After a summer of discussion surrounding the U.S. government’s ability to control Chinese investment in U.S. companies, members of the House and Senate have introduced new legislation that seeks to improve the government’s national security review process. In recent weeks, a bipartisan group led by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (“FIRRMA”), which would make significant changes to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or “Committee”), an interagency committee responsible for assessing threats to U.S. national security posed by acquisitions of control in U.S. businesses by non-U.S. investors.
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