{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-icymi-dr-rand-paul-puts-senate-record-its-reckless-spending/", "ICYMI: Dr. Rand Paul Puts Senate on Record on Its Reckless Spending", "2019-09-26", "2019", "2019-09", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nSeptember 26, 2019\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), again forced the U.S. Senate to confront its fiscal recklessness by securing a vote on his amendment to the Continuing Resolution to cut the bill\u2019s discretionary spending levels by 2 percent, which would still make available over $1.2 trillion in base discretionary spending.\n\nIn a speech on the Senate floor shortly before the vote, Dr. Paul described how most groups he talks to across the political spectrum understand the need to cut federal spending.\n\n\u201cEven the groups receiving it are willing to cut 1 or 2 percent. But you know who\u2019s not? The Senate. The Congress. They won\u2019t cut anything,\u201d Dr. Paul stated.\n\nHe went on to highlight how runaway government spending is to blame for massive deficits, as federal revenue is actually up, later also adding, \u201cMy amendment won\u2019t pass because people are afraid that the public won\u2019t like them if they don\u2019t give them more money. I\u2019m afraid we\u2019ll destroy the country if we keep running more deficits.\u201d\n\nYou can find Dr. Paul\u2019s speech HERE.\n\nUnfortunately, a majority of senators indeed voted to support the status quo, illustrating the continued bipartisan compromise to spend more of Americans\u2019 money Dr. Paul condemned in his remarks.\n\nAs part of his efforts to restore fiscal responsibility in Washington, Dr. Paul introduced his Pennies Plan budget in April, which simply states that for every on-budget dollar the federal government spent in Fiscal Year 2019, it spend two pennies fewer a year (a cut of two percent per year) for the next five years. This plan would balance the federal government\u2019s budget \u2013 without touching Social Security \u2013 while providing legislators with full flexibility to make the best decisions on where to save taxpayer funds.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:37:07Z"]], "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-icymi-dr-rand-paul-puts-senate-record-its-reckless-spending/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6678220815956593, "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"}