{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-requests-more-information-obama-administration-surveillance/", "Dr. Rand Paul Requests More Information on Obama Administration Surveillance", "2017-05-06", "2017", "2017-05", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul announced he is seeking more information on whether he and other members of Congress were surveilled by the Obama administration or the intelligence community.\n\nThe announcement follows a Circa News report that government officials allegedly sought a significantly higher amount of National Security Agency (NSA) data on Americans in 2016 and eventually unmasked congressional members and staffers, as well as associates of President Trump.[1]\n\nDr. Paul originally wrote to President Trump and congressional intelligence committee members in April, requesting further investigation based on an anonymous source\u2019s tip that Dr. Paul may have been included in NSA information gathering.\n\n\u201cIn light of the revelations that the names of persons associated with the Trump campaign were unmasked, I believe the allegations that myself and other elected members of the legislative branch may have also been unmasked or caught in intelligence gathering warrants investigation,\u201d Dr. Paul stated in the letter.\n\n\u201cThis inquiry goes beyond just myself and my office,\u201d Dr. Paul added today. \u201cThe American people need to know if their elected representatives in the Legislative branch have been swept up in Executive branch surveillance.\u201d\n\nYou can read Dr. Paul\u2019s entire letter to President Trump HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T21:41:49Z"]], "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.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-requests-more-information-obama-administration-surveillance/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7663962207734585, "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"}