{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.wicker.senate.gov/2026/09/22/chairman-wicker-delivers-senate-floor-speech-on-china-and-xi-jinping/", "Chairman Wicker Delivers Senate Floor Speech on China and Xi Jinping", "2026-09-22", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MS", "Roger F. Wicker", "W000437", "www.wicker.senate.gov", "wicker", "https://www.wicker.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, delivered remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate, outlining the increasing tempo of Chinese aggression.\n\nIn his speech, Chairman Wicker addressed the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) support for Iran, religious persecutions, and international coercion. The chairman encouraged President Trump to raise these points of contention during this week\u2019s bilateral summit.\n\nChairman Wicker: \u201cThe president might inquire about the purposes of China\u2019s massive military build-up, or about China\u2019s clear support for Iran. This summer, it was all over the press that China gave Iran satellite imagery intelligence, and that intelligence led to the death of American troops.\u201d\n\nChairman Wicker: \u201cFor nearly a decade, Xi Jinping has consigned more than a million Uyghurs to concentration camps in China\u2019s Xinjiang region. I hope our president will take this visit as an opportunity to advocate for the Uyghur people. The fact that they remain in prison by the millions is a grave injustice and a reminder of Xi Jinping\u2019s many human rights abuses.\u201d\n\nChairman Wicker: \u201cI know the president intends to discuss trade and artificial intelligence with the Chinese leadership\u2014and rightfully so. Perhaps some progress will be made. But, Mr. President, during every minute of dialogue, our commander-in-chief should keep in mind that his guest is a brutal, unelected, and oppressive dictator who seeks to dominate his neighbors and whose massive military arsenal is aimed directly at the United States of America.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Chairman Wicker\u2019s full remarks.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-23T09:45:16Z", "2026-09-23T09:46:14Z"]], "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.wicker.senate.gov/2026/09/22/chairman-wicker-delivers-senate-floor-speech-on-china-and-xi-jinping/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8639800362288952, "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"}