{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=8962EF2A-1B36-4AC9-A8EF-7CC4AA713812", "House Democrats Walk the Plank for Reckless Taxing & Spending Spree that Would Hurt Families and Help China", "2021-11-19", "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) issued the following statement regarding Democrats\u2019 reckless tax and spending spree:\n\n\u201cNinety percent of Americans are worried about inflation, but House Democrats just voted to let Washington D.C. print, borrow, and spend trillions more.\n\n\u201cOur economy is shaky, but House Democrats just voted for historic tax hikes that would drain hundreds of billions of dollars out of U.S. industries and kill American jobs.\n\n\u201cHouse Democrats pay lip service to economic fairness, but they just voted for a plan that combines tax hikes for the middle class with massive tax cuts for blue-state millionaires. In 2023, their plan would give net tax cuts to fewer than 4% of families who make between $50,000 and $100,000, but to more than 67% of households making between $500,000 and $1 million.\n\n\u201c\u2018Moderate\u2019 Democrats pretended to care about deficits and budget gimmicks. But even though nonpartisan referees had to swallow most of the Democrats\u2019 dishonest accounting tricks, they still proved this bill is not paid for. It would increase the national debt by about $800 billion just over the first five years, just as families are fighting inflation. But the \u2018moderates\u2019 fell in line anyway.\n\n\u201cAmericans never asked for the culture-warrior HHS Secretary who got famous by suing religious groups to be given sweeping new power over childcare.\n\n\u201cAmericans never asked for prescription drug socialism that will leave us with fewer new drugs and treatments, literally costing lives.\n\n\u201cAmericans never asked for radical anti-energy policies that would make gas and heating even more expensive and increase our dependence on Russia and China.\n\n\u201cIn poll after poll and in this month\u2019s elections, the American people told House Democrats to back away from the cliff. But the House listened to President Biden and Speaker Pelosi instead of the people.\n\n\u201cNow only a few Senate Democrats can protect American families from these radical and painful policies. It is up to them to kill this bill.\u201d\n\n###", 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=8962EF2A-1B36-4AC9-A8EF-7CC4AA713812"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9039730541408062, "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"}