{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fitzpatrick.house.gov/2025/11/fitzpatrick-boyle-launch-bipartisan-semi-act-to-reassert-u-s-control-over-critical-chip-materials-and-strengthen-american-manufacturing", "Fitzpatrick, Boyle Launch Bipartisan SEMI Act to Reassert U.S. Control Over Critical Chip Materials and Strengthen American Manufacturing", "2025-11-17", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "House", "PA", "Brian K. Fitzpatrick", "F000466", "fitzpatrick.house.gov", "fitzpatrick", "https://fitzpatrick.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014 Today, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1), along with Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-2) today introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Strengthening Essential Manufacturing and Industrial (SEMI) Investment Act, landmark legislation that closes the most significant remaining gap in U.S. semiconductor policy: the lack of support for the materials that make chip manufacturing possible.\n\nFor years, China has controlled the global market for substrates, thin films, lithography materials, process chemicals, and other inputs that American fabs depend on. The SEMI Investment Act, introduced in the Senate by Senators Bennet, Blackburn, Tillis, and Coons, directly counters that imbalance. By extending the CHIPS tax credit to upstream materials, the bill ensures these capabilities are built in the United States, not outsourced to strategic competitors.\n\nThis reform strengthens America\u2019s economic resilience, reduces exposure to coercive supply-chain pressures, and reinforces the industrial base that supports our national defense.\n\nThis legislation is supported by the leading organizations across America\u2019s semiconductor, advanced materials, chemical, and manufacturing sectors, including SEMI, Entegris, CoorsTek, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Qnity Electronics, Brewer Science, the American Chemistry Council, the Compressed Gas Association, and EFC Gases & Advanced Materials.\n\n\u201cSemiconductor leadership starts long before a chip ever reaches a fabrication line\u2014it starts with the materials that make modern manufacturing possible. Our SEMI Investment Act ensures those materials are built here at home. By expanding the credit to upstream suppliers, we secure every link of the semiconductor ecosystem, strengthen our resilience, reduce dependence on China, and give American manufacturers the certainty they need to compete, innovate, and lead,\u201d said Fitzpatrick. \u201cThis is a bipartisan, practical solution to a structural weakness in our supply chain, and positions the United States to stay ahead for decades to come.\u201d\n\nFitzpatrick continued, \u201cPennsylvania is already a national hub for advanced manufacturing, research, and engineering talent \u2014 and this legislation builds directly on that strength. As colleagues and proud Pennsylvanians, Congressman Boyle and I are working to bring materials production home, drive new investment into our region, support high-quality jobs, and ensure that Pennsylvania\u2019s workers and industries remain at the forefront of America\u2019s semiconductor future.\u201d\n\n\u201cRevitalizing American semiconductor manufacturing is essential to our economic strength and our national security. I was proud to support the CHIPS and Science Act \u2014 and our new legislation builds on that work by strengthening our semiconductor supply chain for the long term,\" said Boyle.\n\nKey Provisions of the Semi Investment Act\n\nExpands the CHIPS Act tax credit to include upstream materials essential to semiconductor production.\n\nProvides clear statutory definitions for direct and indirect production materials, reducing uncertainty for industry planning and investment.\n\nRequires annual materials qualification lists from Treasury and Commerce, with an expedited review pathway for emerging technologies.\n\nExtends the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit through 2031, aligning federal incentives with long-horizon capital investments.\n\nWhy This Legislation Is Urgently Needed\n\nChina controls up to 85% of global processing of rare earth elements and key semiconductor inputs.\n\nThese materials underpin America\u2019s defense systems, AI computing, clean energy technologies, medical devices, and the broader innovation economy.\n\nWithout domestic materials production, CHIPS-funded fabs remain vulnerable to supply shocks, export controls, and strategic coercion from the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nRead the one pager here.\n\nBackground\n\nCongressman Fitzpatrick has been a leading champion of strengthening America\u2019s semiconductor competitiveness and rebuilding domestic manufacturing capacity. He was a champion of the original CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law in 2022, which reestablished U.S. leadership in advanced chip production, created the 25% Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (AMIC), and helped drive more than $630 billion in announced semiconductor investments nationwide.\n\nIn 2023, Fitzpatrick also backed the Building Chips in America Act, which removed permitting barriers, accelerated project timelines, improved federal coordination, and ensured CHIPS investments could move from planning to construction more quickly. 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