{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-kevin-mccarthy-has-turned-house-representatives-vindictive-campaign", "Rep. Omar: Kevin McCarthy has Turned the House of Representatives into a Vindictive Campaign Arm of Donald Trump", "2023-09-12", "2023", "2023-09", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Ilhan Omar", "O000173", "omar.house.gov", "omar", "https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), released the following statement on Kevin McCarthy opening an impeachment inquiry\n\n\u201cThis is a new low in House Republicans\u2019 failure to govern. Instead of doing anything to address rising housing costs, raise the minimum wage, tackle child poverty or address the opioid crisis, Republicans have threatened to the plunge the nation into default and are now once again pushing the government to the brink of a shutdown. It\u2019s no wonder this Congress has been the least productive in decades.\n\n\u201cTheir only goal, it seems, is pleasing their master\u2014the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted former President currently facing 91 state and federal criminal charges. This is an unprecedented crime spree, from endangering national security by illegally keeping classified documents, to conspiring to subvert the U.S. Constitution and lying to federal investigators.\n\n\u201cInstead of even attempting to govern, Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republicans have done everything in their power to run interference for the disgraced former President. They have turned the United States House of Representatives into a vindictive political campaign arm of Donald Trump.\n\n\u201cNow Donald Trump and the most extreme members of the MAGA Caucus are pushing a government shutdown if they don\u2019t impeach the sitting President\u2014despite zero evidence to justify such an inquiry. Republicans have already wasted months on a fishing expedition to tie President Biden to the wrongdoing of his adult son, and it has failed. Despite thousands of pages of bank records and hours and hours of testimony, they have failed to produce a shred of evidence of any wrongdoing by President Biden.\n\n\u201cAnd the hypocrisy almost takes your breath away. Kevin McCarthy has repeatedly said you cannot start an impeachment inquiry without a full vote of the House\u2014and even introduced a resolution that condemns an impeachment inquiry without a House vote as an \u2018abuse of power\u2019 that \u2018brings discredit to the House\u2019 and \u2018undermines the voting privileges afforded to each Member and the constituents they represent.\u2019 Yet that is exactly what Kevin McCarthy is doing today. Why? Because he knows impeachment is too extreme to pass the House\u2014even with the Republican majority.\n\n\u201cLast Congress, the majority of House Republicans voted to overturn the Presidential election results\u2014supporting the violent insurrectionists who threatened our lives and democracy itself. Now they are disgracing this institution once more, abusing the power vested in us by the Constitution to campaign for a criminal.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:35:26Z"]], "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://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-kevin-mccarthy-has-turned-house-representatives-vindictive-campaign"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8551930077373981, "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"}