{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2020-12-30-pt1-PgS7971-7", "2020-12-30", 116, 2, null, null, "NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT", "SENATE", "SENATE", "ALLOTHER", "S7971", "S7971", "[{\"name\": \"Mitch McConnell\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "166 Cong. Rec. S7971", "Congressional Record, Volume 166 Issue 222 (Wednesday, December 30, 2020)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 222 (Wednesday, December 30, 2020)]\n[Senate]\n[Page S7971]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                   NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT\n\n  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, today, the Senate was supposed to\nfinish legislation securing critical tools, training, and support for\nAmerica's Armed Forces, but the junior Senator from Vermont had other\nideas.\n  Remember, Senator Sanders spent last summer, literally, trying to\ndefund our military. Not my words, but the title of a piece he\npublished: ``Defund the Pentagon: The Liberal Case.'' Our colleague\noffered an amendment to strip 10 percent of funding from our\nservicemembers and decimate our defense budget. The Russians aren't\ncutting military funding. China isn't cutting funding. But last summer,\nSenator Sanders and fellow Democrats, including the Democratic leader,\nvoted to make America unilaterally disarm and cut ours.\n  The left took a break from trying to defund the police to try to\ndefund our Armed Forces. Their amendment went down in a landslide, but\nnow our colleague from Vermont is again putting political stunts before\nthe needs of our men and women in uniform.\n  Our colleague says he will slow down this vital bill unless he gets\nto muscle through another stand-alone proposal from Speaker Pelosi that\nwould add roughly half a trillion dollars to the national debt, which\ndoes not align with what President Trump has suggested and which has no\nrealistic path to quickly pass the Senate.\n  Well, as I have said, the Senate will not let our national security\nbe shoved off course, certainly not by Senators who have spent years--\nliterally years--trying to gut America's capabilities while our\nadversaries continue ramping up. The Senate will stay on this important\nbill until we complete it one way or another.\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-2020-12-30-pt1-PgS7971-7"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 80.28966281563044, "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"}