{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2025/12/sen-rick-scott-calls-for-passage-of-resolution-denouncing-socialism-it-s-the-antithesis-of-the-american-dream", "Sen. Rick Scott Calls for Passage of Resolution Denouncing Socialism: It\u2019s the Antithesis of the American Dream", "2025-12-09", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "FL", "Rick Scott", "S001217", "www.rickscott.senate.gov", "rickscott", "https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/press-releases/", "page_html", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senator Rick Scott spoke on the Senate floor calling for the unanimous passage of his resolution condemning socialism as a failed ideology and the antithesis of the American Dream. Senator Scott\u2019s resolution serves as a clear warning that socialism has only ever led to tyranny and less opportunity for all \u2013 and Americans will always reject it. Congresswoman Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar led the passage of the companion resolution in the House of Representatives.\n\nWatch Senator Scott\u2019s remarks in the video above or read his opening remarks as prepared for delivery below:\n\n\u201cMr. President,\n\nWhen I talk to families in Florida and around the nation, I hear often how they\u2019re struggling to make ends meet. The cost of health care is up, owning a home has become nearly unattainable.\n\nThe former administration pushed the American dream further and further out of reach for so many families.\n\nI grew up in public housing, and my family didn\u2019t have much. And I look across the country, and I see families, just like mine growing up, that are doing everything they can to make ends meet.\n\nBut I knew I had the opportunity to do anything because the American dream was alive.\n\nAs Governor and Senator, my goal has been to keep the American Dream alive so every family can have the same opportunities I did.\n\nThat dream and those opportunities don\u2019t exist under socialism. When crazy radicals in New York City and across this country villainize capitalism and push socialism, they forget that they\u2019ve benefited from the very system they criticize.\n\nSocialism has never worked. It\u2019s just an old, barbaric discredited idea that\u2019s failed every time it\u2019s been tried. Just look at Cuba and Venezuela and the many families who fled those brutal regimes to live in my state of Florida. It kills opportunity.\n\nWe need to drive down costs. The answer isn\u2019t more government \u2013 it\u2019s less. We need to do what we did in Florida: cut taxes, reduce government regulations, and grow jobs.\n\nThe United States was built on individual freedoms and opportunities, and the right of every individual to pursue the American Dream despite coming from nothing, just like I did. That\u2019s what America stands for.\n\nThis resolution is a stark reminder for the far-left: socialism is a failure, and Americans will always reject it.\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/2025/12/sen-rick-scott-calls-for-passage-of-resolution-denouncing-socialism-it-s-the-antithesis-of-the-american-dream"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8085169829428196, "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"}