavneet Singh, “China’s Technology Transfer Strategy: How Chinese Investments in Emerging Technology Enable a Strategic Competitor to Access the Crown Jewels of U.S. Innovation, Updated with 2016 and 2017 Data,” Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), January 2018, https://admin.govexec. com/media/diux_chinatechnologytransferstudy_jan_2018_(1).pdf (accessed February 25, 2023). The DIUx describes itself as “the only DOD Organization focused on accelerating the adoption of commercial and dual- use technology to solve operational challenges at speed and scale.” Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, “About,” https://www.diu.mil/ (accessed February 25, 2023). 27. Brown and Singh, “China’s Technology Transfer Strategy: How Chinese Investments in Emerging Technology Enable a Strategic Competitor to Access the Crown Jewels of U.S. Innovation, Updated with 2016 and 2017 Data,” p. 18. 28. Ingrid Lunden, “Huawei Puts $1M into a New AI Research Partnership with UC Berkeley,” TechCrunch, October 11, 2016, https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/11/huawei-puts-1m-into-a-new-ai-research-partnership-with- ucberkeley/ (accessed February 25, 2023). 29. Press release, “President Trump Announces Strong Actions to Address China’s Unfair Trade,” Office of the United States Trade Representative, March 22, 2018, https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/ press-releases/2018/march/president-trump-announces-strong (accessed February 25, 2023).

Department of Commerce

Strong
Vector: 65%
Pages: 702-704AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"HR 6275 aligns strongly with Project 2025's emphasis on enhancing the Department of Commerce's role in analyzing China's economic and technological capabilities, particularly through supply chain assessments and national security risk evaluations related to advanced industries like semiconductors and AI."

Key themes:China technology assessmentsupply chain analysisnational securitysemiconductor capabilitiesCongressional reporting

— 669 — Department of Commerce l Develop a new methodology to determine normal values in Chinese anti- dumping cases because—given China’s size, economic might, and state intervention in the economy—there is no comparable surrogate country to use as a proxy for production costs. In addition to these changes, continued support for steel and aluminum market analysis and import monitoring remains crucial to the U.S. defense industrial base and the health of global manufacturing. Without these functions, it is difficult to address massive subsidization, overcapacity, and dumping by China. Industry and Analysis. Industry and Analysis (I&A) consists of a team of econ- omists and industry experts that provides important analysis to partners across the government, including the White House and USTR, as well as the public. As the Department of Commerce’s Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) lead, I&A performs crucial work to ensure that the proper economic impact/supply chain analysis is brought to national security risk assess- ments. This analysis is needed for CFIUS to be an effective tool in preventing China and other adversaries from exploiting the U.S.’s open investment climate. I&A also provides impact assessments and economic modeling for policy options under Administration consideration; plays a critical role in identifying trade barriers and providing industry-specific expertise for USTR during free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations; and does indispensable work ensuring cross-bor- der data flows, particularly with Europe, remain open and relatively unrestricted. However, outside of these functions, implementation of I&A’s mission as an intellectual engine for U.S. trade and investment policy can often lack energy and focus. For instance, the Top Market Reports that represent a large volume of I&A work do not serve a specific strategic function and could be better replaced by industry competitiveness assessments in critical sectors of the economy. Strong and capable leadership is needed in I&A to ensure Administration pri- orities permeate the organization and that staff support Administration priorities. I&A produces a mandatory report to Congress regarding the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill, which focuses solely on U.S. capacity in the goods being considered for tariff exclusions and does not include highly relevant information on capacity among FTA partners and close allies. The resulting final report has thus been used to lobby for tariff reductions on thousands of imports from China without concern for any other factors. This lack of priority given to FTA partners is troubling. Going forward, I&A should be permanently restructured to perform supply-chain analysis on an ongoing basis for the U.S. government, identifying potential vulner- abilities like those exposed by the pandemic and resulting shortages in everything from semiconductors to baby formula. Furthermore, permanent standing teams should be established and staffed by properly aligned political appointees and trusted career staff to analyze and spur action on the following priority policy issues:

Department of Commerce

Strong
Vector: 65%
Pages: 705-707AI Enhanced

AI Analysis:

"The bill requires annual Commerce Department reports on China's AI and semiconductor capabilities, directly supporting Project 2025's goal of modernizing export controls and tightening oversight of China to protect national security."

