{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://westerman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/westerman-denounces-department-veterans-affairs-secretarys-poorly", "WESTERMAN DENOUNCES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY'S POORLY WRITTEN LETTER", "2023-07-13", "2023", "2023-07", "Republican", "House", "AR", "Bruce Westerman", "W000821", "westerman.house.gov", "westerman", "https://westerman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON - Congressman Bruce Westerman (AR-04) denounced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough's poorly written interim response to a previous inquiry. In a letter, Westerman wrote:\n\n\u201cThank you for your poorly written, meaningless interim response to my inquiry. It\u2019s obvious from your lack of sentence structure, punctuation, and overall lack of attention to detail that this issue is a very low priority to you and the VA.\n\n\u201cPlease be assured that my communications to the Appropriations Committee and my colleagues in the House will be much more organized and better articulated when I lobby them to cut funding to your political staff and others who are advocating and implementing these political issues in what should be an apolitical agency.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nOn June 6th, Congressman Westerman cosigned a letter to VA Secretary McDonough expressing concern for the display of Pride flags at VA facilities.\n\nOn July 3rd, the VA sent this interim response, containing a clear lack of proof-reading.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:18:03Z"]], "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://westerman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/westerman-denounces-department-veterans-affairs-secretarys-poorly"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6204910352826118, "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"}