{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-republicans-must-meet-moment", "ICYMI: \u201cRepublicans must meet the moment\u201d", "2023-11-28", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Chip Roy", "R000614", "roy.house.gov", "roy", "https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "November 28, 2023\n\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2014 On Tuesday, Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) penned an op-ed on the Washington Examiner calling on Republicans to meet the moment and press in on spending accountability.\n\nThe full text of the op-ed is available at the link here; some key quotes are below.\n\n\u201cIf we are to defeat the Democrats, both politically and legislatively, we must fight harder than they do. Democrats have successfully navigated razor-thin majorities to enact their agenda before. Republicans must be willing to do the same, and more, to save America.\u201d\n\n\u201cSenate Republicans have already tried to water down the strong policies in H.R. 2 in pursuit of a \u2018deal\u2019 on Ukraine. The speaker should make clear such a bad \u2018deal\u2019 will be dead on arrival in the House.\u201d\n\n\u201cOur message should be clear: House Republicans will combat inflation and the woke and weaponized federal bureaucracy by securing gimmick-free spending cuts and conservative policy riders through the passage of individual appropriations bills.\u201d\n\n\u201cTo be certain, Republicans must oppose providing Ukraine another blank check, and if there is any spending, at all, it must be paid for.\u201d\n\n\u201cDemocrats expect us to capitulate to these \u2018[side] deals,\u2019 as evidenced by a recent exchange I had with Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. Given Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is not party to these side deals, nor are they required in the text of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, he can and should reject them and at least force Democrats to stick to the true spending caps.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "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://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-republicans-must-meet-moment"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5217408072203398, "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"}