{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=51C5A279-A555-4C5F-A930-39ECA6C4A75C", "Democrats\u2019 Energy Dependence Agenda Helps Russia and China, Hurts Americans", "2021-11-04", "2021", "2021-11", "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\u201cPresident Biden spent much of the past week participating in a U.N. summit on the so-called Paris Climate Accords.\n\n\u201cThe event was billed as a serious meeting of world leaders committed to taking action on climate policy. More than 1,000 VIPs arrived in a parade of no fewer than 400 private jets, a mode of transportation that some climate activists say is up to 14 times more polluting than commercial aviation.\n\n\u201cThe topic of discussion was a bad deal that, after six years, has failed to hold any of its major signatories to their commitments on reducing emissions.\n\n\u201cBut that hadn\u2019t stopped President Biden from rejoining it.\n\n\u201cThe President went as far as apologizing \u2013 apologizing \u2013 that the previous Administration had let the U.S. reduce its emissions from outside the deal. He pledged that, now, the United States, \u2018will do our part.\u2019\n\n\u201cExactly what that means is not clear. The United States succeeded in cutting its emissions more from outside the Paris Deal than any major country managed from inside it.\n\n\u201cSo President Biden apologized for outperforming the deal. And his counterparts welcomed America\u2019s new commitment \u2013 to reduce U.S. emissions 50% by 2030 \u2013 without any specifics on achieving it.\n\n\u201cNow while America\u2019s emissions have fallen, the world\u2019s leading carbon emitter apparently has a free pass to keep on increasing its emissions until 2030.\n\n\u201cAccording to China\u2019s own representatives, their massive and thriving economy is still in a, \u2018special development stage.\u2019\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re talking about a country that built more than three times as much new coal power capacity as the rest of the world combined in 2020.\n\n\u201cMeanwhile, one outside analysis indicates that getting America even close to net-zero emissions by 2050 would mean cutting our GDP by nearly 12% annually.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s trillions of dollars shipped out of this country every year. Competitors like China are licking their chops.\n\n\u201cAnd what would this self-flagellation get us 39 years from now?\n\n\u201cAccording to that same outside analysis, based on the U.N.\u2019s own model, this economic hemorrhage would purchase us a reduction of three tenths of one degree in global temperatures.\n\n\u201cMeanwhile, the same Washington Democrats who think this nightmare sounds like a good deal are pushing a reckless taxing and spending spree that would hammer American families and the affordable energy they need to power and heat their homes and drive their cars.\n\n\u201cAfter less than a year with Democrats in power, America has already more than doubled imports of Russian oil from December 2020 levels.\n\n\u201cDouble the dependency on Russia in less than 12 months.\n\n\u201cAmerica\u2019s energy future, as imagined by our colleagues on the left.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "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=51C5A279-A555-4C5F-A930-39ECA6C4A75C"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6680010594427586, "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"}