{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/blogs/e-newsletter_week-of-september-9th", "e-Newsletter- Week of September 9th", "2022-09-09", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "Ted Cruz", "C001098", "www.cruz.senate.gov", "cruz", "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Good Evening,\n\nWe\u2019re back in the swing of things following August recess in the Senate, and that means I\u2019m hard at work fighting for Texas, and for your needs in Congress.\n\nTo watch my conversation with Ryan Chandler on KMAC, click above \u2191\n\nI enjoyed speaking with Ryan Chandler of KMAC this week about my work to get the Ports-to-Plains highway authorized and moved towards construction. I was proud to lead the way, authoring the legislation and building a coalition with Republicans and Democrats, like Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Sen. Ben-Ray Lujan of New Mexico, to make it a reality. Earlier this year, because of the coalition building that I and Sen. John Cornyn and others were able to do, we got a part of this highway\u2019s authorization added to the infrastructure bill. Our bipartisan amendment for one part of the Ports-to-Plains highway was successfully added to the infrastructure bill with bipartisan support. Shortly thereafter, the rest was authorized through the Cruz-Lujan amendment in another bill. Together, these amendments authorized the Ports-to-Plains highway from Laredo to Lubbock and all the way to Canada, and it will bring thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of GDP to Texas. I couldn\u2019t be more proud of the effort that my colleagues and I made to make this highway a reality.\n\nUnfortunately, not everything that happens in the Washington is bipartisan, and but that doesn\u2019t mean I stop fighting for Texas, particularly when it comes to the border.\n\nTo see what I had to say on Hannity, click above \u2191\n\nWe recently saw White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stand up and say that people are not crossing the border. Listen, we're used to hearing spin. But this was a flat out lie. So I invited her to come down to the border and see it, to see for herself what the border crisis looks like. Instead of taking me up on the offer, her response was, \u201cI don't need to be lectured by Republican senators.\u201d\n\nThis footage tells a different story. This is the proof President Biden doesn\u2019t want the American public to see. The #BidenBorderCrisis is a full-fledged disaster.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "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.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/blogs/e-newsletter_week-of-september-9th"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7545810658484697, "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"}