{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://vasquez.house.gov/media/press-releases/vasquez-statement-failed-vote-speaker-house", "Vasquez Statement on Failed Vote for Speaker of the House", "2023-10-17", "2023", "2023-10", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Gabe Vasquez", "V000136", "vasquez.house.gov", "vasquez", "https://vasquez.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, U.S.Representative Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) released the following statement on the failed vote to elect Rep. Jim Jordan to Speaker of the House.\n\n\u201cHouse Republicans are in disarray and continue to spiral into complete chaos, right in front of the American people. The far-right wing of the House GOP caused this dysfunction, and now they can\u2019t get enough votes to elect one of their own. Under former Speaker McCarthy\u2019s leadership, they failed to bring common-sense, bipartisan legislation to the floor, bringing Congress within hours of a government shutdown. Instead, House Democrats bailed out Republicans to keep the government open.\n\n\u201cJim Jordan, their latest choice, an election denier who has voted to ban reproductive rights without exceptions and slashed Social Security and Medicare. Jordan has not passed a single bill in the last 16 years in Congress. Put simply, he is unfit to lead.\n\n\u201cWe cannot address our nation\u2019s most pressing issues without a Speaker, and it\u2019s imperative that we reopen the people\u2019s House.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "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://vasquez.house.gov/media/press-releases/vasquez-statement-failed-vote-speaker-house"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.621600102633238, "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"}