{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://escobar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1082", "Congresswoman Escobar Sends Letter to Internal Revenue Service for Potential Violations of the Internal Revenue Code by America First Legal", "2022-11-02", "2022", "2022-11", "Democrat", "House", "TX", "Veronica Escobar", "E000299", "escobar.house.gov", "escobar", "https://escobar.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Today, Congresswoman Escobar sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P. Rettig referring America Legal First for an investigation into potential violations of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).\n\n\u201cDuring the week of October 22, 2022, residents of El Paso, TX, the community I represent, reached out to my congressional District Office to report receiving unsettling Spanish-language political mailers,\u201d Congresswoman Escobar wrote. \u201cUpon reviewing these mailers, my staff learned that they had been paid for by America First Legal, a national 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization.\u201d\n\nShe continued, \u201cthe mailer features an array of right-wing lies and political talking points, including fearmongering rhetoric about transgender women using public restrooms and the partisan lie that Critical Race Theory (CRT) and \u2018gender ideology\u2019 are taught in elementary schools. The mailer explicitly accuses President Biden and his \u2018progressive allies\u2019 of championing these policies.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis effort by America First Legal appears to be in direct violation the IRC, which governs the operations of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations,\u201d Congresswoman Escobar added.\n\n\u201cI urge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate America First Legal for potential violations of the IRC. And if the IRS discovers violations of the law, that they impose commensurate disciplinary action or refer their case to the appropriate disciplinary body,\u201d she concluded.\n\nThe full text of the letter can be found here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:24:37Z"]], "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://escobar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1082"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.454346813261509, "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"}