{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ricketts.senate.gov/news/press-releases/video-ricketts-on-combatting-communist-china-in-the-ai-race/", "VIDEO: Ricketts on Combatting Communist China in the AI Race", "2026-06-05", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "NE", "Pete Ricketts", "R000618", "www.ricketts.senate.gov", "ricketts", "https://www.ricketts.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/?jsf=jet-engine:press-list&pagenum=", "scraper", "This week, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) discussed his work to counter Communist China and ensure American dominance in artificial intelligence in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Ricketts highlighted his Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act, a bipartisan bill that would strengthen U.S. export controls to ensure adversaries cannot buy \u201cchokepoint\u201d semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) technology from the United States or our partners that they cannot build themselves.\n\n\u201cA world where Communist China is dominant in AI is very bad for the United States and for the entire world,\u201d said Ricketts. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s critical that us and our allies cannot lose this race.\n\nSemiconductor supply chains, particularly semiconductor manufacturing equipment \u2014 SMEs \u2014 are critical to winning this competition.\u201d\n\nWatch the video here.", 1, "2026-06-06T06:16:30Z", "2026-06-06T06:17:47Z"]], "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.ricketts.senate.gov/news/press-releases/video-ricketts-on-combatting-communist-china-in-the-ai-race/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7584986053407192, "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"}