{"id": "crec_005740", "text": "It is happening, and it is traumatizing to women and girls to have a man walking around naked in their locker room or spiking a volleyball full force into their face. This failed ideological social experiment is disrupting the very fabric of what Title IX was designed to protect. One example, without mentioning names, is a male swimmer, who was ranked 554th among male athletes, but became the top-ranked female swimmer in the women's category in the Nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "traumatizing to women and girls, spiking a volleyball full force into their face, failed ideological social experiment, disrupting the very fabric"}
{"id": "crec_005019", "text": "That is true--he didn't hear those words in my remarks. That is not what these murderers were sentenced to. They were sentenced by a jury of their peers to the death penalty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "use of 'murderers' (loaded term) and appeal to 'jury of their peers' as authority for the death penalty"}
{"id": "crec_000737", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] ([ORG]), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , , Mrs. [PERSON] . Committee on [ORG]' Affairs: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-3", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008877", "text": "She keeps all of us kind. Isn't that a great compliment? That is from [PERSON] on my team.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "She keeps all of us kind - vague positive generalization without specific details or evidence"}
{"id": "crec_009622", "text": "S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, last week, you heard me speak in support of [ORG], a vote that we are going to have later this afternoon. Today, I would like to discuss a related bill called [PERSON] 's [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003249", "text": "1125. LIMITATION ON REMOVAL. (a) In General.--An alien who appears to be prima facie eligible for status under this title shall be given a reasonable opportunity to apply for such status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009583", "text": "A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to discontinue the collection by [ORG] of firearm transaction records of discontinued firearms businesses, to require the destruction of such already collected records, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 564.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003940", "text": "[ORG] Woman of the Year Stacy Jennings [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate [PERSON] on being named United Way's 2025 Woman of the Year. Ms. [PERSON] has been a longtime volunteer and the heart of community service in Savannah.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003538", "text": "[ORG] ALONG THE NORTHERN BORDER. There is appropriated to [ORG], out of any money in the [ORG] not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, $1,000,000,000, which shall be expended to aquire border security technology assets to be deployed along the international border between the United States and Canada.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS95-4", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008584", "text": "In Los Angeles, resilience is a way of life. It is what has allowed the city to rise from the devastation of earthquakes and floods and riots and fires time and again. And we are stronger, more resilient, more united, more compassionate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "resilience is a way of life... stronger, more resilient, more united, more compassionate"}
{"id": "crec_000847", "text": "I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005537", "text": "SA 30. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 3, strike line 9 and all that follows through page 8, line 10.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008091", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina): H.R. 474. A bill to amend the Lumbee Act of 1956; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006582", "text": "It says that if someone comes into this country illegally and starts stealing stuff, they are detained; they are held. They are not just allowed to be released to be able to drift around the country to steal other things or to commit a murder later. If they come into our country illegally and start stealing things, they are detained, and they will go through the rest of the legal process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing illegal immigrants as thieves and murderers ('steal other things or to commit a murder later'), using inflammatory language to associate immigration with serious crimes"}
{"id": "crec_000787", "text": "The leader is correct. [SPEAKER] will read the bill by title for the second time. The senior assistant executive clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 9) to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title [ORG] of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002361", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mrs. [PERSON] ): S. 41. A bill to establish [ORG] along the southern border of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 42.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000105", "text": "[ORG]. (3) Committee on armed services.--Mr. [PERSON] of Washington.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004639", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , these are the weeks we are going to make that history or have to live with the sins of what we do. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] of Texas).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "live with the sins of what we do"}
{"id": "crec_000259", "text": "[[ORG] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor and congratulate [ORG] on an incredible milestone--180 years of outstanding service to our community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "honor and congratulate...outstanding service to our community"}
{"id": "crec_001091", "text": "If they knew more about it, my guess is it would be an even bigger topic of conversation; there would be more outrage. I think that is part of what the table setting is going to be over the next 6 months or so here, which is to identify these things, talk about them, highlight them, and do something about it. Last year, when I gave my inaugural speech on the Senate floor, I talked about how the administrative state was one of the biggest threats to our to Republic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "administrative state was one of the biggest threats to our Republic"}
{"id": "crec_006053", "text": "HONORING GERRI McDANIEL ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the life of a dear friend and dedicated public servant, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008144", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny certain green energy tax benefits to companies connected to certain countries of concern; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 525.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009760", "text": "I took a seat at the very end. That afternoon, I got on [ORG], took a seat at the very end. Two years later, [PERSON] came in and sat next to me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004959", "text": "It is a tax cut. You have to work a job and pay taxes in order to earn the credit. But under our current system, too many families do work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "'too many families do work' - implies working families are problematic; 'loaded_language' frames tax policy with emotionally charged assumptions about work and deservingness"}
{"id": "crec_008414", "text": "But he didn't stop there. He used his last days in office to go on a little pardon spree, granting clemency to 39 individuals, as well as commuting the sentences of convicted murderers on death row. These people were convicted of crimes ranging from conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a mortgage fraud scheme to stealing government property, to signing false documents, bank theft, participating in income tax fraud, and the misuse of a [ORG] number.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing pardons as a 'pardon spree' and emphasizing serious crimes like 'convicted murderers on death row' to suggest reckless abuse of power and danger"}
{"id": "crec_002931", "text": "Our approach will be this: We will use these hearings to show the contrast between [PERSON] agenda of helping the special interests--especially the very wealthy--and the Democrats' agenda to fight for working Americans. Nominees should expect tough, candid, but fair questioning. They should come prepared to be honest about everything--their backgrounds, their experiences, and their commitment to increasing opportunity for all Americans, not just those at the top.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrast between helping special interests and fighting for working Americans; 'agenda to fight for working Americans' vs. helping 'the very wealthy'"}
{"id": "crec_009787", "text": "53 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO. 60 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , his name was added as a cosponsor of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007639", "text": "These included 33,209 assaults; 4,390 sex and sexual assaults; 7,520 weapons offenses; 1,7l3 charges or convictions for homicide; and 1,655 kidnapping offenses. As one of [ORG]'s three operational directorates, [ORG] is the principal federal law enforcement authority in charge of domestic immigration enforcement. [ORG]'s mission is to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of those who undermine the safety of U.S. communities and the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and its primary areas of focus are interior enforcement operations, management of the agency's detained and non-detained populations, and repatriation of noncitizens who have received final orders of removal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "accumulation of specific crime statistics (assaults, sex crimes, weapons, homicide, kidnapping) presented without context to create negative impression of immigrants"}
{"id": "crec_000339", "text": "Even President [PERSON] , during his first term, never tried to detain all migrants subject to mandatory detention. It was far too costly, even for him. Since this bill is so sweeping, even Dreamers and people living here on temporary protected status, people who may have lived in this country for decades and shortly after their birth, could be subject to the bill's harsh provisions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Even President [PERSON], during his first term, never tried... It was far too costly, even for him"}
{"id": "crec_004308", "text": "This bill doesn't even come close to protecting women and girls in sports. In fact, it puts all women and girls in danger of sexual abuse. I hear my colleagues say, no, this wouldn't require genital exams.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "puts all women and girls in danger of sexual abuse"}
{"id": "crec_002488", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: [PERSON] 164 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003915", "text": "The last time hostages were released was in November 2023, and they gained their freedom through diplomatic negotiations. What is urgently needed to bring an end to this brutal war is a diplomatic solution. Both [ORG] and [ORG] must agree to end the fighting, release the hostages, and flood the Gaza strip with desperately needed food and medical supplies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'brutal war' and 'desperately needed' use emotionally charged language; reference to past diplomatic success invokes authority of prior negotiations"}
{"id": "crec_000600", "text": "We in New York and on Long Island use these funds on a rolling basis. We need these funds. And to repeat: [ORG] funds are a firewall at a time potential copycat attacks, like the FBI has warned, are happening.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "warning of 'potential copycat attacks' and emphasis on need through repetition of 'We need these funds'"}
{"id": "crec_004553", "text": "You take it away, fine. Be honest about what it means. It is another few trillion dollars of debt over the next 10 years that we have to pay interest on.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"take it away\" and framing as \"another few trillion dollars of debt\" emphasizes negative consequences through word choice"}
{"id": "crec_001311", "text": "READY TO DELIVER ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to tell the people of Oregon that I am ready to deliver for them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "ready to deliver for them"}
{"id": "crec_001634", "text": "People need to understand that if you are a Member of Congress, you are the board of the biggest economy in the world. You have to start learning your math because, at the end of the day, the math will always win. Let's do some basic things.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Members of Congress positioned as board of 'biggest economy in the world' with mathematical expertise requirement; 'the math will always win' implies unquestionable authority"}
{"id": "crec_001797", "text": "That is what women are making compared to what men make. So, the query is: Why did we not pass all of these pieces of legislation? The answer is because we had two Senators--two Senators, not the entire Democratic Party; not all the Democratic leadership, two Senators--who would not do what Republicans did when they wanted to get a certain Supreme Court nominee confirmed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["whataboutism", "repetition"], "evidence": "deflects criticism by pointing to Republican behavior with Supreme Court nominee confirmation instead of addressing the legislative failures directly; 'two Senators' repeated for emphasis"}
{"id": "crec_006223", "text": "As I said, I will vote to zero out taxes. We didn't have an income tax for the first half of this country's existence. I think that is great.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "We didn't have an income tax for the first half of this country's existence"}
{"id": "crec_002836", "text": "Together, we as Americans can lower prices at the pump and protect our national energy security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "\"Together, we as Americans\" and appeal to collective national identity combined with vague promises to \"lower prices\" and \"protect our national energy security\" without specific mechanisms"}
{"id": "crec_003015", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will read the bill by title for the second time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill ([PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009793", "text": "The Chairman of [ORG], Gen. [PERSON] , Jr., entered the Great Rotunda. Former Senate Majority Leader, the [PERSON] , accompanied by the Honorable [PERSON] ; and the Honorable [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000251", "text": "He was a man of faith who loved his family and loved our country. Let us mourn our [ORG]'s loss, celebrate a life well lived, and learn from his legacy of always putting country before self. May President [PERSON] rest in peace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-5", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'man of faith', 'loved his family and loved our country', 'legacy of always putting country before self'"}
{"id": "crec_000211", "text": "Concurrent resolution regarding consent to assemble outside the seat of government. The message further announced that the House has agreed to [PERSON] . 1, resolving that [PERSON] of the State of Illinois be, and is hereby chosen [PERSON] of [ORG]; that [PERSON] of the State of Maryland be, and is hereby, chosen [ORG]; and that [PERSON] of [ORG] be, and is hereby, chosen Chief Administrative Officer of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS33", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001163", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62-2", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003997", "text": "To place 4 runners in the top 15 was just an exceptional effort and one that other teams could not match. Madam Speaker, I once again congratulate the 2024 [PERSON] County boys cross country team. Virginia's Sixth Congressional District is incredibly proud of their accomplishment, and I wish them continued success in the seasons ahead.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "exceptional effort and one that other teams could not match"}
{"id": "crec_004102", "text": "Open our hearts to Your wisdom, to understand the problems, to discern the solutions, and to respond to each one as You would respond. May the perceptions of our world, the reception of those whom we meet, and the interpretation of the work You would have us do reflect that we are willing and open to learn the unforced rhythms of grace which You, Yourself, have taught each one of us. In Your divine friendship, abide with us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008754", "text": "This particular bill is very troubling in how it impacts children. I am troubled that a bill of such consequence and, quite frankly, legal complexity was brought to the floor without going through a committee. Really, here in the Senate, the way to do responsible work on complicated, consequential bills is to have them go before a committee so the committee can bring in all the experts necessary to resolve disputes and misunderstandings about how the bill might work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on committee expertise and 'experts necessary' combined with loaded language describing the bill as 'troubling,' 'of such consequence,' and demonstrating 'legal complexity'"}
{"id": "crec_004646", "text": "Witnesses may be accompanied at a deposition by two designated personal, nongovernmental attorneys to advise them of their rights. Only members, committee staff designated by the chair or ranking minority member, an official reporter, the witness, and the witness's two designated attorneys are permitted to attend. Other persons, including government agency personnel, may not attend.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006389", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 405. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 provides Congress with the power to `lay and collect [ORG], Duties, Imposts and Excises' in order to `provide for the general Welfare of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH186-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1"}
{"id": "crec_001803", "text": "The Vice President would be the tiebreaker. The Vice President would have said to the world that we passed [PERSON] , and I was proud to break the tie. We passed [PERSON] in Policing Act; I was proud to break the tie.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "The Vice President would have said/I was proud to break the tie repeated twice in succession to emphasize the tiebreaking role"}
{"id": "crec_001275", "text": "Additionally, [ORG] is a member of various industry organizations, such as [ORG], where [PERSON] served as the president. The company is also a member of [ORG] as well as [ORG]. In December 2022, [PERSON] was awarded the North Iowa Area Community College Entrepreneur of the Month.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007433", "text": "THE [ORG] [SPEAKER]. The [ORG] has examined [ORG] proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule I, the [ORG] stands approved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009343", "text": "Mr. President, first, a few words on [ORG]. A few days ago, [ORG] made a ridiculous proposal that Congress should extend the [ORG] caps after they are set to expire this year by imposing a new cap on New York businesses, large and small, and the businesses in many other States. The proposal by [ORG] is ridiculous, and I will come back to the floor at 11 a.m., after the vote, with more to say about it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "describing the proposal as 'ridiculous' twice in quick succession, characterizing it dismissively without detailed substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_007015", "text": "They have a right to say it is unconstitutional. It hasn't been ruled on yet. It hasn't been ruled on.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "It hasn't been ruled on yet. It hasn't been ruled on."}
{"id": "crec_002240", "text": "Senator [PERSON] was there as well, and as a matter of fact, I think Senator [PERSON] texted him either during or right after the game. I am not sure. He will tell us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002296", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. Thank you, Mr. President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009791", "text": "[ORG] ON INTELLIGENCE [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Monday, January 20, 2025, at 4:45 p.m., to conduct a closed business meeting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-7", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005899", "text": "Yet, due to its unique political status, even as our seventh largest trading partner, we do not have a formal tax arrangement in place with Taiwan. This bipartisan legislation before us today would finally change that. This bill makes necessary changes to our tax code to provide much-needed certainty to businesses and workers between our two countries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "much-needed certainty to businesses and workers"}
{"id": "crec_009092", "text": "It actually is the smallest population [ORG] in the country. Our population is clearly just a fraction of Los Angeles, but these were big fires. Yet we can learn lessons from each other on how to prevent the next fire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007846", "text": "Here is the kicker. Just this month, a study revealed that the snail darter was not a distinct species. It wasn't a distinct species.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["repetition", "doubt"], "evidence": "It wasn't a distinct species. It wasn't a distinct species. - the repeated assertion casts doubt on the validity of previous claims about species distinctiveness"}
{"id": "crec_008542", "text": "And let me begin by just taking a step back for a second and acknowledging that, even before the winds increased last week, we knew that the risk of a potential large fire was high. In the midst of a historically dry season in Southern California, forecasters predicted hurricane-force winds, along with little to no humidity--essentially, a dry hurricane condition, if you can imagine that. Californians know that when there is a red flag warning, conditions are ripe for large- scale fires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006994", "text": "What is going to be different? [ORG] has had 270 days, and rather than making legitimate attempts to find a buyer--and, by the way, you all recall the news stories when this law was being discussed and being passed. There were a number of Americans who said they would be interested in buying them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "reference to 'news stories' and 'a number of Americans' as external validation; 'legitimate attempts' uses loaded language to imply current efforts are illegitimate"}
{"id": "crec_003160", "text": "201. [ORG]. In this title: (1) In general.--Except as otherwise specifically provided, any term used in this section that is used in the immigration laws shall have the meaning given such term in the immigration laws.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001394", "text": "We have international humanitarian law to prevent this kind and this scale of destruction. Just because someone doesn't like the law doesn't mean they get to break the law. As a court of last resort, the [ORG] can only become involved when and where a country has demonstrated unwillingness or inability to hold its people to account for crimes within the [ORG]'s jurisdiction.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "references to international humanitarian law and the institutional authority of the [ORG] as 'court of last resort' to enforce accountability"}
{"id": "crec_005712", "text": "What we see with its implementation in my home [ORG] of California and many other areas around this country, especially in the West, is significant misinterpretation of it. Indeed, it has been weaponized to stop many things that would be good for people, even for the environment. We are talking about forestry, forestry practices that would make our lands safer and less fire prone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'weaponized to stop many things that would be good for people' and 'lands safer and less fire prone'"}
{"id": "crec_006033", "text": "New Mexican firefighters are there helping, and Congress must also help without placing conditions on emergency disaster aid. Let's act as one United States in the face of this disaster.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-4", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "act as one United States in the face of this disaster"}
{"id": "crec_003951", "text": "The [PERSON] administration EPA has granted the necessary waiver very recently at the end of this era, allowing CARB to enforce this mandate at the State of California level, which sets a precedent that can lead to similar bans in other States across the country. Believe me, it will happen. Several other States are already looking at this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "EPA has granted the necessary waiver; Believe me, it will happen"}
{"id": "crec_004956", "text": "Let's give it to families in installments that they can use across the year as they go out there and earn a living and pay their taxes. And we ought to make the credit available to expecting parents as well. We should say that parents who are expecting children, a child not yet born, ought to be able to claim that tax credit up to $5,000 depending on the amount of payroll taxes that they pay, even if the baby has not yet arrived.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004122", "text": "I know that because of their efforts, these wildfires will soon be contained. There is no doubt that their swift action saved lives. I join Senators [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and 46 of my Democratic and Republican colleagues urging President [PERSON] to grant Governor [PERSON] 's request for a major disaster declaration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "46 colleagues urging President and appeal to Governor's authority; framing broad bipartisan support"}
{"id": "crec_006753", "text": "So we could have had a bipartisan conversation that could have reflected our values, lowered the overall corporate tax rate, and found a way to get rid of loopholes so corporations don't find a way to exempt themselves from taxes when the average police officer is paying higher taxes than some of the biggest corporations. I watched you during that time--this was 8 years ago--and you began to say: Let's make sure that this tax plan benefits working Americans because when you invest in middle-class Americans, in working-class Americans, it is a proven way to grow the economy other than this fallacy of trickle-down. And so the stunning thing for me--and this is where I want you to--I think that was one of the most powerful points I heard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 129, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "tax plan benefits working Americans, proven way to grow the economy, most powerful points"}
{"id": "crec_009348", "text": "Now, the task is to ensure that this temporary agreement paves the way to a lasting peace. This first phase is critical for bringing home all the hostages and preserving Israel's right to defend itself. We must make sure that the terrorists of [ORG] can never again pose a threat to Israel or to the region.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "use of 'terrorists' and framing group as an existential threat that 'can never again pose a threat' combines emotionally charged language with fear-based rhetoric"}
{"id": "crec_001899", "text": "A bill to authorize the waiver of costs of activities relating to evacuation of United States citizens when their lives are endangered by war or acts of terrorism; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New Jersey, Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 144, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006613", "text": "What makes this story all the more devastating was that the killer should have been stopped but wasn't. He should have been stopped at the border in 2022, but he was paroled into this country. He should have been detained when he was arrested in New York in 2023 but wasn't.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "devastating...killer should have been stopped but wasn't; repeated emphasis on failures to detain/stop creates emotional weight and fear narrative"}
{"id": "crec_005093", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] and Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002993", "text": "[ORG], a writer and comedian from my home [ORG], currently residing in Los Angeles, said: Here in Los Angeles I know I personally--and I know so many other people have been relying on this app during the fires. It is a way in which we are spreading [information that the] community [needs], it is a way in which we are spreading resources. Rae, a user who has recently been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, explained: Because of TikTok I was able to come on here and share my story .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "spreading information that the community needs, spreading resources"}
{"id": "crec_008363", "text": "And people are going to ask: Are my prescription drugs going to get more expensive? They are going to ask: Will our broken tax system become even more unfair under President [PERSON] in a way that rigs the system for the ultrawealthy? These are the questions Americans care about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "prescription drugs going to get more expensive; broken tax system; rigs the system for the ultrawealthy"}
{"id": "crec_006656", "text": "On January 31--so at the end of this month--marks 9 years since Iowans Michelle Root and [PERSON] , whom I know personally, woke up to every parent's worst nightmare. Their daughter, [PERSON] , was killed by a drunk driver who was an illegal immigrant. [PERSON] --and she is a beautiful, young woman.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "every parent's worst nightmare; killed by a drunk driver who was an illegal immigrant"}
{"id": "crec_009337", "text": "For sure, it is out of step with the American people. The American people want to see an end to open borders and the chaos they have brought to communities around the country--communities like Athens, [ORG], where [PERSON] was murdered last February. [PERSON] death was a tragedy, and it was preventable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "open borders and the chaos they have brought to communities around the country"}
{"id": "crec_005927", "text": "The United States and Taiwan should help support each other's democracies through collaboration on countering disinformation and propaganda. We should go further to strengthen one another's economies through increased flows of trade and investment by negotiating expanded market access, common rules, and the end of this double taxation on Taiwanese investment in the United States. This is especially critical as we look to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "support each other's democracies through collaboration on countering disinformation and propaganda"}
{"id": "crec_004420", "text": "Let's talk about ways to champion opportunities in sports for all women and girls. We celebrated the 50th anniversary of Title IX 2 years ago, which protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities. Under [ORG], we have seen a considerable increase in the number of female students participating in sports, but college women still have nearly 60,000 fewer athletic opportunities than men, and high school girls have about 1 million fewer opportunities to play sports than high school boys.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001325", "text": "On August 31, 1988, while flying a Lake LA-250 Renegade aircraft with an internal combustion engine, Mr. [PERSON] broke two world records by reaching an altitude of 7,468 meters during a horizontal flight and 7,498 meters of altitude overall. For 36 years, those records have stood unbroken, and to this day have helped the United States maintain its place as a world leader in aviation. For Mr. [PERSON] 's achievements for our country and contributions to American aviation and aerospace, I thank him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-5", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "helped the United States maintain its place as a world leader in aviation; For Mr. [PERSON]'s achievements for our country"}
{"id": "crec_000076", "text": "Committee on the Judiciary: Mr. [PERSON] , Chair. Committee on Natural Resources: Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG]. Committee on [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002790", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , today, January 13 in Washington, we are in a little bit of a hiatus waiting for a new administration and a new Congress to begin the process of bringing forward new policy proposals and a budget. In the meantime, in the last 13 days, we have seen, I think, groundbreaking, exciting developments for the people of this country as a result of legislation that was passed in 2022 and 2023 and implemented by the [PERSON] administration. The first is the PACT Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "groundbreaking, exciting developments for the people of this country"}
{"id": "crec_008906", "text": "Written notices of [ORG] meetings, accompanied by an agenda, enumerating the items of business to be considered, shall be sent to all [ORG] Members at least one week in advance of such meetings. The written notices required by this [PERSON] may be provided by electronic mail. In the event that unforeseen requirements or Committee business prevent sufficient notice of either the meeting or agenda, the [ORG] staff shall communicate such notice and agenda, or any revisions to the agenda, as soon as practicable by telephone or otherwise to Members or appropriate staff assistants in their offices.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003017", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002788", "text": "MORNING-HOUR DEBATE [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to the order of [ORG], the [ORG] will now recognize Members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning-hour debate. The [ORG] will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each Member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to 5 minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003772", "text": "1801 et seq. ), not later than 60 days after filing proof of service of the complaint, a party to the lawsuit may file a request with [ORG] to assist the parties in reaching a satisfactory resolution of all issues involving all parties to the dispute. (C) Notice.--Upon filing a request under subparagraph (B) and giving of notice to the parties, the parties shall attempt mediation within the period specified in subparagraph (D), except that nothing in this paragraph shall limit the ability of a court to order preliminary injunctive relief to protect health and safety or to otherwise prevent irreparable harm.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009928", "text": "Thank You for the freedoms we cherish, for the strength of our communities, and for the resilience of our spirit. As our President and Vice President embrace their newly appointed roles, we humbly implore that Your everlasting love and wisdom will envelope them. Grant them the clarity of mind to navigate the challenges that lie ahead and the compassion to serve all citizens with fairness and integrity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "freedoms we cherish, strength of our communities, resilience of our spirit"}
{"id": "crec_002438", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. [PERSON] ), the bill's sponsor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009001", "text": "He first joined 4-H in Chickasaw County, MS, at the age of 10 and later worked for [ORG] for 33 years. He served multiple roles on the [ORG] and was instrumental in the development of the Mississippi 4-H Learning Center and [PERSON] . He was inducted into [ORG] in 2011.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009605", "text": "If angels must veil their faces in Your presence, shouldn't we mere mortals embrace referential awe? Empower our Senators to be strong and courageous as they make loyalty to You their highest priority. Lord, smile on them with Your blessings, for You are the author and finisher of our salvation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invocation of divine authority and reference to God as 'author and finisher of our salvation' to legitimize political action; use of abstract virtues like 'strong and courageous' and 'loyalty'"}
{"id": "crec_000868", "text": "By simply reducing payment errors for the SNAP payments, for example, we could save an estimated $100 billion. By implementing a real work requirement for means-tested programs like Congress did back during the [PERSON] Presidency, we could save an incredible amount of money for the American people and help ease inflation so that [ORG] can bring down interest rates. Or we could repeal the controversial 2021 Thrifty Food Plan that would save as much as $300 billion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "phrases like 'save an estimated $100 billion,' 'incredible amount of money,' and 'help ease inflation' make vague, appealing claims without detailed explanation of mechanisms or trade-offs"}
{"id": "crec_004348", "text": "Let's talk about what enforcement looks like because, Mr. [PERSON] , you don't want to talk about it. We know there is only one logical conclusion to this. This is interrogation of young girls about their bodies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing enforcement as 'interrogation of young girls about their bodies' uses inflammatory language to misrepresent and exaggerate the opposing position"}
{"id": "crec_005630", "text": "Through the work of [ORG], Miss [PERSON] has touched the lives of more than 20,000 women and children, helping them to walk forward with faith-driven hope for the future. Guided by her abiding faith in God and her steadfast belief in the value of human life, Miss [PERSON] made it her mission to spread empowerment, hope, and redemption among the women she served. Throughout her extraordinary life, she has received numerous awards and honors, including an honorary degree in humanitarian studies from [ORG] in 2012.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "extraordinary life, faith-driven hope, empowerment, hope, and redemption, humanitarian studies"}
{"id": "crec_004218", "text": "How many of history's most prolific female athletes would never have reached such heights if they were forced to compete against biological males? When will Democrats learn that the American people fundamentally reject their radical agenda? A [ORG] poll recently said 70 percent of the American people believe we should protect women's sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "framing as 'forced to compete against biological males' and 'radical agenda'; presenting poll as definitive answer; posing as binary choice between protecting women's sports or accepting Democratic agenda"}
{"id": "crec_000092", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. 12.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001285", "text": "ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2025 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 1 p.m. on Thursday, January 9; that following the prayer and pledge, the [ORG] of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed; further, that upon the conclusion of morning business, the Senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 1, S. 5; finally, that notwithstanding rule XXII, the cloture vote with respect to the motion to proceed to Calendar No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS67-2", "word_count": 125, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008989", "text": "Those who knew her will cherish and strive to continue her legacy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007492", "text": "The consequences of these policies are not hypotheticals or simply numbers. They are a reality for families across the country, and they are emblematic of the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration's war on women. Last September, [ORG] heard from three mothers whose daughters were brutally assaulted and murdered by illegal aliens welcomed into the country by President [PERSON] and Vice President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "war on women, brutally assaulted and murdered, welcomed into the country"}
{"id": "crec_007522", "text": "Once again, in the inadmissibility context, this transposition can have severe consequences. Imagine a domestic violence victim covered by DACA who flees her abuser and removes half of the money from their joint bank account, enough to get a train or bus ticket to get away. Imagine the abuser calls the police and claims that she stole money from him and committed a theft.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Imagine a domestic violence victim covered by DACA who flees her abuser and removes half of the money from their joint bank account... Imagine the abuser calls the police and claims that she stole money"}
{"id": "crec_000402", "text": "That is why it wasn't successful. Speaking about words, though, when I came here today, I thought about a lot of words. I hear a lot of words, a lot of debate, a lot of discussion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007750", "text": "RETURNING TO THE HALLS OF CONGRESS ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , it has been nearly a decade since I had the opportunity to address this body.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008597", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006809", "text": "Over just the past few months, powerful hurricanes and severe wildfires have caused nearly one-half of a trillion dollars in estimated damage. The Los Angeles fires are estimated to be the costliest blaze in the history of our country. Insurance is becoming unaffordable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "powerful hurricanes, severe wildfires, costliest blaze in history, unaffordable insurance - emphasizing catastrophic scale and economic threat"}
{"id": "crec_009613", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. [ORG] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006796", "text": "To have a discussion about a tax policy that essentially funnels money to folks who have done extremely well raises a fairness question, which my colleagues have talked to, but it also raises a very practical question about how do you grow an economy. You can only grow an economy if folks who are working and committed to the communities they are in can pay their bills, can earn what they need in order to pay the grocery bill and to pay rent and healthcare. That is why the starting point of tax reform should be addressing family needs that, by the way, are employer needs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "funnels money to folks who have done extremely well raises a fairness question; characterization of tax policy with emotionally charged language combined with reference to 'my colleagues have talked to'"}
{"id": "crec_000001", "text": "[Pages [ORG]] COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES--JOINT SESSION OF THE HOUSE AND [ORG] TO THE PROVISIONS OF SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2 At 12:56 p.m., [ORG], [PERSON] , announced the Vice President and [ORG]. The Senate entered the Hall of the House of Representatives, headed by the Vice President and the Secretary of the Senate, the Members and officers of the House rising to receive them. The Vice President took her seat as [SPEAKER] of the joint convention of the two [ORG], the Speaker of the House occupying the chair on her left.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000340", "text": "If that weren't bad enough, the bill also declares that States have standing to sue over certain immigration provisions so long as the [ORG] or its residents suffer even the most trivial financial harm. This appears to be a ham-handed attempt to circumvent recent Supreme Court rulings limiting States' standing to sue [ORG] over immigration enforcement matters. Merely declaring that the States have standing to sue does not make it so.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "'ham-handed attempt' and 'Merely declaring that the States have standing to sue does not make it so'"}
{"id": "crec_006009", "text": "The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-2", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009478", "text": "At this time, Members, the Resident Commissioner, and [ORG] should congregate by class. Pursuant to [PERSON] . 43, upon completion of the ceremony, the House will stand adjourned until noon tomorrow for morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-8", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001647", "text": "Let's walk through the impact of borrowing where we are using this fiscal year, what we have been borrowing per day, per hour, per minute, per second. We are going to walk through, and I am using the clock thing. These are 12-hour clocks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "using dramatic temporal breakdown (per day, per hour, per minute, per second) to amplify perception of borrowing magnitude"}
{"id": "crec_008599", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. 10-Year Anniversary of the Passage of Water for the World Act [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, some people in the [ORG] who served in the Senate may remember my predecessor [PERSON] of Illinois.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001425", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , again, I am going to respond to the chairman of the committee.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007048", "text": "14 to Amendment No. 8 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, we just locked in a vote on my amendment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002405", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 42. A bill to establish [ORG] and to transfer unobligated amounts from the Coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds to such Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern border; to [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80-4", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000253", "text": "Our soldiers, our fighting people, and everybody who has cared at all about that has to be taking this as a slap in the face because justice never was done. These detainees, many of whom have ties directly to terrorism, are being resettled without facing justice. This action weakens our national security and signals a dangerous leniency to those who have plotted against our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "detainees with 'ties directly to terrorism' being 'resettled without facing justice' and 'weakens our national security' and 'dangerous leniency'"}
{"id": "crec_000459", "text": "Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question will be postponed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008683", "text": "Now, again, if it would have been like a normal family, once the pandemic passed, we would have returned to some reasonable spending level, but we didn't do that. The last 5 years now, we spent, on average, $6.5 trillion. That is $2.1 trillion more than we spent in 2019.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Characterizing spending as abnormal and excessive by emphasizing large numbers ($6.5 trillion, $2.1 trillion more) without context, framing the situation as a departure from 'reasonable' and 'normal' spending levels to create concern"}
{"id": "crec_006170", "text": "We lament it every day. I do love those boys, though. I push them hard in sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007586", "text": "Their daughters had been brutally assaulted and murdered by illegal aliens who had been allowed into this country by the Democratic administration and had not been removed even after committing other offenses, as well. The statistics tell us how broad this threat has become. Behind the statistics are grieving families, shattered lives, and entirely preventable atrocities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "brutally assaulted and murdered by illegal aliens...shattered lives, and entirely preventable atrocities"}
{"id": "crec_001468", "text": "That means not giving an iota of recognition to kangaroo courts, like the [ORG], who are trying to prevent Israeli military success, who are conducting their brand of anti-Semitism against Israeli leaders, preventing Americans and our allies from being returned home. Again, Israel is the tip of the spear in bringing American hostages home, and anybody who gets in their way is getting in our way. Mr. [PERSON] , may I inquire as to how much time is remaining.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "kangaroo courts, brand of anti-Semitism, tip of the spear, anybody who gets in their way is getting in our way"}
{"id": "crec_003021", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from South Dakota [Mr. [PERSON] ], for Ms. [PERSON] , proposes an amendment numbered 8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS87", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006236", "text": "That is the truth. What I want to do is make sure we save our country. What I don't want to do is play games.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'save our country' implies the nation is in danger or crisis; 'play games' uses loaded language to dismiss opposition"}
{"id": "crec_004500", "text": "Madam Speaker, 2024 was a record-breaking year for the Space Coast, with 93 successful launches crossing our skies. In just the first few weeks of 2025, five more launches have taken place, proving that America's new golden age of spaceflight is alive and well. This renaissance has been powered by game-changing private companies like SpaceX and [ORG], whose ingenuity has turned spaceflight into a thriving ecosystem of public-private collaboration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "record-breaking year, golden age of spaceflight, renaissance, game-changing, America's...ingenuity"}
{"id": "crec_008502", "text": "Mr. President, the last 4 years have been nothing short of a national nightmare. The runup to the nightmare began in 2020. After fending off a ridiculous impeachment attempt in the early months of 2020, President [PERSON] was riding high, and the economy was booming.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "nothing short of a national nightmare"}
{"id": "crec_008314", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_009327", "text": "S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, the first bill that a new majority considers is an indication of its priorities. The American people are rightly concerned about the illegal immigration crisis in this country, and they sent a clear message in November that they want to see it addressed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "The American people are rightly concerned...they sent a clear message in November that they want to see it addressed"}
{"id": "crec_000037", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 7 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 8 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 8 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009681", "text": "The thing that I want to make sure of is that, as we think about the chaos that we are facing, the complexity that we are facing, is that we don't--as we have occasionally in the past--abandon our values and our commitment to the rule of law. In more inspired times, we have used these crises to actually burnish our great global advantage as a nation of immigrants that is committed to the rule of law. In 2013, we had what was, in my view, an important chance to embrace those values with the Senate's work on the Gang of 8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'nation of immigrants that is committed to the rule of law' and 'our great global advantage'"}
{"id": "crec_009155", "text": "These fire personnel provide oversight and direct action on initial and extended attack incidents. (12) Wildland firefighters in the United States also answer the call to fight wildfires internationally. During the record-setting fires in Australia in 2020, the United States sent 362 firefighters to help.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001932", "text": "A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] and the Secretary of [ORG] to make available to the public on the websites of their respective departments certain information relating to individuals processed through [ORG] [ORG] facilities, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 300.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001522", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009460", "text": "A bill to exclude the authority to impose duties and tariff-rate quotas from [ORG]; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008895", "text": "Then Mr. [PERSON] traveled to Angola to announce $600 million to build a railroad to help that country market its critical minerals. Buy Greenland? Sure, if the price is right and the [ORG] are willing to sell.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006150", "text": "Let's stand behind this legislation, [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act, and ensure that we are doing everything possible to protect our cities and the people who live within them, especially the women, as we think of [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and too many others who have already paid the ultimate price. We need to focus entirely on the needs of folks like that, and hopefully, there will be some sense of closure or satisfaction for their families to see that at least we have done the right thing ultimately. With President [PERSON] coming in, in just a few short days, I think we can finally get the momentum to do what we need to do with enforcing our border and allowing legal immigration, allowing people who we invite into the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 135, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "women who have 'paid the ultimate price' combined with naming victims, invoking incoming President's authority, and charged language like 'Illegal Aliens'"}
{"id": "crec_009718", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, before I yield the floor to my distinguished colleague from Iowa, I do want to respond to one thing my colleague from Colorado said.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007647", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in opposition to this dangerous legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing the legislation as 'dangerous' without specific justification"}
{"id": "crec_004416", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , may I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002849", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , President [PERSON] 's 2017 tax package created section 199A, a 20 percent small business deduction to help small businesses and family farms like those in my district. In fact, three out of four small business employers in this country have benefited from this tax provision. Unfortunately, this deduction is one of many set to expire this year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "President [PERSON]'s 2017 tax package created section 199A...to help small businesses and family farms"}
{"id": "crec_002507", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , the costs of recovering from increasingly frequent severe weather events often raise the price of Americans' electric bills. This bill would help public power make their systems more resilient at the time of repair, increasing efficiency and cutting overall costs. I can't think of a more important set of bills to be passing at this time as the first bills coming up on suspension.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "costs of recovering from increasingly frequent severe weather events...raise the price of Americans' electric bills"}
{"id": "crec_006995", "text": "[ORG] didn't do anything. Rather than looking for an American buyer, they decided to hire an army of lobbyists and lawyers to try and subvert the will of the Congress. They spent the last 270 days trying to avoid being sold.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "hire an army of lobbyists and lawyers to try and subvert the will of the Congress"}
{"id": "crec_005345", "text": "SA 25. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 26.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008435", "text": "They never have to explain themselves to the voters. They just do what they do, which is create more and more redtape and regulation. So I am glad we are going to be able to focus, soon after we confirm President [PERSON] 's [ORG], on [ORG] regulatory disapprovals.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "'create more and more redtape and regulation' and repeated emphasis on regulations/disapprovals"}
{"id": "crec_004450", "text": "In high school athletics, girls have over 1,000,000 fewer athletic opportunities than boys, with schools providing girls with 43 percent of all athletic opportunities while girls represent nearly half of all students. In intercollegiate athletics, colleges would need to provide women with an additional 148,000 sports opportunities to match the same ratio of sports opportunities per student as is offered to men. Overall, girls still do not have the participation opportunities provided to boys before the enactment of title [ORG], over 50 years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "girls have over 1,000,000 fewer athletic opportunities than boys"}
{"id": "crec_008090", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia): H.R. 473. A bill to restore in-person work at Federal agencies to not less than pre-pandemic levels, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005068", "text": "The situation in the West Bank--in particular high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages, and property destruction--has reached intolerable levels and constitutes a serious threat to the peace, security, and stability of the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, and the broader Middle East region. These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom. They also undermine the security of Israel and have the potential to lead to broader regional destabilization across the Middle East, threatening United States personnel and interests.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-5", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threat to the peace, security, and stability; broader regional destabilization; threatening United States personnel and interests"}
{"id": "crec_002399", "text": "1, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009074", "text": "ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 6 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 6, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. S. 30 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of [ORG], a bill to require each agency to repeal 3 existing regulations before issuing a new regulation, and for other purposes. S. 50 At the request of Ms. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. [PERSON] ), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of S. 50, a bill to prohibit the intentional hindering of immigration, border, and customs controls, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-2", "word_count": 177, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002828", "text": "The amount of water that runs out wasted, running through the delta in an hour, would fill that [ORG]. It would take a long time locally because they have to rely on either wells or coming from some other water source we haven't quite ascertained yet because it is hard to find information. Is Governor [PERSON] going to help or is he going to be a detriment and just go on camera and blame everybody else and blame the President?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Is Governor [PERSON] going to help or is he going to be a detriment...blame everybody else and blame the President - presents only two extreme positions while attacking the governor's character and motivations"}
{"id": "crec_000185", "text": "Pipe bombs were planted near the [ORG] and [ORG]. This was in no way a peaceful protest. This was not even a protest that got out of hand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Emphatic statements 'in no way' and 'This was not even' combined with loaded characterization of pipe bombs to establish extreme binary positioning"}
{"id": "crec_005959", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002328", "text": "For many years, the plant remained the only operating uranium enrichment facility in the United States. While that work has since completed, the plant's employees remain dedicated to their jobs and the important work they perform each day to transition this facility into the future. Today, McCracken County remains the heart of America's inland waterways and a center for creativity and folk art that serves as the gateway to west Kentucky's history and opportunity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "heart of America's inland waterways and a center for creativity and folk art that serves as the gateway to west Kentucky's history and opportunity"}
{"id": "crec_006200", "text": "Reversing the [ORG] mandate is $117 billion. [ORG] work requirements and SNAP work requirements are $120 billion. Undo the student loan bailouts, which are an unfair shift of money from the working population to those who took on student loans, that is 100 to $270 billion of savings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing student loan forgiveness as 'unfair shift of money from the working population' presents complex policy as a moral binary; 'bailouts' uses loaded language to frame the policy negatively"}
{"id": "crec_005077", "text": "Accordingly, I have approved the [ORG] and authorized its execution and urge that the Congress give it favorable consideration. This transmission shall constitute a submittal for purposes of both subsections 123 b. and 123 d. of the Act. My Administration is prepared to immediately begin the consultations with [ORG] and [ORG] as provided in subsection 123 b.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004932", "text": "Why not? Because they can't afford it. And that is all families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007797", "text": "There was no objection. Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000289", "text": "[ORG] would require ICE detention for illegal aliens who are charged with, arrested for, or convicted of any burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting offense. H.R. 29 further requires [ORG] to issue a detainer for those illegal aliens and take custody of them effectively and expeditiously.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of 'illegal aliens' instead of neutral terminology; framing of detention requirements in terms of specific crime categories to emphasize threat"}
