{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-issues-statement-on-ccp-crackdown", "Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on CCP Crackdown", "2022-11-28", "2022", "2022-11", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "Ted Cruz", "C001098", "www.cruz.senate.gov", "cruz", "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement condemning the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s abuses against Chinese activists protesting the CCP\u2019s COVID policies, and the Biden administration\u2019s response.\n\nSen. Cruz said:\n\n\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party has since the beginning been desperate to cover up the origins, nature, and consequences of COVID-19. They lied and continue to lie to the world, and as a result millions of lives were lost and immense suffering was caused.\n\n\u201cNow their coercive campaign of denial has converged with their systematic human rights atrocities, including their ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang.\n\n\u201cThe people of China are not to blame for the CCP's actions. In fact, many of them were already protesting the CCP\u2019s handling of the pandemic, and now those protests have escalated into open criticism of the regime. They are bravely standing up for their rights.\n\n\u201cThe Biden administration\u2019s response has been worse than expected. The CCP should know that one way or another, in the coming months or in the coming years, the United States will hold accountable each and every CCP official responsible for atrocities against these protesters.\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND\n\nSen. Cruz has led the fight against the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s human rights atrocities and political oppression:\n\nWorked to hold the CCP accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nPassed into law a bill that mandated a reevaluation of America\u2019s policy on Hong Kong against the backdrop of the CCP\u2019s civil and human rights violations, and their exploitation of Hong Kong\u2019s special status.\n\nLed the blacklisting of the technology companies that the CCP uses for monitoring and persecuting the Uyghurs, sending a letter and introducing legislation that eventually became the basis for the Trump administration blacklisting such companies.\n\nSpearheaded countering China\u2019s ability to propagandize over American radio, introducing legislationthat led the Trump administration to reject radio licenses to a station subject to control by the CCP.\n\nIntroduced a range of additional legislation targeting the CCP\u2019s cover-up of COVID, coercion of American film and television studios that leads to self-censorship, forced abortions, and control of critical minerals.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:24:37Z"]], "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.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-issues-statement-on-ccp-crackdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5452599618583918, "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"}