{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1467", "Republicans Reject Pettersen\u2019s Amendments Highlighting Trump Administration\u2019s Abuses of Power", "2025-11-19", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "House", "CO", "Brittany Pettersen", "P000620", "pettersen.house.gov", "pettersen", "https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) released the following statement after House Republicans rejected her amendments to H.Con.Res. 58, a resolution denouncing the horrors of socialism. Rep. Pettersen supports the resolution denouncing socialism, and offered three simple, factual amendments highlighting the authoritarian tactics used by despotic leaders throughout history and tactics that Americans are now witnessing from the Trump administration.\n\n\u201cRepublicans claim they care about rejecting the horrific actions of abusive regimes but refuse to call out the authoritarianism we\u2019re seeing unfold right before our eyes,\u201d said Pettersen. \u201cTrump is unhinged \u2014 he\u2019s weaponized our judicial system to target anyone who disagrees with him, worked to silence the press dedicated to exposing his corruption, and has terrorized immigrant communities \u2013 including citizens, legal residents, and even children \u2013 and deployed the military against our country\u2019s own citizens. I know that this isn\u2019t who we are as a country. If Republicans were serious about calling out despotic regimes, then where is their courage to speak out when it\u2019s happening right here? That\u2019s why I introduced three amendments to highlight the dangers that threaten our very foundation, but unfortunately, Republicans rejected every single one of them.\u201d\n\nSpecifically, Pettersen\u2019s amendments would have included language highlighting:\n\nThe dangers of despotic leaders who abuse the judicial system to target and punish their political opponents.\n\nHow authoritarian regimes use military forces and masked government agents to arrest, intimidate, and silence civilians, including children.\n\nThe ways these leaders control the press, universities, and access to information to consolidate power and suppress opposing views.", 1, "2026-04-07T15:46:19Z", "2026-04-07T20:18:39Z"]], "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://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1467"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7880018092691898, "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"}