{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/u-s-senators-katie-britt-chuck-grassley-colleagues-demand-records-provided-to-jack-smith-from-telecommunications-companies/", "U.S. Senators Katie Britt, Chuck Grassley, Colleagues Demand Records Provided to Jack Smith from Telecommunications Companies", "2025-10-20", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Katie Boyd Britt", "B001319", "www.britt.senate.gov", "britt", "https://www.britt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and several Republican colleagues in sending letters to four telecommunications companies requesting they provide to Congress all records that were handed over to former Special Counsel Jack Smith as part of his elector case against President Trump. Under Smith\u2019s leadership, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led the \u201cArctic Frost\u201d investigation, in which they secretly subpoenaed phone records from nine sitting Republican Members of Congress.\n\nSenator Britt and several of her colleagues wrote a letter to the Department of Justice and FBI, requesting that all records relating to the probe be provided. The four telecommunications companies that received a letter this week included Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Lumen.\n\nAn explosive new FBI document revealed that the FBI targeted eight Republican senators\u2019 personal cell phones as part of its Arctic Frost investigation, which ultimately formed the basis of Jack Smith\u2019s elector case against President Trump. Senator Britt called the Biden FBI\u2019s actions \u201cindefensible\u201d and called for everyone from the Biden administration involved in the decision to secretly obtain cell phone records related to Members of Congress to be held accountable.\n\nIn addition to Senators Britt and Grassley, Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), and Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) co-signed the letters.\n\nThe letters sent to the telecommunications companies can all be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/u-s-senators-katie-britt-chuck-grassley-colleagues-demand-records-provided-to-jack-smith-from-telecommunications-companies/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.535765128210187, "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"}