{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://guest.house.gov/media/press-releases/guest-criticizes-democrats-focus-climate-change-over-border-security", "Guest Criticizes Democrats\u2019 Focus on Climate Change Over Border Security", "2022-09-15", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "House", "MS", "Michael Guest", "G000591", "guest.house.gov", "guest", "https://guest.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) criticized the focus on climate change legislation by Democrats on the House Committee on Homeland Security (CHS) during a CHS markup.\n\n\u201cOur primary mission is securing the people of this country. We can\u2019t ask this agency to continue to do things such as include the impact of climate change when we are failing right now in the primary mission of this agency.\u201d\n\nDuring the CHS markup, the Committee considered H.R. 3756, the \u201cDepartment of Homeland Security Climate Change Research Act, just days after a report found that the volume of illegal immigration under President Biden will cost the American taxpayers $20 billion a year.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re not talking about securing the border, we\u2019re not talking about doing what we can to protect border communities, we\u2019re not talking about the $20 billion that the immigrants who have come across over this Administration is costing the taxpayers of the government. Instead, we\u2019re talking about a climate change bill,\u201d Guest said.\n\nCongressman Guest argued that the current stresses on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are already straining the department\u2019s ability to perform its primary duty of protecting our nation.\n\n\u201cWe need to be focused on our primary mission. We can\u2019t ask the Department [of Homeland Security] to deal with cybersecurity, to deal with disaster response, to deal with securing the border, and then at the same time put another unnecessary federal regulation on this agency. That, to me, is asinine,\u201d Guest said.\n\nClick here to watch Congressman Guest\u2019s statement.\n\nCongressman Michael Guest represents Mississippi's Third Congressional District. Currently serving his second term, Congressman Guest serves as the Vice Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, as a Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and as a Member of the Committee on Ethics.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "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://guest.house.gov/media/press-releases/guest-criticizes-democrats-focus-climate-change-over-border-security"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0094582103192806, "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"}