{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-congressman-dan-goldman-brings-prosecutorial-strength-bear-throughout", "ICYMI: Congressman Dan Goldman Brings Prosecutorial Strength to Bear Throughout his First Term in Office", "2024-12-12", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "NY", "Daniel S. Goldman", "G000599", "goldman.house.gov", "goldman", "https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "December 12, 2024\n\nGoldman Solidifies His Role as a Key Voice in Combating Republican Misinformation in the 118th Congress\n\nPlayed Central Role in Exposing Republicans' Degradation of the Constitutional Impeachment Process\n\nWatch the Full Length Video Here\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 In an 118th Congress characterized by legislative impotence, partisan investigations of the Biden Administration, and bogus impeachments, Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10) has cemented himself as a principal player in Democrats\u2019 efforts to push back against Republican misinformation and extremism.\n\nUtilizing his post on the Committees on Homeland Security, Oversight and Accountability, and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization for the Federal Government, Goldman has emerged as a powerful counterweight to an obstinate Republican house majority hell-bent on blocking the Biden Administration at every turn.\n\nLink: Goldman Slams Jim Jordan for Willfully Ignoring Trump\u2019s Promises to Weaponize Federal Government Against Political Rivals\n\nFebruary 6, 2024\n\n\u201cWhen we start talking about other things that are the real weaponization of the federal government, such as Donald Trump\u2019s statements that he will just indict his political enemies, or that he would use the Insurrection Act to deploy the military against civil protestors, or even that he argued his lawyers, one of whom has appeared twice here, one of our favorite witnesses, John Sour, actually said that if Donald Trump ordered Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival it could not be a crime, unless he was impeached.\n\n\u201cSomehow, that is a predicate. The fact of the matter is the threat of weaponization is from Donald Trump and the Republicans, and we ought to move on from this charade.\u201d\n\nLink: Goldman Rebukes Chairman Comer for Using Indicted Foreign Agents as Key Impeachment Witnesses and Parroting CCP and Russian Propaganda\n\nSeptember 24, 2024\n\n\u201cWhat we really need to be focusing on, as it relates to CCP\u2019s warfare, is defending this committee from that political warfare. Remember, we have two witnesses who were the star witnesses of the impeachment investigation. The first, Gal Luft, turned out to be an indicted, unregistered foreign agent of the Chinese government.\n\n\u201cAmong the allegations in Gal Luft\u2019s indictment was that he \u2013 at the behest of Chinese entities \u2013 recruited and paid an unnamed advisor to then President-elect Donald Trump to adopt pro-Chinese positions. And even though he also was charged with making false statements to the FBI, Chairman Comer bragged and said \u2018Gal Luft is a very credible witness on Biden family corruption.\u2019\n\n\u201cThat wasn\u2019t all the political warfare that we experienced during this impeachment investigation. Alexander Smirnov is a Russian indicted as a source for the FBI, who literally met with Russian officials to peddle lies to the FBI. You know what those lies were? They were the same allegations that the Chairman made against Joe Biden and this committee \u2013 Russian propaganda.\u201d\n\nLink: Goldman Condemns Republican Party for Willfully Embracing Vladimir Putin and the CCP\n\nApril 17, 2024\n\n\u201cRepublican Chairmen of our National Security committees in the House have stated that Russian disinformation has infiltrated the Republican Party and is parroted on the House floor as more than half the Republican party has taken the side of Vladimir Putin against our democratic ally in Ukraine.\n\n\u201cNow, Professor Schneider has done a masterful job explaining how the CCP\u2019s efforts to engage in political warfare is based on Russia\u2019s previous efforts to do so. And in fact, China\u2019s primary means of doing so is to amplify Russian disinformation and political warfare. Here, we have two spies. One Chinese spy on the top, Gal Luft, and one alleged Russian spy on the bottom, Alexander Smirnov.\n\n\u201cAlexander Smirnov is the one who planted the false information about the bribery that both Chairmen have said is the best evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. Gal Luft is the Chinese spy who the Chairman has said was a very credible witness. So, you cannot discuss the CCP efforts to engage in political warfare without discussing Russia\u2019s. But not surprisingly, the party of Putin in the majority wants to do just that.\u201d\n\nLink: Goldman Lights Up Republican Committee Members for Impeaching Sec. Mayorkas While Preventing Him from Fixing the Problems at the Southern Border\n\nJanuary 10, 2024\n\n\u201cSo, this is what we have, we have Republicans suing Secretary Mayorkas to stop him from implementing his policies to address the issues at the border.\n\n\u201cAnd now, \u2018we\u2019re going to impeach him\u2019, because you say he\u2019s not addressing issues at the border! Which do you want?\u201d\n\nLink: Goldman Reveals the Partisan Motivations Behind Republicans\u2019 Baseless Impeachment Investigation of President Biden\n\nSeptember 24, 2024\n\n\u201cThe third installment of the \u2018Defending America from the CCP\u2019s Political Warfare.\u2019 After the chairman\u2019s impeachment investigation revealed zero connections between President Biden and Chinese businesses he nonetheless, shockingly views the nakedly partisan political sham impeachment as a success.\n\n\u201cWhy? Because President Biden dropped out of the presidential race. Now that is a blatant admission that this committee was used improperly for partisan purposes.\u201d\n\nLink: Goldman Ridicules GOP Oversight Committee\u2019s Baseless Impeachment Investigation into President Biden\n\nJanuary 10, 2024\n\n\u201cThis is what you call an impeachment investigation into the President of the United States, based on compete fiction and smoke and mirrors.\n\n\"There isn\u2019t a piece of evidence that links anything that Hunter Biden did to Joe Biden, and this is a complete sham.\u201d\n\nLink: Goldman Bashes House Republicans for Abusing Impeachment Power Against Sec. Mayorkas While Blocking Immigration Reform\n\nJanuary 29, 2024\n\n\u201cI have some familiarity with impeachment, and I can tell you this impeachment is an absolute abomination.\n\n\"If the impeachment clause could talk, it would beg for the Republicans to stop shaming its name.\u201d\n\nLink: Goldman Torches Republicans for Their Wasteful and Fabricated Impeachment Investigation of President Biden\n\nJuly 25, 2024\n\n\u201cMy colleagues on the other side of the aisle have spent most of this Congress wasting our time and taxpayer money on a bogus sham impeachment investigation of President Biden that yielded no evidence of wrongdoing, much less any high crime or misdemeanor.\n\n\"It was obvious that that phony effort was solely designed to provide election fodder for Trump in advance of November\u2019s election.\u201d\n\nThroughout the GOP\u2019s baseless impeachment investigations of President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Goldman utilized his experience as a career federal prosecutor and the lead counsel during Donald Trump\u2019s first impeachment to rebut Republicans\u2019 baseless claims and defend the incumbent administration.\n\nGoldman\u2019s prosecutorial experience will be an irreplaceable asset as Democrats face down yet another Trump presidency that will push our institutions to the breaking point and shatter long-held political norms. Goldman\u2019s fierce prosecutorial style and on-camera gravity will be a key asset as Democrats seek to sway public opinion in a historically narrow Republican majority that may be the weakest link in the GOP\u2019s ability to enact Donald Trump\u2019s extremist policies.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "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://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-congressman-dan-goldman-brings-prosecutorial-strength-bear-throughout"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.5420840829610825, "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"}