{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2012-12-31-pt1-PgH7478-5", "2012-12-31", 112, 2, null, null, "FISCAL CLIFF", "HOUSE", "HOUSE", "ALLOTHER", "H7478", "H7478", "[{\"name\": \"Keith Ellison\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "158 Cong. Rec. H7478", "Congressional Record, Volume 158 Issue 171 (Monday, December 31, 2012)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 171 (Monday, December 31, 2012)]\n[House]\n[Page H7478]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                              FISCAL CLIFF\n\n  (Mr. ELLISON asked and was given permission to address the House for\n1 minute.)\n  Mr. ELLISON. Madam Speaker, many years ago our friends on the\nconservative side of the political aisle told us that if we cut taxes\nfor the wealthiest among us, what would happen is that they would get\nmore money which they would use to invest in plant and equipment, and\nthen all the rest of us working class and middle class folks would\nbenefit by rich people having more money because then they would hire\nus and we'd have a stronger economy. They put this plan into\nimplementation in 2001 and into 2003, and what followed was the most\nanemic decade of job growth that we have seen in many, many, many\ndecades. If you can contrast it with the 1990s when the tax rates were\nactually higher, we had a much more robust economy. In fact, when\nPresident Clinton handed President Bush the reins to the government, he\nhanded him, also, a surplus.\n  The fact is the conservative experiment based on the ideas of a guy\nnamed Arthur Laffer and others has failed. They don't work. They're\nwrong for this country. It's time for us to have some balance and to\npay the bills of this country, and that means taxes.\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-2012-12-31-pt1-PgH7478-5"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 43.95514610223472, "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"}