{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=5344694B-253D-4824-B5C7-78313DC7DFA8", "Democrats\u2019 Total Control Has Produced Total Economic Disaster", "2022-09-28", "2022", "2022-09", "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 inflation:\n\n\u201cTwo years ago, the American people elected a President who claimed he would govern as a uniting moderate. Underscoring that mandate, voters gave him unusually small coattails, the slimmest possible majority in Congress.\n\n\u201cThis all-Democratic government inherited an economy that was, by every account, already primed and ready for economic recovery. Vaccines were already flooding the country. Major bipartisan stimulus had just passed days earlier.\n\n\u201cAnd remember, before the temporary COVID shock, years of Republican policies had our economic fundamentals humming along. Low inflation, low unemployment, and robust growth \u2014 an outstanding trifecta for working families.\n\n\u201cTo put it as plainly as possible: Democrats had one job. To not mess things up.\n\n\u201cBut alas, fast forward to today.\n\n\u201cOverall inflation is a staggering 13.2 percent since President Biden and his party came into power.\n\n\u201cConsumer prices through the roof. Supply chain chaos left and right. The worst single year for both grocery inflation and electricity inflation since the fallout from the Jimmy Carter era.\n\n\u201cThe stock market has plummeted below where it was when President Biden took office, cutting the value of Americans\u2019 retirement savings just as the cost of living has soared.\n\n\u201cAmericans\u2019 real wages \u2014 our citizens\u2019 buying power, after inflation \u2014 is lower today than it was the moment President Biden put his hand on that Bible.\n\n\u201cDemocrats asked for total control. They got total control. And they created total disaster.\n\n\u201cThe net effect of this far-left policy experiment has been the equivalent of all-out economic warfare against the American middle class.\n\n\u201cBut Democrats hardly even seem to notice, much less care.\n\n\u201cThe same day the latest sky-high monthly inflation report came out, our colleagues literally headed down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House for a folk music concert celebrating the additional hundreds of billions they had just dumped into \u2018green\u2019 energy subsidies.\n\n\u201cYou know who isn\u2019t partying, Mr. President?\n\n\u201cWorking families in Wisconsin, who are paying a \u2018Democrat Inflation Tax\u2019 averaging $673 extra every single month just to tread water. In Georgia, that\u2019s $681 every month. In Colorado it is a staggering $953 every month.\n\n\u201cNone of this had to happen. Democrats were literally warned, in advance, that their plans for far-left reckless spending would send inflation through the roof and crush normal Americans.\n\n\u201cAnd what did our colleagues do?\n\n\u201cOne gigantic party-line spending bill in 2021\u2026\n\n\u201cAnother huge reckless taxing and spending spree this past summer\u2026\n\n\u201cAnd student loan socialism that has cashiers and carpenters eating the graduate school debt of doctors and lawyers.\n\n\u201cIt adds up to nearly $3 trillion of party-line waste. And it adds up to 13.2% inflation and counting.\n\n\u201cDemocrats wanted one-party control of Washington. They got it. And they promptly used that power to create a nightmare for American families.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:29:59Z"]], "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=5344694B-253D-4824-B5C7-78313DC7DFA8"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7300011347979307, "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"}