Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is standing firm in support of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would ban imports from the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long been imprisoning and torturing ethnic Uyghur Muslims in forced labor camps. The amendment, offered by Rubio, comes amid a larger battle over the NDAA, an annual bill to appropriate funding for national defense and other security considerations. In the past, Rubio put forward a similar bill to ban imports from the Chinese province of Xinjiang, saying that it must be assumed that all goods from the Uyghur-heavy region were produced through slave labor. The bill easily passed the Senate by a unanimous vote; But in the House, the bill has languished, and has not been so much as considered. Already stalled in passing the bill, Democrats hoped for a swift passage of the NDAA in …
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