{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://amodei.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=1404", "Amodei Signs Discharge Petition to Vote on DACA by Year's End", "2017-11-30", "2017", "2017-11", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Mark Amodei", "A000369", "amodei.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Logan Ramsey, 202-225-6155  WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-02) today released the following statement after signing the discharge petition relating to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The purpose of the petition is to bypass the traditional legislative committee process, which in Amodei\u2019s opinion, has produced no results for the last 75 months.  \u201cAfter the President issued the Congress a March 5th, 2018 deadline to resolve the DACA issue, I said that Floor action was \u2013 and continues to be \u2013 absolutely necessary after years of coulda\u2019, woulda\u2019, shoulda\u2019. If any of my colleagues believe DACA is the perfect material to insert into an end of the year spending bill, tax reform bill, or other type of major legislation, in view of this week\u2019s chapter in partisan polarization \u2013 I respectfully disagree.  \u201cSigning this discharge petition represents the only tool left to me as an individual Member of Congress to keep my word by doing everything I can to bring the DACA issue to the House Floor for a vote, before the end of this year. Once again, this falls into the category of I\u2019d rather be criticized for attempting to move an issue toward a solution, than watching nothing happen on issues for years. As I have said before, it\u2019s impossible to defend doing nothing in circumstances like this.  \u201cIf successful, the discharge petition would bring the bill (H.Res.508) to the Floor, where amendments may be debated, discussed, and voted on in the Rules Committee and on the House Floor. The last time I checked, that\u2019s called the legislative process, a process which allows people to judge Congress\u2019s work product by virtue of how we voted instead of what we said.\u201d  For additional information with respect to Congressman Amodei\u2019s position on this issue, please click here.  ###", 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": ["http://amodei.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=1404"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8925409056246281, "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"}