{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://dean.house.gov/2024/12/dean-casten-and-mcbath-urge-increased-funding-for-atf-in-fy2025-budget", "Dean, Casten, and McBath Urge Increased Funding for ATF in FY2025 Budget", "2024-12-06", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Madeleine Dean", "D000631", "dean.house.gov", "dean", "https://dean.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Representatives Madeleine Dean (PA-04, Sean Casten (IL-06), and Lucy McBath (GA-07) led 55 colleagues in a letter urging Congressional Appropriations Committee Leadership to increase funding for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) within the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the FY2025 government funding package.\n\n\u201cAs you work to finalize the FY25 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) Appropriations package, we respectfully request that you include an increase of funding to $2 billion, or to the greatest amount executable, for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) within the Department of Justice (DOJ),\u201d the lawmakers wrote. \u201cSuch an increase would support the Agency\u2019s critical work in preventing and responding to gun crime and ensuring the safe manufacture, importation, and sale of firearms.\u201d\n\nATF is the principal federal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over firearms. ATF plays an essential role in safeguarding communities from gun violence, but it has limited resources to carry out its mission and is in dire need of additional funding.\n\n\u201cThe ATF\u2019s work is critical to protecting Americans from the scourge of gun violence and the influx of unsafe guns into our communities,\u201d the lawmakers continued.\n\nThe letter was also signed by U.S. Reps. Thompson, Garcia, Johnson, Barragan, Cherfilus-McCormick, Holmes Norton, Amo, Goldman, Robin Kelly, Moulton, Lynch, Mullin, Brown, Porter, Frederica Wilson, Swalwell, Lieu, Dingell, Gottheimer, Sherrill, Bonamici, Raskin, Pettersen, Spanberger, Gwen Moore, Salinas, Nikema Williams, McClellan, Auchincloss, Torres, DeGette, Schakowsky, Crockett, Beyer, Danny Davis, Ivey, Vargas, Stevens, Sherman, McGarvey, Brownley, Chu, Horsford, Jacobs, Napolitano, Kildee, Tokuda, Ross, Scanlon, McGovern, Evans, Tonko, Magaziner, Deluzio, and Kennedy.\n\nBrady and GIFFORDS endorsed the lawmakers' letter.\n\nThe letter can be read here.\n\nRep. Madeleine Dean is a mother, grandmother, attorney, professor, former four-term member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and U.S. Representative for the Fourth District of Pennsylvania.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "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://dean.house.gov/2024/12/dean-casten-and-mcbath-urge-increased-funding-for-atf-in-fy2025-budget"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.816985895857215, "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"}