{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-bill-to-protect-american-biotech-innovation-from-communist-china", "Cotton Introduces Bill to Protect American Biotech Innovation from Communist China", "2025-12-12", "2025", "2025-12", "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\nDecember 12, 2025\n\nCotton Introduces Bill to Protect American Biotech Innovation from Communist China\n\nWashington, DC \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Senator Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire), and Senator Ted Budd (R-North Carolina) yesterday introduced legislation to protect American proprietary research from Communist China. The Biological IP Protection Act will ensure that cutting edge American IP is not given to our foreign adversaries.\n\nRepresentative Warren Davidson (Ohio-08) and Representative Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania-06) introduced companion legislation in the House.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s essential that we protect cutting edge American proprietary research from our chief foreign adversaries. Our bill will ensure that Communist China doesn\u2019t have access to the intellectual property that drives American biotech innovation,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\n\u201cWe must prevent our adversaries, like China, from stealing America\u2019s cutting-edge intellectual property. This bill will help protect our national security and safeguard American biotechnology advancements, so these important assets don\u2019t end up in the hands of our foreign adversaries,\u201d said Senator Hassan.\n\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s intellectual property must be protected from the malign efforts of our adversaries. This bill will put reasonable safeguards in place to protect our growing biotechnology sector from Chinese industrial espionage,\u201d said Senator Budd.\n\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s biotechnology industry drives innovation, fuels economic growth, and underpins our national security. Yet foreign adversaries that violate trade rules and steal U.S. intellectual property increasingly seek dominance over critical biotech supply chains. We lose billions in IP every year because we haven\u2019t taken the steps necessary to de-risk this sector. That\u2019s why I\u2019m proud to join Rep. Houlahan and Senators Cotton and Hassan in introducing theBiotechnology Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2025,\u201dsaid Congressman Davidson.\n\nText of the bill can be found here.\n\nThe Biological IP Protection Act would:\n\nRequire a license before the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of a designed synthetic DNA sequence to a foreign entity of concern, like China or Russia.\n\nAllow exemptions to ensure individuals can continue to conduct fundamental research, teach courses, or publish academic work.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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-protect-american-biotech-innovation-from-communist-china"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7211400661617517, "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"}