{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-scott-talks-dem-spending-2021-highlights-and-2022-agenda/", "ICYMI: Scott Talks Dem Spending, 2021 Highlights and 2022 Agenda", "2021-12-23", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 This week, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined Leyla Gulen on Fox24 Charleston. Sen. Scott slammed Democrats\u2019 spending, talked legislative highlights of 2021, and laid out his agenda for 2022.\n\nClick to watch part one of the interview\n\nOn Dem Spending \u2026 \u201cWell, if you think about their plan, the Build Back Broker (BBB) as I prefer to call it, frankly that\u2019s three trillion dollars of unpaid spending if those programs continue for all 10 years and the likelihood of that is good if they can get it passed. \u2026I hope [what] we\u2019ll see over the next several weeks is no passage of the BBB. That is good news for the American people.\u201d\n\n\u201cLeyla throughout South Carolina whether you\u2019re in Charleston, Union, [or] McCormick South Carolina, the one thing you know is that gas prices have exploded \u2014 a 70 percent increase throughout our state. Utilities are up 25 percent if not even more. That is caused by reckless spending from Washington having a negative impact on every single household in the great Palmetto State. We can stop that from exploding again by not spending money we do not have, buying things we simply cannot afford.\u201d\n\nClick to watch part two of the interview\n\nOn 2021 Highlights \u2026 \u201cAnother really impressive issue this year frankly \u2014 is our bill that stopped the IRS from being able to peer into our financial accounts. That has been great news frankly \u2014 having all 50 Republicans get on that bill in less than 24 hours and then having Joe Manchin and a couple of other Democrats come out and say we can\u2019t do that that\u2019s just ridiculous.\u201d\n\nOn His Areas of Focus for 2022 \u2026 \u201cI\u2019m sticking with the less is better agenda. So, we\u2019re going to continue to fight against certain provisions in the BBB \u2014 things like that childcare component that I talked about earlier. The average family cannot afford an 80 percent increase in the childcare cost. If we can defeat that provision specifically, we will have empowered parents to keep making the choice for their kids. Education opportunity \u2014 this is the closest thing to a civil rights issue we\u2019ll see in our lifetime. Creating parity for poor parents and poor zip codes is job one for us as a nation on the domestic agenda and something that I\u2019ll continue to fight for. Then, continuing to eliminate inflation as well as [preventing] the IRS [from having] more purview into your accounts. Then, if I had to put icing on the cake, I would simply say to take away the disadvantages in the Build Back Broker plan against states like South Carolina.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-scott-talks-dem-spending-2021-highlights-and-2022-agenda/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9681151024997234, "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"}