{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://gooden.house.gov/press-releases?ID=836316B8-1BF4-41F8-A518-7244C73AC68D", "Gooden Calls on U.S. Olympic Committee to Prohibit Athletes from Using Chinese Digital Currency", "2021-12-16", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Lance Gooden", "G000589", "gooden.house.gov", "gooden", "https://gooden.house.gov/press-releases", "page_html", "WASHINGTON \u2013 On Thursday, U.S. Congressman Lance Gooden (R-Texas), joined by Reps. Markwayne Mullin (OK-04), Lisa McClain (MI-10), and Jake Ellzey (TX-06), sent a letter to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) requesting the committee forbid U.S. athletes from acquiring or using the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Digital Electronic Currency Payment, or digital yuan, during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.\n\nThe digital yuan is entirely controlled by the People\u2019s Bank of China and can be tracked or traced by the central bank. As a result, it is an absolute certainty the Chinese Communist Party will use the digital yuan to surveil Olympic athletes.\n\nRep. Lance Gooden said, \u201cChina is the primary adversary of the United States with a long track record of surveilling American citizens. The United States Olympic Committee should take every precaution to protect the privacy of American athletes from the communist Chinese government.\u201d\n\nYou can read the full text of Rep. Gooden\u2019s letter to the USOPC here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-03-30T11:08:25Z"]], "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://gooden.house.gov/press-releases?ID=836316B8-1BF4-41F8-A518-7244C73AC68D"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9610280394554138, "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"}