{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=8629", "Carter rejects Democrats\u2019 bid to raise federal debt", "2021-12-15", "2021", "2021-12", "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. - The House early this morning officially sent a bill to President Biden\u2019s desk to raise the debt limit up to nearly $31 trillion. Rep. Earl L. \u201cBuddy\u201d Carter (R-GA) proudly voted against this reckless legislation.\n\nOn a nearly party line 221-209 vote, the House advanced S.J. Res 33, which paves the way to funding Washington Democrats\u2019 radical tax and spending sprees.\n\n\u201cDo not believe Pelosi, Biden, and Schumers\u2019 lies - we did not raise the debt ceiling today to pay the nation\u2019s existing debt. They did it so they could fund their socialist infrastructure and build back broke schemes,\u201d said Carter. \u201cI fully support the United States following through on its obligations and paying back our debt; but, I do not support Congressional Democrats and the Biden Administration manipulating what should be a bipartisan process to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars that will indebt our children, entrench bureaucracy into Americans\u2019 lives, and benefit only the wealthy.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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=8629"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8153991550207138, "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"}