{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://riggleman.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-riggleman-addresses-nation-china-task-force-final-report-unveiling", "Congressman Riggleman Addresses the Nation at China Task Force Final Report Unveiling", "2020-09-30", "2020", "2020-09", "Republican", "House", "VA", "Denver Riggleman", "R000611", "riggleman.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Denver Riggleman joined his China Task Force (CTF)colleagues this morning for the unveiling of the group's final report. After months of briefings from over 130 leaders, including policy experts, former and current administration officials, ambassadors and other business executives,the China Task Force presented a comprehensive overview of their findings. During the press conference, CTF members pointed to the major conclusions of the report and outlined thesteps that House Republicans plan to take to affect major policy change to protect U.S. national security and economic interests. Republican Leader McCarthy made no reservations about the generational threat of the CCP's numerous civil rights violations, in addition to the CCP'smilitary aggression, weaponization of the global supply chain, and their attack onthedemocratic values that underpin the United States asthe leader in global prosperity and economic stability. \"Today's report achieves something no Congress in history has done before: a true blueprint to address the China threat across the board, filled with hundreds of bold, achievable ideas based on discussions with more than one hundred leaders across the political spectrum,\"said Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.\"In fact, nearly two thirds of the legislative recommendations are bipartisan. I'm confident ten years from now, Americans look back at this report as the bedrock for a safer, more resilient, more prosperous future.\" Rep. Riggleman pointed to the current ways that Congress can confront the CCP outside of the legislative process given the current resources that the U.S. has at its disposal to combat economic encirclement. It is the economic intelligence that we have to start as a discipline in the United States Congress,\"said Congressman Riggleman. \"It's not just the incredible legislation and the bipartisan way we have, said Congressman Riggleman. We can use organizations likeExport-Import Bank, and the development of finance corporations to start looking at Chinese financial encirclement and direct our intelligence, our defense spending and our infrastructure spending so that we can stop the encirclement that is going on. We have the opportunity right now, right now to address this problem. That's why it is so bipartisan and that's why it is so important.\" \nRep. Riggleman joined the China Task Force in May 2020, and was named co-chair of twoof theChina Task Force Pillars: Technology and National Security. The other pillars of focus included; ideological competition, competitiveness, and economics and energy. The CTF is composed of 15 members of Congress, including Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican Whip Steve Scalise, and Conference Chair Liz Cheney. \nThe China Task Force Press Conference can be seen in its entirety here. Congressman Riggleman's remarks begin at 33 minutesand27 seconds. \n  The full China Task Force Report can be found here.\n  ###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://riggleman.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-riggleman-addresses-nation-china-task-force-final-report-unveiling"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.840574037283659, "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"}