{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=8B76ECF7-29EF-402C-B2CE-11B8ED8F2F79", "Barr Honored for A+ Rating from NumbersUSA for Strong Border Security Record", "2025-12-12", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Andy Barr", "B001282", "barr.house.gov", "barr", "https://barr.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014This week, NumbersUSA honored U.S. Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) with an A+ Rating. Barr is one of 23 House Members who received NumbersUSA\u2019s highest grade for championing stronger border security legislation. NumbersUSA is the premier education and research organization that stands for sensible, limited and enforced immigration in the United States.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve stood shoulder-to-shoulder with President Trump in working to secure our border,\u201d said Congressman Barr. \u201cFrom delivering funding for the wall, to leading the defense of Trump\u2019s authority to build the wall in federal court, to backing the largest investment in DHS ever passed, I\u2019ve been there every step of the fight for border security with President Trump. I\u2019ll continue working with President Trump, Secretary Noem, and Tom Homan to lock down the border once and for all.\u201d\n\n\u201cAndy Barr has earned a 100% A+ rating on NumbersUSA\u2019s congressional grade card,\u201d said Mike Hough, co-President of NumbersUSA. \u201cThat rating reflects Rep. Barr\u2019s leadership in Congress on border security and enforcing our nation\u2019s immigration laws. He is advancing our top priorities: ending birthright citizenship loopholes, cracking down on illegal immigrants obtaining commercial driver\u2019s licenses, and preventing abuse of the asylum system. We are grateful to have strong leaders like Andy Barr working to pass tougher immigration laws in Congress.\u201d\n\nDuring this first session of the 119th Congress, Congressman Barr voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which allocated $170B to secure the border. He also introduced a constitutional amendment to prohibit the children of illegal immigrants from obtaining birthright citizenship. Recently, Barr and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced a bill to crack down on liberal states giving illegal immigrants commercial driver\u2019s licenses that have led to the deaths of Americans in recent months.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=8B76ECF7-29EF-402C-B2CE-11B8ED8F2F79"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3285318855196238, "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"}