{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-to-give-opening-remarks-at-national-league-of-cities", "Norton to Give Opening Remarks at National League of Cities Congressional Briefing, Today", "2016-03-09", "2016", "2016-03", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, will offer opening remarks at the National League of Cities\u2019 Congressional City Conference Capitol Hill Briefing today, Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., in the Congressional Visitor Center Auditorium.\u00a0 Norton will discuss the state of transportation and infrastructure in the nation\u2019s cities and her role as one of the bipartisan \u201cBig Four\u201d House Transportation leaders, who wrote the recently-passed five-year surface transportation bill, the FAST Act.\n\u201cMayors and local leaders across the country were among the most informed voices calling on Congress to pass a long-term surface transportation bill, and we finally got it done last year, the first long-term transportation bill in a decade,\u201d Norton said.\u00a0 \u201cTransportation is the backbone of our local economies.\u00a0 We need to act like it by investing substantially more to save our nation\u2019s infrastructure, which was instrumental in making the United States a world leader.\u201d\n###", 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://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-to-give-opening-remarks-at-national-league-of-cities"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8938699029386044, "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"}