{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=10542", "Carter\u2019s statement on taxpayer-funded student loan forgiveness", "2022-08-24", "2022", "2022-08", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Earl L. \"Buddy\" Carter", "C001103", "buddycarter.house.gov", "buddycarter", "https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Following President Biden\u2019s announcement that he is using taxpayer dollars to pay off up to $20,000 in student loans per borrower, Rep. Earl L. \u201cBuddy\u201d Carter (R-GA) delivered the following statement:\n\n\u201cWoke universities don\u2019t need $300 billion in taxpayer dollars, especially when they continue to raise tuition even as the value of a four-year degree declines. Workers are being crushed by inflation, and instead of helping the lowest 10% of income earners, Biden is throwing taxpayer dollars at the highest 10%. This is one of the worst dollar-for-dollar investments we could possibly make in our country,\u201d said Carter.\n\nHe also emphasized that when Washington Democrats say \u201cfree,\u201d they mean \u201ctaxpayer-funded.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere is no such thing as a free lunch. We need to address the root causes of the rising cost of tuition, not subsidize the wealthy\u2019s education on middle America\u2019s dime,\u201d said Carter.\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://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=10542"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8231760002672672, "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"}