{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-announces-senate-hearing-on-trumps-military-deployments-to-american-cities", "Duckworth Announces Senate Hearing on Trump\u2019s Military Deployments to American Cities", "2025-12-05", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "IL", "Tammy Duckworth", "D000622", "www.duckworth.senate.gov", "duckworth", "https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "[WASHINGTON, D.C.] \u2013 Today, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) will hold a hearing next Thursday, December 11, to receive sworn testimony directly from the Trump Administration\u2019s Department of Defense (DoD) on Trump\u2019s unlawful and unconstitutional domestic deployments of American military troops to intimidate Americans in their own communities.\n\n\u201cAcross the United States, Donald Trump has illegally deployed our nation\u2019s servicemembers into American cities under unclear and false pretexts and despite the costs to our military and civil rights. The American people and our troops deserve answers.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud to have secured this hearing, which will finally provide the American people an opportunity to hear just how unjustifiable these domestic deployments have been\u2014along with the costs they\u2019ve had on our communities, our civil rights and our servicemembers who selflessly volunteered to protect Americans only to find themselves cruelly forced to turn against them.\n\n\u201cWhile we never should have had to wait this long, I appreciate Chairman Wicker and Leader Thune working with me to hold this hearing so the members of this committee can carry out our constitutional authority and conduct this important oversight over this Administration\u2019s egregious abuse of our military. I look forward to asking tough questions of the Trump Administration, holding them accountable and seeking the answers our country deserves.\u201d\n\nDuckworth successfully secured this hearing in early October\u2014weeks after she led all of her fellow SASC Democrats in calling on SASC Chairman Wicker to hold this hearing, and shortly after she blocked expedited passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) until said hearing was secured.\n\nThe details of this hearing are as follows:\n\n-30-", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-announces-senate-hearing-on-trumps-military-deployments-to-american-cities"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.3442567326128483, "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"}