{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ContentRecord_id=fa879721-003b-4c48-9593-686ec754c583", "Sen. Orrin Hatch Responds to Presidents Cuba Announcement", "2014-12-17", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Orrin Hatch", "H000338", "www.hatch.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.,\u00a0\u2014 Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Senior Republican in the United States Senate, issued the following statement following the President\u2019s announcement that he would seek to normalize relations with Cuba:\r\n\u201cThe President\u2019s decision to begin talks to normalize relations with Cuba is another example of his administration\u2019s habit of appeasing our adversaries. Time and again, President Obama has predicated his foreign policy on the notion that if we simply accommodate the demands of troublesome regimes, they will cease their disturbing behavior.\u00a0\r\nEven more disturbing, the President\u2019s announcement constitutes a fundamental shift from our decades old policy, reaffirmed by both Republican and Democrat administrations, to isolate the Cuban regime due to its repression of the Cuban people.\u00a0 It is beyond doubt that the Cuban regime continues to stifle democracy and violate fundamental human rights.\u00a0 Like many of my colleagues,\u00a0I remain committed to a Cuba policy that continues to place pressure on the Castro regime until the Cuban people are free.\u201d", 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=fa879721-003b-4c48-9593-686ec754c583"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5053311362862587, "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"}