{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggs-formally-invites-white-house-press-secretary-border-tour", "Congressman Biggs Formally Invites White House Press Secretary to Border Tour", "2022-09-01", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Andy Biggs", "B001302", "biggs.house.gov", "biggs", "https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Congressman Andy Biggs sent a letter to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to formally invite her to tour the Arizona-Mexico border with him\u2014making him the first member serving in Congress to do so\u2014in response to her comments made during a White House press briefing on August 29, 2022.\n\n\u201cWhite House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre\u2019s continued dismissal of the nation\u2019s border crisis is outrageous,\u201d said Congressman Andy Biggs. \u201cAs the chief spokesperson of the President of the United States, she is either deliberately lying to the American public or is utterly unaware of this catastrophe that stretches across the nation\u2019s 2,000-mile border with Mexico.\n\n\u201cAs a representative of a border state and as the Congressional Border Security Caucus co-chair, I encourage Press Secretary Jean-Pierre to join me for a border tour along the Arizona-Mexico border.\n\n\u201cFailure to accept this invitation suggests that she and the Biden White House are not interested in correcting their self-inflicted border crisis and will allow it to worsen.\u201d\n\nThe letter may be read here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "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-formally-invites-white-house-press-secretary-border-tour"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6961680483072996, "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"}