Senators Curtis and Cramer, along with 39 of their colleagues, reintroduced the Fair Access to Banking Act, legislation to prevent large banks and financial institutions from denying fair access to financial services based on political or ideological preferences. In recent years, prominent banks have engaged in debanking, the discriminatory practice of refusing to lend or provide services to law-abiding, legal industries—such as firearms, ammunition, cryptocurrency, federal prison contractors, and energy producers.

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.