{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.feinstein.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=E533E445-64E2-44E0-A2BC-32FADB9DC4B3", "Senators Call on DNI Coats To Act on Sexual Discrimination, Harassment", "2017-12-20", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "CA", "Dianne Feinstein", "F000062", "www.feinstein.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WashingtonSenators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris (both D-Calif.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), along with all other members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats calling on him to review concerns in an November 28 letter sent from female national security employees to do more to protect, empower and defend women who serve our nation.\r\nFull text of the letter to DNI Coats follows:\r\nDecember 19, 2017\r\nThe Honorable Daniel Coats  Director of National Intelligence  Office of the Director of National Intelligence  Washington, D.C. 20511\r\nDear Director Coats:\r\nThe Office of the Director of National Intelligence has taken many steps since its inception to ensure discriminatory and harassing behavior will not be tolerated.\r\nAs Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, we write to ask that your office review the concerns outlined in a recent open letter (attached) signed by 223 women in national security that calls upon the Intelligence Community (IC), and other national security communities, to do more to protect, empower, and defend the brave women who serve our nation. The letter requests a comprehensive set of actions to ensure that women can work free from fear and can be confident that their gender will not affect their opportunities.\r\nThe IC should be a leader in establishing, and promoting, a workplace culture that respects and includes women as equal peers and colleagues. We therefore request that you review the concerns and recommendations in the letter described above with other senior leaders of the intelligence community. We additionally request that you personally make yourself available for a discussion on this matter with interested members and provide the Committee with a plan of action to ensure that sexual discrimination and harassment in the Intelligence Community will not be tolerated either in policy, or in practice.\r\nThank you for your immediate attention to this matter.\r\nSincerely,\r\nDianne Feinstein  Kamala Harris  Susan Collins  Ron Wyden  Mark Warner  John Cornyn  Angus King  Richard Burr  Roy Blunt  Martin Heinrich  Marco Rubio  James Risch  Joe Manchin  James Lankford  Tom Cotton\r\n###", 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.feinstein.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=E533E445-64E2-44E0-A2BC-32FADB9DC4B3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.975224120542407, "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"}