{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://algreen.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-al-green-sends-letter-house-and-senate-leadership-requesting-joint", "Congressman Al Green Sends a Letter to House and Senate Leadership Requesting a Joint Hearing to Investigate Reports of What May Be Extrajudicial Killings (Lynchings) of Black Americans Found Hanging from Nooses in the United States", "2026-09-09", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "TX", "Al Green", "G000553", "algreen.house.gov", "algreen", "https://algreen.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "(Houston, TX)\u2014On Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Congressman Al Green sent a letter to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer requesting a joint hearing to investigate reports of what may be extrajudicial killings (lynchings) of Black Americans found hanging from nooses in the United States. The letter follows Congressman Green\u2019s September 6, 2026, ICYMI highlighting a Washington Informer article titled, \u201cFound Hanging: Black Deaths, Unanswered Questions and an American Terror That Refuses to Stay in the Past.\u201d\n\nA copy of the letter can be accessed by clicking here.", 1, "2026-09-10T09:25:58Z", "2026-09-10T09:27:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://algreen.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-al-green-sends-letter-house-and-senate-leadership-requesting-joint"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9471939411014318, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}