{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mariodiazbalart.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/diaz-balarts-and-moskowitzs-bipartisan-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist", "D\u00edaz-Balart\u2019s and Moskowitz\u2019s Bipartisan Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025 Approved by House Foreign Affairs Committee", "2025-12-03", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "FL", "Mario Diaz-Balart", "D000600", "mariodiazbalart.house.gov", "mariodiazbalart", "https://mariodiazbalart.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Mario D\u00edaz-Balart (R-FL-26), Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Department of State, and Related Programs of the House Committee on Appropriations, and Congressman Jared Moskowitz (D-FL-23), member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statements after the House Committee on Foreign Affairs approved their proposed Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, a bipartisan bill that implements a new modernized strategy for designating the global Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a terrorist group.\n\nCongressman Mario D\u00edaz-Balart said, \u201cI am pleased that my bill to designate the entire Muslim Brotherhood globally as a terrorist organization has been approved by the full committee. This is a step in the right direction and further amplifies other efforts, like those of President Trump, to take decisive action against this insidious threat.\n\nI thank Chairman Mast for his leadership and the HFAC committee for advancing this bill to protect U.S. national security interests and Americans by prohibiting U.S. dollars from enabling the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s dangerous and pernicious activities while ensuring that MB members are blocked from entering the United States.\u201d\n\nCongressman Jared Moskowitz said, \u201cI\u2019m proud to see our bipartisan bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization advance out of committee today. For decades, the Brotherhood has been tied to extremism and instability across the Middle East and around the world. Other nations have already taken steps to investigate the Brotherhood and its affiliates, and the United States must have the authority to do the same.\n\nThis bill gives our government the tools to investigate and\u2014where appropriate\u2014designate Brotherhood branches as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. I\u2019m grateful to work with Rep. Diaz-Balart on this important national security measure and look forward to seeing it considered by the full House.\u201d\n\nThe full text of the House bill can be found here.\n\nThe Senate Companion bill was introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).\n\n###", 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://mariodiazbalart.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/diaz-balarts-and-moskowitzs-bipartisan-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.670259352773428, "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"}