{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=0CBC6D7E-D976-42CB-8C3F-69C7B01F530E", "Chinese Communist Party\u2019s State-Run Media will not Silence Congressman Andy Barr", "2020-10-23", "2020", "2020-10", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Andy Barr", "B001282", "barr.house.gov", "barr", "https://barr.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2013 Over the last few weeks, U.S. Congressman Andy Barr (KY-06) and China Task Force (CTF) Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) have been among the top targets of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state-run media, the National Review reports.\n\nOn October 3, the CCP\u2019s English-language publication China News Service ran a story criticizing Congressman Barr\u2019s tweets praising CTF days after the release of the final CTF report. After Congressman Barr and CTF members introduced the China Task Force Act, the Global Times, another CCP state-run outlet labeled Congressman Barr and CTF members as \u201cGOP lawmakers use China Task Force to boost political careers.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe CCP\u2019s state-run media will not intimidate me from speaking the truth about the threat the CCP poses to the United States and the free world,\u201d said Congressman Barr. \u201cThe CCP state-run media wants to make standing up for America a partisan issue, it is not a partisan issue. Two-thirds of the CTF proposals are bipartisan. I am proud of my service on CTF to hold the CCP accountable for COVID-19, their human rights abuses, the theft of U.S. intellectual property and other egregious actions. The CCP can\u2019t and won\u2019t silence me.\u201d\n\n\u201cI think CCP leaders are worried that policies recommended in the China Task Force report could be enacted and drastically curtail their malign global agenda for the first time in 40 years,\u201d said Chairman McCaul. \u201cSo nearly two decades after prosecuting Johnny Chung for attempting to tilt U.S. elections toward Democrats on behalf of the Chinese government, I am now the target of the CCP\u2019s latest efforts.\u201d\n\nCongressman Barr was appointed to the CTF in May by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Congressman Barr Co-Chaired the Task Force Subgroup on Competitiveness as well as the Subgroup on Economics and Energy. The CTF unveiled their final report on September 30.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-28T00:34:36Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=0CBC6D7E-D976-42CB-8C3F-69C7B01F530E"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1455020867288113, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}