{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fischbach.house.gov/2021/8/statement-from-rep-fischbach-on-h-r-4", "Statement from Rep. Fischbach on H.R. 4", "2021-08-24", "2021", "2021-08", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Michelle Fischbach", "F000470", "fischbach.house.gov", "fischbach", "https://fischbach.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4. In response, Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cPassed under the guise of \u2018updating\u2019 the Voting Rights Act of 1965, H.R. 4 is an unprecedented power grab that empowers the attorney general to bully states and strips state and local governments of the ability to manage their own elections. The original Voting Rights Act is working as intended: more Americans from minority communities are voting than ever before and voter registration remains high. While President Biden attempts to justify the bill\u2019s unconstitutional and extraordinary measures, state and local elections officials \u2013 who saw record turnout in 2020 \u2013 aren\u2019t buying it. Such an overreaching bill is unnecessary.\n\n\u201cI will continue to push for election safeguards that make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:11:17Z"]], "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://fischbach.house.gov/2021/8/statement-from-rep-fischbach-on-h-r-4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.538755837827921, "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"}