{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/vote-explainer-ccp-and-national-security", "Vote Explainer \u2014 CCP and National Security", "2024-09-17", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Seth Moulton", "M001196", "moulton.house.gov", "moulton", "https://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "Transparency is vital to democracy. Below please find explainers for key votes I took in the 118th Congress.\n\nLast week, the House voted on a number of bills related to countering the economic, technological, and national security threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party. While many of these bills were bipartisan and noncontroversial, some were harmful.\n\nThe CCP poses a serious and credible threat to the United States and the free world. The intelligence paints a very clear picture of the ways in which they seek to undermine American security and our international order. But taken together, this package of bills represents how Republicans are turning our relationship with China into an overtly political issue.\n\nIt is imperative that America has a smart, strategic, and coherent China strategy. The alternative is a devastating war between the world\u2019s two biggest militaries. Doing so requires a careful and intentional approach to the relationship with China, not scattershot tough-on-China messaging legislation.\n\nI cast a \u201cno\u201d vote on the following bills:\n\nH.R. 1398 \u2013 Protect America\u2019s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act: I voted against this bill because it would have restarted a Trump-era initiative that failed to convict anyone of espionage, but did ruin the lives and professional careers of numerous Asian-American scientists with allegations that were ultimately never proven.\n\nH.R. 1425 \u2013 No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval: The pandemic agreement aims to close the gaps in our ability to cooperate globally to address health emergencies, which we saw clearly during COVID. This bill would have made it harder for the U.S. to join this important agreement, so I voted no.\n\nH.R. 1516 \u2013 DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern: While there are absolutely areas of STEM research where the US should not be working with Chinese academic institutions tied to the military, not all research collaboration is bad. As this bill would have restricted all of it, I voted no. In plenty of research areas, collaboration benefits everyone.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/vote-explainer-ccp-and-national-security"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7139548435807228, "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"}