{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-to-fight-to-ensure-tentative-agreement-to-raise-federal-employee", "Norton to Fight to Ensure Tentative Agreement to Raise Federal Employee Pay Becomes Law", "2018-10-04", "2018", "2018-10", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over federal employees, today released the following statement after a tentative congressional agreement was reached for a 1.9 percent pay raise for civilian federal employees.\nAfter President Trump callously canceled the pay raise scheduled for the nation's two million federal workers, I sought allies and found them, including some Republicans, Norton said. As a result, Congress is exercising its power of the purse to authorize a small pay increase for our much-deprived civil servants. This pay increase is so small that its chief benefit is recognition, not remuneration. The fight goes on until this tentative agreement becomes law.\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": ["https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-to-fight-to-ensure-tentative-agreement-to-raise-federal-employee"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.807406846433878, "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"}