{"id": "crec_006790", "text": "The success of our teachers, our nurses, our pipefitters, our firefighters, our police officers, and everyone in between will be the success of building up the economy across America. Now, look, you have heard this from my Democratic colleagues: I and we are ready to work with my Republican colleagues to find better solutions for growing our economy and lowering taxes to prioritize them to target the middle class, to help them, but this scam is horrible. It is why I wanted to come to the floor today to have a conversation with my colleagues and to share the facts about what is happening here with the American people and let my colleagues know across the aisle: Let's work together.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 120, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Calling the opposing proposal 'this scam is horrible' uses loaded language; citing 'teachers, nurses, pipefitters, firefighters, police officers' as authorities on economic success appeals to their credibility."}
{"id": "crec_004584", "text": "We make mistakes on occasion, but we try to double, triple check it. No one seems to care. Is it really that terrifying to tell the truth to our voters?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Is it really that terrifying to tell the truth"}
{"id": "crec_001098", "text": "But if you have got a bureaucrat that is not even in an office anymore--because only 6 percent of them are actually in the office--making these kinds of decisions, you lose every sense of accountability, and our representative form of government is ultimately undermined. To ensure that President [PERSON] and [ORG] hit the ground running, yesterday, I introduced two bills that are a critical one-two punch in dismantling the administrative state. The first bill is called the ERASER Act, which prohibits any [ORG] from issuing a rule unless the same [ORG] has repealed at least three rules.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "bureaucrats not in office making decisions causes loss of accountability and undermines representative government; 'dismantling the administrative state'"}
{"id": "crec_000431", "text": "Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. [PERSON] ), the chairman of [ORG]. [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support and full support of H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001951", "text": "[PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 318. A bill to authorize the Secretary of [ORG] to suspend the entry of aliens, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007013", "text": "So I think that the colleagues of mine who spoke on the other side, they are saying: Well, they should have already sold it. Well, they took it to court to find out if this law was constitutional. They have a right to do that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007080", "text": "The question is on adoption of the amendment. [SPEAKER]. I ask for the yeas and nays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008744", "text": "In his role as communications director--I expected a lot of press to be sitting in the Gallery, but I see none. In his role as communications director, [PERSON] has been a steadying hand helping me untangle my own thoughts and express my positions in a way that is more clear and winsome. When I have had to speak after taking an unpopular stand or something that had caused me to be misunderstood--either on policy or legislation--[PERSON] always had my back, advocating for me and my positions, even when he had to face the anger of those who disagreed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "described as 'steadying hand' and 'always had my back, advocating for me' - vague positive characterization combined with appeal to credibility of named authority figure"}
{"id": "crec_004241", "text": "That bill doesn't deal with this at all. It deals with men in sports. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "Misrepresents what the bill addresses by claiming it 'deals with men in sports' rather than engaging with the actual substance or intent of the legislation"}
{"id": "crec_008657", "text": "And, look, the vaccine lies just scratch the surface here. This is someone who won't accept that HIV causes AIDS. This is someone who thinks chemicals in the water might turn people gay; he said that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "vaccine lies, won't accept... This is someone who... he said that - attacking the person's credibility and character rather than addressing substantive arguments"}
{"id": "crec_001911", "text": "A bill to direct [ORG] to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] of West Virginia): H.R. 280.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007188", "text": "SA 74. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 75.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009259", "text": "SA 91. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 92.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007968", "text": "I know what side I am on. We are held up by leaders, whether it is at my [ORG] level or some back here in D.C. in these agencies that are just completely thinking about something else. The urgency to get things done, the urgency to get permits done, they don't seem to care how long it takes to get a permit done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "We are held up by leaders...in these agencies that are just completely thinking about something else"}
{"id": "crec_008278", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH223-43", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8"}
{"id": "crec_002470", "text": "153 will do this by requiring agencies that provide Federal disaster assistance to update a central website quarterly with information on their disaster assistance programs. That way, the American taxpayer can see exactly where their hard-earned dollars are going. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'hard-earned dollars' and invoking Federal agencies' authority to manage disaster assistance"}
{"id": "crec_000478", "text": "EC-10. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting [ORG]: DDTC 21-065; to [ORG]. EC-11.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004537", "text": "Even when we do all sorts of things to reduce spending, to modernize on how we deliver services, to change the costs, we have this interest monster because we have $36 trillion and, basically every 125 days, Madam Speaker, we click off another trillion dollars. To the poor [PERSON] staff, I am so sorry. You have to be so tired of hearing idiots like me--well, me--getting up and saying some of these things over and over, but it doesn't seem to sink in around here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "interest monster, click off another trillion dollars, idiots like me getting up and saying some of these things over and over"}
{"id": "crec_004921", "text": "Now, the nations of the world rush to court China and regard the United States as yesterday's news. Our cities have declined. They are not safe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "cities have declined, not safe; nations rushing away from US suggests decline and loss of status"}
{"id": "crec_002154", "text": "Will they be loyal to the country and the Constitution? Or will they cater to their wealthy benefactors, like the first [ORG] administration? Will they try to undo the wellsprings of democracy?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two extreme outcomes ('loyal to country' vs 'cater to wealthy benefactors'), uses emotionally charged language like 'wellsprings of democracy' and implicit accusations without evidence"}
{"id": "crec_009862", "text": "In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success. We will not forget our country; we will not forget our Constitution; and we will not forget our God. Can't do that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["repetition", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "repeated structure of 'we will not forget' combined with invocation of country, Constitution, and God"}
{"id": "crec_008713", "text": "That is not the vision of our [ORG], of sovereign states where government is primarily at the [ORG] level, at the local level, where it is close to the people, where it is more efficient, it is more effective, and it is more accountable. Now Washington is gobbling up all of our resources, borrowing these vast amounts of money, devaluing our currency. They are not solving problems.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Washington is gobbling up all of our resources, borrowing vast amounts of money, devaluing our currency"}
{"id": "crec_000280", "text": "The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour, equally divided and controlled by the majority leader and the minority leader, or their respective designees. The gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. [PERSON] ) each will control 30 minutes. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006572", "text": "This is something that not just Republicans in the Senate are talking about; this is something that the American people spoke loudly and clearly about during the last election when they elected President [PERSON] , a Republican Senate, and [ORG]. There is not a single Member who is a Republican in this body, in the House, or, clearly, President [PERSON] , who didn't talk about border security and safer communities throughout the entire election. Every single poll showed that this was one of the priority issues that every single American was thinking about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "the American people spoke loudly and clearly about during the last election; Every single poll showed that this was one of the priority issues that every single American was thinking about"}
{"id": "crec_006167", "text": "This bill [ORG] funding from schools that facilitate athletic programs where biological men compete against biological women. To be clear, this is not about disrespecting anyone. Everyone is worthy of dignity and respect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "framing as 'biological men compete against biological women' and preemptively claiming 'not about disrespecting anyone' to deflect from the contentious nature of the policy"}
{"id": "crec_008365", "text": "Candidly, many of President [PERSON] 's nominees are not fit for the job. Look at [PERSON] . Confirming some of these people would be a reckless roll of the dice for our country, but Republicans, under pressure from President-elect [ORG], seem willing to press ahead nonetheless.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'not fit for the job' and 'reckless roll of the dice for our country'"}
{"id": "crec_002476", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to speak on my bill, H.R. 153, the Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act, which aims to improve transparency in the [ORG] disaster assistance process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003974", "text": "As a graduate with a degree in agricultural education from [ORG], [PERSON] moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked in several congressional offices and for [ORG]. It was during her time in the Nation's Capital that she met her now- husband, [PERSON] , and the two moved back to [PERSON] 's old stomping grounds in Randolph, Kansas. The move back to the Plains allowed [PERSON] to serve as my district ag director and later as my district director.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007018", "text": "It is [PERSON] . It is Facebook. It is company after company after company that is targeting 14-year-old girls with bulimia, with anorexia, with information that is making them even sicker and sicker and sicker.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "targeting 14-year-old girls with bulimia, anorexia; repeated 'sicker and sicker and sicker' creates emotional intensity about harm to vulnerable children"}
{"id": "crec_007926", "text": "This is a picture of [PERSON] at Paradise, where I was with he and President [PERSON] just a few days after the fire in Paradise. [PERSON] warned him then: Look, man, you have to get out and do the management of the forest. You have to get this stuff off the forest floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Invocation of President [PERSON] as an authority figure present at the scene, lending credibility to the forest management claim"}
{"id": "crec_000631", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] of Florida). Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006361", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 43. A resolution providing for the attendance of the House at [ORG] and Vice President of the United States; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000418", "text": "Vote for the bill. [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005715", "text": "We see the results. Instead of clearing this brush, we get results like this. This is happening right now in southern California, tragically, needlessly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "tragically, needlessly combined with visual evidence of destructive results to evoke emotional response about current crisis"}
{"id": "crec_008454", "text": "I will always place the mission first . . .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008655", "text": "After [ORG] had a tremendous measles outbreak with over 100 hospitalized and at least 83 dead, mostly kids, no apology from him, no admitting he was wrong. Instead, he doubled down and wrote to the Prime Minister suggesting vaccines were part of the problem. That is who we want to put in charge of our [ORG]'s healthcare?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on 'over 100 hospitalized and at least 83 dead, mostly kids' combined with dismissive characterization of opponent's refusal to apologize"}
{"id": "crec_006264", "text": "We don't have much time to do this. While we talk and talk, we have also been given a mandate for transformational change. To my good friend from Texas, transformational change doesn't include doing the same thing we always do around here, which is cram a bunch of garbage into one big bill, put one thing in that somebody has to have, that we have to have it, which is border security, and say: Suck down all that garbage for the one thing that you need and force the American people to do it, too.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing legislative practices as 'garbage' and 'cram a bunch of garbage into one big bill'; urgent framing 'We don't have much time' combined with criticism of existing approaches"}
{"id": "crec_000747", "text": "ORDERS FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 11 a.m. on Wednesday, January 8; that following the prayer and pledge, the [ORG] of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43-2", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008024", "text": "It is, in fact, a matter of having still yet a long, long way to go. As we begin the celebration of Dr. [PERSON] 's 96th birthday, let it serve, I hope, as a reminder of a union that he forged in [ORG] that ensured the signing and passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965. Dr. [PERSON] 's spirit should and really must renew our resolve, particularly as Members of Congress and as Americans of all walks of life, to stand for justice, fairness, and equal opportunity whenever and wherever possible.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Dr. [PERSON]'s spirit should and really must renew our resolve, particularly as Members of Congress and as Americans of all walks of life, to stand for justice, fairness, and equal opportunity"}
{"id": "crec_009254", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 84. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008440", "text": "We need someone with merit to lead our meritocracy, someone with moral strength to be in charge of protecting our national strength. For all these reasons and quite a few more, I will not be voting to confirm the extremely unqualified [PERSON] as Secretary of [ORG]. Our troops deserve better than a guy who was seemingly only nominated because he used to host [ORG]'s favorite TV show on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "attacking the person as 'extremely unqualified' and 'a guy who was seemingly only nominated because he used to host [ORG]'s favorite TV show' rather than addressing qualifications; invoking 'our troops deserve better' as authority appeal; using loaded terms like 'moral strength' and 'merit'"}
{"id": "crec_002831", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , even as his time in office is coming to an end, President [PERSON] and his administration are still forcing out-of-touch mandates on the American people. To confront President [PERSON] 's [PERSON] New Deal agenda, I am proud to reintroduce [ORG] in Vehicle Purchases Act, which passed this House in a bipartisan manner in the last Congress. This legislation would ensure that California is unable to move forward with a ban on the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "forcing out-of-touch mandates on the American people; New Deal agenda"}
{"id": "crec_005632", "text": "May her legacy live on in the many lives that she touched. Celebrating the Retirement of Dr. [PERSON] , Jr. [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the extraordinary career and achievements of Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., as he celebrates his retirement after 17 years as the president and CEO of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004893", "text": "The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001961", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 328. A bill to immediately halt investment by United States persons in the energy sector of Venezuela until the legitimate results of the July 28, 2024, election are respected; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of 'legitimate results' presupposes disputed election outcomes and frames one interpretation as objectively correct"}
{"id": "crec_002279", "text": "They switched over to Division I and then became eligible. They didn't become eligible to even be in the tournament until 2008. So just imagine that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009189", "text": "302. Public-private wildfire technology deployment and testbed partnership. Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006030", "text": "It is from New Mexico's Hermit's Peak and [PERSON] , which ravaged northern New Mexico. We are still recovering from the inferno with help from [ORG]. We might see a picture like this in Montana or Utah or anywhere there are droughts and extreme weather events.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-4", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "ravaged northern New Mexico...inferno...droughts and extreme weather events"}
{"id": "crec_000287", "text": "ICE did not take him into custody because of a [ORG] administration policy that shields many criminal aliens from arrest and deportation. Sadly, this is exactly what those who voted for [PERSON] in 2020 voted for because this is exactly what the Democrats promised to do. Fortunately, those who voted for [PERSON] in 2024 voted to stop this tragic travesty of our immigration laws because that is what he has promised to do and will begin doing over the Democrats' objections beginning at noon on January 20.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "criminal aliens, tragic travesty, shields many criminal aliens from arrest; presents immigration policy as binary choice between Democrats' approach and [PERSON]'s approach"}
{"id": "crec_008589", "text": "And to rebuild, we will need your help without fanfare or partisan rancor. We need your help. Just like we worked together to help rebuild New Orleans and Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, we must do so again here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "we will need your help, we worked together, we must do so again"}
{"id": "crec_002949", "text": "Whether they committed violence or not, no one who participated in one of the darkest, most shameful days in American history should be pardoned. Tribute to [PERSON] Mr. President, finally, on a Holocaust survivor on Long Island whom I met with this morning, one of my favorite things about serving as the senior Senator from New York is that I get a chance to travel around the [ORG] and meet so many exceptional New Yorkers. This morning, on Long Island, I had a chance to meet an especially exceptional [ORG], a living legend, a 100-year-old woman named [PERSON] , a Holocaust survivor and proud Long Island resident.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'one of the darkest, most shameful days in American history' and invoking a Holocaust survivor as moral authority"}
{"id": "crec_002172", "text": "I don't know if they use that expression these days. My mother uses that one. It is probably out of date.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009762", "text": "We need a principled, action-oriented chief diplomat like [PERSON] to take them on. Our challenges in the foreign relations lane and the national security lane are enormous and complicated. I can't think of another person better equipped to tackle these issues than our colleague [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "better equipped to tackle these issues than our colleague [PERSON]"}
{"id": "crec_008474", "text": "In 2019, Officer [PERSON] received a lifesaving award from [ORG] for saving a father and son who had been caught in a rip current at a beach at Emerald Isle. As impressive as Officer [PERSON] was for his exemplary work, it was his job as a family man--a loving husband, father, and son. One of his colleagues noted: One of the main things most people would know about officer [PERSON] , is how much he loved his family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002508", "text": "These bills invest in our infrastructure and help [ORG] be more transparent and utilize taxpayer dollars more efficiently. Again, I thank my colleague, Representative [PERSON] , for prioritizing and moving this bill forward. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007657", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Maryland? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001214", "text": "The embedded hardware features provide communications security. MIDS JTRS builds on the earlier MIDS-Low Volume Terminal's (MIDS-LVT) capabilities with the addition of [ORG] ([ORG]) and [ORG] ([ORG]) functions. [ORG] and [ORG] dramatically expand the number of platforms and network-enabled systems that can be reliably included in a Link 16 network.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001641", "text": "Let's go back to December, a few weeks ago. Yesterday, the 20-year U.S. bond actually crossed over 5 percent for a while. If 5 percent--anyone with gray hair, you understand 5 percent is actually lower than the historical average of the previous few decades.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "anyone with gray hair, you understand 5 percent is actually lower than the historical average"}
{"id": "crec_004914", "text": "It is time to make sure that what happened to [PERSON] and her family never happens again. It is time to pass [ORG], and it is past time to choose American families. I look forward to this body having the courage to do that this week.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "what happened to [PERSON] and her family never happens again; choose American families"}
{"id": "crec_001108", "text": "The Senator from Kansas. Remembering [PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Madam President, this afternoon I rise here on the Senate floor to recognize a fellow [PERSON] , to honor the life of a soldier, a servant, a great man, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "rise here on the Senate floor to recognize a fellow [PERSON], to honor the life of a soldier, a servant, a great man"}
{"id": "crec_002835", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , as President [PERSON] prepares to begin his second term in office, the [PERSON] administration is trying to limit his ability to ensure that our [ORG] is energy dominant once again, this time by banning drilling from certain Federal lands. Like President [PERSON] , I know that energy independence moves us away from relying on foreign actors for our energy resources while also helping our allies remove their dependence on adversarial nations, as well. As vice chair of [ORG], I look forward to working with President [PERSON] and his administration to unleash our [ORG]'s energy production.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "invokes President's authority and frames energy dominance as patriotic duty ('energy dominant,' 'allies,' 'adversarial nations')"}
{"id": "crec_006963", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of [ORG], introduced earlier today; further, that the bill be considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002565", "text": "[PERSON] has been a friend of mine since we served in [ORG] together, and we raised the speed limit to 70. It had been put down to 60. It didn't hurt that Mr. [PERSON] had kind of a heavy foot and helped us with that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invoking personal friendship and shared military service to establish credibility and legitimacy for policy decision"}
{"id": "crec_004524", "text": "It provides a comprehensive framework for peaceful nuclear cooperation with the Kingdom of Thailand based on a mutual commitment to nuclear nonproliferation. It would permit the transfer of material, equipment (including reactors), components, and information for peaceful nuclear purposes. It would not permit the transfer of [ORG] or sensitive nuclear technology.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009461", "text": "[ORG] RECORD United States of America American eagle (seal) PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 119th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g.,1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface Indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (seal) recycle Printed on recycled paper. Vol.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH-FrontMatter-2", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005655", "text": "He also went to every [ORG] graduation and never hesitated to offer his support to fellow veterans in need. To be clear, it is impossible to sum up Chief [PERSON] 's decades of service in just one speech on the House floor. That is part of the reason why I had the privilege of working with [ORG] for his story to be part of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'decades of service' and 'never hesitated to offer his support' present idealized characterizations without specific substantive details"}
{"id": "crec_004542", "text": "Sometimes they are just a few hours of borrowing from an entire year, but that is what we speechify because it is easy to understand, it is a great sound bite on talk radio, and it is crap math. Once again, the basic premise of this chart--and it was reconfirmed by [ORG] and the baseline math was also done by [ORG]. It said, if you want to maximize economic prosperity in the United States, extend current tax policy, fix depreciation--we call it spensing; research and development expensing because that is actually where you get the productivity curve because God knows you will hear the Democrats come behind the [PERSON] and talk about look how good the job market is.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 122, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "calling the opposition's argument 'crap math' and characterizing Democrats as merely talking about job market rather than addressing substantive economic policy"}
{"id": "crec_007683", "text": "The question is on the passage of the bill. The question was taken; and [SPEAKER] announced that the ayes appeared to have it. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007834", "text": "In this case, they burned through that brush and came right up to the edge of town. We have seen that in Altadena where in one case here we have what is known as [ORG], and the Eaton fire has burned through that. This monument was recently expanded even more so.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006633", "text": "But it is an important first step in the broader mission we have been assigned by the American people. [ORG] must detain migrants charged with crimes--here again, common sense--crimes like shoplifting, one of the crimes for which [PERSON] 's killer was arrested. The bill we are currently debating, [ORG], requires that they do this and that we meet the objectives of the American people as it relates to border security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'assigned by the American people' and 'common sense' used to frame detention policy as mandate; 'killer' employed with emotional weight regarding migrant crime"}
{"id": "crec_007170", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . [PERSON] . 5.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS186", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007859", "text": "It is not unreasonable to say you need to have harder and more resilient areas that are going to be fire resistant. In this case, in southern California, we want them to have these things. Let's talk about the water supply for a moment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008347", "text": "Working alongside President [PERSON] for the American people was the honor of a lifetime. When President [PERSON] took office, America was in crisis. The pandemic was surging.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'Working alongside President' and 'America was in crisis' with 'pandemic was surging'"}
{"id": "crec_003958", "text": "California has not demonstrated the capacity to expand the grid infrastructure. Indeed, they are tearing down dams in my district--and they have their eye on more--that make clean, CO2-free hydroelectric power. The grid gets even tighter due to this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "The grid gets even tighter due to this"}
{"id": "crec_002126", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005977", "text": "PROMOTING OPPORTUNITIES TO WIDEN ELECTRICAL RESILIENCE ACT OF 2025 [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 164) to amend the [PERSON] Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize [ORG] agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH168-5", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005205", "text": "Availability of administrative and judicial review. [ORG]. 307.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001438", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , may I inquire as to the time remaining. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001983", "text": "CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT Pursuant to clause 7 of rule [ORG] of the Rules of [ORG], the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH91", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001559", "text": "RECOGNIZING NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT APPRECIATION DAY ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in recognition of [ORG] to thank the great law enforcement heroes who put their life on the line every day for the people of Wisconsin's Eighth Congressional District.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-4", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "law enforcement heroes who put their life on the line every day"}
{"id": "crec_003680", "text": "1324a) or [ORG] of 1986 for the prior unlawful employment of that alien regardless of the outcome of such application. (c) Additional Protections.--Employers that provide unauthorized aliens with copies of employment records or other evidence of employment in support of an application for certified agricultural worker status or adjustment of status under this title shall not be subject to civil and criminal liability pursuant to such section 274A for employing such unauthorized aliens. Records or other evidence of employment provided by employers in response to a request for such records for the purpose of establishing eligibility for status under this title may not be used for any purpose other than establishing such eligibility.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 116, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008588", "text": "And I want to know if there is anything more that we can do or could have done to save more lives and more homes. We should all want that. We should all want to rebuild because Los Angeles is one of our [ORG]'s great cities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "We should all want that. We should all want to rebuild because Los Angeles is one of our [ORG]'s great cities."}
{"id": "crec_001826", "text": "He went on to serve at St. Mel Parish, [ORG], and later at Presentation Parish in Sacramento. [PERSON] loved people, and people loved him. He put a tremendous amount of work and effort toward his community to improve their quality of life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "loved people, and people loved him... tremendous amount of work and effort toward his community"}
{"id": "crec_006145", "text": "We have seen this firsthand, most recently in this country with the tragic loss and death of [PERSON] , and you will remember a few years ago in San Francisco on the wharf there, [PERSON] was killed by a bullet from a gun that an illegal immigrant had found, taken, stolen, or whatever. Those lives are gone, and it is a tragedy for their families. What are we going to do to avenge them?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "tragic loss and death, killed by a bullet from a gun...illegal immigrant, Those lives are gone...tragedy, avenge them"}
{"id": "crec_000784", "text": "This is just the start. We have a lot of work to do. But the American people have chosen the right team to get it done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "American people have chosen the right team"}
{"id": "crec_007575", "text": "Yes, we stand for the original [ORG]. In fact, we offered it as a substitute. Guess what?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006679", "text": "This document listed their so-called pay-fors; in other words, how are they going to pay for these massive tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals, the wealthiest privately held and publicly held corporations in human history? Here are just a couple of things they are using as so-called pay- fors: $700 billion in cuts, kicking millions of people off of [ORG]; $500 billion out of [ORG], reducing access to care for seniors everywhere; more than $150 billion in cuts to the Affordable Care Act subsidies. What does that mean?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "massive tax cuts for the wealthiest...in human history; kicking millions of people off; reducing access to care for seniors"}
{"id": "crec_009633", "text": "Last week, Senate committees held hearings on 12 nominees. On Wednesday, we held hearings on a total of six [ORG] nominees--the most [ORG] confirmation hearings in a single day since 2001. I am hoping to begin floor votes imminently.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005278", "text": "309. [ORG]. (a) In General.--The Secretary may not disclose or use information (including information provided during administrative or judicial review) provided in applications filed under this division or in requests for DACA for the purpose of immigration enforcement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007156", "text": "ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 70 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of [ORG], a bill to require the imposition of sanctions with respect to Ansarallah and its officials, agents, or affiliates for acts of international terrorism. S. 74 At the request of Mrs. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from Montana (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of S. 74, a bill to require the Attorney General to submit to Congress a report relating to violence against women in athletics. S. 83 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 83, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide enhanced penalties for convicted murderers who kill or target America's public safety officers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS186-2", "word_count": 164, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001367", "text": "The gentleman from Florida (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. [PERSON] ) each will control 30 minutes. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. [PERSON] ). General Leave [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004364", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008668", "text": "Back in 1998--and we will be talking about that year--when [PERSON] was President and we had our first budget surplus since 1969, the debt level was about $5\\1/2\\ trillion. When I arrived here in my first year in the Senate in 2011, the debt was about $14 trillion. I ran, quite honestly, because we were mortgaging our children's future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "mortgaging our children's future"}
{"id": "crec_006694", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Thank you very much, Senator. I just can't believe we are talking about something that nobody wants, right?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "nobody wants"}
{"id": "crec_001415", "text": "Now, I know I am from Massachusetts and you may have a tough time understanding my accent, but the bottom line is, that is not what I said. In fact, I said very clearly that the taking of hostages is a war crime. What I said very clearly is that the hostages should be released immediately and unconditionally.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004527", "text": "I have considered the views and recommendations of the interested departments and agencies in reviewing the Agreement and have determined that its performance will promote, and will not constitute an unreasonable risk to, the common defense and security. Accordingly, I have approved the [ORG] and authorized its execution and urge that the Congress give it favorable consideration. This transmission shall constitute a submittal for purposes of both subsections 123 b. and 123 d. of the Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009322", "text": "Article I of the Constitution is very clear. Congress has the power of the purse. It is time that we stop the abuse of that power by the executive branch, whether that is Republican or Democrat.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Article I of the Constitution is very clear"}
{"id": "crec_001535", "text": "ILLEGITIMATE COURT COUNTERACTION ACT [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on passage of the bill (H.R. 23) to impose sanctions with respect to [ORG] engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "use of 'ILLEGITIMATE COURT' and 'protected person of the United States and its allies' frames the issue with nationalist/patriotic language to invoke protective sentiment"}
{"id": "crec_009877", "text": "It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our [ORG], coming from foreign sources. The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before. To restore competence and effectiveness to our [ORG], my administration will establish the brandnew [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "massive amounts of money, American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before, restore competence and effectiveness"}
{"id": "crec_004845", "text": "Business as usual gave us wide- open borders. Business as usual gave us the disastrous death of soldiers and the fall of Afghanistan. These nominees by President [PERSON] are bold choices.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasts 'business as usual' negatively with current nominees as 'bold choices,' implying only two options exist and using emotionally charged terms like 'disastrous death'"}
{"id": "crec_004356", "text": "Government has a role, and this isn't it. How do my colleagues propose to enforce this bill? Ohio passed [ORG], where a girl would have to verify her gender by an exam of her external and internal anatomy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "vivid description of invasive anatomical exam to inflame concern about bill enforcement"}
{"id": "crec_009257", "text": "SA 88. [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 89.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008964", "text": "[ORG] is authorized to establish meeting dates and adopt rules not inconsistent with the rules of the [ORG] except as provided in Rules 2(D) and 8(E). [ORG] subpoenas. Each Subcommittee is authorized to adopt rules concerning subpoenas which need not be consistent with the rules of the [ORG]; provided: (1) A written notice of intent to issue the subpoena shall be provided to the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the [ORG], or staff officers designated by them, by [ORG] or a staff officer designated by the Subcommittee Chair immediately upon such authorization, and no subpoena shall be issued for at least 2 calendar days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays in which the Senate is not in session, from delivery to the appropriate offices, unless the Chair and Ranking Minority Member waive the notice period or unless the [ORG] certifies in writing to the Chair and Ranking Minority Member that, in the Subcommittee Chair's opinion, it is necessary to issue a subpoena immediately.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 172, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001889", "text": "A bill to require a strategy to oppose financial or material support by foreign countries and nongovernmental organizations to the [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 261.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001298", "text": "Give them shelter in these days within the protection of Your loving arms. In Your saving name, we pray. Amen.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004306", "text": "28. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007509", "text": "The complication today is this: The way this messaging bill is actually written will create big problems for many, many victims of domestic violence. That is why more than 200 national, [ORG], and local groups advocating for the victims of rape and the survivors of domestic violence, the people across America we should be listening to today, strongly oppose the bill our colleagues have brought forward. [ORG] sent us a letter urging us to reject [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "more than 200 national, [ORG], and local groups advocating for the victims of rape and the survivors of domestic violence...strongly oppose the bill"}
{"id": "crec_006360", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 42. A resolution electing Members to certain standing committees of [ORG]; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000476", "text": "EC-7. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting [ORG]: DDTC 23-101; to [ORG]. EC-8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005343", "text": "SA 22. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 23.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009844", "text": "The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of [ORG] and our government will end. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization; scales of justice will be rebalanced"}
{"id": "crec_004552", "text": "Current law says it expires. Take a look at all your [ORG] and your debt projections. It has the expirations in there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002609", "text": "HONORING PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER (Mrs. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) Mrs. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to honor President [PERSON] and the legacy he leaves behind as the former President from my [ORG] of Georgia.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "rise to honor President... legacy he leaves behind... former President from my [state] of Georgia"}
{"id": "crec_001820", "text": "It means something to me. I am proud to say that I stand here in this place to speak on behalf of people who cannot speak for themselves, and I pray that one day we will be able to say that we were there to vote, to take maybe hard votes and pass legislation that makes a difference. Mr. [PERSON] , I guarantee you, if my colleagues on the other side run into a roadblock, they will do as I said.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "speaking on behalf of people who cannot speak for themselves, pride in standing up for others"}
{"id": "crec_000188", "text": "Future generations must never forget the truth. January 6, 2021, was a day that a violent mob tried to halt the results of a Presidential election. It was a direct assault on American democracy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'violent mob' and 'direct assault on American democracy' use emotionally charged language to characterize the event"}
{"id": "crec_008566", "text": "People are dropping off clothes and supplies by the thousands, so much that some of these centers are overwhelmed with people bringing material by. That is the California way. This is deeply personal for Senator [PERSON] and myself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["bandwagon", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "People are dropping off clothes and supplies by the thousands and 'That is the California way'"}
{"id": "crec_009876", "text": "Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. (Applause.) For this purpose, we are establishing [ORG] to collect all tariffs, duties, and revenues.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing as binary choice between 'taxing citizens to enrich other countries' versus using tariffs; 'enrich our citizens' uses loaded positive language to favor one option"}
{"id": "crec_005559", "text": "SA 40. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: In section 3, add at the end the following: (g) Protection of Constitutional Rights.--The attorney general of a [ORG], or other authorized [ORG] officer, alleging a violation of one or more constitutionally protected rights, including due process rights, of any individual in such [ORG] by [ORG] or any agency within [ORG], shall have standing to bring an action against the Secretary of [ORG] on behalf of such [ORG] or the residents of such [ORG] in an appropriate district court of the United States to obtain appropriate injunctive relief. The court shall advance on the docket and expedite the disposition of a civil action filed under this subsection to the greatest extent possible.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS154", "word_count": 187, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001686", "text": "That is why every month [ORG] has to present its special T bills to [ORG], cash in. Remember, [ORG] does not add to the debt. Cashing in their special T bills and the [ORG] having to finance it and give the money back to [ORG] does add to the debt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents a false choice between two accounting methods while using charged language ('cash in') to suggest impropriety in normal financial operations"}
{"id": "crec_002152", "text": "A little later this afternoon, Senate Democrats will convene on the Senate steps for our first major press conference, where we will outline our priorities and where they lie in the 119th Congress. We need to lower costs for working and middle-class people, not reward the ultrarich and America's biggest corporations. If Republicans want to work with us on real policies that lower costs for real working Americans, we are glad to partner with them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "lower costs for working and middle-class people, real policies that lower costs for real working Americans"}
{"id": "crec_007858", "text": "We are getting through the emergency. We are helping people, and there will be help after, but it isn't unreasonable to say: What does it take to put things back in a way that is going to be stronger and more resilient going forward, especially when we are talking about many, many billions? As I have said, they have done that in the other areas where I have been affected or my people have been affected.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "stronger and more resilient going forward"}
{"id": "crec_002866", "text": "We expanded [ORG], cutting child poverty in half to its lowest rate in history. And we sent funding directly to every state, city, and town in the nation, keeping police on the beat and teachers in the classroom, families in their homes and small businesses on their feet, preventing a wave of scarring bankruptcies, defaults, and evictions. At the same time, the pandemic had snarled supply chains and set off widespread labor shortages, driving up costs worldwide.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'cutting child poverty in half to its lowest rate in history' and 'keeping police on the beat and teachers in the classroom' - vague positive framing without specific details or mechanisms"}
{"id": "crec_003497", "text": "[SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ) proposed an amendment to the bill [ORG], supra. [ORG] 9. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000062", "text": "THE [ORG] [SPEAKER]. The [ORG] has examined [ORG] proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule I, the [ORG] stands approved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008731", "text": "He embodies Kansas values of hard work, determination, and generosity, and I know he learned these traits from his role models, his parents [PERSON] and [PERSON] . You have raised a great son, and I thank you for that. His career on [ORG] began in Missouri Senator [PERSON] office, first in the House and then in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Kansas values of hard work, determination, and generosity"}
{"id": "crec_007684", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001002", "text": "Bad Pennies The government is losing money making money, paying more than three cents to produce a penny and more than 11 cents for a nickel. That makes no cents when simply changing the composition of the coins could save more than $50 million a year. Trillion Dollar Secret Slush Funds This past year, [ORG]'s bureaucrats claimed [ORG] and [ORG] ran out of money needed to assist veterans and pay for emergency disaster recovery efforts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Bad Pennies pun criticizing government waste; 'Trillion Dollar Secret Slush Funds' and claims about veterans and disaster relief being underfunded creates concern about misallocated resources"}
{"id": "crec_009458", "text": "A bill to prohibit the use of non-monetized or unqualified factors for regulatory analyses, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 149. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004964", "text": "The challenges are indeed formidable, but this is the moment for the revival that we seek. And so let us not delay. Let us begin.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'revival that we seek' and 'let us begin' - vague, emotionally appealing language without specific meaning"}
{"id": "crec_006673", "text": "We have to do that. We have to comment on what we are working on. But we are also going to talk about this rip-off tax bill because that illustrates the difference between the parties.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "calling the tax bill a 'rip-off' uses charged language to negatively characterize the policy without substantive explanation"}
{"id": "crec_002935", "text": "So it is important we don't rush to hearings without examining the record first. The more Senate Republicans try to rush the process without the proper documentation, the more Americans will ask themselves: What are Republicans and their nominees trying to hide? How can Americans trust, for example, that [PERSON] [ORG] will be free from conflicts of interests if Republicans hold hearings before anyone is getting a chance to review financial disclosures?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "What are Republicans and their nominees trying to hide? How can Americans trust...will be free from conflicts of interests"}
{"id": "crec_005449", "text": "Terms of permanent resident status on a conditional basis. [ORG]. 104.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004197", "text": "This bill lets politicians in Washington dictate to parents, school districts, and athletic associations across the country who can and cannot participate in their local sports leagues. It creates a one-size-fits-all policy that holds a kindergartner wanting to play soccer to the same standards as an elite athlete. This legislation undermines the very values we hold dear as Americans--fairness, opportunity, and the belief in the power of local communities to make decisions for themselves.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "presents only two extremes (federal control vs. local autonomy), invokes fear of centralized dictates, appeals to American values of fairness and local control"}
{"id": "crec_007060", "text": "I appreciate the opportunity to speak to amendment No. 23, which would strike section 3 of the Laken [PERSON] Act. I respect that colleagues on both sides of the aisle have expressed their intention to vote for the Laken [PERSON] bill and to advance it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006253", "text": "The clock is ticking. We can't let another legislative day go and another legislative day go in which we don't deliver. The American people expect us to deliver.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "The clock is ticking...another legislative day go and another legislative day go"}
{"id": "crec_004664", "text": "The Chief Administrative Officer should inform committees, including the ranking minority members, each time a software platform is certified. Witnesses participating remotely should appear before a nonpolitical, professional appropriate background that is minimally distracting to other members and witnesses, to the greatest extent possible. It remains within the full discretion of the chair to enforce rules of decorum for committee proceedings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007669", "text": "30 undermines the basic constitutional protection of a person being innocent until proven guilty. It subjects immigrants, including those who have been victims of domestic violence, to new grounds of inadmissibility and deportability that do not require a conviction in court. This is an ominous step toward the erosion of the rights of all people in the United States, including citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "ominous step toward the erosion of the rights of all people"}
{"id": "crec_006547", "text": "Republicans are offering targeted amendments to make this bill even stronger. Senator [PERSON] has an amendment that would detain illegal immigrants who commit murder or cause serious bodily injury. Senator [PERSON] has an amendment that will detain illegal immigrants who attack law enforcement officers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Detain illegal immigrants who commit murder, cause serious bodily injury, or attack law enforcement officers"}
{"id": "crec_002603", "text": "The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. PERSONAL EXPLANATION [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH107", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004459", "text": "The yeas and nays were ordered. [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question will be postponed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007464", "text": "REMEMBERING VINCENT FORT (Mrs. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) Mrs. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , Atlanta and the State of Georgia have lost one of our greatest champions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "one of our greatest champions"}
{"id": "crec_005652", "text": "I can't wait to see what he does next. Madam Speaker, I ask you and our colleagues to join me in congratulating [PERSON] on a job well done. Go get `em, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "congratulating on a job well done without specific accomplishments; urging colleagues to join in supporting the person"}
{"id": "crec_009657", "text": "Other times it may feel as if progress flows in reverse and moves backward. Either way, Dr. [PERSON] 's hopeful message is the same: No matter the odds, we shall overcome. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'we shall overcome' and 'hopeful message' appeal to vague aspirational ideals"}
{"id": "crec_002716", "text": "CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT Pursuant to clause 7 of rule [ORG] of the Rules of [ORG], the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH111", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006066", "text": "I have been hearing unprecedented political attacks, lies, and threats of conditioning disaster aid, even while these fires rage. This is the largest urban fire in the history of the United States. Our rule has always been disaster help without conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "unprecedented political attacks, lies, threats of conditioning disaster aid, largest urban fire in the history of the United States"}
{"id": "crec_001863", "text": "California has roughly half the unsheltered homeless in the United States. There is a whole host of reasons that this is not a good thing, but one of them is that encampments tend to lead to a lot of fires. In fact, in just one year, in 2023 alone, there were almost 14,000 fires related to homelessness.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing homelessness as causing fires with stark statistics ('almost 14,000 fires') to create concern about public safety and negative association with homeless populations"}
{"id": "crec_007458", "text": "We are [ORG]. Americans are in trouble, and when they need us, we need to be there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-4", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "Americans are in trouble"}
{"id": "crec_000797", "text": "Republicans promised that the average household would see $4,000 extra per year, but, in fact, real median wages grew less than half of a half of a percent--less than half of a half of a percent--in the 2 years following these tax cuts. Executive pay and bonuses, meanwhile, soared to record highs. Stock buybacks, which only reward shareholders, hit a record in 2018.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrast between promised '$4,000 extra per year' versus actual 'less than half of a half of a percent' wage growth, paired with 'Executive pay and bonuses soared' to frame outcomes as only benefiting the wealthy"}
{"id": "crec_000146", "text": "We are committed to ending the [PERSON] -[PERSON] border crisis, securing our southern border, and restoring respect for the rule of law. We are committed to restoring American strength to secure our [ORG] and discourage the actors fomenting instability on the world stage. We are committed to strengthening our economic and fiscal future, which includes extending tax relief for hard-working Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-7", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "committed to ending crisis, securing border, restoring respect, restoring American strength, strengthening economic future"}
{"id": "crec_002340", "text": "They may not know it, but countless Minnesotans have felt her impact in one way or another: Every barber, waiter, and bartender who earns the full state minimum wage can thank [PERSON] . Every student at Fond du Lac Tribal College can thank [PERSON] . And every kid who participates in [PERSON] , [ORG], or Youthworks can thank [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "countless Minnesotans have felt her impact in one way or another; listing multiple groups to suggest widespread, universal benefit"}
{"id": "crec_000236", "text": "[ORG] made history with its 3-1 win over Louisville in [ORG] in front of a record crowd of over 21,860 fans. This was [ORG] eighth national title in the program's history. This victory didn't happen by chance.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-2", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001029", "text": "That makes no sense. A penny here, a nickel there--eventually, these examples all add up to millions, billions, and eventually, trillions. The bottom line is that if you can't find waste in Washington, there can only be one reason: You didn't look.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "if you can't find waste in Washington, there can only be one reason: You didn't look"}
{"id": "crec_000886", "text": "After all, this is something I propose that we do--that we have to do-- because of what the American people told us that they want, which is a change in direction for the country, in their vote of November 5 of this last year. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "what the American people told us that they want... in their vote of November 5"}
{"id": "crec_008885", "text": "She is going to bring these same skills to a really great credit union in Anchorage-- their gain, our loss--but she is always going to be a member of [PERSON] . [PERSON] , we all say staff is like family here, but [PERSON] truly is like family for me and my wife [PERSON] . We definitely would not have gotten this far without her.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'staff is like family here' and 'truly is like family'"}
{"id": "crec_001295", "text": "Hear all those who call to You in their distress, the street people and the screen stars, and all whose homes and livelihoods are endangered. Hear those who cry to You for help. Hear their voices, and may their cries reach Your ears, that You would shelter them from the fires raging around them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "fires raging around them, distress, endangered, cries for help"}
{"id": "crec_006225", "text": "We sprinkle magic fairy dust around here, borrow money, print money, mortgage our kids' future, and pretend to be adults. I do not for the life of me believe that we can actually change this all in a year. This is the last argument I want to present, and then I am going to recognize my good friend from Pennsylvania.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "sprinkle magic fairy dust, borrow money, print money, mortgage our kids' future"}
