{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-joins-threat-status-to-discuss-u-s-china-competition-on-critical-minerals-biotech-and-shipbuilding/", "Young Joins \u201cThreat Status\u201d to Discuss U.S.-China Competition on Critical Minerals, Biotech, and Shipbuilding", "2025-10-20", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "**Click here or above to watch the Senator\u2019s full interview.**\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, joined the \u201cThreat Status\u201d program hosted by the Washington Times to discuss the ongoing U.S.-China competition.\n\nYoung discussed how recent Chinese restrictions on rare earth mineral exports could have a detrimental impact on the U.S. defense industry and said Beijing\u2019s dominance over the processing of the materials is emerging as a key aspect of U.S.-China competition.\n\n\u201cThis competition is currently shaping our lives in fundamental ways,\u201d said Young. \u201cIt is poised to shape our children\u2019s lives in even more fundamental ways, economically, in terms of our national security and every other facet of life.\u201d\n\nEarlier this year, Young laid out the start of an aggressive strategy, including hisSTRATEGIC Minerals Act, to encourage the Trump Administration to collaborate with other countries and reduce America\u2019s exposure to China.\n\n\u201cThey have vast stores of rare earth minerals and other critical minerals that they provide into the American market,\u201d said Young. \u201cThese are key inputs as we electrify our economy. And they\u2019re also key inputs to other, important, manufactured goods like defense articles. We literally cannot produce our defense goods without access to rare earth minerals.\u201d\n\nYoung also discussed his work as Chairman of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology. The Commission delivered an action plan earlier this year, with a warning that the U.S.-China competition on biotech will \u201cdefine the coming century.\u201d\n\nFinally, Young discussed the SHIPS for America Act, legislation he introduced with Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) aimed at revitalizing America\u2019s domestic shipbuilding and commercial maritime industries.", 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-joins-threat-status-to-discuss-u-s-china-competition-on-critical-minerals-biotech-and-shipbuilding/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9809859804809093, "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"}