Key themes:China AI capabilitiesexport control modernizationsemiconductor supply chainnational security oversightDepartment of Commerce reporting

— 673 — Department of Commerce Export Enforcement officers through improved and frequent training so they are able to detect export-control violations. EAR Revisions. The U.S. Government needs a new export control moderniza- tion effort to tighten the EAR policies governing licenses to countries of concern, including China and Russia (specifically, revise and/or reverse the 2008 through 2016 policies). When authoritarian governments explain what they plan to do, believe them unless hard evidence demonstrates otherwise. Case in point: China’s and Russia’s stated civil–military fusion policies demand central government command-and-control style systems in which every private entity serves the interests of the state and is forced to provide technology, services, capacity, and data to the central govern- ment and the military. Through this structure, commercial activities are routinely weaponized by authoritarian regimes that repeatedly identify the U.S. as an enemy. Accordingly, U.S. export control policies must be updated to reflect these realities and the associated threats to national security. Key priorities for EAR modernization for countries of concern should be: l Eliminating the “specially designed” licensing loophole; l Redesignating China and Russia to more highly prohibitive export licensing groups (country groups D or E); l Eliminating license exceptions; l Broadening foreign direct product rules; l Reducing the de minimis threshold from 25 percent to 10 percent—or 0 percent for critical technologies; l Tightening the deemed export rules to prevent technology transfer to foreign nationals from countries of concern; l Tightening the definition of “fundamental research” to address exploitation of the open U.S. university system by authoritarian governments through funding, students and researchers, and recruitment; l Eliminating license exceptions for sharing technology with controlled entities/countries through standards-setting “activities” and bodies; and l Improving regulations regarding published information for technology transfers. — 674 — Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise The next few years will prove or disprove the assertion that the U.S. stands on the precipice of a Cold War with China. Many believe that a Cold War has already begun; if so, then strategic decoupling from China is necessary and, fundamentally, any exports of goods, software, and technology to countries of concern, whether directly or indirectly, should be prohibited or controlled in the absence of good cause (e.g., humanitarian and medical aid, food aid). Entity List and Sanctions. There are currently just over 500 Chinese and over 500 Russian companies on the Department of Commerce’s Entity List, which reg- ulates exports of controlled and uncontrolled items to designated entities. Given China’s Civil–Military Fusion Strategy and Russia’s massive war efforts facili- tated by a broad range of the Russian economy, BIS must add more entities to the Entity List and apply a license review “policy of denial” that prohibits exports to these entities. Entity List parties that violate export controls should be placed on the BIS Denied Persons List (and thereby lose export privileges) and, if the violations are significant enough, they should also be sanctioned by the Department of Treasury. Data Transfer and Apps Used for Surveillance. Department of Commerce leadership should work across government agencies to address privacy and data concerns arising out of “big tech” from national security and export control per- spectives. In particular, they should draft and implement an executive order (EO) based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which expands export control authority beyond ECRA’s scope (goods, software, technology) to regulate and restrict exports of U.S. persons’ data to countries of concern. The EO should establish a framework for the types of personal data subject to export controls and licensing policy by country, and the BIS should implement the EO through regulations. BIS should additionally designate app providers (such as WeChat and Byte Dance/TikTok) known for undermining U.S. national security through data collection, surveillance, and influence operations, to the Entity List. This listing would prevent app users from program updates, which would quickly make these apps non-operational in the United States. NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department’s $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department’s personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures). NOAA consists of six main offices: l The National Weather Service (NWS);

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