{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-ernst-slam-uscis-failure-to-comply-with-federal-and-state-requests-forcitizenshipvoter-data", "Grassley, Ernst Slam USCIS Failure to Comply with Federal and State Requests for\u00a0Citizenship\u00a0Voter Data", "2024-11-02", "2024", "2024-11", "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. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) released the below joint statement regarding the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services\u2019 (USCIS) failure to release citizenship information on 2,176 potential non-citizen Iowa voters. USCIS confirmed receipt of the senators\u2019 October 31 letter supporting Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate\u2019s request for the data, writing, \u201cA fulsome response to Secretary Pate\u2019s request is forthcoming.\u201d The agency neither provided the information Grassley and Ernst asked for by November 1, nor specified when or if it would do so.\n\n\u201cAnything short of the information Secretary Pate requested is unacceptable. Iowa has worked in good faith to secure its electoral process and safeguard Americans\u2019 cherished right to vote. Unfortunately, USCIS\u2019 stonewalling has led to more questions than answers. The Iowa Secretary of State has assured us protections are in place to ensure all legally registered voters\u2019 ballots are counted. It is paramount the federal government provide Iowa election officials the requested information so they can accurately discern which individuals ought to be casting provisional ballots.\n\n\"We reiterate our demand for USCIS to immediately release the requested information, to ensure all eligible citizens can participate in our elections. With Election Day right around the corner, there\u2019s no time for federal officials to waste.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:07:06Z"]], "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-ernst-slam-uscis-failure-to-comply-with-federal-and-state-requests-forcitizenshipvoter-data"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8178639691323042, "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"}