{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bergman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1289", "Bergman: Michiganders Deserve Answers on Biden Admin's Voting Scheme in Michigan", "2024-07-10", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "House", "MI", "Jack Bergman", "B001301", "bergman.house.gov", "bergman", "https://bergman.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Representative Jack Bergman joined with Representative Roger Williams, Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, and the entire Michigan Republican delegation in sending a letter to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in response to the apparent and blatant weaponization of taxpayer resources to aid and abet President Biden\u2019s re-election campaign in the state of Michigan. The Members asserted, \u201cIt appears the Biden Administration and your office have diverted funding away from supporting small businesses and used it for election purposes. This is unacceptable.\u201d\n\nBiden\u2019s Small Business Administration (SBA) appears to be \u2013 perhaps coincidentally \u2013 engaging in electioneering with Democrat accomplices. The House Committee on Small Business conducted a recent investigation which found that 39 out of the 52 SBA outreach events scheduled in Michigan for January \u2013 November of this year are in counties with the highest populations of demographics targeted by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). And as the letter detailed, \u201c100 percent of the visits to Michigan from the SBA Administrator and Deputy Administrator have taken place in counties with the highest populations of DNC target demographics.\u201d\n\n\u201cMichiganders \u2013 and all Americans \u2013 deserve truth and transparency, which are two things severely lacking in the Biden Administration. My colleagues and I were greatly disturbed by revelations of a Democrat attempt to undercut the will of the people, using taxpayer dollars for Democrat electioneering. We won\u2019t stand for it. Unelected bureaucrats might not be accountable at the ballot box, but we will hold them accountable in Congress,\u201d Rep. Bergman stated.\n\nA recent video also showed a special advisor to SBA Administrator Guzman\u2019s Chief of Staff on camera saying, \u201canytime we go, we try to visit with a member of Congress if they\u2019re a Democrat \u2026 because then we can help them get re-elected as well \u2026 the White House was like, yes, go. \u2026 Don\u2019t invite the other senator because he\u2019s a Republican. And don\u2019t invite the two members of Congress because they\u2019re Republicans.\u201d The advisor continued to claim that Administrator Guzman\u2019s official travel is purposefully targeted to \u201cindirectly campaign for Joe Biden.\u201d\n\nThe Members\u2019 letter demands that relevant documents be turned over and answers be given from the Michigan Secretary of State.\n\nRead the full letter here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "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://bergman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1289"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4413478784263134, "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"}