{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=37E8E525-2FAA-460B-97D5-236E4EC97C0E", "Democrats\u2019 Latest Effort to Take Over Elections Will Fail in Senate, Like the Others", "2021-10-20", "2021", "2021-10", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding election law:\n\n\u201cLater today, the Democratic Leader will have the Senate vote on the latest iteration of his party\u2019s election takeover scheme.\n\n\u201cFrankly, I\u2019ve lost count of how many times our Democratic colleagues have tried to truss up the same takeover with new trappings.\n\n\u201cFor multiple years running, Washington Democrats have offered a rotating merry-go-round of rationales to explain why they need to federalize voting laws and take over all of America\u2019s elections themselves.\n\n\u201cBut every time they try this shtick in the Senate, it falls flat. Today will be no exception.\n\n\u201cThis latest umpteenth iteration is only a compromise in the sense that the left and the far left argued among themselves about exactly how much power to grab in which areas.\n\n\u201cThis latest bill still subjects popular, commonsense state election integrity protections like voter ID to the whims of federal bureaucrats.\n\n\u201cIt still sends government money to political campaigns, for goodness sakes. It still puts Washington in the middle of the states\u2019 redistricting decisions. And on and on.\n\n\u201cThe same rotten core is all there.\n\n\u201cThe Senate knows how to make law in a productive, bipartisan way. We\u2019ve done it this year on multiple subjects. We have done it on election issues themselves in recent memory when there was an actual problem that needed solving and an actually bipartisan process.\n\n\u201cBut as long as Senate Democrats remain fixated on their radical agenda, this body will continue to do the job the framers assigned it, and stop terrible ideas in their tracks.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "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=37E8E525-2FAA-460B-97D5-236E4EC97C0E"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9533870033919811, "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"}