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Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) voted to pass the CHIPS & Science Act, a historic bipartisan bill that will lower costs and power American economic vitality for decades to come. The bill would promote the manufacturing of critical semiconductor chips that Americans rely on in everything from their cell phones, to their cars, to household appliances. 

The CHIPS & Science Act comes after a year-long bipartisan process to bolster American manufacturing and results from the Senate’s passage of the United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) and the House passage of the America COMPETES Act. Blunt Rochester serves as a member of the bipartisan, bicameral conference committee aimed at reconciling the House & Senate versions of the bill. 

“Having worked on these issues for well over a year, today, I proudly voted to fix our broken supply chains and bring good-paying manufacturing jobs back to America,” said Blunt Rochester.  “I’m proud that the House & Senate could come together - working bipartisan and bicameral to pass a bill that will bolster our American economic engine for decades to come. There’s still more work to do to prevent future supply chain disruptions - and I believe the work of the conference committee must continue to create the Office of Manufacturing Security and Resilience that I proposed in the Building Resilient Supply Chains Act - but the CHIPS & Science bill is an important milestone and a badly needed measure that will spur innovation and lower the cost of living for Americans.”

The bipartisan CHIPS & Science bill will:

• Lower costs for American consumers – by making more critical semiconductor components in America, helping end the shortage of chips that have driven up the price of everything from cars to consumer goods. 

• Create 100,000 new good-paying jobs – creates strong Davis-Bacon jobs building hi-tech manufacturing facilities here in America.

• End our dangerous dependence on foreign manufacturers – bringing critical semiconductor manufacturing back to America instead of overseas where it can be threatened by our adversaries.

• Turbocharge American R&D – powering America’s preeminence in both basic research and next-generation technologies and ensuring that the technologies of the future are made here in America.

• Diversify and expand the innovation workforce – broadening the pool of brainpower and talent so that we are embracing the full potential from all our communities, helping to diversify our STEM workforce and advancing regional technology hubs to ensure communities across the country can help in American research and development.

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