{"id": "crec_005412", "text": "RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. Nothing in this Act may be construed to limit the ability of the Secretary of [ORG] or the Attorney General to use available capacity to detain individuals determined to pose the most serious threat to public safety or risk of flight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS145-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000179", "text": "JANUARY 6 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, 4 years ago today, I stood on this very spot, alongside my colleagues, as we prepared to certify the 2020 election. As we were going about our business, all of a sudden, I felt a hand pull my collar.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009698", "text": "There is a good reason why we seldom pass legislation with mandatory detention or jailing. We tend to believe that law enforcement is in the best position to determine in realtime who the threat to public safety actually is. And we know we don't have the resources--we never have the resources--to lock up every nonviolent offender without regard to whether they are a threat to public safety or not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008728", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The Senator from Kansas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006979", "text": "We are sometimes assured that [ORG] has taken security measures to prevent Chinese communists from accessing this data of American citizens, but according to whistleblower testimony and internal company materials, these protections are about as airtight as a screen door. So the end is coming for Chinese communist-controlled [ORG]. Perhaps the sale can be closed by Sunday, though I seriously doubt it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "Chinese communists accessing data, protections 'as airtight as a screen door,' warning of existential threat to the organization"}
{"id": "crec_009810", "text": "(Applause.) Our democracy, strength, and grit must match theirs. May [PERSON] bless our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "democracy, strength, and grit; invocation of blessing on nation"}
{"id": "crec_004180", "text": "We have seen this time and time again: Republicans fearmonger about the trans community to divert attention from the fact that they have no real solutions to help everyday Americans with the pressing problems they face. We must not discriminate against kids because of who they are. Transgender youth already face high hurdles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["strawman", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "Republicans fearmonger about the trans community to divert attention from the fact that they have no real solutions"}
{"id": "crec_000772", "text": "BUSINESS BEFORE THE SENATE [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, this past November, the American people gave President [PERSON] and Republicans a mandate. Now the time has come to begin executing on it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["bandwagon", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "the American people gave President [PERSON] and Republicans a mandate"}
{"id": "crec_002557", "text": "I thank [PERSON] and [PERSON] for their bipartisan work on this legislation, which passed this [ORG] in March of last year under suspension of the rules by a voice vote. This bill continues years of work to make the [ORG] more transparent for its customers and the communities that it serves. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support for [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004622", "text": "The fact of the matter is that you could substantially change much of [ORG]'s costs and make services better, faster, and cheaper. Just join this century of technology in taking care of people. The ring I am wearing that does my vitals or the technologies to incentivize things, do we pay a [ORG] provider to help people be healthier instead of making more money when someone is sicker?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "phrases like 'join this century of technology' and 'taking care of people' use emotionally charged language to frame modernization as obviously beneficial, while vague promises of 'better, faster, and cheaper' services lack specific evidence"}
{"id": "crec_001676", "text": "The other part is your income tax, capital gains tax, all the other things. That is this blue here. To give you an idea, this is the net interest this fiscal year, the interest we pay back to the people who have been kind enough to buy our bonds.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002300", "text": "[ORG]'s campus, which once served as a sanctuary for Native American art and history, has for years been neglected by [ORG]. Various buildings on campus, many which serve as U.S. National [PERSON] , are in disrepair or no longer in use. Many of the residential buildings on campus are not equipped with heating, ventilation, or air-conditioning, and the campus is not--not-- compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "sanctuary...neglected, buildings in disrepair, not equipped with heating/ventilation, not compliant with ADA - creates emotional weight around institutional failure and suggests unsafe conditions"}
{"id": "crec_008591", "text": "That is what we must do here. During my time in Congress, I have seen a lot of disaster aid bills. Never in my time have I ever considered whether an area votes red or blue.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "During my time in Congress, I have seen a lot of disaster aid bills"}
{"id": "crec_001691", "text": "Understand the fiscal implications. If we don't do it right, do the debt markets demand a premium? Because you see what is going on around the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "If we don't do it right, do the debt markets demand a premium? Because you see what is going on around the world."}
{"id": "crec_006573", "text": "A [ORG] poll last year found that more than three-quarters of Americans support increasing the number of [ORG] agents; that two-thirds of Americans want the President and the [ORG] Secretary to temporarily halt all asylum requests when the border is overwhelmed; and third, a majority of Americans support expanding border wall construction. People want a secure community. On the floor this week--we started last week and are still debating it this week--is what to do on what is called [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Multiple poll citations showing majority/supermajority support ('more than three-quarters,' 'two-thirds,' 'majority') to suggest popular consensus on border security measures"}
{"id": "crec_009319", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I will speak for a couple minutes in morning business.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006735", "text": "During the debate, I offered a simple amendment that virtually all my Democratic colleagues voted for. And we said: Hey, look, let's go ahead and reduce the corporate tax rate, but let's not reduce it to 21 percent. If we reduce it to 25 percent, which is a big reduction, we can make these individual tax cuts for everyday people permanent, so at least the individual tax cuts to everyday people would be permanent, like the corporate tax cuts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing the choice between corporate tax rate levels (21% vs 25%) as the determinant of whether individual tax cuts can be 'permanent,' presenting a limited set of options while implying this is the only viable solution"}
{"id": "crec_006968", "text": "Oh, how they lobbied. One notable lobbyist told me that he was offered $100,000 a month-- $100,000 a month--to represent [ORG], but he refused because [ORG] is a sewer of vile anti-Semitism. Good for him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repetition of '$100,000 a month' twice for emphasis; 'sewer of vile anti-Semitism' uses strongly loaded language to describe the organization"}
{"id": "crec_000307", "text": "Therefore, this extremely elastic new provision adds nothing to the equation other than more empty rhetoric and greater bureaucratic bloat. The bill also seeks to give [ORG] governments authority and control over the Federal immigration system by trespassing on the Article II executive power in a way that eight out of nine Justices on [ORG] completely repudiated 2 years ago as a blatant violation of the separation of powers. The bill seeks to give [ORG] attorneys general precisely what [ORG] has denied: constitutional standing to sue [ORG] in court for perceived violations of sections of [ORG] can block Federal immigration policies, capsizing the Supremacy Clause and expanding judicial power to encroach upon executive discretion under Article II.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 129, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "extremely elastic new provision adds nothing... empty rhetoric and greater bureaucratic bloat; eight out of nine Justices... completely repudiated... as a blatant violation"}
{"id": "crec_000753", "text": "[ORG]: Mrs. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . [ORG], [ORG], and Pensions: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . Committee on [ORG] and [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006267", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his remarks, and I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005028", "text": "REMOVAL OF INJUNCTION OF SECRECY--TREATY DOCUMENT NO. 119-1 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, as if in executive session, I ask unanimous consent that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the following treaty transmitted to the Senate on January 14, 2025, by the President of the United States: Treaty with the United Arab Emirates on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters (Treaty Document No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS136-2", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006574", "text": "Some Americans are familiar with [PERSON] story; some are not. [PERSON] was a college student in Georgia who was brutally murdered by a Venezuelan who came into the United States illegally, was detained at the border, but then released. He traveled around the country wherever he wanted to under a parole system that was given to him at the border in 2022.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "brutally murdered by a Venezuelan who came into the United States illegally...released...traveled around the country wherever he wanted"}
{"id": "crec_000020", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 6 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 6 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006696", "text": "The tax cut that we are talking about extending gives a tax cut to the top 1 percent of earners in this country that isn't 10 times bigger than working families at the bottom of the income scale; it is not 100 times bigger; it is not 500 times bigger. Taxpayers in the top 1 percent will get a tax cut 852 times larger than working families at the bottom of the income threshold--852 times bigger. What we have seen coming out of the pandemic is that while the broad middle of the country has been struggling, the wealthy have gotten richer and richer and richer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on '852 times larger' combined with 'wealthy have gotten richer and richer and richer' to create emotional impact about inequality and injustice"}
{"id": "crec_007852", "text": "It isn't unheard of to have conditions on other situations in the rebuilding phase. This is the emergency phase. Nobody questions immediate help for the emergency phase, and that is what is disingenuous about this argument that is going on.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the opposing argument as 'disingenuous' while presenting a simplified version that 'nobody questions' - misrepresenting the actual position being debated"}
{"id": "crec_005689", "text": "That is how we protect our children. That is how we honor the spirit of [ORG]. Let's move forward with solutions that uplift and unite our schools, not tear them apart.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "protect our children, honor the spirit, uplift and unite - vague positive language without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_009468", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER]. Will the gentlewoman from Pennsylvania (Ms. [PERSON] ) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledging allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance as a formal ceremonial act"}
{"id": "crec_008119", "text": "A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the exclusion of [ORG] coverage for hearing aids and examinations therefor, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 501.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008810", "text": "There are at least 2 million that came across the border that we don't know who they are, where they are going, or what their intentions are. You look at the nondetained docket we have here in our country--7.8 million. You look at those who have been given their due process--1.4 million have been issued their final orders of removal, meaning they have been given their due process, and we have said: You have no legal right to be here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "2 million people 'we don't know who they are, where they are going, or what their intentions are' combined with large numbers (7.8 million, 1.4 million) to amplify concern about unknown threats"}
{"id": "crec_004768", "text": "Res. 12: Mr. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-30", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000941", "text": "Well, I could outline right now $170 billion in wasteful spending in [ORG] just today, simple things that most Americans would agree on. We spend $8 billion a year just for Federal buildings to lease them or to do maintenance for them--$8 billion a year. Currently, most of those buildings, because we have so many Federal employees that are teleworking, most of those buildings are 25 percent full.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "$170 billion in wasteful spending and $8 billion a year on underutilized federal buildings (25 percent full)"}
{"id": "crec_008680", "text": "It would go back to somewhere around 100,000 bucks, maybe a little bit more based on inflation. That is not what [ORG] did. This, I know, is shocking most Americans as I am laying out the reality of the situation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "shocking most Americans as I am laying out the reality of the situation"}
{"id": "crec_008053", "text": "We also have another launch scheduled in just a few hours. I believe this is flight seven for SpaceX's Starship which is the largest rocket ever built, the largest space vehicle ever built. I happened to have the chance to watch launch six which was truly an awe-inspiring experience.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "largest rocket ever built, the largest space vehicle ever built, truly an awe-inspiring experience"}
{"id": "crec_007607", "text": "30, [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act, builds on [ORG]. While [ORG] would have prevented the death of that 22-year-old nursing student, this bill will protect women in the future by strengthening protections against violent aliens. This bill has two important components.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "uses loaded term 'Illegal Aliens' and references specific death to emotionally frame the bill as necessary protection against 'violent aliens'"}
{"id": "crec_004851", "text": "I have my doubts. The Democrat leader reportedly told his caucus to create fireworks at this week's hearings of our nominees. Well, we have seen Democrat obstruction before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["doubt", "appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "I have my doubts...reportedly told...create fireworks...we have seen Democrat obstruction before"}
{"id": "crec_005935", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007055", "text": "Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002987", "text": "Mr. President, I rise today to address the profound economic, social, and political importance of [ORG]'s creators and the serious consequences of a nationwide [ORG] ban. When the Senate passed legislation last year authorizing a ban on [ORG], it was bundled with essential foreign aid measures. Critically, the Senate never held a direct vote on the [ORG] ban itself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "phrases like 'profound economic, social, and political importance' and 'serious consequences of a nationwide [ORG] ban' use loaded language with fear-inducing framing to emphasize negative impacts without substantive evidence"}
{"id": "crec_007809", "text": "The sad benefit that will come from understanding the cause of these southern California fires and also of understanding why California's fire protection systems failed isn't limited to California. Every State is facing hotter and dryer conditions. Every State must do a far better job adapting to these conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Every State is facing hotter and dryer conditions. Every State must do a far better job adapting"}
{"id": "crec_002081", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution [page H10170]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_008373", "text": "I suspect the only people who buy that assessment were right there in the room with the President. No doubt, those watching from further afield found those remarks unconvincing. What most of us saw was a final rearguard action to cover for an administration that has been in retreat for 4 straight years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing remarks as 'unconvincing' and describing the administration as 'in retreat' with loaded language implying failure"}
{"id": "crec_001730", "text": "Do you see, Mr. [PERSON] ? The spending and the interest covered, the spending and the interest covered, remember, Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG] has about 9 more years and the trust fund is empty. Are we going to fix it?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'The spending and the interest covered, the spending and the interest covered' repeated emphasis combined with 'trust fund is empty' to create urgency and concern"}
{"id": "crec_005008", "text": "Is he ready for a pardon? [PERSON] --a member of the so-called [ORG]--assaulted at least six officers, placing one officer in a choke hold, lifting him by the neck. Bonawitz injured one officer so severely, it forced him into retirement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "vivid descriptions of violent assault ('choke hold, lifting him by the neck') combined with 'so-called [ORG]' to frame the person negatively and incite concern about potential pardon"}
{"id": "crec_000752", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . Committee on Finance: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005339", "text": "AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND PROPOSED SA 16. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 17.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007128", "text": "1601 et seq. ), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019 (Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria). The order makes minimal edits to Executive Order 13894 in light of the fact that certain operations referenced in that order ceased 5 years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS184-2", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008994", "text": "TRIBUTE TO TREVICK UDELHOVEN [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, today I have the distinct honor of recognizing 4-year-old [ORG] Fergus County as Montanan of the Month for his courage that is larger than life as he battles a life-threatening seizure disorder. [ORG] is your typical Montana cowboy, who loves spending time on the farm, being outdoors and cheering on his beloved [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'your typical Montana cowboy' and references to farm, outdoors, and Montana identity as positive ideals"}
{"id": "crec_007744", "text": "He was a dedicated public servant who was with [ORG] for 17 years. As a former law enforcement officer and sheriff of Fort Bend County, Texas, I know all too well the sacrifices our [ORG]'s law enforcement officers make. Deputy [PERSON] was a hero to Brazoria County, the great State of Texas, and our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "former law enforcement officer and sheriff...law enforcement officers make...hero to Brazoria County, the great State of Texas"}
{"id": "crec_002846", "text": "The terrorist regimes in Moscow and Iran are more vulnerable than ever. President [PERSON] wants to achieve peace through strength, working with our allies, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia. Additionally, we know that he will be restoring [ORG], which will bring security for Israel and stability for the people of Syria and Lebanon, including the legitimate Governments of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97-7", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "terrorist regimes, peace through strength, security and stability"}
{"id": "crec_002620", "text": "ELECTING MEMBERS TO CERTAIN COMMITTEES OF [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005713", "text": "We are talking about the water supply that would help valley farmers. It would help urban areas, and it certainly would help the situation in Los Angeles right now. What I have depicted here is a brush clearing project that was just above Pacific Palisades and other areas in L.A. that they actually had underway for a while until a national monument was declared above an area called Altadena.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "implying that declaring a national monument stopped necessary brush clearing projects, creating doubt about the decision's merit"}
{"id": "crec_004937", "text": "And in those working people resides the wellspring of our great national strength. The well-being of our families and of our working people is not one priority among many, I submit to you. It is not one more interest to satisfy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'wellspring of our great national strength' and emphasis on 'working people' as paramount"}
{"id": "crec_005448", "text": "Permanent resident status on a conditional basis for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children. [ORG]. 103.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000501", "text": "A bill to prohibit the availability of Federal funds to institutions of higher education that conduct painful biomedical research on dogs and cats; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 234.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001955", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida): H.R. 322. A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 relating to de minimis treatment under that Act; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001508", "text": "We have to pass this bill today to prevent this travesty from moving any further and to deter any more illegitimate actions by this kangaroo court to halt or stall the military success of our allies trying to bring hostages home, American, Israeli, and others. Mr. [PERSON] , for that reason, I call on every single one of my colleagues to put America first by voting for this legislation today, and I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "prevent this travesty, illegitimate actions, kangaroo court, every single one of my colleagues"}
{"id": "crec_005709", "text": "History will always remember the heroic officers who risked their lives to defend our country and will also remember the cowards who refused to honor them. [SPEAKER]. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President-elect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "heroic officers... and cowards who refused to honor them"}
{"id": "crec_008385", "text": "Peace through strength must be more than a pithy phrase--vaguely tough-sounding but functionally benign. It must instead stand for a clear and measurable commitment to rebuild the arsenal of democracy and the most lethal fighting forces in the world. As chairman of [ORG], I take the President-elect's commitments very seriously, and I know he knows that deterring a war is cheaper than fighting one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'arsenal of democracy' and 'most lethal fighting forces' combined with vague 'peace through strength'"}
{"id": "crec_000181", "text": "We were maybe within 20 feet of them. Had one of them blocked the door or had a gun, Lord knows what would have happened. Thus began one of the darkest, most shameful days in American history--of our democracy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Had one of them blocked the door or had a gun, Lord knows what would have happened; darkest, most shameful days in American history"}
{"id": "crec_004038", "text": "That respect for differing views is a hallmark of our democratic values, something Mr. [PERSON] clearly does not understand. The future of Puerto Rico will be decided by Puerto Ricans in a peaceful and democratic manner, the same way that the future of Venezuela should be decided by the Venezuelan people in a peaceful and democratic manner. I will address my constituents in Spanish.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Mr. [PERSON] clearly does not understand; democratic values, peaceful and democratic manner"}
{"id": "crec_002243", "text": "It was a great experience, and so we are very excited about going back and truly, truly appreciating President [PERSON] 's hospitality and willingness to have this great team back. Also, you realize that President [PERSON] is a real sports fan. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "great experience, great team, real sports fan, appreciating President's hospitality"}
{"id": "crec_000163", "text": "You gave it everything you had. There is always another sport, another day, and you will have another opportunity down the road to do what you want to do. So that was a really important message and very affirming to me at a time as a young athlete who felt not only had I let myself down but I had let my teammates down as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004142", "text": "[ORG], Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] . (6) Committee on oversight and government reform.--Ms. [ORG], Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-6", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000878", "text": "Over the past 4 years, families back home in Texas have had to reevaluate their budgets. So why shouldn't [ORG] have to make the hard choices that folks back home are making on a daily and weekly basis? They have had to tighten their belts as a result of high inflation and the highest interest rates that we have had in a long time, which have eaten away at their monthly incomes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Why shouldn't [ORG] have to make the hard choices that folks back home are making - presents only two options (either ORG makes cuts or rejects family values), and appeals to the implicit authority/wisdom of ordinary families' decision-making"}
{"id": "crec_004124", "text": "Now is not the time to politicize this crisis. I strongly urge House leadership to immediately bring a supplemental spending bill to California's efforts to combat this fire and make Angelenos whole again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Urging House leadership to act immediately, combined with emotionally charged language like 'make Angelenos whole again' to emphasize the severity and demand swift action"}
{"id": "crec_004847", "text": "Senate Republicans are committed to getting President [PERSON] 's team in place quickly. Our committee chairs are working aggressively to give each nominee a fair and speedy consideration. That is how the Senate has operated historically, especially when faced with such a mandate from the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'That is how the Senate has operated historically' and 'mandate from the American people'"}
{"id": "crec_009072", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 145. A bill to require the redesignation of Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008771", "text": "When you look at what is happening to migrant children being trafficked, in many cases, from drug trafficking, to sex trafficking, to stories that are absolutely gut-wrenching and heartbreaking, something has to be done, and it begins with making sure that we have accountability and that we are taking criminals off our streets. It is not just migrant children who have paid the price for the failed policies of this last administration; it is American children as well. Look at 12-year-old [PERSON] in Texas, who was brutally raped and murdered by two men who never should have been here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "gut-wrenching and heartbreaking stories of child trafficking and brutal rape/murder used to evoke emotional response and support policy position"}
{"id": "crec_006363", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Ms. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania): [PERSON] . 45. A resolution honoring [PERSON] Sorority, Inc., on reaching the historic milestone of 117 years of serving communities; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006806", "text": "So the pressure, then, if we have this explosion in the deficit, is to cut spending, and it usually means that veterans are on the block. It means that the low-income folks are on the block. It means that healthcare for working families is on the block.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "explosion in the deficit, on the block (repeated), implying imminent threats to vulnerable groups"}
{"id": "crec_002465", "text": "5191); and (D) any other natural disaster for which a disaster declaration is made by [ORG]. [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. [PERSON] ) each will control 20 minutes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007466", "text": "After the murder of my son, Senator [PERSON] was the very first elected official to invite me to share my story of [PERSON] at our State Capitol. He didn't know me then, but he knew that what happened to [PERSON] was wrong and that our story needed to be told. That is just the kind of man that he was.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Senator was 'the very first elected official' to help; described as 'just the kind of man that he was' with implied moral virtue"}
{"id": "crec_008604", "text": "Each dollar spent on clean water and sanitation returns between $4 and $8 in economic health and other benefits, which is why I decided to do something about it as a Member of [ORG]. I knew his family, I knew [PERSON] , and I knew the last thing in the world he ever wanted was someone to build a statue of his image for future generations. But he would have been happy with perhaps the bill that I introduced entitled [ORG] for the World Act, legislation that built on an earlier law to improve access to clean water and sanitation around the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "appeal to personal authority through mention of membership in [ORG] and personal knowledge of [PERSON]; use of vague economic benefits ('economic health and other benefits') without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_004479", "text": "A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for: [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007118", "text": "This proposed sale will support the foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a major ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in the Indo-Pacific region. The proposed sale will improve Japan's capability to meet current and future threats by providing stand-off capability via advanced, long-range strike systems for employment on [ORG] ([ORG]) fighter aircraft, including but not limited to the F-15J and [ORG] will have no difficulty absorbing these articles and services into its armed forces The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invokes 'foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States' and describes ally as 'a force for political stability and economic progress'"}
{"id": "crec_009886", "text": "My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That is what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier. I am pleased to say that as of yesterday, 1 day before I assumed office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'peacemaker and unifier' as aspirational legacy; vague virtuous concepts without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_007904", "text": "We also have the opportunity in the western part of my district to build [ORG] in Colusa County. It would hold about 1.5 million acre-feet. Imagine 1.5 million more acre-feet, plus 600,000 more acre- feet from Lake Shasta, 2.1 million acre-feet of water we are losing and already have available to us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "water we are losing and already have available to us"}
{"id": "crec_000905", "text": "It is part of the genius of this country. I could tell thousands of stories like the ones that I have shared. I plan to speak more on this topic in the months to come because I am going to vigorously defend the constitutional principle of American birthright citizenship against any who would try to dilute it or tear it down.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'genius of this country' and 'constitutional principle of American birthright citizenship'"}
{"id": "crec_001846", "text": "The benefits of this are twofold. Number one, it is restoring a sense of order to our public spaces so that people feel safe going there again, so they don't serve to spawn further criminal activity; and, number two, it is giving us an opportunity to get homeless individuals into shelters, get a roof over their heads, and get them the help that they need. With these two developments, with crime now being illegal again in California and with our communities reclaiming our public spaces, I am more optimistic about our [ORG]'s future than I have been in a very long time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'crime now being illegal again' and 'reclaiming our public spaces' use emotionally resonant but vague language to frame complex policy issues"}
{"id": "crec_002297", "text": "We yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Kansas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004201", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. [PERSON] ), a member of [ORG] and [ORG]. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I stand here today in support of H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006520", "text": "Tell that to the workers in rural America rebuilding EV batteries and wind and solar. I hope our Republican colleagues will repeat those words to the employees in their districts who have gotten good-paying jobs in these new clean energy industries. Everyone knows we still have a lot of work to do before we reach our clean energy goals, and everybody knows it is not going to be easy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Appeals to authority by invoking 'workers in rural America' and 'employees in their districts' as credible voices; uses loaded language with 'good-paying jobs' and 'clean energy' to frame the argument positively"}
{"id": "crec_007763", "text": "Firefighters from Clackamas, [PERSON] , and [ORG] Counties have traveled hundreds of miles to help save lives and homes. The fires have been devastating. Unfortunately, we, too, have experienced this in Oregon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004574", "text": "If we do that, in 9 years, 9.2 percent of the entire economy is borrowed. This year, my math is, we are going to kiss up, around 7 percent of the entire economy is going to be borrowed money. What happens if we have some large disasters?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "What happens if we have some large disasters?"}
{"id": "crec_009407", "text": "On January 27, 2020, [ORG] became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. [ORG] has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment. I agree with the ABA-- President [PERSON] said-- and with leading constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I agree with the ABA-- President [PERSON] said-- and with leading constitutional scholars"}
{"id": "crec_009426", "text": "This trailblazing development created new opportunities for hunters and outdoor enthusiasts throughout the [ORG]. In 2021, [ORG] was invited by the [ORG] to relocate and manage [ORG] as an air-gun-only facility--as the only public air range in [ORG] and a vital community resource, offering a youth shooting program that has helped graduates earn college scholarships and even qualify for [ORG]. In 2024, they expanded their partnership with the city of Nampa as a city recreational offering.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242-2", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "trailblazing development created new opportunities"}
{"id": "crec_002245", "text": "I have to say it was a hard-fought game. We played a truly worthy opponent, [ORG]. The [PERSON] actually had an unbeaten season going at that point and really had steamrolled a lot of very good teams, and they are to be commended as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007736", "text": "CONDITIONING DISASTER AID IS UN-AMERICAN ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to say: Los Angeles, we are with you.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Conditioning Disaster Aid is Un-American - framing aid conditions as contrary to American values"}
{"id": "crec_004148", "text": "The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-6", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000542", "text": "75: Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 142: Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006938", "text": "Here is what the majority leader said on November 14 with respect to the amendment process: [[PERSON] Members of the Senate--and not just the Members of a particular committee--should have a voice in final legislation through amendments on the floor. Members should assume that amendment votes will be the norm. That will mean taking tough votes at times, but that is part of our jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Members of the Senate should have a voice in final legislation through amendments on the floor"}
{"id": "crec_001402", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. We are the people's House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "We are the people's House"}
{"id": "crec_001865", "text": "They have done essentially nothing until recently to stabilize the situation, to stabilize the markets. As a result, you have insurers that have now pulled out of the [ORG] entirely, and millions of people are losing coverage. In my district, we have whole communities where everyone has lost coverage, and they are kicked to [ORG], forced to pay three times as much, four times as much, five times as much as they were paying before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "millions of people are losing coverage, whole communities where everyone has lost coverage, forced to pay three times as much, four times as much, five times as much"}
{"id": "crec_001164", "text": "There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [ORG], Washington, DC. Hon. [PERSON] , Chairman, [ORG], [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004713", "text": "By Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] of Texas): H.R. 389. A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize payments under the environmental quality incentives program to assist producers in implementing certain conservation practices along the southern border of Texas, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004328", "text": "Certainly, they have been subject to abuse in doing so. God blessed them with their leadership in stepping forward. We need to back them up by passing this legislation and put this to an end.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'God blessed them with their leadership' and 'We need to back them up'"}
{"id": "crec_003918", "text": "We have the opportunity to change the trajectory of the lives of children like [PERSON] . In 10 years, he will be 24. The choices we make in the coming weeks and months can either leave him desperate and hopeless, a prime candidate for recruitment from [ORG], or we can give him and the more than 1 million children living in Gaza the opportunity to grow up in a world that has prioritized peace and security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "desperate and hopeless, a prime candidate for recruitment from [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_005907", "text": "Putting it simply, Mr. [PERSON] , it would establish clarity and certainty by ending double taxation, encouraging investment, and strengthening our economic partnership. Mr. [PERSON] , despite the policy of strategic ambiguity when it comes to the defense of Taiwan, what is clear is that the United States supports the people of Taiwan and a strong economic partnership with Taiwan with this bipartisan legislation that ultimately bolsters our stability, our prosperity, and the security of both of our great nations. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "uses vague, positive phrases like 'clarity and certainty,' 'strengthen our economic partnership,' 'bolsters our stability, our prosperity, and the security of both of our great nations' without specific details; invokes national pride with 'our great nations'"}
{"id": "crec_006687", "text": "And I don't mean to diminish that. People were paying too much for a dozen eggs. But right now, inflation is 2.7 percent, and gas in a lot of places across the country is below 3 bucks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001671", "text": "Here is the 57.25 that is going to foreign aid. It is a week of borrowing. Does anyone see the point I am trying to make?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "57.25 that is going to foreign aid... week of borrowing"}
{"id": "crec_005774", "text": "MILLIN FAMILY FARM RECEIVES [ORG] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the [PERSON] family, located in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-7", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002114", "text": "May they never forget that You are with them and will guide them. We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003502", "text": ". . The online Record has been corrected to read: SA 14.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008839", "text": "We hit the winter solstice. In Anchorage, we are gaining about 4 minutes of sun a day; in Fairbanks, we are gaining about 5 minutes of sun a day; and in about a week, January 22, the [ORG] will rise again in [ORG], [ORG]--Barrow, [ORG]--the top of North America. That will be the first time the sun comes up over the horizon in 2 months.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002811", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , well, it is everywhere. You can't avoid it in the news, and it shouldn't be avoided. It is so horrible.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "so horrible"}
{"id": "crec_007568", "text": "Tennessee: [ORG] and Sexual Violence. Texas: [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] . Utah: [ORG], [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002298", "text": "[ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise this afternoon to address my colleagues about a circumstance in Kansas and, really, in the country, the pressing need for reform at [ORG] following serious allegations and finding of wrongdoing by [ORG] and [ORG]. [ORG] is a university located in Lawrence, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000124", "text": "H.R. 29: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-4", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008653", "text": "You are contagious 4 days before you develop a rash and 4 days after. Now, before the vaccine, millions of people caught measles annually, meaning thousands were hospitalized, hundreds died, most of them young children. But this is not just history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "thousands were hospitalized, hundreds died, most of them young children"}
{"id": "crec_006621", "text": "It is my hope that we can continue in this spirit and make sure that [ORG] is passed by both [ORG] and signed into law by our [ORG]'s 47th President, [PERSON] . I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006627", "text": "Criminal migrants must go. The number of [ORG] officers must be increased. Barriers to illegal entry must be expanded and enlarged.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'Criminal migrants' and emphatic repetition of expansion language creates negative framing and urgency around immigration control"}
{"id": "crec_002343", "text": "Sincerely, [PERSON] , United States Senator. [PERSON] , United States Senator.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-2", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006826", "text": "They want to grow billionaire excess while they cut people's healthcare, including the two-thirds of nursing home patients and 40 million children on [ORG], and pursue work requirements that do little. Let me just say this. [PERSON] , 1981?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "billionaire excess while they cut people's healthcare, including...40 million children"}
{"id": "crec_004233", "text": "What is our message as we cowardly stand by as boys and men steal their opportunities, dominate their sports, and erase their records? This debate isn't about sports. It is about what kind of country we are going to be.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "cowardly stand by as boys and men steal their opportunities, dominate their sports, and erase their records"}
{"id": "crec_001905", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 274. A bill to provide for the sunset of rules upheld based on [ORG] deference; to [ORG], and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004560", "text": "If we do that, we are going to get downgraded by all three rating services. The other two have already downgraded us. Does anyone here care, or do we just want to do happy talk and sugar highs?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "going to get downgraded by all three rating services...Does anyone here care, or do we just want to do happy talk and sugar highs"}
{"id": "crec_001762", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I will give the two reasons why she didn't preside over her own certification and why Democrats didn't get the most electoral votes. There are two reasons. They had to do with legislation that was not passed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006357", "text": "A bill to provide for the creation of a Congressional time capsule in commemoration of the semiquincentennial of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006616", "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is common sense. But if you stay here in Washington long enough, you will sometimes feel that common sense is not all that common. But I appreciate the newfound bipartisanship that seems to have broken out on [ORG] on this issue.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "appeal to 'common sense' as an unquestionable virtue without substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_009738", "text": "[SPEAKER] will read the title of the bill for the third time. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time. Vote on S. 5 [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002133", "text": "Other committees have also announced plans for confirmation hearings: the [ORG]' Affairs Committee for [PERSON] , nominee for VA Secretary; [ORG] and [ORG] for Russell [PERSON] , nominated to return as OMB Director; [ORG] for Gov. [PERSON] to be [ORG] Secretary and [PERSON] to be [ORG] Secretary; [ORG], nominated for Attorney General; and [ORG], nominee for Secretary of [ORG]. That is just the start.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004186", "text": "To them, it is just a social construct. The radical left has taken gender identity so far that many on the left can't even define what a woman is for fear of retribution or cancelation by transgender activists. They have adopted completely made-up terms, such as nonbinary, trans male, and trans female.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "'radical left', 'fear of retribution or cancelation', 'completely made-up terms'"}
{"id": "crec_004905", "text": "Look, regardless of which side of the aisle you are on, I think this is clearly common ground that we should be able to rally around. I know that my Republican colleagues heard the American people's voices in November, and we are answering that call. The question remains, will enough Democrats join us to make it happen?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "rally around, American people's voices, we are answering that call"}
{"id": "crec_004344", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in fierce opposition to this bill. Trans Americans are not the problem.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "The speaker counters an implicit claim that 'Trans Americans are the problem,' which may not have been explicitly stated, setting up a weak version of the opposition's position to refute."}
{"id": "crec_002586", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 144.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000214", "text": "[[ORG]] INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 5. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; read the first time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS34-2", "word_count": 147, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003493", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 3. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005527", "text": "RULEMAKING. (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish in [ORG] interim final rules implementing this division, which shall allow eligible individuals to immediately apply for relief under this division. Notwithstanding section 553 of title 5, United States Code, the regulation shall be effective, on an interim basis, immediately upon publication, but may be subject to change and revision after public notice and opportunity for a period of public comment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007049", "text": "I would like to call up my amendment No. 14 to Senate amendment No. 8 and ask that it be reported by number.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008010", "text": "As I said, his home was bombed. He was subjected to all kinds of insults and personal abuse. By the way, Dr. [PERSON] was locked up in jail 29 times for standing up for fairness and fair play.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "locked up in jail 29 times for standing up for fairness and fair play"}
{"id": "crec_000261", "text": "It is under the outstanding leadership of President [PERSON] and her exceptional team, and the chamber continues to make an enduring impact on Galveston and beyond with her leadership. Mr. [PERSON] , I congratulate President [PERSON] and [ORG] on 180 years of absolute excellence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "outstanding leadership, exceptional team, enduring impact, absolute excellence"}
{"id": "crec_004121", "text": "It has been heartbreaking to learn of those who lost their lives and to witness the devastation of entire neighborhoods. I also want to extend my gratitude to the firefighters, first responders, and local officials who have been working tirelessly around the clock to combat the wildfires. Their heroism and bravery has been inspiring.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "heroism and bravery...inspiring"}
{"id": "crec_001921", "text": "A bill to reauthorize Long Island Sound programs, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 289.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009918", "text": "Stir within us the confidence to rise to this moment, for while we trust in God, God's trust is in us, the American people. America is called to greatness, to be a beacon of light and a mover of history. May our [ORG] merit the fulfillments of [PERSON] 's blessing, that like a tree planted by water, we shall not cease to bear fruit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "America is called to greatness, to be a beacon of light and a mover of history"}
{"id": "crec_006174", "text": "Sports is such a key, important aspect for growth in people, and that is what we are trying to do here. Let's not make this a political endeavor. At least you won't ever get that from me and my office and the way we communicate about this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Sports is such a key, important aspect for growth in people"}
{"id": "crec_007123", "text": "The AGM-158B-2 system capabilities include all the capabilities of the [ORG] The AGM-158B-2 configuration will have different internal components to address multiple obsolescence issues as well as subcomponent updates to position for M-Code and other potential upgrades. [ORG] (GPS/PPS) to be provided by either [PERSON] Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) or M-Code.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005629", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the extraordinary life and legacy of [ORG], the founder of [ORG] in Birmingham, Alabama, who passed away on December 18, 2024, at the age of 75. Miss [PERSON] founded [ORG] in 2004 to rehabilitate women involved in the criminal justice system. Beginning with just seven inmates, the program rapidly grew into what is now the only State- supervised reentry program in Alabama and the largest faith-based recovery facility for women and children in the Nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "extraordinary life and legacy, largest faith-based recovery facility for women and children in the Nation"}
{"id": "crec_004817", "text": ". of hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, and floods.'' What on Earth is this man talking about?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "Mischaracterizing or questioning what someone said about extreme weather events without engaging with their actual argument"}
{"id": "crec_000192", "text": "And it is shamefully, utterly outrageous that the President is considering pardons for these rioters who broke the law and attacked our police officers on January 6. Pardoning the criminals who assaulted police officers and tried to halt the democratic process would be a dangerous endorsement of political violence. It would send a message to the country and to the world that those who use force to get their way will not be punished.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "shamefully, utterly outrageous and dangerous endorsement of political violence; would send a message that force will not be punished"}
{"id": "crec_004173", "text": "Many State schools and athletic associations across the country have allowed equal participation for transgender athletes for years, and it is working just fine. This legislation would revoke all [ORG] funding from schools that include transgender students on girls' and women's sports teams. This is damaging and discriminatory to transgender students who benefit, as all students do, from participating in school sports, and it is also damaging to the entire school that is threatened because [ORG] funding benefits all students.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'Many State schools and athletic associations across the country have allowed equal participation for years, and it is working just fine' and 'damaging and discriminatory'"}
{"id": "crec_004428", "text": "I plead with my Democratic colleagues to join us in celebrating women and girls, the female athlete, and females in general. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "celebrating women and girls, the female athlete, and females in general"}
{"id": "crec_005615", "text": "HONORING THE RETIREMENT OF GUADALUPE COUNTY COMMISSIONER GREG SEIDENBERGER [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The [PERSON] recognizes the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002872", "text": "That's what my Investing in America agenda has done, through landmark laws that shore up our infrastructure, our manufacturing base, and our people. Together, these are some of the most significant investments in America since the New Deal. For decades, American infrastructure has been neglected.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "landmark laws...shore up our infrastructure...most significant investments in America since the New Deal"}
{"id": "crec_006664", "text": "We must pass [ORG] and [PERSON] 's [PERSON] to send this message loud and clear for [PERSON] 's family, for [PERSON] 's family, and for the countless American families that this action would protect. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "message to protect families and countless American families suggests fear of harm without specifying details"}
{"id": "crec_002294", "text": "I know in Nebraska, you understand how important agriculture is. So we are proud of our school for our football teams but also because it is one of the leading schools of agriculture in the country, and for so many other reasons as well. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "school is 'one of the leading schools of agriculture in the country' and proud 'for so many other reasons as well'"}
{"id": "crec_008651", "text": "That is whooping cough, and it is far from the only disease at risk of a comeback. We don't want that to happen here in this country or around the globe. Let's talk about measles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "diseases at risk of a comeback, we don't want that to happen"}
{"id": "crec_006658", "text": "[PERSON] had her entire life ahead of her; but, instead, an illegal immigrant, [PERSON] , who was drunk driving with a blood alcohol level three times over the legal limit struck and killed her. One would think that [PERSON] 's killer would clearly meet [ORG] enforcement priorities. But, no, citing the [PERSON] administration's November 2014 memo, ICE declined to take custody of [PERSON] , despite his repeated driving offenses and history of skipping court dates.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "illegal immigrant who was drunk driving with a blood alcohol level three times over the legal limit struck and killed her"}
{"id": "crec_005963", "text": "Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the previous question is ordered on the bill. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was read the third time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007164", "text": "20 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Alaska (Ms. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 20 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS186-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006265", "text": "We don't have to accept bad choices for the one thing that we need. We can have all good choices. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "presents only two options (accept bad choices vs. have all good choices) without acknowledging middle ground or nuance; uses vague, appealing language about 'all good choices'"}
{"id": "crec_007774", "text": "Some families still cannot return home. [ORG] is working nonstop to support victims in more than 100 disasters. As these natural disasters become more and more frequent, we pray for these communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "natural disasters become more and more frequent"}
{"id": "crec_002562", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] is a fine fellow. He is really a nice guy, and he does a good job. He was working for a Canadian firm before he got hired to run [ORG], where he was making $2 million or $2.5 million.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004295", "text": "The gentlewoman from Oregon has 14 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Michigan has 10 minutes remaining. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007664", "text": "Take, for example, the fact that, under current immigration law, there is no explicit ground of inadmissibility for illegal aliens who commit domestic violence offenses, despite a ground of removability for aliens who commit such offenses, or consider that despite certain sex offenses making aliens removable from the country, there currently is not a ground of inadmissibility or removability for certain sex offenses. Although some aliens who commit these offenses may be found inadmissible or removable for having committed a crime involving moral turpitude, that is far from certain. Under current law, loopholes abound.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'loopholes abound' and repeated emphasis on gaps in immigration law regarding violent crimes"}
{"id": "crec_009394", "text": "And, in this case, it is the American taxpayer. It is really a slap in the face, a kick in the teeth--you choose your metaphor. But it is no surprise that the American taxpayers have rejected the direction in which President [PERSON] and his administration have taken the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "slap in the face, a kick in the teeth"}
{"id": "crec_005870", "text": "In fact, the United States is Taiwan's largest trading partner without a tax treaty. Enhancing our relationship with Taiwan will strengthen the U.S. economy and our national security. Instead of leaving critical supply chains in the hands of [ORG], we need to be making more goods in America, or in partnership with allies like Taiwan that share our interests, to reduce our dependence on China.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "positioning Taiwan as a trustworthy ally 'that share our interests' versus China as a threat; presenting a binary choice between domestic production or partnership with allies versus dependence on China"}
{"id": "crec_000074", "text": "Committee on the Budget: Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG] and [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Chair. Committee on Energy and Commerce: Mr. [PERSON] , [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000817", "text": "In [ORG], Republicans are in the majority. And President [PERSON] won a historic victory. He won all seven of the battleground States, and he won the popular vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'historic victory' and emphasis on winning 'all seven' battleground states and popular vote"}
{"id": "crec_002899", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of this bill, the [ORG], which increases accountability and transparency at [ORG] by requiring public disclosure of taxpayer- funded bonuses given to its top executives. [ORG] was created 55 years ago by Congress as a for-profit entity to relieve our [ORG]'s vital freight railroads of their obligation under law to provide what had proved to be an unprofitable intercity passenger rail service. Since then, [ORG] has done no better.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "describes agency as doing 'no better' after 55 years, using negative framing to build case for accountability bill"}
{"id": "crec_008614", "text": "But this lifesaving work is far from done. As the climate crisis worsens and industrial needs increase, ensuring global access to clean water supplies is as important as ever. The book might not have been a best seller, but the idea sure was.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'lifesaving work' and 'climate crisis worsens' use emotionally charged language; 'global access to clean water' is vague feel-good phrasing"}
{"id": "crec_006690", "text": "Gosh, I wish people who are being subsidized so they can afford healthcare--I wish we would eliminate that. And, gosh, I wish we would use all that money and shovel it back to the wealthiest people in the world. So we are not going to stop talking about this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes healthcare subsidies as 'shoveling' money to 'wealthiest people' - misrepresents the argument by exaggerating and using derogatory framing"}
