{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://jordan.house.gov/media/press-releases/jordan-introduces-84-billion-spending-cuts", "Jordan Introduces $84 Billion in Spending Cuts", "2009-09-24", "2009", "2009-09", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Jim Jordan", "J000289", "jordan.house.gov", "jordan", "https://jordan.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "September 24, 2009\n\nToday, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) offered the following comments on the defeat of his fiscally-responsible alternative to the Democrat spending package likely to pass on Friday:\n\n\"My proposal was a modest first step towards a balanced federal budget. There is no more important issue to the economic future of our country, so I will continue making the case that the federal government should tighten its belt instead of always asking the American people to do so.\"\n\nJordan's plan would have saved taxpayers $84 billion just by holding the line on non-defense spending to 2008 levels. The amendment was defeated on a party-line vote in House Rules Committee.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:15:14Z"]], "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://jordan.house.gov/media/press-releases/jordan-introduces-84-billion-spending-cuts"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0886771380901337, "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"}