{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=F4334A99-3915-4E4E-BFEC-165CB6D9C4FE", "Runaway Inflation Hurting States Whose Democratic Senator Voted to Cause It", "2022-09-21", "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\u201cOn Sunday\u2019s edition of 60 Minutes, President Biden made a bizarre attempt to deny the American people\u2019s pain from Democrats\u2019 runaway inflation.\n\n\u201cAfter the latest nationwide data reported that consumer prices are rising at 8.3%, year-on-year, the President suggested the country should be celebrating that they weren\u2019t rising even faster!\n\n\u201cWorking Americans aren\u2019t buying that insulting spin. Middle-class families aren\u2019t rejoicing that daily life costs 8.3% more than it did a year ago and 13.2% more than when President Biden took office.\n\n\u201cIn Parma, Ohio, one local grocer is working hard to keep her prices competitive, but admits, \u2018We have been getting hit with all of our suppliers with chicken, ground meat, everything.\u2019\n\n\u201cAnd in Fairfield County, the head of one organization that helps feed folks experiencing economic hardship put it this way, \u2018I think things are going to get a whole lot darker and more bleak before they get a lot better. We\u2019re desperately worried about food.\u2019\n\n\u201cAcross the border in West Virginia, in Fayette County, persistent high prices have one retired grandmother worried about how the rest of her family is making ends meet.\n\n\u201c\u2018I\u2019m already stressed and stressed and trying to figure out how [my daughter is] going to pay to keep the lights on, get groceries, get school clothes on her kid\u2019s back.\u2019\n\n\u201cIn Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, one shopper told a reporter that besides cutting back at the grocery store, she had taken on a second job working nights at a warehouse to help feed her family of four. \u2018Clothing, gas, just about everything has gone up, and food is a large part of it.\u2019\n\n\u201cMeanwhile, the head of a small manufacturer in Big Bend, Wisconsin reports that amid price spikes and backed-up supply chains, \u2018trying to source products has been very difficult.\u2019\n\n\u201cIn each of these states\u2019 cases \u2014 West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania \u2014 one Senator tried to spare working families from all this preventable pain. Each of those states has one Republican Senator who warned about inflation, who voted against inflation, who voted for amendments that would have reduced inflation.\n\n\u201cBut unfortunately, each one of those states also has a Democratic Senator who decided to vote in partisan lock-step to plow ahead with the trillions of dollars in reckless, inflationary spending.\n\n\u201cOne Senator each from West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin cast the tiebreaking vote to bring this pain down on their citizens\u2019 heads.\n\n\u201cAnd now, sadly, they are paying the price.\n\n\u201cWorking families in West Virginia are paying Washington Democrats\u2019 inflation tax to the tune of an extra $563 every month. Ohioans are paying $661 more. In Pennsylvania, inflation is squeezing folks for an extra $605. And in Wisconsin, it\u2019s $673.\n\n\u201cFamilies in these states are paying a painful price for the deciding vote that their Democratic Senators chose to cast.\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=F4334A99-3915-4E4E-BFEC-165CB6D9C4FE"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9615840390324593, "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"}