{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-harris-votes-yes-secure-border-act-2023", "Congressman Harris Votes \u201cYes\u201d On The Secure the Border ACT of 2023", "2023-05-11", "2023", "2023-05", "Republican", "House", "MD", "Andy Harris", "H001052", "harris.house.gov", "harris", "https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, as Title 42 officially ends, Congressman Andy Harris M.D. (MD-01), released the following statement after voting \u201cyes\u201d on H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023.\n\nNotably, the Secure the Border Act of 2023 will:\n\nForce the Biden Administration to restart construction of the border wall.\n\nDeploy technology to the southern and northern border.\n\nIncrease the number of Border Patrol agents and provide bonus pay.\n\nRequire transparency regarding illegal crossings from the Department of Homeland Security.\n\nStrengthen current law to protect unaccompanied children from human trafficking.\n\nEnd catch and release.\n\nEnd abuse of executive immigration authority.\n\nStrengthen and streamline the asylum process.\n\nA recent NPR/Ipsos poll showed that more than half of Americans believe we are witnessing an invasion at our southern border and a permanent solution is needed.\n\nCongressman Harris Statement: \u201cSince Joe Biden took office, there has been over 5 million illegal crossings along our wide-open southern border. Securing our southern border is a top legislative priority for me and one of the issues the American people sent us back to Washington to solve. It is a reckless dereliction of duty for the Biden Administration and our \u201cborder czar,\u201d Kamala Harris, to continually allow the cartels to smuggle both humans and fentanyl into our streets without ending this crisis. For the sake of the American people, I urge the Senate to take up the bill and pass it.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:55:44Z"]], "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://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-harris-votes-yes-secure-border-act-2023"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9593162685632706, "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"}