{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/video?ContentRecord_id=1cc5f211-0f50-4605-9626-2c80b167cffc", "Enzi responds to constituent questions on budget deal, NSA surveillance", "2013-12-19", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "The Ryan/Murray budget deal and NSA spying on Americans were the subjects of a new video U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., recorded this week. The video addresses a few questions and comments Wyoming constituents sent him during the past couple weeks through Facebook and Twitter, from phone calls to his D.C. and Wyoming offices, and from email and written letters.\r\nBudget Deal\r\n\u201cThis budget deal is like so many others that put off hard decisions for the future. It steals money from the future and spends it in the present. It takes it from accounts that are supposed to be trust funds and does it through increased taxes without letting people know.\u201d\r\n\u201cThey put it forward as a take it or leave it deal. Harry Reid set it up so there can be no amendments to it. We have tried a couple of tactics to put some amendments in there, but those have failed along party lines. It\u2019s either a take it or leave it and I won\u2019t \u2018take\u2019 a take it or leave it that doesn\u2019t provide for future by making cuts in the present.\u201d\r\nNSA Surveillance\r\n\u201cI don\u2019t believe that the government ought to be able to capture records, particularly without any kind of a legitimate warrant. That\u2019s how it was originally set up. You had to appear before a judge and give a reason for a particular phone number.\u201d\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThis got completely out of hand. NSA disregarded the law. NSA started capturing everybody\u2019s phone number\u2026That shouldn\u2019t happen in America, we\u2019ve got to stop that.\u201d\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe also have to worry about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is capturing your financial records at the present time. I complained about that and tried to get a privacy protection piece in there.\u201d\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI tried to get this bureau shut down. This bureau is funded before the money every comes to the federal government, so we have no control over their budget, no control over their employees, no control over what they do. That shouldn\u2019t happen in America.\u201d\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Senator Enzi records \u201cCollecting Common Sense from Wyoming for Washington\u201d videos every other week when the Senate is in session. He encourages Wyoming residents to continue sharing their thoughts, ideas, and questions and he will address as many of the topics as possible.\u00a0For individual responses, constituents should email him through his web page \u2013 www.enzi.senate.gov.\r\nClick here to download the video and audio.", 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/video?ContentRecord_id=1cc5f211-0f50-4605-9626-2c80b167cffc"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1051842011511326, "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"}