Washington, D.C. - Today, the bipartisan Countering CCP Drones Act and the bipartisan Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency (FACT) Act introduced by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik advanced through the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously. Passage during today’s markup sets these bills up for consideration on the House floor.
“The advancement of my bipartisan bills, the Countering CCP Drones Act and the FACT Act is a win for America’s national security and a win for Americans whose data and critical infrastructure has been collected and monitored by our adversary Communist China. Congress must use every tool at our disposal to stop Communist China’s monopolistic control over the drone market and telecommunications infrastructure and build up America’s industrial capacity,” said Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.
“Based on DJI’s ties to the CCP, the Administration has shown that DJI is a threat to our national security and has already placed the company on multiple government entity lists. Our legislation will further protect our communications equipment while strengthening American supply chains by ensuring foreign-manufactured technologies that pose serious security threats, such as DJI’s, cannot operate in American networks,” said Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the CCP Raja Krishnamoorthi.
“DJI has supplied the surveillance State that is subjecting Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples to genocide. It is high time that the U.S. government ensures that Americans and law enforcement agencies are protected from both complicity in human rights atrocities, and from having their data in the hands of the Chinese State. We are grateful to Representative Stefanik and her colleagues for spearheading efforts to have DJI added to the FCC covered list," said Omer Kanat, Executive Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project.
The Countering CCP Drones Act introduced with Select Committee on the CCP Chairman Mike Gallagher would add Chinese drone company Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI) to the FCC Covered List, meaning that DJI technologies would be prohibited from operating on U.S. communications infrastructure.
The Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency (FACT) Act introduced alongside Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Select Committee on the CCP Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) would counter the influence of China and other foreign adversaries on the United States’ telecommunications infrastructure. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced a companion in the Senate.
Read the full text of the Countering CCP Drones Act here.
Read the full text of the Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency (FACT) Act here.
