{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=2C9B46D2-CBA3-435C-814E-CBA00A363B78", "McConnell: VP Harris\u2019 Willingness To Throw Away Senate\u2019s Guardrails As Disqualifying As Her Record", "2024-09-25", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "\u2018There is nothing normal or rational about blowing up the dam holding back simple majority rule. And the fact that a major political party has welcomed this short-sighted radicalism into the mainstream will be to their eternal shame. To lean on today\u2019s fill-in-the-blank justification is to miss entirely what\u2019s at stake. The Senate\u2019s protections against the vacillations of simple majority rule are bigger than Washington Democrats\u2019 policy preferences.\u2019\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the filibuster:\n\n\u201c\u2019I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal.\u2019\n\n\u201c\u2018I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe.\u2019\n\n\u201cThese are the words of the Vice President of the United States and the Democratic nominee for President.\n\n\u201cHer willingness to shatter the institution of the Senate is not unique. Nearly every single one of our Democratic colleagues was willing to do it two years ago. And they would have succeeded had two members of their own caucus not stood in the breach.\n\n\u201cNor is this campaign to rip up precious safeguards for political minorities confined here to the Senate. From a sitting President all the way down to grassroots activists, Democrats have made smashing institutions a core pillar of their party\u2019s platform.\n\n\u201cThe Vice President\u2019s latest comments are not novel. But they are shocking \u2013 no less so than the votes our colleagues cast here on January 19, 2022.\n\n\u201cThere is nothing normal or rational about blowing up the dam holding back simple majority rule. And the fact that a major political party has welcomed this short-sighted radicalism into the mainstream will be to their eternal shame.\n\n\u201cTo lean on today\u2019s fill-in-the-blank justification is to miss entirely what\u2019s at stake. The Senate\u2019s protections against the vacillations of simple majority rule are bigger than Washington Democrats\u2019 policy preferences. They\u2019re bigger than my own.\n\n\u201cA Senate that can steamroll a legislative minority to codify Roe v. Wade or enshrine the lunacy of the Green New Deal into law\u2026\n\n\u201c\u2026is a Senate that will drive a stake through liberal hopes as soon as the political winds change.\n\n\u201cTo gamble the guardrails that make the Senate what it is\u2026 To short-circuit the process by which dissenting views are guaranteed a hearing\u2026 That ought to be disqualifying, by itself.\n\n\u201cThen again, so should the Vice President\u2019s record on the issues.\n\n\u201cIn November, the Democratic nominee will own the worst border crisis in American history, and the broken policies that invited it.\n\n\u201cShe will own the worst inflation in forty years, and the reckless spending and tie-breaking votes that enabled it.\n\n\u201cThe American people may well worry, like I do, about the future of an institution designed to be the world\u2019s greatest deliberative body.\n\n\u201cBut more than that, they worry about keeping their families safe and putting food on the table. And I expect they\u2019ll vote accordingly.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "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.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=2C9B46D2-CBA3-435C-814E-CBA00A363B78"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7926169782876968, "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"}