{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/statement-congressman-dan-goldman-sham-republican-impeachment-inquiry", "Statement from Congressman Dan Goldman on Sham Republican \u2018Impeachment Inquiry\u2019", "2023-12-07", "2023", "2023-12", "Democrat", "House", "NY", "Daniel S. Goldman", "G000599", "goldman.house.gov", "goldman", "https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201cFor the past 12 months, extremist MAGA Republicans have spent countless hours and taxpayer dollars investigating President Biden and his family in a shameless attempt to exact revenge for their Dear Leader, Donald Trump.\n\n\u201cSpeaker Johnson is now asking his members to walk the plank and endorse a sham \u2018impeachment inquiry\u2019 that has been discredited at every turn. Chairman Comer has repeatedly changed the theory of his case but still has yet to produce a shred of evidence showing that President Biden did anything wrong, much less committed a high crime or misdemeanor.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and his administration have gone above and beyond to cooperate with this baseless fishing expedition. Contrary to Donald Trump, who turned over zero documents during his first impeachment inquiry, the Committee has received more than 37,000 pages of private financial records, 2,000 pages of Treasury Department financial reports, more than 20,000 pages of documents from the National Archives, tax records and confidential investigative documents from the IRS, and the FBI FD-1023 from the Biden administration. In addition, the Committee has taken dozens of hours of testimony from more than 10 witnesses, including all of the DOJ decision-makers on the Hunter Biden probe. Finally, Hunter Biden himself has offered to testify, under oath, in a public hearing.\n\n\u201cDespite this remarkable cooperation, House Republicans now attempt to justify an official impeachment inquiry due to purported \u2018stonewalling\u2019 by the Administration, citing unreasonable and improper requests for subordinate DOJ line prosecutors to testify as well as additional documents from the National Archives, 62,000 of which will be produced within days. This is nonsense.\n\n\u201cThe fatal flaw of this investigation is not a failure to follow the facts included in the documents, materials and testimony. It is that those facts do not support their predetermined and baseless allegations.\n\n\u201cSpeaker Johnson is incapable of passing legislation to help the American people, so he has now resorted to placating Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene by wasting time with a sham, partisan impeachment inquiry.\n\n\u201cI urge my colleagues to reject this resolution and put an end to this weaponization of the Congress of the United States.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "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/statement-congressman-dan-goldman-sham-republican-impeachment-inquiry"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0357018802314997, "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"}