{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-releases-2020-festivus-report-government-waste/", "Dr. Rand Paul Releases 2020 \u2018Festivus\u2019 Report on Government Waste", "2020-12-22", "2020", "2020-12", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nDecember 22, 2020\n\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (FSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), released his 2020 \u201cFestivus\u201d Report, totaling over $54 billion in government waste.\n\nThis marks Dr. Paul\u2019s sixth edition of the Festivus Report as he continues working to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.\n\nThis year, each story received a \u201cPlatinum Pig Award\u201d that ranked the waste on a scale of 1-5 (with 5 being the most wasteful).\n\nSections are broken down into Health Care; Foreign Aid; Environment, Energy, Science; Military; and Miscellaneous, and highlights include lizards on treadmills, losing over 100 drones in Afghanistan, and combating binge-watching.\n\nYou can find Dr. Paul\u2019s 2020 Festivus Report HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-28T00:42:23Z"]], "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-releases-2020-festivus-report-government-waste/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9905900806188583, "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"}