Signed by President Joe Biden, Jr.

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with senate amendments and pass a bill that appropriates over $280 billion to increase U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing and investments in research over the next 5 years.

Highlights:

• Appropriates over $280 billion to increase U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing and investments in research over the next 5 years, and specifies that among the provisions the bill (Division A-C, Title I-VII, Sec. 101-10862):

• Provides funding for wireless supply chain innovation;

• Establishes an advanced manufacturing investment tax credit;

• Requires a research and development program to expand theoretical and fundamental knowledge relevant to understanding nuclear materials and matter for the benefit of commerce, medicine, and national security;

• Establishes the Carbon Materials Science Initiative;

• Establishes the Quantum User Expansion for Science and Technology program;

• Establishes the Carbon Sequestration Research and Geologic Computational Science Initiative;

• Requires a research program to improve the understanding of the fundamental properties of the universe, including the nature of space and time;

• Requires research activities on the nature of the primary contents of the universe, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter;

• Provides for the construction of an Electron Ion Collider;

• Establishes a high intensity laser research initiative;

• Establishes a Center for Greenhouse Gas Measurements, Standards, and Information;

• Establishes a program for measurement research to support biometric identification systems, including facial recognition systems;

• Sets forth provisions concerning PreK-12, undergraduate, and graduate STEM education;

• Requires the coordination of federal science and technology efforts to ensure secure, reliable, and environmentally sustainable supplies of critical materials to the United States;

• Establishes a Clean Energy Incubator Program; and

• Provides for space exploration activities.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with house passage and further amend a bill that appropriates over $280 billion to increase U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing and investments in research over the next 5 years.

Highlights:

• Appropriates over $280 billion to increase U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing and investments in research over the next 5 years, and specifies that among the provisions the bill (Division A-C, Title I-VII, Sec. 101-10862):

• Provides funding for wireless supply chain innovation;

• Establishes an advanced manufacturing investment tax credit;

• Requires a research and development program to expand theoretical and fundamental knowledge relevant to understanding nuclear materials and matter for the benefit of commerce, medicine, and national security;

• Establishes the Carbon Materials Science Initiative;

• Establishes the Quantum User Expansion for Science and Technology program;

• Establishes the Carbon Sequestration Research and Geologic Computational Science Initiative;

• Requires a research program to improve the understanding of the fundamental properties of the universe, including the nature of space and time;

• Requires research activities on the nature of the primary contents of the universe, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter;

• Provides for the construction of an Electron Ion Collider;

• Establishes a high intensity laser research initiative;

• Establishes a Center for Greenhouse Gas Measurements, Standards, and Information;

• Establishes a program for measurement research to support biometric identification systems, including facial recognition systems;

• Sets forth provisions concerning PreK-12, undergraduate, and graduate STEM education;

• Requires the coordination of federal science and technology efforts to ensure secure, reliable, and environmentally sustainable supplies of critical materials to the United States;

• Establishes a Clean Energy Incubator Program; and

• Provides for space exploration activities.

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates funds for legislative branch spending for fiscal year 2022.

Highlights:

• Appropriates the following amounts for fiscal year 2022 for the following legislative committee and office salaries and expenses (Title I, Sec. 113).

• $4.2 million for the Joint Economic Committee;

• $12.1 million for the Joint Committee on Taxation;

• $2.9 million for the Office of the Attending Physician; and

• $1.6 million for the Office of Congressional Accessibility Services.

• Appropriates $53 million for Capitol Police salaries (Title I, Sec. 113).

• Appropriates $8 million for salaries and expenses in the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (Title I, Sec. 113).

• Appropriates $61 million for salaries and expenses in the Congressional Budget Office (Title I, Sec. 113).

• Appropriates $154.9 million to the Architect of the Capitol for capital construction and operations (Title I, Sec. 113).

• Appropriates $548.3 million for the Library of Congress salaries and expenses, broken up by the following amounts (Title I, Sec. 113):

• $131.8 million appropriated to the Congressional Research Service; and

• $38 million appropriated to the Copyright Office.

• Appropriates $80.2 million to the Government Publishing Office for congressional publishing costs (Title I, Sec. 113).

• Appropriates $729.3 million for salaries and expenses in the Government Accountability Office (Title I, Sec. 113).

• Appropriates $6 million to the Open World Leadership Center Trust Fund to pay for financing activities (Title I, Sec. 113).

Full Bill Text

Full Bill Text