{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=682BF0A4-30A6-43D5-9C20-CD283B5D1943", "McConnell Remarks on Reelection as Senate Republican Leader", "2022-11-17", "2022", "2022-11", "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 the Senate leadership elections:\n\n\u201cYesterday, the Republican Conference met to select its leadership team for the 118th Congress.\n\n\u201cI am deeply honored that my remarkable colleagues on this side of the aisle decided to re-hire me for another term as Republican Leader.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud of Senators Thune, Barrasso, Ernst, Capito, and Daines, who were also elected to take on critical responsibilities for the next two years.\n\n\u201cWe have impressive new Senators-elect and we have outstanding returning members. Our Conference is brimming with energy, ideas, and enthusiasm to fight for the millions and millions of Americans who elected Republican Senators to be their champions and their voice in this chamber.\n\n\u201cRepublicans are a big-tent party that unites around commonsense conservative principles and policies to make our nation stronger and make American families\u2019 lives better.\n\n\u201cWe stand for fiscal sanity instead of the reckless liberal spending that created jaw-dropping inflation.\n\n\u201cWe stand for the pro-worker, pro-family, pro-growth ideas that built the best economy for working people in a generation \u2014 before COVID-19, Republican policies had fueled low inflation, low unemployment, and robust growth, all at the same time.\n\n\u201cWe stand for a strong, modern military that can deter and defeat America\u2019s enemies. And confident American leadership in the world instead of this Administration\u2019s deadly botched retreat from Afghanistan and desperate cozying up to the murderous regime in Tehran.\n\n\u201cWe stand for American energy dominance, instead of cutting off our own supplies and canceling our own pipelines while begging foreign dictators to produce more. We stand for real energy independence, not for making China rich buying solar panel components that make American energy more expensive and less reliable.\n\n\u201cWe stand for safer streets \u2014 and we understand that real compassion means ensuring safety and security for innocent people, not giving shorter sentences to the violent convicts who hurt them.\n\n\u201cWe stand for securing our border and enforcing our laws instead of letting unvetted people and illegal drugs pour into our country 24-7.\n\n\u201cWe stand for putting parents\u2019 rights and parents\u2019 involvement back into our nation\u2019s schools and getting radical indoctrination out.\n\n\u201cWe stand for the quaint notion that judges need to follow our laws and our Constitution as they\u2019re written, not act like a third legislative branch that our citizens can\u2019t vote out.\n\n\u201cWe stand for free speech, religious liberty, and the freedom of worship instead of using the courts and the government to persecute men and women of faith.\n\n\u201cThis is where we stand, Madam President. And it just so happens \u2014 the American people stand with us.\n\n\u201cLast week\u2019s exit polls showed that Republicans are more trusted on the kitchen-table issues that keep American families awake at night. When the American people get a clear, un-muddled look at our commonsense conservative approach to the issues\u2026 they like what they see.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got 49 outstanding members on this side of the aisle who are living proof of that fact. And in just a few more weeks, we\u2019ll have 50.\n\n\u201cIt is the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside my distinguished colleagues\u2026 and to serve our Conference in this leadership role.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:38:01Z"]], "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=682BF0A4-30A6-43D5-9C20-CD283B5D1943"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6773099303245544, "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"}