{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=515E8CB4-DE74-4F36-ACFB-2235A323E76F", "Americans\u2019 Christmas Wish: Stop the Reckless, Inflationary Far-Left Spending", "2021-12-16", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats\u2019 reckless tax and spending spree:\n\n\u201cTwo in three Americans want the federal government to \u2018cut back on spending and printing money.\u2019\n\n\u201cBut our Democratic colleagues spent the last several months trying as hard as possible to do the opposite.\n\n\u201cWashington Democrats have spent months trying to borrow, print, and spend trillions more dollars, right into the teeth of the worst inflation in almost 40 years.\n\n\u201cThey\u2019ve sought to turn their monthly welfare entitlement with no work requirements from a temporary COVID measure into a permanent policy. Cash welfare with no work requirements, forever.\n\n\u201c76 percent of Americans say these handouts haven\u2019t helped their families at all, yet Democrats want to dump in many billions more.\n\n\u201cJust step back and look at all the ways their left-wing wish list could hurt a young family in middle America.\n\n\u201cFirst, they\u2019d need to cross their fingers that the private or employer-sponsored insurance they chose to meet their family\u2019s specific needs isn\u2019t shoved off a cliff in Democrats\u2019 latest lurch toward more socialized medicine.\n\n\u201cAnd they\u2019ll have to hope their war on the medical innovation sector doesn\u2019t prevent the development of lifesaving cures their family might have relied on some years down the road.\n\n\u201cSay the family\u2019s got one or two young kids. Maybe their ideal arrangement is church-based daycare. They\u2019d need to say a prayer their faith-based center isn\u2019t sued and chased out of business thanks to Washington Democrats\u2019 toddler takeover.\n\n\u201cTheir plan would give nothing to full-time parents, grandparent caregivers, nanny-shares, or neighborhood co-ops. It would push faith-based providers out of the public square by design. And it could inflate daycare costs by about $12,000 or $13,000 per child per year.\n\n\u201cIf Democrats get their way, let\u2019s hope neither parent is one of the many Americans who work in our domestic energy sector. Our colleagues\u2019 bill has a huge pile of new red tape aimed at putting their industry out of business. But no matter where they work, they\u2019ll face inflated prices to heat their homes and fill up at the gas pump.\n\n\u201cFor all these bad ideas and many more, our colleagues wanted to spend trillions upon trillions more dollars right into the teeth of runaway inflation they have already caused.\n\n\u201cYesterday, we got indications the far left\u2019s slapdash sprint may be hitting the pause button.\n\n\u201cThat would be great news for the American people.\n\n\u201cThe best Christmas gift Washington could give working families would be putting this bad bill on ice.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=515E8CB4-DE74-4F36-ACFB-2235A323E76F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6853968370705843, "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"}