{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-statement-at-hearing-on-itc-nominees", "Crapo Statement at Hearing on ITC Nominees", "2026-06-25", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) delivered the following remarks at a hearing to consider nominees for the International Trade Commission.\n\nAs prepared for delivery:\n\n\u201cBefore us today are five bipartisan individuals nominated to serve as Commissioners at the U.S. International Trade Commission, or ITC.\n\n\u201cThey are David Foley, Jr. of Virginia, a Republican nominee; Brett Doyle of Connecticut, also a Republican nominee; Peter-Anthony Pappas of New Jersey, our final Republican nominee; Bart Thanhauser of New York, a Democratic nominee; and finally, Samuel Negatu of the District of Columbia, a Democratic nominee.\n\n\u201cThank you all for appearing today.\n\n\u201cThe important work of the International Trade Commission requires the full complement of its commissioners. Filling these positions is long overdue.\n\n\u201cThe ITC serves a unique role as an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency. Specifically, the Commission has three key trade-related missions.\n\n\u201cFirst, the ITC is central to trade enforcement. The Commission\u2019s import injury and unfair import investigations protect domestic industry by ensuring a level playing field.\n\n\u201cSecond, the ITC provides Congress and the Administration with independent, high-quality economic analysis of trade issues including tariffs, competitiveness and the impacts of international trade agreements.\n\n\u201cThird, the ITC maintains the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, which is critical to facilitating lawful trade and ensuring enforcement of customs duties.\n\n\u201cIt is important to note that the ITC would be unable to meet this vital mission without its incredibly dedicated and deeply knowledgeable career staff who continue to navigate sustained high levels of investigations.\n\n\u201cA full slate of Commissioners will further support the ITC\u2019s mission.\n\n\u201cThank you again to our nominees for their time today.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-26T06:29:35Z", "2026-06-26T06:31:46Z"]], "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.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-statement-at-hearing-on-itc-nominees"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8418816141784191, "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"}