Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act of 2024

How it moves voter issues

• +1Public safety & crime

  TypeSafe: affects p=0.82, effect +1.45 (conf 0.59)

  Medium confidence

  AI score: +1 from typesafe:jev-1.13.0. Compare the models

• +1National security & defense

  Revives a DOJ initiative targeting Chinese espionage, trade secret theft and hacking.

  Medium confidence

  AI scores averaged: +1 from typesafe:jev-1.13.0, +1 from claude-opus-5-5. Compare the models

• −1Civil rights & equal treatment

  Critics say the earlier China Initiative led to profiling of Asian American researchers.

  Low confidence

  AI score: −1 from claude-opus-5-5. Compare the models

What it does

Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act This bill reestablishes an initiative related to China within the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and outlines the goals and requirements for this initiative. In 2022, DOJ ended a program named the China Initiative. This bill reestablishes and renames it the CCP Initiative to (1) counter nation-state threats to the United States; (2) curb spying by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on U.S. intellectual property and academic institutions; (3) identify and prosecute individuals engaged in trade secret theft, hacking, and economic espionage; and (4) protect U.S. critical infrastructure from foreign threats. DOJ must annually brief specified congressional committees on the progress and challenges of the initiative. The initiative terminates six years after enactment of this bill.

Summary by the Congressional Research Service, introduced in house version.

Every recorded vote on it

1. Sep 11, 2024House On Motion to RecommitProtect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act203 yea 214 nayProcedural, not counted
2. Sep 11, 2024House On PassageProtect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act237 yea 180 nayCounts toward rankings