{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=B344B3F6-E3C8-4653-AE2B-E0210F94D999", "McConnell Welcomes Senate Back to Work", "2016-11-15", "2016", "2016-11", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding wrapping up the 114th Congress: \u201dWe\u2019ve had a regularly scheduled election in this country every two years since 1788, right on time. This year\u2019s campaign was long and it was tough. I think everyone\u2019s glad it\u2019s over. I think Americans are ready to come together and move the country forward.\r\n\u201cAs President Obama reminded us, \u2018[We're] all on one team. This is an intramural scrimmage. We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We are Americans first. We're patriots first.\u2019\r\n\u201cAnd now, as he put it, we are all rooting for the president-elect\u2019s success in uniting and leading the country.\r\n\u201cI again want to congratulate President-elect Trump on his victory. I again want to thank the American people for placing their trust in this Senate majority and in the House majority too.\r\n\u201cSpeaker Ryan and I had productive discussions with the president-elect last week. We\u2019re both looking forward to working with him.\r\n\u201cBut first, there is work to be done in the current session of the Senate.\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ll welcome some new members \u2014 beginning with orientation this week.\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ll bid farewell to some dear colleagues.\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ll finish the work that remains before us.\r\n\u201cSo welcome back everyone.\r\n\u201cWe still have some work to do \u2013 and with some cooperation from both sides, we\u2019ll get it done.\u201d", 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/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=B344B3F6-E3C8-4653-AE2B-E0210F94D999"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8847999852150679, "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"}