{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://marymiller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mary-miller-grills-bidens-hhs-secretary-harmful-transgender-policies", "Rep. Mary Miller Grills Biden's HHS Secretary on Harmful Transgender Policies", "2022-04-06", "2022", "2022-04", "Republican", "House", "IL", "Mary E. Miller", "M001211", "marymiller.house.gov", "marymiller", "https://marymiller.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON - Today, the House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing with Biden's Secretary of Health and Human Services. Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) released the following statement:\n\n\u201cThe Biden Administration put out guidance titled \u201cGender-Affirming Care and Young People\u201d that encourages minor children to have sex-change operations and take chemicals that will permanently eliminate their ability to have children. Today, I asked the HHS Secretary if performing these procedures on 12-year-old children is child abuse and he refused to answer the question. The Biden guidance specifically states, \u201cfor transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, early gender-affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being.\u201d The Biden Administration is engaging in extreme \u201cwoke\u201d politics by encouraging children to take chemical castration drugs and undergo surgeries, and they are lying to children by telling them puberty blockers are \u201creversible.\u201d I was most troubled that Biden\u2019s HHS Secretary refused to confirm that parental consent would be necessary for these procedures. I will be following up with written questions demanding the Secretary affirm parental rights over their minor children.\u201d\n\nHighlights from Miller's questioning along with the Biden Administration's federally administered guidance are below.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6BaC8ydAxk&feature=youtu.be", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:19:30Z"]], "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://marymiller.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mary-miller-grills-bidens-hhs-secretary-harmful-transgender-policies"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.943322665989399, "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"}