{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/12/02/budget-democrats-demand-vought-testify-before-committee/", "Budget Democrats Demand Vought Testify Before Committee", "2025-12-02", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "WA", "Pramila Jayapal", "J000298", "jayapal.house.gov", "jayapal", "https://jayapal.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, led all Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought demanding his immediate testimony before the Committee. The request follows the Committee\u2019s November 18 hearing, where Chairman Jodey Arrington publicly agreed with Ranking Member Boyle that Director Vought must appear.\n\n\u201cAs you continue to disregard the law and withhold essential resources from communities across the country, you owe this Committee an explanation for why you believe you possess such authority,\u201d wrote Ranking Member Boyle and Committee Democrats.\n\n\u201cIf you fail to appear before this Committee before the end of the year, this will be the only Administration in the last 50 years to not send the OMB Director \u2014 a basic standard you yourself met during President Trump\u2019s first Administration (appearing in both 2019 and 2020),\u201d the letter continues. \u201cIf you disagree with both Chairman Arrington and Budget Democrats it will make one point unmistakably clear: you know you cannot defend an extreme agenda that is driving up costs, weakening the labor market, and inflicting real economic harm on the American people.\u201d Read the full letter to OMB Director Vought here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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://jayapal.house.gov/2025/12/02/budget-democrats-demand-vought-testify-before-committee/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0088919661939144, "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"}