{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/video-kaine-slams-trumps-reckless-and-corrupt-decision-to-allow-nvidia-to-sell-advanced-chips-to-china", "Video: Kaine Slams Trump\u2019s Reckless & Corrupt Decision to Allow Nvidia to Sell Advanced Chips to China", "2025-12-18", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "VA", "Tim Kaine", "K000384", "www.kaine.senate.gov", "kaine", "https://www.kaine.senate.gov/news", "scraper", "FULL VIDEO OF KAINE\u2019S SPEECH IS AVAILABLE HERE.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, spoke on the Senate floor sounding the alarm about the Trump Administration\u2019s dangerous decision to allow Nvidia to sell advanced H200 chips to Chinese commercial customers and the threat this poses to U.S. national security. Kaine has spoken out about how this sale would allow China to use H200 chips to erode America\u2019s advantage in artificial intelligence (AI), expand Chinese military capabilities, and threaten the U.S. and our allies.\n\n\u201cI rise today to express deep concern and frustration over President Trump\u2019s decision to approve the sale of advanced Nvidia H200 AI chips to the People\u2019s Republic of China,\u201d said Kaine. \u201cI am worried that the transfer of these chips will compromise U.S. security and enable the People\u2019s Republic of China to catch up in one area where the U.S. has a significant and very qualitative advantage over the PRC.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor decades, under administrations of both parties, the United States has adhered to a simple principle: we do not sell our most advanced security-critical technology to adversaries. That principle exists for a reason,\u201d Kaine said.\n\n\u201cAdvanced semiconductors like Nvidia's H200 chip are not consumer gadgets. They're matters of national security. They're the foundation of the future of warfare. They are our edge\u2014the United States\u2019 edge in the development of the technologies of the future.\u201d Kaine continued, \u201cRight now, that future is up for grabs.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe protect our chips because they preserve America's advantage in space, cyberspace and importantly, nuclear deterrence,\u201d Kaine said. \u201cThe H200 is used to train and deploy frontier AI systems\u2014systems that U.S. national security agencies have long warned have numerous military and intelligence applications.\u201d\n\n\u201cEven the CEO of China\u2019s leading AI firm has admitted publicly that the access to advanced chips is their biggest bottleneck,\u201d continued Kaine. \u201cPresident Trump is now solving this problem for China.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Administration claims that in exchange \u2026 the United States will receive a share of the revenue,\u201d said Kaine. \u201c\u2026But that admission should alarm us. Decisions that were once made purely on our national security priorities are now apparently up for sale, and the Administration\u2019s justification that this will somehow keep China hooked on U.S. technology doesn\u2019t withstand normal scrutiny\u2026 They\u2019ll take these chips, reverse engineer them, and produce their own, and wipe out the edge that we now have with China in this critical defense technology.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m very, very nervous that the President is bartering away this edge and may barter away other edges to those who are lobbying and contributing to him. And this is a pattern we\u2019ve seen\u2014transactional politics jeopardizing our security,\u201d Kaine said. \u201cChina is reaping \u2026 the rewards of this. They're already leading or rapidly catching up in so many critical industries. Why would we give up an edge in this one? The American people are watching this play out. They're particularly concerned about China, about China's advances, and about [the United States] giving up the edge we have over China in this key area.\u201d\n\nKaine concluded, \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve signed on with many in this body\u2026 to Senators Ricketts and Coons\u2019 SAFE Chips Act, which would insist upon rigorous export controls over these chips, particularly as they might be transferred to China, the People\u2019s Republic of North Korea, Iran, and Russia\u2026 I urge my colleagues to get on board with this legislation and make sure that we don\u2019t harm our national security by transferring technologies of such incredible importance to our country.\u201d\n\nLast week, in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Kaine expressed his concern regarding the Nvidia sale and pressed witnesses on whether the State Department, Department of Defense, and other national security agencies should have more of a role to play in this decision. Kaine also strongly supports the Secure and Feasible Exports (SAFE) of Chips Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation that would codify into law current limitations and controls for advanced AI chip sales to foreign adversaries.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/video-kaine-slams-trumps-reckless-and-corrupt-decision-to-allow-nvidia-to-sell-advanced-chips-to-china"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6339370049536228, "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"}