{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-fitzgerald-attends-judiciary-committee-field-hearing-milwaukee", "Rep. Fitzgerald Attends Judiciary Committee Field Hearing in Milwaukee", "2024-10-24", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Scott Fitzgerald", "F000471", "fitzgerald.house.gov", "fitzgerald", "https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05) attended a House Judiciary Committee field hearing in Milwaukee titled: \u201cThe Biden-Harris Border Crisis: Wisconsin Perspectives.\u201d\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 open-border policies have enabled our southern border crisis and have negatively impacted Wisconsin communities. Take Whitewater, for example, where the local police department estimates nearly 800-1,000 foreign nationals have settled since just 2022. These kinds of numbers have a tremendous strain on a community whose population is just 15,000,\u201d said Rep. Fitzgerald. \u201cToday\u2019s Judiciary Committee field hearing in Milwaukee allowed us members, and the public, to cut through the noise and hear directly from local experts about the difficulties this crisis has brought upon our nation\u2019s communities. It was an important conversation, and I appreciate every single witness for sharing their unique testimony.\u201d\n\nTo watch Rep. Scott Fitzgerald's full Q&A at the field hearing click here.\n\nThe committee hearing welcomed the following witnesses to testify:\n\nJacob \u201cJake\u201d J. Curtis, General Counsel and Director of Center for Investigative Oversight, Institute for Reforming Government.\n\nRick Rachwal, Co-Founder and Vice-President of the Board, Love, Logan Foundation.\n\nDale J. Schmidt, Sheriff, Dodge County Sheriff\u2019s Department.\n\nThe Honorable Eric Toney, District Attorney, Fon du Lac County, Wisconsin.\n\nHenri Kinson, Former School Board Member, Whitewater Unified School District, Whitewater, Wisconsin\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "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://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-fitzgerald-attends-judiciary-committee-field-hearing-milwaukee"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6447720117866993, "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"}