{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-rand-paul-releases-2022-festivus-report-on-government-waste/", "Dr. Rand Paul Releases 2022 \u2018Festivus\u2019 Report on Government Waste", "2022-12-23", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nDecember 23, 2022\n\nContact: Press_Paul@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) incoming Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), released his 2022 \u201cFestivus\u201d Report, totaling $482,276,543,907 in government waste.\n\nThis marks Dr. Paul\u2019s eighth edition of the Festivus Report as he continues working to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.\n\nSome of the highlights include the National Institutes of Health spending $2.3 million injecting beagle puppies with cocaine, and separately spending $187,500 to verify that kids love their pets. The Department of Health and Human Services spent $689,222 to study romance between parrots, the NIH funded a $3 million annual research project to watch hamsters on steroids fight, and the U.S. Census Bureau spent $2.5 million on Super Bowl Ads.\n\nYou can find Dr. Paul\u2019s 2022 Festivus Report HERE.\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.paul.senate.gov/dr-rand-paul-releases-2022-festivus-report-on-government-waste/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6310568898916245, "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"}