{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=4cd0d765-8e37-4d54-8f87-e8affc626de9", "McConnell Outlines Failures of Presidents Power Plan as Paris Climate Talks Convene", "2015-11-30", "2015", "2015-11", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the Presidents costly power plan:\r\nWhen President Obama tried to push a regressive, anti-Middle Class energy tax through a Democrat-controlled Congress, his own party said no.\r\nUndeterred, the President simply went around Congress to impose similarly regressive  and likely illegal  power plan energy regulations anyway.\r\nHes currently trying to sell that power plan to world leaders in Paris as proof of the American governments commitment to his energy priorities. But with all due respect to the President as our Commander in Chief, governments currently engaged in this round of climate talks will want to know that there is more than just an Executive Branch in our system of government.\r\nMore than half of the states have filed suit against the Presidents power plan.\r\nA bipartisan majority in both chambers of Congress has approved legislation that rejects it.\r\nThe courts appear likely to strike it down.\r\nAnd the next president could simply tear it up.\r\nThis is the easily foreseeable result of intentionally sidestepping Congress to impose this anti-Middle Class power plan. If left in place, the power plan threatens to punish the poor and could result in the elimination of as many as a quarter million U.S. jobs.\r\nFor what?\r\nThe power plan wont even meaningfully affect global carbon emissions, and could actually increase emissions by offshoring American manufacturing to countries that lack our environmental standards.\r\nPain for the Middle Class, a climate rounding error for negotiators in Paris.\r\nThats not a good policy for Americas working families. Thats not a good policy for our country. It certainly wouldnt be responsible to attempt to negotiate commitments based upon a likely-illegal power plan  one that may not even survive much longer anyway.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=4cd0d765-8e37-4d54-8f87-e8affc626de9"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8870329950004816, "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"}