{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://norton.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/norton-set-records-in-113th-congress-undaunted-by-new-republican-0", "Norton Set Records in 113th Congress, Undaunted by New Republican Congress, Makes Predictions for 2015", "2014-12-29", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Norton Defies Unproductive Congress with Bills Enacted, Statehood Breakthroughs; Checkmated Anti-Home-Rule Riders; Perfect Score on Judges Confirmed; More Economic Development Projects; and D.C. Funding Despite Budget Cuts\nIntroduction: Unafraid of the Coming Republican Congress\nNext year marks 25 years since Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was elected to Congress.\u00a0 She has spent only eight of those years in a House controlled by Democrats.\u00a0 Yet during those years she has found ways to work closely not only with fellow Democrats, but with Republicans, such as former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), winning major legislation for the District with Republicans in charge and often in the White House as well.\u00a0 Among the most notable has been the D.C.\u00a0 Tuition Assistance Grant program (DCTAG), the $5,000 homebuyer tax credit and business tax incentives, and major economic development projects that are transforming the entire Southeast and Southwest Waterfront neighborhoods, NoMa, Ward 8 communities with the Department of Homeland Security headquarters, and Upper Northwest with the former Walter Reed site.\nThus, the Congresswoman is not fearful of the coming 114th Congress, where Republicans will control both chambers.\u00a0 She has seen worse.\u00a0 Norton does not underestimate the unprecedented far-right posture of today\u2019s Republicans.\u00a0 She is prepared for more attempts to undermine D.C. home rule, by bills and appropriations riders.\u00a0 However, by refusing to prejudge how Members will respond to D.C. matters, she has found allies who have helped her pass D.C. bills and on other D.C. matters, even as Norton has opposed them on national issues.\u00a0 The Congresswoman is particularly pleased that both incoming chairmen with D.C. jurisdiction \u2013 Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) \u2013 have already publically supported home rule, and Norton and Chaffetz have had a meeting with Mayor-elect Muriel Bowser.\nOur history of fighting back has not been in vain.\u00a0 Members of Congress have long been on notice that Norton and D.C. are prepared to fight to protect home rule not only on the House floor, in the Senate, and in the streets of Washington, but also in their districts and states.\u00a0 Norton has used various forms of communication to inform the constituents of Members who spend their time not working for them, but meddling in D.C.\u2019s local affairs.\nThe way for D.C. to begin the 114th Congress is to assume the best and be prepared to fight the worst.\u00a0 There is nothing to fear now.\u00a0 There is much work to do to\u00a0\u00a0 increase respect for the rights of D.C. residents as full and equal American citizens.\u00a0\n Getting Bills Enacted into Law Despite Historically Unproductive Congress \n   #1 for most bills enacted by House Democrats \nTied for #2 in most bills enacted by Democratic House and Senate Members\nTied for #3 in bills enacted by House Republicans and Democrats\nTied for #4 in most bills enacted in House and Senate\nMembers of the Congress rarely, if ever, have their own bills enacted into law.\u00a0 However, Norton was a leader in authored legislation for the 113th Congress and had three of her 67 bills enacted into law.\u00a0 In the 112th Congress, Norton was also a leader, with 54 bills introduced and two enacted.\u00a0\nBesides traditional bills affecting the nation, Norton particularly looked for opportunities to strengthen the District.\u00a0 Her legislation proved vital to the District.\u00a0 Her two Chief Financial Officer (CFO) bills were indispensable to preventing serious disruptions in District operations \u2013 allowing the District to appoint an interim CFO if the CFO resigns, as Natwar Gandhi did, dies, or is otherwise unable to perform the duties of the office, and allowing the District to increase the CFO\u2019s salary, necessary because of the difficulty the District had recruiting candidates with a salary many years out of date.