{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-statement-on-august-31st-deadline-for-afghanistan-withdrawal", "Cotton Statement on August 31st Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal", "2021-08-24", "2021", "2021-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353\n\nAugust 24, 2021\n\nCotton Statement on August 31st Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after news of President Biden\u2019s decision to keep August 31st as the deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan:\n\n\u201cPresident Biden should commit to staying in Afghanistan until we have rescued every American citizen and those Afghans who risked their lives for American troops. Instead, he intends to abandon stranded Americans to appease the Taliban and meet his own arbitrary political deadline. Joe Biden\u2019s impotence leaves Americans in harm\u2019s way and dishonors our entire nation.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:11:17Z"]], "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.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-statement-on-august-31st-deadline-for-afghanistan-withdrawal"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4205181505531073, "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"}