{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fleischmann.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-east-tennessee-respond-president-obamas-remarks-immigration", "Representatives From East Tennessee Respond To President Obama\u2019s Remarks on Immigration", "2014-12-09", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "TN", "Charles J. \"Chuck\" Fleischmann", "F000459", "fleischmann.house.gov", "fleischmann", "https://fleischmann.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2212 Today, President Obama visited Nashville, Tennessee to speak about his plans for immigration reform. After the President\u2019s remarks, Reps. Fleischmann, Duncan and Roe released the following statements.\n\n\u201cUnfortunately, the President used today\u2019s trip to try and sell Tennesseans on his unlawful executive orders - orders even he once said would violate our laws,\u201d Rep. Fleischmann said. \u201cWe owe it to the American people to secure our borders, and those waiting to legally enter the country, to enforce the current immigration laws before we make any radical changes. While the President claimed, after the election, that he heard the American people, it\u2019s clear he has not. This is just another example of the President failing to lead, and instead, taking his own path and ignoring the will of the people.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe President continues to ignore or gloss over the fact that we already have very detailed immigration laws on the books, and no President has the right or the power to pick and choose which ones to enforce,\u201d stated Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. \u201cThis latest executive order will encourage many millions more to come here, illegally if necessary, as President Obama himself said in 2010. The American people are the kindest, most generous people in the world. We have allowed many millions to immigrate here legally over the last 25 or 30 years, far more than any other nation. But our entire infrastructure\u2014our schools, hospitals, jails, roads, sewers, etc.\u2014just could not handle the mega-millions who would come here in the next few years if we simply opened our borders. We must have a legal, orderly immigration system, and it must be enforced.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T22:44:12Z"]], "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://fleischmann.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-east-tennessee-respond-president-obamas-remarks-immigration"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.3937011137604713, "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"}