{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bost.house.gov/2022/8/bost-votes-against-biden-s-spending-spree", "BOST VOTES AGAINST BIDEN\u2019S SPENDING SPREE", "2022-08-12", "2022", "2022-08", "Republican", "House", "IL", "Mike Bost", "B001295", "bost.house.gov", "bost", "https://bost.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representative Mike Bost (IL-12) today voted against Democrats\u2019 tax and spending bill. The legislation contains funding for the IRS to hire an additional 87,000 agents, a 15% minimum tax on book income, drug price controls, a natural gas tax, and billions of dollars for Green New Deal provisions.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and D.C. liberals will stop at nothing to make their Green New Deal dreams a reality, even if it means crushing struggling American families in the process,\u201d said Bost. \u201cThis bill is packed with taxes that will kill jobs and raise energy prices and price controls that will sabotage the development of new lifesaving medications and cures. When 40-year high inflation is already making it nearly impossible for Americans to pay their bills, fill up their cars, and put food on their tables, this spending spree is not the solution. It will only make a bad situation worse.\u201d\n\nProvisions in the bill:\n\nFunding for the IRS to hire 87,000 new agents, which will mean 1 million new audits of people making $200,000 or less\n\n15% minimum tax on book income\n\nDrug price controls that would kill the development of up to 342 lifesaving drugs and cures\n\n$27 billion slush fund for a National Climate Bank to dole out money for pet projects and special interest groups\n\n$396 billion for green special interests without guardrails to ensure the funding doesn\u2019t go towards Chinese companies\n\nNatural gas tax\n\n$500 million slush fund for the Biden Administration to use the Defense Production Act to carry out their radical climate agenda in the name of a \u201cnational emergency\u201d\n\n$500 million for DHS to carry out \u201csustainability and environmental programs\u201d instead of securing the border and enforcing immigration laws\n\n$3 billion for a new fleet of electric postal trucks\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:59:24Z"]], "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://bost.house.gov/2022/8/bost-votes-against-biden-s-spending-spree"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4006281271576881, "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"}