{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=87E635F1-4BB0-4861-B604-C4D74534E24F", "Senate Democrats Choose Messaging Vote Over Regular Order", "2024-08-01", "2024", "2024-08", "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 Senate Democrats\u2019 show vote summer:\n\n\u201cToday, as the Senate prepares to leave town for the August state work period, the Democratic Leader has decided to squeeze in one more vote that isn\u2019t ready for prime time.\n\n\u201cTo our colleagues on the Finance Committee \u2013 and to anyone paying attention in recent months \u2013 it\u2019s been clear that the \u2018Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act\u2019 that Chairman Wyden wrote with the House needed some serious revisions to earn 60 votes here in the Senate.\n\n\u201cWe don\u2019t need a vote today to tell us that\u2019s still the case.\n\n\u201cColleagues on this side of the aisle have serious unresolved concerns.\n\n\u201cThey don\u2019t like how more than ninety percent of the supposed benefits of the bill as written come as a $30-billion-dollar expansion of cash welfare instead of relief for working taxpayers.\n\n\u201cThey\u2019re concerned about how it would weaken the work requirements tied to those benefits under current law.\n\n\u201cFor a bill with the potential to so seriously impact working Americans, one might expect its proponents to engage seriously on resolving obstacles to bipartisan support. You might have expected the Chairman of the Finance Committee, or the Democratic Leader, to provide for regular order\u2026 To schedule a markup\u2026 To give this bill a shot of actually passing the Senate.\n\n\u201cBut, alas, you\u2019d be wrong.\n\n\u201cOf course, months without progress on this front aren\u2019t for lack of effort from Ranking Member Crapo, and I\u2019m grateful for his dedication to addressing Republican concerns.\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s vote doesn\u2019t seem to be intended to produce a legislative outcome. In fact, the Democratic Leader himself admitted this week that even losing the vote would still be a political benefit for vulnerable Senate Democrats running for re-election.\n\n\u201cWell, I\u2019m not so certain the American people are impressed by message votes. And I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll give out points for incomplete work.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"]], "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=87E635F1-4BB0-4861-B604-C4D74534E24F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6633331067860126, "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"}