{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-issues-statement-hr-542-and-hr-3848", "Rep. Roy issues statement on H.R. 542 and H.R. 3848", "2023-12-05", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Chip Roy", "R000614", "roy.house.gov", "roy", "https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) issued the following statement after voting on H.R. 542 and H.R. 3848:\n\nThis week, I voted against H.R. 542 and H.R. 3848.\n\nBoth these bills were \"paid for\" by effectively the exact same gimmick - raising the rate on VA home loan fees years into the future, instead of doing the hard but necessary work of finding the money to pay for each individual bill right now.\n\nWith almost $34 trillion in debt and skyrocketing inflation, we as a country do not have the have the luxury of writing checks for even the most laudable programs \u2014 such as those to assist veterans \u2014 without first figuring out how to actually pay for them. How we do things matters just as much as what we do in this regard.\n\nThis body, as a rule, has to stop kicking the can down the road with budget gimmicks. That's how this country got into our current fiscal disaster in the first place.\n\n###", 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://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-issues-statement-hr-542-and-hr-3848"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4155888929963112, "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"}