{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-a-vote-to-raise-the-debt-limit-is-a-vote-for-democrats-reckless-spending-spree/", "Young: A Vote to Raise the Debt Limit is a Vote for Democrats\u2019 Reckless Spending Spree", "2021-09-22", "2021", "2021-09", "Republican", "Senate", "IN", "Todd Young", "Y000064", "www.young.senate.gov", "toddyoung", "https://www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) spoke on the Senate Floor regarding his intent to vote against raising the debt limit.\n\nRead the Senator\u2019s Remarks Prepared for Delivery Here:\n\nWhen I served in the House of Representatives, I walked into a lot of meetings back in Indiana full of conservatives who were angry about the debt limit.\n\n2011. 2013. 2014. And more.\n\nIn each of those meetings, I made the argument that raising the debt limit was a necessary thing to do. And, in fact, it was the conservative thing to do.\n\nI still believe that.\n\nDefaulting on our debts will start a spiral of economic turmoil.\n\nInterest rates would rise. The dollar would drop. Essential government workers might not get paid.\n\nIn those days, as a Republican in the House majority, we never failed to raise the debt limit. We also never failed to have a say in the spending that necessitated raising it.\n\nAnd in 2019, we again raised the debt limit, this time through July 31, 2021.\n\nNow, Democrats control the majority in both chambers.\n\nWith that control, the left has embarked on an unprecedented, reckless spending spree designed to remake America in their own image.\n\n$1.9 trillion in March.\n\nA $4.2 trillion budget.\n\nNow $3.5 trillion on a reckless tax-and-spend spree.\n\nYou\u2019ve decided to do all that on your own.\n\nAnd now you want our help?\n\nWhen you have a number of options at your disposal to raise the debt limit on your own, just as you\u2019ve gone it alone on this spending spree?\n\nA farmer back home over the August state work period told me it seems like the butcher wants to build a new slaughterhouse, and he\u2019s asking the cows to co-sign on the construction loan.\n\nI couldn\u2019t agree more.\n\nIf Democrats had treated Republicans as a governing partner these past nine months, I might feel differently.\n\nInstead, they\u2019ve treated us as an obstacle.\n\nAmerica must never default on its debt.\n\nA vote to raise the debt limit at this point in time is a vote to co-sign on the Democrats\u2019 partisan and unprecedented spending spree. Republicans will not be complicit.\n\nTo view Senator Young\u2019s full remarks, click here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "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.young.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/young-a-vote-to-raise-the-debt-limit-is-a-vote-for-democrats-reckless-spending-spree/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7443210817873478, "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"}