{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://labrador.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=49&itemid=1061", "Labrador Issues Statement on Passing of Resolution Continuing Unsustainable Spending", "2016-09-28", "2016", "2016-09", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Ra\u00fal Labrador", "L000573", "labrador.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tFOR MORE INFORMATION: \r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tWednesday | Sept. 28, 2016\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tDan Popkey \u2013 208-800-1565\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tLABRADOR ISSUES STATEMENT ON RESOLUTION CONTINUING UNSUSTAINABLE SPENDING \r\n\r\n\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Rep. Ra\u00fal Labrador, R-Idaho, issued the following statement after the House passed a Continuing Resolution extending spending at current levels until December:\r\n\r\n\t\u201cEstablishment Republicans have once again partnered with Democrats to ignore our fiscal crisis, rather than join conservatives determined to restore fiscal sanity. Both parties have proven they have no intention of balancing our budget or slowing the growth of our crushing debt. A year ago, our new Republican leadership vowed to complete the regular appropriations process, passing the 12 bills that fulfill the duty of Congress to take good care in spending taxpayer dollars. Today, they punted, refusing to tackle the hard choices that must be made to preserve American prosperity.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cThe broken promise leaves me both saddened and angry. I\u2019m saddened because we had made progress in the last five years, trimming annual deficits by nearly 70 percent, from $1.4 trillion to $439 billion. The positive trajectory was reversed this year, with the deficit projected to reach $590 billion. According to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office, we\u2019re in for a decade of anemic economic growth and the return of trillion-dollar annual deficits.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cI\u2019m angry because we weren\u2019t permitted to do our work. Rather than complete our most basic job \u2013 passing spending bills \u2013 leadership sent us out on a seven-week summer recess. Congress should have stayed to meet its responsibilities, but now we\u2019re taking another extended break.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cWe appear headed for more of the same when we return in December for a lame duck session,where the unholy alliance will continue to blow through the limits in the 2011 Budget Control Act in order to increase both military and domestic spending. If we don\u2019t mend our ways, our legacy to our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be economic ruin.\u201d", 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://labrador.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=49&itemid=1061"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.6502301916480064, "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"}