{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-returns-over-3-million-us-taxpayers/", "Dr. Rand Paul Returns Over $3 Million to U.S. Taxpayers", "2016-10-17", "2016", "2016-10", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Rand Paul announced today that he saved more than $620,000 from his official FY 2016 operating budget, bringing the total amount Dr. Paul has returned to the taxpayers to over $3,000,000 since taking office in January 2011.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s easy to picture Washington\u2019s out-of-control spending as a massive, untamable beast,\u201d said Dr. Paul. \u201cSo I determined to show change is possible by starting in the area under my control, while working everywhere else I could to stop \u2018business as usual.\u2019\n\n\u201cI promised Kentuckians I would stand for smaller, more efficient government, balanced budgets, and spending restraint. I\u2019m proud my staff and I have kept that pledge while operating one of the most active federal offices.\u201d\n\nDr. Paul has also led the way for reform by introducing a five-year balanced budget and issuing a weekly \u201cWaste Report\u201d to shine a spotlight on reckless federal spending.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T21:04:55Z"]], "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-returns-over-3-million-us-taxpayers/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9722739923745394, "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"}