{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-pushes-back-against-foreign-ownership-of-american-farmland-at-senate-agriculture-hearing/", "Fetterman Pushes Back Against Foreign Ownership of American Farmland at Senate Agriculture Hearing", "2023-09-27", "2023", "2023-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "PA", "John Fetterman", "F000479", "www.fetterman.senate.gov", "fetterman", "https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/press-release/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman on Wednesday attended a U.S. Senate hearing in the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry to discuss foreign ownership in American agriculture and push for more restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland and other resources.\n\n\u201cLet me say, I hope many of our colleagues agree that the Chinese government and other U.S. adversaries should own zero agricultural land in our country,\u201d said Sen. Fetterman in the hearing. \u201cI mean, they are taking back our pandas. We should take back all of their farmland. This is really a national security issue, and it is a food security issue.\u201d\n\n\u201cLike my colleagues, I\u2019m concerned with foreign countries\u2019 and foreign corporations\u2019 ownership in our agriculture supply chain,\u201d Sen. Fetterman continued. \u201cOn small farmers in PA, there are over 56,000 of them here in Pennsylvania that face enough hardships, and they don\u2019t need to compete with foreign governments buying our land.\u201d\n\nThe full clip of Sen. Fetterman at the hearing can be found here.\n\nThis hearing is not the first time Sen. Fetterman has taken action to protect American farmland from ownership by our foreign adversaries. In the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, Sen. Fetterman strongly supported an amendment thatbans China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran from purchasing U.S. farmland and agricultural companies. It also requires the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review foreign investments and transactions in American agriculture to evaluate whether such investments would compromise national security.\n\nThe witnesses at today\u2019s hearing included Mrs. Gloria Monta\u00f1o Greene, Deputy Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Mr. Harrison Pittman, Director, National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture; and Dr. David L. Ortega, Associate Professor, Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:35:26Z"]], "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.fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-pushes-back-against-foreign-ownership-of-american-farmland-at-senate-agriculture-hearing/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8911471124738455, "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"}