{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/hickenlooper-calls-for-investigation-into-reports-white-house-targeted-colorado/", "Hickenlooper Calls for Investigation Into Reports White House Targeted Colorado", "2026-08-14", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "CO", "John W. Hickenlooper", "H000273", "www.hickenlooper.senate.gov", "hickenlooper", "https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press/page/", "scraper", "Hickenlooper calls on Inspectors General of every federal agency involved in White House \u201cbrainstorm call\u201d to investigate\n\nHickenlooper: \u201cFederal resources are for the American people, not weapons against the President\u2019s perceived enemies.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper released the below statement calling for an investigation following reports that the Trump administration summoned five agencies to the White House back in December to discuss how the federal government could retaliate against Colorado.\n\n\u201cThis email confirms the highest levels of the White House orchestrated a campaign of political retribution against Coloradans over President Trump\u2019s petulant grievances.\n\n\u201cThe White House must preserve and produce all records related to the December 15 \u2018brainstorm call.\u2019 We call on the Inspectors General of every federal agency involved to swiftly investigate how federal resources were used to target Colorado. Federal resources are for the American people, not weapons against the president\u2019s perceived enemies.\u201d\n\nThe Denver Post reported today that Emily Underwood, a deputy assistant to President Trump, asked officials from five agencies to join a call later that day and to be \u201cprepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado\u201d back in December.\n\nPresident Trump has launched a retaliation campaign towards Colorado, citing the imprisonment of election criminal Tina Peters, Colorado\u2019s gold-standard mail-in voting system, and Colorado voters\u2019 rejection of him in the last two presidential elections. In response, the Trump administration recklessly announced plans to move U.S. Space Command\u2019s fully operational headquarters from Colorado Springs to Alabama, vetoed a bipartisan to complete the Arkansas Valley Conduit to bring clean drinking water to Southeast Colorado, shuttered the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, and denied Colorado\u2019s request and appeal for disaster assistance for the Lee and Elk Fires in August 2025 and the Southwest Colorado flooding in October 2025.\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-18T05:27:41Z", "2026-08-18T05:29:06Z"]], "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.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/hickenlooper-calls-for-investigation-into-reports-white-house-targeted-colorado/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.923308078199625, "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"}