{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-sen-banks-joins-meet-the-press-on-nbc/", "ICYMI: Sen. Banks Joins Meet the Press on NBC", "2026-08-09", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Jim Banks", "B001299", "www.banks.senate.gov", "banks", "https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) joined Meet the Press with Kristen Welker on NBC to discuss the increasing influence of Democratic Socialism in the Democratic Party, the economy, Middle East diplomacy, and conflict with Iran.\n\nClick the image above for the full discussion.\n\nKey Excerpts on the economy:\n\nSen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.): \u201cThere\u2019s still good news in this July\u2019s jobs report about the resurgence of manufacturing jobs and construction jobs that are being created in America. Never forget that in the last two years Joe Biden was in the White House, we lost a quarter of a million manufacturing jobs, and we have seen a significant resurgence because of President Trump\u2019s trade policies and bringing back those good-paying, advanced manufacturing jobs, and we\u2019re seeing it mostly in states like Indiana. That\u2019s the return of the Made in America economy.\u201d\n\nKey Excerpts on Iran:\n\n\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s legacy is going to be largely wrapped up in ensuring that Iran never has a nuclear weapon. I do not want my kids growing up in a world where Iran has a nuclear weapon, that will be pointed directly at the United States of America, at our troops abroad, at our allies. President Trump is the first president in 47 years to have the guts to stand up to the Regime and tell them that they are not going to get away with it.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs an Afghanistan veteran myself, watching what our military has accomplished, wiping out 85% of Iran\u2019s ballistic missiles, Iran\u2019s defense industrial base, making sure that they can never achieve their ultimate goal to have that nuclear weapon, that\u2019s all good news. President Trump\u2019s use of the naval blockade, he has crippled Iran\u2019s economy; that in and of itself will bring lasting peace, not just to the Middle East but to the rest of the world, and projects American strength in a way I have never seen in my lifetime. He is a peacemaker; this is a key part of ensuring peace for the ages, and President Trump deserves a lot of credit for it.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-10T06:13:07Z", "2026-08-10T06:14:46Z"]], "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://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-sen-banks-joins-meet-the-press-on-nbc/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0707569308578968, "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"}