Select Committee on the CCP Members Meet with U.S. Automotive Industry Executives in Detroit

June 21, 2023
Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of members of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the CCP traveled to Detroit, Michigan to meet with U.S. automotive leaders in a series of listening sessions aimed at helping shape policy to strengthen American manufacturing and reduce risk from supply chains overreliant on the People’s Republic of China. 

Select Committee members, including Chairman Mike Gallagher, Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi, Rep. Haley Stevens, and Rep. John Moolenaar met with General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra, Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley, and held a roundtable conversation with automaker supplier executives.

“The first step towards good policy is listening, and I want to thank the business leaders we met in Detroit who gave us a frank perspective of what we have gotten wrong, and what we can do right to win the strategic competition ahead,” said Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Select Committee on the CCP. “We not only came away from these meetings with a better understanding of the challenges our manufacturers face, but a set of ideas that we can work on together in a bipartisan way to give American businesses and American workers the tools they need to build a brighter future.”

Recent media coverage of the committee members’ meetings in Detroit can be found below.

  • “Winning the battery manufacturing race for electric vehicles is the moonshot of the 21st century,” Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat, said in an interview. [Bloomberg]
  • Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat who is the committee's ranking minority member, agreed that lawmakers came out of the meetings "with some bipartisan suggestions on moving forward." [The Detroit News]
  • Ford said Monday it "shares the committee’s goals of strengthening American competitiveness and establishing EV supply chains in the U.S., and in our meeting tomorrow we plan to share how we’re doing just that." [Yahoo Finance]

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