{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/press/dr-rand-paul-airs-spending-grievances-with-special-festivus-edition-of-the-waste-report", "Dr. Rand Paul Airs Spending Grievances with Special ‘Festivus’ Edition of ‘The Waste Report’", "2016-12-21", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.21.16\n\t\t\t Dr. Rand Paul Airs Spending Grievances with Special \u2018Festivus\u2019 Edition of \u2018The Waste Report\u2019 \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul released a special \u201cFestivus: Airing of Grievances for 2016\u201d edition of \u201cThe Waste Report,\u201d an ongoing project cataloguing egregious examples of waste within\u00a0the U.S. government.\r\nIn its second year, Dr. Paul\u2019s Festivus edition features 37 examples of wasteful spending, misplaced priorities, and bad management in the federal government that have cost taxpayers nearly two billion dollars. \u00a0\r\nHighlights include: over $300,000 on TVs that sat waiting on a renovation project and turned out to be the wrong kind, $594,000 to subsidize Washington, D.C.-area concerts against the National Park Service\u2019s wishes, $1,250,000 to produce a superhero cartoon in Pakistan, and $6,000,000 to renovate a Fort Belvoir cafeteria that closed permanently months later.\r\nNot to mention sea monsters, shady land deals, dating, and selfies. . . you can find all this and more in Dr. Paul\u2019s special Festivus \u201cWaste Report\u201d\u00a0HERE.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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/press/dr-rand-paul-airs-spending-grievances-with-special-festivus-edition-of-the-waste-report"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0210659820586443, "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"}