{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://arrington.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=898", "Arrington: \u201cDemocrats\u2019 Decision to Weaponize Tax Code Against Political Opponents Will Unleash Arsenal of Political Abuses\u201d", "2022-12-20", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Jodey C. Arrington", "A000375", "arrington.house.gov", "arrington", "https://arrington.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Representative Jodey Arrington (TX-19) issued the statement below following a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Democrats\u2019 intention in releasing former President Donald Trump\u2019s tax returns:\n\n\u201cIt was clear from today\u2019s hearing that this was about political vengeance, not real process reform. There is absolutely no legitimate or defensible reason to release President Trump\u2019s private tax returns. Any credible effort to evaluate the Presidential Audit Program, which was the Democrats\u2019 pretext for this exercise, would have included information from other presidents, hearings and debate, and safeguards for private citizens\u2019 information. The Democrats\u2019 unprecedented decision to weaponize the tax code against political opponents will unleash an arsenal of political abuses \u2013 not only on politicians, but every taxpaying American citizen.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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://arrington.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=898"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7603238336741924, "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"}