{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://estes.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3657", "Rep Estes Votes Against Lame-Duck Democrat Spending", "2022-12-22", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "KS", "Ron Estes", "E000298", "estes.house.gov", "estes", "https://estes.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Rep. Estes (R-Kansas) voted against lame-duck Democrats\u2019 exorbitant $1.7 trillion omnibus package.\n\n\u201cThe past two years of total Democrat control in Washington have been a complete disaster,\u201d said Rep. Estes. \u201cNot content with causing the worst inflation in decades, Democrats have decided to force through a massive 1.7 trillion-dollar spending package at the 11th hour before Republicans take back control of the House. Their $1.7 trillion package is overflowing with bad policies that will make inflation worse, ignores the crisis at the border and fails to fix the defund the police crime wave. This 4,000-plus-page bill that no one has read in total is everything that\u2019s wrong with Washington, D.C. This deliberate move by lame-duck Democrats sidelines the incoming majority \u2013 allowing Nancy Pelosi to pass one more pork-filled bill.\u201d\n\nThe unprecedented $1.7 trillion, 4,000-plus-page Pelosi-Schumer omnibus spending bill that was fast-tracked through the Senate and passed the House 225 to 201 includes:\n\n\u2022 $286 million in Title X funding that will fund Planned Parenthood.\n\n\u2022 $65 million for salmon restoration project\n\n\u2022 Creates a pandemic czar, adding to our already bloated bureaucracy which will take away Americans\u2019 liberties in name of \u201cpublic health\u201d\n\n\u2022 Allocates historic high funding for renewable energy programs at the Department of Energy instead of addressing the decimated American energy independence.\n\n\u2022 $410 million for border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman without securing our own southern border\n\n\u2022 $524.4 million for the NIH to fight \"structural racism\"\n\n\u2022 More than 4,000 earmarks for pet projects, like $1.5 million to encourage outdoor eating in Pasadena, California, and $2.35 million for the Leahy Center named after retiring Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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://estes.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3657"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6717129144817591, "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"}