{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://gohmert.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=364273", "Rep. Gohmert: Ryan\u2019s Budget Deal Violates My Conservative Principles", "2013-12-12", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Louie Gohmert", "G000552", "gohmert.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) challenged Rep. Paul Ryan\u2019s (R-Wis.) assertion that the\u00a0budget deal he negotiated with Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) does not violate conservative principles even though it raises federal spending beyond the $967 billion limit set by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA).\r\n\u201cI want to be supportive because I know Paul worked hard on it, but - and he says it doesn\u2019t violate our principles - but it violates the previous agreement we had. And that\u2019s kinda part of my principles,\u201d Gohmert told CNSNews.com.\r\n\u201cAnd I know it\u2019s part of the president\u2019s principles,\u201d he continued. \u201cClearly, President Obama does not want the budget caps burst through. Why would I say that? It\u2019s because the president, I heard him very clearly with my own ears saying that if a bill is agreed to by both Houses and he puts his signature on it, and the Supreme Court doesn\u2019t strike it down, then it\u2019s the law and we\u2019re not changing it.\r\n\u201cSo he had the idea of the sequestration. Both Houses passed that bill and he signed it into law. It's been upheld, so it is the law of the land \u2013 the court hasn\u2019t struck it down. So obviously, unless the president wasn\u2019t being truthful when he said that, then he would surely want the sequestration cuts to remain in place.\u201d\r\nThe\u00a0BCA raised the federal debt ceiling by $400 billion in exchange for spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over 10 years, commonly referred to as the sequester. According to Ryan, the budget\u00a0deal he brokered with Murray \u201cprovides for $63 billion in additional discretionary spending in 2014 and 2015 \u2013 in return for permanent deficit reduction of $85 billion. On net, this bill reduces the deficit by $23 billion.\u201d\r\nBut Gohmert says the agreement upends the previous deal Congressional Republicans made with Obama in 2011: permanent cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.\r\n\u201cWe were told in the summer of 2011, this is the starting place. We get them to this, then each year in the future we can add to the cuts that we got in this bill. Well, as you\u2019ve seen, we\u2019re not adding to the cuts. Actually, we bust through the cuts this year. Even though money\u2019s moved around, ultimately bottom line, we\u2019re not staying with the cuts that we created.\u201d\r\nGohmert also pointed out that even though Ryan\u2019s budget deal eventually cuts the federal deficit by $23 billion over 10 years, \u201cit is not very significant when you\u2019re adding trillions of dollars to the lifetime of debt\u201d of young Americans still in their teens and 20s.\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s incredible. It\u2019s a moral issue,\u201d Gohmert told CNSNews.com. \u201cIt\u2019s immoral that we can\u2019t control our spending and get it within our means and that we\u2019re relying on our kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids to pay it back someday. We owe it to future generations to do better than this.\u201d\r\nCNSNews.com asked Gohmert how the Ryan deal will affect future attempts to control federal spending.\r\n\u201cIf we can\u2019t even hold onto the minimal cuts that we created, I don\u2019t know how you ever get control of the red ink,\u201d the Texas Republican replied. \u201cIf the Republicans agree to it, that\u2019s a problem, and that\u2019s my concern.\u201d", 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": ["http://gohmert.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=364273"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3242759741842747, "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"}