{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roys-question-congress-if-you-cant-print-moneywhat-would-you-do", "Rep. Roy's question to Congress: \"If you can't print money\u2026what would you do?\"", "2024-12-06", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Chip Roy", "R000614", "roy.house.gov", "roy", "https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "December 6, 2024\n\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2014 On Friday, Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) joined WMAL to recap Congress\u2019 meeting with DOGE\u2019s Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and how Republicans must unite to cut swamp spending.\n\nKey quotes from the interview are below and the interview clip is available here:\n\n\u201cBut the point I made yesterday in the meeting to my colleagues and I made it to Elon\u2026You\u2019ve been looking for the problem, look no further than this room, because Congress has been the one that has been funding this nonsense. Congress is the one that's supposed to do oversight.\u201d\n\n\"I've said to my colleagues: if you can't print money \u2014 if literally it was banned today \u2014 what would you do?\"\n\n\u201cWe need the [spending] waste cutting, but we need Congress to grow a spine.\u201d\n\n\u201cRepublicans need to look in the mirror. They need to look at their constituents and they need to deliver\u2026 There's no more money. We can't keep printing.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "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-roys-question-congress-if-you-cant-print-moneywhat-would-you-do"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7490143179893494, "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"}