{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://nunn.house.gov/2025/12/02/watch-nunn-joins-gop-leadership-calls-out-ccp-influence-in-iowa-schools/", "WATCH: Nunn Joins GOP Leadership, Calls Out CCP Influence in Iowa Schools", "2025-12-02", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "IA", "Zachary Nunn", "N000193", "nunn.house.gov", "nunn", "https://nunn.house.gov/category/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "Rep. Nunn: CCP Targeting of Iowa Students\n\n\u201cI started off my career as a counterintelligence officer. For twenty years, I worked directly inside China and saw firsthand what Communist China was doing to the United States \u2014 not just buying farmland, but literally sending agents into my district and pulling corn seed out of the ground so they could replicate it back home. Now, they\u2019re not just coming after what we grow in our fields, they\u2019re coming after what we grow in our classrooms. Most recently, a group from Des Moines Public Schools was taken on an all-expenses-paid trip to China. The Chinese weren\u2019t there under the facade of friendship, they were there to collect information, to exploit, and to manipulate. They forced these kids to hand over their digital information, required them to use WeChat \u2014 an internal public server for China \u2014 and started an early process of cultivation. In the counterintelligence world, we consider this source recruitment.\u201d\n\nRep. Nunn: Congress Must Act\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve had parents across Iowa ask, \u2018How is this legal?\u2019 And the simple truth is: there\u2019s no law preventing it. The Chinese government is creating a series of shell organizations to recruit kids to come to China, and then exploit them the moment they set foot in Beijing. This has to stop. I am so proud of this team for helping us stand up to what the Politburo in Beijing is trying to do to kids in Des Moines, Iowa, and across our country. We have the opportunity not only to push back but to send a strong signal that we are open to a real friendship with China \u2014 but we will not stand by while they attempt future exploitation.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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://nunn.house.gov/2025/12/02/watch-nunn-joins-gop-leadership-calls-out-ccp-influence-in-iowa-schools/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9704611729830503, "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"}