{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=61CF607F-1975-4E75-A7BB-65AD38AA946F", "Warner & Rubio Praise Passage of FY23 Intelligence Authorization Act", "2022-12-16", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "VA", "Mark R. Warner", "W000805", "www.warner.senate.gov", "warner", "https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) applauded the final passage of the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2023 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The legislation passed through the Senate yesterday by a vote of 83-11, after being approved by the House of Representatives last week. The IAA authorizes funding, provides legal authorities, and enhances congressional oversight for the U.S. Intelligence Community.\n\n\u201cI am pleased the House and Senate have passed the Committee\u2019s bipartisan Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 as part of our nation\u2019s defense authorization bill,\u201d said Committee Chairman Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA). \u201cThis year\u2019s bill will enhance the country\u2019s ability to confront our adversaries, including the growing threats to our national security posed by China and Russia. It also takes significant steps to promote U.S. technology leadership, including by accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies and increasing our ability to compete with China. Finally, I am pleased that this year\u2019s bill drives serious improvement to the IC\u2019s hiring and security clearance processes, so that the IC can attract and expeditiously on-board a talented, diverse, and trusted workforce.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis year\u2019s Intelligence Authorization Act ensures that the Intelligence Community (IC) has the resources, authorities, and personnel to protect America\u2019s national security and counter the growing threats from autocracies like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba,\u201d said Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). \u201cThis bill further enhances U.S. counterintelligence screening, foreign intelligence collection and analysis, and emerging technology capabilities to focus the IC on addressing our primary national security threat in the 21st century \u2013 countering Communist China.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThe IAA for Fiscal Year 2023 authorizes funding and ensures that the Intelligence Community (IC) has the resources, personnel, and authorities it needs to protect our country and inform decision makers, while under robust Congressional oversight, including in the following key areas:\n\nConfronting the growing national security threat posed by the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) by increasing hard target intelligence collection and analysis, as well as by identifying and exposing corruption, forced labor camps, global infrastructure financing, and malign economic investments in telecommunications and semiconductors;\n\nBolstering intelligence support for Ukraine as it fights to defend its territorial integrity and sovereignty against Russia\u2019s unprovoked aggression, including by increasing oversight of China\u2019s support to Ukraine, assessing the effects of sanctions on Russia and its allies, and evaluating opportunities to mitigate threats to food security due to the conflict;\n\nEstablishing IC Coordinators to account for Russian atrocities and for countering proliferation of Iran-origin unmanned aircraft systems;\n\nDriving improvements to the IC\u2019s hiring and security clearance processes by keeping the IC accountable for progress, including timeliness in bringing cleared personnel onboard, ensuring that key management and contract oversight personnel in industry can obtain clearances, and establishing personnel vetting performance measures;\n\nAccelerating and improving procurement, adoption, and integration of emerging technologies across the IC;\n\nEstablishing counterintelligence protections for IC grant funding against foreign-based risks of misappropriation, theft, and other threats to U.S. innovation;\n\nEstablishing measures to mitigate counterintelligence threats from foreign commercial spyware;\n\nStrengthening oversight of national security threats associated with the regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela;\n\nEnsuring continued support to the victims of anomalous health incidents (\u201cHavana Syndrome\u201d) and maintaining continued oversight over the IC\u2019s investigations into the causes of anomalous health incidents;\n\nEnforcing cybersecurity enhancements and cybersecurity minimum standards across the IC, including for classified systems; and\n\nEnhancing oversight of IC and Department of Defense collection and reporting on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:06Z"]], "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.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=61CF607F-1975-4E75-A7BB-65AD38AA946F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1997499968856573, "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"}