{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-cruz-blackburn-introduce-legislation-to-strengthen-u-s-taiwan-relations-counter-ccp-coercion/", "Young, Cruz, Blackburn Introduce Legislation to\u00a0Strengthen U.S.-Taiwan Relations, Counter CCP Coercion", "2025-10-21", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) joined U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in introducing the Taiwan Symbols of Sovereignty (Taiwan SOS) Act. The bill authorizes Taiwanese diplomats and service members to display their flag and wear their uniforms while in the United States on official business.\n\n\u201cTaiwan\u2019s government, military, and people deserve to be treated with the same respect and recognition we afford other countries,\u201d said Senator Young. \u201cOur bill will strengthen U.S.-Taiwan relations and stand up to the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s coercion.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party is committed to eroding Taiwan\u2019s global status, and the United States should be just as committed to strengthening it. The Obama administration did enormous damage to American national security when it first implemented these prohibitions against our Taiwanese allies, and I have been battling this policy ever since,\u201d said Senator Cruz. \u201cIt was successfully overturned during the first Trump administration, before being reinstated under Biden, again to the detriment of the safety and security of Americans and our allies. There has been broad, explicit bipartisan support for rescinding these prohibitions, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has advanced this language to do so. I am confident they will do so again, and I call on my colleagues in the Senate to advance it to passage.\u201d\n\n\u201cTaiwan is a sovereign nation, and the U.S. should not support Communist China\u2019s efforts to undermine its independence by restricting Taiwanese diplomats and service members from displaying their flag,\u201d said Senator Blackburn. \u201cThe Taiwan SOS Act would make it clear the United States firmly stands with Taiwan.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Taiwan SOS Act reverses guidelines originating with the Obama Administration and reinstated by the Biden Administration that prohibit the display of symbols representing Taiwan at official government events. Senator Young has previously helped introduce this legislation in 2020 and in 2022. The language was advanced by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2021.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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-cruz-blackburn-introduce-legislation-to-strengthen-u-s-taiwan-relations-counter-ccp-coercion/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9659100323915482, "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"}