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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-352
SECURE AND TRUSTED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
ACT OF 2019
DECEMBER 16, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. PALLONE, from the Committee on Energy and Commerce,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4998]
The Committee on Energy and Commerce, to whom was referred
the bill (H.R. 4998) to prohibit certain Federal loans, grants, and
subsidies from being used to purchase communications equipment
or services posing national security risks, to provide for the estab-
lishment of a reimbursement program for the replacement of com-
munications equipment or services posing such risks, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do
pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Purpose and Sum m ary .................................................................................. 8
II. Background and Need for Legislation ......................................................... 8
III. Com m ittee H earings ...................................................................................... 9
IV . Com m ittee Consideration .............................................................................. 10
V . C om m ittee V otes ........................................................................................... . 10
V I. O versigh t F in dings ....................................................................................... . 10
VII. New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax Expenditures 10
VIII. Federal M andates Statem ent ....................................................................... 11
IX. Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives ......................... 11
X. Duplication of Federal Program s .................................................................. 11
XI. Com m ittee Cost Estim ate ............................................................................. 11
XII. Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits ................. 11
XIII. Advisory Com m ittee Statem ent .................................................................... 11
XIV. Applicability to Legislative Branch .............................................................. 11
XV. Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ............................................ 11
XVI. Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as reported ........................... 16
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
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