{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-statement-on-brittney-griner-prisoner-swap", "Cotton Statement on Brittney Griner Prisoner Swap", "2022-12-08", "2022", "2022-12", "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: Caroline Tabler orJames Arnold (202) 224-2353\n\nDecember 8, 2022\n\nCotton Statement on Brittney Griner Prisoner Swap\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the prisoner swap with Russia:\n\n\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s prisoner swap with Vladimir Putin released Viktor Bout, the notorious \u2018Merchant of Death\u2019 who armed America\u2019s worst enemies. And it left behind Paul Whelan, a Marine veteran who\u2019s languishing in a Russian jail cell on trumped-up charges. Americans welcome the release of Brittney Griner, but it shouldn\u2019t have come at the cost of releasing one of the world\u2019s worst arms dealers and creating a dangerous precedent for our enemies: detain Americans and Democrats will agree to set your worst killers free.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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-brittney-griner-prisoner-swap"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1579710990190506, "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"}