{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2024/9/icymi-tillis-discusses-state-travel-bipartisanship-on-spectrum-news-in-focus-with-loretta-boniti", "ICYMI: Tillis Discusses State Travel, Bipartisanship on Spectrum News\u2019 In Focus with Loretta Boniti", "2024-09-23", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Thom Tillis", "T000476", "www.tillis.senate.gov", "tillis", "https://www.tillis.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senator Thom Tillis recently appeared on Spectrum News\u2019 In Focus with Loretta Boniti to discuss his state travel and recent bipartisan legislative achievements, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and theBipartisan Safer Communities Act, legislation that Senator Tillis helped write, negotiate, and pass into law.\n\nWatch the full interview HERE.\n\nSenator Tillis on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law:\n\n\u201cWe are approaching $13 billion coming to North Carolina. I was just in Wilmington yesterday, where we were celebrating a $250 million grant, about half of what it's going to take to upfit the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, and a $100 million grant for the Alligator River Bridge. Every county in the state is benefitting from this bill. This bill includes a billion dollars in connectivity for broadband, and it\u2019s proving to have the impact that I thought it would. That\u2019s why I was willing to take the hits to get it done.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act:\n\n\u201cThe Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is the single largest investment in mental health in the history of this country\u2026 I\u2019m working very hard to make sure that everyone understands a full implementation of this bill is transformational. And I think North Carolina is on pace to be one of the most successful states to implement it. It\u2019s coming at a perfect time. We are making progress on a challenge that still exists, and it\u2019s the stigma of mental health.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on the Bipartisanship:\n\n\u201cThe reason why being bipartisan is so difficult today is that people can spread what I think are blatant lies in some cases about what we are trying to accomplish, and it causes people to be very careful and not take risks. I think that the American people suffer when we do that. We\u2019re in D.C. to make changes, we\u2019re not up there to get re-elected.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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.tillis.senate.gov/2024/9/icymi-tillis-discusses-state-travel-bipartisanship-on-spectrum-news-in-focus-with-loretta-boniti"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6858911365270615, "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"}