{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-calls-allowing-ukrainian-use-nato-supplied-weapons", "Congressman Cohen Calls for Allowing Ukrainian Use of NATO-Supplied Weapons in Russia", "2024-09-24", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", "cohen", "https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the House Ranking Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today called for allowing NATO-supplied weapons to be used by Ukraine within Russia during a commission hearing on \u201cRussia\u2019s Shadow War on NATO.\u201d\n\nIn his opening remarks, Congressman Cohen said that, now more than ever, Vladimir Putin \u201cwants to weaken and destabilize the West,\u201d including through the use of disinformation campaigns aimed at interfering in our elections to help Donald Trump.\n\nCongressman Cohen also noted that Ukraine is asking to use offensive weapons inside Russia, adding: \u201cand I support their request.\u201d\n\nHe continued: \u201cI think they need to go forward with offensive weapons and strike into Russia and bring the war home to the Russian people. This is ludicrous \u2013 to allow Russia to attack and kill Ukrainians, destroy cultural objects, destroy cities with reckless disregard for life. Hit schools, hit hospitals and senior facilities \u2013 and Ukraine is not supposed to go into Russia? That\u2019s crazy. I mean both your arms are tied behind your back and tied behind it, unfortunately, by my government, our government, which is supporting Ukraine -- and we\u2019ve done a lot -- but we\u2019ve been slow in doing it\u2026This war would have been much closer to ending \u2013 on Ukraine\u2019s terms, but ending \u2013 if we\u2019d have given them those weapons earlier.\u201d\n\nSee his entire opening statement here.\n\nSee his questions to the witnesses here.\n\nWitnesses at today\u2019s hearing were:\n\nMr. Erkki Tori, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Estonia;\n\nDr. Benjamin L. Schmitt, Senior Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, University of Pennsylvania; and\n\nMr. Michael Weiss, Investigative Journalist and Author", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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/congressman-cohen-calls-allowing-ukrainian-use-nato-supplied-weapons"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0804669000208378, "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"}