{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-statement-tabling-resolution-censure-rep-tlaib", "Hageman Statement on Tabling Resolution to Censure Rep. Tlaib", "2023-11-02", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, DC \u2013 Today, Rep. Harriet Hageman issued the following statement on the motion to table a resolution censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib.\n\n\u201cAs abhorrent and antisemitic as Rep. Tlaib\u2019s comments were, she has a right to make them. I don\u2019t agree with her on much of anything \u2013 and certainly not on anything this censure was addressing, but the First Amendment would not be necessary if it existed only to protect agreeable speech.\n\n\u201cI am a First Amendment absolutist. I read the words \u201cCongress shall make no law \u2026 abridging the freedom of speech\u2026\u201d and I take them to heart. The answer to despicable speech is more and better reasoned speech, not the suppression of anyone\u2019s voice. At this moment in time it is critically important that we expose the beliefs of people like Rep. Tlaib. Stopping her from speaking does not change hearts and minds, it only drives those insidious ideas underground where they are more difficult to battle against.\n\n\u201cThis censure was poorly written. It included a misquote of Rep. Tlaib\u2019s comments and referred to her as inciting an \u201cinsurrection\u201d on October 18th. I am very concerned that by including this language, we would actually be giving our opponents the weapons with which to continue to attack President Trump and the January 6th defendants. In short, the despicable display that happened in the Cannon House Office Building on October 18th wasn\u2019t an insurrection, but by claiming that it was, the resolution to censure Rep. Tlaib would have created serious consequences on other fronts and implied that what happened on January 6th was also an insurrection. I was not alone in this conclusion, as 22 other Republicans, including conservatives such as Chip Roy and Thomas Massie, concurred.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "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://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-statement-tabling-resolution-censure-rep-tlaib"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8026082068681717, "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"}