{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=632913C9-6E20-4B89-9CAB-19DFE0E25196", "Senate Committee Ranking Members Demand Answers From DOJ & FBI On FBI Review Of Recently Identified Emails", "2016-10-31", "2016", "2016-10", "Democrat", "House", "DE", "Thomas Carper", "C000174", "www.carper.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON \u2013\u00a0Today, U.S. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) issued the following comment after the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to provide clarity regarding the latest review of Secretary Clinton\u2019s emails. The Ranking Members on Saturday sent a\u00a0letter\u00a0to Attorney General Lynch and FBI Director Comey asking for details about the review, and on Monday received a vague\u00a0response\u00a0from the Justice Department\u2019s office of legislative affairs.\r\n\u201cThe Justice Department\u2019s response to our letter was disappointing and inadequate.\u00a0 The vague letter that Director Comey sent to Congress last Friday has led to widespread confusion and unfair speculation.\u00a0 In fact, it appears that when Director Comey sent his letter, the FBI had not even sought or obtained the authority necessary to review the emails in question.\r\n\u201cWe are deeply troubled by the fact that Director Comey apparently sent his letter without even knowing the basic facts about the emails.\u00a0 The result is that the letter is being mischaracterized and misconstrued for political benefit, which is the very reason the Justice Department has a longstanding policy against publicizing investigations so close to Election Day.\r\n\u201cVoters are going to the polls at this very moment, and it is incumbent on the FBI Director and Attorney General to provide Congress and the American people with clear, unambiguous answers about what the FBI knows and doesn\u2019t know about the emails in question, including how many are duplicate emails that have already been reviewed by the FBI.\u00a0 We renew our request that the FBI Director and Attorney General respond immediately to the specific questions we asked in our letter dated October 29, 2016.\u201d", 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=632913C9-6E20-4B89-9CAB-19DFE0E25196"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9252158924937248, "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"}