{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2006-12-08-pt1-PgE2142-3", "2006-12-08", 109, 2, null, null, "VARIOUS FOREIGN POLICY SUSPENSION BILLS AT THE END OF THE 109TH CONGRESS", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E2142", "E2142", "[{\"name\": \"Ron Paul\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "152 Cong. Rec. E2142", "Congressional Record, Volume 152 Issue 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2142]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n    VARIOUS FOREIGN POLICY SUSPENSION BILLS AT THE END OF THE 109TH\n                                CONGRESS\n\n                                 ______\n\n                             HON. RON PAUL\n\n                                of texas\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                      Wednesday, December 6, 2006\n\n  Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I would like to express my concern about the\nHouse of Representatives at the last minute rushing to the floor dozens\nof bills spending tens of millions of dollars and interfering in the\naffairs of foreign countries. Mr. Speaker, we woke up this morning with\nthe surprise announcement that we would face at least 35 of these\nsuspension bills. Suspension bills are customarily noncontroversial--\nnaming post offices and the like. I can hardly think of anything more\ncontroversial than sending tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars\noverseas to interfere in the affairs of foreign countries.\n  The suspension calendar is being used to pass the reauthorization of\nthe Export-Import Bank, which funnels millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars\nto foreign governments. For example, through the Export-Import Bank,\nAmericans are forced to subsidize China's economic growth with some $4\nbillion dollars per year. Is this not controversial?\n  Additionally, today's suspension bills will turn an additional 52\nmillion dollars in foreign aid over to the Democratic Republic of the\nCongo. Is this not controversial?\n  Possibly more damaging in today's ``noncontroversial'' suspension\nbills are the several bills that seek to meddle in the affairs of\nforeign countries. Today's suspension bills, whether they regard\nLebanon, Iran, Congo, or Nepal, make it clear that we still have not\nlearned the lessons we should have learned from Iraq and all of our\nprevious interventions that have gone awry. Mr. Speaker, it is bad\nenough that Congress acts as if its jurisdiction extends across the\nentire globe, must we add insult to injury by treating this as simply\nrun of the mill, noncontroversial legislation?\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2006-12-08-pt1-PgE2142-3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 16.721251886337996, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}