{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senate-intelligence-committee-passes-the-intelligence-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2027", "Senate Intelligence Committee Passes the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027", "2026-05-21", "2026", "2026-05", "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\nMay 21, 2026\n\nCONTACT:\n\nHannah McCarthy (Cotton) 202 465-5601\n\nRachel Cohen (Warner) 202 228-6884\n\nSenate Intelligence Committee Passes the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence passed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (IAA) today on a bipartisan 14-3 vote. The bill authorizes funding, provides legal authorities, and enhances congressional oversight for the United States Intelligence Community (IC).\n\n\u201cI\u2019d like to thank my colleagues for their work on this bill, which will keep America safe and make our intelligence agencies more transparent and efficient. Our bipartisan legislation introduces several key changes, including barring purchases from adversaries like China and a review of real-estate transactions near IC facilities. Most importantly, the bill will continue to return our intelligence agencies back to their core mission: the collection of clandestine foreign intelligence to protect our homeland,\u201d said Chairman Cotton.\n\n\u201cI am proud of the Senate Intelligence Committee\u2019s bipartisan legislation to conduct meaningful oversight of the nation\u2019s intelligence agencies, as well as provide them with the tools and authorities they need to do their job to keep America safe. This year\u2019s IAA enhances support to and oversight of the Intelligence Community\u2019s use of artificial intelligence to ensure that this powerful technology keeps America safe without creating unexpected vulnerabilities. The bill also ensures continued support to America\u2019s allies and partners, including Ukraine. At the same time, the bill combats corruption by ensuring that clearance holders cannot personally profit by using insider information on prediction markets and by banning \u2018pay-to-play\u2019 national security transactions,\u201d said Vice Chairman Warner.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe IAA for Fiscal Year 2027 authorizes funding and ensures that the IC has the resources, personnel, and authorities it needs to protect our country and inform decision-makers, while under robust Congressional oversight.\n\nThe Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 will:\n\nSignificantly reform the IC\u2019s authorities to focus on foreign intelligence, international terrorism, and foreign threats to the homeland;\n\nProvide for additional resources to recruit intelligence officers and expand foreign intelligence collection against U.S. adversaries;\n\nProhibit the IC from using or procuring products and services made in Communist China;\n\nEstablish a task force to identify indications and warning of Chinese military aggression regarding Taiwan;\n\nEnhance oversight and governance of use of artificial intelligence by the IC, including in adoption of advanced AI capabilities and use of AI in lethal targeting;\n\nEstablish opportunities for pre-deployment testing of AI models, helping U.S. firms protect against potential misuse of their models for foreign hacking or weapons proliferation activity;\n\nAmend the Spectrum Relocation Fund authorization to clarify eligibility for Title 50 agencies that utilize spectrum and whose usage could be impacted by future reallocation decisions;\n\nProhibit the IC from acquiring or operating autonomous ground systems from China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea;\n\nEnsure intelligence support to U.S. allies, including Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan;\n\nProtect whistleblowers\u2019 right to bring their complaints to Congress in a timely fashion;\n\nImprove anonymized biological data and intelligence within the IC;\n\nEstablish a Counterintelligence Office at the Department of Commerce;\n\nEnhance U.S. person privacy by codifying IC policy guidance requiring IC elements to develop procedures for unmasking requests of U.S. person identities;\n\nProhibit IC employees and contractors with security clearances from using nonpublic information to place bets on prediction markets;\n\nRequire the IC to report on hostile foreign cyber actors, including foreign scam centers;\n\nEstablish an Office of Counterintelligence within the Department of Treasury\u2019s Office of Intelligence and Analysis;\n\nCreate a fellowship named after Senator Ben Sasse for IC employees to gain experience at technology companies and bring this expertise back to their home agencies;\n\nMandate security procedures for Federal Reserve data and information;\n\nRequire the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review real estate transactions with foreign persons near IC facilities; and\n\nExtend authorities for protecting Central Intelligence Agency facilities from unmanned aircraft systems.\n\n###", 1, "2026-05-22T06:27:39Z", "2026-05-22T06:29:18Z"]], "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/senate-intelligence-committee-passes-the-intelligence-authorization-act-for-fiscal-year-2027"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5861690044403076, "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"}