{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=F939184F-CCF3-4C42-AA52-32869C6191DE", "Congressman Barr: Democrats Own Debt Crisis", "2021-10-12", "2021", "2021-10", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Andy Barr", "B001282", "barr.house.gov", "barr", "https://barr.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2013 U.S. Congressman Andy Barr (KY-06) released the following statement after voting against giving House Democrats a blank check to bankrupt America:\n\n\u201cSince the 117th Congress began, House Democrats have governed in a totally partisan fashion. Less than one month after the President took office, claiming he wanted to unify the country, and on the heels of five bipartisan COVID-19 packages in 2020, Congressional Democrats rammed through a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill on a party-line vote. Democrats called this bill a \u201cCOVID-19 relief bill,\u201d but less than 10% of the funding in the massive package went toward public health measures. House Democrats\u2019 payoff to progressives created historic inflation numbers that are crushing the middle-class and a debt crisis we confront today.\n\n\u201cSimply put, Democrats own this debt crisis. I voted to raise the debt ceiling in 2019 on a bipartisan basis and that debt ceiling increase covered expenses incurred by the Trump Administration through January 20, 2021. However, I will not give Congressional Democrats a blank check to bankrupt America by doubling down on their failed tax, borrow and spend policies and impose a $2.1 trillion tax increase on American job creators and families during a pandemic.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "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://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=F939184F-CCF3-4C42-AA52-32869C6191DE"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0187369771301746, "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"}