{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-statement-president-obama-actions-diminishing-second-amendment", "Emmer Statement on President Obama Actions Diminishing Second Amendment Rights", "2016-01-05", "2016", "2016-01", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Tom Emmer", "E000294", "emmer.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.  Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) released the below statement following President Obamas announcement of executive actions on gun control:\nToday, the President failed to adequately address our countrys glaring mental health problem and prevent acts of terror in our homeland. Instead, the Presidents unilateral actions today diminish the rights of law-abiding Americans, all while circumventing the legislative process.\nIn the U.S. Constitution - which the President simply refers to as paper  our Founding Fathers made it clear that the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Yet today, President Obama showed a blatant disregard for this constitutional right.\nWhile laying out his radical gun control ideology, the President himself admitted these steps would not have prevented any of the recent mass shootings.\nI am a strong and absolute supporter of our nations Second Amendment  and always will be.\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-statement-president-obama-actions-diminishing-second-amendment"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9254079777747393, "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"}