# Harris presides as the Senate passes the CHIPS and Science Act

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 27 July 2022 the Senate passed the CHIPS and Science Act with [Vice President Harris](/people/kamala-harris) presiding over a chamber in which her side supplied the organising majority.

## Context

Bipartisan votes sat. Neighbouring IRA is days later. She did not sit as a Commerce undersecretary.

IRA 7 August 2022 is neighbouring. ARP is 2021.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

United States Congress carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed semiconductor-subsidy statute is a dated industrial instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 27 July 2022 Senate passage of CHIPS, independently reported, during her vice presidency.

Not established: a unique later fab-job coefficient from that night, or that she drafted every title.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

[Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) signed. She presided and politically owned the administration line. Commerce implemented.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Harris presides as the Senate passes the CHIPS and Science Act, not a later speech about Harris presides as the Senate passes the CHIPS and Science Act.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Harris presides as the Senate passes the CHIPS and Science Act on 2022-07-27 is not a licence to treat every later United States Congress communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Harris presides as the Senate passes the CHIPS and Science Act into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Congress passed. Biden signed. She presided and politically owned the administration line. Commerce implemented. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-passes-chips-science-act-2022-07-27/
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4346

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-chips-2022