Senate Panel Eyes More BIS Funding Than House Counterpart Wants
The Senate Appropriations Committee unveiled and approved an FY 2025 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill July 25 that would provide $206 million for the Bureau of Industry and Security, $17 million below the Biden administration’s request but $15 million above the FY 2024 enacted level and $19.3 million above what the House Appropriations Committee has proposed (see 2403110065 and 2406250035).
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The Senate bill would “support the BIS’s aggressive enforcement of Russian and Belarusian export controls and other BIS efforts to counter Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine,” the Senate Appropriations Committee said. The legislation would “also support stringent export control measures on high-end technologies, like semiconductors, with end users in the People’s Republic of China."