{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcbath.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3F7617E1-BEB4-4D2B-8ABF-3E98EDCC6A5E", "McBath, Georgia's Congressional Democratic Delegation Demand Answers on Latest Round of Chaotic CDC Firings", "2025-10-21", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "Lucy McBath", "M001208", "mcbath.house.gov", "mcbath", "https://mcbath.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Atlanta, GA \u2014 Representative Lucy McBath (GA-06) and Georgia's Democratic Congressional Delegation are demanding answers on the latest CDC firings, calling on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to answer for the chaos and disruption at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that has marked his tenure, including the recent firings\u2014and re-hirings\u2014of CDC employees.\n\nEarlier this month, 1,760 HHS employees, including 1,300 CDC scientists, doctors, and health officials, received \u201creduction in force\u201d notices. It was then reported that nearly half of the employees fired last weekend were terminated \u201cby mistake\u201d and CDC moved to rehire them.\n\nThis comes after 400 CDC employees responsible for tracking and preventing infectious disease were rehired after their termination in another round of mass firings in June.\n\n\u201cThe CDC is now in disarray and its workforce deeply demoralized. That means the United States and the American people are less safe from deadly disease.\u201d Rep. McBath and the group wrote to Secretary Kennedy. \u201cYour reckless demolition of an essential public health agency appears motivated to significant extent by personal animus and a failure to grasp basic facts about its work. That is unacceptable for the Secretary of Health and Human Services.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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://mcbath.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3F7617E1-BEB4-4D2B-8ABF-3E98EDCC6A5E"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.598837785422802, "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"}