{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases?ID=11D3C441-D400-44E4-A114-3C5879BF0AEC", "Whip Clark: \u201cWhy This Reckless, 6-Month CR? One Reason: Donald Trump\u2019s Project 2025.\u201d", "2024-09-11", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Katherine M. Clark", "C001101", "katherineclark.house.gov", "clark", "https://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) took to the House Floor today, slamming the House Republican Majority for threatening a government shutdown to advance Donald Trump\u2019s extreme Project 2025 agenda. Below is a transcript of her remarks:\n\n\u201cHere we are once again. My Republican colleagues have decided to end the 118th Congress the same way they started it. Not with a serious budget \u2014 but with partisan chaos. Let's look at the last two years.\n\n\u201cFirst, the GOP manufactured a debt ceiling crisis and took our economy hostage. Despite that, we came together as Democrats and negotiated in good faith. We struck a bipartisan deal, and we signed it into law. But the Republicans tore it up! They have ignored it ever since. They have driven us to the edge of a government shutdown \u2014 four times! All to take the money out of pockets of everyday families and stuff the pockets of billionaires.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s the same plan every single time: manufacture a crisis, then make working people pay the price. Cut their health care. Delay their retirement. Lay off the teachers. Well this week, they\u2019ve decided to run this same play for a fifth time. They\u2019ve brought another extreme, partisan bill to the Floor.\n\n\u201cSpeaker Johnson said yesterday: \u2018It\u2019s the right thing to do.\u2019 The right thing to do? Today is 9/11. The 23rd commemoration of the horrors that were befallen upon us on that day. I, too, was at the ceremony honoring those heroes that we lost in Afghanistan. So, coming up $12 billion short for our veterans\u2019 health care? Endangering their disability checks? That is the right thing to do?\n\n\u201cCompromising our national security? Cutting Social Security\u2019s ability to meet the needs of our seniors? Even defunding election security? That\u2019s the right thing to do?\n\n\u201cC\u2019mon. They know this is the wrong thing to do. So why are we doing it? Why this reckless, 6-month CR? One reason: Donald Trump\u2019s Project 2025.\n\n\u201cThe GOP wants to delay this fight past the election, into next year \u2014 all in the hopes that they have a better chance at enacting Trump\u2019s extreme agenda.\n\n\u201cWhat is that agenda? Ending Social Security and Medicare as we know them. Auctioning off the VA [to] for-profit corporations. Cutting our school budgets in half. Eliminating the Department of Education. Eliminating Head Start. Raising the cost of child care. Imposing a national sales tax. Rationing health care for working families. And enacting a nationwide abortion ban.\n\n\u201cThe Republicans have shown us their plans for a second Trump term. They have told us it will be even worse than his first. We should believe them.\n\n\u201cThe American people reject this extremism \u2014 and so should the GOP. Let\u2019s pass a bipartisan funding agreement that fulfills our duty to our country, to our veterans, to our seniors, and to our children.\u201d\n\nTo watch the full speech, click HERE.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://katherineclark.house.gov/press-releases?ID=11D3C441-D400-44E4-A114-3C5879BF0AEC"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.326217781752348, "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"}