{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://plaskett.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4452", "CONGRESSWOMAN PLASKETT CALLS OUT REPUBLICANS DURING SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING FOR EFFORT TO INFLUENCE SUPREME COURT OPINION", "2024-05-01", "2024", "2024-05", "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\nMay 1, 2024 340-201-6453\n\nCONGRESSWOMAN PLASKETT CALLS OUT REPUBLICANS DURING SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING FOR EFFORT TO INFLUENCE SUPREME COURT OPINION\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett, Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, gives the following opening statement on the ninth hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.\n\n*Please note that the text that is included below is not the full statement. *\n\n\u201cIt is the sixth hearing, like ground hog day, for the same supposed weaponization of social media through the curious case of the so-called \u2018Twitter Files,\u2019 the idea that the FBI and the Biden White House have stopped social media companies from free speech.\n\nRepublicans are holding this hearing today in a last-ditch effort to influence the Supreme Court\u2019s opinion in the case of Murthy v. Missouri.\n\nDuring oral arguments in March, six justices questioned Republicans\u2019 claim that federal government interactions with social media companies are tantamount to \u2018censorship.\u2019 The Supreme Court is presently working on in their chambers preparing a decision in that matter.\n\nOver and over again, social media company executives told the Cmmittee that no matter who identified concerning content \u2013 whether it be members of the general public, members of Congress, or White House employees \u2013 the companies evaluated the content against their own internal policies and only took action if the content violated those policies.\n\nAnd over and over again, social media company executives told the Committee in no uncertain terms that:\n\n\u00b7 No government official ever coerced them into taking action.\n\n\u00b7 No government official ever threatened them with any adverse consequences if their companies did not take action.\n\n\u00b7 And no government official ever promised them any benefits if they did take action.\n\nBut the Majority has consistently rebuked our requests that that testimony be made public. The Majority who have control of the tapes, likewise declined to provide us with copies of the hundreds of hours of video taken during this investigation.\u201d\n\nView the full opening statement here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:01:11Z"]], "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=4452"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0567540302872658, "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"}