{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=FB93A3EF-3776-4677-AD01-A4BC5DF5BEE0", "McConnell on House CR: Responsible Measure Allows Important Work To Continue", "2023-11-13", "2023", "2023-11", "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 funding the government:\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve been encouraged this year by the progress our Appropriations Committee has made toward restoring regular order to the way we fund the federal government. As I\u2019ve said before, shutting down the government does nothing to advance that work.\n\n\u201cRegular order requires that Congress provide itself the time for careful consideration and thorough amendment. I\u2019m glad to see that Speaker Johnson has produced a continuing resolution that would do exactly that.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of work left to do. Aside from the remaining full-year appropriations bills, glaring national security priorities continue to demand our attention: from Israel to Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, and \u2013 of course \u2013 to our southern border.\n\n\u201cHouse Republicans have produced a responsible measure that will keep the lights on, avoid a harmful lapse in government funding, and provide the time and space to finish that important work.\n\n\u201cI will support their continuing resolution and encourage my colleagues to do the same.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:49:58Z"]], "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=FB93A3EF-3776-4677-AD01-A4BC5DF5BEE0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5964789781719446, "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"}