{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fudge.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=1540", "Congresswoman Fudge Statement on the Government Spending Bill", "2014-12-11", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Marcia Fudge", "F000455", "fudge.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "CONGRESSWOMAN FUDGE STATEMENT ON THE GOVERNMENT SPENDING BILL\r\n\t\u201cBig Banks don\u2019t need another bail-out.\u00a0 Big donors don\u2019t need more influence in elections.\u00a0 Homeland Security is less secure without long-range funding.\u201d\r\n\r\n\tWASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) issued the following statement tonight after voting no on H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriates Act, known as the \u201cCromnibus\u201d government spending bill:\r\n\r\n\t\u201cThe price of keeping the federal government operating should not come at the cost of more giveaways to special interests or expansion of big money influence in our political system.\u00a0 Yet, the \u2018Cromnibus\u2019 does just that by cramming provisions into the bill that have nothing to do with funding the government for the next fiscal year,\u201d said Congresswoman Fudge.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cThis appropriations bill erodes the Dodd-Frank Act and the protections it put in place after big banks and Wall Street traders nearly wrecked the nation\u2019s financial system in 2008.\u00a0 Have we learned nothing from the recent past?\u00a0 H.R. 83 allows the very same interests that put the economy in a tailspin and cost millions of Americans their jobs to get another chance to make risky bets with taxpayers\u2019 money.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t\u201cAnother unwarranted provision in H.R. 83 involves campaign finance.\u00a0 The working families, young adults and seniors I represent want meaningful campaign finance reform that lessens the influence of the mega-wealthy and special interests.\u00a0 This legislation does just the opposite.\u00a0\u00a0 It increases more than ten times the amount individual donors can give to national political parties, from $32,400 to $324,000 per year to pay for conventions, election recounts and building funds.\u00a0 This is outrageous.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t\u201cI am also concerned that while other government operations would be funded for a full year, H.R. 83 funds the Department of Homeland Security only until February 27, 2015.\u00a0 Security within our borders is best served by implementing a long-range, comprehensive strategy, not a short-term budget agreement,\u201d said Congresswoman Fudge.\r\n\r\n\t###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://fudge.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=25&itemid=1540"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8836231902241707, "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"}