{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davidson.house.gov/2022/4/davidson-introduces-fincen-improvements-act", "Davidson Introduces FinCEN Improvements Act", "2022-04-28", "2022", "2022-04", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Warren Davidson", "D000626", "davidson.house.gov", "davidson", "https://davidson.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Today, Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced a bill that would provide adequate accountability to the bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or \u201cFinCEN.\u201d This bill would improve many of the focused institutional monitoring mechanisms that help protect the freedom and privacy of American citizens.\n\nFinCEN now operates as the preeminent collector, analyzer, and purveyor of financial intelligence in the United States. With the passage of the Customer Due Diligence Rule and now the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the FinCEN Director\u2019s regulatory purview has been massively expanded. FinCEN is now responsible for the collection of and safeguarding of the largest financial ownership and transactions database in the United States, if not the world, but its Director is still an at-will employee and not confirmed by the President or the Senate.\n\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s financial intelligence should be the best in the world while also conforming to America\u2019s high expectations of privacy and due process. This bill would strengthen FinCEN and provide adequate accountability.\u201d\n\nThe Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Improvements Act:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:19:30Z"]], "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://davidson.house.gov/2022/4/davidson-introduces-fincen-improvements-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.681848032400012, "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"}