{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-export-import-boondoggle", "The Export-Import Boondoggle", "2012-05-09", "2012", "2012-05", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Tom McClintock", "M001177", "mcclintock.house.gov", "mcclintock", "https://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "House Chamber, Washington, D.C.\n\nMay 9, 2012\n\nMr. Speaker:\n\nThe Export-Import Bank dragoons American taxpayers into subsidizing loans to foreign companies, making it cheaper for them to buy products from politically-favored American companies which in turn use those products to compete against less-favored American companies.\n\nPast beneficiaries include such upstanding enterprises as Solyndra and Enron. Since 2007, almost half of its money has gone to support that plucky little start-up called Boeing. Air India got $5 billion to purchase Boeing aircraft allowing them to undercut American carriers like Delta with their own tax money.\n\nWe\u2019re told we need to compete with other nations that do the same thing. If other nations want to impoverish themselves in this manner \u2013 we don\u2019t need to imitate them.\n\nWe\u2019re told this doesn\u2019t cost taxpayers \u2013 that in the last several years it\u2019s actually turned a profit. That what they used to say about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac \u2013 until they blew up in our face.\n\nLegitimate companies have plenty of access to private capital and don\u2019t need these subsidies. The illegitimate ones shouldn\u2019t be propped up with the hard-earned dollars of working taxpaying Americans.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:08Z"]], "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://mcclintock.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/the-export-import-boondoggle"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.911155879497528, "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"}