{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://allen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4733", "Rep. Allen and Rep. Buck Reintroduce Bill to Defund 1619 Project Curriculum", "2021-06-14", "2021", "2021-06", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Rick W. Allen", "A000372", "allen.house.gov", "allen", "https://allen.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) reintroduced the Saving American History Act, legislation that would ban federal funds from being used to teach the 1619 Project in K-12 schools or school districts. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)reintroduced companion legislation in the Senate.\n\n\u201cThe 1619 Project aims to indoctrinate our students into believing that America is an evil country, and there is no room for that in our classrooms,\u201d said Rep. Allen. \u201cWe must teach our young folks to learn from our nation\u2019s past in order to form a more perfect union. Teaching revisionist history and promoting divisive ideology will not move our nation forward. This legislation will ensure federal dollars are used to provide our children with historically accurate curriculum.\u201d\n\n\u201cCritical Race Theory is dangerous, anti-American, and has no place in our nation\u2019s schools,\u201d said Rep. Buck. \u201cSchool curriculum plays a critical role in a child\u2019s development and greatly influences the type of adult they will become. Children shouldn\u2019t be taught that they will be treated differently or will be racist because of their skin color.\u201d\n\n\u201cActivists in schools want to teach our kids to hate America and hate each other using discredited, Critical Race Theory curricula like the 1619 Project. Federal funds should not pay for activists to masquerade as teachers and indoctrinate our youth,\u201d said Sen. Cotton.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Biden Administration proposed a rule to promote education programs that teach revisionist history, including the 1619 Project, despite multiple prominent historians pointing out numerous factual inaccuracies in the curriculum.\n\nThis legislation was first introduced during the 116th Congress and would not impact federal funds to assist low-income or special-needs students.\n\nThe 1619 Project is a revisionist history project of the New York Times widely criticized by historians.\n\nDespite major criticism of the project, schools around the country have begun incorporating the 1619 Project into their curricula. So far, schools or school districts in Chicago; Newark, N.J.; Buffalo, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. have all reportedly announced 1619 Project-related programs.\n\nH.R. 3810 bill text is linked here.\n\nOriginal co-sponsors include: Reps. Thomas Tiffany (Wis.), Jeff Duncan (S.C.), Mo Brooks (Ala.), Bob Good (Va.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Debbie Lesko (Ariz.), Chip Roy (Texas), Scott Perry (Pa.), Ted Budd (N.C.), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Tom Rice (S.C.), and Greg Steube (Fla.).", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:57:00Z"]], "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://allen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4733"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.063226955011487, "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"}