{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.budd.senate.gov/2025/11/10/budd-hagerty-colleagues-reintroduce-legislation-to-prohibit-foreign-nationals-from-funding-american-elections/", "Budd, Hagerty, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation to Prohibit Foreign Nationals from Funding American Elections", "2025-11-10", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Ted Budd", "B001305", "www.budd.senate.gov", "budd", "https://www.budd.senate.gov/category/news/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.) joined Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and several of his Senate Republican colleagues in reintroducing the Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act to prevent foreign nationals from improperly influencing American elections.\n\n\u201cForeign nationals should not meddle in American elections. I am proud to stand with Senator Hagerty in introducing commonsense legislation to ensure free and fair elections by eliminating foreign influences that seek to undermine our electoral process,\u201d said Senator Budd.\n\n\u201cAfter years of hysteria over Russiagate and alleged foreign influence in American elections, it turns out Democrats have recently benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in election-related contributions from a shadowy foreign billionaire, sidestepping the federal ban on foreign-national contributions in U.S. elections. This type of influence undermines democracy and self-government here in America, and its staggering scope should be alarming. I\u2019m pleased to reintroduce this commonsense and critical legislation that will put an end to covert foreign influence on our elections and protect Americans\u2019 voice in electing their leaders,\u201d said Senator Hagerty.\n\nSenators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Kennedy (R-La.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) also co-sponsored the legislation.\n\nRead the full bill text HERE.\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nThe Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act would:\n\nPrevents circumvention of the ban on \u201cindirect\u201d election-related contributions by foreign nationals by expressly covering any donation with an express or implied instruction (including involving intermediaries or conduits) that results in the donation being used for prohibited U.S. election-related activity;\n\nProhibits foreign-national contributions for ballot harvesting, get-out-the-vote activity, and public communications that promote a political party;\n\nBars foreign nationals from donating in connection with state ballot initiatives; and\n\nProhibits overbroad investigations or pretextual government collection or disclosure of Americans\u2019 nonprofit donor information for the purpose of intimidation or chilling Americans\u2019 free-speech rights.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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://www.budd.senate.gov/2025/11/10/budd-hagerty-colleagues-reintroduce-legislation-to-prohibit-foreign-nationals-from-funding-american-elections/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.705579062923789, "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"}