Hi, I'm Dan Pramak, and welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story.

Today is Tuesday, June 8th. Mass shootings are up. Lots of websites went down this morning,

and we're focused on America's plan to catch up to China.

Senate Democrats and Republicans today are expected to overwhelmingly pass

a $247 billion spending package that has nothing to do with bridges or roads or social services

or COVID recovery. This bill, called the Endless Frontier Act, is about competing with China

on technology, which many in Silicon

Valley have long worried as a national security threat we haven't taken seriously enough.

Most of the money will go to scientific research and development, and that R&D, at least in

theory, will ultimately lead to the creation of new businesses in areas like artificial

intelligence and quantum computing,

areas into which China has been pouring boatloads of money for years, often blurring the

lines between military and commercial applications. The rest of the money will go to help

U.S. semiconductor companies increase domestic manufacturing, so that the key building blocks

of everything from our phones to our missile navigation systems

aren't being built elsewhere.

But despite this bipartisan support, including from Bill co-sponsors, Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham,

there are some concerns that this legislation was cobbled together out of lots of other bills

and therefore might not have that same sort of cohesive focus that China has displayed.

And then there's also some worry that without more explicit industrial policy, as in giving

specific money to specific companies, not even $252 billion is enough to erase China's tech lead.

So today we want to speak with Congressman Roe Kana of California, who sponsored the House version

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