{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://guest.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-guest-votes-against-path-higher-taxes-and-more-inflation", "Congressman Guest Votes Against Path to Higher Taxes and More Inflation", "2022-07-28", "2022", "2022-07", "Republican", "House", "MS", "Michael Guest", "G000591", "guest.house.gov", "guest", "https://guest.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2013 Today, Congressman Michael Guest (MS-03) voted against the Senate Amendment to H.R. 4346, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, arguing that raising taxes, as proposed in Congressional Democrats\u2019 new Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, during an economic recession would cripple the economy.\n\n\u201cOn day one of President Biden\u2019s economic recession, Senate Democrats struck a deal that would raise taxes and increase inflation. Although the CHIPS Act contains provisions that are intended to strengthen an important sector of our economy, Democrats have turned CHIPS into a path to higher taxes and more inflation that will fall on the shoulders of middle-class Americans \u2014 adding more pain on top of President Biden\u2019s economic recession,\u201d Guest said.\n\nToday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced a consecutive quarter of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decline in 2022 \u2014 meeting the technical definition of a recession.\n\n\u201cA recession is never good news, but Americans are going to be in a much tougher spot if Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer raise taxes during this one,\u201d Guest continued.\n\nBackground:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:49:02Z"]], "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://guest.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-guest-votes-against-path-higher-taxes-and-more-inflation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1145691387355328, "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"}