{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-cortez-masto-reintroduce-legislation-to-make-secret-service-director-a-senate-confirmed-position", "Grassley, Cortez Masto Reintroduce Legislation to Make Secret Service Director a Senate Confirmed Position", "2025-11-07", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) are reintroducing the bipartisan Providing Real Oversight and Transparency to Effectively Counter Threats (PROTECT) Act to ensure all future United States Secret Service (USSS) Directors are Senate confirmed and subject to a single, 10-year term.\n\n\u201cThe Secret Service Director is responsible for a critical agency where life and death are at stake. This agency and its leadership require serious congressional oversight to ensure they\u2019re held to a very high standard, so that the failure we saw in Butler last year is never repeated,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cOur bipartisan PROTECT Act is a crucial step towards providing the American people the transparency and accountability they deserve from the Secret Service.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe men and women of the Secret Service have an incredible responsibility, and we must support them and their work. Our bipartisan PROTECT Act will make the Secret Service Director a Senate-confirmed position with a ten-year term, ensuring the same level of oversight as other federal law enforcement agencies while protecting against politicization,\u201d Cortez Masto said.\n\nRead bill text HERE.\n\nBackground:\n\nOn July 13, 2025, an assailant opened fire on President Donald Trump at a campaign rally. Despite the presence of USSS, Trump was injured, one rally attendee lost his life and two others suffered serious injuries.\n\nThe Senate confirms the heads of many federal law enforcement agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF), U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP).", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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/grassley-cortez-masto-reintroduce-legislation-to-make-secret-service-director-a-senate-confirmed-position"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9370907209813595, "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"}