During a Foreign Relations Committee hearing titled “The Malign Influence of the People’s Republic of China at Home and Abroad: Recommendations for Policy Makers,” U.S. Senator Curtis spoke with Mr. Mattis, President of The Jamestown Foundation, on China’s state-sponsored intellectual property theft and influence operations in the United States. During the exchange, Curtis directly addressed his “CCP handlers,” in both English and Mandarin, vowing to continue advocating for freedom and democracy, especially in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Senator Curtis today reintroduced the Combatting China’s Pilfering of Intellectual Property Act, legislation to impose sanctions on Chinese individuals, companies, and organizations engaged in a pattern of intellectual property theft from the United States. By expanding the United States’ authority to block assets and restrict immigration of offenders, the CCP IP Act strengthens economic and diplomatic pressure on the Chinese Communist Party to cease its systematic misappropriation of protected American technologies.

Senator Curtis joined his colleagues—led by Senators Cruz (R-TX), Schatz (D-HI), Britt (R-AL), and Murphy (D-CT)—in introducing bipartisan legislation to keep kids off social media and help protect them from its harmful impacts. The Kids Off Social Media Act would set a minimum age of 13 to use social media platforms and prevent social media companies from feeding algorithmically-targeted content to users under the age of 17.