{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/barrasso-todays-democrat-party-is-driven-by-extremists/", "Barrasso: Today\u2019s Democrat Party is Driven by Extremists", "2026-07-21", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today spoke at a press conference about the extremists driving today\u2019s Democrat Party.\n\nSen. Barrasso said:\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s Democrat Party is driven by extremists. It\u2019s the extremists who are winning primary elections. Democrats seem to be determined to destroy America. We have a socialist mayor in New York, and one will soon be in the District of Columbia as well.\n\n\u201cWhen you take a look at the people that have been winning Democrat primaries this year, they\u2019re people who want to defund the police, raise taxes, and open the borders. They\u2019re people who want free healthcare for illegal immigrants paid for by American taxpayers. And they would rather defend and protect illegal immigrant criminals than law-abiding American citizens.\n\n\u201cWe know according to their manifesto they want to pack the Supreme Court. They want to put judges in place who will deny the law, defy the Constitution. Their manifesto says that they want to eliminate the Electoral College. They want to eliminate the Senate so that people in the Senate leadership on the Republican side, the people we represent, their voices would be silent.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s so disturbing that one of the nominees for Congress, Democrat nominee, has boasted and posted the fact that when her hands were dirty, she wiped them on the American flag. That\u2019s the agenda of these people.\n\n\u201cThey are reckless. They are terrible in terms of what they would do to America. They\u2019re extreme. They\u2019re dangerous. They\u2019re scary. The American people don\u2019t want that.\n\n\u201cThe American people demand and deserve better. And Republicans are going to continue to fight for freedom, for liberty, and for continued American greatness.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-22T07:34:13Z", "2026-07-22T07:35:16Z"]], "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.barrasso.senate.gov/barrasso-todays-democrat-party-is-driven-by-extremists/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4961352571845055, "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"}