{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=d5567b45-db10-48a5-88e9-6cc4bf2c8df7", "Isakson Statement on Senate Passage of Government Funding Measure", "2014-12-13", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "GA", "Johnny Isakson", "I000055", "www.isakson.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., tonight released the following statement regarding the Senate passage of H.R.83, the omnibus/continuing resolution appropriations legislation to fund the government:\r\n\u201cOmnibus appropriations bills are never a good way to do business, and come January 6, 2015, the new Republican Senate majority will return to doing individual and transparent appropriations bills throughout the year in a timely fashion. The American people deserve no less.\r\n\u201cThe Fiscal Year 2015 Omnibus included a number of important provisions for America and for Georgia. First and foremost, the bill keeps the administration on a short leash by giving the Department of Homeland Security, which enforces immigration, only enough funding to operate until February 2015. That allows the new Republican majority to then revisit this agency\u2019s budget and begin to dismantle the effects of the president\u2019s amnesty executive order. I also voted to condemn the president\u2019s amnesty executive action by supporting a point of order tonight declaring it unconstitutional.\r\n\u201cAdditionally, the bill includes funding and strong language to ensure the federal government will continue to pay its share of the cost of Georgia\u2019s number one economic development project -- the expansion and deepening of the Port of Savannah.\r\n\u00a0\u201cThe omnibus bill also includes a provision to rein in the EPA\u2019s overreach with respect to the agency\u2019s \u2018waters of the United States\u2019 proposal, which would subject Georgia\u2019s farmers to costly and intrusive federal regulation and would harm Georgia\u2019s biggest industry.\r\n\u201cI will continue my fight next year to reform America\u2019s budget and spending process from an annual to a biennial budget, reserving every other year for mandatory oversight to ensure that we demand accountability from existing programs before we spend money on new ones.\u201d\r\nThe Senate voted 56-40 on final passage of the nine-month government funding bill.\u00a0 The House passed H.R.83 on Thursday, December 11, 2014 by a vote of 219-206.\u00a0\r\n# # #", 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.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=d5567b45-db10-48a5-88e9-6cc4bf2c8df7"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.632126048207283, "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"}