{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://richmond.house.gov/press-release/rep-richmond-statement-status-continuing-resolution", "Rep. Richmond Statement on Status of Continuing Resolution", "2013-10-02", "2013", "2013-10", "Democrat", "House", "LA", "Cedric Richmond", "R000588", "richmond.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Cedric Richmond (LA-02) issued the following statement after none of the House majority\u2019s latest three bills, which broke up the Continuing Resolution, passed in the House of Representatives:\n\u201cWe have an obligation in Congress to get the entire government up and running again! Today\u2019s effort by the GOP confirms that they are out of touch with the American people and don\u2019t understand the gravity of a shutdown. I will not support wasting more time with mini bills that only offer empty rhetoric instead of a real solution. How can we pick and choose what stays open and what remains closed when people\u2019s livelihoods are on the line? I won\u2019t do it. There are 800,000 furloughed federal employees who lie in the balance of this ruthless standoff.\n\u201cThis is a piecemeal approach that selectively addresses some areas and not others \u2013 that\u2019s not how you run a government. These bills don\u2019t even scratch the surface to delivering a solution that ends this shutdown and gets federal employees back to work.\u00a0 We are wasting precious time that we don\u2019t have and literally can\u2019t afford to waste. Republicans need to get serious because we are in serious times.\u201d", 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://richmond.house.gov/press-release/rep-richmond-statement-status-continuing-resolution"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9955866262316704, "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"}