{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cleaver.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cleavers-statement-motion-vacate-speakership", "Congressman Cleaver\u2019s Statement on Motion to Vacate the Speakership", "2024-05-09", "2024", "2024-05", "Democrat", "House", "MO", "Emanuel Cleaver", "C001061", "cleaver.house.gov", "cleaver", "https://cleaver.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "(Kansas City, MO) \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) released the following statement on yesterday\u2019s vote in the House of Representatives to vacate the speakership.\n\n\u201cYesterday, I had an outpatient procedure related to a recent knee replacement, which caused me to miss last night\u2019s vote on the motion to vacate the speakership.\n\n\u201cHad I voted, I would have joined the vast majority of America\u2019s representatives in rejecting this latest attempt by far-right lawmakers to sow chaos and plunge the nation\u2019s government into turmoil by removing the speaker.\n\n\u201cI look forward to returning to the nation\u2019s capital to continue my work on behalf of Missourians in the Fifth Congressional District.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:01:11Z"]], "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://cleaver.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cleavers-statement-motion-vacate-speakership"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7395986467599869, "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"}