{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-dr-rand-paul-stop-piling-debt-future-generations-open-economy-and-cut-waste-budget-pay/", "Dr. Rand Paul: Stop Piling Debt on Future Generations, Open the Economy, and Cut Waste in the Budget to Pay for Priorities", "2020-12-21", "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 21, 2020\n\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Shortly before legislators received a nearly 5,600-page government funding/COVID-19 response bill that they are expected to quickly digest and vote on, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) condemned Congress\u2019 fiscal recklessness on the U.S. Senate floor and called for opening the economy so Americans can rebuild their livelihoods.\n\nDr. Paul also once again proposed cutting waste and finding savings in the current budget to pay for the pandemic response and other priorities.\n\n\u201cWe are $27 trillion in debt today. How do we expect a child to have the economic opportunity when this crushing debt is their inheritance from Congress?\u201d asked Dr. Paul.\n\n\u201cWe are borrowing and worsening this debt crisis, in part, because too many governors and mayors have imposed heavy handed restrictions that crush business,\u201d he later observed.\n\n\u201cThe need for help is real. I hear it every day from Kentuckians and across the country. But it\u2019s clear that government has worsened the economic damage and acted as the biggest obstacle to economic recovery,\u201d said Dr. Paul. \u201cThe answer is not printing up and distributing \u2018free money.\u2019 It\u2019s opening the economy,\u201d he later added.\n\nYou can watch Dr. Paul\u2019s speech 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-stop-piling-debt-future-generations-open-economy-and-cut-waste-budget-pay/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3566520065069199, "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"}