Check out these stories in both Politico and the Washington Post’s Climate 202 on how Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans plan to lead on oversight of the Biden administration for how it is making America more dependent on Chinese supply chains, including for energy and health care. House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) outlined the Committee’s plans to prioritize securing America’s global competitive edge to win the future and beat China.

KEY EXCERPTS FROM LEADER RODGERS TO POLITICO China Watcher:

ON BIDEN’S RELIANCE ON CHINESE SUPPLY CHAINS: “We’ve seen the Biden administration and the Democratic majority putting hundreds of billions of dollars toward promoting wind and solar and electric vehicles, but those supply chains are largely controlled by China.

“I’m very concerned about this dangerous dependence upon China as well as the terrible environmental and human rights record in China.”

ON PROBING LEFT-WING ENV. GROUPS’ TIES TO THE CCP: “We need to build upon a probe into these radical environmental groups who have asked Biden to be soft on China. We need to look into those groups and better understand why they’re promoting this agenda that makes us dangerously dependent.”

ON SECURING OUR HEALTH SUPPLY CHAINS: “Also, we want to further examine the increasing number of clinical trials that are conducted in China to support FDA drug applications and what the health risks are associated with that.”

ON TIKTOK’S DATA THEFT: “We have been doing some investigations as to how the Chinese Communist Party is stealing our data and collecting a ton of data on Americans. TikTok is going to be at the top of the [investigations] list.”

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AS REPORTED BY WAPO CLIMATE 202: “I’m very concerned about us becoming reliant upon supply chains that are controlled by the Chinese Communist Party,” McMorris Rodgers said in an interview last week. “They control supply chains around wind, solar and batteries, and that is a dangerous future for us.”

If Republicans regain control of the House in next month’s midterm elections, McMorris Rodgers would become chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, where countering China on climate would probably become one of her central messages.

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‘AN EARLY VOICE:’ In the interview last week, McMorris Rodgers argued that Democrats want to transition to clean energy too quickly, risking greater reliance on China in the near term.

“It’s critical that we are not wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on a political agenda that is forcing a green energy transition that … makes America more reliant on the Chinese Communist Party for batteries and solar panels,” she said.

“And China does not have the protections in place — we know there’s human rights violations,” she added, referring to allegations of forced labor in Xinjiang, which produces about 50 percent of the world’s supply of polysilicon, a raw material used to make solar panels.

ON OVERSIGHT OF BIDEN ADMIN’S MASSIVE SPENDING, LEADER RODGERS TOLD WAPO: “Both California and Europe have embraced massive government subsidies and regulations to place unreliable, weather-dependent renewables above all other energy sources,” she said. “It’s led to surging costs, life-threatening blackouts and rationing, while not achieving the goal of reducing emissions. This is not a future any Americans want, but it is exactly where President Biden and the Democrats are taking us under the ‘IRA.’”

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