{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mills.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-mills-congressman-frosts-bipartisan-defense-spending", "Congressman Mills\u2019 & Congressman Frost\u2019s Bipartisan Defense Spending Accountability Legislation Named as the Bill of the Month by Taxpayers Protection Alliance", "2023-12-07", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "House", "FL", "Cory Mills", "M001216", "mills.house.gov", "mills", "https://mills.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "For Immediate Release: December 6, 2023\n\nMedia Contact: MillsPress@mail.house.gov\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014 Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, announced H.R. 6187, the Defense Spending Oversight Act introduced by Congressman Cory Mills (R-FL-07) and Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL-10) in November has been named the bill of the month.\n\nThe Mills-Frost legislation requires Inspectors General to create reports evaluating the net financial benefit of budget oversight investigations to crack down on the billions of unaccounted-for taxpayer dollars being given to the DoD and military contractors with insufficient accountability.\n\n\u201cThe American people have a right to know their hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being used responsibly and effectively,\u201d said Rep. Mills. \u201cI\u2019m pleased the Taxpayers Protection Alliance has highlighted this legislation and its goal to bring transparency to government contracting. Ridding the DoD of waste, fraud, and abuse is not a partisan issue, it\u2019s an American issue. I welcome TPA\u2019s promotion of this important piece of legislation.\u201d\n\n\u201cWaste, fraud, and abuse in defense spending is too common,\u201d said Rep. Frost. \u201cCongressman Mills and I both know that adequate funding to ensure our national defense is entirely different from writing a blank check at the cost of Florida's taxpayers. Our bipartisan bill is an important part of cracking down on wasteful spending and recouping our tax dollars to hold bad actors accountable in the long run.\u201d\n\nTaxpayers Protection Alliance Executive Director, Patrick Hedger: \u201cTPA strongly commends Reps. Cory Mills and Maxwell Frost for introducing the bipartisan Defense Spending Oversight Act, and we are proud to make it our Bill of the Month for November 2023. Inspectors General at all levels of government must be empowered and equipped to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse. This is particularly the case with the notoriously insulated Pentagon, which has failed five consecutive audits. To understand the scale of operations and provide necessary resources to the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General, Congress must be kept up to date with all costs associated with investigations.\"\n\nRead the full bill text here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "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://mills.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-mills-congressman-frosts-bipartisan-defense-spending"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5939646400511265, "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"}