{"id":1834544,"date":"2023-02-03T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834544"},"modified":"2023-02-03T21:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T02:35:43","slug":"democrat-senator-announces-hearing-to-demand-answers-on-chinese-spy-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-senator-announces-hearing-to-demand-answers-on-chinese-spy-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Senator Announces Hearing To Demand Answers On Chinese Spy Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-senator-announces-hearing-to-demand-answers-on-chinese-spy-balloon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A Senate Democrat joins Republican colleagues in calling to investigate the suspected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-we-know-about-the-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-flying-over-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese spy balloon<\/a> The United States is currently in the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tester.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/tester-announces-defense-hearing-on-chinese-spy-balloon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Tester<\/a> (D-MT), chairman of the Senate\u2019s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that he would hold a hearing to get answers to questions about the balloon spotted over his home state Friday. The announcement follows similar outrage from multiple Republican senators from states over the balloon\u2019s current flight path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMontanans value their freedom and privacy and I\u2019ll always fight to defend both,\u201d Friday&#8217;s testimony was made by Tester. \u201cChina\u2019s actions are a clear threat to those values and to America\u2019s national security, and I\u2019m demanding answers from the Biden Administration. I will be pulling people before my committee to get real answers on how this happened, and how we can prevent it from ever happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tester released a statement earlier in the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tester.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/tester-statement-on-chinese-spy-balloon-above-montana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statement<\/a> Blaming the balloon&#8217;s news and calling for answers. \u201cThis provocation is completely unacceptable, and I am in close contact with Department of Defense and Intelligence officials. We are still waiting for real answers on how this happened and what steps the Administration took to protect our country, and I will hold everyone accountable until I get them. I will always defend Montana and our national security from hostile adversaries like China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tester\u2019s demand for answers comes amid a chorus of calls for answers from Republicans. First on Thursday, Tester\u2019s Montana Senate colleague, Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daines.senate.gov\/2023\/02\/02\/daines-demands-briefing-from-biden-administration-regarding-spy-balloon-over-montana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Daines<\/a>I wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking for a briefing about national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that this balloon was occupying Montana airspace creates significant concern that Malmstrom Air Force Base (AFB) and the United States\u2019 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fields are the target of this intelligence gathering mission,\u201d Daines wrote. \u201cGiven the serious nature of the event, I am requesting a full security briefing from the administration on this situation. It is vital to establish the flight path of this balloon, any compromised U.S. national security assets, and all telecom or IT infrastructure on the ground within the U.S. that this spy-balloon was utilizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter was used by other senators to demand answers and, above all, to blow the balloon out of control<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina invaded US airspace, &#038; the Biden admin needs to take action to address this situation. Further delay is unacceptable,\u201d Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryMoran\/status\/1621585835110944768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerry Moran<\/a>\u00a0(R-KS), wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm the Chinese spy ballon [sic] is over NE KS,\u201d Senators <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RogerMarshallMD\/status\/1621572987802599426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Marshall<\/a>\u00a0(R-KS) added. \u201cMy staff is in contact with law enforcement officials. I condemn any attempts the Chinese make to spy on Americans. President Biden must protect the sovereignty of the U.S. whether it\u2019s our airspace or the southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1621550581633454082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1621550581633454082%7Ctwgr%5E8db91d8fa9e33006aa7480b80be03e55b8f1f93f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FHawleyMO2Fstatus2F1621550581633454082widget%3DTweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Hawley<\/a>\u00a0(R-MO), called on the Senate Homeland Security Committee for an investigation. \u201cThe Homeland Security Committee needs to have public hearings NOW on the Chinese spy balloon \u2013 how did Biden let this happen? Major domestic security threat,\u201d He tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley as well as fellow Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1621499867854999552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Schmitt<\/a>\u00a0(R-MO), a request for the balloon to be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1621562707089522689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot down<\/a>. \u201cI know I was just named to the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday but I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say we shouldn\u2019t have a Chinese spy balloon floating over the United States of America. Take it down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Senate Democrat is joining Republican colleagues in calling for an investigation into the suspected Chinese spy balloon currently hovering over the United States. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), chairman of the Senate\u2019s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that he would hold a hearing to get answers to questions about the balloon spotted over his home state &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1834547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4156,6815,17453,4117,4368,4912,3679,4012,6893],"class_list":["post-1834544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-announces","tag-answers","tag-balloon","tag-chinese","tag-demand","tag-democrat","tag-hearing","tag-senator","tag-spy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}