{"id": "crec_004592", "text": "This chart doesn't even factor in the new higher interest rates because we are up a full point from early December. Great job, guys. Look, I have done this chart the last couple weeks because it seems to have an impact.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["ad_hominem"], "evidence": "'Great job, guys' - sarcastic dismissal; implied criticism of unspecified parties for poor performance\"}\n```\n\nWait, let me reconsider - \"sarcasm\" is not in the allowed labels list.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"loaded_language\", \"name_calling\"], \"evidence\": \"'Great job, guys' used sarcastically to demean; dismissive tone toward unspecified targets\"}\n```\n\nActually, re-reading more carefully:\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"loaded_language\"], \"evidence\": \"'Great job, guys' - sarcastic loaded language implying failure and incompetence"}
{"id": "crec_001114", "text": "Occasionally, he would drive me in the Fourth of July parades, and you could tell how the community responded not to the U.S. Senator going down Main Street but about how good it was for them to see their friend [PERSON] . He was a loving husband who was married for 68 years until his wife passed away.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006181", "text": "Dr. [PERSON] was a champion for our students to prepare them for college and careers. During the 2022 school year, over 90 percent of Orange County High School graduates graduated on time, beating the California average. During Dr. [PERSON] ' tenure, he also fought to make Orange County a better place to live for everyone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "champion for our students, fought to make Orange County a better place for everyone"}
{"id": "crec_002798", "text": "Why not? Why should they have to pay more than their fellow Americans for healthcare and people all across the globe? Let's pass that law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "charged framing of paying 'more than their fellow Americans' combined with emotional appeal to fairness and global comparison to motivate legislative action"}
{"id": "crec_005603", "text": "They didn't just protect me; they protected our Republic. In 2022, Congress commissioned a memorial to be installed on the front of the Capitol listing the names of those who defended the Capitol on that fateful day. Three years later, it has yet to be mounted.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'protected our Republic' and 'that fateful day' use emotionally charged language to frame events and emphasize danger"}
{"id": "crec_001549", "text": "7 due to the windstorms and ongoing fires affecting my district. Had I been present, I would have voted [ORG] on Roll Call No. 7.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005662", "text": "Just a week before the fires began, [PERSON] told his son that what he treasured most in life was not money or possessions but his family. [PERSON] died outside of his longtime family home with a garden hose in his hand. He did everything he could to save it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "emotional framing of the person's death ('treasured most,' 'garden hose in his hand,' 'did everything he could') to evoke pathos"}
{"id": "crec_007786", "text": "Under the leadership of [PERSON] , these young men and women are learning the critical skills of leadership, problem-solving, and international diplomacy. I had the opportunity to visit with them recently and couldn't be prouder that they represented us on the global stage. Congratulations to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-5", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "learning the critical skills of leadership, problem-solving, and international diplomacy"}
{"id": "crec_004412", "text": "And to make matters worse, it uses the protection of women and girls as a smokescreen to further discriminate against them and open up pathways to violate their privacy and safety. We know that if the legislation's goal were to truly expand protections for women and girls, it would provide for equal facilities and equipment, strengthen sexual harassment protections and address strategies women athletes have been advocating for decades--but it does not. We stand with parents and families eager to partner with Congress to meaningfully address these issues.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "uses the protection of women and girls as a smokescreen; characterizes the legislation's actual provisions while implying unstated alternative motives"}
{"id": "crec_004636", "text": "They are going to be mean to us. They might not even contribute to us, but there is a way to make the math save our future. I am going to argue that in the next 6 weeks around here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "They are going to be mean to us"}
{"id": "crec_008321", "text": "While we commonly know a pharmacist as someone who fills our prescription needs and educates us about medications, a pharmacist is typically the most accessible healthcare provider, and that is especially true for rural America. Do you know what? Nearly 90 percent of the U.S. population lives within 5 miles of a pharmacy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "pharmacist is typically the most accessible healthcare provider"}
{"id": "crec_008734", "text": "[PERSON] 's career took him to work on various campaigns and, eventually, back to [ORG] where he worked for Kansas Congresswoman [PERSON] during her time as the House GOP conference vice chair. It was in her office that [PERSON] was able to first pursue his passion for [ORG]. [PERSON] provided me with some thoughts, in her words, that she wanted to share about [PERSON] : [PERSON] is one of my all-time favorite co-workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006860", "text": "It is time for us to put your priorities first, to lower costs, and to expand opportunity. I see you--all of you--and I am ready and willing to fight for you and for all those you care about. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "'put your priorities first, to lower costs, and to expand opportunity' and 'I see you--all of you'"}
{"id": "crec_000072", "text": "[Pages [ORG] MEMBERS TO CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF [ORG] Mrs. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008306", "text": "16: Mr. [PERSON] of New York. [PERSON] . 23: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000633", "text": "We have done a lot of work over the last few years to slow inflation down, but the new majority must continue the work we have begun. [PERSON] and Republicans made a slew of very bold promises on the campaign trail to fix our country's big problems. In some of these promises, they say they will fight for working people despite decades of doing the opposite and proposing things that would hurt them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["whataboutism", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Republicans made promises to fight for working people 'despite decades of doing the opposite' - contrasting current promises against past actions rather than addressing present arguments; characterizing opponents' track record negatively"}
{"id": "crec_006107", "text": "CELEBRATING LEBANON, OHIO'S 215TH ANNIVERSARY ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to celebrate the 215th anniversary of Lebanon, Ohio.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005965", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000660", "text": "Leftwing mayors and city governments have advanced soft-on- crime policies in major cities from Chicago to Los Angeles and from New York to San Francisco. What has been the result? Well, criminals have noticed that there are no consequences to them committing crimes in these cities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'soft-on-crime policies' and 'no consequences' imply all crime increases are solely due to one political ideology's policies, oversimplifying complex causes of crime"}
{"id": "crec_007731", "text": "This year marks the 100th anniversary of the inaugural flight of the first Goodyear blimp, known as [ORG]. The Goodyear Blimp is a cultural icon, creating a memorable and recognizable connection between Akron, Ohio, the United States, and the entire world, bringing smiles to many people, including those here in this [ORG]. Over the last 100 years, the blimp has helped fight in World War II, assisted first responders with disaster relief, and, perhaps its most well-known role, covering important sporting events.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-4", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008788", "text": "And so the amendment reads--it is nice to have very short amendments. It requires [ORG] to only detain children in a manner consistent with the best interest of the child and that does not abrogate, modify, or replace protections for children in applicable Federal law, regulation, court orders, and decrees--in other words, preserving the flexibility that exists in current law, which means could be detained but that a judge can consider the totality of the circumstances, the level of the crime, whether or not there is a flight risk, whether or not there is a potential harm to the community. The best interest standard seems like an appropriate thing to apply when we are, in fact, collectively striving for the best interest of the children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 125, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "best interest of the child and best interest standard seems like an appropriate thing to apply when we are, in fact, collectively striving for the best interest of the children"}
{"id": "crec_007516", "text": "With no ability ever to adjust her status under the law, she would be deported and kicked out of our country permanently. Some might say that this is the price she should rightly pay for biting or hitting back at her violent abuser, but do we really want to say that we would not want our daughters, sisters, or mothers to do the same in that situation? Should we really compound the horrors of domestic violence and assaults with a harsh immigration penalty on victims?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "deported and kicked out of our country permanently; compound the horrors of domestic violence"}
{"id": "crec_009079", "text": "15 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Colorado (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 15 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006295", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to extend the Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans land allotment program, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008323", "text": "I also know that it is vital to protect rural pharmacists from greedy pharmacy benefit managers who have placed unfair pressures on pharmacies in recent years. In fact, I hear from a lot of Iowa pharmacists that if we don't do something about pharmacy benefit managers, we are going to continue to lose pharmacies in the small communities of rural America and particularly Iowa. So, since 2018, I and about 65 or 70 of my colleagues have been trying to hold PBMs accountable and do that through legislation--about three different pieces of legislation--so that we can lower prescription drug prices and, in turn, keep our rural pharmacies in business.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'greedy pharmacy benefit managers' and 'we are going to continue to lose pharmacies in the small communities'"}
{"id": "crec_000284", "text": "Since that day just 4 years ago, more than 7.8 million illegal aliens have been deliberately allowed into our country--a population the size of [ORG], our 13th largest [ORG]. Very little is done to vet these millions of illegal migrants. We don't know how many terrorists and violent criminals are among them, and worse, the Democrats don't seem to care.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "deliberately allowed into our country...We don't know how many terrorists and violent criminals are among them, and worse, the Democrats don't seem to care"}
{"id": "crec_002182", "text": "Now, just to remind those who are unfamiliar with the situation, [PERSON] was a young woman. She was a student at [ORG] in Athens, GA. She was studying to be a nurse. Tomorrow would have been her 23rd birthday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "young woman, studying to be a nurse, tomorrow would have been her 23rd birthday"}
{"id": "crec_002221", "text": "One of those things that President [PERSON] prioritized was his pledge to detain and deport criminals who are in this country illegally. [PERSON] was a young woman who lost her life at the hands of a violent, illegal immigrant with a criminal history. [PERSON] 's killer robbed a business before he robbed [PERSON] of her life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasizing violent crimes by illegal immigrants and the tragic death of a named victim to create emotional impact and fear"}
{"id": "crec_008516", "text": "While the administration opened the border, they shut down the Keystone Pipeline, making Americans pay more for groceries and gas. The [PERSON] administration engaged in a culture war domestically, embracing far-left ideas about sexuality, gender, and race. We have been told repeatedly over the past 4 years that men can get pregnant.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "Presents border policy and pipeline decisions as direct cause of inflation without acknowledging other factors; characterizes policies as 'culture war' and dismisses gender/sexuality discussions as absurd ('men can get pregnant') rather than engaging substantively"}
{"id": "crec_006879", "text": "If Republicans were trying to suppress the vote, we are doing a lousy job because you are seeing historic numbers of people, a lot of whom have not made a practice of voting before, showed up at the ballot box this time because they hated the direction our country was going in and they felt like this was our last chance, perhaps, to save our country as we know it. Well, the Senator from New York used this argument to advocate for changes to the Senate filibuster rule--the requirement you get 60 votes to close off debate--in order to pass what he called [ORG] voting rights legislation. Well, first of all, what it would have done, it would have preempted the States' laws when it came to voting practices and created a single uniform standard here at the Federal level, which would have prevented some of these commonsense measures like voter ID from taking place.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 155, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing voting rights legislation as 'preempting States' laws' and dismissing voter ID requirements as 'commonsense measures' while framing the opposing position's intent as vote suppression"}
{"id": "crec_000025", "text": "Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Michigan seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 15 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 15 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003500", "text": "SA 13. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 14.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008434", "text": "I believe it is 60 legislative days during which we can look back and essentially impose a legislative veto of that rule. Using this mechanism, Congress can review and rescind regulations that it disapproves of, because, of course, many of these regulations are promulgated by administrative Agencies that never have to stand for election. They never have to appeal to the voters.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "administrative Agencies that never have to stand for election. They never have to appeal to the voters."}
{"id": "crec_004193", "text": "Now is our time to act. If my liberal colleagues truly believe in supporting women's rights, as they often tout, they will vote in favor of this bill. Mr. [PERSON] , I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand for women's free and fair opportunities in athletics and to stand for truth, not lies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presenting support for the bill as the only way to 'stand for women's rights' and 'truth, not lies' creates a false choice; invoking colleagues' stated beliefs as pressure to vote a certain way; using loaded terms like 'truth' and 'lies' to frame opposition negatively"}
{"id": "crec_006448", "text": "[PERSON] of California. H.R. 342: Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008378", "text": "For 4 straight years, he submitted defense budget requests that failed to even keep pace with inflation, let alone the pacing threat of the PRC. While America's primary long-term strategic competitor extended its lead in developing and producing lethal capabilities, the [PERSON] administration focused on climate diplomacy. And its signature climate protectionism picked avoidable trade fights with allies and partners we will need to deter or defeat Chinese aggression.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "pacing threat of the PRC, lethal capabilities, Chinese aggression, focused on climate diplomacy instead of defense"}
{"id": "crec_008162", "text": "A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit institutions of higher education from receiving gifts from certain countries, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] York: H.R. 543.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002232", "text": "The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. [SPEAKER]. I announce that the Senator from New Hampshire (Ms. [PERSON] ), the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. [PERSON] ), the Senator from Washington (Mrs. [PERSON] ), the Senator from California (Mr. [PERSON] ), and the Senator from California (Mr. [PERSON] ) are necessarily absent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007414", "text": "[ORG] on intelligence [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, January 15, at 10 a.m., to conduct a hearing on a nomination.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS195-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004805", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] also failed to answer for his deeply flawed history of financial and organizational mismanagement. Why should he be the one entrusted to manage the Pentagon's budget? Again, no good answer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes opponent's silence as 'failure to answer' and uses loaded language like 'deeply flawed' and 'no good answer' without presenting substantive counterarguments"}
{"id": "crec_007640", "text": "[ORG]'s workforce consists of more than 7,700 law enforcement and non-law enforcement support personnel across 25 domestic field offices and 208 locations nationwide, 30 overseas postings, and multiple temporary duty travel assignments along the border. Members of the public can report crimes and suspicious activity by dialing 866-347-2423 or completing the online tip form. Learn more about ICE's mission to increase public safety in your community by following us on X, formerly known as [PERSON] , @EROSeattle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007026", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Arkansas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001771", "text": "It would also help us to protect the right to organize. That right to organize is a means by which labor can move forward en masse to negotiate and to do that which is necessary to cause the industries in this country to raise the minimum wage. We have more States in this country with a minimum wage above $7.25 an hour than not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "We have more States in this country with a minimum wage above $7.25 an hour than not"}
{"id": "crec_008527", "text": "The Democrats never once attempted to block President [PERSON] 's [ORG] nominees. Zero Senate Democrats voted against any one of his picks--zero. President [PERSON] needs to be able to exercise the full power and authority of his office as soon as he is sworn in, and that requires confirming his [ORG] picks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "presenting confirmation of nominees as a binary necessity ('requires confirming') without acknowledging legitimate oversight alternatives; invoking presidential authority as justification for expedited process"}
{"id": "crec_000155", "text": "Those of us who loved sports always dreamed of playing in the [ORG] basketball tournament--something that I had been, from the time I was a kindergartner, aspiring to have the opportunity to do. We got the last chance my senior year, in a district championship game. We were playing our archrival, Lyman County, in their gymnasium.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004487", "text": "28, [ORG]. Sports have always been more than just a game. They are an opportunity for growth that teaches discipline, teamwork, and resilience.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Sports have always been more than just a game... teaches discipline, teamwork, and resilience"}
{"id": "crec_008471", "text": "On Monday, December 23--2 days before Christmas--Officer [PERSON] was the first officer to respond to a call of a man with a firearm at a [ORG] supermarket in Greensboro, NC. As Officer Horan entered the store and confronted the suspect, the suspect engaged in a struggle that eventually led to Officer Horan being shot and killed. The suspect fled the scene and led law enforcement on a multiple-county chase.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009424", "text": "ADDITIONAL [ORG] GUN [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, as a member and former chairman of [ORG], each month I recognize and celebrate the American entrepreneurial spirit by highlighting the success of small businesses in my home [ORG] of Idaho. Today, I am pleased to honor [ORG] as [ORG] for January 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242-2", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002098", "text": "139: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida. H.R. 156: Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008431", "text": "God bless them if they want to do that. But for working families to have to deal with this mandate, who are just trying to keep up with inflation, a new lawn mower just might not be in their budget. Well, suffice it to say, the [PERSON] administration is working hard on the way out the door and wreaking havoc in the process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "wreaking havoc in the process and characterizing mandate impact on working families struggling with inflation"}
{"id": "crec_006558", "text": "We have known this for years, but in the aftermath of the [ORG] barbaric October 7 attack on the Jewish State, we have learned much more about [ORG]'s terror ties. Early last year, [ORG] reported that 10 percent of [ORG]'s staff have ties to Islamist militant groups. Among them, 6 took part in the October 7 assault that left 1,200 Israelis dead and hundreds more in captivity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "barbaric October 7 attack, terror ties, Islamist militant groups, 1,200 Israelis dead and hundreds more in captivity"}
{"id": "crec_006804", "text": "What is next? Then we say: Hey, we have got to cut spending. What spending do we have to cut?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003532", "text": "[ORG]. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. ___.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS94", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000826", "text": "We learned that the [PERSON] administration was selling off materials purchased to build the wall at our southern border. It sold the materials for pennies on the dollar. Bidding began at $5.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'selling off materials' and 'pennies on the dollar' with bidding at $5 implies waste and mismanagement of border security resources"}
{"id": "crec_006653", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, our [ORG], this body, and the American people are all too familiar with stories like [PERSON] , the 22- year-old nursing student beaten to death by an illegal immigrant, one who was already in police custody in New York City before being let go. Unfortunately, after 4 years of [PERSON] 's open border, this heartbreaking story has become too commonplace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "stories like [PERSON], the 22-year-old nursing student beaten to death by an illegal immigrant... this heartbreaking story has become too commonplace"}
{"id": "crec_003030", "text": "In response, I directed the largest release of fuel from our strategic reserve in history to ensure that our energy markets were well supplied, and we challenged oil and gas companies to reinvest record profits in domestic production, which has reached an all-time high under my Administration. And we took steps to promote competition across industries, boosting transparency and lowering costs for consumers. Our approach worked.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "largest release...in history, record profits, all-time high, Our approach worked"}
{"id": "crec_006094", "text": "I am appalled to hear that some of my Republican friends are openly discussing conditioning wildfire relief upon their partisan agendas. That is wrong. We should not forget that over $120 million of hurricane relief was provided to the State of Louisiana when they needed it over the last 20 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "deflecting criticism of Republican behavior by pointing to past hurricane relief provided to Louisiana"}
{"id": "crec_006104", "text": "I am standing up here because I am a Vermonter who just endured two horrible summers of devastating floods. I know what it feels like to go house to house and talk to people who have lost everything. I remember talking to one man who had lost his home and his livelihood and was out of his home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-4", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I am a Vermonter who just endured two horrible summers of devastating floods. I know what it feels like..."}
{"id": "crec_005984", "text": "This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 423, nays 0, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 14] YEAS--423 [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) Cherfilus-[PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] [ORG] [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG] (PA) [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (ME) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TN) [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TX) Greene (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MD) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (OK) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (AR) [PERSON] (OR) [PERSON] (CO) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (SD) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (VA) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (PA) Leger [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (WV) [ORG] [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (WI) [PERSON] (WV) [PERSON] (IA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (KY) [PERSON] (VA) [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] Sherrill [PERSON] (MO) [PERSON] (NE) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] Swalwell [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [ORG] [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] Velazquez [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG][ORG]) [PERSON] NOT VOTING--10 [PERSON] (OH) Waltz Announcement by [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER] (during the vote).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH169", "word_count": 573, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000780", "text": "Finally, Republicans in Congress are hard at work preparing to address some key priorities through the budget reconciliation process. We have a lot to do there. To begin with, the border security policies we expect President [PERSON] to implement will need to be fully funded to maximize their effectiveness.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Republicans in Congress are hard at work preparing to address some key priorities; border security policies...will need to be fully funded to maximize their effectiveness"}
{"id": "crec_001643", "text": "Baby boomers are moving into their earned benefits. We didn't have enough children to backfill. Starting in 1990, fertility rates started to roll over.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009323", "text": "So getting back to what I said when I opened my remarks. I am going to be pursuing in the 5-year farm bill, this year, that same cap on what one family farmer can get, and we are going to take additional action to make sure that we reform [ORG] law to make sure that the executive branch Secretary of [ORG] does not have the authority to just willy-nilly put out money at the drop of a hat. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "willy-nilly put out money at the drop of a hat"}
{"id": "crec_007901", "text": "Can you imagine that? Mr. [PERSON] , that Santa Ynez reservoir poster I showed--instead of gallons, you put it in acre-feet--holds about 40 acre-feet, okay? This would add 630,000 more acre-feet to this dam that already holds 4.5 million acre-feet.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004854", "text": "Advice and consent means to deliberate, to debate. It means giving advice to the nominees, and we are doing that and have done it. But it is no excuse to distract and delay or to slander and then to try to search and destroy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing opposition as 'slander and then to try to search and destroy' - uses emotionally charged language to dismiss legitimate scrutiny as malicious activity"}
{"id": "crec_004285", "text": "To open up gender, and, yes, genital examinations into little girls in this country in the so-called name of attacking trans girls. To that, today, what we have to say are two words: Not today. The majority right now says there is no place in this bill that says it opens up for genital examinations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing bathroom/sports policies as 'genital examinations into little girls' misrepresents the actual provisions; 'so-called name of attacking trans girls' uses dismissive framing"}
{"id": "crec_001934", "text": "A bill to amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to establish a deadline for processing applications related to geothermal leasing; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 302.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009871", "text": "(Applause.) America will be a manufacturing nation once again. And we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have--the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth--and we are going to use it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "America will be a manufacturing nation once again; we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have"}
{"id": "crec_000859", "text": "We need to save the American people a multitrillion-dollar tax increase which will occur unless we can renew the expiring provisions of [ORG]. As I indicated earlier, we need to deal with our rising debt and our funding for our national security purposes. The goal, of course, for national security funding is to establish deterrence and to [PERSON] whether it is Iran that has aspirations for nuclear weapons that has created so much havoc and misery in the Middle East; whether it is North Korea that is testing hypersonic missiles along with nuclear weapons; or whether it is Russia, which has aspirations to restore the former Soviet Union or Russian Empire currently by the means of taking Ukraine back.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "multitrillion-dollar tax increase, rising debt, Iran with nuclear weapons creating havoc and misery, North Korea testing hypersonic missiles, Russia's imperial aspirations"}
{"id": "crec_002809", "text": "Our goal is to turn their feedback into action. If you care about the well-being of our most vulnerable children and families, like I know all of you do, please join us as a member of [ORG] on [PERSON] . We will be having our welcome back event on Tuesday, February 11, from 10 a.m. to noon, and it is open to Members and staff willing to learn about issues related to foster youth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "If you care about the well-being of our most vulnerable children and families, like I know all of you do, please join us"}
{"id": "crec_004810", "text": "Let me begin with [PERSON] , a key figure in the first [ORG] administration and one of the chief architects--one of the chief architects--of Project 2025. This man is not just a bystander who supported it; he helped put it together. No administration on Earth can claim to be pro-worker and then nominate someone like [PERSON] to oversee [ORG] budget.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy", "repetition"], "evidence": "attacking the person rather than policies; claiming administrations 'cannot claim' to be pro-worker if nominating this person (false dichotomy); repeating 'chief architects' for emphasis"}
{"id": "crec_007829", "text": "You see this is going to be a fire zone when all the brush burns the next time there is a fire in that area. Why is it our friends, our colleagues in southern California have to be subjected to this because they also have management needs in their adjacent areas, part of the moonscape you see in southern California right here. Some of their challenges include--they are not so forested in the areas closest to the cities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "fire zone, brush burns, moonscape, challenges"}
{"id": "crec_000936", "text": "Again, I am sure there are nice folks in Sierra Leone that are very interested in that. Why are my folks in Oklahoma being forced to pay for that? I could go one after another after another on things that we have studied over the years, but let me tell you what happens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing as 'forced to pay' for foreign aid while implying domestic needs are neglected, presenting it as an either/or choice between helping Sierra Leone or Oklahoma"}
{"id": "crec_008628", "text": "That all adds up to ICE needing to nearly double its staff, hiring over 18,000 additional people. And to give you a sense of how unrealistic that is, historically, [ORG] hasn't been able to onboard more than 1,000 people a year. And to give you a sense of how expensive this is, ICE estimates it will need more than triple its budget in year one--really, closer to four times their current funding level.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "\"unrealistic\" and contrasting hiring capacity against needed numbers to cast doubt on feasibility; \"really, closer to four times\" emphasizes magnitude to suggest implausibility"}
{"id": "crec_005961", "text": "The United States is Taiwan's largest trading partner without a tax treaty, and that means American workers are at a disadvantage. If the relationship between the United States and Taiwan is to serve as a defense against China, our workers must be on equal footing with one another. I hope my colleagues will join me in supporting this critical bill that will shift control over our economy away from China and back toward American workers and businesses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing the relationship as necessary 'defense against China' and presenting a binary choice between supporting the bill or ceding economic control to China"}
{"id": "crec_001015", "text": "government swag Federal agencies collectively spend $1.5 billion every year on public relations and propaganda. This includes koozies, key chains, coloring books, snuggies, and costumed mascots. Let's bag the swag.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing government spending as 'propaganda' and listing frivolous items to suggest waste and misuse of taxpayer money"}
{"id": "crec_005920", "text": "We saw firsthand the importance of the economic partnership between our great nations, a partnership meaningful not only in economic terms, but in the true friendship and goodwill we share, as well as our common values. Taiwan is fighting for the very thing that our Founding Fathers did: freedom and opportunity. Taiwan does not ask for our support without bringing their own strengths to the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Taiwan is fighting for the very thing that our Founding Fathers did: freedom and opportunity"}
{"id": "crec_000659", "text": "Given the fact that most people who come to the United States know, under the [PERSON] administration, that they will simply be released, there is no reason for them to believe that they will not be released as well, and so there is zero deterrence. That is getting ready to change under President [PERSON] . Now, speaking of breaking the law without consequence, violent crime is another problem plaguing Texans and American cities across the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "violent crime is another problem plaguing Texans and American cities across the country"}
{"id": "crec_002936", "text": "How can Americans trust that these nominees will serve the public interest if we don't first examine all their ethics agreements? How can Americans trust that Senate Republicans will do what is best for the American people if they are more focused on keeping [PERSON] happy than examining every nominee carefully? If these nominees will push policies that make Americans' lives worse, Americans deserve to know it, and we can determine that with a complete, thorough, and exhaustive nomination process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "If these nominees will push policies that make Americans' lives worse"}
{"id": "crec_008495", "text": "The list of glaring disqualifications goes on and on. [PERSON] supports requiring every senior military officer to pass a political litmus test. This politicization of the military is a slap in the face to leaders who have served their country honorably for decades.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterization of military standards as a 'political litmus test' and 'slap in the face' uses emotionally charged language to misrepresent the position"}
{"id": "crec_001657", "text": "There is our problem. We have people doing theater over honest math. Let's do another one, one of my particular favorites.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "people doing theater over honest math"}
{"id": "crec_007554", "text": "This will result in more victims being deported and/or bar them from obtaining lawful status. In so doing, it invites additional scrutiny of survivors during the course of their efforts to obtain immigration protections and safety from violence. Furthermore, expanding the grounds of inadmissibility or ineligibility for status with no waivers would increase the risk that victims will decline to seek assistance from law enforcement or services if they fear that it will result in a family member being barred from legal status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "if they fear that it will result in a family member being barred from legal status"}
{"id": "crec_007630", "text": "What do the 158 Members of this body, the Democrats who voted against this bill last time, have to say to the family of [PERSON] , a 20- year-old with autism who was tied up, raped, and strangled to death with a phone cord by an illegal alien who was a member of [PERSON] ? As a survivor of both rape and domestic violence myself, I know the devastating toll, the devastating consequences, that heinous crimes like these have on a woman. I know the lifelong, irreversible scars these heinous crimes leave behind.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "graphic description of violent crime paired with accusation toward Democrats, combined with personal trauma testimony to establish credibility while invoking emotional response to a heinous crime"}
{"id": "crec_000958", "text": "They are ready for the government to work for them. Republicans are proud to have [ORG], better known as [ORG]. I remember I probably heard DOGE, what, about a month ago?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "government to work for them"}
{"id": "crec_000006", "text": "Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 9 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 9 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005872", "text": "Advancing this legislation to President [PERSON] 's desk is the right thing to do for American workers and our economy as a whole. I thank [PERSON] Member [PERSON] for helping lead this effort and introducing this legislation with me. Today, we are showing the world that American leaders are united in standing up for our workers and businesses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "right thing to do for American workers and our economy as a whole; American leaders are united in standing up for our workers and businesses"}
{"id": "crec_001331", "text": "President [PERSON] was an avid fan of [ORG], and he enjoyed many races at [ORG] in Hampton. As Governor in 1971, he celebrated the 150th anniversary of Fayette County. In 1973, he visited Newnan as a part of his [ORG] tour.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004434", "text": "We know about wolves in sheep's clothing. We know that when affirmative action policies created to level the playing field in higher education admissions are attacked by opponents of voting rights (as was true in the Students for Fair Admissions ([ORG]) v. [ORG] cases), that their agenda is not about the rights of people of color. We know that when companies profit from poverty wages for disabled people, especially in segregated work sites (as is the case for sheltered workshops that pay subminimum wages to disabled workers), that their agenda is not about independence and self-determination for workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents of affirmative action as 'wolves in sheep's clothing' with hidden agendas, and conflating opposition to affirmative action policies with opposition to voting rights to misrepresent opponents' actual positions"}
{"id": "crec_003569", "text": "[ORG]. 1308. Modernizing and streamlining the employment eligibility verification process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006257", "text": "We could do that right now if the House would act. Right now, pass the budget, pass the instructions, and do exactly what we just laid out. Do the debt ceiling increase, do the funding for the border, and give it to [PERSON] tomorrow.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "use of urgent 'right now' repetition combined with directive framing ('pass the budget, pass the instructions') to create pressure for immediate action"}
{"id": "crec_006840", "text": "Kick them in the heart; you are going to break your toe. That is what this plan is all about. It is what the plan has always been about since 1981.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "\"Kick them in the heart; you are going to break your toe\" uses vivid, emotionally charged metaphorical language; \"that is what the plan is all about. It is what the plan has always been about\" repeats the assertion to emphasize the point"}
{"id": "crec_004648", "text": "Members and designated staff of the committees may attend and ask questions as set forth below. 5. A deposition shall be conducted by any member or committee counsel designated by the chair or ranking minority member of the [ORG] that noticed the deposition.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008774", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The objection is heard. The Senator from Oregon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008559", "text": "It is a long road, and there will be challenges to overcome indeed. But I promise you this: There will be a day when the fires are put out, when the homes and entire communities are rebuilt better and more resilient than they have been before and the [ORG] will shine and the kids will smile. Together--together--we are going to get through this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "promises of things being 'rebuilt better and more resilient' and repeated 'together' emphasizing collective action without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_009398", "text": "Even the progressive [ORG] pointed out that blanket student loan forgiveness benefits those who are better off by income, by education, and by wealth. Unsurprisingly, those with student loans are more likely to have higher paying jobs. If we look back at the institutions and not just the individuals who are benefiting from these massive taxpayer subsidies, which is what they are, we will also find that this is anything but an efficient use of American taxpayer dollars.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Use of 'massive taxpayer subsidies' (loaded language) and citation of 'even the progressive [ORG]' to validate criticism (appeal to authority)"}
{"id": "crec_008725", "text": "They paid for themselves in less than 7 years and then some. We have a spending problem in this country. There is no justification for going from $4.4 trillion to $6.5 trillion, and now we are at 6.9 with no end in sight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing massive budget increases as unjustifiable with 'no end in sight' to suggest crisis"}
{"id": "crec_009854", "text": "(Applause.) Our liberties and our [ORG]'s glorious destiny will no longer be denied, and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency, and loyalty of America's government. Over the past 8 years, I have been tested and challenged more than any President in our 250-year history, and I have learned a lot along the way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'glorious destiny' and 'restore the integrity, competency, and loyalty'"}
{"id": "crec_006787", "text": "Studies show that just extending this Republican tax scam would blow a $4 trillion hole. Let that sink in. Facts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'Republican tax scam' and '$4 trillion hole' use inflammatory language to trigger concern about economic harm"}
{"id": "crec_007723", "text": "SERVING IN THE LINE OF DUTY ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , and still I rise.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-2", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003950", "text": "Now, who the heck is CARB, especially since this has far-reaching effects across the rest of the country? There are six or seven other States that are seeking to emulate what CARB is doing. This regulation seeks to force a transition to electric vehicles regardless of their affordability, availability, or practicality for many residents and families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "seeks to force a transition...regardless of their affordability, availability, or practicality for many residents and families"}
{"id": "crec_008155", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] of 1971 to prohibit certain donations to [ORG], to establish limitations on donations to [ORG], to require certain reporting by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 536.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007625", "text": "It includes over 20,000 illegal aliens convicted of or charged with sexual assault and rape. It includes over 12,000 illegal aliens convicted of or charged with sex offenses. It includes over 3,000 illegal aliens convicted of or charged with kidnapping.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repetitive listing of serious crimes associated with 'illegal aliens' designed to provoke fear and use emotionally charged terminology"}
{"id": "crec_006710", "text": "It stole from America's [ORG], increasing the debt of this country to gild the richest Americans. They wanted platinum treatment. They wanted more money than anybody else has ever imagined, and they got it from [ORG] by draining [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "stole from America, draining, gild the richest Americans"}
{"id": "crec_005725", "text": "You have probably heard of [ORG] and [ORG]. That project was an idea that came about in the late sixties, and the construction was going to happen pretty soon after that. What they did is some biologists, I think from [ORG], were out on a hike and discovered, he thought, she thought, whoever it was, that there was something called a snail darter in the river there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "he thought, she thought, whoever it was"}
{"id": "crec_001493", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , if the United States of America stands for anything, we need to stand out loud and foursquare for human rights. That means we have to hold ourselves accountable, our allies accountable, and our adversaries accountable when they don't live up to those standards. [ORG] is there to hold countries accountable and to hold entities accountable when they commit human rights crimes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "United States of America stands for anything, we need to stand out loud and foursquare for human rights"}
{"id": "crec_002990", "text": "They were wrong then, and they are wrong now. [ORG], like all social media platforms, has flaws, but [ORG] is also critical for millions of creators to earn a living, for young people to express themselves, and for Americans of all ages to foster community, share a laugh, and learn something new. Yes, sometimes these laughs come from the shared experience of attempting to learn and recreate a funny dance video, but just as often, [ORG] provides a space for meaningful political conversations on everything from gun violence to climate change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Presents [ORG] as serving universally positive purposes ('critical for millions', 'foster community', 'learn something new') while acknowledging flaws in a dismissive manner ('Yes, sometimes these laughs'), creating a false choice between accepting the platform as beneficial or rejecting it entirely"}
{"id": "crec_004167", "text": "Prior to [ORG], only 300,000 women and girls participated in high school and college sports. By the 40th anniversary of [ORG] passage, the number was up to 3 million, and the numbers have continued to climb and grow ever since. Today, female participation in sports has increased over 1,000 percent at the high school level and over 600 percent at the college level since [ORG] went into effect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "repeated use of dramatic statistics and growth metrics ('1,000 percent', '600 percent', 'continued to climb') to create an impressively positive narrative without addressing complexity or context"}
{"id": "crec_006822", "text": "Do you hear that? Private jets emit as much pollution as 5 million cars a year. Just a few hours of flying private offset the benefits of an entire year of driving an electric car.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Dramatic opening 'Do you hear that?' combined with stark pollution comparisons designed to evoke concern about private jet environmental impact"}
{"id": "crec_004058", "text": "[ORG] has defined leadership in a broad spectrum of influence, from civil rights icons like [PERSON] to cultural legends like [PERSON] to leaders in this very [ORG] like chair of [ORG], [PERSON] , and our brilliant sisters who serve here: Congresswoman [PERSON] , Congresswoman [PERSON] , Congresswoman [PERSON] , Congresswoman [PERSON] , Congresswoman [PERSON] , Congresswoman [PERSON] , and Senator [PERSON] . Madam Speaker, as we celebrate Founders' Day in Ohio, we recommit ourselves to the mission and the vision of [ORG] Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated: Fostering economic empowerment, advancing education, improving physical and mental health, promoting international awareness, and, lastly, engaging in political advocacy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "citing 'civil rights icons,' 'cultural legends,' and named leaders to establish credibility; describing mission with broad positive terms like 'fostering economic empowerment' and 'advancing education'"}
{"id": "crec_003140", "text": "TITLE II--ENSURING AN AGRICULTURAL WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE Subtitle A--Reforming [ORG]. 1201. Comprehensive and streamlined electronic H-2A platform.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001702", "text": "We are borrowing like crazy. There is only so much borrowable money in the world, and we are chewing it up. The point of this one was if we were to ignore the law and just extend our spending policies we have today, in functionally 9 budget years, 9.2 percent of the entire economy is just interest.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "borrowing like crazy... chewing it up... interest consuming 9.2 percent of entire economy"}
{"id": "crec_001566", "text": "His historic accomplishments, subsequent to his elected service when he returned home, defined what a noble private citizen who never stops giving can do for his nation and world. President [PERSON] set a standard for generations to come. As time passes, he will shine forth in history as one of the rare, most honorable Presidents.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "historic accomplishments, noble private citizen, shine forth in history as one of the rare, most honorable Presidents"}
{"id": "crec_009474", "text": "I intend to serve out my term in the 118th Congress and to be sworn into [ORG]. It has been my honor to represent the great State of Florida and the constituents of the 6th District of Florida. I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to serve the people of Northeast Florida.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "great State of Florida, honor to represent, forever grateful for the opportunity to serve"}
{"id": "crec_002535", "text": "In 2007, after moving into its headquarters, the [ORG] shuffled its employees to different office space at a cost of over $3 million without any cost-benefit analysis or justifiable explanation. In 2010, the [ORG] conducted a deeply flawed analysis to justify the need to lease 900,000 square feet and to commit over $500 million over 10 years, overestimating its space needs by over 300 percent. In addition, the [ORG] failed to provide complete and accurate information and prepared a faulty and backdated justification and approval after it had already signed the lease.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "shuffled its employees...without any cost-benefit analysis or justifiable explanation; deeply flawed analysis; faulty and backdated justification"}
{"id": "crec_008522", "text": "It executed a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 servicemembers dead, with many others severely wounded. This administration was basically asleep at the wheel. Who was running the country?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "disastrous withdrawal, 13 servicemembers dead, asleep at the wheel, Who was running the country"}
{"id": "crec_005637", "text": "Madam Speaker, I honor the incredible life and legacy of Romulus Councilwoman [PERSON] , who unexpectedly passed away. She has left a void in our community and in our hearts. [PERSON] was a relentless advocate for our families, ensuring that no one in our community lacked basic necessities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "relentless advocate for our families, ensuring that no one in our community lacked basic necessities"}
{"id": "crec_004846", "text": "They are motivated, they are skilled, and they are committed to the safety and security of every American. Most importantly, they show that President [PERSON] is serious--serious about bringing fresh eyes and a new outlook to Washington, DC. That is exactly what the American people voted for in November.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "motivated, skilled, committed to safety and security of every American; President is serious about bringing fresh eyes and new outlook"}
{"id": "crec_001635", "text": "The reason I am doing this is because I want to make the moral argument of doing the really hard thing in reconciliation. It is also the best economics. If you give a darn about your retirement, my 2\\1/2\\-year-old boy's economic future, the country, you have to do the hard thing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing economic concerns around retirement and a child's future to motivate action; 'if you give a darn' uses emotionally charged language to pressure agreement"}
{"id": "crec_008114", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to direct the Secretary of [ORG] to notify the Attorney General that basis for the transmission of certain information to [ORG] for use by the national instant criminal background check system was improper, does not apply, or no longer applies, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003039", "text": "Today, we hand the incoming [ORG] the world's largest economy. The next four years will determine if America builds on that strength, or slides back into the old trickle-down approach that only benefits those at the very top. I believe that the transformative investments we've made are already deeply rooted in our nation, and therefore too costly, politically and economically, to reverse.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "builds on that strength, or slides back into the old trickle-down approach that only benefits those at the very top"}
{"id": "crec_000546", "text": "[PERSON] 211: Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001523", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this question will be postponed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001624", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , for the gentleman from Pennsylvania, a bit of reference, in the old days when we were put in the chair, particularly when we were freshman, it is because we had been annoying to the Speaker. I don't know if anyone remembers that. I love [SPEAKER] staff, I appreciate them, and I am sorry to say we are about to do a whole bunch of math and a lot of numbers really fast, but it is where we are at.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007616", "text": "We recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the passage of [ORG], and we should continue our work to combat domestic violence, but this legislation would actually set back our efforts to protect survivors. That is why over 200 national and local groups, as part of [ORG], the experts in the field, oppose this legislation. I think we ought to listen to them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "over 200 national and local groups, as part of [ORG], the experts in the field, oppose this legislation"}
{"id": "crec_004582", "text": "If we do all of our spending cuts in the nondefense discretionary, which is what most of us have talked about for the last couple years, you get about 1 percent of GDP, so you have a big 2\\1/2\\ percent. We are borrowing 7 percent of the entire economy this year, so all of the left's solutions and the things we as conservatives often talk about don't get you actually anything close to what is necessary. It is terrifying.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing budget options as inadequate and 'terrifying,' presenting only two opposing approaches (left vs. conservatives) without acknowledging other solutions"}
{"id": "crec_000789", "text": "Objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar. [SPEAKER]. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006786", "text": "Well, maybe that will let some of those folks buy another jet plane or another yacht if they are doing well as $2.8 million is a lot of money. Now, one of the concerns across the country is, just as it happened before, my Senate Republican colleagues are going to try to do this behind closed doors, all the while making false promises that this will be for you, working-class families, all across America, but at the end of the night, all they are going to do is stick you with the bill. They are going to pay for this, as we have heard time and time again, by eliminating programs that support our veterans, that feed young children or babies, that take care of our grandparents or elders, or by taking away your children's ability to see the same doctors they have been seeing since they were born.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 149, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "stick you with the bill; eliminating programs that support our veterans, that feed young children or babies; taking away your children's ability to see the same doctors"}
{"id": "crec_008759", "text": "That discretion is obliterated in this bill. If a 5-year-old girl in either of our States--I am from Oregon, and Senator [PERSON] from Alabama--gets hungry and grabs that apple, [ORG] says that young girl, if arrested, must be put into an ICE prison--must be, without discretion--and there is no provision in the bill to get that girl out. There is no required review.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "5-year-old girl in ICE prison scenario used to evoke emotional distress about mandatory detention without discretion"}
{"id": "crec_006205", "text": "But you know why we can't? You know why we can't do that right now? Because the forces in this town who want nothing but tax cuts and no spending cuts are telling you, you can't do it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents as wanting 'nothing but tax cuts and no spending cuts' and blaming them for preventing action"}
{"id": "crec_006283", "text": "868); to [ORG]. EC-33. A letter from the Chairman, [ORG], transmitting the Administration's Fair Hiring in Banking Act Report to Congress, pursuant to Public Law 117-263, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-2", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001708", "text": "You are at 18 percent. We are playing really dangerous games here. We have almost made the decision to make the world debt markets the ones in charge of America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'playing really dangerous games' and 'world debt markets the ones in charge of America'"}
{"id": "crec_006105", "text": "He said to me: I didn't vote for you. I said: It doesn't matter that you didn't vote for me. I am still showing up for you.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-4", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000919", "text": "At the very top of their list is securing that southern border--getting that border under control, ending illegal entry into this country. The American people know, you cannot have--you will never have--national security without a secure border. Every law enforcement officer I talk with in Tennessee says we can't get our arms around gangs, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and crime in our communities until that southern border is secured.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Every law enforcement officer I talk with in Tennessee says we can't get our arms around gangs, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and crime in our communities until that southern border is secured"}
