Abe Hamadeh introduced his first bill in Congress this week (Getty)
The legislation would call on the Chief Administrative Officer of the House to immediately cease the distribution of CCP state-run media material and restrict the spread of the materials on House email while still allowing members to maintain private access if they wish.
Hamadeh told Fox News Digital that the "reason why the Chinese are doing it is because they know that they can influence members of Congress, they can influence their staff."
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Arizona Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh with Kayla Mueller's parents on Jan. 3, 2025. (Kayla Mueller Family)
"I want to get a vote on the record to see what other members of Congress, how they feel about a foreign publication like the China Daily being passed to their offices," Hamadeh told Fox News Digital. "Nobody is saying that they don't have to read the China Daily if they want to read it on their own privately, if they want to pay for a subscription, that's fine. But to have it passed around through taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and to have them pass it around using our resources is unacceptable."
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Hamadeh told Fox News Digital he hopes to have bipartisan support for his bill to rid Congress of "foreign propaganda."
"Remember what Joe Biden was so focused on, he got rid of the New York Post at the White House, one of the oldest newspapers in existence in the United States," Hamadeh said. "He got rid of The New York Post. And yet here we are allowing the China Daily to freely operate in the halls of Congress. It's unacceptable."
"We understand that communist China is a threat. I understand it very well in Arizona. My district has all the Taiwanese companies moving into the district away from the sphere of China's influence for a reason. So, you know, this is a start. There is obviously legislation out there that people are doing at a state level and even at the federal level. Some of them are trying to ban the ability for the communist Chinese to buy our farmlands and to buy land near our key assets like military bases. This is common sense, and that's why I'm introducing it, because it should be an easy it should be an easy resolution to pass."
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