{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3241", "Wasserman Schultz, Florida House Dems Demand Speaker Johnson Advance Venezuela Legislation to House Floor", "2024-09-05", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "FL", "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "W000797", "wassermanschultz.house.gov", "wassermanschultz", "https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Washington DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), co-chair of the Congressional Venezuela Democracy Caucus and Dean of Florida\u2019s Democratic delegation, led Florida\u2019s Congressional Democrats in a letter calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to respond to the urgent political crisis in Venezuela by immediately bringing bipartisan, pro-democracy legislation to the House floor when Congress reconvenes next week.\n\nThe letter offers a series of bipartisan measures for the Speaker's consideration, several of which are led by Wasserman Schultz, such as the VOICE Act, the AFFECT Human Rights in Venezuela Act, and a recent resolution expressing U.S. solidarity with the Venezuelan people, recognizing Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez as Venezuela\u2019s president-elect, and demanding accountability for Nicol\u00e1s Maduro's election theft and repression.\n\nThe authors cite a message to Venezuelan opposition leaders in which Vice President Kamala Harris \u201cunderscored strong U.S. support for the Venezuelan people, denounced state-sponsored violence against demonstrators, and demanded more international pressure on Maduro to promote a peaceful transition of power\u201d and state that \u201cCongress must follow her lead.\u201d\n\nWasserman Schultz was joined by Florida Democratic colleagues Reps. Kathy Castor (FL-14), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), Lois Frankel (FL-22), Maxwell Frost (FL-10), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Darren Soto (FL-09), and Frederica Wilson (FL-24).\n\n\u201cThe Venezuelan people have spoken at the ballot box and in the streets, and overwhelming majorities across the nation repudiated Maduro and chose democracy,\u201d said Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz. \u201cBut this brutal narco-regime refuses to face reality, despite clear evidence of Maduro\u2019s loss. Florida Democrats are determined to stop the violent repression of protestors and restore Venezuela\u2019s democracy. If House Republicans are serious about countering migration and standing up to dictators, Speaker Johnson must bring bipartisan legislation to the floor to punish human rights abuses and promote a peaceful transfer of power.\u201d\n\nThe full text of the letter can be found here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3241"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9705191478133202, "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"}