\u00a0 Norton also got her bill enacted to reauthorize the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) introduced by members of the House Judiciary Committee, the committee of jurisdiction, and negotiated its five-year reauthorization, the longest reauthorization period yet. The bill is a matter of great importance to the District because the USPC has jurisdiction over D.C. Code felons.\u00a0 Norton legislation enacted named the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters, in Ward 8, for the Coast Guard\u2019s only Medal of Honor recipient, as it opened in 2013, to house 3,700 Coast Guard civilian and military employees.\u00a0\nNorton Cosponsored 795 bills in the 113th Congress, the Second Most of Any Member of the House\nNorton also introduced promising national legislation.\u00a0 Among them were bills to collect data on sexual assaults on airplanes to assist law enforcement, which she expects to move next year; to strip the National Football League of its tax-exempt status as long as it promotes the Washington football team name (also introduced in the Senate); to require employers seeking federal contracts to demonstrate compliance with workplace protection laws (ROSIE Act); and to ensure due process for federal employees.\n\u00a0\u00a0\n Making History: Unprecedented Momentum for D.C. Statehood\n The Congresswoman\u2019s first bill in the 114th Congress will be the New Columbia Admission Act, to make D.C. the 51st State.\u00a0 Norton set important statehood records in the 113th Congress, setting the stage for the growth of a newly invigorated statehood movement.\u00a0 She got the first-ever Senate hearing on statehood and the first congressional hearing on statehood in more than 20 years, putting D.C. statehood squarely on the congressional agenda.\u00a0 She also set the record for House and Senate cosponsors of the bill, with 112 in the House and 21 in the Senate, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who rarely cosponsors bills, as well as the three other top Senate Democratic leaders.\u00a0 Norton also got President Obama to endorse D.C. statehood before the statehood hearing, and later Attorney General Eric Holder, as well.\u00a0 Norton also got D.C.\u2019s first-ever statue, depicting Frederick Douglass, moved into the Capitol, giving D.C. the same recognition as the states.\u00a0 At the statue unveiling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he would cosponsor Norton\u2019s D.C. statehood bill, even though Majority Leaders rarely cosponsor bills.\u00a0 A few weeks after the hearing, Norton gave keynote remarks at a D.C. Statehood Strategy Summit, the first statehood gathering since the hearing.\nShe will focus in the next Congress on using the statehood bill and hearing to help grow a stronger statehood presence in D.C. and help develop a nationwide strategy to take her statehood bill to the next\u00a0 in Congress.\nWhat did the press say about D.C. statehood? WaPo Editorial Board, 9/12/14: \u201cIn truth, law makers need look no further than the title of the hearing \u2013 \u201cEquality for the District of Columbia\u201d \u2013 to understand\u2026That 650,000 people who live in the nation\u2019s capital are denied their full rights as U.S. citizens\u2026a travesty that cannot be condoned and should not be continued.\u201d\nWaPo Editorial Board, 9/18/14: \u201cWe have not abandoned our support for change, nor our regard for how Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and other advocates have championed the cause unflaggingly.\u201d\u00a0\n\u00a0\n Norton Moves D.C. Closer to Free and Equal \n President and Senate Sign-On for Budget and Legislative Autonomy\nWhile the statehood hearing made statehood a live issue in Congress, Norton also got traction on key elements of statehood.\u00a0 At Norton\u2019s request, the President\u2019s FY 15 budget and the Senate\u2019s FY 15 D.C. Appropriations bill granted the District budget and legislative autonomy, the first-ever budget and appropriations bill to grant both.\u00a0 Norton also got budget and legislative autonomy introduced in the Senate as stand-alone bills; the first-ever Senate legislative autonomy bill.\nThis Congress, she found seemingly unlikely Republican allies for budget autonomy, including Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) Committee Chairman Darrel Issa (R-CA), who both first endorsed budget autonomy last Congress.\u00a0\nNorton predicts respect for home rule from the new chairs with D.C. jurisdiction, and they have said as much already. She has already spoken with the new House chair and written the Senate committee chair, who she expects to meet with early next year.