{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-bill-to-bar-adversarial-foreign-nationals-from-fda", "Cotton Introduces Bill to Bar Adversarial Foreign Nationals from FDA", "2025-10-13", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353\n\nOctober 13, 2025\n\nCotton Introduces Bill to Bar Adversarial Foreign Nationals from FDA\n\nWashington, DC \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) last week introduced legislation to protect American food and medicine from adversarial foreign nationals. The American Medicine Safety and Security Act will prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from employing individuals with ties to China, Russia, or Iran.\n\n\u201cThe oversight of our food and medicine is too important to allow corruption from adversarial foreign nationals. My bill will establish safeguards at FDA to protect Americans\u2019 health and intellectual property,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\nText of the bill can be found here.\n\nThe American Medicine Safety and Security Act would:\n\nProhibit FDA from employing Chinese, Russian, or Iranian nationals.\n\nRequire FDA employees to report whether their immediate family members are Chinese, Russian, or Iranian nationals.\n\nProhibit FDA employees from working for entities operating in China, Russia, or Iran for 10 years following their employment at FDA.\n\nProhibit FDA employees from accessing drug or device data housed within divisions outside of the one in which they are employed if:\n\nThey formerly worked at an entity based in China, Russia, or Iran.\n\nA member of their immediate family is a Chinese, Russian, or Iranian national.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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-introduces-bill-to-bar-adversarial-foreign-nationals-from-fda"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8764169178903103, "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"}