{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fulcher.house.gov/2024/09/18/id-de2bee63-0597-423a-89fd-eea8e97f5ced/", "Fulcher: Today I Voted to Safeguard the Integrity of Our Elections", "2024-09-18", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Russ Fulcher", "F000469", "fulcher.house.gov", "fulcher", "https://fulcher.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, September 18\n\nCONTACT: Christiann\u00e9 Allen, Christianne.Allen@mail.house.gov\n\nCONTACT: Marisa Melton, marisa.melton@mail.house.gov\n\nFulcher: Today I Voted to Safeguard the Integrity of Our Elections\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher issued the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 9494, legislation to fund the federal government through March 2025 with the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) attached.\n\n\u201cToday, I voted to safeguard the integrity of our elections and prevent a massive end-of-year spending spree\u2014something Democrats would rather shut down the government over than support\u2014as America goes through a guaranteed White House transition this November.\n\n\u201cThe House has taken strides to go through the appropriations process in regular budget order, passing all twelve spending bills out of committee and five out of the Chamber. This progress has been stonewalled by a Democrat-controlled Senate whose leadership has failed to get a single appropriations bill cleared.\n\n\u201cThis legislation lays the foundation for the next administration to rein in out-of-control bureaucratic spending while also protecting the integrity of our elections by ensuring only American citizens vote in U.S. elections.\u201d\n\nBill Background:\n\nThe Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) will:\n\nRequire an individual to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections; and;\n\nProvide states with access to existing federal databases so they can clean up their voter registration rolls and remove noncitizens from the rolls.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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/2024/09/18/id-de2bee63-0597-423a-89fd-eea8e97f5ced/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.772485975176096, "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"}