{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://donyoung.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397995", "House Passes Legislation to Rein in Executive Overreach on Immigration", "2014-12-04", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "AK", "Don Young", "Y000033", "donyoung.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u00ad\u2013 Following passage of H.R. 5759, the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act of 2014, Alaskan Congressman Don Young detailed his support for the House\u2019s first legislative response to the President\u2019s controversial executive order on immigration:\n\u201cTwo weeks ago, through executive order, President Obama circumvented Congress by directing his federal agencies to stop the deportation of more than 5 million unlawful immigrants. At that time, he also expanded his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, otherwise known as Dreamers, allowing even more unlawful immigrants to stay in this country. He justified his actions by claiming his Administration is merely exercising its power of prosecutorial discretion, similar to past presidents.\u00a0 As I have said before, that comparison and his use of executive action in this case are plain wrong.\u201d\n\u201cPast presidents have used executive action to clarify bipartisan immigration laws that were passed by Congress.\u00a0 President Obama\u2019s executive order, in stark contrast, was not issued to clarify Congressional action, but because Congress wasn\u2019t giving him the answers he wanted in the timeline he promised.\u00a0 This is not how elected officials restore the public\u2019s faith in our government.\u00a0 This is how you erode the public\u2019s faith.\u201d\n\u201cWhen the President first announced his executive order, I pledged to work with my colleagues in the House to pass legislation to rein in this overreach.\u00a0 Today, I backed up those words by supporting legislation that clearly established, in law, that the President does not have the authority to exempt or defer deportation for whole categories of persons unlawfully present in the country.\u00a0 Any executive action that violates this statutory limit will be considered null and void.\u00a0 This legislation would apply to the President recent executive order and any future ones that work to circumvent our immigration laws.\u201d\nFor more information on the law in detail, click here.\n\u00a0\n###", 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": ["http://donyoung.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397995"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.500959973782301, "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"}