{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-colleagues-introduce-substantive-legislation-to-outcompete-china/", "Young, Colleagues Introduce Substantive Legislation to Outcompete China", "2024-09-20", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the STRATEGIC Act 2024, legislation to set up the United States and its allies and partners for success in the strategic competition against China.\n\n\u201cThe STRATEGIC Act comes at an important time as the Chinese Communist Party continues its efforts to undermine security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. This legislative package contains several critical initiatives to counter the CCP, strengthen American supply chains, and bolster American support for Taiwan,\u201d said Senator Young. \u201cIt includes my proposal to provide help to our foreign partners on an expedited basis when they are targeted economically for standing up to authoritarian regimes. By supporting our partners under threat of coercion, we protect America\u2019s own national security interests.\u201d\n\n\u201cDespite the significant threat China poses to the United States, the U.S. Congress has failed to enact legislation in a number of crucial areas that would set up the United States, its allies, and partners for success,\u201d said Senator Risch. \u201cThis legislation takes strong positions to safeguard U.S. and allied interests and provides actionable provisions that will help us in our strategic competition with China. We cannot wait for more reports and studies \u2013 it is time to start implementing policies.\u201d\n\nThe STRATEGIC Act:\n\nReforms the Foreign Agents Registration Act by removing commercial and Lobbying and Disclosure Act exemptions for foreign adversaries and giving the Department of Justice authorities to issue civil investigative demands.\n\nCounters malign Chinese Communist Party influence by enhancing think tank transparency, prohibiting certain gifts and contracts with strings attached to U.S. universities, improving research security, and exposing China\u2019s harassment and abuse of U.S. diplomats.\n\nAuthorizes strategic infrastructure initiatives focused on digital, transport, and energy sectors, strengthens supply chain security, and lowers trade barriers in partner countries.\n\nAddresses predatory Chinese economic practices through anti-trust reform, a new initiative to counter economic coercion, and prohibition of World Bank contracts for Chinese companies. It also expands CFIUS to cover agricultural investments with national security risks.\n\nStrengthens international security by countering proliferation of Chinese unmanned aerial systems in the Middle East and modifying the Missile Technology Control Regime to increase AUKUS cooperation.\n\nStrengthens U.S. support for Taiwan and partner countries facing threats from China, and establishes a State/Treasury \u201cTiger Team\u201d to start identifying targets for sanctions, export controls, other economic measures well before China takes military action.\n\nProtects U.S. interests in international organizations and support for human rights.\n\nIncreases oversight of U.S. government funding for biological research with China.\n\nIn addition to Senators Young and Risch, Senators Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) also introduced the legislation.", 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.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-colleagues-introduce-substantive-legislation-to-outcompete-china/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.134861959144473, "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"}