{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-presents-worldwide-waste-part-7/", "Dr. Rand Paul Presents: \u2018Worldwide Waste,\u2019 Part 7", "2017-02-23", "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 seventh 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\nUnmoored from significant strategic priorities, foreign institutional development projects tend to least benefit the American taxpayers who fund them. While the endeavors may have laudable intentions, and some measure of benefit somewhere, programs that do not meet a policy priority and do not benefit American taxpayers are simply bad policy that Congress should do more to reform or eliminate.\n\nThis edition of \u201cWorldwide Waste\u201d covers examples such as our government devoting nearly $3 million to producing foreign television dramas, granting $400,000 to cut business-stifling regulations in Armenia with a \u201cregulatory guillotine,\u201d while America\u2019s own businesses remain buried under a mountain of regulations, and spending over $550,000 for the Department of the Treasury to, in part, advise Moldova\u2019s central bank on how to manipulate interest rates.\n\nYou can learn about all these and more in \u201cWorldwide Waste,\u201d Part 7 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-7/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.904855016618967, "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"}