{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=6700DFCF-C103-4675-A940-5146E4DE1027", "Funding Bill Makes Essential Investments in American Strength and Security", "2022-12-21", "2022", "2022-12", "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 government funding:\n\n\u201cThe bipartisan government funding bill before this body is imperfect but strong. It will make huge new investments in our Armed Forces while cutting non-defense, non-veterans baseline spending in real dollars.\n\n\u201cLet me say that again: The world\u2019s greatest military will get the funding increase that it needs, outpacing inflation. Meanwhile, non-defense, non-veterans spending will come in below the rate of inflation, for a real-dollar cut.\n\n\u201cThis is a debate about American security, American servicemembers, and American interests on the world stage.\n\n\u201cMonth after month, year after year, competitors such as China are methodically pouring money and planning into upgrading and modernizing their own militaries. They are constantly probing new ways to expand their military, intelligence, economic, and political reach \u2014 indirectly or directly threatening American forces and our allies\u2019 and partners\u2019 forces.\n\n\u201cUnder these perilous circumstances, cutting defense spending in real dollars, as Democrats first wanted to do, is not an option.\n\n\u201cAnd embarking on a potentially endless cycle of continuing resolutions that give our military real-dollar funding cuts because of inflation, and give Defense Department leaders no certainty to plan and invest \u2014 that is not an acceptable option either.\n\n\u201cThere is no question the bipartisan funding bill is imperfect.\n\n\u201cIf Senate Republicans controlled this chamber, we would have handled the appropriations process differently from top to bottom.\n\n\u201cBut given the reality of where we stand today, Senators have two options this week: We will either give our Armed Forces the resources and certainty that they need, or we will deny it to them.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:06Z"]], "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=6700DFCF-C103-4675-A940-5146E4DE1027"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7901960052549839, "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"}