{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-icymi-sen-rand-paul-calls-transparency-asks-was-president-obama-involved/", "ICYMI: Sen. Rand Paul Calls for Transparency, Asks, \u2018Was President Obama Involved?\u2019", "2019-03-28", "2019", "2019-03", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nMarch 28, 2019\n\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to offer an amendment to the House-passed resolution on releasing the Mueller Report that demands more information on the origins of the Obama Administration\u2019s decisions concerning the investigation of Donald Trump and his campaign, particularly the use of the unverified and patently false Steele dossier.\n\n\u201cWhat we need to discover, and we do not yet know, was President Obama involved? Was this done for partisan purposes? Was this done to try to elect Hillary Clinton?\u201d Sen. Paul asked on the Senate floor.\n\nYou can watch Senator Paul\u2019s full remarks HERE.\n\nSpecifically, Dr. Paul\u2019s amendment to H. Con. Res. 24:\n\n\u2022 calls for the public release of all information and communications involving James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Loretta Lynch, Bruce Ohr, or anyone else in the Obama Administration concerning the Steele dossier or investigating Donald Trump and his campaign;\n\n\u2022 calls for John Brennan, who allowed the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on computers of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, to testify under oath and provide to Congress all his records and communications regarding the 2016 election;\n\n\u2022 calls for James Clapper, who lied to the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate about a secret surveillance program that was gathering all phone data of people in the United States, to testify under oath and provide to Congress all his records and communications regarding the 2016 election;\n\n\u2022 calls for the public release of all of President Barack Obama\u2019s communications concerning the decision to investigate the Trump Campaign; and\n\n\u2022 calls for the public release of all communications or reports concerning the decision not to indict Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:20:25Z"]], "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-icymi-sen-rand-paul-calls-transparency-asks-was-president-obama-involved/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.2605201229453087, "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"}