{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=0C4F562F-AD02-48E1-ABED-95421B8D072F", "Senator Carper Applauds DHS on Clean Financial Audit Opinion for Fourth Consecutive Year", "2016-11-17", "2016", "2016-11", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Thomas Carper", "C000174", "www.carper.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, commended the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following the announcement that the agency has earned a clean financial audit for the fourth year in a row.\r\n\u201cThe mission of the Department of Homeland Security is one of the most difficult and complex of any federal agency,\u201d said Senator Carper. \u201cThey do everything from securing our ports of entry, to defending our cyber networks, to keeping our cities and communities safe. It\u2019s no small or easy task for any agency to produce a clean financial audit, let alone an agency as large and complex as DHS, but these impressive results for the fourth consecutive year show that it is possible. The key to success at any organization is strong leadership and it is obvious that, under Secretary Johnson\u2019s leadership, what the department is doing to ensure accurate and complete financial accounting is working. I applaud the team at DHS for their ongoing commitment to protecting taxpayer dollars and encourage the agency to continue and build on this progress.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn 2012, Sen. Carper joined Sens. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Ron Johnson (R- Wisc.) in seeing passage into law of the DHS Audit Requirement Target (DART) Act, which requires DHS to obtain and pass full audits for its financial statements. By earning a clean bill of financial health from an independent auditor for the fourth year running, DHS continues to be in compliance with this law.\r\nDHS is the third largest Department in the government, with 22 components, 230,000 employees, and a 60 billion dollar budget.\u00a0The Department of Defense is the only remaining large federal department that is unable to conduct a full financial audit.", 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://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=0C4F562F-AD02-48E1-ABED-95421B8D072F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.09764002263546, "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"}