{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://plaskett.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4446", "PLASKETT ISSUES STATEMENT ON CHAIRMAN JORDAN'S LETTER TO SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES", "2024-04-11", "2024", "2024-04", "Democrat", "House", "VI", "Stacey E. Plaskett", "P000610", "plaskett.house.gov", "plaskett", "https://plaskett.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "For Immediate Release Contact: Tionee Scotland\n\nApril 11th, 2024 340-201-6453\n\nPress Release\n\nPLASKETT ISSUES STATEMENT ON CHAIRMAN JORDAN'S LETTER TO SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Stacey Plaskett sent a letter to Jim Jordan, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary regarding threatening letters to technology companies under the guise of \u201cconducting oversight of how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced or colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor lawful speech.\u201d\n\nThe letters sent to Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft [view the letters here] showcase the very instances Chairman Jordan claims the Select Subcommittee is supposed to combat - bullying and cajoling these companies to relax their standards when protecting American voters from disinformation and misinformation from our foreign adversaries.\n\n\u201cWith the timing of a presidential election so near, one cannot wonder if your motivation is not in fact to open Americans up to foreign influence operations in service of Donald Trump\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign,\u201d Ranking Member Plaskett included in her letter.\n\nIt is time for Chairman Jordan to come clean to the American people. This Select Subcommittee continuously calls on witnesses that cannot prove any of the allegations lodged against our federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task Force. \u201cYou know that the FBI\u2019s Foreign Influence Task Force is on the frontlines combatting Russian, Chinese and Iranian efforts to hurt American people, businesses, and government. Through multiple hearings, it is clear that the FBI\u2019s Task Force is critical to ensure a safe election.\u201d\n\nRanking Member Plaskett\u2019s ultimate question to Chairman Jordan is, \u201c... whether the House Judiciary Committee majority is consciously engaged in doing the work of America\u2019s adversaries.\u201d\n\nRead the letter here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T20:47:55Z"]], "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://plaskett.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4446"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8901138789951801, "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"}