{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-barry-moore-january-6-select-committee-findings-pre-ordained-sham-outfit", "Rep. Barry Moore: January 6 Select Committee findings 'pre-ordained' by 'sham outfit'", "2022-12-19", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Barry Moore", "M001212", "barrymoore.house.gov", "barrymoore", "https://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) released the following statement after the January 6 Select Committee announced referrals for criminal prosecutions to the Department of Justice for President Trump and his attorney as well as referrals to the House Ethics Committee for Reps. Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Scott Perry, and Kevin McCarthy, all of which are Republicans.\n\n\u201cNancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney could have saved two years of Congress\u2019s time and millions of taxpayer dollars by announcing today\u2019s pre-ordained decision when they initially created this sham outfit,\u201d said Moore. \u201cFrom its inception, the Democrat and never-Trumper members were clear that the purpose of this so-called \u2018select committee\u2019 \u2013 named because Speaker Pelosi had sole discretion on its members \u2013 was attacking President Trump. Referring Republicans to the Ethics Committee \u2013 including Jim Jordan, who will be the tip of the spear exercising Congressional oversight as Judiciary Chairman \u2013 is a transparent attempt to delegitimize constitutional efforts to hold President Biden accountable.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that today\u2019s news comes as Democrats try to distract Americans from a massive $1.7 trillion lame duck spending bill and a border crisis so incendiary that El Paso\u2019s Democrat mayor announced a state of emergency over the weekend. Time and again, Democrats have allowed Trump Derangement Syndrome to take precedence over the disasters facing Americans, including inflation, crime, and the border crisis.\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://barrymoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-barry-moore-january-6-select-committee-findings-pre-ordained-sham-outfit"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7728580385446548, "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"}