{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-questions-fbi-director-kash-patel", "Congressman Cohen Questions FBI Director Kash Patel", "2025-09-17", "2025", "2025-09", "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), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned FBI Director Kash Patel at an oversight hearing. The Congressman commended the FBI for working with local police, encouraged additional collaboration, but questioned whether the National Guard that President Trump has ordered to Memphis will be helpful. In response to one question, Patel said \u201cI love Memphis,\u201d and mentioned Beale Street.\n\nCongressman Cohen also asked about the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and whether they have been questioned by the agency.\n\nIn his exchange with Patel, Congressman Cohen said in part:\n\n\u201cWe have a crime problem in Memphis\u2026 the FBI has helped\u2026I don\u2019t think the National Guard is going to help\u2026It\u2019s not a \u2018troubled\u2019 city. It\u2019s got some crime but it\u2019s not a \u2018troubled\u2019 city. We love our city and hope the National Guard doesn\u2019t come in and cause people to have questions about Memphis.\u201d\n\nOn the Epstein case, Congressman Cohen said, \u201cIf there\u2019s no statute of limitations (on sex crimes), should you not be interviewing those people who know who raped them?...It seems like that would be a treasure trove of information\u2026\u201d\n\nPatel responded: \u201cSir, I couldn\u2019t agree with you more.\u201d\n\nSee the entire exchange here.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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-questions-fbi-director-kash-patel"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9085899218916893, "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"}