{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-ricketts-introduce-bill-to-crack-down-on-counterfeit-drugs", "Cotton, Ricketts Introduce Bill to Crack Down on Counterfeit Drugs", "2025-11-07", "2025", "2025-11", "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\nNovember 7, 2025\n\nCotton, Ricketts Introduce Bill to Crack Down on Counterfeit Drugs\n\nWashington, DC \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Pete Ricketts (R-Nebraska) yesterday introduced legislation that directs the federal government to crack down on foreign entities selling counterfeit drugs to U.S. consumers. The Combatting Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Act will establish a program to identify and sanction foreign traffickers and manufacturers of counterfeit drugs and drug ingredients.\n\n\u201cDangerous and ineffective counterfeit drugs from Communist China and other adversarial nations pose an increasing threat to consumers. Our bill will crack down on all counterfeit drugs to ensure Arkansans have access to safe and effective medicine,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\n\u201cCommunist China\u2019s drugmakers are quickly manufacturing and selling copy-cat drugs based on our biological advances. By doing so, Communist China is pumping Americans full of unregulated, substandard ingredients. It is time to get these Chinese-made compounds out of our borders. Our efforts will target organizations engaged in illicit opioid trafficking posing fatal consequences here at home,\u201d said Senator Ricketts.\n\nText of the bill can be found here.\n\nThe Combatting Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Act would:\n\nDirect intelligence agencies to identify traffickers and manufacturers of counterfeit drugs and drug ingredients.\n\nDirect the U.S. Treasury Department to impose sanctions on those entities.\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.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-ricketts-introduce-bill-to-crack-down-on-counterfeit-drugs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.47035694681108, "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"}