John Cornyn: “Earlier this year, I introduced the Foreign Investment…”

“I'm very grateful to Secretary Bessant of the Department of Treasury for his willingness to work with my office and colleagues here in the Senate on this topic. Earlier this year, I introduced the Foreign Investment Guardrails to Help Thwart China act, or the Fight China act, as it's called. This builds on earlier iterations of my legislative efforts to address outbound investment transparency. Secretary Bessant and his colleagues at the Treasury Department have been great allies and great partners in providing us with technical assistance on this legislation.” (12:09–12:19)

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