{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/biden-harris-hhs-cant-account-to-congress-for-status-of-thousands-of-unaccompanied-minors", "Biden-Harris HHS Can\u2019t Account to Congress for Status of Thousands of Unaccompanied Minors", "2024-10-18", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA \u2013 U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Biden-Harris administration to provide overdue reports to Congress regarding its Unaccompanied Children program and other refugee resettlement programs. The current administration\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)\u2019s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) hasn\u2019t completed a single annual report on its immigration-related expenditures, policies or statistics since taking office.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and Vice President Harris have left Congress in the dark for the entirety of their administration and lost track of tens of thousands of vulnerable migrant children in the process,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cHow can President Biden or Border Czar Harris claim to be addressing this crisis when they can\u2019t, or won\u2019t, provide Congress statutorily required information on their efforts to do so? I\u2019ve proposed reforms to address the glaring errors in this administration\u2019s Unaccompanied Children program. It\u2019s high time the Biden-Harris HHS let the sunshine in and show its work so that Congress can continue hammering out solutions based on the facts at hand.\u201d\n\nRead Grassley\u2019s full letter HERE.\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Biden-Harris administration is failing to comply with Title 8, Section 1523 of the United States Code, which directs ORR to provide Congress annual reports on its refugee resettlement programs, including the location and status of unaccompanied migrant children in ORR\u2019s Unaccompanied Children program. Section 1523 additionally requires ORR report to Congress on:\n\nRefugee employment and labor force statistics;\n\nThe geographic location of refugees;\n\nThe activities, expenditures and policies of ORR;\n\nDescriptions of taxpayer-funded refugee assistance.\n\nGrassley has exposed the administration for losing and endangering thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and is seeking to address the dangerous policies in its Unaccompanied Children program that allow kids to be exploited.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "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.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/biden-harris-hhs-cant-account-to-congress-for-status-of-thousands-of-unaccompanied-minors"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5379791148006916, "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"}