{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://moolenaar.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/moolenaar-questions-dc-mayor-capitals-ties-ccp", "Moolenaar Questions DC Mayor on Capital's Ties to the CCP", "2024-12-10", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "House", "MI", "John R. Moolenaar", "M001194", "moolenaar.house.gov", "moolenaar", "https://moolenaar.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Congressman John Moolenaar questioned Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., about the District\u2019s troubling sister city relationship with Beijing. The questioning came as Bowser appeared before a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee\u2019s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, which provides funding to the federal district. In response to Moolenaar\u2019s questioning, the mayor promised to review the district\u2019s sister-city relationship with Beijing.\n\n\u201cOur nation\u2019s capital should be a celebration of our nation\u2019s founding principles and the inalienable rights we enjoy as Americans. Having a sister city relationship with Beijing is a betrayal of those values and the District should end this relationship immediately. I hope that one day the liberties we enjoy as Americans will be enjoyed by the Chinese people, but until that day comes, Washington D.C. should stand for freedom and not with the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d said Moolenaar, after the hearing.\n\nWashington, D.C. and Beijing first established a sister city relationship in 1984.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "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://moolenaar.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/moolenaar-questions-dc-mayor-capitals-ties-ccp"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9154020808637142, "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"}