{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://neal.house.gov/2024/12/19/news-documentsingle-aspx-documentid-4083/", "Neal Blasts Republicans on the House Floor for Walking Away from Funding Agreement", "2024-12-19", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Richard E. Neal", "N000015", "neal.house.gov", "neal", "https://neal.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\n\nWATCH\n\nExcerpts:\n\n\u201cYou have never won a government shutdown. And you won\u2019t win this one either. Your currency in this institution is your word. We reached an agreement. We came to modest achievements. And a tweet changed all of it? Can you imagine what the next two years are going to be like if every time the Congress works its will and then there\u2019s a tweet?\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cThis institution has a separate responsibility based upon the separation of powers. Members of Congress don\u2019t serve under presidents of the United States. It\u2019s called the national principle.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cI\u2019m in favor of aid to North Carolina. I\u2019m in support of aid of the farmers in Missouri. We come to the aid of the American family at moments like this, but you\u2019ve walked away from your word. You\u2019re walked away from an agreement. That\u2019s what we\u2019re bothered by. A simple suggestion from the president-elect that you ought to abandon that principle?\n\n\u201cAnd this is what this is about. This is trying to raise the debt ceiling to disguise a big tax cut that they want to offer later on. In December of 2017, the TCJA was rendered and my friends, particularly the ones that have been here for a while, you know what I\u2019m about to say is true. You borrowed the money for a tax cut 2. 3 trillion for a tax cut for wealthy people. And when you see the distribution tables, you\u2019ll know who got what.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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://neal.house.gov/2024/12/19/news-documentsingle-aspx-documentid-4083/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.618369085714221, "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"}