{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20140221043916/http://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/Article.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1502=47780", "Grassley: Budget Deal Promotes Too Much Spending", "2013-12-17", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "IA", "Charles Grassley", "G000386", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "For Immediate Release  \n\tDecember 17, 2013 \t\n  \nGrassley: Budget Deal Promotes Too Much Spending  \nSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment on his vote against proceeding to the Senate vote on the House-Senate budget deal and his intention to vote against the legislation on final passage.\u201cWhile I appreciate the bipartisan effort that brokered this budget deal, I can\u2019t support the proposal.\u00a0 It spends an additional $63 billion over the next two years when we have a $17 trillion debt.\u00a0 To offset that higher spending, it raises revenue over ten years but spends that money in the first two years.\u00a0 It raises fees on air travelers and corporate pension premiums and reduces retirement benefits for military retirees to offset unrelated spending.\u00a0 Nearly all of the meager spending cuts come way down the road, in 2022 and 2023.\u00a0 To get our fiscal house in order, we should at least abide by the spending caps put in place in August 2011 that provided a $2.1 trillion increase in the nation\u2019s debt ceiling.\u00a0 This budget deal emphasizes that Congress has a spending problem.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://web.archive.org/web/20140221043916/http://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/Article.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1502=47780"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8478730451315641, "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"}