{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://tomudall.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2492", "Following Reports that President-elect Trump's Cabinet Nominees are Slow-Walking Full Disclosure of Key Information, Senate Democratic Ranking Members Say Process Shouldn't Move Forward Before all Documents are Turned Over & Reviewed [press_release]", "2016-12-22", "2016", "2016-12", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Tom Udall", "U000039", "tomudall.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "December 22, 2016\n\t\t\t Following Reports that President-elect Trump's Cabinet Nominees are Slow-Walking Full Disclosure of Key Information, Senate Democratic Ranking Members Say Process Shouldn't Move Forward Before all Documents are Turned Over & Reviewed \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON - Following reports that President-elect Trump's Cabinet nominees have not yet provided the relevant Senate Committees with important documentation, such as a completed financial disclosure statement, ethics agreement signed by the Office of Government Ethics, and more ahead of their confirmation hearings, the Democratic Ranking Members of 16 committees in the United States Senate today issued the following joint statement of principles for vetting the president-elect's nominees:  \u00a0  Statement of Principles for Vetting Cabinet Nominees of President-elect Donald J. Trump:  \u00a0  \"The United States Senate has a rich, bipartisan tradition of vetting nominees to the President's Cabinet. We hope to continue that tradition with our colleagues in the Republican Majority because the American people are entitled to a fair and open consideration process for all executive nominations. Therefore, a Cabinet nomination should only proceed to a mark-up in Committee if:  \u00a0  - The nominee has cleared an FBI background check  \u00a0  - The nominee provides a completed financial disclosure statement and ethics agreement signed by the Office of Government Ethics  \u00a0  - The nominee has satisfied reasonable requests for additional information and Members have time to review that material.\"  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Ben Cardin  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Tom Carper  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on the Judiciary  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill  Ranking Member, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Patty Murray  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Bill Nelson  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Jack Reed  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Armed Services  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on the Budget  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Jon Tester  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Tom Udall  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Mark Warner  Ranking Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence  \u00a0  U.S. Senator Ron Wyden  Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Finance\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n    \n\t\n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 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://tomudall.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2492"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0794000700116158, "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"}