{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-votes-repeal-corrupt-senate-republican-slush-fund", "Larson Votes to Repeal Corrupt Senate Republican Slush Fund", "2025-11-19", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "John B. Larson", "L000557", "larson.house.gov", "larson", "https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201cAs if it wasn\u2019t bad enough for Republicans to refuse to dedicate a penny for health care in their funding bill, it was beyond the pale for eight Republican Senators to gift themselves millions in taxpayer dollars,\u201d said Larson. \u201cThat vote was the single most corrupt act I have ever witnessed in my public life. While I am glad the House acted to resoundingly reject these corrupt cash payouts to our Senate colleagues, tonight\u2019s vote leaves us with little chance of this bill actually becoming law. Democrats tried to remove this provision during last week\u2019s session, but Republicans voted it down. Just last night, Senator Graham doubled down on Fox News, saying he would try to recoup \u2018tens of millions of dollars\u2019 from American taxpayers, and Leader Thune has so far rejected our calls to act in the Senate. If these Senators feel so strongly that their privacy was violated by a lawful subpoena, they should have been up in arms when Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018DOGE\u2019 minions moved every American\u2019s personal records from Social Security to a vulnerable cloud \u2013 perhaps the largest ever data breach in our nation\u2019s history. We\u2019ve heard nothing from them on that, but I guess we all should rest easy knowing Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz will be cashing in at our expense.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-votes-repeal-corrupt-senate-republican-slush-fund"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4325380325317383, "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"}