{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=a7df8cb7-adc3-4a65-ad6f-6350bd242d99", "Enzi offers concrete solutions to budget impasse", "2013-10-30", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 \u00a0Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., in his opening statement at the first meeting of the Budget Conference Committee for Fiscal Year 2014, made it clear that Americans are tired of the habitual promises Congress makes to fix our annual deficits and growing national debt without any real results. He offered ways to get those results.\r\n\"We\u2019ve got to start legislating and stop deal-making.\u00a0I hope we can at least make a small move in that direction with this conference committee. I\u2019ve got several ideas for how to keep us out of the situation we were just in and make reasonable, but real, progress on our deficits and debt.\u00a0I have a penny plan, a proposal on biennial budgeting, some relevant amendments for spending bills, the End Government Shutdowns \u00a0legislation, forced prioritization for spending cuts and tax reform.\u201d\r\n\u201cWe have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.\u00a0We shouldn't raise taxes in order for Washington to spend more.\u00a0 We cannot spend our way to prosperity. \u2026 If done correctly, tax reform will help to generate additional revenue through economic growth to reduce the deficits and pay down the debt.\u00a0I\u2019m ready to make that happen.\r\n\u201cOur nation\u2019s over-spending has to stop. The latest Congressional Budget Office estimates show that deficits and the nation\u2019s debt are only going to get worse if we don\u2019t take action now. If we don\u2019t make cuts now, all the scenarios down the road are worse than what we\u2019re facing today.\u00a0A little pain now is better than a lot of pain in the future.\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=a7df8cb7-adc3-4a65-ad6f-6350bd242d99"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1644312180578709, "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"}