{"id": "crec_008684", "text": "There is no justification for that. This last year, we spent a total of $6.9 trillion, $2.6 trillion-- $2.5 trillion higher than the $4.4 trillion. Again, there is no justification for that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "There is no justification for that repeated at beginning and end; $2.6 trillion/$2.5 trillion figures repeated for emphasis"}
{"id": "crec_001026", "text": "$102 million is wasted as projects go over budget, are delayed, or fail to meet projected goals. Implementing the most basic management systems--like establishing scopes and goals--could have saved taxpayers $688.5 billion from the $6.75 trillion the federal government spent this past year. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and I will be providing many more recommendations soon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "$102 million is wasted... could have saved taxpayers $688.5 billion"}
{"id": "crec_007847", "text": "Look at these two different forms of the same plants. In this case, it is a weed because it is not helping anything. It is a crop in some areas with the vetch.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004490", "text": "PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CAP ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I hear a lot from seniors in my district struggling to afford their prescriptions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009829", "text": "We also ask that You would bless and protect Melania, his First Lady. We thank You for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that she shows not only to this Nation but to the whole world. We thank You for Vice President-elect [PERSON] and his wife [PERSON] and their young family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "beauty, the warmth, and grace that she shows"}
{"id": "crec_000121", "text": "ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule [ORG], sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions, as follows: H.R. 21: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-4", "word_count": 133, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001421", "text": "The United States and Israel are not members of the ICC for good reason and without accident. Mr. [PERSON] , it is a dadgum [ORG] is what it is. These decisions by the [ORG] are reckless, and they not only put Israel at risk, they put Americans at risk as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "they not only put Israel at risk, they put Americans at risk as well"}
{"id": "crec_001856", "text": "I can tell you that in 2023, when we had record storms in California, I visited the site of the Folsom Dam, and you had water cascading out of the dam, 10,000 cubic feet per second, almost all of it going eventually into the ocean. At that time, by the way, we had a flood emergency declared, of course. Yet, somehow we were also still under a drought emergency.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": "\"}\n```\n\nWait - let me reconsider. The allowed labels don't include \"contradiction_highlighted\". Let me analyze this for actual influence techniques from the allowed list.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"doubt\"], \"evidence\": \"Yet, somehow we were also still under a drought emergency - questioning the logical consistency of simultaneous declarations"}
{"id": "crec_007609", "text": "It closes a loophole in current law and clarifies what illegal aliens must be removed for domestic violence. Enforcement by ICE for these offenses has plummeted in the years between the [ORG] and the [PERSON] administrations. Over that same period, we have seen an increase in violent crimes and sexual assaults by illegal aliens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "increase in violent crimes and sexual assaults by illegal aliens; characterization of individuals as 'illegal aliens' in context of serious crimes"}
{"id": "crec_006692", "text": "We are going to have to engage in that. But every week, we are going to be talking about this rip-off. Every week, every opportunity we get, we are going to be talking about this because this is the difference between the two political parties.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Every week, we are going to be talking about this rip-off. Every week, every opportunity we get, we are going to be talking about this"}
{"id": "crec_008937", "text": "D. Witness counsel. Counsel retained by any witness and accompanying such witness shall be permitted to be present during the testimony of such witness at any public or executive hearing or deposition to advise such witness while the witness is testifying, of the witness's legal rights; provided, however, that in the case of any witness who is an officer or employee of the Government, or of a corporation or association, [ORG] may rule that representation by counsel from the [ORG], corporation, or association or by counsel representing other witnesses, creates a conflict of interest, and that the witness may only be represented during interrogation by staff or during testimony before the [ORG] by personal counsel not from the [ORG], corporation, or association or by personal counsel not representing other witnesses. This subsection shall not be construed to excuse a witness from testifying in the event the witness's counsel is ejected for conduct that prevents, impedes, disrupts, obstructs or interferes with the orderly administration of the hearings; nor shall this subsection be construed as authorizing counsel to coach the witness or answer for the witness.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 186, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000041", "text": "The certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 3 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 3 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009634", "text": "I am excited to vote to confirm a longtime colleague, Senator [PERSON] , as Secretary of [ORG] this week as well as former Congressman and Director of National Intelligence [PERSON] as head of the CIA. Both of these men will bring a renewed focus to restoring American strength, knowing that the surest guarantee of peace here at home and in other regions of the globe as well is a strong and prepared America. More confirmation votes will follow, and I will work to have the President's [ORG] in place in the very near future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "restoring American strength, surest guarantee of peace, strong and prepared America"}
{"id": "crec_004532", "text": "What happened last Friday? We got a knockout jobs report. Here is the irony that people need to understand: The United States and a few other governments, such as China, are bingeing on so much debt that they have a ravenous appetite to grab people's savings and borrow it around the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "bingeing on so much debt...ravenous appetite to grab people's savings"}
{"id": "crec_000061", "text": "Grant us Your peace, and may Your grace bless us with abundance so that, in all things, at all times, we will realize that we have all that we need to succeed in every good work You have ordained us to complete. For Your presence, Your perspective, Your protection, and Your peace, we are forever grateful. Lord, in Your perfect name, we pray.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000457", "text": "The question is on passage of the bill. The question was taken; and [SPEAKER] announced that the ayes appeared to have it. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007305", "text": "6. [ORG] ASSISTANCE IN THE IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT BY STATES AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF STATES. Reaffirming the existing inherent authority of States, law enforcement personnel of a [ORG], or of a political subdivision of a [ORG], have the inherent authority of a sovereign entity to investigate, identify, apprehend, arrest, detain, or transfer to Federal custody aliens in the United States (including the transportation of such aliens across [ORG] lines to detention centers), for the purposes of assisting in the enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States in the course of carrying out routine duties.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS188", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "inherent authority of States, law enforcement personnel...have the inherent authority of a sovereign entity"}
{"id": "crec_000924", "text": "He is doing it with [ORG], or [ORG], which will be led by [PERSON] and [PERSON] . With my DOGE Acts, Congress can play a crucial role in ensuring their reforms last beyond the [PERSON] administration. You know, the American people want us to change how [ORG] does business, get the spending under control, and get rid of the bloat that is in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "framing organizations as having 'bloat' that needs elimination; 'American people want us to change' (bandwagon); invoking 'DOGE Acts' and Congress authority to legitimize reform agenda"}
{"id": "crec_008775", "text": "[SPEAKER]. My colleague laid out quite a set of factors there, but let's not blur the picture. The picture is this: A child came here when they were 2 months old.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008497", "text": "Mr. President, 300,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. [PERSON] has now insulted every one of them. That is not how a leader of the military will inspire people to join our cause.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "300,000 women have served...insulted every one of them...leader of the military will inspire people"}
{"id": "crec_001605", "text": "We need to get cracking on this. Governor [PERSON] needs to get at it or get out of the way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "get at it or get out of the way"}
{"id": "crec_007020", "text": "Raise it in a Senate context. That law should have passed. That should have already been on the President's desk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001088", "text": "DOGE can help us identify and prioritize waste. So [ORG] is going to help us identify and prioritize the waste, the fraud, and the mismanagement, but it is up to Congress to put their gloves on, roll up their sleeves, and get the work done. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "identifying 'waste, fraud, and mismanagement' uses charged language; positioning [ORG] as having authority to 'identify and prioritize' implies credibility and expertise"}
{"id": "crec_001011", "text": "(about 12 seconds) What word are Republican members of Congress more likely to tweet than Democrats? (freedom) Can elephants solve puzzles? (yes) Not to be outdone, [ORG] spent tax dollars researching: To live a longer, healthier life, what political party should you join?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "spent tax dollars researching' implies wasteful government spending; framing partisan affiliation as affecting health longevity to suggest Democratic policies are harmful"}
{"id": "crec_001512", "text": "This includes many of the United States' closest allies, such as Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom, where the current Chief Prosecuter of the [ORG] is from. This partisan bill is evidently not concerned about protecting all American allies, who would face severe sanctions should this legislation pass into law, but rather one American ally in particular. While Palestinians in Gaza continue to endure the most dire of circumstances and as their death toll for children only continues to tick upward, this Congress is instead intent on protecting Israeli politicians from scrutiny at the expense of maintaining the international order at large that we helped establish.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing the bill as 'partisan' and 'evidently not concerned' while depicting it as prioritizing one ally over others and international order; 'severe sanctions' and 'death toll for children only continues to tick upward' create emotional loaded framing; misrepresents the bill's purpose by suggesting it prioritizes Israeli politicians over broader international concerns"}
{"id": "crec_002920", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge of allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_005646", "text": "He was born in Lebanon and came to the city of [PERSON] five decades ago. He made a name for himself in the community, running [ORG] with the help of his wife, [PERSON] , who I love dearly, for 35 years. As the first Arab-American mayor in Wayne County, his leadership paved the way for future leaders and was an inspiration to so many of us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "first Arab-American mayor in Wayne County, his leadership paved the way for future leaders and was an inspiration to so many of us"}
{"id": "crec_002992", "text": "One of these videos has over 20,000 comments and counting. That is tens of thousands of users reaching out to make their voices heard. I have been tagged in hundreds of stories over the past 24 hours as [ORG] users have posted short videos explaining why [ORG] is important for their lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "over 20,000 comments and counting, tens of thousands of users reaching out, tagged in hundreds of stories"}
{"id": "crec_003553", "text": "[ORG]. 204. Removal of conditional basis of permanent resident status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006992", "text": "India has banned [ORG] for the very same reason that they are seeing the push of Chinese propaganda slants on their news media the same way we see it here in America. Albania, worried about Romania, banned [ORG]. We passed a law that did not ban [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["bandwagon", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "India has banned [ORG]...Albania...banned [ORG]...We passed a law that did not ban [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_009000", "text": "There is hardly any better way for youth to learn essential life skills like patience, persistence, hard work, and personal responsibility than by working with livestock. Mr. [PERSON] has been a cornerstone of this sale for decades, and his hard work and support have been essential to the sale's success in youth development. Mr. [PERSON] 's passion for agriculture and its future has been evident throughout his entire life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-3", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "essential life skills like patience, persistence, hard work, and personal responsibility; Mr. [PERSON] has been a cornerstone...his hard work and support have been essential"}
{"id": "crec_006233", "text": "Let's extend the debt ceiling 2 years, fund the border, fund defense, give the cuts and the [ORG] mandates, put in [ORG] work requirements. These are all things the American people want us to do. Let's end the student loan bailouts, save money, end bad programs, advance good programs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "These are all things the American people want us to do"}
{"id": "crec_000808", "text": "Are Republicans trying to hide the fact that maybe some of [PERSON] nominees are not qualified for the positions they seek? Are Republicans trying to cover for nominees who will turn their backs on working Americans and use Agencies like [ORG] to help giant polluters and [ORG]? The American people should know if [ORG] nominees will push policies that kill good-paying clean energy jobs created under President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "nominees who will turn their backs on working Americans; policies that kill good-paying clean energy jobs"}
{"id": "crec_001469", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The gentleman from Florida has 10 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Massachusetts has 16\\1/2\\ minutes remaining.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009648", "text": "His bold agenda, made possible by Democrats in Congress and particularly in the Senate, will stand the test of time. When Americans drive on better roads, breathe cleaner air, enjoy good-paying manufacturing jobs, and save on prescription drugs, it will be because of the things we accomplished under President [PERSON] 's watch. So I thank President [PERSON] and I thank Vice President [PERSON] for their service to our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "bold agenda, better roads, cleaner air, good-paying jobs, save on prescription drugs, service to our [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_004839", "text": "He is the President's nominee to be the Secretary of [ORG]. I have been following these hearings closely. [PERSON] is giving strong answers to tough questions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009477", "text": "Under no circumstances will former Members, former House Officers, spouses, or children be able to join the procession or be seated in the rotunda. [ORG] will precede the procession bearing the mace. Members will be escorted to the rotunda in order of seniority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-8", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002201", "text": "She should be celebrating with her family, blowing out candles on her birthday cake, and filling her loved one's lives with the joy she spread so effortlessly. But instead of celebrating another year around the Sun with friends and family, instead of figuring out what her next steps in life would be--which had limitless potential--instead of achieving her dreams of becoming a nurse, tomorrow, we will mark the first day she isn't here with us on this side of Heaven. Nobody knew [PERSON] and the light she shined on all those around her like her family, so I would like to read a statement from [PERSON] and [PERSON] , [PERSON] 's mother and stepfather: It's impossible to fully describe what was taken from Laken and from our family on February 22, 2024.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 131, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repetition of 'instead of' contrasting life milestones with death, vivid emotional imagery ('light she shined', 'joy she spread'), and emphasizing what was 'taken' to evoke emotional distress"}
{"id": "crec_000123", "text": "25: Mr. [PERSON] . H.R. 28: Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-4", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004021", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise today to call out harm and hypocrisy. This bill, H.R. 28, is couched as a bill that protects children when it does the exact opposite.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "couched as a bill that protects children when it does the exact opposite"}
{"id": "crec_006211", "text": "Yes, I agree. I support it. I started this speech by saying I support it, but I don't support it blindly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007844", "text": "For several years, it was the battle over the snail darter. Nobody could really prove anything. Because the project was so important, after other efforts were exhausted, a bill was run through Congress in 1979 to make it where the Tellico Dam could be built.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "Nobody could really prove anything"}
{"id": "crec_008833", "text": "[SPEAKER] understands that as a former Governor, where you have great staff that do amazing things, not just for you and your team but for the whole [ORG]. Her title in the office has been deputy [ORG] director, but she has been so much more than that. She has literally been the glue that has kept my whole team together, not just since I have been in the Senate but even before I became a Senator.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "great staff that do amazing things\" and \"literally been the glue that has kept my whole team together"}
{"id": "crec_007876", "text": "They ratcheted the pumps down, and they weren't able to top off the San Luis Reservoir or deliver water to the San Joaquin Valley or to the aqueduct that would have helped maybe top off some more of the reservoirs in southern California. [ORG] is one we have heard about, and I have spoken about it a little bit. This is the picture of that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006141", "text": "The north part of the [ORG] has been through it many times, with the losses of communities. We all remember the Paradise fire. Eighty-five people lost their lives, and 90 percent of the town was consumed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "vivid descriptions of death toll and destruction ('Eighty-five people lost their lives, and 90 percent of the town was consumed') used to evoke emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_004497", "text": "MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Messages in writing from the President of the United States were communicated to the House by Ms. [PERSON] , one of his secretaries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000045", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Vermont seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 3 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 3 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] . [PERSON] President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 13 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 13 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006799", "text": "Funneling money to folks who are doing really well and who have a massive amount of discretionary income and where, for corporations, the capital that they need to invest is there--there is not a capital shortage. We need to focus on families, not on the well-to-do and the corporations that got a reduction in taxes that was far more than they even requested. The second point I want to make is about the process that is being used to pass the tax bill or to consider it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "funneling money to folks who are doing really well... We need to focus on families, not on the well-to-do and the corporations"}
{"id": "crec_001211", "text": "There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this potential sale. Implementation of this proposed sale will require the assignment of five [ORG] personnel and five contractor representatives to visit the recipient for a duration of up to four weeks to provide engineering and technical support services, as well as program and technical reviews. There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000120", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article V of the Constitution", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001096", "text": "While the administrative state is still a great threat to our country, the good news is that President [PERSON] will soon occupy [ORG]. [ORG] will soon get to work, and we can finally have some real momentum to dismantle the administrative state once and for all, returning the power back to the people. You see, the difference is, when the Senator from Oklahoma gets elected or I get elected, the folks get a say.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "President [PERSON] will soon occupy [ORG]...dismantle the administrative state once and for all, returning the power back to the people"}
{"id": "crec_008034", "text": "My bill, specifically, will amend the Coastal Zone Management Act to remove the commission's authority to block national security-related activities, critical infrastructure projects, and activities with high economic impact, including post-disaster recovery and rebuilding. We all got a very clear window into the manifest irrationality of this agency just a couple of months ago when there was a proposal by [PERSON] , together with [ORG], to increase the launch cadence out of [PERSON] to allow for more launches that are launching satellites for important national security purposes and launching other payloads, such as [ORG] satellites. I will note, by the way, that [ORG] is right now, as we speak, being used by first responders in the L.A. area who have lost connectivity and would otherwise not be able to have the necessary communications for emergency response.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 140, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'manifest irrationality of this agency' and references to 'national security purposes' and 'first responders' needing emergency communications"}
{"id": "crec_006801", "text": "A lot of working families need that childcare tax credit. The reconciliation process means that the political tradeoffs have to all be in the direction of the most extreme wing of [ORG]. So that process is going to handcuff us right at the beginning.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "political tradeoffs have to all be in the direction of the most extreme wing; that process is going to handcuff us"}
{"id": "crec_004041", "text": "The gentleman from Puerto Rico will provide a translation to the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-2", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009841", "text": "Thank you very, very much. Vice President [PERSON] , Speaker [PERSON] , Senator [PERSON] , Chief [PERSON] , Justices of [ORG], President [PERSON] , President [PERSON] , President [PERSON] , President [PERSON] , Vice President [PERSON] , and my fellow citizens, the golden age of America begins right now. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "the golden age of America begins right now"}
{"id": "crec_008088", "text": "A bill to expedite under [ORG] of 1969 and improve forest management activities on [ORG] lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of [ORG], and on [PERSON] lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], and [ORG], and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mrs. [PERSON] -[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 165, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002180", "text": "Mr. President, something unexpected is happening in the early days of this new Congress, right here in the Senate, and that is we are seeing some bipartisanship. Republicans and a number of Democrats have now agreed that violent criminals who have entered our country illegally and are a threat to the safety and the security of the American people shouldn't be here and we need to do doing about it. A headline in [ORG] this week tells the story.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "violent criminals who have entered our country illegally and are a threat to the safety and the security of the American people"}
{"id": "crec_000934", "text": "And year after year, I highlight things like Federal tax dollars that were spent paying for a drag show in Ecuador. If the nice folks in Ecuador want to have drag shows, why are my folks in Oklahoma being forced to pay for them? I highlighted things like we did a research study in Ghana to be able to determine whether helmets made people on bikes in Ghana safer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing Federal tax spending as 'forced' payment and using emotionally charged examples (drag shows, bike helmets in Ghana) to imply wasteful government spending"}
{"id": "crec_006186", "text": "I watched significant fallout and wondered what it meant for good programs and coaches, like [PERSON] at [ORG] and others, who have been raising red flags about what is happening with respect to the [ORG]. We can also figure out how to cut spending. Mr. [PERSON] , I am not here to talk about the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000641", "text": "I will repeat what I said last week: Democrats are ready to work with anyone, regardless of party, to make life better for working people. Let me mention one example from last week. On January 1, because of what [ORG] and President did, the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap that Democrats passed in the Inflation Reduction Act went into effect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "I will repeat what I said last week"}
{"id": "crec_008109", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] of Oregon, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to achieve parity between the cost-of-living adjustment with respect to an annuity under [ORG] and an annuity under [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007488", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of H.R. 30, [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act. Over the past 4 years, President [PERSON] and border czar Vice President [PERSON] have allowed millions of unvetted illegal aliens into the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "millions of unvetted illegal aliens' and 'allowed millions' frames immigration through alarming language suggesting danger and loss of control"}
{"id": "crec_002293", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Just a final comment, just so the folks can see our ties, because I really want to commend you on your outstanding choice of the green and yellow NDSU--North Dakota State University--tie. I have the weak version of the tie, Mr. President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003246", "text": "1123. BACKGROUND CHECKS. (a) Submission of [PERSON] and [PERSON] Data.--The Secretary may not grant or extend certified agricultural worker or certified agricultural dependent status under subtitle A, or grant adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident under subtitle B, unless the alien submits biometric and biographic data, in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006743", "text": "Talk about salt in a wound. We are going to do a tax bill for the wealthiest when they don't need it, not do much for everyday people who do need it but put on the shoulders of those same people tariffs that are going to increase the cost of goods. Imagine coming out of [PERSON] and other things and having this kind of burden put on your shoulders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "salt in a wound, burden put on your shoulders, tariffs that are going to increase the cost of goods"}
{"id": "crec_004539", "text": "$3.7 trillion of it is individual. Your individual taxes are going up at the end of this year, but then we have estate taxes and passthroughs and LLCs and partnerships, all those other things. I think [ORG] a couple days ago scored it not at 4.6; they scored it at 5.5, which is a timing effect because it is a different year and higher interest rates.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008165", "text": "A bill to direct the Attorney General to conduct a study on the efficacy of extreme risk protection orders on reducing gun violence, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] York: H.R. 546.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000804", "text": "Instead, Republicans seem ready to use their majority to go back to the same old GOP playbook: tax cuts for the ultrarich, trickle-down fantasies, and turning their backs on working Americans whom they promised to fight for. Nominations Mr. President, now on nominations, every time a new administration begins, one of the most important things the Senate does is carefully evaluate, consider, and vote on the President's [ORG] nominees. [PERSON] nominees only come from a strong vetting process here in the Senate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "Characterizing Republican tax policy as 'trickle-down fantasies' and accusing them of 'turning their backs on working Americans' uses inflammatory language to frame opposing positions negatively rather than engaging with actual arguments"}
{"id": "crec_007708", "text": "Zuza served the Yakima County Sheriff's Department at the hand of Deputy [PERSON] . In her 7-year career with the sheriff's department, [PERSON] had an incredible record of 138 captures, including dangerous criminals and murder suspects. Tales of her heroism and ferocity spread quickly throughout Yakima County, with many stories of her taking down criminals at record speeds and even more stories of suspects only hearing her bark before giving themselves up to authorities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "incredible record, heroism and ferocity, record speeds, giving themselves up"}
{"id": "crec_000882", "text": "So I would urge all of my colleagues to remember budget reconciliation not only allows us to allocate resources to places like the southern border, which have been flatout ignored by the [PERSON] administration, but it is also a tool to reduce spending--inefficient, wasteful spending--and to right-size our priorities. You know, budgets are all about priorities. We have things we must have; we have things we would like to have; and we have things we want but that we can't afford.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'flatout ignored' and 'inefficient, wasteful spending' characterize opposing priorities negatively; 'things we must have; we have things we would like to have; and we have things we want but that we can't afford' presents a simplified either-or framing of budget allocation"}
{"id": "crec_006903", "text": "The life expectancy of working people is far below that in other wealthy countries. Eighty-five million Americans are uninsured or underinsured. Some 800,000 Americans are homeless.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "selective presentation of statistics (life expectancy, uninsured, homeless) chosen to evoke negative emotional response about systemic conditions"}
{"id": "crec_009895", "text": "Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty Republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Americans as 'most extraordinary citizens on Earth' and nostalgic praise of 'American ancestors' and their achievements"}
{"id": "crec_000470", "text": "RECESS [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the [ORG] declares the House in recess subject to the call of the Chair. Accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 24 minutes p.m.), the House stood in recess.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH61", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000651", "text": "The top of our list of priorities is, of course, to secure the southern border. I represent a [ORG] with 1,200 miles of common border with Mexico, and, sadly and tragically, under the previous administration's open border policies, it has been an unmitigated disaster. The crisis at the southern border is one that President [PERSON] quite literally invited with his campaign rhetoric and with his administration's policies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "sadly and tragically, unmitigated disaster, crisis...quite literally invited"}
{"id": "crec_007050", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Texas [Mr. [PERSON] ] proposes an amendment numbered 14 to amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002692", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 31. A resolution electing Members to certain standing committees of [ORG]; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000585", "text": "Madam President, I cannot close without mentioning [PERSON] 77- year-long marriage to his beloved wife [PERSON] , who preceded him in death a year ago. And while I join all Americans in mourning the death of President [PERSON] , I rejoice at the thought that he and [PERSON] are again together before the face of their Father. My thoughts and prayers are with the [PERSON] ' children--[PERSON] , Chip, Jeff, and [PERSON] --and with their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "References to shared American values of mourning and family, invoking patriotic sentiment ('I join all Americans in mourning')"}
{"id": "crec_008983", "text": "She got there by way of the facts, hard work, and bipartisanship. [ORG]'s reports were heavy tomes, accompanied by additional volumes of documentary evidence. She was undeterred in seeking the truth, such as when she worked every day through the DC Snowpacalypse of 2009-2010 in [ORG]'s offices interviewing witnesses, lest [ORG]'s ongoing financial crisis inquiry fall behind.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'by way of the facts, hard work, and bipartisanship'"}
{"id": "crec_009658", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007100", "text": "Along the way, the [PERSON] has become the longest running radio show in U.S. history, reaching millions of listeners in America and across the world with its weekly broadcasts. Today, the Grand Ole Opry is Nashville's most cherished institution, preserving country music's history while minting new stars who join the remarkable group of musicians who have stepped into its famous wooden circle. Earlier this month, the [PERSON] kicked off its 100th anniversary celebrations with performances that brought together [ORG] members like [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] --the [PERSON] 's longest serving cast member after joining in 1961.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183-2", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "longest running radio show in U.S. history, Nashville's most cherished institution, preserving country music's history, remarkable group of musicians"}
{"id": "crec_006353", "text": "A bill to prohibit the flying of any flag other than the United States flag over United States diplomatic and consular posts, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] of Nevada): H.R. 466.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "prohibit the flying of any flag other than the United States flag over United States diplomatic and consular posts"}
{"id": "crec_008485", "text": "We have to do better. We have to protect law enforcement. That is why I plan to reintroduce multiple pieces of legislation in the coming weeks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'do better' and 'protect law enforcement' are vague appeals to broad values without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_004019", "text": "My team and I are here to make sure their experience is as smooth and as enjoyable as possible. We look forward to assisting them in any way we can while they are here. We welcome Iowa to Washington, D.C.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001525", "text": "I rise today to congratulate my dear friend, [PERSON] , on being sworn in as the first elected sheriff in Miami-Dade in over 60 years and the first woman and Hispanic to hold the position. [ORG] has been with Miami-Dade Police Department for nearly 30 years, rising from patrol officer to assistant director. She has what it takes to run the largest law enforcement agency in the southeastern United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "nearly 30 years with Miami-Dade Police Department, rising from patrol officer to assistant director"}
{"id": "crec_009826", "text": "He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings. He raises up kings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000202", "text": "MEASURE READ THE FIRST TIME--S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I understand there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000716", "text": "EC-7. A communication from the Deputy [ORG] [ORG], [ORG], transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a vacancy in the position of [ORG], [ORG], received during adjournment of the Senate in [ORG] Senate on December 30, 2024; to [ORG], and [ORG]. EC-8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS41-5", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000778", "text": "This straightforward bill simply states that a baby born alive after an attempted abortion is entitled to the same protection and medical care any other newborn baby is entitled to. This vote will ask Democrats to answer whether a living baby born after attempted abortion should be provided with medical care or be left to die. It shouldn't be a hard question.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two options (medical care or 'left to die') and uses loaded language ('left to die') to frame opposition to the bill as supporting infanticide"}
{"id": "crec_000344", "text": "This bill is named for [PERSON] , but it has an impact far greater. Once again, we must acknowledge that we can no longer take the famed empty words of sympathy from those across the aisle in the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration because they refuse to do anything meaningful to stop the carnage or even slow down the border surge that has been going on. Illegal aliens who commit crimes must not be released into our communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "carnage and border surge language combined with concern about illegal aliens committing crimes creates fear appeal; loaded language like 'carnage' and 'empty words of sympathy' frames opposing viewpoint negatively"}
{"id": "crec_001975", "text": "A resolution deeming certain conduct of members of [ORG] as domestic terrorism and designating [PERSON] as a domestic terrorist organization; to [ORG]. By Mr. [PERSON] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 27.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["name_calling"], "evidence": "designating [PERSON] as a domestic terrorist organization"}
{"id": "crec_001382", "text": "They talk about global problems, but they don't talk about sanctioning the [ORG]. Republicans think this is so very important, such an emergency, that we have to debate it during the first week of Congress--during [PERSON] funeral, by the way, which is offensive considering his record on actually standing up for human rights, which is the opposite of what this bill does. I would say to America, no, don't worry about climate change because Republicans are going to sanction the janitors at the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["strawman", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "mischaracterizing the bill as sanctioning 'janitors' rather than the organization; attacking Republicans' motives while deflecting from the actual policy debate"}
{"id": "crec_006031", "text": "When disaster hit New Mexico, my colleagues supported our [ORG], including recently Speaker [PERSON] and my Republican friends. I am grateful that we acted as one. When hurricanes hit North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia, we supported the recovery in those States without conditions because that is what we do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-4", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasizing bipartisan unity and acting 'as one' to appeal to patriotic values and national solidarity"}
{"id": "crec_009046", "text": "INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 106. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide [ORG] coverage for all physicians' services furnished by doctors of chiropractic within the scope of their license, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 107.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000232", "text": "[ORG]'s impact extends beyond the city's infrastructure. He is a passionate mentor, a devoted volunteer, and a trusted resource for countless organizations. Whether he is emceeing a fundraiser, advising local leaders, or volunteering his time to nonprofits, [ORG] consistently proves that his success in leadership is rooted in service to others.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-8", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "passionate mentor, devoted volunteer, trusted resource, success in leadership is rooted in service to others"}
{"id": "crec_001778", "text": "It did not pass. [PERSON] in Policing Act did not pass. This wouldn't have cured but would have assisted in arresting bad police behavior.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000235", "text": "IN RECOGNITION OF [ORG] VOLLEYBALL TEAM ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize [ORG] women's volleyball team's victory in the national championship.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004720", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Kansas, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Dakota, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to require Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets into blind trusts, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 141, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004486", "text": "HONORING THE COMMITMENT MADE THROUGH TITLE IX ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today in celebration of House passage of H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004430", "text": "[PERSON] to Protect Civil Rights Dear Member of Congress, On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 240 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States, and the 414 undersigned organizations, we call for the full inclusion, protection, and celebration of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth, including access to extracurricular activities such as athletics, and to school facilities, safe and inclusive school environments, and accurate and inclusive curriculum. We reject [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "full inclusion, protection, and celebration of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth"}
{"id": "crec_002153", "text": "But if Republicans try to sell out our children's future with multitrillion-dollar tax cuts that only help those at the very top, we will fiercely, fiercely oppose them. Nominations Mr. President, now, on nominations, the American people have a right to know if President-elect [ORG]'s [ORG] nominees are going to fight for them. Will they lower people's costs?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'sell out our children's future' and 'multitrillion-dollar tax cuts that only help those at the very top'"}
{"id": "crec_001074", "text": "The total debt now, as I said earlier, is over $36 trillion. Again, we are making an interest payment of $1 trillion each year. So this is where DOGE comes in.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Repeats 'as I said earlier' and uses loaded language 'DOGE comes in' to frame debt crisis solution"}
{"id": "crec_008778", "text": "We know exactly what harm that type of imprisonment does. That is what this amendment is about. I can't take on all of the other issues, but I will say that last year, we had a bipartisan group develop a comprehensive bill, and my colleagues across the aisle blocked it from coming to the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "referencing a blocked bipartisan bill as justification, implying others are responsible for inaction while deflecting from the current amendment's scope"}
{"id": "crec_003999", "text": "This landmark legislation has empowered countless women to compete at the highest levels, achievements we should honor and protect. Yet, the left has embarked on a relentless campaign to rewrite [ORG], aiming to erase the critical distinctions between men and women, boys and girls. This misguided agenda poses a direct threat to the very spirit of [ORG], opening the doors for biological males to compete in women's sports, thereby undermining the hard-won accomplishments of female athletes nationwide.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "relentless campaign to rewrite/erase critical distinctions; direct threat; misguided agenda; poses a direct threat to the very spirit"}
{"id": "crec_001033", "text": "This is something that is near and dear to my heart because as Governor of Nebraska, this is what we did. We focused on how we could drive efficiency through our [ORG] operations. Now, if you want to think about the big argument between Republicans and Democrats on a really macro scale--what it is--it comes down to what should government properly do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "as Governor of Nebraska, this is what we did"}
{"id": "crec_006965", "text": "Congress recognized the unique dangers of [ORG] when we voted on a massive bipartisan basis last April to give its Chinese communist- influenced parent company [ORG] 270 days to sell [ORG] to an American buyer or to be shut down in America. That deadline is Sunday. What is more, [ORG] and [ORG] had plenty of additional warning for years about the possibility of such action, long before Congress set this firm Sunday deadline.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Congress recognized the unique dangers...voted on a massive bipartisan basis; Chinese communist-influenced"}
{"id": "crec_002477", "text": "When disaster strikes, the priority is to save lives and to help communities recover. However, in doing so, one of the biggest challenges in the aftermath of a disaster is ensuring that aid is distributed fairly and timely to those who need it most. Transparency builds trust in government.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Transparency builds trust in government"}
{"id": "crec_000467", "text": "A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated against: [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , had I been present, I would have voted [ORG] on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH61-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006489", "text": "Mr. President, time will tell. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002330", "text": "I ask my Senate colleagues to join me in honoring McCracken County and its 200 years of history and heritage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-5", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003007", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask that the vote begin at this moment. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001855", "text": "Not only that their mismanagement of our water supply has, among other things, diminished our capacity to respond to wildfires. First of all, it has been decades since California has built significant new water storage, not since the [ORG] water project. Secondly, even the water that we do have, when it comes down, much of it gets diverted intentionally into the ocean, again, supposedly for environmental reasons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "mismanagement of our water supply has diminished our capacity to respond to wildfires; water diverted intentionally into the ocean supposedly for environmental reasons"}
{"id": "crec_005001", "text": "The death penalty is deeply, deeply flawed. History tells us a terrible tale of the victims of the death penalty in America. It has disproportionately been applied to people of color.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "deeply, deeply flawed and 'terrible tale' use emotionally charged language to characterize the death penalty"}
{"id": "crec_002235", "text": "On this vote, the yeas are 84, the nays are 9. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The motion was agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007838", "text": "In the Pacific Palisades, they had a pole line that they were going to upgrade from wooden poles to steel poles and also upgrade the equipment, harden the lines so they are much less susceptible to fire or high winds. In which case, a lot of those winds in my area of northern California if you got a wind warning, then they shut down the power, a Public Safety Power Shutoff. It is like a Third World country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing infrastructure management as 'like a Third World country' uses derogatory loaded language; expressing concern about wind warnings and power shutoffs appeals to fear about safety and basic services"}
{"id": "crec_000399", "text": "The bipartisan bill was a bad bill. It didn't stop catch and release. It didn't expedite immediately to the country of origin.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "repeated structure 'It didn't' used twice to emphasize failures of the bill"}
{"id": "crec_001068", "text": "[ORG] spent more on interest payments--on interest alone--on the debt than it did on funding the national defense or [ORG]. Let me say it again. We spent more on making an interest payment than we did on national defense or [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Repeats the same claim twice ('Let me say it again'), emphasizing fiscal crisis through comparison of interest payments to defense spending"}
{"id": "crec_001891", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for certain casualty losses of uncut timber; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] -[PERSON] ): H.R. 263.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006700", "text": "It has been perpetuated on the American public because it is a great way to rationalize giving the bulk of tax cuts to the very, very wealthy. The idea is that somehow that will make it down to the rest of us. Go on to any Main Street of this country, go into any subdivision in your [ORG]--you won't find many of your constituents who make $50,000 or $100,000 or even $200,000 who have had much of that trickle down to them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "perpetuated on the American public, trickle down characterization implying deception and broken promises to ordinary workers"}
{"id": "crec_006074", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , as we continue to navigate these difficult times, I urge my colleagues to not play politics and ensure we provide the disaster relief aid that California deserves and needs now more than ever.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'difficult times' and 'disaster relief aid that California deserves and needs now more than ever'"}
{"id": "crec_008633", "text": "That is why the fear is so overwhelming now that [PERSON] wants [ORG], Jr.--an outright, unapologetic, anti- vax conspiracy theorist--as our [ORG]'s Secretary of [ORG]. Now, I want to be clear. I will not be shy about making my concerns quite plain with the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "fear is so overwhelming now that [PERSON] wants [ORG], Jr.--an outright, unapologetic, anti-vax conspiracy theorist"}
{"id": "crec_006733", "text": "Nearly 20 million children were left out of the full value of the child tax credit because it was not made refundable. Democrats demonstrated in [ORG] that when you expand [ORG] and allow it to be refundable, you could lead to a revolutionary drop in child poverty when it was in effect. But Republicans took a different route.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Democrats 'demonstrated...revolutionary drop in child poverty' vs. Republicans 'took a different route' presents simplified binary choice without nuance"}
{"id": "crec_006626", "text": "But you see, this wasn't possible under President [PERSON] . Beginning next week, we will have a new President, and there will be no excuses. The open-border policies must end.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting 'new President' with previous one to suggest authority will fix problems; 'open-border policies' uses loaded language to frame immigration policy negatively"}
{"id": "crec_002545", "text": "The legislation was agreed to in the House last Congress under suspension of the rules, so I look forward to seeing that happen again. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009675", "text": "The Senator from Colorado. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Alabama for her work on the Senate floor and for coming over.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009875", "text": "We did tremendously with their vote. (Applause.) I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'tremendously' and 'protect American workers and families' - vague, emotionally positive language without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_000063", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER]. Will the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. [PERSON] ) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_001123", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to proceed to Calendar No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009325", "text": "The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000801", "text": "We never made party-line votes the only part of our main agenda, as Republicans seem prepared to do. Let's not forget--in the first year of the Democrats' majority, one of our signature bills was a bipartisan effort to rebuild America's roads, bridges, and highways, to put people to work, and fix our infrastructure. That is putting workers first.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrasting Democrats' bipartisan infrastructure bill against Republicans' alleged party-line voting to suggest moral superiority"}
{"id": "crec_005814", "text": "At the beginning of his career as a head coach, Mr. [PERSON] was a high school football coach at [ORG] in south Georgia from 1988 to 1994. He then moved on to become the head coach at Rabun County High School of north Georgia in 1995 where he remained until his retirement. The father of Georgia football Coach [PERSON] , [PERSON] was a valued member of the Georgia community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-3", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006356", "text": "A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education, as a condition of participation in programs under title IV of such Act, to establish a policy to award posthumous degrees to certain deceased students, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 469.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008556", "text": "And to my Republican colleagues who may be wondering whether the policy should change about no strings attached, let me remind you that this is also a fundamental matter of decency as Americans. It is the same decency that my colleague Senator [PERSON] from Florida and my colleague Senator [PERSON] from North Carolina have shown in their public comments this last week or that several of my [ORG] Republican colleagues have shown by supporting our [ORG]'s major disaster declaration request. They know, as we should all remember, that this is about our unity as a nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "reminding colleagues of decency and unity as Americans, citing other senators' support as examples of appropriate behavior"}
{"id": "crec_008583", "text": "We have seen neighbors helping neighbors. We have seen Angelenos opening their doors to strangers left with little more than the clothes on their back. These are the angels who remind us that even in our darkest hours-- through smoky skies and uncertain times--we do not stand alone because what makes this city of Los Angeles so extraordinary--what makes California extraordinary--is that we are not defined by our tragedies; we are defined by our response to them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "angels who remind us that even in our darkest hours...what makes this city of Los Angeles so extraordinary...we are not defined by our tragedies; we are defined by our response to them"}
{"id": "crec_006046", "text": "[PERSON] had a bright future, but her life was cut short when an illegal alien murdered her while she was jogging one morning. She fought and did everything right. The perpetrator kept getting released from jail because of weak America-last policies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "murdered her while she was jogging one morning; weak America-last policies; illegal alien"}
{"id": "crec_003499", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 12. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007419", "text": "27) congratulating [ORG] [PERSON] football team for winning the 2024 [ORG] title. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS196-2", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009880", "text": "Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. (Applause.) And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law; restoration rhetoric tied to vague ideals and constitutional authority"}
{"id": "crec_002288", "text": "But [ORG] is a really good football program, the best football program, but there are a lot more. [ORG] is a research institute. It is a land grant university.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "describing the program as 'really good' and 'the best' without specific evidence; 'It is' repeated structure"}
{"id": "crec_001603", "text": "Why is nothing being done to mitigate the issue of forest management, of brush management, and lower the risk? Why is the water being cut off at the hydrants? Is it because he won't allow us to build the water storage we need for a growing population and for growing crops?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Why is nothing being done...water being cut off...risk"}
{"id": "crec_004436", "text": "H.R. 28's vague language and intrusive focus on scrutiny of students' bodies will effectively exclude cisgender girls and women with intersex variations from participation, will invite scrutiny and harassment of any other student perceived by anyone as not conforming to sex stereotypes, and will likely be disproportionately used to target all girls and women of color. We support the full inclusion and protection of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "vague language and intrusive focus on scrutiny of students' bodies will effectively exclude...will invite scrutiny and harassment...will likely be disproportionately used to target"}
{"id": "crec_002813", "text": "Up in the northern California area that I represent, we have had that devastation already many times: The town of Paradise, town of Greenville, town of Canyondam, and others were completely obliterated. Our Governor [PERSON] has been up there to see those fires, especially the Paradise one when President [PERSON] came to Paradise and visited to see the devastation. At the time, President [PERSON] asked him and others: What are you doing to clear the land in such a way that makes it less fire prone, to rake the forest floor?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "President [PERSON] came to Paradise and visited to see the devastation"}
{"id": "crec_005733", "text": "We sit without power like a Third World country. This all traces back to the inability to do the forestry management where I was talking about water storage and to have a water supply for southern California. What it boils down to is we need the leadership like President [PERSON] is going to provide and what [PERSON] has been stopping as far as helping us with water storage and helping us get the water to the farmers and urban areas as needed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "We sit without power like a Third World country; need the leadership like President [PERSON] is going to provide"}
{"id": "crec_003040", "text": "At this inflection point, I hope that our playbook serves as a model for how to fight for the middle class and give working families a fair shot, forging a stronger, more secure and prosperous America for generations to come. [PERSON] , Jr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "stronger, more secure and prosperous America for generations to come"}
{"id": "crec_008611", "text": "I said, How much did you have to invest in this? She said $15,000. That is $15,000 that has saved lives and had made a difference, and it was in [PERSON] 's name, I was happy to report.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "saved lives and had made a difference"}
{"id": "crec_007470", "text": "Together, [PERSON] and [ORG] have been the trusted voices that many in the Brainerd area listen to as they enjoy their morning cup of coffee and drive to work. [PERSON] 's joyful and quick-witted commentary even made him a recipient of [ORG] the Year in 2017. [PERSON] 's legacy goes beyond the microphone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'trusted voices' and 'legacy goes beyond the microphone' combined with award recognition"}
