{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-statement-on-budget-deal-", "Kaine Statement On Budget Deal", "2013-12-10", "2013", "2013-12", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Tim Kaine", "K000384", "www.kaine.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Kaine Statement On Budget Deal \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTuesday, December 10, 2013\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the bipartisan Budget Conference Committee, released the following statement on the budget deal reached today:\r\n\u201cEver since I took office last January, I made it a mission to do everything I could to replace the across-the-board sequester cuts that have so severely hurt Virginia and return to normal budgetary order. I even delivered my maiden floor speech last February on the urgent need to find compromise and avert sequestration. Tonight, I\u2019m pleased that after passing a Senate budget for the first time in four years and going to conference with the House, a deal has been reached.\r\n\u201cI\u2019m disappointed that reductions in the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for military retirees and cuts to federal employee benefits were included. But the deal goes a long way toward alleviating the most harmful effects of sequestration next year \u2013 cuts that have disproportionately impacted federal employees and the defense community \u2013 and restoring basic economic certainty to businesses and families across the Commonwealth. It also ensures we won\u2019t suffer another damaging government shutdown next month that would have resulted in more negative consequences for federal employees.\r\n\u201cThe two-year, bipartisan agreement will relieve $63 billion of sequester cuts for 2014 and 2015. It will also avert additional defense cuts \u2013 including $20 billion in cuts that were set to take effect in January 2014 \u2013 and replace non-defense cuts over the next two years. We\u2019ve also given appropriators the certainty they need to write full appropriations bills \u2013 a significant step toward ending the dangerous pattern of stopgap, governing-by-crisis measures that have plagued the budgeting process in recent years. \u00a0\r\n\u201cWhile I\u2019m still examining the details of the deal, I am pleased a spirit of compromise and cooperation prevailed.\u201d\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.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-statement-on-budget-deal-"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7209160141646862, "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"}