{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=457", "Hern votes against short-term funding bill, urges return to budget process", "2021-12-02", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "House", "OK", "Kevin Hern", "H001082", "hern.house.gov", "hern", "https://hern.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement after voting against HR 6119, providing short-term funding for the federal government through February.\n\n\u201cCongress hasn\u2019t passed a proper budget in years, and it\u2019s been decades since we followed the timeline set out in the Congressional Budget Act,\u201d said Rep. Hern. \u201cNo wonder our debt is soaring! The House continues to recklessly spend taxpayer dollars without any effort to create a budget or mitigate the debt crisis. It\u2019s long past time to abandon these swampy spending measures and get back to work on common-sense spending reforms.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve been consistent with my votes against short-term spending measures like this. These bills are not an adequate replacement for the proper budget process. We can\u2019t keep kicking the can down the road and ignore the real problem \u2013 this is exactly the kind of broken system I came to Congress to fix.\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://hern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=457"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5100589953362942, "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"}