{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=e2614e95-9e81-41d0-a8da-509a533132a2", "Hatch On The Nuclear Option", "2013-11-21", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Orrin Hatch", "H000338", "www.hatch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a current member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for initiating the so-called \u201cnuclear option\u201d to change Senate rules. After Majority Leader Reid moved forward with using the nuclear option \u2013 which would end the right to filibuster by allowing each judicial nomination to only need a simple majority to be confirmed \u2013 Hatch issued the following statement:\n\u201cToday we face a real crisis in the confirmation process, a crisis concocted by the Democrat majority to distract attention from the Obamacare disaster and, in the process, consolidate more power than any majority has had in more than 200 years. This crisis was created by a majority that wants to win at all cost, for whom the political ends justify any means whatsoever.\u201d\r\nNOTE: Hatch has long opposed the filibustering of judges.\u00a0 To read Hatch\u2019s statement entered for the record today, click here.", 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.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=e2614e95-9e81-41d0-a8da-509a533132a2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7366889622062445, "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"}