{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2024/12/sen-rick-scott-and-sen-jacky-rosen-applaud-passage-of-bill-to-hold-corrupt-politicians-accountable-and-protect-taxpayer-dollars", "Sen. Rick Scott and Sen. Jacky Rosen Applaud Passage of Bill to Hold Corrupt Politicians Accountable and Protect Taxpayer Dollars", "2024-12-30", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "FL", "Rick Scott", "S001217", "www.rickscott.senate.gov", "rickscott", "https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/press-releases/", "page_html", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senators Rick Scott and Jacky Rosen applauded their No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used As Pensions to Incarcerated Officials Now (No CORRUPTION) Act being signed into law. The law closes a loophole that has allowed former members of Congress to continue to receive a taxpayer-funded pension during their appeals process after being convicted of certain felonies related to their time in office.\n\nSenator Rick Scott said, \u201cI am incredibly proud to see our No CORRUPTION Act become law. If you are a Member of Congress and convicted of a crime involving public corruption you should lose all pension benefits provided to you by taxpayers and hardworking families\u2014period. Making Washington work for American families requires real reforms that end the current dysfunction. We must never stop working to hold elected officials accountable and protect taxpayers\u2019 hard-earned money.\u201d\n\nSenator Jacky Rosen said, \u201cNevadans elected me to the Senate to stand up to corruption and protect their taxpayer dollars from abuse. That\u2019s why I worked across the aisle with Senator Scott to close the loophole allowing politicians convicted of corruption to continue collecting taxpayer-funded pensions. I\u2019m proud to see our bill become law, and I\u2019ll keep working across the aisle to clean up Washington.\u201d\n\nDemian Brady, Vice President of Research at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation said, \u201cThe reform in Senators Jacky Rosen\u2019s and Rick Scott\u2019s No CORRUPTION Act is a win for taxpayers. The commonsense bipartisan legislation closes a loophole in federal law that allows former members of Congress convicted of a crime to still collect a taxpayer-funded pension. We commend Senators Rosen and Scott for their leadership on this good government bill.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-03-30T11:08:25Z"]], "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.rickscott.senate.gov/2024/12/sen-rick-scott-and-sen-jacky-rosen-applaud-passage-of-bill-to-hold-corrupt-politicians-accountable-and-protect-taxpayer-dollars"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3896420132368803, "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"}