{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-amendments-remove-barriers-us-taiwan-cooperation-clear-house", "Tiffany Amendments to Remove Barriers to U.S.-Taiwan Cooperation Clear House", "2023-09-28", "2023", "2023-09", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Thomas P. Tiffany", "T000165", "tiffany.house.gov", "tiffany", "https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, the U.S. House approved two amendments authored by Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) to theDepartment of State Appropriations Act. Both measures would sweep away administrative barriers to U.S.-Taiwan cooperation.\n\nThefirst amendment by Rep. Tiffany would end the State Department policy of relegating Taiwan\u2019s elected leaders to short U.S. transits in cities that are often far away from Washington, DC.\n\nThesecond amendment would remove unnecessary and counter-productive limits on communication and cooperation with Taiwanese officials imposed by the State Department through a 2021 memo. The Trump administrationremoved the restrictions during its tenure; however, the Biden administrationreimposed them shortly after coming into office.\n\nRep. Tiffany\u2019s remarks on the amendment to remove arbitrary restrictions can be foundhere and below.\n\n\u201cMr. Chairman, why do we allow the State Department \u2013 through a bureaucratic memo \u2013 to impose these unnecessary and counter-productive limits on communication and cooperation with Taiwan?\n\n\u201cWe don\u2019t have rules like this in place for the totalitarian rulers of Cuba or Russia\u2026 Both of whom operate embassies just a few miles away from where we are standing right now.\n\n\u201cWe don\u2019t have rules like this for U.S. interaction with Iran\u2026 John Kerry has met on several occasions with high-ranking Iranian officials, and the White House just paid a $6 billion hostage ransom to the Ayatollahs.\n\n\u201cWe don\u2019t have rules like this for U.S. interaction with Communist China\u2026 Biden administration officials continue to sit down at the table with the same CCP officials who our own Secretary of State has accused of committing genocide.\n\n\u201cYet we continue to enforce these degrading conditions on Taiwan, a long-time friend and fellow democracy.\n\n\u201cMr. Chairman, as the old Sesame Street song goes: \u2018One of These Things is Not Like the Others.\u2019 It is time to stop treating our friends like enemies, and our enemies like friends.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:37:48Z"]], "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://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffany-amendments-remove-barriers-us-taiwan-cooperation-clear-house"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5915068797767162, "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"}