{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=BCCF04AF-75FE-486E-9306-CF55481B1F36", "Democrats Finally Admit Inflation is a Problem \u2014 But Still Want Even More Reckless Spending", "2021-11-15", "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\u201cLast week, even more economic data continued to confirm that inflation is hammering working families across America.\n\n\u201cIn October, consumer prices saw their steepest spike in three decades. The worst inflation surge in more than 30 years.\n\n\u201cWhen I was back home last week, I heard constantly from Kentuckians who\u2019ve watched their gas prices and grocery prices soar.\n\n\u201cThis is happening in every state. Last month was the fifth straight month in which national consumer prices rose at least 5%.\n\n\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 inflation crisis has gotten so bad that Washington Democrats have stopped trying to pretend that it\u2019s just transitory and are starting to admit that it\u2019s on them to fix it.\n\n\u201cThe same Democrats who spent months denying that inflation was a lasting problem, the last people in America to wake up to this reality, are now convinced they\u2019re just the people to fix it.\n\n\u201cBut their supposed solutions are more of the same absurd policies that helped dig this hole.\n\n\u201cAfter months of mostly ignoring the problem, President Biden finally responded to last week\u2019s inflation data by insisting that, \u2018reversing this trend is a top priority for me.\u2019\n\n\u201cBut \u2014surprise! \u2014 the President\u2019s preferred \u2018solution\u2019 just so happens to be the exact same reckless taxing and spending spree his Administration has been pushing for months now.\n\n\u201cThey cooked up this massive, multi-trillion-dollar spending spree back when they were saying inflation wasn\u2019t a major problem and it was still time to spend like crazy. But now, miraculously, that exact same spending binge happens to be their prescription to fight inflation?\n\n\u201cGive me a break. This is just a sweeping socialist wish list in search of a justification.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s another mega-dose of the same radical recklessness that Republicans have warned against all along\u2026 that American families are already paying dearly for, as we speak.\n\n\u201cBut so far, Democrats seem intent on grabbing the hot stove yet again \u2014 and it\u2019s American families who stand to get burned.\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=BCCF04AF-75FE-486E-9306-CF55481B1F36"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4711827971041203, "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"}