{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-announces-opposition-budget-busting-cr/", "Dr. Rand Paul Announces Opposition to Budget-Busting CR", "2017-12-12", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nDecember 12, 2017\n\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\n\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced he will oppose an end-of-the-year Continuing Resolution (CR) that continues recklessly spending the American people\u2019s money.\n\n\u201cI cannot in good conscience vote to add more to the already massive $20 trillion debt,\u201d said Dr. Paul. \u201cI promised Kentucky to vote against reckless, deficit spending, and I will do just that. Tax cuts \u2014 people keeping more of their money \u2014 are never the problem. The problem is spending. We should obey our rules, stop the deficit spending, and shrink government.\u201d\n\nYou can watch Dr. Paul announce his opposition to the CR HERE.\n\nDr. Paul\u2019s stand for common-sense budgeting regarding the end-of-the-year CR is the latest in a series of efforts this year to stop Washington\u2019s runaway spending, including working to offset emergency funds by reducing waste in existing programs and forcing the Senate to vote on a budget that would balance by 2024.\n\nIn March, Dr. Paul, as chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC), held a hearing entitled, \u201cThe Effect of Borrowing on Federal Spending,\u201d which included testimony from former Comptroller General of the United States David Walker.\n\nIn September, Dr. Paul\u2019s subcommittee held a hearing on end-of-the-year spending binges in federal agencies, and he introduced legislation to pay bonuses to federal employees that identify unneeded or surplus funds, a bill that would also ensure that 90% of the savings are automatically directed toward deficit reduction.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T22:19:19Z"]], "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/news-dr-rand-paul-announces-opposition-budget-busting-cr/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7467698305845261, "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"}