{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://baumgartner.house.gov/2026/09/22/baumgartner-bill-holds-foreign-officials-accountable-for-discriminating-against-washington-state-businesses/", "Baumgartner Bill Holds Foreign Officials Accountable for Discriminating Against Washington State Businesses", "2026-09-22", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "House", "WA", "Michael Baumgartner", "B001322", "baumgartner.house.gov", "baumgartner", "https://baumgartner.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "September 16, 2026\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Congressman Michael Baumgartner\u2019s (WA-05) No Racketeers on Our Shores Act (H.R. 9834) was approved by the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 15 to 8. This clears the bill to be considered by the full House of Representatives.\n\n\u201cAmerican companies should not be unfairly targeted or subjected to discriminatory treatment by foreign governments, and that is especially important for companies from Washington state like Coupang, Microsoft and Amazon,\u201d said Congressman Baumgartner. \u201cThe No Racketeers on Our Shores Act gives our diplomats another targeted tool to hold foreign officials accountable without immediately escalating to the use of tariffs to address trade disputes.\u201d\n\nThe legislation responds to a growing pattern uncovered by the House Judiciary Committee: foreign governments using coercive powers to target successful Washington state companies while protecting their favored domestic competitors:\n\nBackground:\n\nMicrosoft is one of the companies singled out under Europe\u2019s Digital Markets Act. Its Windows operating system and its LinkedIn service have been designated as one of seven \u201cgate keepers,\u201d placing them under special EU mandates backed by fines up to 10 percent of the company\u2019s worldwide revenues\u201320 percent for repeat violations. Six of the seven companies initially targeted by the EU for this discriminatory treatment were US firms;\n\nCoupang, a Washington state headquartered company, is facing a whole of government assault by the South Korean government. South Korean agencies launched 40 investigations after a data breach that culminated in a $410 million fine, harming American investors and the U.S. business that sell goods through Coupang to the South Korean market.\n\nWhat the bill does:", 1, "2026-09-23T09:45:16Z", "2026-09-23T09:46:14Z"]], "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://baumgartner.house.gov/2026/09/22/baumgartner-bill-holds-foreign-officials-accountable-for-discriminating-against-washington-state-businesses/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7815146818757057, "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"}