{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338444", "Foxx, House GOP Say Fiscal Cliff Solutions Should Protect Americas Future", "2012-12-13", "2012", "2012-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "House Republicans Highlight the Effects of the Fiscal Cliff on America\u2019s Families\n\nCongresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC), GOP Conference Secretary, and members of the House Republican Conference were joined Wednesday by students and children at the capitol to address the immediate need to solve America\u2019s debt crisis in order to spare future generations the consequences of today\u2019s unsustainable spending. Fiscal cliff negotiations should be about people, not politics. House Republicans drew on their experience as parents and grandparents to make the case for resolving the spending-driven debt crisis for the sake of America\u2019s young people.\n\nVideo, photos, and text from the event are below:\n\nVideo Remarks: Congresswoman Virginia Foxx.\n\nText Excerpts: Congresswoman Virginia Foxx.\n\n\u201cDebt problems of a 16.2 trillion dollar proportion don\u2019t get solved without real savings. And while the President\u2019s offers have plenty of Washington budget gimmicks, real savings are disappointingly absent. That concerns me.\n\n\u201cMy grandkids are just starting to think about college and what they might want to be when they\u2019re older.\n\n\u201cI worry for them because a country saddled with debt is not a country where job growth abounds. A country that spends 1 trillion dollars more than it takes in every year is not a country that\u2019s going to make it easier for young people to find jobs to support themselves, move out of their parents\u2019 home, and pay for their college investments.\n\n\u201cI want more for my grandchildren than a shaky job market and mountains of debt they didn\u2019t incur. I want to leave them a country as strong and prosperous as the one I grew up in.\n\n\u201cSo I can\u2019t, in good conscience, support any so-called solution that leaves the real work of controlling spending for another day. That\u2019s not what parents and grandparents do. We fix problems. We don\u2019t back away from them.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cDebt is no more \u201cpatriotic\u201d today than when the President first ran in 2008.\n\n\u201cThe debt problem we face may not be entirely of our own making, but every day we don\u2019t control spending the problem gets worse for our children and grandchildren. Somebody has to deal with it. It should be us.\u201d\n\nVideo Remarks: Protecting America\u2019s Future News Conference in its entirety.\n\nPhotos: Images from the news conference are available here.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:51Z"]], "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://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=338444"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8705318905413151, "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"}