{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-sen-rand-paul-introduces-resolution-commending-sigar-providing-accountability-taxpayer-dollars/", "Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Resolution Commending SIGAR for Providing Accountability for Taxpayer Dollars", "2016-05-12", "2016", "2016-05", "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 introduced a resolution in the Senate today commending the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for providing accountability for taxpayer dollars spent in Afghanistan.\n\nIn the resolution, Sen. Paul also urges all inspectors general to look to the SIGAR as an example of the vigor and independence the Senate expects of persons given the responsibility to conduct agency oversight. Since the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction\u2019s creation in 2008, the office\u2019s recommendations has resulted in more than $1,000,000,000 in potential taxpayer savings.\n\n\u201cI commend the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction today for being a strong voice and a good steward of taxpayer dollars, as well as urge all inspectors general to look to the SIGAR as an example of the Senate\u2019s expectations of your duty to this country, and not as an exception to the rule,\u201d Sen. Paul said.\n\nTo read the resolution in it entirety, click HERE.\n\nEarlier this year in January, Sen. Paul released a special edition of \u2018The Waste Report,\u2019 which highlighted the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction\u2019s report on the U.S. Department of Defense losing $29 million of heavy equipment in Afghanistan. Click HERE to read the special edition of \u2018The Waste Report.\u2019\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T20:51:40Z"]], "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-sen-rand-paul-introduces-resolution-commending-sigar-providing-accountability-taxpayer-dollars/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.836928840726614, "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"}