{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-exposes-intel-corporation-for-investing-billions-in-chinese-tech-while-cutting-american-jobs-failing-to-condemn-slave-labor/", "Hawley Exposes Intel Corporation for Investing Billions in Chinese Tech While Cutting American Jobs & Failing to Condemn Slave Labor", "2024-09-11", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "In yesterday\u2019s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Intel Corporation\u2019s Chief Trade Officer Jeff Rittener on his company\u2019s documented groveling to China, namely the billions it has invested in Chinese artificial intelligence and other technologies.\n\nSenator Hawley went on to call out Rittener for favoring Beijing, America\u2019s chief competitor, and Intel\u2019s executives over his own company\u2019s rank-and-file employees.\n\n\u201cDid you think it was efficient to give your CEO a 45 percent pay increase year-over-year, while you\u2019re cutting 15,000 jobs?\u201d Senator Hawley asked Rittener.\n\nSenator Hawley also pressed Rittener on China\u2019s well-documented use of slave labor. The Intel executive repeatedly evaded answering questions surrounding forced-labor in China, prefacing he\u2019s \u201cnot an expert\u201d on the topic.\n\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t take an expert,\u201d Senator Hawley countered. \u201cIt should not be hard to say that American jobs are important, American national security\u2019s important, and slave labor is wrong,\u201d he concluded.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "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.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-exposes-intel-corporation-for-investing-billions-in-chinese-tech-while-cutting-american-jobs-failing-to-condemn-slave-labor/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9436751715838909, "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"}