Husted, Warner lead bipartisan package of bills to strengthen U.S. national security and hold China accountable

“This bipartisan package will strengthen our understanding of China’s action, improve enforcement and protect American companies, workers and innovations from Chinese espionage.” WASHINGTON – Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced a package of four bipartisan bills to strengthen America’s national security and close loopholes that foreign adversaries, including China, can exploit. “America must continue to compete and win in the technology race, but we know that communist China’s strategy has never been to compete, but to steal and exploit. This bipartisan package would strengthen our understanding of China’s action, improve enforcement and protect American companies, workers and innovations from Chinese espionage,” said Husted. “The U.S. must continue to lead in the technologies that will define the future, and we cannot allow China or other foreign adversaries to exploit American innovation and turn our own technologies against us. These bipartisan bills make commonsense improvements that will strengthen America’s national security, protect our technological edge, and bolster our global competitiveness. I’m proud to introduce this legislative package that would give us greater insight into our adversaries’ capabilities and better prevent advanced U.S. technologies from falling into the wrong hands,” said Warner. The lawmakers introduced the following bills: The China AI Power Report Act . This bill would require the Secretaries of Commerce and State, in consultation with relevant federal agencies, to provide an annual report on the People’s Republic of China’s efforts to indigenize its artificial intelligence (AI) stack. This report would include information on Beijing’s progress to develop home-grown chip design and production, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, subcomponent production, model development and deployment competencies. The ECRA Statute of Limitations Extension . This bill would amend Sections 1760 and 1774 of the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) to extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting violations of ECRA from five years to 10 years. ECRA currently lacks an explicit statute of limitations and is thus subject to the five-year federal period, even as Chinese technology smuggling operations frequently take years longer to uncover and prosecute. The Addressing Dangerous Vulnerabilities in Exports and Research to Strategic Adversaries, Regimes and Industrial Entities of Security Concern (ADVERSARIES) Act . This bill would direct the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to study whether U.S.-domiciled affiliates of designated Chinese companies allow these companies to circumvent export controls to access controlled technologies. The Bureau of Industry and Security Strategic Talent Recruitment to Enhance National Guardrails for Technological Handling (BIS STRENGTH) Act . This bill would grant BIS temporary hiring authority to recruit highly qualified subject matter experts to guide BIS management of advanced technology export controls and fill BIS technical expertise gaps. All four of these bills have been introduced on a bipartisan basis in the U.S. House of Representatives. The China AI Power Report Act passed the House Committee on Foreign Affairs 47-0 on Jan. 21, 2026.