{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://pingree.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3148", "Pingree Says Formal Impeachment Inquiry Needed After President Trump Admitted He Asked Foreign Government to Interfere in 2020 Election", "2019-09-24", "2019", "2019-09", "Democrat", "House", "ME", "Chellie Pingree", "P000597", "pingree.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Pingree Says Formal Impeachment Inquiry Needed After President Trump Admitted He Asked Foreign Government to Interfere in 2020 Election \r\n    \r\n     \r\n\r\n  \r\n  \r\n    \r\n      Washington,\r\n      September 24, 2019\r\n    \r\n    \r\n    \r\n    \r\n  \r\n  \r\n\r\n  \r\n\r\n  \r\n    \r\n        \r\n           \r\n      \r\n          \r\n      \r\n           \r\n        \r\n      \r\n    \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n\r\n  \r\n    \r\n      Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today issued the following statement in support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's establishment of formal impeachment inquiry:\r\nPresident Trump has admitted that he asked a foreign government tohelp his political campaign. That is wrong. We, as Members of Congress, have a constitutional duty to hold the Executive branch accountable and uphold the law, especially whennational security and the validityof our elections is at stake. I support Speaker Pelosi's establishment of aformal impeachable inquiryinto President Trump'sconduct.Theintegrity ofour Republic rests on the action Congress takes now in the face of this unprecedented behavior by the President of the United States.\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://pingree.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3148"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7064011879265308, "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"}