{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/cohen-slams-house-judiciary-committee-s-inaction-protecting-special", "Cohen Slams House Judiciary Committees Inaction on Protecting Special Counsel, Probing Russian Collusion", "2017-11-03", "2017", "2017-11", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON \u2013 At a House Judiciary Committee markup, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) called on the Committee Chairman to schedule a hearing on a bill setting the standards for firing special counsels, including Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is pursuing an investigation of possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia in last year\u2019s election. He said the bill, H.R. 3771, the Special Counsel Integrity Act, and the issue, are clearly within the jurisdiction of the committee. See his committee remarks here.\n\u201cThe president never declared he wasn\u2019t going to fire (FBI Director James) Comey, but he fired Comey \u2026When somebody comes at him like Mr. Comey did and like Mr. Mueller has, there\u2019s a goodly chance he will fire him. But the issue is what standards should there be to determine whether he should be fired. The president is not the king\u2026The president doesn\u2019t have unlimited powers\u2026When a president is being investigated by a special counsel established by law to look into charges that he has basically mutilated our democracy, then we should look into that bill that Mr. (John) Conyers has filed and that should be our first priority\u2026\n\u201cIt\u2019s not the issue of whether or not you believe Trump\u2019s not going to fire him; it\u2019s what the law should be if he changes his mind, and for the next president and the next president,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThe special counsel is a special type of employee, especially when he\u2019s investigating the President of the United States for collusion with Russia, for destroying our democracy and for flaunting his and his campaign associates\u2019 activities with Russia which they have constantly lied about\u2026This committee has been made a mockery and a joke of by not taking up any issues dealing with that. We have a duty to do it.\u201d\nThis week, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard evidence that Russian agents used Facebook and Twitter to sow dissention and raise polarizing hot-button social issues such as immigration, Black Lives Matter, \u201cIslamization\u201d of civil law, and gun rights and reached 126 million Americans, including targeted voters in swing states.\n\u00a0\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/cohen-slams-house-judiciary-committee-s-inaction-protecting-special"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6943970695137978, "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"}