{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-presents-worldwide-waste-part-4/", "Dr. Rand Paul Presents: \u2018Worldwide Waste,\u2019 Part 4", "2017-02-01", "2017", "2017-02", "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 fourth 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\nDespite recent passage of a five-year highway bill, Congress has still not addressed many of the long-term questions of how to fund America\u2019s infrastructure needs. Meanwhile, it has shown little concern about devoting significant amounts of money to similar infrastructure and related projects overseas.\n\n\u201cWorldwide Waste,\u201d Part 4 examines the outcome of many of these taxpayer-funded projects, including $233 million to construct an Afghanistan highway (which started with a $69 million budget), nearly $2 million to promote motorcycle helmet laws in Cambodia, and $43 million to build a natural gas filling station in Afghanistan that nobody could use.\n\nYou can learn more in \u201cWorldwide Waste,\u201d Part 4 HERE, and you can find a summary of its featured stories and the amounts involved HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T21:24:24Z"]], "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-4/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0027219541370869, "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"}