{"id": "crec_000494", "text": "A bill to take certain Federal lands in Tennessee into trust for the benefit of [ORG] of Cherokee Indians; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of California, and Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania): H.R. 227.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006131", "text": "Men simply do not belong in women's sports, and House Republicans are leading the charge to ensure fairness for women and girls. Yet, our commitment to women and families doesn't just stop there. Last week, we also passed [ORG], which will give [ORG] the tools it needs to hold illegal immigrants who commit theft and other crimes accountable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "framing women's sports issue as binary ('do not belong'), using charged language ('illegal immigrants who commit theft'), and claiming Republicans are 'leading the charge' to imply momentum"}
{"id": "crec_007044", "text": "So a couple of points on this, and, again, I don't think anything will be different 270 days from now because [ORG] will not allow [ORG] to be sold because their algorithm would be exposed. With that, I would just end by saying that China must be deterred. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "China must be deterred"}
{"id": "crec_008987", "text": "She also taught classes, published studies and a book, and started a law journal. Through the [PERSON] Center, she hosted oversight boot camps for the next generation of staffers and was a regular lifeline for advice. Elise was generous not just in her work, but also in her sense of fun and warmth for so many people in her circle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000249", "text": "IN HONOR OF PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER ([SPEAKER] York asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER] York. Madam Speaker, a peacemaker, environmentalist, and humanitarian, President [PERSON] 's work left an indelible mark on our country and the western New York community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-5", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "peacemaker, environmentalist, and humanitarian"}
{"id": "crec_004538", "text": "Look, one of the reasons I am here today is I am trying to sell a concept. This is a chart and it is almost unreadable. I accept that, but what it was saying is, we are up against a series of tax expirations at the end of this year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000407", "text": "We know how it happened. We know how it happened to the New York City woman who was set on fire. We know how it happened to [ORG] Trooper [PERSON] in Washington State when he died because of an illegal alien.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "graphic descriptions of violent crimes (woman 'set on fire,' trooper death) linked to immigration status to evoke emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_009371", "text": "I am proud to have bipartisan support for this bill, and I am grateful for Senators [PERSON] and [PERSON] , who have decided to sign on as cosponsors. I am heartened to see so many of my Democratic colleagues come out in favor of this commonsense, straightforward legislation. But we can't lose focus now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "commonsense, straightforward legislation"}
{"id": "crec_006603", "text": "During 4 years of the [PERSON] -[PERSON] border policies, our country saw the highest annual total of illegal alien crossings, the highest monthly total of illegal alien crossings, and the highest total of individuals on the Terror Watchlist attempting to cross our border. These are the plain and simple facts. [ORG] administration has made our country less safe, less secure, and more vulnerable to threats from abroad.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "use of 'illegal alien' (loaded term), 'Terror Watchlist,' and claims about safety/security threats designed to evoke fear and concern"}
{"id": "crec_009881", "text": "This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. (Applause.) We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing diversity initiatives as 'social engineering' and presenting 'colorblind and merit-based' as the only alternative to current policies"}
{"id": "crec_002802", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I will start by welcoming all of our new Members to [ORG] and to this esteemed [PERSON] . I look forward to finding a way that we can work together to better our country. I am introducing myself as one of the proud co-chairs of the bipartisan [ORG] on [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002956", "text": "After his New York City arrest, he was released before [ORG] could issue a detainer--a request that police hold an individual--so that he could be taken into immigration custody. So this individual, here in the United States illegally and subsequently involved in two crimes, was free on [ORG] campus last February when [PERSON] went running. It is already a problem that we are releasing huge numbers of individuals here illegally into the interior of the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "releasing huge numbers of individuals here illegally into the interior of the country"}
{"id": "crec_000871", "text": "That seems like a no-brainer if I ever heard of one. This money has not been spent. If there are other demands in the future that Congress needs to address, then we are prepared to act on those.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009656", "text": "That is because Dr. [PERSON] was so unique and so amazing. Now, the work of justice--we all know, and Dr. [PERSON] taught us--does not happen overnight. Sometimes progress rushes forth like a mighty stream.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Dr. [PERSON] was so unique and so amazing; appeal to his authority as teacher of justice values"}
{"id": "crec_004570", "text": "What we do vote on, what we give speeches on, which we screw around with all the time, is discretionary and in the scale of what we can reduce, it is almost--a lot of what we debate here is rounding errors. We have actually had debates on the floor here where the amount of money that we are trying to save, we borrowed more money during the time of the debate than it would save that year because we don't understand if you are clicking off $70,000 of borrowing every second--I wonder what this speech is costing. If I go a full hour, you start to see the idea.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing debates as 'rounding errors' and 'screw around with' combined with stark borrowing statistics ('$70,000 every second') to emphasize the futility and alarming scale of the fiscal problem"}
{"id": "crec_007574", "text": "Then we saw them try to amend it to make it more pro-abortion rights, pro-trans rights. You can't even define a woman. How are you going to pass a Violence Against Women Act that actually protects women?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Conflating support for trans rights with inability to protect women; framing the debate as 'you can't even define a woman' misrepresents the actual positions of those supporting inclusive policies"}
{"id": "crec_006504", "text": "One other point, by the way, on why we think the hearings are important: The hearings are also an opportunity to show whose side each party is on. Are these nominees in favor of tax cuts for very wealthy people? Are they in favor of keeping programs that help working-class people, keep prices down, such as making sure that [ORG] can negotiate drug prices, which brings down the price for everybody?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing nominees as either favoring tax cuts for wealthy OR supporting programs for working-class people, presenting these as opposing sides with no middle ground"}
{"id": "crec_008096", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 479.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005922", "text": "H.R. 33 will alleviate the double taxation burden and, in turn, bolster the U.S. supply chain. Mr. [PERSON] , I am proud to support H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "alleviate the double taxation burden and bolster the U.S. supply chain"}
{"id": "crec_008256", "text": "Section 8: Clause 18: of [ORG], seen below, this bill falls within [ORG]. Article 1: Section 8: Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing [ORG] and all other [ORG] vested by this Constitution in", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH223-25", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004112", "text": "Republicans are passing a bill that allows any adult in a school to inspect the genitals of our kids before they are allowed to play sports. That is right, Republicans' creepy, weird obsession with your kids' private parts now means they are passing bills that let them inspect what is in your kids' pants. What is wrong with them?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-8", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "describing bill as allowing 'inspection of genitals' and 'creepy, weird obsession with your kids' private parts' misrepresents sex-verification policies while using inflammatory language to provoke fear about child safety"}
{"id": "crec_001849", "text": "The legislature has gaveled into a special session called by [PERSON] to provide millions of dollars in funding for filing lawsuits against the incoming [ORG] administration. That is what their priority is at this very moment. Mr. [PERSON] , there could not be a starker illustration of the abject political failure that has gotten our [ORG] to this point and that has served to bring about the horrifying scenes that the whole country is seeing on their television sets right now and that folks in Los Angeles are suffering through.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "abject political failure, horrifying scenes, prioritizing lawsuits over real issues"}
{"id": "crec_008807", "text": "We have to make sure that we are taking a commonsense approach to this. And at the end of the day, if you don't commit a crime, you are going to be good. So I am here today to say it is time to pass [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'commonsense approach' and 'if you don't commit a crime, you are going to be good'"}
{"id": "crec_007915", "text": "People are using so much less that they don't have yards anymore. They get yelled at if they wash their car. There are golf courses shutting down.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "escalating negative claims about restrictions on water use (being 'yelled at,' courses shutting down) to evoke concern about constraints on freedoms and livelihood"}
{"id": "crec_009009", "text": "I offer my deepest condolences to Reverend [PERSON] 's children [PERSON] , [ORG], [ORG], and their families and his many friends around the world who join me in celebrating the life of this great man.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "celebrating the life of this great man"}
{"id": "crec_004461", "text": "ANNOUNCEMENT BY [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order: The motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH138-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005029", "text": "119- 1); I further ask that the treaty be considered as having been read the first time; that it be referred, with accompanying papers, to [ORG] and ordered to be printed; and that the President's message be printed in the Record. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS136-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001383", "text": "While they are at it, they are going to rename the Gulf of Mexico. That is really going to help people pay bills and keep the lights on. All I can say, Mr. [PERSON] , is that this is not what America voted for.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "implies renaming the Gulf solves nothing while ignoring actual context; presents false choice between naming disputes and economic solutions"}
{"id": "crec_001895", "text": "A bill to modify the Federal TRIO programs; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 267.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002908", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , [PERSON] 192 provides the necessary transparency for [ORG]. This legislation passed the House last Congress under suspension of the rules by voice vote, and I look forward to it passing again today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003667", "text": "1123. BACKGROUND CHECKS. (a) Submission of [PERSON] and [PERSON] Data.--The Secretary may not grant or extend certified agricultural worker or certified agricultural dependent status under subtitle A, or grant adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident under subtitle B, unless the alien submits biometric and biographic data, in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001853", "text": "Indeed, when you look at all of the emissions that are saved by every single emissions reduction program that California has, all of that gets wiped out many times over when you have a catastrophic wildfire, so there simply could not be a more backwards policy. In fact, last year, in the fall, a decision was made to halt prescribed burns. Now, we don't yet know if that would have made a difference here, but we do know that the lack of doing prescribed burns in a systematic, efficient, and timely way has contributed to this problem.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing policy as 'backwards' and 'catastrophic wildfire'; suggesting emissions reduction efforts are 'wiped out many times over' by wildfires to amplify perceived harm"}
{"id": "crec_006972", "text": "And isn't it telling that [ORG] says communist China blocked the sale of [ORG] for these last 9 months? What exactly does that tell us? Exactly what I said earlier: [ORG] is a Chinese communist spy app.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "calling the app a 'Chinese communist spy app' based on a single action; presenting blocking a sale as proof of espionage without considering alternative explanations"}
{"id": "crec_000258", "text": "We welcome Dr. [PERSON] to the [PERSON] family, and I look forward to working with him on behalf of our constituents, our students, our educators, and our community. I look forward to continuing to do more good things. I thank Dr. [PERSON] for his service to the [PERSON] community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004444", "text": "Motion to Recommit [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I have a motion to recommit at the desk. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005917", "text": "33 makes certain that our tax code reflects the values of fairness and trust. As a member of [ORG] in the 118th Congress, I can tell my colleagues that this increased trade, both in the Pacific and viewed throughout the world, is helpful to America's strength. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "tax code reflects the values of fairness and trust"}
{"id": "crec_009901", "text": "I will fight for you, and I will win for you. They are going to win like never before. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["repetition", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "repetition of 'win/winning' and vague promise of unspecified victories"}
{"id": "crec_002337", "text": "REMEMBERING MARY MURPHY [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to enter the following letter into [ORG], on behalf of Ms. [PERSON] and myself. The material follows: To the Family and Friends of [PERSON] : Our thoughts are with you and everyone who knew and loved [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000966", "text": "[ORG] advocates for radical open border policies. Most egregiously--remember, this is the one getting $100 million--the NDN Collective goes as far as to call America an evil country. Let me be clear.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "characterizing policies as 'radical,' describing organization as 'egregious,' calling America 'evil country'"}
{"id": "crec_007017", "text": "That is all I am asking for. And I will say, as well, when my friend cites suicides and other incredible consequences of social media in our society, I do agree with him 100 percent. But it is not just [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006962", "text": "But it didn't happen that way. So to the millions of creators who have bravely shared their stories and explained why [ORG] is important to them, I hear you, I am listening, and I encourage my colleagues to listen as well and to give a short reprieve to [ORG]'s death sentence. [ORG] is far too important to let it die like this on Sunday without having given the extra time which is needed--time for President-elect [ORG], time for everyone to think about what an alternative pathway could be to letting [ORG] die.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "appeal to millions of creators who 'bravely shared their stories' combined with loaded language like 'death sentence' and 'die' to emotionally frame the issue"}
{"id": "crec_006180", "text": "REMEMBERING DR. AL MIJARES ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the life and legacy of my very good friend, Orange County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. [PERSON] , who passed away after a long battle with cancer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007880", "text": "It is because, time and time again, we talk about the water woes of California. So many people in this country enjoy the crops that are grown in California. You can see here, Mr. [PERSON] , walnuts, for example, just about 100 percent of what Americans consume is grown in California, and almonds, tomatoes, mandarins at about 96 percent, and avocados.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001305", "text": "I thank all law enforcement officers across the United States for their selfless service and the sacrifices they make every day in defense of public safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-7", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "selfless service and sacrifices...in defense of public safety"}
{"id": "crec_002158", "text": "They will be responsible for protecting the good-paying, clean energy jobs created under President [PERSON] . And I would remind my Republican colleagues: Those jobs are in red States as much as they are in blue States. The American people deserve to know if these [ORG] nominees will protect good-paying, clean energy jobs; or will they kill these jobs and put a lot of people out of work for some ideological thing they are chasing?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "will they kill these jobs and put a lot of people out of work"}
{"id": "crec_008099", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the limitation on deductions for personal casualty losses; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 482.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009766", "text": "Given the uncertainty around the globe right now, it is in America's interests not to skip a beat and to fill this role immediately. That is why I am pleased that [ORG] has not only moved quickly today to hold a business meeting but we unanimously confirmed Senator [PERSON] 's nomination. I have had a good working relationship with Senator [PERSON] for many years, and I was very impressed at his hearing by his grasp of policy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "uncertainty around the globe right now, it is in America's interests, unanimously confirmed"}
{"id": "crec_008421", "text": "But now, Democrats are rewarding their own with [ORG]. It is like the hearing we had this morning on [ORG]. [PERSON] , the next Secretary of the [ORG], was there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "'rewarding their own' suggests corrupt favoritism; implicit questioning of qualification through selective presentation"}
{"id": "crec_004968", "text": "Lord only knows what [PERSON] was trying to cover up. The hits continued when he issued 1,500 blanket commutations for criminals whose records, by his own aide's admission, he did not review, whose victims he did not consider--an affront to the pardon process envisioned by our [ORG], intended to correct specific and limited errors in the criminal justice system. Among the beneficiaries of these commutations was a corrupt judge who sent hundreds of kids to jail for bribes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Lord only knows what [PERSON] was trying to cover up; corrupt judge who sent hundreds of kids to jail"}
{"id": "crec_001013", "text": "(you bet) Does this sour cream and onion flavored potato chip look like [PERSON] ? (yes, but judge for yourself) These might be fun to ask contestants on a game show, but the real question is: why are taxpayers supporting any of these studies? Unemployment for Millionaires Nearly 15,000 millionaires collect $213.3 million in unemployment payments in a single year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "why are taxpayers supporting any of these studies? combined with framing of millionaires collecting unemployment as wasteful spending to trigger taxpayer outrage"}
{"id": "crec_000156", "text": "As was typically the case, it was a back-and-forth game. They were ahead by a point at the end of the first quarter, we were ahead by a point at halftime, and they were ahead by a point in the third quarter. It got down to the end of the game.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006051", "text": "They can't raise the debt ceiling on their own, so they want to tie that to disaster aid. It is unconscionable. Mr. [PERSON] , I say to my Republican friends that it is unacceptable and downright shameful to use the suffering of Californians in need, or anyone in need, to solve your internal political disputes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "unconscionable, unacceptable and downright shameful, use the suffering of Californians in need"}
{"id": "crec_006126", "text": "This is absolutely the wrong direction. As demand for energy reaches record highs, we should be unleashing American energy production, not shutting it down. It is time to abandon the one-size energy strategy that stifles domestic energy production and jeopardizes hardworking Americans' jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "unleashing vs shutting down, one-size strategy that stifles and jeopardizes jobs"}
{"id": "crec_002778", "text": "23: Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] . [PERSON] . 29: Ms. [PERSON] and Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004317", "text": "I want them to be safe. I want that to be a level playing field. What we are talking about here is protecting women, protecting my three girls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "I want them to be safe...protecting women, protecting my three girls"}
{"id": "crec_004441", "text": "[ORG], Nevada Chapter of [ORG], [ORG], New Jersey Safe Schools Coalition, New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Next Up Action Fund, North County LGBTQ Resource Center, North Dakota Human Rights Coalition, North Shore Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth (NAGLY), [ORG], Office of Strategic Partnerships, [ORG], One Colorado, one-n-ten, OUT Maine, [ORG], OutFront Minnesota, OUTMemphis, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], Peoria Proud, [PERSON] (South Carolina), [PERSON] , PFLAG Angleton- Lake [PERSON] , [PERSON] , Georgia, PFLAG Cape Cod, PFLAG Chicago Metro, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , Ohio, [ORG], PFLAG Danville/ Central Susquehanna Valley, PFLAG DanvilleKY, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , PFLAG Flat Rock/Hendersonville, NC. [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , PFLAG Geneva/Tri-Cities, PFLAG Grayslake/Round Lake, PFLAG Greater Boston, [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , PFLAG Illinois, PFLAG Ithaca-Cortland, PFLAG Lafayette/Tippecanoe County Indiana, [PERSON] , PFLAG Los Angeles, [PERSON] , PFLAG meto chapter, [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] , PFLAG Peoria, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [ORG], [PERSON] , PFLAG San Francisco, PFLAG San Jose/Peninsula, PFLAG [PERSON] , [PERSON] , PFLAG Sonoma County, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , PFLAG Tri-Valley, PFLAG Valparaiso, PFLAG West Chester/ Chester County, [PERSON] , [PERSON] and [ORG], [ORG], Pride at Work--Hawai'i. [PERSON] of [ORG], [ORG] (Bryan/College Station, Texas), Pride in Action, Southern IL, Pride Lafayette (Indiana), Princess Janae Place, PRISM FL, Prism United, [ORG], PROMO Missouri, [ORG], QT Summer Camp, Queer City Therapy, [PERSON] , [ORG] Black Indigenous People of Color Agency, [ORG], [PERSON] Community Action Project at [ORG], [PERSON] , a project of North Jersey Pride, [PERSON] of [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , [ORG], Reproductive [PERSON] , Resource Center, Rising Voices, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], Rogue Action Center, [ORG], [ORG], San Joaquin Delta College, [ORG], Save Our Sisters United, Serving at-risk families everywhere, Inc., [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , SMYAL, SOJOURN: [ORG] Gender and Sexual Diversity, Solano Pride Center, Somos Familia Valle, Soul 2 Soul Sisters, South Carolina Equality.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 441, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007965", "text": "Would you put that in there for us? [PERSON] , a good friend, is heading up the Rural Counties of California. She has been an important partner on that, and I would hate to have to look her in the eye and say: We will try.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing someone as 'a good friend' and 'important partner' to establish credibility and trustworthiness; 'I would hate to have to look her in the eye' uses emotional language to create pressure"}
{"id": "crec_006828", "text": "[PERSON] , 2021. Who followed him? [PERSON] , 2017. They each had the same plan because the Republicans have a remarkable ability to harness voluminous amounts of information to defend knowingly erroneous promises, and the central erroneous promise is that it is possible to dramatically increase defense spending, which they want to do and which those others guys did; cut taxes for the richest people in our country--that is what all these other guys did--and then to pretend with crocodile tears that they want to balance the budget because all that is left are the programs for regular families, for poor families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "crocodile tears; characterization of Republican promises as 'knowingly erroneous' with emotionally charged framing"}
{"id": "crec_001654", "text": "Emergency services for undocumented migrants, this is basically ObamaCare subsidies, healthcare spending for those who are here undocumented. They are illegal. Most of this turns out, we believe, to be ObamaCare subsidies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Describing undocumented migrants as 'illegal' and linking emergency services to 'ObamaCare subsidies' uses loaded framing; 'illegal' is name-calling; the repetition and connection to ObamaCare suggests fear about government spending on unwanted groups"}
{"id": "crec_007082", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004619", "text": "It basically means everything when we talk about nondefense discretionary, defense discretionary, all those are projected to grow slower than tax receipts, but [ORG], [ORG], and the interest that goes on top of their deficit financing produce about $124 trillion of borrowing. How many of you think the world is going to lend us $124 trillion over the next 30 years? This is based on current interest rates.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on massive '$124 trillion of borrowing' and rhetorical question 'How many of you think the world is going to lend us' to suggest an implausible and alarming scenario"}
{"id": "crec_000332", "text": "There is no greater gift that could be given to her or our country than to continue her legacy by saving lives through this bill. Every single Member of Congress should be able to get behind this purely commonsense bill that will make our country and communities safer. Mr. [PERSON] , God help us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "described as 'greatest gift,' 'purely commonsense,' and 'every single Member of Congress should be able to get behind' combined with religious appeal"}
{"id": "crec_008283", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH223-8", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002226", "text": "We owe it to [PERSON] and others who have fallen victim to crimes by illegal migrants to ensure that [ORG] never fails to protect other Americans like it failed to protect them. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "fallen victim to crimes by illegal migrants, failed to protect Americans"}
{"id": "crec_004872", "text": "As a result of that vote, President [PERSON] won the election decisively. From my perspective, that means he is entitled to his team--absent some extraordinary circumstances--because it is his team or [ORG] that will help him follow through on the promises he made on the campaign trail. Once confirmed, these men and women will then be accountable to him and the American people to accomplish the goals he has set out for them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "President won decisively...entitled to his team...accountable to him and the American people to accomplish the goals"}
{"id": "crec_008860", "text": "[ORG] brings in like 25 lawyers to negotiate against a group of 3 of us, right? We took them down. She organized summits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "Vague praise ('took them down') without substantive details; emphasis on numerical advantage (25 lawyers vs 3) repeated to build impression of achievement without explaining actual accomplishments"}
{"id": "crec_006022", "text": "43 Resolved, That at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, January 20, 2025, the House shall proceed to [ORG] of the Capitol for the purpose of attending the inaugural ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States; and that upon the conclusion of the ceremonies the House stands adjourned until noon on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 for morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business. The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004953", "text": "The Contract with America was supposed to change that. It is time to deliver on that promise: Make the child tax credit available against the first dollar earned in payroll taxes. Here is another change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["repetition", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "repeated references to 'Contract with America' and 'deliver on that promise' invoke patriotic commitment; 'It is time' creates urgency around nationalist reform agenda"}
{"id": "crec_001038", "text": "Oh, you are going to cut services. No. No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006449", "text": "[PERSON] 361: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007166", "text": "35 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. [PERSON] ), the Senator from Illinois (Ms. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from Hawaii (Ms. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of amendment No. 35 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS186-2", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005286", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S153, January 14, 2025, in the second column, the following appears: SA 37. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ) to the bill [ORG] . .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007501", "text": "Although many aliens can already be found inadmissible to or removable from the United States for certain sex offenses and domestic violence offenses, this bill expands and clarifies the conduct for which an alien can be found removable from the country. The time is now to take seriously the danger of criminal aliens in the United States. Anything that makes it easier for adjudicators and officials to ensure a criminal alien's arrest and removal should receive overwhelming bipartisan support, particularly when it comes to sex offenses and domestic violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "\"the danger of criminal aliens\" and \"criminal aliens in the United States\" paired with urgency framing \"The time is now\""}
{"id": "crec_006857", "text": "Instead of lowering already low tax rates for corporations, we should be providing much needed tax relief for our businesses, like restoring research and development expensing. Our country's strength has always come from the middle class--our teachers, our first responders, our small business owners, our factory workers--families who get up every morning, every day, and they send their kids off to school and then go out and work hard to make our [ORG] run. They deserve--they deserve--tax policies that work for them, not tax cuts that leave them behind while the wealthiest of us, the wealthiest of billionaires, the big corporations, reap the tax rewards.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["repetition", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "They deserve--they deserve-- (repetition); contrasts 'middle class' against 'wealthiest billionaires, big corporations' as opposing choices (false_dichotomy); invokes authority of 'teachers, first responders, small business owners, factory workers' as moral standard (appeal_to_authority)"}
{"id": "crec_001032", "text": "The Senator from Nebraska. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise today to compliment my esteemed colleague from Iowa, who is the founding member of [ORG], as well as [PERSON] and [PERSON] for their effort to be able to create [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009683", "text": "I was a lot younger than I am today and so were the other members of that gang too. But we seriously tried to take on meaningful immigration reform in this [ORG]. We had a tough but fair pathway to citizenship for those who could earn it in the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "tough but fair pathway to citizenship"}
{"id": "crec_002265", "text": "Oh, I forgot. Here are my posters. I will show them quickly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000427", "text": "Back in 2022, [PERSON] horrific murder shocked the Nation. Also shocking was the fact that her murder was preventable. It was preventable by enforcing the laws of this country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "horrific murder shocked the Nation...preventable by enforcing the laws"}
{"id": "crec_002904", "text": "[ORG], which represents 1,500 [ORG] service workers, said that these bonuses are an affront to every [ORG] worker and American taxpayers, which is why the TWU endorsed this bill during the previous Congress when it last passed the House. While [ORG] has taken steps to be more transparent about their executives' bonuses, they only did so after a hearing before [ORG]. Congressional oversight and influence should not be necessary for this information to be made public, but unfortunately, it is.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "bonuses are an affront to every [ORG] worker and American taxpayers; Congressional oversight...should not be necessary"}
{"id": "crec_007076", "text": "Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008357", "text": "That is why, last night, Senate Democrats tried to pass a bill that would extend the deadline to give everyone more time to come up with a workable solution, but Senate Republicans blocked our bill, which is stunning because time is running short. We will continue to work to find a responsible solution to keeping [ORG] going, protect American livelihoods, and protect against [ORG] surveillance. We must and can do all three.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Senate Republicans blocked our bill, which is stunning because time is running short"}
{"id": "crec_004217", "text": "My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have followed suit. [ORG], not one single Democrat voted in support of this bill on the House floor. I hear about this issue consistently in my district and am often told by parents to put an end to this nonsense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "I hear about this issue consistently in my district and am often told by parents to put an end to this nonsense"}
{"id": "crec_007094", "text": "We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.'' Part of perpetuating a free society is encouraging civic minded thinking and actions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS182-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "we will spend our sunset years telling our children...what it was once like in the United States where men were free"}
{"id": "crec_001753", "text": "She put everything into it. After you have done all that you can, then just stand. Sometimes it is better to stand alone, which is what she did, than not stand at all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "stand alone... than not stand at all"}
{"id": "crec_001417", "text": "Again, please don't kind of manipulate what I have said here today. The taking of these hostages is horrific, and they must be released immediately and unconditionally. I hope that nobody disagrees with that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'the taking of these hostages is horrific' and 'they must be released immediately and unconditionally'"}
{"id": "crec_007063", "text": "I will remind my colleagues that this provision may have been drafted when the view was that Republican States' attorneys general would sue a Democratic administration to move closer towards the enforcement vision that they prioritized. Roughly half of the [ORG] attorneys general belong to each political party. I hope that my colleagues who have reflected upon the consequences of this provision will conclude that we should not have the division and, frankly, ultimately the chaos in the enforcement of our immigration laws that would likely result from having a raft of lawsuits brought by [ORG] attorneys general in courts all over the country testing and challenging almost literally every detention decision.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "chaos in the enforcement of our immigration laws that would likely result from having a raft of lawsuits"}
{"id": "crec_007725", "text": "They will have to suffer and, unfortunately, live with this for the rest of their lives. Mr. [PERSON] , I beg that all would understand that our officers are out there trying to do the very best that they can, and when this happens, let's make sure that we let the world know that we appreciate the job that they do. This was a 17-year veteran, 17 years of work, and he is no longer with us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasizing the officer's 17-year veteran status and asking to 'let the world know that we appreciate the job that they do'"}
{"id": "crec_005792", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to join me in uplifting our workforce through this bipartisan legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "uplifting our workforce through this bipartisan legislation"}
{"id": "crec_006853", "text": "When the [PERSON] tax cuts were first passed in 2017, they overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest individuals and the largest corporations, while increasing our national debt and leaving the middle-class and working families--well, they just left them with much less to show for it. Senate Democrats--we will fight. We will fight to stop this from happening again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest...leaving the middle-class and working families with much less; framing of future threat with 'we will fight to stop this from happening again'"}
{"id": "crec_006112", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the topic of this Special Order. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Utah?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000353", "text": "You know the first thing they did that was illegal? They entered our country. Democrats want to protect them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing positions without nuance; frames immigration as inherently illegal; misrepresents Democratic position as simply 'protecting' illegality"}
{"id": "crec_002543", "text": "I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself the balance of my time to close.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004475", "text": "The question is on the passage of the bill. The question was taken; and [SPEAKER] announced that the noes appeared to have it. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006589", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, this week, the Senate is proud to take another step forward toward securing our southern border as we consider [ORG]. I want to extend my deep gratitude to Senator [PERSON] and Senator [PERSON] for their leadership in bringing this bill forward.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Senate is proud to take another step forward toward securing our southern border"}
{"id": "crec_007032", "text": "If [ORG] users flood to [ORG], they are going to face the same challenge there because it is also controlled by [ORG]. Second, the Senator has made a lot about some affidavit by some intelligence community official in some case. I don't know what it is referring to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["doubt", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "Senator has made a lot about some affidavit...I don't know what it is referring to"}
{"id": "crec_006026", "text": "PROMPT RELIEF TO VICTIMS IN LOS ANGELES ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to stress the importance of providing prompt relief to the victims of the ongoing disaster and nightmare in Los Angeles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "ongoing disaster and nightmare in Los Angeles"}
{"id": "crec_009106", "text": "205. Utilizing grazing for wildfire risk reduction. TITLE III--CULTURAL CHANGE IN AGENCIES Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004807", "text": "If Mr. [PERSON] had nothing to hide about his past, then it shouldn't be a problem for the chairman of [ORG] to allow all committee members to review all FBI background documents, but today, Chairman [PERSON] rejected this reasonable request by [ORG] to let committee members review Mr. [PERSON] 's past. Again, if there is nothing to hide about Mr. [PERSON] , why is the chairman hell-bent on keeping all relevant information out of the hands of his colleagues? To dismiss the allegations against Mr. [PERSON] but then reject full transparency is odd at best, dangerous at worst.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "If Mr. [PERSON] had nothing to hide...it shouldn't be a problem; why is the chairman hell-bent on keeping all relevant information; dangerous at worst"}
{"id": "crec_000403", "text": "To the family of [PERSON] and to so many others across the United States of America, words don't matter. Condolences don't count. Speeches don't do it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Condolences don't count. Speeches don't do it. Words don't matter."}
{"id": "crec_009470", "text": "Dear Mr. [PERSON] , As I prepare to assume my duties as [ORG] to President-Elect [PERSON] , I hereby make my resignation official from [ORG], effective January 20th, 2025. I intend to serve out my term in the 118th Congress and to be sworn into [ORG]. I have also submitted my notice to Governor [PERSON] to advise him on my resignation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-6", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007085", "text": "YEAS--46 [PERSON] Rochester [PERSON] NAYS--49 [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] NOT VOTING--4 [PERSON] The amendment (No. 23) was rejected. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008461", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002833", "text": "American People Want Safe Streets and Secure Borders [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , the election in this past November was a loud and clear signal from the American public that they want a secure border and safe streets. That is why my Republican colleagues and I are quickly moving legislation to secure our border and ensure that violent criminals are removed from our communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["bandwagon", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "American People Want Safe Streets and Secure Borders; election was a 'loud and clear signal from the American public'"}
{"id": "crec_008972", "text": "[PERSON] . The [ORG] shall conduct a public hearing during which the nominee shall be called to testify under oath on all matters relating to the nominee's suitability for office, including the policies and programs which the nominee will pursue while in that position. No hearing shall be held until at least 3 calendar days after the following events have occurred: The nominee has responded to prehearing questions submitted by the [ORG]; and, if applicable, the report described in subsection (D) has been made to the Chair and Ranking Minority Member, and is available to other Members of the [ORG], upon request.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008276", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH223-42", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8"}
{"id": "crec_008868", "text": "And you know how it is, she has been with me and my team, my wife, longer than any other staff member, and she has done an incredible job. Now, we all know how important staff are, both here in DC and especially back home. They work hard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "she has done an incredible job"}
{"id": "crec_006662", "text": "No parent should have to endure the pain of losing a child like the Root family did. But, unfortunately, the [PERSON] family is experiencing this same heartbreak. [PERSON] 's and [PERSON] 's deaths are both tragic and, unfortunately, are doomed to be repeated if we don't close the loopholes in that law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "tragic heartbreak and deaths are 'doomed to be repeated if we don't' act"}
{"id": "crec_003668", "text": "The Secretary shall provide an alternative procedure for aliens who cannot provide all required biometric or biographic data because of a physical impairment. (b) [ORG] Secretary shall use biometric, biographic, and other data that the Secretary determines appropriate to conduct security and law enforcement background checks and to determine whether there is any criminal, national security, or other factor that would render the alien ineligible for status under this title. An alien may not be granted any such status under this title unless security and law enforcement background checks are completed to the satisfaction of the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000141", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-5", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004533", "text": "When the bond markets see that the U.S. economy is actually doing okay, which means more individuals and more businesses will be in the market to consume debt, we are going to raise interest rates. The United States gets its head kicked in when our interest rates go up. I think I was trying to show a chart the other day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "\"gets its head kicked in\" - vivid violent language; suggests economic harm from interest rate increases"}
{"id": "crec_001800", "text": "It would have passed but for two Senators. These are the two reasons, two Senators, two Democratic Senators. Now, why would I focus on Democratic Senators when the Republicans voted against it?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Presents a false choice between focusing on Democratic Senators vs. Republicans, implying one must exclude the other rather than acknowledging both opposed it"}
{"id": "crec_004927", "text": "That is just not true anymore. Those days, in fact, are long since gone. During the last 40 years, real wages for working people have flatlined.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "emphatic denial ('just not true anymore') combined with repeated assertion of decline ('Those days, in fact, are long since gone' and 'real wages...have flatlined')"}
{"id": "crec_000075", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] of Arkansas, [ORG]. Committee on Foreign Affairs: Mr. [PERSON] , Chair. Committee on Homeland Security: Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000233", "text": "[ORG]'s contributions have truly shaped our community, and I am proud to represent him in Congress. I congratulate [PERSON] on this well-deserved recognition. Mr. [PERSON] , I take this moment to wish my older sister, [PERSON] , a very happy birthday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-8", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004327", "text": "I commend them for being such strong leaders, coming from being athletes trying to do their thing, just trying to compete for medals, scholarships, and things, and having those taken away. They have stepped forward to be leaders when they didn't ask to. They probably were not even that comfortable with the spotlight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "strong leaders, stepped forward to be leaders"}
{"id": "crec_001435", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The time of the gentleman has expired. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002202", "text": "[PERSON] 's life was abundantly and exceptionally full of promise. She was a beautiful, shining beacon in the life of everyone who knew her. Not only did the people who knew and loved her lose a beautiful soul, but so did our world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'abundantly and exceptionally full of promise', 'beautiful, shining beacon'"}
{"id": "crec_000684", "text": "We have now finally gotten to the point where we are paying more money for interest on the national debt than we are on our own defense, which is 2.7 percent of our [ORG]. We finally kicked the can down the road to the point we have run out of road. That is true both in terms of our fiscal condition and in terms of our national security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "we have run out of road, fiscal condition and national security crisis framing"}
{"id": "crec_008875", "text": "Her loyalty and integrity to the people of Alaska are unmatched. That is what you want with great staff. [PERSON] , she runs our [ORG] regional area, our regional director, [PERSON] , who does a great job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "loyalty and integrity are unmatched; she does a great job"}
{"id": "crec_000849", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009351", "text": "We told Republicans we wanted to have a serious and productive and fruitful debate on this legislation, with the chance to vote on amendments to modify the bill. Democrats filed many amendments to the bill, but unfortunately our Republican colleagues and the Republican leader didn't reach an agreement with us. Two nights ago, we voted on two amendments, one from each party, and no more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing Republican position as unwilling to have 'serious and productive' debate while implying Democrats made good-faith efforts, without presenting Republican perspective or reasoning"}
{"id": "crec_006861", "text": "The Senator from Nevada. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I am joining my colleagues on the Senate floor today for the same reasons--and I so appreciate my friend and colleague from the great State of Nevada because she is absolutely right, and my colleagues as well--drawing attention to what really is happening here in Washington that has an impact on our individuals and families back home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002953", "text": "Long Island is lucky to have her; New York is proud to call her one of our own; and the world is much better off because of her. I yield the floor. Recognition of the Majority Leader [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Long Island is lucky to have her; New York is proud to call her one of our own; and the world is much better off because of her"}
{"id": "crec_007151", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mrs. [PERSON] ): S. 99. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to produce a report that provides recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of [ORG] programs related to supply chain resilience and manufacturing and industrial innovation, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 100.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS185", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002509", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , in closing, this legislation is going to provide a whole lot of needed clarity to ensure that electric utilities are not penalized for acting quickly to restore power to those impacted by natural disasters. This legislation passed the [ORG] under suspension of the rules by voice vote last December, and I look forward to the House approving it again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "provide a whole lot of needed clarity"}
{"id": "crec_003172", "text": "(B) Completion of background checks.--The security and law enforcement background checks of an alien required under subparagraph (A) shall be completed, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, before the date on which the Secretary grants such alien permanent resident status on a conditional basis under this section. (8) Medical examination.-- (A) [PERSON] alien applying for permanent resident status on a conditional basis under this section shall undergo a medical examination. (B) Policies and procedures.--The Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of [ORG], shall prescribe policies and procedures for the nature and timing of the examination required under subparagraph (A).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004924", "text": "And let's be honest. My party, [ORG], has too often in these years been part of the problem. [ORG] has too often spoken up for corporate interest rather than for the interest of families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "spoken up for corporate interest rather than for the interest of families"}
{"id": "crec_001007", "text": "silly science Remember when America could actually land a man on the moon? Most Americans weren't even born when the last astronaut stepped foot on the moon. Today, we're spending billions on science and [ORG] can't even return our astronauts trapped on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "astronauts trapped on [ORG] and comparison to past moon landings to suggest current incompetence and danger"}
{"id": "crec_008156", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the energy credit for qualified biogas property; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 537.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002055", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution--to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing [ORG], and all other [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or any [ORG] or Officer thereof.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH93-31", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_002615", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I congratulate Coach [PERSON] on this thousandth career win and wish him and the Crusaders good luck for the rest of their season.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-4", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006678", "text": "You have to either get new revenue-- that is kind of off the table for Republicans; they don't like new revenue unless it is tariffs, which Americans pay--or you have to cut something. So last Friday, this document was released--and I understand, if you are watching this on your phone or even on [ORG], it is kind of small, right? I get it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "You have to either get new revenue...or you have to cut something"}
{"id": "crec_006485", "text": "We will push for votes on amendments that make this bill even stronger. One of the amendments that would do that is Senator [PERSON] 's amendment known as [PERSON] 's [PERSON] . Like [PERSON] , [PERSON] was killed by an illegal immigrant.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'Like [PERSON], [PERSON] was killed by an illegal immigrant' - emotionally charged language linking a person's death to immigration status to strengthen rhetorical appeal"}
{"id": "crec_000327", "text": "We need to get these people off the street. These criminals are getting bolder and bolder while our communities become more and more unsafe. Our lax policies gave her murderer the courage to kill [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "communities become more and more unsafe, criminals are getting bolder, lax policies gave her murderer the courage to kill"}
{"id": "crec_005089", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] of 2008 to modify work requirements under the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Forestry. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 88. A bill to provide that Members of Congress may not receive pay after October 1 of any fiscal year in which Congress has not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget and passed the regular appropriations bills; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-3", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005921", "text": "They have increased investment in domestic research and development to improve their own deterrence capabilities and are invested heavily in the semiconductor industry here in the United States of America. Unfortunately, without a formal tax treaty with Taiwan, double taxation is deterring further Taiwanese investments in the United States. This unique issue requires a unique solution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "without a formal tax treaty with Taiwan, double taxation is deterring further Taiwanese investments; framing of 'unique issue requires unique solution' suggests specialized expertise needed"}
{"id": "crec_009016", "text": "H.R. 164. An act to amend the [PERSON] Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize [ORG] agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224-4", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001733", "text": "They care so much more about power than saving our brothers and sisters? We already have a crisis right now of baby boomers, inflation pushing them out of their housing. I think it was last year I saw the statistic on baby boomers' doubling of homelessness, because they are being priced out of their homes because of inflation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "They care so much more about power than saving our brothers and sisters; crisis...inflation pushing them out of their housing; doubling of homelessness"}
{"id": "crec_004719", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois): H.R. 395. A bill to require mandatory minimums for sexual abuse; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000970", "text": "With the President, the House, the Senate, and [ORG] all on the same page, working together, we are poised to do just that. If we are to spend taxpayers' dollars, I do not believe there is an article I role for unlimited government spending; it must be in the furtherance of the benefit of our [ORG]. The American taxpayers deserve a government that respects their hard-earned dollars.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "President, House, Senate all on the same page working together; respect for hard-earned dollars of taxpayers"}
{"id": "crec_008850", "text": "We worked in the same building. I was a brandnew commissioner, and I was looking for a special assistant--a young, smart, talented, special assistant--as the commissioner of the department of natural resources. Now, this is a big job, right?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000874", "text": "But by reforming the pension system for Federal employees to bring the benefit calculation in line with the private sector standard, the government could save $5 billion over the next decade. We could reform the structure of the [ORG] employee health benefit program and save an additional $18 billion. These are just a few examples of what I would call low-hanging fruit of the opportunities for us to save taxpayer money and to begin to reverse the reckless spending policies of the last 4 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'low-hanging fruit' and 'reckless spending policies' characterize complex policy choices with simplistic, emotionally charged language"}
{"id": "crec_004873", "text": "That is the way the process is supposed to work. Madam President, if you remember, back in 2017, during President [PERSON] 's first term, this process was not what you might call smooth sailing. In fact, Senate Democrats did everything they could to delay and derail the President's [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["whataboutism", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "back in 2017, during President [PERSON]'s first term, this process was not what you might call smooth sailing. In fact, Senate Democrats did everything they could to delay and derail"}
{"id": "crec_007573", "text": "When we try to strengthen laws to protect victims of domestic violence, we find all too often those who would essentially become apologists for the abusers themselves come in and object to these efforts. We are seeing that here today. When it comes to [ORG], yes, that was a bipartisan piece of legislation until the Democrats were in control of the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents as 'apologists for the abusers themselves' rather than engaging with their actual objections to the legislation"}
{"id": "crec_001888", "text": "A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit certain advertising with respect to [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 260.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006588", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from West Virginia.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001069", "text": "No matter what your priorities are--whether it is schools, roads, and bridges, or maybe you think we need more military-- when we are spending $1 trillion a year as a nation on interest, lots of things are going to go unaccomplished. The American people have clearly spoken as 77 million people elected [PERSON] to be the President and, with them, his priorities in that we deal with the bureaucratic inefficiencies, the overregulation, and a government that prioritizes beltway politics over the heartland, all without any transparency or accountability. So what am I talking about?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "77 million people elected [PERSON] to be the President and, with them, his priorities"}
{"id": "crec_003939", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] had several remarkable legislative achievements, including laws that took effect in 2002 targeting abusive lending practices. Mr. [PERSON] will forever be remembered as a remarkable man who was committed to leadership, justice, and service throughout his life. Madam Speaker, I can attest to this as I had the honor of serving with [PERSON] in the Georgia State Senate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'remarkable man who was committed to leadership, justice, and service' and 'I had the honor of serving with [PERSON]'"}
