{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-remarks-prepared-delivery-sen-rand-paul-floor-speech-senate-votes-continuing-his-filibuster/", "REMARKS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY: Sen. Rand Paul Floor Speech Before Senate Votes on Continuing his Filibuster on Budget Agreement", "2015-10-30", "2015", "2015-10", "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 today will deliver a speech on the U.S. Senate floor regarding his opposition to the two-year federal budget agreement. Sen. Paul has been a strong and vocal advocate against an unlimited debt limit increase in the budget deal. This morning, Senate leadership will attempt to end Sen. Paul\u2019s filibuster with a cloture vote. However, the filibuster will continue if 41 Senators vote with Sen. Paul against the budget deal.\n\nBelow is a transcript of Sen. Paul\u2019s remarks prepared for delivery.\n\nThe number one threat to our country\u2019s future is our debt. The number one threat to our national security is our debt.\n\nThis deal gives the President the power to borrow unlimited amounts of money.\n\nThis deal represents the worst of the Washington culture. The Left and the Right have come together in an unholy alliance to explode the debt. The Left gets more welfare, the Right gets more military contracts, and the Taxpayer is stuck with the bill!\n\nThis a bipartisan busting of the budget caps that will further indenture the next generation.\n\nI promised the voters of Kentucky to oppose deficits, to oppose budgets that don\u2019t balance, and to spend only what we have. I will not give this President or any President to power to borrow unspecified amounts of money.\n\nOur debt now equals our entire economy.\n\nNot raising the debt ceiling means we would be forced to only spend what comes in \u2013 also known as a balanced budget. I could accept that. But I also could accept a balanced budget amendment that brings us into balance over five years.\n\nThe debt threatens us like never before and now is the time to take a stand.\n\nI have travelled far and wide across America and I have not met one Republican outside of DC who supports adding an unlimited increase in the debt ceiling.\n\nI hope my colleagues will listen to their constituents before voting for this terrible, no good, rotten deal.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T20:28:00Z"]], "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-remarks-prepared-delivery-sen-rand-paul-floor-speech-senate-votes-continuing-his-filibuster/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8448800072073936, "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"}