{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://pittenger.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pittenger-jimmie-johnson-a-champion-on-and-off-the-track", "Pittenger:  Jimmie Johnson "a champion on and off the track"", "2013-11-19", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Robert Pittenger", "P000606", "pittenger.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\u00a0\nNovember 19, 2013\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\n CONGRESSMAN PITTENGER: \u00a0JIMMIE JOHNSON \u201cA CHAMPION BOTH ON AND OFF THE TRACK\u201d \n\u00a0\nWASHINGTON \u2013 On Sunday, Ninth District resident Jimmie Johnson won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship, his sixth championship in just eight years.\n\u00a0\n\u201cJimmie Johnson is a remarkable race car driver, but I\u2019m even more impressed with his work off the track,\u201d commented Congressman Robert Pittenger (NC-09). \u00a0\u201cSince 2006, the Jimmie Johnson Foundation has contributed more than $5 million to charity, with a special focus on improving K-12 education in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and California.\n\u00a0\n\u201cJimmie Johnson is a champion both on and off the track, and while his racing exploits will one day be memorialized in the NASCAR Hall of Fame, his quiet, off-the-track efforts to improve education will be his most significant, lasting legacy.\u201d\n\u00a0\nCongressman Pittenger will soon give a speech on the House floor to honor Jimmie Johnson\u2019s community involvement, and also plans to extend an invitation to Jimmie Johnson and his #48 Lowe\u2019s team to attend a special Congressional reception in honor of their championship season.\n\u00a0\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://pittenger.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pittenger-jimmie-johnson-a-champion-on-and-off-the-track"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9412928484380245, "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"}