{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141010015040/http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=0E00C853-CD74-4AB6-B64E-341F9CE70877", "Sessions Responds To WH Admission That Post-Election Amnesty Is Timed To Avoid Publics Wrath", "2014-10-09", "2014", "2014-10", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Jeff Sessions", "S001141", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement today after a White House spokesman admitted that the implementation of an illegal executive amnesty was pushed back several weeks because they hoped it would delay public outrage until after the election:\n\u201cOne is left breathless by the White House\u2019s admission that it is timing its planned nullification of America\u2019s immigration laws for after election day in the hope that it will spare Senate Democrats from the public\u2019s wrath. Instead of rebelling against executive amnesty, Senate Democrats have supported it every step of the way. They continue to put their loyalty to Leader Reid and the White House ahead of the interests of the struggling American workers they are supposed to represent.\u00a0America\u2019s borders are not up for debate. Activist CEOs do not get to sit in a secret meeting at the White House, flanked by amnesty activists and Democrat consultants, and decide it\u2019s time to scrub away our national boundaries.\nWe must not let this happen. We will not let this happen. The people of this country will not tolerate the decimation of their laws, borders, and wages.\u201d\nBACKGROUND:\nPresident Obama\u2019s planned executive amnesty would provide work permits and \u201clegal\u201d status by administrative fiat to 5\u20136 million illegal immigrants, allowing them to compete for jobs against U.S. workers in all occupations. Simultaneously, President Obama is lobbying for the Senate immigration bill, which would double the number of new guest workers for corporations to fill jobs at lower wages.", 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://web.archive.org/web/20141010015040/http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=0E00C853-CD74-4AB6-B64E-341F9CE70877"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.465909881517291, "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"}