{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2012-12-31-pt1-PgH7478", "2012-12-31", 112, 2, null, null, "DROPPING THE BALL", "HOUSE", "HOUSE", "ALLOTHER", "H7478", "H7478", "[{\"name\": \"Janice Hahn\", \"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                           DROPPING THE BALL\n\n  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1\nminute.)\n  Ms. HAHN. Madam Speaker, tonight in Times Square hundreds of\nthousands of people will be there at midnight to watch that ball drop,\nbut here in Congress, we've also dropped the ball.\n  We're in the final days of the 112th Congress. No one expected us to\nbe here on the House floor on New Year's Eve, but here we are racing\ntowards that fiscal cliff--towards higher taxes on the middle class and\nslashed investment for the American people, including nutrition for\nmothers and infants, education for our children, and our\ninfrastructure.\n  What part of the cliff sounds like a good plan? I know I'm not the\nonly one who has spent time with families that it will hurt. I know I'm\nnot the only one who has visited the businesses that are worried that\nour country could have another recession. We should not be playing this\ngame of chicken.\n  There's too much at stake to have politics as usual. We have an\nopportunity to prevent the fiscal cliff, but in order to do so we must\nact as a unified Congress.\n  So I say to all my friends and colleagues, Democrats and Republicans,\nlet's get this thing done. Tonight, when that ball drops, let's make\nsure that we haven't also dropped the ball.\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"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.301003947854042, "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"}