{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases/amodei-votes-congressional-pay-freeze", "Amodei votes for Congressional pay freeze", "2012-02-01", "2012", "2012-02", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Mark E. Amodei", "A000369", "amodei.house.gov", "amodei", "https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases", "scraper", "IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brian Baluta (202) 225-6155\n\nFebruary 1, 2011\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today voted in favor of H.R. 3835, to extend the current pay freeze for Members of Congress and federal employees for an additional year. The commonsense measure cleared the two-thirds majority needed for passage, 309 to 117. Amodei also voted yes on H.Res. 496, to cut the budgets for House leadership offices and committees by 5% from the previous Congress.\n\n\"Bottom line: Americans and Nevadans have tightened their belts. The federal government better do the same,\" said Amodei.\n\nEarlier this Congress, Amodei supported a provision to cut his personal office's operating budget by 6.4% from the previous year, which was on top of a 5% cut from the year before that.\n\nOn Tuesday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Annual Budget and Economic Outlook, which projects that the federal budget deficit will exceed $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. The CBO also estimates that economic growth will remain sluggish and that the national unemployment rate will exceed nine percent in both 2013 and 2014.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:10:41Z"]], "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": ["https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases/amodei-votes-congressional-pay-freeze"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9193397127091885, "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"}