{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/one-year-later-rep-courtney-sits-down-ct-hostage-family", "One Year Later: Rep. Courtney Sits Down with CT Hostage Family", "2024-10-07", "2024", "2024-10", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "Joe Courtney", "C001069", "courtney.house.gov", "courtney", "https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "NORWICH, CT \u2013 Rep. Joe Courtney sat down with the family of a freed Israeli-American hostage with ties to Connecticut to mark the first anniversary since Hamas\u2019 brutal terrorist attack.\n\n\u201cMy cousin Yehuda called me and said my \u2018daughter has been taken to Gaza [by Hamas].\u2019 He called me Sunday, October 8 and I immediately called Joe Courtney,\u201d Jerry Fischer of Waterford, Connecticut said. \u201cHe got the wheels rolling.\u201d\n\n\u201cMy office was able to connect him to the State Department on that Sunday and by the end of the day Liat was registered in their system [as a missing person] and that gave the family something to hold on to in terms of making sure someone was tracking her whereabouts,\u201d Courtney said. \u201cBy the end of November, because there was a ceasefire negotiated, she was part of the last group that was released. Diplomacy in that instance succeeded.\u201d\n\nIn July, Rep. Courtney met with Liat Beinin Atzili, her father, Yehuda Beinin, and Jerry Fischer in Washington, DC.\n\nWatch on Fox 61\n\nWatch on Channel 3\n\nWatch on NBC CT's Face the Facts\n\nWatch on News 8\n\nCourtney also invited Fischer as his guest for the 2024 State of the Union to bring attention to the urgent need for a ceasefire to bring all hostages home safely.\n\nTo read Rep. Courtney\u2019s statement on the release of Liat Beinin Atzili, click 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://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/one-year-later-rep-courtney-sits-down-ct-hostage-family"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1416850611567497, "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"}