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Committee advances Undersea Cable Control Act to block adversary access to cable technology
Summary
HR 2503, the Undersea Cable Control Act, was ordered favorably reported; sponsors said it would require a strategy to prevent foreign adversaries from accessing goods and technology used in undersea cables and strengthen export controls and allied cooperation.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 20 ordered HR 2503, the Undersea Cable Control Act, favorably reported. Representative Chris Cain, sponsor of the bill, said undersea cables carry nearly all transoceanic digital traffic and that foreign adversaries' access to key technologies used in cables poses national-security risks.
Cain told the…
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