Commentary A great aspect of American democracy is that legislation text is transparent and readily available for anyone to review before representatives vote on the bill. With Congress passing the America COMPETES Act on Feb. 4 and heading to the Senate, it is worth going through the legislation and see what is actually in the bill and whether it will help America compete better, specifically against China. Before starting, there are a couple of limiting parameters in this exercise. First, no outside comments or evidence were used, only the text of the bill and the summary of each section as written by Congress. This means no comments, analysis, or input from either Democrats or Republicans were used. Second, I will use a narrower definition of competing and addressing China than is likely to be used by politicians. By definition, almost anything could be argued to help us compete better, but …