{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/watch-hawley-secures-pledge-from-trump-nominee-to-ditch-the-biden-era-government-censorship-business/", "WATCH: Hawley Secures Pledge from Trump Nominee to Ditch the Biden-era Government Censorship Business", "2025-07-24", "2025", "2025-07", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "This morning, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Sean Plankey\u2014President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to be Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\u2014and secured his pledge to refocus the agency on protecting America\u2019s critical infrastructure instead of propping up Biden-era government censorship.\n\n\u201cLet me just read some of the euphemisms that your predecessor used to talk about CISA\u2019s mission in the censorship effort: \u2018narrative control,\u2019 \u2018perception management\u2019\u2014\u2019information integrity\u2019 is my favorite,\u201d Senator Hawley said. \u201cYou\u2019re telling me that you\u2019re going to get CISA out of the business of policing \u2018narrative control?'\u201d the Senator asked, to which Plankey affirmed.\n\nWatch the full exchange here.\n\nSenator Hawley reminded Plankey and his Senate colleagues of the gross First Amendment abuses Americans faced online under the direction of the Biden Administration\u2019s CISA. The agency\u2019s wide-ranging censorship shut down posts about \u201cCOVID-19, vaccines, elections, school-board meetings.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:48:13Z"]], "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/watch-hawley-secures-pledge-from-trump-nominee-to-ditch-the-biden-era-government-censorship-business/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8375397883355618, "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"}