{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/redoj-to-deploy-personnel-to-wisconsin-to-monitor-elections", "DOJ to Deploy Personnel to Wisconsin to Monitor Elections", "2016-11-07", "2016", "2016-11", "Democrat", "House", "WI", "Mark Pocan", "P000607", "pocan.house.gov", "pocan", "https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 In response to a formal request from Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Congressmen Ron Kind (D-WI) and Mark Pocan (D-WI), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that its Civil Rights Division plans to deploy resources to Wisconsin for tomorrow\u2019s general election. Congresswoman Moore and Congressman Pocan responded to this announcement with the following statement:\n\n\u201cI take great comfort in knowing that personnel from the U.S. Justice Department will be on the ground in Milwaukee during this historic election,\u201d said Congresswoman Moore. \u201cToo many Wisconsinites, especially those in communities of color, face a host of unnecessary obstacles in their efforts exercise their constitutional right to vote. This is simply unacceptable. My colleagues and I in Wisconsin\u2019s Democratic congressional delegation would like to thank the DOJ for ensuring that all voters, regardless of party affiliation or political ideology, have the right to take part in our democracy, free of discrimination or intimidation.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe decision by the Department of Justice, while welcome, is a bittersweet victory for those of us who want to ensure voting rights are upheld,\u201d said Congressman Pocan. \u201cAlthough the DOJ\u2019s efforts to enforce federal voting-rights laws is essential to fending off the worst aspects of this relentless attack on the right to vote, my colleagues and I will fight to end the suppression and intimidation that have become normalized in this election. The bedrock of democracy is the robust participation of all of us in the political process\u2014this has always been a core Wisconsin value. We cannot and will not tolerate the continued threat of disenfranchisement against hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites.\u201d\n\nIn an op-ed published earlier today, Congresswoman Moore and Congressman Pocan outlined their motivation behind the request to the DOJ and underscored how Wisconsin\u2019s voter ID law puts the franchise of many Wisconsinites, particularly people of color, in serious jeopardy.\n\nClick here to read Congresswoman Moore and Congressman Pocan\u2019s op-ed in the Huffington Post.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T21:07:19Z"]], "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://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/redoj-to-deploy-personnel-to-wisconsin-to-monitor-elections"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8882461115717888, "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"}