{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-senator-scott-talks-police-reform-on-trey-gowdys-sunday-night-in-america/", "ICYMI: Senator Scott Talks Police Reform on Trey Gowdy\u2019s Sunday Night in America", "2021-09-27", "2021", "2021-09", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined Trey Gowdy\u2019s Sunday Night in America on Fox News to discuss police reform and why the Democrats walked away from negotiations.\n\nClick to watch the full interview\n\nOn why Democrats walked away from negotiations \u2026 \u201c[The Democrats are] managing so many crises. I think they\u2019re looking for a way to give Biden a win. Think about [the] Afghanistan crisis, the border crisis, crisis in the Middle East, a crisis of spending, crisis of taxing. So they\u2019re putting politics over people and focusing on a partisan victory. They\u2019re actually going to look for the perfect and make it the enemy of the good.\u201d\n\nOn the Democrats\u2019 bill taking resources from police \u2026 \u201cThere were more than seven sections in the bill that literally said we\u2019re going to reduce your funding or make you ineligible for funding if you don\u2019t let a national standard dictate all local policing. \u2026 I\u2019m not turning over local police to the Department of Justice. It\u2019s never been [the case] and it will never be as long as I\u2019m at the table negotiating.\u201d\n\nOn providing solutions for vulnerable communities \u2026 \u201cI have lived in some very poor communities, [was] raised by a single mother, and I understand the fear and trepidation of wondering if your mother made it into the house okay when she gets off at 11 o\u2019clock at night. I\u2019m at the table, and frankly, [Republicans] are at the table because we want to provide solutions. \u2026\n\n\u201cWhen it comes to solutions, think about the record-breaking amount of money for HBCUs or the lowest unemployment rate for African Americans, for Hispanics, for Asians, a seventy year low for women, increases in the labor force participation rate. We\u2019ve seen the right direction of solutions under the GOP while the Democrats keep campaigning on the issue, never having to find the solution.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "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.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-senator-scott-talks-police-reform-on-trey-gowdys-sunday-night-in-america/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7144389674067497, "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"}