{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-demands-answers-over-invasive-surveillance-program", "Congressman Biggs Demands Answers Over Invasive Surveillance Program", "2023-11-21", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Andy Biggs", "B001302", "biggs.house.gov", "biggs", "https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) sent a letter to Dr. Rahul Gupta, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) at the White House, in response to a letter obtained from Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) to Attorney General Merrick Garland, detailing an invasive surveillance program titled the Hemisphere Project. This program, funded by ONDCP, provides government agents warrantless access to trillions of Americans' domestic communications records dating back decades, including callers\u2019 Fourth Amendment-protected location information. As Congress considers renewal of Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ACT (FISA)\u2014a similar type of spying tool which the federal government also continues to abuse\u2014Congressman Biggs argues that the federal government\u2019s surveillance laws require significant reform.\n\n\u201cThe federal government doesn\u2019t care about your privacy and it\u2019s long past time we end these abuses and hold rogue actors accountable,\u201d said Congressman Biggs.\n\n\u201cJust like with FISA 702, invasive federal agents have exploited the Hemisphere Project to assert control over innocent American citizens. This is occurring with ease due to massive loopholes in federal law.\n\n\u201cI call on my colleagues to enact the civil liberties protections outlined in the bipartisan, bicameral Government Surveillance Reform Act.\n\n\u201cI look forward to hearing Dr. Gupta\u2019s responses to the egregious abuses found in the Hemisphere Project.\u201d\n\nThe full letter may be read here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "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://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-demands-answers-over-invasive-surveillance-program"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.506132073700428, "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"}