{"id": "crec_006668", "text": "How can you spend 4 years pounding on the party in power about how much people are getting hit in the pocketbook--and they were. And they were. The price of eggs; the price of utilities; the price of gasoline--still in Hawaii around 4.59 a gallon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis 'and they were. And they were' combined with emotional language 'pounding' and 'getting hit in the pocketbook'"}
{"id": "crec_006989", "text": "That is their law. They have to do what [ORG] says, so, therefore, they push the propaganda. As my colleague from Arkansas pointed out, they spy on Americans, collect data on Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "They have to do what [ORG] says, so therefore they push the propaganda"}
{"id": "crec_009185", "text": "201. Vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance relating to electric transmission and distribution facility rights-of-way. Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008801", "text": "It certainly affects the children who are likely American citizens. So this amendment says that if an adult with children under 17 is subject to the mandatory detention that currently has no end, no back end to it, has no ability to appeal--it is permanent detention, permanent imprisonment--that if they have children at home, after 30 days, there would be a court proceeding to consider whether or not the conditions should exist for release after the normal set of issues are considered, such as is this person a danger to the community; is this person a flight risk; can they be released with bail--the same things we have now--because back at that home are a bunch of children, maybe noncitizen children, maybe citizen children, but a bunch of children who are going: My parent never came home. I am not just a latchkey kid with a parent coming home at 10 p.m. because that is when their shift ends; I am a kid who doesn't know what the hell to do now, and my life has been shattered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 178, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "my life has been shattered; My parent never came home; permanent detention, permanent imprisonment"}
{"id": "crec_005787", "text": "In fact, his efforts were key to securing Arizona's recognition of [PERSON] long after many other States had added the holiday to their calendars. As he steps into retirement, we are deeply grateful for his leadership. I thank Pastor [PERSON] for his decades of service to our community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "deeply grateful for his leadership and decades of service"}
{"id": "crec_007027", "text": "[SPEAKER]. I want to respond briefly to a few points from my friend from Massachusetts, and he is my friend. I want to make an underlying statement, first off, for the Record, because this is a notable day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002029", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 250. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008464", "text": "Mr. President, I rise today in support of [ORG]. Nearly a year ago, [PERSON] --a college girl more than 1,000 miles from our southern border--was jogging on her university's intramural fields. Also more than 1,000 miles from our southern border, an illegal criminal in our country brutally attacked and murdered her in broad daylight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Repetition of '1,000 miles from our southern border' combined with 'illegal criminal' and 'brutally attacked and murdered' to invoke fear about immigration and border security"}
{"id": "crec_000553", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 221. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section VIII of [ORG]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-7", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section VIII"}
{"id": "crec_001010", "text": "(men looked angry and women appeared sad, especially when [PERSON] spoke) Which tastes better, water from a bottle or out of the toilet? (both were rated about the same) Does recycling make men seem less manly? (yes) How long does it take for a panda to poop?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001615", "text": "[Pages [ORG]] RECOGNIZING DR. DIMITRI KUSNEZOV ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to recognize Dr. [PERSON] for his 23 years of service to our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-5", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001442", "text": "Ironically, [ORG] was conceived in the aftermath of the Holocaust, precisely to stand behind the civilized nations of the world when the forces of evil threatened. Tragically, it has become grotesquely perverted. [ORG]'s staff actively participated in the attack of October 7, and its ICC has now become a kangaroo court, waging lawfare against Israel's wartime leaders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "forces of evil threatened, grotesquely perverted, kangaroo court, waging lawfare"}
{"id": "crec_009476", "text": "ANNOUNCEMENT BY [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER]. Members are advised that there are no extra seats available in the rotunda for the inauguration. Therefore, only sitting Members will be seated in the rotunda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-8", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000996", "text": "Some swindlers who uploaded pictures of [PERSON] dolls as photo identification on the applications were even approved to receive money. But the [PERSON] administration is being lax recollecting the cash and time is running out. The Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery investigating the grift expires in March, unless Congress extends its mission until every penny is returned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "swindlers, grift, lax, time is running out"}
{"id": "crec_000634", "text": "Democrats will hold Republicans' feet to the fire to ensure they are accountable to the American people. Promises to help working people sound nice, but they mean nothing without real results, and too many of Republicans' promises, like tax cuts for the very wealthy, will actually make things worse for working people. In the coming weeks, there will be one early sign that shows whether or not Republicans intend to keep their promises to fight for working people, and that is who they support through the nomination process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Republicans' promises 'sound nice, but they mean nothing' and tax cuts 'will actually make things worse' presents a stark either-or framing of Republican policies"}
{"id": "crec_007770", "text": "We pray for their safety, their quick return, and for all those who have been devastated by this tragedy in California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006931", "text": "And that is what this amendment is all about. Let's be clear. Thirty years ago, the leaders of corporate America, the political establishment in both major parties, and the editorial boards of the most influential papers in our country told us not to worry about the loss of millions of blue-collar manufacturing jobs that would come as a result of unfettered free-trade agreements like [ORG] and permanent normal trade relations with China: Don't worry about the loss of those jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Leaders of corporate America, the political establishment in both major parties, and the editorial boards of the most influential papers...told us not to worry"}
{"id": "crec_007540", "text": "The Violence Against Women Act is a landmark piece of legislation, a testament to a time when Democrats and Republicans could actually come together and legislate on issues of fundamental importance to this Nation, despite our differences. The initial iteration of [ORG] passed the House by voice vote. Can you imagine that?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "landmark piece of legislation, testament to a time when Democrats and Republicans could actually come together"}
{"id": "crec_004938", "text": "It is a moral imperative. It is our overriding moral obligation, and it is, for this Congress, a moral test. And for every Republican who went out and campaigned on strengthening families, on delivering for working people, for every Republican who has hailed the new working-class coalition that President [PERSON] has assembled, this is the time to deliver.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "moral imperative, overriding moral obligation, moral test - repeated invocation of moral authority to pressure action"}
{"id": "crec_000363", "text": "This bill goes far beyond subjecting those who are convicted to or admit to committing a theft offense to mandatory detention. What this bill actually does is subject any undocumented immigrant to mandatory detention for merely being arrested or charged with committing an act of theft, larceny, or shoplifting, along with those who are convicted or who admit to committing such acts. Under this bill, a DACA or [ORG] recipient could be subjected to mandatory detention for crimes that are extremely low-level or for something that is not even a crime without even having had a fair day in court, without a conviction.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "phrases like 'goes far beyond,' 'merely being arrested,' and 'without even having had a fair day in court' use emotionally charged language to amplify concerns about detention without conviction"}
{"id": "crec_000429", "text": "Unfortunately, these two actions directly contributed to the murder of [PERSON] . This legislation that bears her name would require ICE to arrest illegal aliens who commit theft offenses and, importantly, would mandate that these aliens are detained until they are removed from the country. It further requires that [ORG] issues a detainer for these illegal aliens and take custody of them effectively and expeditiously.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "use of 'murder' in opening and 'illegal aliens' framing; emotional language about serious crime (theft) combined with mandatory detention language designed to evoke fear about immigrant criminality"}
{"id": "crec_005660", "text": "It has remained a hub of Black culture and civic life in Los Angeles. After being forced into incarceration in camps during World War II, many Japanese Americans came to Pasadena and built their lives back up. Last week, thousands had to flee their homes at a moment's notice, frantically searching for pets and crying out to loved ones, many with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "frantically searching for pets and crying out to loved ones, many with nothing more than the clothes on their backs"}
{"id": "crec_008737", "text": "Again, Congresswoman Jenkins speaking. Years ago, when he worked as my communications director, he requested to handle my office's space legislative portfolio. Given I represented a district with no [ORG] presence and didn't serve on any committee of jurisdiction, no one [in our office actually handled that topic.]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000999", "text": "Christmas in September In Washington, Christmas comes in September when binge buying bureaucrats go hog wild fulfilling their own wish lists. That's because the federal government's authority to spend money left over at the end of a fiscal year expires at midnight on September 30. In the rush to use it before they lose it, $53 billion was recently spent in a single week!", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "binge buying bureaucrats go hog wild, $53 billion was recently spent in a single week"}
{"id": "crec_008499", "text": "My oldest brother was career military. So I know how important that service is and how important it is that we pick the right person to lead our men and women in uniform. [PERSON] claims that our brave women in the military are somehow lowering our standards, but it is his lack of qualifications, his lack of character, and his lack of judgment that lower the standards for Secretary of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "ad_hominem", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "appeals to personal military family connection for authority; uses 'brave women,' 'our men and women in uniform' (flag_waving); attacks opponent's 'lack of qualifications,' 'lack of character,' 'lack of judgment' (ad_hominem)"}
{"id": "crec_009661", "text": "90 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I would ask unanimous consent of [SPEAKER] to set aside the pending amendment so I may offer my amendment No. 90; that there be up to 15 minutes for debate on the amendment; and that upon the use or yielding back of time, the Senate vote on the amendment without further intervening action or debate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008402", "text": "Oil and gas drive our economy, produce great jobs, and produce our prosperity. And because of American oil and gas, we do it cleaner; we do it safer; and we do it more reliably than anyplace else on planet Earth. The facts could not be clearer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Oil and gas drive our economy, produce great jobs, and produce our prosperity... we do it cleaner, safer, and more reliably than anyplace else on planet Earth"}
{"id": "crec_001814", "text": "I am glad we did it. These are the kinds of kitchen-table issues, this is the kitchen-table legislation, that people were talking about, and the lack of seeing this legislation passed dampened the enthusiasm of key aspects of the Democratic base. Mr. [PERSON] , I want you to know there are some people who now want to back off of this legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "kitchen-table issues/legislation used to suggest vital everyday concerns; 'lack of seeing this legislation passed dampened the enthusiasm' implies negative consequences for Democratic base support"}
{"id": "crec_000382", "text": "For the past 4 years, the American people have suffered under the [PERSON] administration's disastrous open-border policies that have allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood our communities. One of those illegal aliens was [PERSON] . In 2023, he was caught shoplifting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "disastrous open-border policies, illegal aliens flood our communities, linking one shoplifting case to broader immigration policy"}
{"id": "crec_004944", "text": "We should dramatically increase it. We should make it $5,000 per child. And more than that, we ought to allow families to apply this tax relief against payroll taxes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "dramatic increases and expanded tax relief presented as self-evidently beneficial without substantive argument or reasoning"}
{"id": "crec_001806", "text": "We would have seen her go up to the podium at the dais, and we would have seen her, if this legislation had passed, certify the election of [PERSON] for President--as President, to be more appropriate, if the legislation had passed. There are two reasons: Two Democratic Senators refused to do what more than 50 Republicans did when they saw the opportunity. I will close with this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "contrasting two Democratic Senators' refusal with Republican actions, implying only two options exist regarding certification and using Republicans' behavior to deflect from the current scenario"}
{"id": "crec_008794", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I do disagree with my colleague because this bill eliminates the flexibility in the current system to consider the totality of the circumstances, and restoring the best interest standard that every [ORG] is intimately familiar with is remedying the lack of flexibility in the bill as it is written. But again, we will continue this conversation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008663", "text": "None. That should not be up for debate. A vaccine denier should not be our highest ranking healthcare official.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["name_calling", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "vaccine denier - characterizes opponent with pejorative label; presents only two positions (vaccine denier vs. acceptable healthcare official) without acknowledging middle ground"}
{"id": "crec_008974", "text": "[ORG]. The procedures contained in subsections (C), (D), (E), and (F) of this rule shall apply to persons nominated by the President to positions requiring their full- time service. At the discretion of the Chair and Ranking Minority Member, those procedures may apply to persons nominated by the President to serve on a part-time basis.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002247", "text": "It was a tough loss for them, but they showed absolute class, starting with their coach and their fan base and certainly the team. Actually, he was a player for [ORG]. He was a tight end on our football team a number of years back and was an offensive coordinator.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000107", "text": "[ORG] of Virginia. (6) Committee on energy and commerce.--Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001055", "text": "Those are the folks who oversee the whole program. By implementing all of that, we were able to save over 900,000 hours of our teammates' time. We did over 1,000 different projects.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001903", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Oklahoma, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Missouri, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 147, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002966", "text": "This bill would mandate immigration detention for an undocumented immigrant if they are arrested for shoplifting--even if they are never charged or convicted for that offense. Most people, having paid a little attention to law enforcement review, television, movies, know the process. You steal a candy bar, a hand on the shoulder, clerk says: Wait a minute.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing detention policy through emotionally charged examples like 'steal a candy bar' to make the consequences seem disproportionate and unjust"}
{"id": "crec_005695", "text": "It is un-American. It is not who we are as a country. It is an affront to our most basic values, one that transcends any law or policy and lives at the core of our faith.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "It is un-American... not who we are as a country... transcends any law or policy and lives at the core of our faith"}
{"id": "crec_000610", "text": "He flew an [ORG] flag. It was off the back of his truck. As a result of the terrorist attack, he destroyed families, destabilized a community, and broke the hearts of so many, many Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "flew an [ORG] flag...destroyed families, destabilized a community, broke the hearts"}
{"id": "crec_001218", "text": "All defense articles and services listed in this transmittal have been authorized for release and export to the recipient.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008673", "text": "This inflation caused by massive deficit spending--this is the stealth tax on every American. It is a very regressive tax. It primarily hurts people at the bottom part of the income spectrum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing inflation as a 'stealth tax' and emphasizing it 'hurts people at the bottom' uses emotionally charged language to frame deficit spending as harmful and secretive"}
{"id": "crec_005770", "text": "For You, O Lord, are our deliverer. In You will all be restored. In the strength of Your name we pray.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-3", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000834", "text": "This week, [PERSON] continued his march of shame by giving America's highest civilian honor to [PERSON] . [PERSON] is a pro-crime activist. He is a supporter--an active supporter--of defunding the police.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "\"march of shame,\" \"pro-crime activist,\" characterizing police defunding support as shameful behavior deserving of dishonor"}
{"id": "crec_007058", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to finish my brief remarks before we proceed to the vote. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006190", "text": "As we speak, interest rates are going up, our debt is getting refinanced at higher interest rates, and we have more debt that we are going to have to finance at higher rates. That means interest is going up. We have a job to do right now to cut spending, cut deficits, and save our country for our children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "interest rates going up, debt refinanced at higher rates, save our country for our children"}
{"id": "crec_000561", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ). The Senator from Iowa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_000736", "text": "Committee on the Budget: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] (FL). Committee on Indian Affairs: Ms. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005798", "text": "CELEBRATING NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to celebrate one of northeast Nebraska's most important institutions, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008512", "text": "It was all a ploy to take down President [PERSON] and tarnish his legacy. Before the plot to take out the President was in full swing, we saw America achieving heights we had never ever seen before. For a moment, the left thought they had bested [PERSON] with the COVID sham and the [PERSON] riots and ultimately by rigging the election.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "ploy to take down President, COVID sham, rigging the election"}
{"id": "crec_005044", "text": "Demonstrating their commitment to the next generation, [ORG] partnered with [ORG] and [ORG] to create an apprenticeship program. This initiative offers high school students the opportunity to graduate with both a high school diploma, as well as a certificate in a trade, such as welding. In September, Boomerang Corporation looks forward to celebrating its 27th business anniversary in Iowa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137-2", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "commitment to the next generation"}
{"id": "crec_008882", "text": "She has worked so hard, often at the sacrifice of time with her beautiful boys and family and her husband. But she set the bar so high on professionalism, in excellence, in everything she does that everybody around her--in our Anchorage office, in our Alaska offices, in our DC offices--everybody around her, myself included, gets lifted up and made better and has improved by being in [PERSON] 's orbit. Those are special people, and that is what [PERSON] is.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "set the bar so high on professionalism, in excellence, in everything she does"}
{"id": "crec_001380", "text": "All those challenges and this is what the out-of-touch, elitist, billionaire Republican Party wants to waste time on, sanctioning the ICC. I actually listen to people in my district, Mr. [PERSON] , and I ask them what they want Congress to work on. Not once, never ever, have I heard them talk about sanctioning the [ORG] as one of their priorities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "out-of-touch, elitist, billionaire Republican Party wants to waste time on"}
{"id": "crec_000774", "text": "One of those communities is Athens, [ORG], where 22-year-old nursing student [PERSON] was murdered by an illegal immigrant while out for a morning jog last year. [PERSON] 's murderer not only entered the country illegally, he was arrested twice--twice--in the United States and never deported. This week, the Senate is going to vote on Senator [PERSON] 's bipartisan [PERSON] , which would ensure that illegal immigrants are deported when they are arrested, as [PERSON] 's killer was, for crimes like theft and burglary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "murdered by an illegal immigrant, arrested twice--twice--in the United States and never deported"}
{"id": "crec_009783", "text": "ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 84 At the request of Ms. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from Mississippi (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from Indiana (Mr. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of S. 84, a bill to require [ORG] to take into custody certain aliens who have been charged in the United States with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO. 21 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , his name was added as a cosponsor of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-6", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006929", "text": "This amendment would make H-1B visas portable and give guest workers the ability to easily change jobs. Mr. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] and others have argued that we need a highly skilled and well-educated workforce. I agree.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Mr. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] and others have argued that we need a highly skilled and well-educated workforce. I agree."}
{"id": "crec_001449", "text": "It is a sham, and its officials need to find real jobs. They have no authority to target Americans or our allies, especially Israel, and we won't stand for it, Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I look forward to passing this bill and encouraging the Senate to pass it in time for President [PERSON] to sign it on day one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "sham, no authority, need to find real jobs"}
{"id": "crec_008546", "text": "It is one of the reasons why I have been saying over and over that every house you see is really a home, and every home represents a family--a family who now mourns maybe the loss of a relative, maybe the loss of their home, or loss of irreplaceable items like family photo albums or a wedding dress or baby pictures or a loved one's red, white, and blue military burial flag. But through the destruction, we have also seen some signs of hope, like the firefighter in the Pacific Palisades who offered to go back and save two dogs trapped while the neighborhood was still burning or a 14-year-old [ORG] who saw the devastation that hit her community and created a charity, [PERSON] , to provide beauty products and clothes to her friends so that they could feel like themselves again while coping with this disaster. Every day we hear stories like this, even in the midst of a disaster, people coming to each other's aid.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 167, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "emotional language about loss ('mourns,' 'irreplaceable items,' 'loved one's red, white, and blue military burial flag') combined with patriotic imagery (military flag) to evoke emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_006683", "text": "This is not a political talking point. They are literally cutting [ORG], [ORG], possibly [ORG], the Affordable Care Act, and they are going to take all these resources--these are their pay-fors--and shovel it to people so that they can continue their private jet subsidies, pay a lower tax rate, eliminate the 15-percent minimum billion-dollar corporation tax. So before we passed the tax legislation when we were in charge, there were lots of the wealthiest corporations, international corporations, in the history of the planet that paid zero taxes--zero taxes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "cutting [ORG], shovel it to people, private jet subsidies, zero taxes"}
{"id": "crec_007059", "text": "Amendment No. 23 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, we are about to consider two amendments to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007556", "text": "Rather than rushing to enact additional immigration pe4alties that could cause harm to survivors, we urge Congressional representatives to consult with service providers and survivors themselves to develop legislation that is responsive to their experiences and needs. As a diverse coalition of organizations serving and advocating on behalf of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking, we thank you for paying vigilant attention to how this bill, by expanding the ways in which domestic violence arrests cad prevent people from accessing or maintaining legal status, can ultimately have devastating consequences for immigrant victims of domestic violence. Sincerely, [ORG] on [ORG], ASISTA Immigration Assistance, [PERSON] , [ORG], AF31RM, [ORG] to End Violence, [ORG] ([PERSON] ), Americans for Immigrant [PERSON] , [ORG], Autistic [PERSON] Advocacy, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] for Peace and Equity, Caring Across Generations, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for [ORG], Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), [ORG], Coalition of Labor Union Women, AFL-CIO, [ORG], U.S.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 195, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "expanding the ways in which domestic violence arrests can prevent people from accessing or maintaining legal status, can ultimately have devastating consequences for immigrant victims"}
{"id": "crec_000341", "text": "This provision is almost certainly unconstitutional. Unfortunately, the lack of attention that Republicans pay to such matters perfectly sums up their entire approach to immigration. Instead of working toward serious solutions to serious problems, they are content to simply play politics and consider it a job well done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "strawman"], "evidence": "Republicans...play politics and consider it a job well done; characterizing an entire group's approach as dismissive rather than engaging with specific policy arguments"}
{"id": "crec_001274", "text": "In 2020, they strengthened its capabilities further with the purchase of a molding machinery company. [ORG] partner company [PERSON] also provides machinery services and sales across the Midwest. [ORG] actively supports its community through sponsoring activity tickets for [ORG], ensuring all elementary students can attend home sporting events.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008622", "text": "This bill has no exemption for kids, no cutoff age, no process to keep it in line with our general child welfare laws. As written, this bill appears so broad that a child could be locked up and put on a plane without their parents. With such sweeping language, I am deeply concerned the [PERSON] administration could abuse this law to deport Dreamers or our farmworkers or other essential workers who, again, may never be convicted of a crime.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "a child could be locked up and put on a plane without their parents; could abuse this law to deport Dreamers"}
{"id": "crec_002823", "text": "What are we doing here? Why is this reservoir empty? Why has it been empty for nearly a year to make a little repair in the cover that may have been able to be done by reservoir staff?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "empty for nearly a year; loaded language in 'What are we doing here?' suggesting incompetence; implies wrongdoing through rhetorical questions about prolonged reservoir closure"}
{"id": "crec_000601", "text": "REMEMBERING JIMMY CARTER [SPEAKER]. Madam President, on [PERSON] , this morning, Special Air Mission 39 took off from Georgia, carrying the 39th President of the United States, [PERSON] , so he may be honored here in the [ORG] one last time. For the next 2 days, President [PERSON] will lie in state in the [PERSON] of [ORG] Capitol Building, joining the small and distinguished list of eminent Americans who have earned this honor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-7", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "small and distinguished list of eminent Americans who have earned this honor"}
{"id": "crec_000612", "text": "To keep America safe, we need to refocus our government on the priorities that matter to the people of this Nation. We have seen this in realtime in terms of the danger of the distorted priorities of the last administration. Their priorities were a wide open border, a woke Pentagon leader, a weaponized and distracted FBI, a feckless foreign policy, and, of course, a weak President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "danger of the distorted priorities, weak President, weaponized FBI, feckless foreign policy"}
{"id": "crec_008692", "text": "So what I have done in each one of these scenarios here is I have taken the basic spending levels. I have increased them based on population growth and inflation, plus I exempt [ORG], [ORG], and interest. And I have plugged in President [PERSON] 's 2025 budget amounts for [ORG], [ORG], and interest.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000409", "text": "[PERSON] fought for her life. You hear about her last 20 minutes on this Earth. She fought, and she fought with everything she had.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "fought for her life...fought with everything she had - emotionally charged language emphasizing struggle and desperation to invoke sympathy and fear"}
{"id": "crec_007033", "text": "I do know this: I have been on [ORG] for 10 years. I chair it now. I have heard the testimony of senior leaders that [ORG] poses a great threat to our national security and our people's well-being.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "testimony of senior leaders that [ORG] poses a great threat to our national security"}
{"id": "crec_001121", "text": "Olen, thank you for your life of service. Thank you for your friendship. Thank you for being such a great member of a great family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "such a great member of a great family"}
{"id": "crec_001539", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I was unavoidably detained today during the roll call vote on H.R. 23 -- [ORG]. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006250", "text": "If you have something better and more reasonable, I am standing here, so let's see it. The clock is ticking. The President is inaugurated in a couple of days here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "The clock is ticking, President is inaugurated in a couple of days"}
{"id": "crec_000035", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 3 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 17 votes for President and J.D.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004355", "text": "What business does the government have micromanaging how any sporting association runs their league? Having a congressional vote to dictate the terms of participation in a private sporting league is a slippery slope. What is next, voting on what uniforms the [ORG] should wear each Saturday or, more sinisterly, who can participate based on race, religion, or national origin?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "slippery slope argument about government micromanagement leading to voting on uniforms and discriminatory participation rules; loaded language with 'micromanaging' and 'more sinisterly'"}
{"id": "crec_002352", "text": "ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS REMEMBERING KARI DZIEDZIC [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to enter the following letter into [ORG], on behalf of Ms. [PERSON] and myself. The material follows: To the Family and Friends of Kari Dziedzic: Our thoughts are with you and everyone who knew and loved [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008154", "text": "A bill to authorize certain States to take certain actions on certain Federal land to secure an international border of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 535.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001547", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , due to illness, I was unable to vote during the vote series today. Had I been able to vote, I would have voted: [ORG] on Roll Call No. 7, H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002991", "text": "Most recently, [ORG] users have been sharing harrowing videos of the devastating wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes in California. These personal videos have provided a firsthand account of the tragedy, creating a virtual gathering space for shared stories, mutual support, and urgent calls for assistance to this climate change- created catastrophe. Over the past 24 hours, I have received millions of views on my [ORG] videos advocating for an end to the ban.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "harrowing videos of the devastating wildfires...destroyed thousands of homes...tragedy...climate change-created catastrophe"}
{"id": "crec_008769", "text": "Where has the outrage been? My colleagues and I on this side of the aisle have been diligently bringing this to the forefront time and time again, even holding our own version of a hearing because we couldn't get our Democratic colleagues to shine light on this. How dare they step out of line with [PERSON] and [PERSON] and their open border policy and agenda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "outrage, open border policy and agenda, couldn't get Democratic colleagues to shine light"}
{"id": "crec_004878", "text": "This is unacceptable. According to Axios, Ms. [PERSON] has submitted all of the paperwork required on her end as part of the background check process. And this is someone who serves currently as a lieutenant colonel in [ORG], a former Member of Congress, somebody who has been thoroughly vetted for security purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "According to Axios, Ms. [PERSON] has submitted all of the paperwork required...someone who serves currently as a lieutenant colonel in [ORG], a former Member of Congress, somebody who has been thoroughly vetted for security purposes"}
{"id": "crec_002171", "text": "So much of what we did was bipartisan, and that is the reason right here. It was a sight to behold to watch [PERSON] . Again, I just have to say, with all the pressure and everything going on and having a new family--a new young family, a beautiful child; now there are two--he stayed cool as a cucumber.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "a sight to behold to watch [PERSON]...he stayed cool as a cucumber"}
{"id": "crec_007920", "text": "They are still pushing high-speed rail in California, a project that was initially passed narrowly on the ballot to use $9 billion of taxpayer bond money to help develop what would be a $33 billion rail project to make a fast train from SF to L.A. Within a year, they raised that number to $42 billion. I remember because I was there in the legislature.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Describing the project as 'still pushing' (negative framing) and using escalating cost figures ($9B to $42B) to suggest wasteful spending; establishing credibility with 'I was there in the legislature'"}
{"id": "crec_006173", "text": "That is going to translate into a career, into anything that they get involved with where they have to accomplish something. It is not just about sports. It is a psychological element that we need to make sure exists.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "a psychological element that we need to make sure exists"}
{"id": "crec_000310", "text": "Like many of the immigration-related bills the GOP is now advancing, this one seems to follow a simple strategy: Pick a crime, paste into it a template immigration law covering convicted criminals, and then require detention or deportation of certain persons merely accused of committing the crime or arrested for committing the crime. No due process is required at all. This allows us to get up and demonize immigrants without doing anything to fix the immigration system and to act tough without actually making America safer or solving any of the problems within the immigration laws.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes GOP immigration bills as merely 'demonizing immigrants' and acting tough without substance, rather than engaging with stated policy rationales"}
{"id": "crec_001791", "text": "Raising the minimum wage would have made a difference. I assure you there are people who would have been grateful that the minimum wage was raised, and it would have inspired them to come to the polls to vote. The Equality Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'I assure you there are people who would have been grateful' - vague appeal to unnamed beneficiaries combined with authoritative assertion"}
{"id": "crec_008819", "text": "Who is more of a target for gangs than children left alone in the home because their parent has been unjustly imprisoned? That does exactly the opposite of what my colleague wants to achieve. So I know this conversation will continue; at least, I hope it will.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'children left alone in the home because their parent has been unjustly imprisoned' and 'target for gangs'"}
{"id": "crec_002894", "text": "Nonetheless, [ORG] executives have been awarded generous six-figure bonuses despite financial losses and service issues. The disclosure of such huge payouts rightfully outrages the public and members of [ORG]. This bill is a strong step toward transparency and accountability for [ORG] executives and [ORG]'s board of directors, which awards the bonuses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "generous six-figure bonuses despite financial losses, rightfully outrages the public"}
{"id": "crec_009230", "text": "SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS The following concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions were read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 28. A resolution honoring the service of women in combat roles in [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008217", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 503. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution, specifically clause 18 (relating to the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers vested in Congress).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH222-31", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005916", "text": "It is critical that we work to improve our existing trade agreement with Taiwan and ensure that future trade agreements continue to facilitate the development of domestic American manufacturing. As elected officials, it is our responsibility to ensure the tax code works for the benefit of all. Supporting [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "improve our existing trade agreement with Taiwan and ensure that future trade agreements continue to facilitate the development of domestic American manufacturing"}
{"id": "crec_009906", "text": "We will not be broken. And we will not fail. From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "We will not be broken... United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation"}
{"id": "crec_001942", "text": "A bill to authorize the Secretary of the [ORG] to provide funding for [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 310.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008149", "text": "A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish deadlines for States to count the ballots cast in elections for Federal office and to certify the results of such elections, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida): H.R. 530.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006102", "text": "GRAPPLING WITH HORRIBLE DEVASTATION ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , as families in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas grapple with horrible devastation, loss of homes, community, loss of life and livelihoods, I am disgusted to hear that Republican leadership--Speaker [PERSON] --is planning to use this tragedy for political gain and withhold aid from California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-4", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "horrible devastation, loss of homes, loss of life and livelihoods, disgusted, withhold aid"}
{"id": "crec_004563", "text": "Let's not screw that up. The other one we often never talk about it, and I am going to do it in a future presentation, it is actually from an economist's standpoint and may be bigger than the fact that we get to buy and sell in our own currency. This second extraordinary privilege is that smart people from around the world, entrepreneurs from around the world, investors from around the world want to do it here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "smart people from around the world, entrepreneurs from around the world, investors from around the world want to do it here"}
{"id": "crec_002274", "text": "Mr. President, I am going to do what I do so well and so often and agree with [PERSON] . How is that? [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009890", "text": "And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal, and we didn't give it to China; we gave it to Panama. And we are taking it back. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing the situation as binary ('we are taking it back') while suggesting China's involvement represents a threat requiring reclamation"}
{"id": "crec_000674", "text": "My point is, my outbound investment piece of legislation says we need to know who is investing money in China and what that is being used for. I could care less if people want to build more [ORG] or [ORG] in China. I am not worried about that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001335", "text": "21 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are hereby, elected to the following standing committees of [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-2", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002574", "text": "[PERSON] was the first person to call my mama and offer his condolences. I always remembered we were at the graveyard working and trying to get the site at the veterans cemetery, and I remember mama said: Oh, [PERSON] , you shouldn't have called. This is costing you money.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005328", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. . HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007135", "text": "MEASURES REFERRED The following bill was read the first and the second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: H.R. 153. An act to provide for an online repository for certain reporting requirements for recipients of [ORG] disaster assistance, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS184-5", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007676", "text": "[SPEAKER] will report the motion to recommit. [SPEAKER] read as follows: Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin moves to recommit the bill H.R. 30 to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009374", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent for 2 minutes to speak to this bill. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008598", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005722", "text": "We have been discussing a raise of Shasta Dam. It would be easy to raise it 18 feet. That would cause about 630,000 more acre-feet to be available to be stored in California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000068", "text": "APPOINTMENT OF TELLERS ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE TO COUNT ELECTORAL VOTES [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 2, and the order of [ORG], the [ORG] announces the Speaker's appointment of two Members as tellers on the part of the House to count the electoral votes. The gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. [PERSON] ), and The gentleman from New York (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-7", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008014", "text": "We should know that those words in that letter from that Birmingham jail cell brought national and international attention to the civil rights movement as we know it. Some of you will recall the grainy film and the black and white footage of the great March on Washington that occurred on August 28, 1963, where the eyes and the ears of the entire world would be fixated on the magnificent power and oratory of Dr. [PERSON] . I know, as a 14-year-old kid, remembering it, watching on a very small black and white TV set the delayed broadcast because live TV was not what it is today, and I couldn't believe as I sat there the number of people who appeared to be a sea of witnesses that had assembled.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 129, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'magnificent power and oratory' and 'sea of witnesses' describing the March on Washington"}
{"id": "crec_004351", "text": "Far from protecting anyone, it puts our children at risk. Mr. [PERSON] , actually, I urge colleagues on both sides of the aisle to reject this government overreach. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "puts our children at risk; government overreach"}
{"id": "crec_000495", "text": "A bill to allow a period in which members of the clergy may revoke their exemption from [ORG] coverage, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009824", "text": "We praise Him and give Him glory. (Applause.) Let us pray.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004978", "text": "I certainly disagree with it, but I understand it. But that is not what [PERSON] did. That is a lie.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["name_calling"], "evidence": "calling something 'a lie' is a direct dismissal and accusation without detailed refutation"}
{"id": "crec_004952", "text": "That was the original proposal, and there is good reason for that. These families are contributing to our economic system, to [ORG] and [ORG]. They are paying taxes, along with everybody else, but right now they are not getting tax relief.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "families are 'contributing to our economic system' and 'paying taxes, along with everybody else' while being denied benefits"}
{"id": "crec_008158", "text": "A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement for inpatient critical access hospital services; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Connecticut, Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina): H.R. 539.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001789", "text": "Of course, raising the minimum wage, I have spoken about this and closing the wage gap. When you raise the minimum wage, you do something that we talk about here quite often, and that is the rising tide theory. A rising tide will raise all boats, we say.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "rising tide will raise all boats"}
{"id": "crec_000978", "text": "However, it is a fitting prelude to a much bigger storm that is headed this way that will sweep over this city and forever alter the way it operates. I am, of course, talking about [ORG], or [ORG]. Headed up by [PERSON] and [PERSON] , [ORG] is putting Washington on notice.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "much bigger storm that is headed this way that will sweep over this city and forever alter the way it operates"}
{"id": "crec_001280", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 33. A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to clarify the nature of judicial review of agency interpretations of statutory and regulatory provisions; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 34.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS66", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006738", "text": "What they found is after about 90 days of talking about it, the American public was so mad that these tax cuts went to the wealthy rather than everyday people that they dropped it as a campaign issue to talk about other things and still lost badly in those midterms. The proposed extensions are going to tilt toward the wealthy, as my colleagues indicated. But get this, the deficit effects that are likely to be felt in some of these distributional effects President [PERSON] is proposing, why not mitigate those by jacking up tariffs?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'the American public was so mad' and 'the deficit effects that are likely to be felt'"}
{"id": "crec_002214", "text": "To my Democratic colleagues, I implore you to see reason, to see [PERSON] 's face, and to think about the potential consequences if you choose to block this again. I once again want to read the words of [PERSON] 's mother and stepfather, [PERSON] and [PERSON] : [ORG] has our full support because it would help save innocent lives and prevent more families from going through the kind of heartbreak we've experienced. [PERSON] would have been 23 on January 10th.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "think about the potential consequences if you choose to block this again; heartbreak; would have been 23"}
{"id": "crec_004900", "text": "It will ensure that illegal aliens who committed a theft-related crime after unlawfully crossing our border are off our streets before they can commit the most heinous crime imaginable. [PERSON] killer was first arrested for coming into our country illegally. Then he was unlawfully paroled and released by the [PERSON] administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "illegal aliens, the most heinous crime imaginable, killer, unlawfully paroled"}
{"id": "crec_007541", "text": "It passed by voice vote. It reshaped how we as a country talk about gender-based violence and how we treat survivors. [ORG] recognized that we cannot be serious about eliminating violence against women if we are not equally serious about eradicating violence against everyone, regardless of immigration status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "cannot be serious about eliminating violence against women if we are not equally serious about eradicating violence against everyone"}
{"id": "crec_006144", "text": "This is a statewide sanctuary policy that protects illegal immigrants from ICE being able to pick them up when it is found that we have illegals in this country that could be processed federally and, hopefully, deported. Cities across California are openly defying Federal immigration laws, creating safe havens for those who have broken the law. These sanctuary cities as well are not just a burden on our resources; they are a threat, as I said, to public safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Describes immigrants as 'illegals who have broken the law' and frames sanctuary policies as creating 'safe havens' and presenting a 'threat to public safety'"}
{"id": "crec_004647", "text": "4. The chair of the committee noticing the deposition may designate that deposition as part of a joint investigation between committees, and in that case, provide notice to the members of the committees. If such a designation is made, the chair and ranking minority member of the additional committee(s) may designate committee staff to attend pursuant to regulation 3.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006769", "text": "I hope we can take this up in [ORG]. I have some [ORG] colleagues who are here on the floor. Senator [PERSON] has been the lead Democrat on [ORG] for some time and is now at the helm of another committee.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002428", "text": "General Leave [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the Record on H.R. 152.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003917", "text": "[ORG] cannot remain in power and the people of Gaza deserve new political leadership that will prioritize peace as they establish a new government. Ideally, that government will be a reformed Palestinian authority empowered to both govern in the West Bank and Gaza. The ultimate goal for all parties must be a lasting peace, and that can only be reached through a two-state solution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "lasting peace, prioritize peace, reformed Palestinian authority empowered"}
{"id": "crec_008384", "text": "It is common to refer to today's challenges as the gravest America has faced since World War II, but we certainly don't invest like we believe that is the case. So here is a good way of looking at it: Beating the axis in World War II meant spending 37 percent of our GDP on defense; in the Korean War, it took nearly 14 percent; the height of Vietnam, 9 percent; the [PERSON] buildup at 6 percent. Today we are spending 3 percent of GDP on the arsenal of democracy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "comparing current spending to WWII spending (37% GDP) and framing it as a choice between either matching historical defense spending levels or failing to address grave challenges"}
{"id": "crec_000952", "text": "We are just getting started here. So I am very excited, as I know all of us are, to embark on a serious mission of not just government waste but pulling in our government spending to make it make sense and more toward a balanced budget. California Wildfires Mr. President, before I begin, I would like to say a few words about the tragedy unfolding on the west coast.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "embarking on a serious mission of not just government waste but pulling in our government spending to make it make sense and more toward a balanced budget"}
{"id": "crec_001188", "text": "The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region. The principal contractor will be [ORG], located in Tucson, [ORG]. There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this potential sale.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009624", "text": "In an outrage of justice, this illegal migrant was released after his arrest. [PERSON] 's Law requires immigration authorities to detain criminals responsible for a death or serious bodily jury. Illegal migrants shouldn't be here in the first place.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "outrage of justice, illegal migrant, criminals"}
{"id": "crec_004821", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senators [PERSON] and [PERSON] be permitted to complete their remarks prior to the scheduled recess. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] of Florida). Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000688", "text": "I know it is easy to say let's do the easy things now, and we will do the hard stuff later. But later never seems to come so we have to deal with these now. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009505", "text": "The Chairman shall enforce this subparagraph. (2) Extended questioning of witnesses by members.--The Chairman of [ORG] a subcommittee, with the concurrence of the ranking minority member, or the [ORG] or subcommittee by motion, may permit a specified number of its members to question a witness for longer than five minutes. The time for extended questioning of a witness under this subdivision shall be equal for the majority party and minority party and may not exceed one hour in the aggregate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006578", "text": "He was released. When he committed a second crime in the United States, he should have been deported, but he wasn't. He was released--before he ever got to murder.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on crime and murder; framing of release decisions as dangerous failures that led to tragedy"}
{"id": "crec_007660", "text": "The vast majority of rapes in America of American women are committed by citizens, and the vast majority of noncitizens never commit rapes. [PERSON] released 58,184 noncitizens with criminal records who came in during his administration, including 8,620 violent criminals and 306 murderers. ICE ended up rearresting 11,000 noncitizens who had been admitted under [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "Released noncitizens with criminal records including murderers, contrasted with statistics showing citizens commit most rapes, creating false equivalence between risk from immigrants and actual crime data"}
{"id": "crec_008871", "text": "So when Alaskans need help on all those things--[ORG] checks; VA benefits, we are the [ORG] with more veterans per capita than any [ORG] in the country; [ORG]; the IRS comes screwing up something--they come to us and we work on these cases. This is a rough number, but since I have been in office, our Alaska staff has worked on more than 12,000 of these cases, and they are really complicated and take hours and hours. We always have at least one person attached to these cases, something they will always remember, and their lives are impacted by whether they are resolved in a good way or bad way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "their lives are impacted by whether they are resolved in a good way or bad way"}
{"id": "crec_000900", "text": "Where would American acting be without people like [PERSON] , born in Texas to parents who had emigrated from Switzerland and Norway; or [PERSON] , born in California to parents who had emigrated from Hong Kong and Shanghai? Where would American business be without people like ketchup magnate [PERSON] , born in Pittsburgh to parents who had emigrated from Germany; or outdoor gear entrepreneur [PERSON] , born in Washington State to parents who had emigrated from Russia; or cosmetics titan [ORG], born in Queens to parents who had emigrated from Hungary and Slovakia; or entertainment executive [PERSON] , born in Brooklyn to parents who had emigrated from Mandatory Palestine? Where would American music be without people like [PERSON] , born in New York to Italian immigrants; or [PERSON] , the child of Russian immigrants?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 135, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Rhetorical questions celebrating immigrant contributions to American culture and business ('Where would American acting be without...', 'Where would American business be without...') that invoke national pride and generalized idealization of immigrants' success without substantive argumentation"}
{"id": "crec_001713", "text": "To give you an idea how that math works, when little [PERSON] , who is 2\\1/2\\ right now, is 23 or 24, if you wanted to maintain baseline services in America as they are today, every U.S. tax rate, tariff, corporate, individual, everything, has to double, a 100 percent increase. It is not pretend. It is called math.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "using a small child as emotional reference point combined with stark claim that 'every U.S. tax rate...has to double' to create alarm about unsustainable fiscal trajectory"}
{"id": "crec_000200", "text": "Of course, I know plenty of my Republican colleagues, including my friend the former Republican leader, did not participate in the attempts to undermine the election 4 years ago, but too many did. If we want to prevent another attack like January 6, neither side can ever again tolerate the kind of conspiratorial madness we saw 4 years ago, and it starts by setting an example and doing the right thing today no matter which side got their way in the electoral process. On this, the 4-year anniversary of the [ORG] attack, the only obstruction we will see is the obstruction coming from the storm.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "appeal to authority through reference to 'former Republican leader' and 'friend'; loaded language in 'conspiratorial madness' and 'attack'"}
