the un international telecommunications union plays a decisive role in the global cooperation of countriese development of modern technologies in the digital sphere at the moment, with the filing of individual countries over the union, the threat of politicization of its activities. and what will have an extremely negative impact on cooperation in this area under hydra the united nations it is important that the organization still further actively promote the implementation of the development program to promote international cooperation, including the development of network telecommunications, the improvement of technical means and efficient operation. also ensure equal access to the distribution of the global radio frequency spectrum and satellite orbits develop technical standards that ensure the seamless interoperability of networks and technologies to prevent the transformation of the international telecommunication union. the tool ensuring the so-called club interests of a narrow group of countries is possible only by electing a person who will proceed from the unconditional preservat

interests at international standard-setting bodies as my colleague pointed out like the international telecommunications union and to identify dunts for multi lateral collaboration to most secure telecom providers. it codifies the international digital, economic advisory committee with the state department created to provide expert advice on the policy bureau on matters. it is a good bill and i urge its support and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. malinowski: i yield five minutes to the representative from north carolina, ms. m ms. manning. >> i thank my congresswoman young kim for partnering with me. i rise today in support of my securing global telecommunications act, a bipartisan bill i introduced to help combat china's attempts to dominate the next generation of critical technology. mr. speaker, many of the products we use every day are connected to telecommunications networks and rely on invisible set of agreed-upon standards. our competitors russia and china want to gain unfair advantage over these a

international standards. this is probably not new to you, mister von ah, including the national telecommunications union. this body set standards for cutting edge technologies and the lack of this leadership brings space for adversarial nations to implement standards to their pin communications and technology. my useca amendment was integrated in the chips -- that passed congress last week. you said in your testimony that lack of coordination has hurt federal standard setting bodies. can you indicate how a lack of federal coordination hurts the u.s. with these important international bodies, and what congress can do to ensure u.s. leadership is important in the spaces? >> thank you for that question. our work is specifically looking at negotiations around the 44 gigahertz band. what occurred there was that there was no technical basis for the u.s. positions that were brought to that international proceeding. that is what undermined the u.s. position, at least, for some. our recommendations were not only for the fcc and ntia to improve their processes, but also for a turf federal agencies to evolve to imp

international standards. this is probably not new to you, mister von ah, including the national telecommunications union.s body set standards for cutting edge technologies and the lack of this leadership brings space for adversarial nations to implement standards to their pin communications and technology. my useca amendment was integrated in the chips -- that passed congress last week. you said in your testimony that lack of coordination has hurt federal standard setting bodies. can you indicate how a lack of federal coordination hurts the u.s. with these important international bodies, and what congress can do to ensure u.s. leadership is important in the spaces? >> thank you for that question. our work is specifically looking at negotiations around the 24 gigahertz band. what occurred there was that there was no technical basis for the u.s. positions that were brought to that international proceeding. that is what undermined the u.s. position, at least, for some. our recommendations were not only for the fcc and ntia to improve their processes, but also for a turf federal agencies to evolve to improve