{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=598C49E7-0C7D-41EE-9328-A13A9C57A8EF", "Senate Must Not Allow Retreat In Face Of Terror", "2023-12-07", "2023", "2023-12", "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 Syria war powers resolution vote:\n\n\u201cThis morning, the Senate will vote on a resolution calling for the withdrawal of American military forces from Syria.\n\n\u201cPassage of such a resolution would be a gift to Iran and its terrorist network. Driving American forces from the Middle East is exactly what they would like to see.\n\n\u201cAdopting this short-sighted measure would wreck America\u2019s credibility in the region.\n\n\u201cIt would encourage Iran\u2019s proxies to open a northern front in the territorial war against Israel. And it would invite America\u2019s adversaries to challenge our military presence throughout the world.\n\n\u201cBack in 2019, as our colleagues may recall, the Senate went on the record about the wisdom of withdrawing prematurely from Syria and Afghanistan.\n\n\u201cAt that time, the vast majority of us rejected such a retreat. And those who didn\u2019t have since watched President Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Putin\u2019s escalation against Ukraine, China\u2019s growing challenge to international peace and stability, and Iran\u2019s glaring threat to America and Israel.\n\n\u201cToday is the 82nd anniversary of Pearl Harbor. It\u2019s a day to remember the cost of being caught on our heels.\n\n\u201cA vote in favor of this resolution is a vote for retreat in the face of terror.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "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=598C49E7-0C7D-41EE-9328-A13A9C57A8EF"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.461446052417159, "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"}