{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-calls-on-biden-to-release-autopen-consent-records-grills-democrats-for-covering-up-bidens-cognitive-decline/", "Hawley Calls on Biden to Release Autopen Consent Records, Grills Democrats for Covering Up Biden\u2019s Cognitive Decline", "2025-06-18", "2025", "2025-06", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) called on former President Joe Biden to release documents showing that he consented to his staff\u2019s use of the autopen.\n\n\u201cToday, I call on former President Biden and his staff: release the documents\u2026 Show us the documents where the President authorized the use of the pen for every single pardon and clemency and stay application. Let\u2019s see it. Let\u2019s see all of it. And if you won\u2019t do it, we should subpoena those documents, and we should find out the truth of who was really running the White House because I think we can see it was not Biden,\u201d Senator Hawley said.\n\nSenator Hawley called out Democrats for lying to the American people about Biden\u2019s mental acuity for years and for failing to take accountability or even attend the hearing.\n\n\u201cAll you have to do is look over at this side of the dais to see that the stonewall continues\u2026 Where are they?\u201d Senator Hawley said. \u201cThey lied to us for four years, and we know they lied. They know they lied. It\u2019s why they\u2019re not here. They don\u2019t want to answer a single question. They can\u2019t bear to show their faces in public.\u201d\n\nSenator Hawley has long raised concerns about President Biden\u2019s mental fitness. In February 2024 following the release of the Hur Report, he called on then Attorney General Merrick Garland to invoke the 25th Amendment or prosecute Biden.\n\nWatch the full video here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:34:38Z"]], "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.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-calls-on-biden-to-release-autopen-consent-records-grills-democrats-for-covering-up-bidens-cognitive-decline/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.088012009859085, "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"}