\u00a0 (See introduction)\nExempting D.C. from Shutdowns \nFor the first time, Norton got D.C. exempted from shutdowns for an entire fiscal year (2015).\u00a0 Norton also got the FY15 Senate D.C. Appropriations bill to permanently exempt D.C. from shutdowns, but the final FY 2015 omnibus spending bill (Omnibus), signed by President Obama, exempts D.C. from shutdowns in FY16. \u00a0Having gotten an agreement on shutdowns in both chambers, she will seek permanent shutdown legislation in 2015.\nBudget Autonomy Referendum Saved\nNorton also kept D.C.\u2019s budget autonomy referendum from being overturned in Congress.\u00a0 She got House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) to refrain from joining a House brief calling the referendum illegal in a lawsuit against the referendum. A federal district court struck down the referendum, but an appeal is pending, and Congress has taken no action.\u00a0\nWhat did the press say about D.C.\u2019s autonomy?  \n\tWaPo, Editorial Board, 4/16/14: \u201c[T]he District should have the ability enjoyed by every other local jurisdiction to spend its locally raised tax  \n\tdollars without approval or interference from Capitol Hill.\u201d\n  IV. Defeating Anti-Home-Rule Riders\nThe Future of Marijuana Reform\nHouse Republicans attached new D.C. riders -- marijuana and guns -- to their D.C. Appropriations bill, and President Obama\u2019s Statement of Administration Policy on the bill said the administration \u201cstrongly opposes\u201d the marijuana rider as a violation of the \u201cprinciple of States\u2019 rights and of District home rule.\u201d (The gun rider was added to the bill after the President\u2019s statement, and Norton kept the rider out of the Omnibus.) She was able to get bipartisan Members of the House to hold a press conference with her in support of D.C.\u2019s right to decriminalize or legalize marijuana, through Initiative 71 (Initiative), supported by 70 percent of the voters.\u00a0 Although a version marijuana rider was included in the Omnibus, which the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee said blocked legalization, Norton found a flaw in the rider\u2019s language.\u00a0 The House\u2019s original version had been changed from D.C. may not \u201cenact or carry out any law rule or regulation\u201d to legalize marijuana to D.C. cannot \u201cenact any law, rule, or regulation.\u201d in the Omnibus.\u00a0  However, the Initiative has already been enacted and requires no additional enactments to implement it.\u00a0 Norton\u2019s interpretation that the Omnibus does not prohibit D.C. from implementing the Initiative was later supported by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY), and D.C. Subcommittee Ranking Member Jose Serrano (D-NY). \nNorton predicts that non-partisan authorities will confirm her interpretation.\u00a0 If Norton\u2019s interpretation is correct Republicans will be forced to try to block the Initiative on their watch and encounter states that have implemented some form of marijuana reform \u2013 23 states have legalized medical marijuana, 18 states have decriminalized marijuana and four states have marijuana legalizations laws.\nDefending D.C.\u2019s Gun Safety Laws\nNorton was successful in keeping the House-passed D.C. gun rider \u2013 the most dangerous of the two new House riders \u2013 out of the Omnibus.\u00a0 Representative Thomas Massie\u2019s (R-KY) gun rider would have made blocked D.C. from enforcing local gun laws, including its ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines.\u00a0\nFor the third-straight year, Norton also got Representative Phil Gingrey\u2019s (R-GA) House-passed anti-home-rule gun resolution removed from the final National Defense Authorization Act.\u00a0 The Gingrey amendment, passed as an amendment to the House version of the bill, expressed the sense of Congress that active duty military personnel in their private capacity should be exempt from the gun safety laws of the District of Columbia, but not elsewhere.\u00a0 Although a resolution does not have the force of law, Norton wanted to defeat all anti-home-rule gun bills while Democrats were in power to assist her.\nNorton is preparing for anti-home-rule gun bills that could come in the 114th Congress.\n  What did the press say about D.C.\u2019s marijuana laws? New York Times, Editorial Board, 10/6/14: \u201cDecades of arresting people for buying, selling, and using marijuana have hurt more than helped society, and minority communities have been disproportionately affected by the harsh criminal penalties of prohibition.