{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-presents-worldwide-waste-part-1/", "Dr. Rand Paul Presents: \u2018Worldwide Waste,\u2019 Part 1", "2017-01-10", "2017", "2017-01", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul, chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight Subcommittee, released the first installment of his \u201cWorldwide Waste\u201d series, a special project of \u201cThe Waste Report.\u201d Dr. Paul\u2019s \u201cWaste Report\u201d alerts taxpayers to egregious examples of waste within the U.S. government to help reform spending and keep legislators accountable to the people.\n\nIn 2015 alone, the U.S. government\u2019s foreign assistance programs, which have largely escaped close scrutiny, absorbed $48 billion of taxpayers\u2019 money. This amount represents the average tax liability of 6.6 million Americans \u2013 about one-and-a-half times the population of Dr. Paul\u2019s state of Kentucky.\n\nDr. Paul\u2019s series will equip Americans with specific examples of how their money is being misused, offer possible solutions, and narrow the accountability gap between the American taxpayer and their representatives, who have searched frantically for excuses to protect the overseas-spending status quo.\n\nBy its end, \u201cWorldwide Waste\u201d will identify over $3 billion of waste in our government\u2019s foreign assistance programs.\n\nYou can read Part 1 HERE, and you can find a summary of its featured stories HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T21:17:04Z"]], "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-presents-worldwide-waste-part-1/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0581170208752155, "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"}