{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.donnelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press/video-donnelly-calls-on-congress-to-stop-fighting-get-to-work-create-jobs", "VIDEO: Donnelly Calls on Congress to Stop Fighting, Get to Work, Create Jobs", "2013-09-25", "2013", "2013-09", "Democrat", "House", "IN", "Joe Donnelly", "D000607", "www.donnelly.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "VIDEO: Donnelly Calls on Congress to Stop Fighting, Get to Work, Create Jobs\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tQuotes Hoosiers from Nineveh and Crawfordsville, Indiana\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tWednesday, September 25, 2013\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWashington, D.C. \u2013 This afternoon, Senator Joe Donnelly spoke on the Senate floor, calling on Congress to start doing what Hoosiers expect: stop fighting, get to work, and focus on the most serious business at hand: creating jobs for those who need them.\u00a0 Donnelly quoted Hoosiers from Crawfordsville and Nineveh, Indiana, who had written to him asking for Congress to start working together and to start solving our country\u2019s challenges.\r\n\u201cWe are at a critical point in our ongoing economic recovery.\u201d Donnelly said. \u201cIn the next week, this Congress will decide whether to keep the federal government open and operating.\u00a0 In the weeks ahead, this Congress will decide whether to continue to pay the government\u2019s bills\u2014our bills.\u00a0 We can go one way\u2014the responsible way\u2014and show the American people that we are capable of working with one another.\u00a0 Or, we can continue to yell at each other to score political points, refuse to be realistic about the need to find common ground, and shut down the government and stop paying our bills\u2014the bills we are responsible for.\u201d\r\n\r\nWatch Senator Donnelly\u2019s speech calling on Congress to keep the government operating, pay our bills, and move on to job creation here.\u00a0\r\nAs Donnelly continued his remarks, he offered three bipartisan, common sense ways that Congress could do something to help the economy.\u00a0 Read about Donnelly\u2019s ideas and the full text of his speech, including quotes from Hoosiers in Nineveh and Crawfordsville here.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t Press Contact \n\t\t\t\t\tDonnelly_Press@Donnelly.Senate.Gov", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.donnelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press/video-donnelly-calls-on-congress-to-stop-fighting-get-to-work-create-jobs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6798221040517092, "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"}