{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=415159", "Thurs., December 11: Rep. Chris Smith to chair Foreign Affairs hearing\u201cStopping the Bloodshed: U.S. Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Sudan\u201d", "2025-12-08", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "NJ", "Christopher H. Smith", "S000522", "chrissmith.house.gov", "chrissmith", "https://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "On Thursday, December 11th, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee, will chair his seventeenth congressional hearing on the civil conflicts in Sudan and the resulting human rights abuses against civilians in the country.\n\n\u201cSince 2023, as many as 18,000 civilian deaths have been committed in Sudan\u2014with estimates as high as 150,000\u2014and more than 10 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the Sudanese Civil War,\u201d said Smith. \u201cThe catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Sudan\u2014which includes the systemic killings, rapes, abductions, detentions, and child soldier recruitments of innocent civilians\u2014demands our attention.\u201d\n\nWHAT: Congressional hearing on the status of the Sudanese Civil War, the widespread atrocity crimes and human rights abuses perpetrated by the Sudanese government against civilians, and the corresponding humanitarian crisis in Sudan.\n\nWHEN: Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM\n\nWITNESSES: (Partial list)\n\nPANEL 1:\n\noThe Honorable Vincent D. Spera, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State\n\nPANEL 2:\n\noMr. Ken Isaacs, Vice President, Programs and Government Relations, Samaritan\u2019s Purse\n\noMr. Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council (FRC), Vice Chair of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom\n\noThe Honorable Samuel Dale Brownback, Former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom\n\noMs. Nicole Widdersheim, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights Watch\n\nWHERE: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building\n\nWHO: Chairman Chris Smith, other members of the HFAC Africa Subcommittee, and witnesses\n\n###", 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://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=415159"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8615222759544849, "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"}