{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/7/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-entitled-voices-of-the-vaccine-injured", "***VIDEO RELEASE*** Sen. Johnson Holds Hearing Entitled \u201cVoices of the Vaccine Injured\u201d", "2025-07-16", "2025", "2025-07", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, held a hearing entitled \u201cVoices of the Vaccine Injured.\u201d The Subcommittee heard from five witnesses who discussed vaccine injuries and two witnesses who discussed vaccine efficacy.\n\n\u201cAll of the witnesses presented powerful testimony and engaged in respectful discussion. I believe all of these stories needed to be told and listened to. I sincerely hope that the hearing helped to bridge the gap and demonstrate how to heal and unify our horribly divided nation,\u201d Sen. Johnson said.\n\nClips of the witnesses\u2019 testimonies can be found here.\n\nEmily Tarsell\n\nMother of Christina Tarsell, witness\u2019 daughter died following Gardasil vaccination\n\nEric Stein\n\nBrother of Jessica Stein, witness\u2019 sister died of influenza\n\nBrian Hooker, PH.D.\n\nFather of Steven Hooker, witness\u2019 son is vaccine injured\n\nRobert Sullivan, M.D.\n\nAnesthesiologist, vaccine injured\n\nPolly Tommey\n\nMother of Billy Tommey, witness\u2019 son is vaccine injured\n\nSerese Marotta\n\nMother of Joseph Marotta, witness\u2019 son died following flu illness\n\nKrystle Cordingley\n\nMother of Corbyn Cordingley, witness\u2019 son died following quadrivalent flu vaccination\n\nWatch the full hearing here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:40:33Z"]], "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.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/7/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-entitled-voices-of-the-vaccine-injured"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.001970075070858, "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"}