{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=EE4E9915-B210-4535-95FD-EFD6EA304A70", "In Response to Graham, FBI Director Wray Confirms Threats to U.S. Skyrocketed Post October 7", "2023-12-05", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Lindsey Graham", "G000359", "www.lgraham.senate.gov", "graham", "https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray.\n\nOn border security negotiations:\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cThe Biden Administration refuses to follow the law as written [and] refuses to give up this concept of humanitarian parole because it is their way of \u2018managing\u2019 the border. Why are so many people coming now compared to before? The belief is, Mr. Chairman, you have a really good chance of never leaving. Catch and release is the policy.\u201d https://youtu.be/RI6UXmahK74?si=MbNEYlBCBUyfJ-BZ&t=164\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cYou [Democrats] clearly as a party do not want to change the policies that are attracting so many people. It\u2019s inhumane, I think, to lure people to this journey. It\u2019s not fair to the American people to be overrun in the fashion that we are. Given the threats that exist in the world, it\u2019s exceedingly dangerous to have lost control of your border.\u201d https://youtu.be/RI6UXmahK74?si=pecmxPTEUyBrWWZu&t=255\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cYou will not get a deal from the Republican Party unless we change the policies that are leading to [9,400 on average per week] coming to our border.\u201d https://youtu.be/RI6UXmahK74?si=Ig3E2pVT3I2uFwNH&t=222\n\nOn national security threats:\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cSo, blinking red lights analogy about 9/11 \u2014 all the lights were blinking red before 9/11, apparently. Obviously, all of us missed it. Would you say that there\u2019s multiple blinking red lights out there?\u201d\n\nWRAY: \u201cI see blinking lights everywhere I turn.\u201d\n\nhttps://youtu.be/MDnjCasaX9Q?si=fvfZqVLOf-p93hlb&t=97\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cOne of my concerns is after [the withdrawal from] Afghanistan, we put international terrorism on steroids. Are you concerned that international terrorism threats to the homeland are rising as the [southern] border continues to be broken?\u201d\n\nWRAY: \u201cI am concerned that we are in\u2026 a heightened threat environment from foreign terrorist organizations for a\n\nwhole host of reasons and obviously their ability to exploit any port of entry, including our southwest border\u2026 We\n\nhave seen an increase in so-called KSTs, \u2018known or suspected terrorists\u2019, attempting to cross over the last five\n\nyears.\u201d https://youtu.be/MDnjCasaX9Q?si=bcfYY_O_NsUI7PXJ&t=282\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cOctober 7 was devastating to our friends in Israel. So your testimony before this committee, since October 7 the urging of foreign terrorist organizations to attack America has gone up. Is that fair to say?\u201d\n\nWRAY: \u201cYes, the threat level has gone to a whole other level since October 7.\u201d\n\nGRAHAM: \u201cOkay folks. You\u2019re on notice. What are we going to do about it?\u201d\n\nhttps://youtu.be/MDnjCasaX9Q?si=bcfYY_O_NsUI7PXJ&t=375\n\nClick here to watch Graham\u2019s opening statement\n\nClick here to watch Graham\u2019s questions\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "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.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=EE4E9915-B210-4535-95FD-EFD6EA304A70"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8523280266672373, "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"}