{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-endorses-oversight-committee-conclusion-trump", "Congressman Cohen Endorses Oversight Committee Conclusion that Trump Violated Constitutional Prohibitions with Hotel Payments", "2024-10-18", "2024", "2024-10", "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), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee who led early efforts to find President Trump in violation of the Constitution\u2019s emoluments clauses when Trump was in office, today welcomed the House Oversight Committee\u2019s conclusion that Trump accepted \u201cethically suspect payments\u201d through his lease of the Trump International Hotel.\n\nAs early as November 2017, Congressman Cohen cited violations of the Constitution\u2019s emoluments clauses in his H.Res. 621 Articles of Impeachment against Trump. In April 2019, Congressman Cohen led a letter with 40 House members asking Appropriations Committee members to include language prohibiting the use of federal funds at businesses owned by President Trump. In January 2020, Congressman Cohen questioned General Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy at a hearing on the GSA lease of the \u201cTrump Old Post Office Hotel,\u201d then known as the Trump International Hotel, and questioned other witnesses at a follow-up hearing.\n\nLegislatively, starting in 2017 and continuing throughout Donald Trump\u2019s term, Congressman Cohen offered amendments to appropriations bills, expressly blocking federal funds from being used to support Trump Organization properties.\n\nCongressman Cohen made the following statement:\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s House Oversight Committee report confirms what we all knew about the grifter-in-chief and his corrupt misuse of office. Trump\u2019s undisguised, brazen and unethical behavior was on display through all four years of his presidency, and was so overt I sought Articles of Impeachment against him soon after he took office. People need to know the character of the man who seeks to return to the Oval Office. The Oversight Committee report is a damning indictment of a corrupt and unqualified fraud.\u201d\n\nSee Congressman Cohen\u2019s 2019 questioning of hearing witnesses about Trump\u2019s lease of the Old U.S. Post Office Building here and here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "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-endorses-oversight-committee-conclusion-trump"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1134279668331146, "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"}