{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-braun-rubio-introduce-bill-to-limit-use-of-chinese-digital-currency-in-the-us", "Cotton, Braun, Rubio Introduce Bill to Limit Use of Chinese Digital Currency in the U.S.", "2022-05-26", "2022", "2022-05", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353\n\nMay 26, 2022\n\nCotton, Braun, Rubio Introduce Bill to Limit Use of Chinese Digital Currency in the U.S.\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Mike Braun (R-Indiana), and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) introduced the Defending Americans from Authoritarian Digital Currencies Act, legislation to prohibit app platforms in the United States from hosting apps that enable transactions using the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Digital Yuan (e-CNY). Text of the bill may be foundhere.\n\n\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party will use its digital currency to control and spy on anyone who uses it. We can\u2019t give China that chance\u2014the United States should reject China\u2019s attempt to undermine our economy at its most basic level,\u201d said Cotton.\n\n\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party\u2019s digital yuan allows direct control and access to the financial lives of individuals. We cannot allow this authoritarian regime to use their state-controlled digital currency as an instrument to infiltrate our economy and the private information of American citizens,\u201d said Braun.\n\n\u201cIt makes no sense to tie ourselves to the digital currency of a genocidal regime that hates us and wants to replace us on the world stage,\u201d said Rubio. \u201cThis is a major financial and surveillance risk that the United States cannot afford to make.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:09:24Z"]], "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.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-braun-rubio-introduce-bill-to-limit-use-of-chinese-digital-currency-in-the-us"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5019159764051437, "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"}