{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stanton.house.gov/2021/6/stanton-follows-up-with-fbi-director-continues-push-to-combat-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-epidemic", "Stanton Follows Up with FBI Director, Continues Push to Combat Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Epidemic", "2021-06-11", "2021", "2021-06", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Greg Stanton", "S001211", "stanton.house.gov", "stanton", "https://stanton.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Rep. Greg Stanton questioned FBI Director Christopher A. Wray about the agency\u2019s efforts to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women\u2014his second time raising the issue with Director Wray.\n\nStanton previously raised the topic at a hearing in early 2020 to push for more attention and resources to combat what he called \u201ca violent epidemic\u201d and a \u201cgrim reality.\u201d\n\nSince then, two critical bills were signed into law: Savanna\u2019s Act, which directs the Department of Justice to review, revise, and develop protocols to address the crisis, and the Not Invisible Act, which coordinates intergovernmental efforts to combat the epidemic. The FBI has also been directed to enhance its investigations into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.\n\nStanton began his questions by asking about the Bureau\u2019s latest efforts to coordinate with federal agencies, and followed up with Director Wray about what steps have been taken independently to solve the crisis.\n\n\u201cOur primary vehicle to engage on this subject is through the FBI\u2019s Safe Trails Task Forces, which include not just FBI personnel but partner personnel form other agencies, including tribal law enforcement,\u201d Director Wray said. He went on to update Stanton that since the 2020 hearing, he\u2019d visited the Navajo Nation with the head of the Arizona and New Mexico Field Offices to get a better sense of the challenges they face.\n\nThe U.S. Department of Justice has found that Native American women face murder rates more than 10 times higher than the national average, and, for Native American women, homicide is the third-leading cause of death. Arizona has the third-highest number of missing and murdered Indigenous women\u2014and one-third of those murders go unreported to the FBI.\n\nStanton also used his time for questions to ask about the ransomware attacks that threaten local infrastructure and local governments, and what Congress and the FBI could do to support local government officials.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:57:00Z"]], "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://stanton.house.gov/2021/6/stanton-follows-up-with-fbi-director-continues-push-to-combat-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-epidemic"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.413850113749504, "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"}