{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=1383850c-c46e-4486-af56-33f7d4e5b79f", "Enzi tells treasury secretary unlimited borrowing can\u2019t go on forever, time to work on fiscal solutions is now", "2013-10-10", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 During a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., questioned Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew about the Administration\u2019s refusal to discuss long-term debt solutions in conjunction with an extension of the debt limit.\r\nEnzi said a government shutdown could have been avoided had Congress and the Administration done its job instead of\u00a0moving from crisis to crisis.\u00a0Now the Administration is asking for another credit increase without making changes to get the country\u2019s fiscal house in order. \u00a0Enzi sees now as an opportunity to do the work so we don\u2019t have to make even tougher decisions in the future.\u00a0Below are excerpts from Enzi\u2019s comments.\r\n\u201cThis is the 11th time I\u2019ve been through this discussion that the sky is falling and the earth will erupt. Wyoming families aren\u2019t buying these arguments. They\u2019re saying \u2018you can\u2019t spend more than you take in\u2019. \u00a0And you definitely can\u2019t keep doing it forever and ever and ever\u2026That\u2019s what the Wyoming people think; we\u2019ve got a problem with outgo, not income.\r\n\u201cWhy do you and the president feel that we should not be discussing right now this dire financial situation and coming up with a solution that will put a little bit of room in there for something to be done right now? If these people are running up their credit card debt and they need to raise their limit, they\u2019re expected to say what they will do in order to be able to take care of their debt.\r\n\u201cWe keep saying that this terrible thing is going to happen and that this is just paying our bills. How many times can we say that this is just paying our bills? The American public doesn\u2019t get that same option, and they don\u2019t think that we ought to get that same option.\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://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=1383850c-c46e-4486-af56-33f7d4e5b79f"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6392730176448822, "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"}