Support restrictions on selling Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude oil to the Chinese Communist Party and on purchasing technology and telecommunications equipment from China and other adversaries.

Vince Fong · California · Republican

policy impact 3.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 88%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Evidence

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Fong voted to pass H.R. 4553; his office said it prohibited SPR crude sales to the CCP and tech/telecom purchases from China and adversaries.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This is concrete same-term support: Fong voted for the FY2026 Energy and Water appropriations bill, and his official release identifies both restriction categories in the claim as bill provisions.

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Congressman Fong Secures Vital Water and Energy Resources for CA-20 in Initial Funding Legislation | Congressman Vince Fong
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Public Law 119-74, Sec. 306 restricts SPR petroleum sales to CCP-linked entities or for export to China; Sec. 307 restricts DOE awards to entities of concern.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted FY2026 appropriations law confirms delivery of the SPR restriction and a China/adversary-related DOE funding restriction. The final law is narrower than the House-passed technology-purchasing language, so this most strongly supports delivery of the SPR piece and partial enactment of the technology/adversary piece.

partial same_term

Public Law 119-74 - Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%

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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term

Fong materially supported the promised restrictions in the same congressional term by voting for the FY2026 Energy and Water appropriations legislation. The enacted Public Law 119-74 includes a clear Strategic Petroleum Reserve restriction barring use of funds to sell SPR petroleum to CCP-controlled or influenced entities or for export to China. It also includes a related restriction on large DOE grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and loans to entities of concern, but this is narrower than the promised technology and telecommunications purchasing restriction from China and other adversaries. Because the SPR piece was delivered and the technology/adversary component was only partly reflected in final law, partial credit is more appropriate than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 80%