{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-presents-worldwide-waste-part-6/", "Dr. Rand Paul Presents: \u2018Worldwide Waste,\u2019 Part 6", "2017-02-15", "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 sixth 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\nIf too many countries have American taxpayers funding some form of tourism promotion, then would-be tourists are being told, effectively, to visit everywhere. But because they can\u2019t visit everywhere, it means that taxpayers are likely not getting a very good return on the considerable global expense they have paid to promote foreign tourism. It also means the United States is basically competing for tourists against itself, harming the countless American businesses that are sensitive to the loss or gain of tourism-based revenue.\n\n\u201cWorldwide Waste, Part 6\u201d reports on stories such as our government sending $98 million in tourism support to Jordan, more than $16 million over many years to Macedonia, including on projects to make it a hot spot for adventure tourists, and nearly $2 million to Belarus, including to a bed and breakfast featured by USAID that led tourists in an ancient rite to a pagan harvest god.\n\nYou can learn about all these and more in \u201cWorldwide Waste,\u201d Part 6 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-6/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.708963256329298, "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"}