{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-warner-statements-on-senate-passage-of-intelligence-authorization-act", "Cotton, Warner Statements on Senate Passage of Intelligence Authorization Act", "2025-10-09", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence\n\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nOctober 9, 2025\n\nCONTACT:\n\nPatrick McCann (Cotton) 202 224-2353\n\nRachel Cohen (Warner) 202 228-6884\n\nCotton, Warner Statements on Senate Passage of Intelligence Authorization Act\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), and Senator Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia), Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today released the following statement after the Senate passed the annual Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (IAA) as a part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill authorizes funding, provides legal authorities, and enhances oversight of national security threats and our United States Intelligence Community.\n\n\u201cI\u2019d like to thank my colleagues for supporting this bill and the men and women of our intelligence community on the Senate floor. This bill includes real and needed reforms across the entire intelligence community, starting with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. I am also pleased that this bill includes many provisions to ensure and enhance our nation\u2019s security by prohibiting the intelligence community from contracting with Chinese military companies, imposing severe restrictions on foreign diplomats suspected of espionage, identifying the threat to America\u2019s food security posed by Communist China, and directing necessary resources towards defending our nation from the threats posed by Iran. I urge my colleagues in the House to support this bill,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m glad to see the Senate pass this bipartisan Intelligence Authorization Act, which ensures that the Intelligence Community has the resources and authorities it needs to keep our nation safe while maintaining strong oversight of its activities,\u201d said Senator Warner. \u201cI\u2019ll be urging my colleagues in the House to get this signed into law without further delay.\u201d\n\nThe Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 will:\n\nSignificantly reform and improve efficiencies and effectiveness within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the broader Intelligence Community;\n\nProhibit the Intelligence Community from contracting with Chinese military companies engaged in biotechnology research, development, or manufacturing;\n\nCodify tour and travel restrictions for Chinese, Russian Iranian and North Korean diplomats in the United States;\n\nImprove the Intelligence Community\u2019s artificial intelligence capabilities and capacity and establish guidelines for the IC\u2019s procurement and use of artificial intelligence;\n\nIncrease transparency to Congress regarding Iran\u2019s enrichment activities, including decisions to weaponize uranium;\n\nRequire the Intelligence Community to develop a policy for sharing biotechnological threats with U.S. agencies, allies, and private-sector partners;\n\nRequire the Director of National Intelligence to identify sites for deployment of advanced nuclear technologies;\n\nEstablish a program to support IC efforts to acquire and integrate emerging technologies proven to meet mission needs;\n\nRequire any Intelligence Community element with information regarding Iranian lethal threats to United States persons to provide the information to the FBI and to any person responsible for protecting the intended victim;\n\nProhibit Intelligence Community contractors from collecting or selling Intelligence Community personnel location data;\n\nSupport the Intelligence Community workforce by requiring the Director of National Intelligence to issue standard guidelines for Intelligence Community personnel to document and report Anomalous Health Incidents;\n\nEnhance protections for Intelligence Community whistleblowers;\n\nRequire the Director of National Intelligence to enhance efforts to counter narcotics trafficking with the Government of Mexico; and\n\nPromote transparency by requiring the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a declassification review and publish intelligence relating to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.\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-warner-statements-on-senate-passage-of-intelligence-authorization-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7985678967088461, "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"}