{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fulcher.house.gov/2022/05/27/id-e7c1b703-cfd1-4a9a-8265-80ed7a5e078d/", "Fulcher Joins Call for DOJ Input on Education Department\u2019s Borrower Defense Anarchy", "2022-05-27", "2022", "2022-05", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Russ Fulcher", "F000469", "fulcher.house.gov", "fulcher", "https://fulcher.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Contact:\n\nAlexah Rogge\n\n202-225-6611\n\nalexah.rogge@mail.house.gov\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Congressman Russ Fulcher joined Education and Labor Republicans on a letter urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to uphold the rule of law and resist the Department of Education\u2019s effort to abandon due process in their rewrite of the borrower defense to repayment rules.\n\nIn the letter, the Members write: \u201cThe Department, as you put it, must act with independence and integrity and through fairness and impartiality, in both substance and procedure.\u201d\n\nThe Members continue: \u201cThe Department of Education\u2019s recent efforts to revise the rules regarding borrower defense-to-repayment test the Department of Justice\u2019s dedication to these principles in several ways\u2026 These proposed regulations contravene any conceivable norms of due process. As the Acting Solicitor General wrote last year to the Supreme Court, \u2018[t]he fundamental requirement of due process is the opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.\u201d\n\nThe Members continue: \u201cThe Department of Education\u2019s contemplated regulatory changes will put the Department of Justice in the impossible position of defending a regulation that defies \u2018common sense\u2026\u2019 We request that the Department of Justice actively participate in the interagency review process to protect both the American people and the Department of Justice as an institution in American public life.\u201d\n\nThe letter is signed by: Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Agriculture Committee Republican Leader Glenn Thompson (R-PA), Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA), Republican Study Committee Chair Jim Banks (R-IN), Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY), Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID), Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA), Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Republican Leader Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Republican Leader Burgess Owens (R-UT), Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), and Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI).\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:09:24Z"]], "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://fulcher.house.gov/2022/05/27/id-e7c1b703-cfd1-4a9a-8265-80ed7a5e078d/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9810882620513439, "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"}