{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=F01D7708-50FC-4C29-BF31-546DF70465D4", "McConnell on Framework for Full-Year Funding: \u201cThe Hard Work Can Finally Start\u201d", "2022-12-14", "2022", "2022-12", "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 government funding:\n\n\u201cToday is December the 14th. Senate Republicans have spent months \u2014 literally months \u2014 begging our Democratic colleagues to stop fiddling with partisan nonsense and focus on two core things: The NDAA and government funding.\n\n\u201cI have been talking about the need for a strong National Defense Authorization Act all year long. I\u2019m glad we are finally going to wrap up that basic governing duty in the next few days.\n\n\u201cWith respect to government funding: I was glad to hear Senator Shelby announce yesterday evening that negotiators have reached a bipartisan, bicameral framework for a full-year government funding bill. Long-term continuing resolutions cheat our Armed Forces out of the resources and the certainty that our commanders and civilian leaders need to keep modernizing our forces, investing in crucial weapons, and outcompeting adversaries such as China.\n\n\u201cI am glad that our Democratic colleagues finally accepted reality and conceded to the Republican position that we need to prioritize our national security. Republicans simply were not going to lavish extra liberal spending on the Commander-in-Chief\u2019s own party as a reward for adequately funding the national defense. It wasn\u2019t going to happen.\n\n\u201cFunding defense is a basic, bipartisan duty of government \u2014 not something that earns Democrats special treats.\n\n\u201cAs Senator Shelby stated last night, this framework agreement doesn\u2019t mean the hard work is over; it means the hard work can finally start. It will take seriousness and good faith on both sides to produce actual legislation that follows this framework. Poison pills, especially far-left demands to overturn longstanding and commonsense policy riders, will need to stay far away from this process.\n\n\u201cAnd even then, the calendar will still make this a challenging sprint. Our side has made it clear that the Senate has until December 22nd to complete either a full-year funding bill or a short-term C.R. into early next year. That is the deadline, and those are the two options.\n\n\u201cIf a truly bipartisan full-year bill without poison pills is ready for final Senate passage by late next week, I\u2019ll support it for our Armed Forces. Otherwise, we\u2019ll be passing a short-term continuing resolution into the new year.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:06Z"]], "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=F01D7708-50FC-4C29-BF31-546DF70465D4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9863808993250132, "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"}