\u201d\nWhat did the press say about House passage of anti-home-rule marijuana and gun laws?\nKentucky\u2019s Courier-Journal, Editorial Board, 7/24/14: \u201c\u2026Ms. Norton could only complain about the gun measure but not vote against it. That sounds like taxation without representation, something anyone who purports to love liberty ought to oppose.\u201d\nWaPo, Editorial Board, 7/20/14: \u201cHouse Republicans who profess an allegiance to local democracy outdid themselves in the hypocrisy department last week as they trampled on the District\u2019s right to home rule. Not content with measures that restrict the District from using its locally raised tax dollars for abortions for low-income women, the Republican-controlled House also voted to roll back the city\u2019s decriminalization of marijuana and gut city gun laws.\u201d\u00a0\nV. Building a Bustling D.C. Economy: Norton\u2019s Bills Generate Economic Growth\nNorton was elected ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, the most important Transportation and Infrastructure Committee subcommittee.\u00a0 It has the largest authorized funds among the subcommittees.\u00a0 This position puts her in good standing to increase D.C.\u2019s economic development and project funding.\nAgainst the Odds, DHS Constructions Keeps Growing\nDespite budget cuts that have slowed construction, Norton has kept getting funds to build the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters complex in Ward 8.\u00a0 For FY 2014, Norton got an additional $144 million for operations and for rehabilitation of the main Center Building, to house the office of the Secretary and his 700 top employees.\u00a0 Construction contractors were recently selected.\u00a0 Norton also got $188 million included in the omnibus for FY 15.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\nNorton predicts that DHS will be completed by 2026.\nCoast Guard Headquarters\nThe U.S. Coast Guard headquarters, which was named by Norton\u2019s bill, marked the first federal building east of the Anacostia River.\u00a0 It opened in 2013.\nSouthwest Waterfront Construction Begins\nThe Southwest Waterfront redevelopment, known as \u201cThe Wharf,\u201d broke ground in 2014, after Norton got her bill through two House committees and worked with Republican leadership to get it enacted, in 2012.\u00a0\nIn 2015, D.C. will see the first elements of the project \u2013 a new pier extending 450 feet into the Washington Channel. \u00a0 The enormous two-phase Wharf project will create thousands of permanent jobs for D.C. residents, generate $47 million in tax revenue every year, and create new waterfront housing, shops, parks and docks, all revitalizing the city\u2019s Southwest quadrant.\u00a0 The developers have announced a public square, complete with picnic benches and green spaces, at the Wharf to be named \u201cEleanor Holmes Norton Plaza.\u201d\n\u00a0A New Hotel Takes Shapes from the Old Post Office Building\nNorton broke ground on the Old Post Office Building redevelopment, a result of her 2008 law.\u00a0 The redevelopment effort will turn the 114-year-old building into D.C.\u2019s first luxury hotel, bringing 700 construction jobs and 300 permanent jobs.\u00a0 The project will yield $100 million in tax revenue over ten years for the city.\u00a0 Norton is working with the General Services Administration and the developer on a 2015 plan for hiring D.C. residents.\nThe Yards Becomes a New Neighborhood\nThe Southeast Waterfront redevelopment, known as \u201cThe Yards,\u201d continues at a rapid pace, due to a 2000 Norton law that authorized private redevelopment of federal land for the first time.\u00a0 When fully developed, the site, which was an eye sore of dilapidated Navy Yard structures, will generate billions in revenue for the city.\u00a0 Nineteen restaurants and 15 retail shops opened in 2013 and seven restaurants and seven retail shops opened in 2014, including a Harris Teeter grocery store.\u00a0 Six more developments are planned for 2015.\nFirst Segment of Walter Reed Transferred to D.C.\nThis year, Norton got the first federal property at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) transferred to the District.\u00a0 Building 18 will be the home of a new fire and emergency station Ward 4 has long needed to reduce response times for the northernmost section of the District, enhancing public safety.