WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Ted Budd issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Ted Budd (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, led his colleagues, Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) in introducing the Securing Infrastructure from Adversaries Act today. This bipartisan legislation would prohibit the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) from purchasing or deploying light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technologies from malign foreign actors, including China, that could be used for military or industrial espionage.
"U.S. military installations and homeland security operations have already been targeted by Chinese espionage. By failing to...