{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/latest-headlines/mccaskill-says-pressure-on-backpagecom-paid-off", "McCaskill Says Pressure On Backpage.com Paid Off", "2016-10-15", "2016", "2016-10", "Democrat", "House", "MO", "Claire McCaskill", "M001170", "www.mccaskill.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "McCaskill Says Pressure On Backpage.com Paid Off \r\n                \r\n            \r\n            \r\n                Saturday, October 15, 2016\r\n            \r\n            \n\t\n\r\n            \r\n            \r\n                  \r\n                    By:\u00a0\r\n                    Bailey Strohl \r\n                \r\n            \r\n            \r\n                \r\n                \r\n                \r\n            U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill says continued pressure put on a popular advertising website has paid off.\r\nThe U.S. Senate subpoenaed Backpage.com for documents about its screening of online ads for suspected trafficking. They were then turned over to McCaskill\u2019s bi-partisan committee investigation.\r\n\u201cWe finally got 200,000 pages of documents, and they also filed a motion for an extension and asked that they have until November 18th to complete the production given the volume of material.\u201d McCaskill tells MissouriNet.\r\nSince then, Backpage\u2019s CEO has been charged with pimping.\r\nMcCaskill added, \u201cWe all want to make sure that there\u2019s another CEO that comes along and starts another company and does the same thing. And that\u2019s why we\u2019ve got to look at the laws and see what we can do to protect the first amendment, but also protect children.\u201d\r\nMissouriNet says more than 70% of child sex trafficking reports are tied to Backpage ads.\r\n            \r\n             \r\n            \r\n            \n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/latest-headlines/mccaskill-says-pressure-on-backpagecom-paid-off"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5093670226633549, "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"}