\u00a0 Once D.C. receives its entire portion of WRAMC, this historic property will transform upper Georgia Avenue with mixed-use development, including housing and the neighborhood\u2019s first extensive commercial amenities.\u00a0 Norton earlier got an increase in acres available for negotiation by the D.C. government and, this year, she ensured in the NDAA that 67 of the 110-acre site will be occupied by the District.\u00a0 Earlier this year, the State Department tried to get 13 acres of D.C. land in exchange for land Children\u2019s National Medical Center wanted because it contains a state-of-the-art laboratory.\u00a0 Norton saved the full portion of D.C.\u2019s land and ensured that an entity like Children\u2019s will get the 13-acre state-of-the-art laboratory.\nWorld War I Memorial\nNorton laid to rest any possible future nationalization of D.C.\u2019s War Memorial with compromise language she negotiated in the NDAA that formally re-designates Pershing Park, a federal park, as a national World War I Memorial, and preserves D.C.\u2019s War Memorial for D.C. veterans only.\u00a0\n  VI. Despite Sequestration and Partisan Gridlock, Norton Funds D.C.\u2019s Priorities\nConsidering that Democrats lost the Senate in the November elections, Norton fought especially hard to get as much funding as possible for D.C. in appropriations legislation.\u00a0\n\u00a0Helps Ensure D.C.\u2019s Transportation Funding \nAs ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, which writes the largest House transportation funding bill, Norton\u2019s leadership helped D.C. and the region get the full $150 million installment for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in the Omnibus.\u00a0 This is the sixth installment for WMATA\u2019s 10-year, $1.5 billion authorization for capital improvements included in the 2008 Rail Safety Improvement Act, which Norton helped champion as a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.\nNorton expects to increase D.C.\u2019s funding for roads, bridges, WMATA, and buses in the surface transportation reauthorization bill due in 2015.\nDCTAG Remains Funded\nWhen appropriators told Norton that DCTAG was at risk after the D.C. Council passed a college scholarship program, she moved to shore up DCTAG.\u00a0 She began by writing to President Obama and got a $10 million in increased funding in his FY 15 budget, bringing DCTAG to $40 million.\u00a0 She then urged appropriators to fully fund DCTAG and got $30 million in the Omnibus, \u2013 no decrease from the year before.\u00a0 However, Norton is already gearing up for another fight next year to ensure DCTAG is funded, given the new Republican majority in the Senate, where Democrats have been her best partners.\nAnacostia River Priority\nNorton\u2019s work on Anacostia River cleanup is dependent, in part, on funding for D.C. Water\u2019s Clean Rivers program to combat combined sewer overflow.\u00a0 She was the lead sponsor of the Anacostia Watershed Initiative, her bill that was enacted with four regional co-sponsors in 2007, authorizing the Army Corps to develop a comprehensive plan for cleaning up the Anacostia River.\u00a0 This year, she got $14 million for the Clean Rivers program in the Omnibus the same as in the prior year.\u00a0 She will press the federal government, the largest D.C. Water rate-payer, to increase its funding next year, in light of the recent water main break in a major D.C. sewer pipe that caused flooding and Metro closures and delays.\u00a0\nAll Norton\u2019s High-Quality D.C. Judges Confirmed\nIn a win for D.C.\u2019s federal judicial system, all ten of Norton\u2019s recommendations to President Obama for federal district court judges here have been confirmed by the Senate.\u00a0 President Obama, like President Clinton, granted Norton senatorial courtesy to recommend candidates for federal district court judges and other important federal law enforcement officials in the District.\n  VII. Serving Constituents and Keeping D.C. Informed of the Good and Bad from Congress\nNorton found new and expanded ways to reach neighborhoods across the city.\u00a0 This year, she hosted 20 Government-to-Go events at grocery stores, D.C. government locations, such as libraries, and at non-profit organizations, such as senior centers, which brought caseworkers and information on federal matters to residents who cannot come to her District Office.\u00a0 She held two town halls and six roundtables on national and local legislative issues.\u00a0 She participated in eight Norton in Your Neighborhood community events, in conjunction with ANCs and community groups, to discuss congressional issues.