•    "The host of absurd outcomes that could result from this measure includes colleges and universities losing out on disaster relief funding because of a research partnership. Committee Democrats recognize the threat of investments by the PRC at U.S. universities…We agree that such foreign investments by PRC affiliates must not go unchecked, but H.R. 1516, as reported, is no solution… Determining whether a university located in China ``provides any support to . . . police . . . of the Government of the People's Republic of China,'' which would deem that university a ``Chinese entity of concern'' under H.R. 1516,  would require DHS and educational institutions to have insight into police investigations and public safety policies at  China's more than 3,000 universities. For example, this legislation would be triggered by any support to Chinese  government police, even support for a criminal investigation such as a crime of violence against a U.S. study-abroad student." Source: Rep. Bennie Thompson (Democrat, Mississippi, District 2)

•    "There’s a number of potential issues, footfalls, not by the Stanfords not by the Texas A&Ms not by the University of Marylands, but in my district New Jersey City University, a small college that is primarily for first-time college graduates had a relationship with a Confucius Institute which they terminated. Now under the definitions, a relationship is any agreement, not significant funding, not being in your research facilities, it's any agreement which to me could not even be a monetary agreement it could be an exchange of students. We've talked about what happens if there is a relationship. People say that they can terminate agreements, not knowing what those agreements are and what the ability to terminate these agreements immediately might mean. It might be that they lack the ability to do so and therefore would not be able to receive any funds from the Department of Homeland Security. Even if they are able to terminate the agreement, it says ‘shall be eligible,’ meaning any funding that they get from DHS is not automatically reinstated, so it could be a particular grant that they lose funding for they’d have to reapply that could take several years, that could have an impact on a lot of different universities." Source: Rep. Rob Menendez (Democrat, New Jersey, District 8)