take steps to end our reliance on China
Take steps to end American reliance on China.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Congress.gov lists H.R.1 sponsor as Rep. Steve Scalise, status Passed House, and says it would increase American energy production and critical-minerals processing; its summary says DOE must strengthen supply chains for critical energy resources, and the bill would bar the Chinese Communist Party or China-controlled entities from acquiring interests in oil, gas, farmland, renewable-energy lands, or mining claims.
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The Clerk records Roll Call 182 on H.R.1, Lower Energy Costs Act, as Passed, 225-204, on March 30, 2023. The vote list records Scalise, Republican, Louisiana, voting Yea.
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The Clerk records Roll Call 86 on H.R.7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as Passed, 352-65. The vote list records Scalise, Republican, Louisiana, voting Yea.
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Public Law 118-50 includes Division H, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, making it unlawful to distribute or host foreign-adversary-controlled applications, and specifically identifies ByteDance and TikTok. It also includes Division I, barring data brokers from transferring U.S. individuals' sensitive data to foreign adversaries or entities controlled by them.
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The Clerk records Roll Call 404 on H.R.4346 as Passed, 243-187, on July 28, 2022. The vote list records Scalise, Republican, Louisiana, voting Nay.
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Scalise's Majority Leader office said House Republicans would bring H.R. 1501 to the floor, describing critical-mineral reliance on Communist China and saying the bill reduces reliance on foreign adversaries.
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The House passed H. Res. 1499, providing for consideration of H.R. 1501, and the roll call lists Scalise voting Aye.
Assessments
Scalise took concrete federal actions aimed at reducing reliance or exposure tied to China, including sponsoring and passing through the House H.R. 1 with critical-minerals and anti-China ownership provisions, voting for the foreign-adversary-controlled applications bill that became part of Public Law 118-50, and using his House leadership role to advance domestic-mining legislation in 2026. These are meaningful steps within his current federal term, but the record does not show American reliance on China was ended or broadly displaced, and he voted against the CHIPS and Science Act vehicle, a major supply-chain response. That supports partial fulfillment rather than full delivery.
The promise was framed as taking steps, not fully ending all U.S. dependence on China. Scalise took concrete federal legislative steps while serving in office: he sponsored H.R.1 with China-related critical-minerals, supply-chain, and land/mineral ownership provisions, voted for its House passage, and voted for H.R.7521, which later became part of Public Law 118-50 restricting foreign-adversary-controlled apps and sensitive-data transfers. These are narrower than a complete end to reliance on China, and his vote against the CHIPS and Science Act cuts against broader full China-supply-chain leadership, but the claim's action threshold is satisfied by these enacted and House-passed steps.