\nTours of House Floor, Top Norton Community Events\nNorton led the first six tours of the House floor for D.C. groups ranging from schools to community groups.\u00a0 Norton will offer the tour to local D.C. media and will triple the number of D.C. groups to tour the House floor.\u00a0 To schedule a special tour of the House floor, D.C.\u2019s first statue in Congress, and other significant congressional sites for your group, contact Norton\u2019s office at 202-225-8050 or visit www.Norton.House.Gov.\u00a0\nEvents for D.C.\u2019s Diverse Population \nNorton offered a rich variety of special events for D.C. residents drawn from important D.C. sectors, including a Tax Fair for tax preparation services; a Capitol Hill \u201cAsk Me About D.C. Event\u201d event for Members of the House and Senate and staff showcasing D.C.\u2019s tourist sites; a Job Fair; a Small Business Fair; a Congressional\u00a0 Art Competition for high school students; a Service Academy Night; a Seniors Legislative Day; a National Dance Day; and two Black Men and Boys Commission and Caucus Hearings.\nNorton\u2019s Town Halls, Roundtables, and NIYNs Produce Results  4 Town Halls:\n\u2022National Park Service Town Hall with NPS, National Mall officials, and Smithsonian officials  \n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-NPS agreed to consider food trucks on the National Mall \u2022Two CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project Community Events\n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Got increased opportunities for community oversight, questions, and transparency. \u2022Capital Parks East Town Hall with NPS, Shepard Parkway Committee, and Washington Parks and People  \n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -U.S. Park Police cracked down on crime.\n6 Roundtables:\n\u2022WMATA Roundtable with Top WMATA Officials and Transportation Union Leaders  \n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-Roundtable showed most safety steps taken since 2009 crash; testimony helped Norton to get the $150 million WMATA authorization. \u2022DCTAG Roundtable with Residents  \n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-Got information that helped Norton get appropriators to give DCTAG $30 million in Omnibus. \u2022Postal Roundtable with D.C. Postmaster General, Postal Union Officials, and Residents  \n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -Agreed on recommendations to improve local service: quarterly Postmaster meetings with ANCs; an automated phone system for residents who want only routine information, freeing up customer service representatives to handle substantive issues; create the position of D.C. Postal Ombudsman to solve recurring customer service problems; and get State Department assistance in processing passports using postal office personnel. \u2022Union Station Roundtable with NPS, Union Station Officials, and City Officials.  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0-Union Station officials began work that is reducing traffic congestion. \u2022Immigration Roundtable/Hispanic Heritage Month with City and Federal Officials, Latino Community Leaders, and Educators  \n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0-Panel offered information for families of D.C. residents directly affected by the surge in unaccompanied children from Central America. \u2022Unemployment Insurance Roundtable  \n\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0-Real stories soon to go online in continuing effort to get Congress to pass legislation\u00a0 extending long-term unemployment insurance.\n8 Norton in Your Neighborhood (NIYN):\n\u2022 Parkside Civic Association  \n\t\u2022 Bates Area Civic Association  \n\t\u2022 Pleasant Plains Civic Association  \n\t\u2022 Brookland Civic Association  \n\t\u2022 Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence  \n\t\u2022 Brightwood Park Civic Association  \n\t\u2022 Renaissance Adult Day Health Care Center  \n\t\u2022 ANC4B Community Meeting\nD.C. community and civic organizations, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, and other groups can sponsor a Norton in Your Neighborhood.\u00a0 Visit https://norton.house.gov or call Norton\u2019s district office at (202) 408-9041.", 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-set-records-in-113th-congress-undaunted-by-new-republican-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0225252956151962, "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"}