{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-bill-to-denaturalize-convicted-felons", "Cotton Introduces Bill to Denaturalize Convicted Felons", "2026-03-17", "2026", "2026-03", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353\n\nMarch 17, 2026\n\nCotton Introduces Bill to Denaturalize Convicted Felons\n\nWashington, DC \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced legislation to keep Arkansas communities safer by providing grounds to revoke citizenship from any naturalized citizen who commits a felony or supports a terrorist group. The Naturalization Accountability Act will ensure that naturalized citizens who break our nation\u2019s laws are subject to denaturalization criminal proceedings.\n\n\u201cAmerican citizenship is sacred and should not be given to criminals and terrorists under false pretenses. My bill will keep Arkansans safer by subjecting felons and terrorists to denaturalization proceedings when appropriate,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\nText of the bill can be found here.\n\nThe Naturalization Accountability Act would:\n\nAdd any felony conviction that occurred before, during, or after naturalization as grounds for revoking citizenship.\n\nEnsure any naturalized citizen who is a member or affiliated with a terrorist organization, at any point after receiving citizenship, is subject to having his or her citizenship revoked.\n\nAllow denaturalization criminal proceedings against an individual at any point after receiving citizenship.\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "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.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-bill-to-denaturalize-convicted-felons"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6562639027833939, "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"}