{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-introduces-resolution-designating-august-22nd-chuck-brown-day-0", "Norton Introduces Resolution Designating August 22nd as \u2018Chuck Brown Day\u2019", "2025-08-22", "2025", "2025-08", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On Chuck Brown's birthday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a resolution designating August 22, as \"Chuck Brown Day\" in the District of Columbia and across the nation in honor of his contributions as the \"Godfather of Go-Go.\"\n\n\"Chuck Brown is ubiquitous with D.C., and helped make Go-Go music what it is today,\" Norton said. \"Like Louis Armstrong with New Orleans and Chuck Berry with St. Louis, Chuck Brown is an artist who helped define his city by making Go-go music the heartbeat of D.C. I will always look back fondly at the free concert he performed 15 years ago in front of the Capitol for statehood and voting rights for D.C. residents. His contributions to D.C. and the nation should be celebrated with a day in his honor.\"\n\nThe full text of the resolution follows.\n\nH. RES.___\n\nExpressing support for the designation of August 22, 2025, as \u2018\u2018Chuck Brown Day\u2019\u2019, and honoring Chuck Brown\u2019s contributions to music and to the District of Columbia.\n\nIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES\n\nMs. NORTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on____\n\nRESOLUTION\n\nExpressing support for the designation of August 22, 2025, as \u2018\u2018Chuck Brown Day\u2019\u2019, and honoring Chuck Brown\u2019s contributions to music and to the District of Columbia.\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown is known as the \u2018\u2018Godfather of Go- Go\u2019\u2019 because he was the major architect of the musical genre known as \u2018\u2018go-go\u2019\u2019, a unique mix of funk, soul, and Latin party sounds, whose popularity continues today;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown, who was born on August 22, 1936, and passed away at the age of 75 on May 16, 2012, was a resident of the District of Columbia most of his life;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown, who taught himself to play guitar, became a virtuoso singer, songwriter, guitarist, and band leader;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown\u2019s go-go beat gave the District of Columbia a musical identity of its own and reminds the Nation that the District of Columbia has always been the hometown of talented artists;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown\u2019s musical catalog spans 22 studio al- bums over 3 decades;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown\u2019s hit \u2018\u2018Bustin\u2019 Loose\u2019\u2019, with his group, the Soul Searchers, was the top song on the Billboard Top 100 R&B Chart for 4 weeks in 1979;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown earned a Grammy nomination in 2010 for the song \u2018\u2018Love\u2019\u2019, from his album entitled \u2018\u2018We Got This\u2019\u2019, and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 2005;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown\u2019s go-go has been passed from generation to generation with undiminished popularity;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown influenced jazz, rap, and go-go musicians, such as the bands Trouble Funk, Rare Essence, and Experience Unlimited (also known as \u2018\u2018E.U.\u2019\u2019);\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown was so committed to securing state- hood and equal voting rights for the residents of the District of Columbia that he played a concert on a very hot, humid day on the United States Capitol Grounds in 2010;\n\nWhereas the District of Columbia has named a street located near the historic Howard Theatre for Chuck Brown;\n\nWhereas the District of Columbia has named a park located at 2901 20th Street NE, for Chuck Brown;\n\nWhereas go-go is the official music of the District of Columbia;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown is admired for having risen from humble beginnings and overcoming time in prison to be- come a devoted father and family man;\n\nWhereas Chuck Brown was a great, multitalented musician who brought joy through his music, never stopping until his death; and\n\nWhereas August 22, 2025, is Chuck Brown\u2019s birthday: Now, therefore, be it\n\nResolved, That the House of Representatives supports the designation of \u2018\u2018Chuck Brown Day\u2019\u2019, and honors Chuck Brown\u2019s contributions to music and to the District of Columbia.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:57:50Z"]], "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/press-releases/norton-introduces-resolution-designating-august-22nd-chuck-brown-day-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9016543626785278, "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"}