{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cheney.house.gov/2020/06/30/cheney-pelosis-partisanship-is-fundamentally-hurting-the-people-of-this-country/", "Cheney: Pelosis Partisanship Is Fundamentally Hurting The People Of This Country", "2020-06-30", "2020", "2020-06", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Liz Cheney", "C001109", "cheney.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington  During this morning's House Republican leadership press conference, Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) highlighted the failed leadership of Speaker Pelosi for continuing to pursue partisan legislationinstead of working with Republicans to create solutions for the American people.Watch the video here, and see the transcript below:  \nREP. LIZ CHENEY: As you all know, our nation's facing unprecedented challenges and Speaker Pelosi continues every single day to turn away from bipartisan solutions to these challenges that we face. Instead, on every single issue, whether it's police reform, health care, infrastructure, she continues to introduce legislation that she knows will never become law, but these are all areas in which the American people expect us to work together in a bipartisan fashion to come up with solutions. Today, we've got yet one more missed opportunity. The Democrat's transportation bill, which we're going to hear more from Mr. Davis in just a minute  this legislation is an application of the principles of the Green New Deal when it doesn't need to be that, when there is bipartisan room for agreement on it.The Democrats also, we've watched, passed legislation yesterday that actually will make it much more difficult to come up with the kind of innovation that is necessary for vaccines, for treatments for COVID. So their determination to move and to operate in a partisan fashion is fundamentally hurting the people of this country.\nRep. Cheney also addressed reports about Russian activities in Afghanistan and allegations that they targeted members of the U.S. Armed Forces:  \nCheney: The United States Will Respond When Attacked Or Threatened By Our Adversaries\nREP. LIZ CHENEY: On Russian\nactivities in Afghanistan, Ranking Member Thornberry is here to discuss that as\nwell as actions this week on the NDAA. Let me just say, we're not going to talk\nabout classified briefings, we're not going to talk about the specifics of any\nof those classified briefings, but as Ranking Member Thornberry and I said\nyesterday in our statement, we remain concerned about Russian activities in Afghanistan\nand around the world. We're going to continue to work with the Administration,\nwe anticipate additional briefings on this issue, but I want to be absolutely\nclear that America's adversaries should know and they should have no doubt that\nany targeting of the U.S. Forces by Russians, by anyone else, will face a very\nswift and deadly response. The Russians experienced this in Syria in 2018 when\nU.S. Forces defended themselves with overwhelming and lethal force against\nlikely Russian mercenary forces.\nIn the United States, we have a free and open society. We debate\npolicy, we debate these issues, that is the strength of our system and that is\nwhat our adversaries, the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North\nKoreans among them, that is what they fear the most. Those governments cannot\nallow their people the kind of free and open debate that we have because they\nknow if they allow their people to choose, they would lose power.America's adversaries\nshould never question the will of the United States government or of the\nAmerican people to defend our interests, to protect the security of our nation,\nto protect our Forces, and to respond when attacked or threatened.", 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://cheney.house.gov/2020/06/30/cheney-pelosis-partisanship-is-fundamentally-hurting-the-people-of-this-country/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9892410598695278, "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"}