{"id": "crec_002914", "text": "ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 12 noon on Tuesday, January 14; that following the prayer and pledge, the [ORG] of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate be in a period of morning business for debate only, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each; further, that the Senate recess from 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. to allow for the weekly conference meetings; finally, that at 2:45 p.m., morning business be closed and the Senate resume consideration of Calendar No. 1, S. 5.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS125", "word_count": 142, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002344", "text": "TRIBUTE TO ROBIN PHILIPS [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise today to honor [PERSON] , who is retiring after over two decades of leadership at the Advocates For Human Rights. [PERSON] was on the organization's delegation to document violence against women in Romania in 1994.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008456", "text": "We ask them to do all of that and then walk into enemy fire and be good enough, competent enough, qualified enough that, regardless of the threat they face, they will still be able to do their jobs. We ask them to be so ready for the mission at hand that they can still fly that helicopter, still man that ship, still fight that fire until their very last breaths. Tell me: How can we ask these warriors to train and perform to the absolute highest standard if we are going to confirm a guy who doesn't seem to care enough to prepare to lead them in any way?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrasts warriors' exceptional standards with implicit criticism of a leader, using emotionally charged language ('doesn't seem to care') to frame a binary choice between confirming someone unfit versus honoring military excellence"}
{"id": "crec_003993", "text": "She plans to continue pursuing her academic and athletic journey at [ORG]. [PERSON] 's remarkable achievements exemplify perseverance, skill, and sportsmanship. She serves as a role model not just in her community but for young athletes across our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "remarkable achievements exemplify perseverance, skill, and sportsmanship"}
{"id": "crec_005697", "text": "In doing so, I urge my colleagues to do the right thing and stand up for our values as a Nation. Let us send the right message to the American people that their government of the people, by the people, and for the people will always stand by them unconditionally, no matter what.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "stand up for our values as a Nation, government of the people, by the people, and for the people, unconditionally"}
{"id": "crec_000366", "text": "In 2019, a man in New Jersey was arrested for shoplifting and trying to hit a police officer with a car because facial recognition software falsely identified him as the perpetrator. He spent 10 days in jail, even though he was actually 30 miles away from where the crime was committed. If he had been a DACA or a [ORG] recipient, and this bill had been enacted, he would be subject to mandatory immigration detention even though he was innocent of the crime of which he was accused.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing innocent man wrongly jailed and detained, emphasizing vulnerability of DACA recipients through hypothetical worst-case scenario of 'mandatory immigration detention even though he was innocent'"}
{"id": "crec_006178", "text": "We are also seeing it with the bill we passed last week, [ORG]. Again, I thank Congressman [PERSON] and [PERSON] for their leadership on these critical issues. To my colleagues, again, I appreciate their willingness to spend some time down here today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002475", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to join me and support this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. [PERSON] ), who is the sponsor of the legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006482", "text": "[PERSON] 's killer is now serving a life sentence for murder, and while her family can perhaps take at least some comfort in the fact that justice has been served, [PERSON] should be alive today. The truth is that what happened to [PERSON] could have happened anywhere. That is why the Senate is currently considering Senator [PERSON] 's [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "what happened to [PERSON] could have happened anywhere"}
{"id": "crec_006795", "text": "People want to work. They want to pay their bills. They don't want to have the constant anxiety of whether they are going to miss a mortgage payment or they are going to miss a rent payment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "constant anxiety of whether they are going to miss a mortgage payment or rent payment"}
{"id": "crec_001194", "text": "4. [ORG] provides the physical and electrical interface between the [ORG] and the missile. 5.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006071", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , these men and women exemplify that motto, so I ask that you join me in praying for and honoring these brave Montanans who have traveled far and wide and put themselves in harm's way to protect the lives and property of their fellow Americans. [PERSON] bless and [PERSON] to these heroes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "brave Montanans...protect the lives and property of their fellow Americans...heroes"}
{"id": "crec_002972", "text": "ICE assesses each case individually so the [ORG]'s limited resources are used effectively to protect national security and public safety. This bill, as currently written, would eliminate [ORG]'s discretion to prioritize detention and deportation of dangerous individuals. Instead, it requires--requires--ICE to treat a child arrested for shoplifting candy the same as an adult convicted of child abuse.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "requires ICE to treat a child arrested for shoplifting candy the same as an adult convicted of child abuse"}
{"id": "crec_006728", "text": "So there was some suggestion that what we should do is lower the corporate tax rate to put it more in tune with what other nations were charging. There is a little bit of an apples to oranges difficulty in doing that because other nations use a [ORG] tax that we don't use. Most economists said if we wanted to make our corporate tax rate equivalent to other nations, we should try to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to, like, 28 percent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004105", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER]. Will the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. [PERSON] ) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-5", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Pledge of Allegiance"}
{"id": "crec_008128", "text": "A bill to decrease dependency on People's Republic of China manufacturing and decrease migration due to lost regional economic opportunities; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007924", "text": "I think it is near [PERSON] or [PERSON] . Can you imagine the ridership between those two areas? It is ridiculous.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006942", "text": "In a few moments, I will ask unanimous consent that the Senate pass my legislation with Senator [PERSON] and Senator [PERSON] , the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act, to extend the deadline by which [ORG], [ORG]'s parent company, must sell [ORG] or face a ban in 270 days. This simple, one-sentence bill would avoid significant harm for [ORG]'s creators, who depend upon the app to make a living, to find community, to share resources during emergencies such as the Los Angeles wildfires, and to discuss everything from the latest pop culture trends to controversial political topics. It is the home to 170 million American users--170 million American users.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "significant harm, depend upon the app to make a living, face a ban, emergency such as the Los Angeles wildfires"}
{"id": "crec_007003", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The objection is heard. The Senator from Massachusetts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007975", "text": "No, it is not. We are going to help those folks. I am grateful for the help we have had in the north.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001079", "text": "There are many functions of [ORG] that could be better and less costly if we would move them out of this environment. Next, I would implement term limits for political appointees as well as long-term employees. I think there are opportunities for [ORG] consolidations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000040", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 9 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 9 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005038", "text": "ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS RECOGNIZING BOOMERANG CORPORATION [SPEAKER]. Madam President, as chair of [ORG], each week I recognize an outstanding Iowa small business that exemplifies the American entrepreneurial spirit. This week, it is my privilege to recognize [ORG], IA, as [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137-2", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "exemplifies the American entrepreneurial spirit"}
{"id": "crec_001887", "text": "A bill to cancel certain proposed changes to loan level price adjustments by [ORG] and credit fees charged by [ORG]; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland): H.R. 259.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007613", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , let's be very clear. Sexual offenses and domestic violence are serious crimes and are already grounds for deportability and inadmissibility, as they should be. Unfortunately, this bill is so poorly drafted that it would result in extremely harsh and unintended consequences, including the removal of survivors of domestic violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "extremely harsh and unintended consequences, including the removal of survivors of domestic violence"}
{"id": "crec_009705", "text": "Wouldn't the American people be a lot better off if [ORG] were left to focus on violent criminals and enforcing the border, not on kids accused of nonviolent crimes? I assume no one here really thinks that mandatorily incarcerating children accused of nonviolent crimes is the best, most strategic way to fix our immigration system. We certainly don't want a repeat of the images of children caged in chain-link enclosures screaming out for their parents.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "images of children caged in chain-link enclosures screaming out for their parents"}
{"id": "crec_000670", "text": "And that is what the Cold War was all about, leading ultimately to the fall of the Soviet Union. Strangely enough, the U.S. position toward China was just the opposite. Under President [PERSON] , he invited them into [ORG], believing that somehow by engaging in more trade with the rest of the world, that somehow China and [ORG] would change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Under President [PERSON], he invited them into [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_008126", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] to exclude extensions of credit made to veterans from the definition of a member business loan; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 508.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001200", "text": "There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [ORG], Washington, DC. Hon. [PERSON] , Chairman, [ORG], [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001819", "text": "It means something to me because I don't hate the country. I love this country. That is why I want to improve it with this legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "I love this country"}
{"id": "crec_001598", "text": "Lillian and her husband, [PERSON] , have been good friends of mine. As a matter a fact, at their daughter's wedding was the last time I ever saw my parents healthy. That was a wonderful time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH77", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008716", "text": "It is freedom that will allow these young people sitting in front of me here to do the same thing. But as long as government continues to grow, those freedoms will necessarily recede. It is a direct relationship.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents government growth and freedom as necessarily opposing forces with 'direct relationship,' creating false binary choice; uses loaded term 'freedom' to frame government growth negatively"}
{"id": "crec_002859", "text": "COMMUNICATION FROM [SPEAKER] OF THE HOUSE [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ) laid before the House the following communication from [SPEAKER] of [ORG] of [SPEAKER], [ORG], Washington, DC, January 10, 2025. Hon. [PERSON] , Speaker, [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-4", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000152", "text": "And the floor there--the court--is called [ORG] in his honor. As I recall my days playing basketball there, there was one thing that you never could miss in any game in which he was involved, and that was his loud voice bouncing off the ceiling in that auditorium. That auditorium was built in 1954.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000410", "text": "She didn't want to be raped. She didn't want to be brutalized. I don't want to curse here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "raped, brutalized - emotionally charged language describing violent acts to evoke fear and emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_000245", "text": "IN RECOGNITION OF MAJOR JAMIE MELCHERT ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise to honor our December Veteran of the Month, Major [PERSON] , who was born in Sedalia, Missouri.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-4", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008580", "text": "He said: Well, there were flames in front of me and flames behind me. The water was running low. My communications were going out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004926", "text": "We need a change in this party, and that is the opportunity that we have in the moment before us, because I submit to you the fact is this: You can measure the strength of a nation in the strength of its families, and you can study the struggles of a nation in the struggles of its working people. And right now, our families and our working people in this country are struggling. There was a time not so long ago in this country when a man got a high school degree and then got a job and then worked at it decidedly and learned a skill and worked hard and saved where he would be able to provide for a family, start a family, get married, provide for kids, have a future, have something to look forward to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 139, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "You can measure the strength of a nation in the strength of its families - establishes authoritative principle; 'worked hard and saved' - vague positive values without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_002222", "text": "He should have either been in prison or deported immediately after committing his first crime of robbery. This bill would ensure that thieves are detained by our immigration authorities. Sadly, we know from experience that some administrations willfully refuse to enforce our immigration laws.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "either been in prison or deported immediately; thieves are detained; willfully refuse to enforce"}
{"id": "crec_006934", "text": "[ORG] and PNTR cost us millions of good-paying manufacturing jobs as large corporations shut down here in America and fled to China, Mexico, and other low-wage countries in search of cheap labor. And what about all of those great high-tech jobs that supposedly were going to be created? Well, that didn't quite happen either.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "cost us millions of good-paying manufacturing jobs, corporations fled, low-wage countries, what about all of those great high-tech jobs"}
{"id": "crec_002505", "text": "164, the POWER Act, which would allow public electric utilities to implement cost-effective hazard mitigation activities as part of power restoration. Public power utilities are essential in ensuring our communities have access to reliable and resilient electricity, especially in the aftermath of major disasters. Current law says that if States and localities get cost reimbursements from [ORG] for certain disaster recovery activities, like restoring power, then that could make them ineligible for future hazard mitigation funds.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Public power utilities are essential in ensuring our communities have access to reliable and resilient electricity"}
{"id": "crec_005086", "text": "INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 83. A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide enhanced penalties for convicted murderers who kill or target America's public safety officers; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 84.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-3", "word_count": 163, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007712", "text": "She later was elected to [ORG] in 1996, becoming the second woman to be elected to [ORG]. Mrs. [PERSON] would go on to serve 8 years on [ORG] and two years as mayor pro tem in 1999 and 2000. I ask my colleagues today to join me in honoring her legacy and service to our community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009816", "text": "And now, allow me to welcome [PERSON] and Reverend [PERSON] , who will deliver our invocation. Please rise. Archbishop DOLAND.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009008", "text": "A trusted friend and counselor to Governors, mayors, and legislators in Indiana, Reverend [PERSON] was a vital source of strength and wisdom for Hoosier leaders. His heart for the people of Indiana will be long remembered. He devoted his life and ministry to serving and loving all people, and he will be greatly missed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'trusted friend and counselor to Governors, mayors, and legislators' and 'devoted his life and ministry to serving and loving all people'"}
{"id": "crec_001100", "text": "This bill would enact a stricter standard of review. No longer can Agencies expect the courts to just side with their interpretation of the statute, like they could when the [ORG] deference was in place. This bill would institute a de novo standard of review.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"just side with their interpretation\" - uses casual language implying unwarranted favoritism to frame agency deference negatively"}
{"id": "crec_004359", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I continue to hear the talk about invasion of privacy of young kids. It is just not true.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "I continue to hear the talk about invasion of privacy of young kids. It is just not true."}
{"id": "crec_001548", "text": "23--Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I was absent today during rollcall No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009404", "text": "The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001777", "text": "I went out to see the people who were coming in to vote. Well, we can no longer do that, but had this version of [ORG] passed, we would have made it easier for people to vote, harder for people to cheat, and brought more people into the process. We would have had greater participation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "made it easier for people to vote, harder for people to cheat, and brought more people into the process"}
{"id": "crec_005360", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 44. [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mrs. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009869", "text": "As Commander in Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Next, I will direct all members of my [ORG] to marshal the vast powers at their disposal to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Commander in Chief with no higher responsibility; at a level that nobody has ever seen before"}
{"id": "crec_008506", "text": "Those are just a few of the domestic successes that Americans were benefiting from under President [PERSON] . On the global stage, we finally had stability after decades of foreign wars. Under President [PERSON] , there were no new wars.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "\"domestic successes that Americans were benefiting from\" and \"finally had stability\" are vague praise without specifics; \"no new wars\" is repeated emphasis on the same claim"}
{"id": "crec_002524", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , in 2012, [ORG] violated Federal law by signing a lease for 1.4 million square feet that cost taxpayers over $566 million. Investigations conducted by [ORG], as well as [ORG]'s inspector general, found that the [ORG] had exceeded its authority with this lease. Investigations also found that the [ORG] had a history of mismanaging its leasing authority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Investigations conducted by [ORG], as well as [ORG]'s inspector general, found that"}
{"id": "crec_003131", "text": "[ORG]. 203. Terms of permanent resident status on a conditional basis.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006739", "text": "OK. So we are going to do tax cuts that benefit the wealthy, but we are also going to do tariffs. And whom will tariffs impact?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing tax cuts as benefiting 'the wealthy' with emphasis, paired with rhetorical question about tariff impact to suggest negative consequences"}
{"id": "crec_002236", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The Senator from North Dakota. [PERSON] Dakota State University [PERSON] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005747", "text": "I think the American public knows it and is getting aroused because there are 70 million Americans that are on [ORG] and 10,000 baby boomers a day become eligible for [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] , for example, in your district alone there are over 175,000 [ORG] recipients. It is broken down into those who receive pensions, those who get spousal benefits, those who get widow benefits, children, and, of course, disabilities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "'70 million Americans' and '10,000 baby boomers a day' to suggest widespread acceptance and inevitability"}
{"id": "crec_006688", "text": "So people were paying too much, and people were rightly pissed off--by the way, at Democrats, too, for not recognizing how acute this problem was for a lot of American families. I get it. But I don't know anybody who thinks the solution to people paying too much out of pocket is to make them pay more out of pocket.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "strawman"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing solutions (paying less vs. paying more) without acknowledging middle-ground alternatives or nuanced policy positions"}
{"id": "crec_001875", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on the amount individuals can deduct for certain [ORG] and local taxes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Oregon, Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 247.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002432", "text": "That is why I am proud to support H.R. 152, which would address this concern by amending the [ORG]-led working group created in [ORG] of 2018. Specifically, the working group is going to develop a plan to make the collection of information from disaster survivors less burdensome, duplicative, and time consuming.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004784", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak in morning business for 2 or 3 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-5", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001681", "text": "The crazy thing is that these numbers were scored when we thought the mean interest on U.S. sovereign debt was going to be somewhere around 3 to 3.25 percent. Have you seen what has happened in the last 3 weeks? Did I mention a moment ago that the 20-year bond yesterday went over 5 percent?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Use of 'crazy thing' (loaded language) combined with emphasis on rising interest rates and bond yields to create alarm about economic conditions"}
{"id": "crec_008632", "text": "Nomination of [PERSON] , Jr. Mr. President, on a very different topic, I wanted a chance to talk today about one of the nominees that is coming before us because, when I was a very young girl, the polio vaccine was approved, and to this very day, I remember my mom saying: Thank goodness. We can now send our kids to school and not have to worry they will get sick, be paralyzed, or have to live in an iron lung or worse. The relief was overwhelming.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "polio vaccine was approved... paralyzed, or have to live in an iron lung or worse"}
{"id": "crec_006988", "text": "And last April, we did, overwhelmingly, bipartisan, bicameral because this Congress saw the threat that [ORG] poses by [ORG] being able to influence [ORG] because they have to. [ORG] is a Chinese company. It has to do whatever [ORG] says.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threat that [ORG] poses and has to do whatever [ORG] says - characterizing Chinese company control as inherently threatening"}
{"id": "crec_002820", "text": "The portion on the right here is what it looks like more or less when it is full. Here is what it looks like presently. It is empty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001476", "text": "NGOs would be chilled from sharing evidence of the grave crimes committed in these places. Many of us celebrated in March of 2023 when the [ORG] judges issued arrest warrants for [PERSON] and another senior Russian official for abducting thousands of Ukrainian children. Mr. [PERSON] , Congress even passed legislation to enable the United States to provide financial support to and share information with the [ORG] to investigate and prosecute [PERSON] and his regime for his heinous crimes in Ukraine.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "grave crimes, heinous crimes, abducting thousands of Ukrainian children; citation of [ORG] judges issuing arrest warrants and Congress passing legislation"}
{"id": "crec_002401", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 42 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008457", "text": "Listen, these are dangerous times on the geopolitical stage. Our adversaries are watching, waiting to see if we really will put in power someone so obviously unqualified. Mr. [PERSON] made a point of saying at Tuesday's hearing that every single warfighter should be hired based on performance, readiness, and merit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'dangerous times on the geopolitical stage' and 'adversaries are watching' combined with 'obviously unqualified'"}
{"id": "crec_002251", "text": "He led the team. He was, of course, named the most outstanding player. He rushed 18 times for 121 yards.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009317", "text": "LEGISLATIVE SESSION LAKEN RILEY ACT--Resumed [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will resume consideration of S. 5, which [SPEAKER] will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 5) to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000899", "text": "Where would American fashion be without people like [PERSON] , who just got a Presidential medal--born [PERSON] , in the Bronx, to parents who had emigrated from Poland? Where would American politics be without people like [PERSON] , born in California to parents who had emigrated from Jamaica and India; or [PERSON] , born in Florida to parents who had emigrated from Cuba; or [ORG], born in South Carolina to parents who had emigrated from the Punjab region of India; or General and former Secretary of [ORG] [PERSON] , born in New York to parents who had emigrated from Jamaica? Where would American sports be without people like figure skater [PERSON] , born in California to parents who had emigrated from Hong Kong; or baseball legend [PERSON] , born in Manhattan to parents who had emigrated from the Dominican Republic?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 141, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Repeated rhetorical questions highlighting immigrant contributions to American achievement ('Where would American [field] be without people like...'), combined with vague appeals to national pride and the general virtue of American success"}
{"id": "crec_008593", "text": "That is my urgent plea today. We need your help desperately. Southern California, we will rebuild.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "urgent plea, desperately, we will rebuild - conveys crisis and calls for immediate action"}
{"id": "crec_005348", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 30. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000609", "text": "Dozens of our fellow Americans were seriously injured as well in the carnage. These are people who were just celebrating the new year. Their attacker was a terrorist.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "use of 'carnage' and 'terrorist' to describe the attack with emotionally charged language; emphasizing innocent victims 'just celebrating' to heighten emotional impact"}
{"id": "crec_006097", "text": "The scope of this devastation is unprecedented. Now, as has been mentioned before, is a time when we need to come together, understanding that with climate change we are going to continue seeing biblical-level events going forward. When we have had past disasters, whether hurricanes in southeastern United States, Florida, the Gulf Coast, tornadoes, flooding, and, yes, wildfires, we have stepped up.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "unprecedented devastation, biblical-level events, framing climate change as leading to catastrophic disasters"}
{"id": "crec_000464", "text": "LAKEN RILEY ACT [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on passage of the bill (H.R. 29) to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH61-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008349", "text": "Working with President [PERSON] , we created nearly 17 million new jobs, the most in a single term. We passed historic legislation, like Chips and Science--that was a baby that I nurtured--the bipartisan infrastructure law, and the Inflation Reduction Act. We lowered the cost of prescription drugs for tens of millions of Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "nearly 17 million new jobs, the most in a single term; historic legislation; lowered the cost of prescription drugs"}
{"id": "crec_009071", "text": "A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the natural gas tax; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 144. A bill to amend [ORG] and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to the definition of biofuels and sustainable aviation fuel, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Forestry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006707", "text": "And maybe if we raise enough of a fuss about this massive transfer of wealth from the middle class and the poor to the very, very wealthy, we can stop this egregious policy as well. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "massive transfer of wealth from the middle class and the poor to the very, very wealthy; egregious policy"}
{"id": "crec_002940", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] will have an opportunity to answer questions about these allegations and about his record as well as his views. He can expect his hearing to be tough but respectful, candid but fair. The stakes during tomorrow's hearing will be very high--not just for the nominee but for the entire country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "The stakes during tomorrow's hearing will be very high--not just for the nominee but for the entire country"}
{"id": "crec_004235", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The time of the gentleman has expired. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002777", "text": "[ORG]. 12: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Iowa, Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007046", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that, at 5:50 p.m. today, the Senate vote in relation to the following amendments: [PERSON] No. 14 and [PERSON] No. 23.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002847", "text": "In conclusion, God bless our troops as the global war on terrorism continues. Open borders for dictators put all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent, as warned by the FBI. [PERSON] will reinstitute existing laws to protect American families with peace through strength.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97-7", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Open borders for dictators put all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent, as warned by the FBI"}
{"id": "crec_009849", "text": "We have a government that is giving unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people. Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency, as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina being treated so badly-- (Applause.) --and other States who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago, or more recently, Los Angeles, where we are watching fires still tragically burn from weeks ago, without even a token of defense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents government spending as binary choice between 'unlimited funding to defense of foreign borders' versus defending American borders/people, implying these are mutually exclusive; creates urgency around emergency response failures"}
{"id": "crec_001236", "text": "MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Messages from the President of the United States were communicated to the Senate by Ms. [PERSON] , one of his secretaries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009101", "text": "103. Transparency in hazardous fuels reduction activity reporting. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000303", "text": "Under this bill, a person who has lived in the United States for decades, say for most of her life, paid taxes, and bought a home, but who is mistakenly arrested for shoplifting would not be free to resume her life. Rather, she would be detained and deported even if the charges are dropped and even if the police admit that the arrest was mistaken. Consider a young [PERSON] or [ORG] recipient who is with a group of friends after school and someone in the group shoplifts, stealing a candy bar.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "vivid hypothetical scenarios depicting dire consequences (detention and deportation) for sympathetic individuals in minor or mistaken situations"}
{"id": "crec_001229", "text": "The principal contractor will be [ORG], located in Portsmouth, RI. There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this potential sale. Implementation of this sale will require travel of up to two U.S. Govemment or up to two contractor representatives to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a temporary basis for program technical support and management oversight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS64", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006618", "text": "But a word here about amendments. And I thank Leader [PERSON] , who I think is off to a wonderful start, and I appreciate his leadership. He is open, as he promised, to amendments--several on this side of the aisle and several on the other.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "off to a wonderful start"}
{"id": "crec_009069", "text": "A bill to address the forest health crisis on [ORG] and public lands, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 141. A bill to identify and address barriers to coverage of remote physiologic devices under [ORG] programs to improve maternal and child health outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009247", "text": "DUPLICATE MEDALS. The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS231", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009665", "text": "Today, we return to common sense. We return to practicality. If you come here illegally and you commit a crime, you should not be free to roam the streets of this Nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "appeal to 'common sense' and 'practicality' as unquestionable authority; 'roam the streets' uses loaded language to dramatize the issue"}
{"id": "crec_002695", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 34. A resolution expressing the sense of [ORG] that [ORG] should drop all charges against [PERSON] ; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG]), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004629", "text": "We will get these questions that come in on the comments. Someone asked this, and they actually did it as a legitimate question: Foreign aid over 4 years is $198 billion. Think of that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Framing $198 billion in foreign aid with 'Think of that' invokes emotional weight and skepticism toward the spending without context"}
{"id": "crec_009711", "text": "We can make this bill better by protecting nonviolent Dreamers from mandatory incarceration in the only country they know. I know my time is almost over. The American people want us to fix our broken immigration system.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "The American people want us to fix our broken immigration system"}
{"id": "crec_001103", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, as this body knows well, for the past hour, we have had multiple colleagues who have come to this floor to be able to talk about how do we make the government more efficient. They have been talking about, out loud, what they are working in their offices on, what their staff are working on, and what we plan to be able to implement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008652", "text": "It is one of the world's most contagious diseases. It is easily spread by coughing and sneezing. It lingers in the air for hours.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "world's most contagious diseases, easily spread, lingers in the air for hours - uses descriptive language to emphasize danger and transmissibility"}
{"id": "crec_008122", "text": "A bill to amend the Revised Statutes to codify the defense of qualified immunity in the case of any action under section 1979, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 504.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006731", "text": "There were a few individual tax cuts in this bill. If you look at the bill from 2017, it was mostly corporate tax cuts. There were a few, in that pie chart, individual tax cuts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001688", "text": "If you remember, Congress doesn't vote on it. What is in blue, nondefense and defense, is all borrowed along with a whole wedge of this over here. You have to understand the scale.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001042", "text": "You count how many steps there are, and see where the overlaps are. One area we did it was in air construction permits. We had 190 steps that it took to issue that permit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006101", "text": "Thousands of firefighters are exhausted. We need your help.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-3", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Thousands of firefighters are exhausted"}
{"id": "crec_005915", "text": "33 facilitates the creation of a strong domestic semiconductor ecosystem, creates jobs, and incentivizes investments in semiconductor technology and our American economy. Securing our [ORG]'s position at the forefront of the chip manufacturing race is possible only if we constantly work to remove the barriers to developing American manufacturing, both in our tax code and regulatory environment. The United States and Taiwan have long shared a strong economic partnership powered by extensive two-way trade, and we must ensure that this partnership remains robust.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "strong domestic semiconductor ecosystem, securing our position at the forefront, American manufacturing, American economy"}
{"id": "crec_004440", "text": "regional/state/local (294) [ORG], Aces NYC, [ORG], Advocates for [ORG], [ORG] Alliance For Full Acceptance SC, [ORG]--Oregon, Arkansas Black Gay Men's Forum, [ORG]/as/xs Motivating Action, [ORG], Bans Off Miami, Basic Rights Oregon, Battle Born Progress, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [ORG], CA LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], Chattanooga Trans Liberation Collective, [ORG], Chicago [PERSON] , City of West Hollywood, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] of PFLAG, Delmarva Pride Center, [ORG], Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan (DAYUM), [ORG], Disability Rights California, Disability Rights Oregon. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, [ORG], Education Law Center Pennsylvania, entre hermanos, Envision: You, [ORG], Equality Florida, Equality Illinois, [ORG], Equality Michigan, [ORG], [ORG]--Buffalo Chapter, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , [ORG], [ORG] Summer Camp, Fenway Health, [ORG], [ORG], Four Corners Rainbow Youth Center, [PERSON] , [ORG], [PERSON] , [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], GLSEN Arizona, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], Harriet [ORG], [ORG] `Ohana Support Network, [ORG] for LGBTQ+ New Mexicans, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG]. [ORG], Inland Empire Prism Collective, Inland Oasis, [ORG] Broward County, [ORG], Just Us at Oasis Center, [PERSON] , [ORG], [PERSON] , [ORG], [PERSON] To End Hate/Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, [ORG] of Raleigh, [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] OC, LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert, LGBTQ+ Center Lake County, LGBTQ+ [ORG], LGBTQI+ [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], LYRIC, Mabel Wadsworth Center, MaineTransNet, Make it Better for Youth, Make the Road Nevada, Mama Bears Playgroup, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , [ORG], Muncie OUTreach LGBTQ+ Center.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 428, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001329", "text": "One mother said: We aren't going to be able to survive like this. Enough is enough. Let's extend the law and end hunger now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "We aren't going to be able to survive like this"}
{"id": "crec_003931", "text": "[PERSON] 's life was an inspiration to all who had the privilege of knowing him, and his legacy will live on through the many lives that he touched. [PERSON] was a loving husband to his wife of 54 years, [PERSON] ; a devoted father to [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] ; and a cherished papa to his beloved grandchildren. He was one of 16 children and had a deep commitment to the values instilled in him as a member of the [PERSON] family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008399", "text": "We have world-class wind. We have benefited from American energy dominance, and our Wyoming tough energy workers made it all possible. Wyoming energy workers now stand ready to unleash American energy once again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "American energy dominance, Wyoming tough energy workers, unleash American energy"}
{"id": "crec_004708", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to transfer antitrust enforcement from [ORG] to the Attorney General, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007446", "text": "HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF [PERSON] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the life and legacy of [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004261", "text": "Swimmer [PERSON] , a/k/a [PERSON] , ranked 462nd in his sport as a man, only to steal the [ORG] 500-meter freestyle championship as a purported woman. To accept men in women's sports is to destroy women's sports. Being a male or female is a biological reality that cannot be changed by a few months of hormones or by clothes or by radical gender ideology.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "steal the championship, destroy women's sports, cannot be changed by a few months of hormones"}
{"id": "crec_000094", "text": "A resolution electing Members to certain standing committees of [ORG]; considered and agreed to. By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 14.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007648", "text": "It has been pointed out in this debate that [PERSON] 30 fails to protect domestic abuse survivors as it undermines the Violence Against Women Act, historic legislation that was carefully drafted in a bipartisan manner, which included critical protections like U visas and T visas, the battered spouse waiver, and the option to self-petition for permanent residence. This legislation, whether it means it or not or intends it or not, really cancels out these important protections.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing VAWA as 'historic legislation that was carefully drafted in a bipartisan manner' with 'critical protections' to establish authority and legitimacy, combined with 'cancels out these important protections' using charged language to frame the opposing position negatively"}
{"id": "crec_001928", "text": "A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to mandatory reporting of dairy products processing costs; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 296.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001332", "text": "He traveled to Meriwether County several times. Through his leadership as Governor, [ORG] continued to care for Georgians with disabilities. He purchased his suits from [PERSON] in Carroll County, and he enjoyed Chick-fil-A sandwiches during his many visits to Columbus.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000639", "text": "These are the kinds of things we need to know from the President- elect's nominees. We need to be fair but thorough and give every nominee a chance to make their case while also subjecting them to some tough scrutiny. That is, after all, what any reasonable job application process demands, whether you are an average person applying for a job or somebody being nominated for a very important [ORG] position.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "fair but thorough and give every nominee a chance to make their case while also subjecting them to tough scrutiny"}
{"id": "crec_004899", "text": "We can't lose focus on what this bill is about and what it would do. It would protect American families and save innocent lives. [ORG] is bipartisan; it is straightforward; it is targeted; and it is common sense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "protect American families and save innocent lives; bipartisan, straightforward, targeted, common sense"}
{"id": "crec_002404", "text": "802 and 803). (c) Use of Funds.--Amounts in the Fund shall be used by the Secretary of [ORG] to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern international border of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008642", "text": "He has said he doesn't know if the polio vaccine caused more deaths than it prevented. Or another example: The [ORG] vaccine has led to a huge drop in cervical cancer. [ORG], Jr., suggested it increases cancer risk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "doesn't know if the polio vaccine caused more deaths than it prevented\"}\n```\n\nWait, I need to correct this - \"contradiction\" is not in my allowed labels.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"doubt\"], \"evidence\": \"doesn't know if the polio vaccine caused more deaths than it prevented"}
{"id": "crec_000935", "text": "By the way, I could go ahead and tell you that today without spending any Federal tax dollars. Yes, they will make it safer, but why were the folks in Oklahoma being forced pay for the study in Ghana to be able to study head injuries on folks on bikes and whether they should wear a helmet. The folks in Oklahoma paid for a study that came out as a book that was analyzing humans and chimpanzees in Sierra Leone and the effects of climate change on them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing federal spending as 'forced' payment for seemingly wasteful studies in distant countries to create resentment about tax allocation"}
{"id": "crec_000644", "text": "If Republicans go after [ORG] or [ORG] or [ORG] in people's paychecks, they will have to go through us. The choice is now in the hands of our Republican colleagues. They are now in the majority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Republicans will 'have to go through us' and 'choice is now in the hands of our Republican colleagues' presents a threatening ultimatum with only two sides in conflict"}
{"id": "crec_002263", "text": "He did a tremendous job with the defense. To all of them--to all of the coaches and, of course, most of all, to these incredible young student athletes--they were just awesome this year. They did an incredible job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "tremendous job, incredible young student athletes, just awesome, incredible job"}
{"id": "crec_001794", "text": "Women now make less than 90 cents for every dollar a man makes, generally speaking, in the country. That is all women. Over some number of years, I saw a figure of a trillion dollars having been lost because women are making so much less.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Women make 'less than 90 cents' and 'a trillion dollars having been lost' - uses emotionally charged framing of wage gap statistics to invoke concern"}
{"id": "crec_003104", "text": "REGULATIONS. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this title, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to implement this title. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005707", "text": "Shamefully, Republicans in Congress continue to refuse to hang that plaque. Every day that my Republican colleagues delay is an insult to the brave officers who served on January 6 and who continue to protect us day in and day out. Mr. [PERSON] , I say to my Republican colleagues: No more delays, no more disrespect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "words like 'shamefully,' 'insult,' and 'disrespect' combined with framing delay as failure to honor 'brave officers' creates emotional pressure"}
{"id": "crec_006819", "text": "Twenty cents. That is the tax on the jet fuel they put in their luxury jets to travel around America and the world. So we are just going to bump it up to $2 a gallon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing luxury jets with dismissive tone and implying unfairness through '$0.20 vs $2' contrast to justify tax increase"}
{"id": "crec_002209", "text": "Representative [PERSON] put pen to paper. He said: We are going to create a solution. We are going to make sure that no family has to experience the heartbreak that [PERSON] 's family is enduring.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Representative putting pen to paper positions authority; 'heartbreak' and 'enduring' use emotionally loaded language"}
{"id": "crec_009720", "text": "Look, additionally, when you talk about ICE, there are 6,000 ICE officers in the interior of our country, and we have over 11 million migrants that have come here illegally, over 7.8 that are actually in removal proceedings, and over 1.4 million that have been given their final orders of removal, and yet the resources have not been there for them to do that at the level they need. That will change under this administration and under the Republican majority. I now yield the floor to my colleague from Iowa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "selective use of large numbers ('11 million,' '7.8 million,' '1.4 million') to frame immigration as an overwhelming crisis, combined with assertion of future action by 'this administration and Republican majority' as authoritative solution"}
{"id": "crec_004130", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] , [ORG], Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on Small Business: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-4", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008640", "text": "So I am here this afternoon to talk some truth to the American people about the stakes here and lay out the facts for anyone who might not appreciate the serious threat posed by [ORG], Jr. Maybe you think: Well, he is not talking about vaccines like polio or measles, or: He is only asking questions. Except, know this: He founded a nonprofit entirely focused on attacking vaccines. [ORG], [ORG]'s nonprofit has made videos promoting falsehoods about vaccines and autism and sowing distrust in vaccines, especially among the Black community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'serious threat posed by [ORG]' and 'sowing distrust in vaccines, especially among the Black community'"}
{"id": "crec_006632", "text": "That is why we need to pass [ORG]. It won't singlehandedly end the crisis at our southern border, no. That is not its objective.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002850", "text": "[ORG] has circulated a petition, which has over 100,000 signatures, urging Congress to make this vital tax deduction permanent and stop a massive tax hike on our small businesses. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to listen to our local businessowners and join me in supporting making the 199A deduction permanent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "over 100,000 signatures and urging colleagues to listen to local businessowners"}
{"id": "crec_002497", "text": "164 is going to address this by clarifying that electric utilities may build in mitigation measures that provide essential assistance and that it does not disqualify electric utilities from permanent work eligibility later in the disaster recovery process. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support, and I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004714", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 390. A bill to utlitize the Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response to [ORG] project of [ORG] to improve aerial responses to wildfires, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Technology.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008397", "text": "On day one, I expect the President is going to sign a blizzard of Executive orders to bring back American energy dominance. First day priorities include ending the Democrats' electric vehicle mandate, more drilling on Federal lands, and resuming exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas. This is certainly good news for my home [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'blizzard of Executive orders to bring back American energy dominance' and 'good news for my home'"}
{"id": "crec_004906", "text": "Unfortunately, there are some working to create another push to block this vital legislation. So special interest groups are working around the clock right now to try to kill this bill. They are waging a campaign of misinformation and, in doing so, trying to create enough momentum so this bill doesn't become law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "special interest groups working around the clock to kill this bill, waging a campaign of misinformation"}
{"id": "crec_003966", "text": "When the snow piles and the temperatures refuse to rise past freezing, these men and women don't get a break. They throw on their warm layers, and they get the job done. Those of us in agriculture understand full well that [PERSON] is not a reliable business partner.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "characterizing someone as 'not a reliable business partner' after praising workers' dedication creates a negative contrast; 'loaded_language' in framing through emotional appeal to work ethic"}
{"id": "crec_005897", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. [PERSON] ), the chair of [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the chairman for his leadership on this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007749", "text": "I am here to listen, to learn, and to do what is required to ensure that every Oregon child has the opportunity to grow up in a healthy, thriving community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000897", "text": "So it is clear to me--the great-grandson of seven Irish immigrants and a Scottish immigrant whose dad was Scottish and mother was Irish-- that, throughout our history, immigrants have tremendously benefited this [ORG], and that is not something that is suddenly turning from a positive to a negative. In Virginia, for example, when I was born, in 1958, about 1 out of 100 Virginians had been born in another country. Today, it is more like 1 out of 8, and that has coincided during my lifetime with Virginia moving from bottom quarter per capita income among American States to top quarter, and that movement has been significantly advanced by talented people from around the world deciding that they wanted to make Virginia their home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "immigrants have tremendously benefited this [ORG]... that is not something that is suddenly turning from a positive to a negative"}
{"id": "crec_004353", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina). The gentlewoman from Oregon has 8 minutes remaining. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001809", "text": "When they do it, I am going to come back to this podium, and I am going to say I told you so because we have suffered long enough from our history of using the filibuster to prevent progress, especially among the minorities in this country. I am not giving them a license to do anything. They are going to do what they are going to do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "we have suffered long enough from our history of using the filibuster to prevent progress, especially among the minorities"}
{"id": "crec_000748", "text": "ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 11 A.M. TOMORROW [SPEAKER]. Madam President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008699", "text": "That has been the average. If we increase that $2.1 above the $4.4 trillion, it would still be a whole lot better than President [PERSON] 's 7.3 trillion or last year's spending of $6.9 trillion. How can anybody justify spending at this level when we were only spending $4.4 trillion 5 years ago?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing higher spending as 'justified' only by comparison to previous administrations; presenting spending debate as binary choice between current and past levels without acknowledging legitimate reasons for spending variations"}
{"id": "crec_009647", "text": "History will look kindly on President [PERSON] 's 4 years in office. He lifted America out of the abyss of crisis. He restored decency and integrity to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'lifted America out of the abyss of crisis' and 'restored decency and integrity'"}
{"id": "crec_004599", "text": "Creative destruction is one of the hallmarks of a society that becomes more productive. The way you get that is not the arrogance. When I first got here, I think I stole this joke from my wife--she looked at me, what is the two times in life, Mr. [PERSON] , you think you know everything?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008095", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 478. A bill to require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to establish a 3-year phase-in period for de novo financial institutions to comply with Federal capital standards, to provide relief for de novo rural community banks, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001936", "text": "A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit additional retired members of [ORG] who have a service-connected disability to receive both disability compensation from [ORG] for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of military service or combat-related special compensation; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida): H.R. 304.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 123, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001599", "text": "GET AT IT OR GET OUT OF THE WAY (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , California is on fire once again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "California is on fire once again - uses inflammatory language and fear-inducing imagery to create emotional urgency"}
{"id": "crec_001080", "text": "We can modernize the IT system. We are spending 80 percent of $100 billion annually on an outdated IT system here in [ORG]. The opportunities that we would save financially with regulatory reform are infinite.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "opportunities that we would save...are infinite"}
{"id": "crec_004861", "text": "If there be no objection, the reading of the certificate will be waived and will be printed in full in the Record. There being no objection, the certificate was ordered to be printed in the record, as follows: State of West Virginia CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION FOR SIX-YEAR TERM To the President of [ORG]: This is to certify that on the Fifth day of November, Two Thousand Twenty-Four, [PERSON] was duly chosen by the qualified electors of [ORG], a Senator from said [ORG] to represent said [ORG] in [ORG] for the term of six years beginning on the third day of January, Two Thousand Twenty-Five. Witness: His excellency our governor, [PERSON] , and our seal hereto affixed at Charleston this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand Twenty-Four.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-2", "word_count": 148, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004493", "text": "This cap will give seniors more peace of mind that they can afford the medicine they need, and thousands of seniors in western Pennsylvania will save money from this policy, cash that will go toward keeping a roof over their head or taking care of a grandchild. For too long, we have seen pharmacy benefit managers and Big Pharma rip us off, padding their pockets while people struggle to afford the medicine they need to stay healthy. There is lots more to do, but this is an important step to bring down the costs for seniors in western Pennsylvania.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-3", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pharmacy benefit managers and Big Pharma rip us off, padding their pockets while people struggle"}
{"id": "crec_000569", "text": "Christmas caroling, [ORG] scenes, and any mention of [ORG] were reportedly banned in Russian-occupied Ukraine for fear of spreading Western influence. A video recently came out showing the Russian military shooting down Santa's sled over Russia to the praise of [PERSON] . This is a war on Christmas, communist style.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-5", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "banned for fear of spreading Western influence; war on Christmas, communist style"}
{"id": "crec_001009", "text": "[ORG] is discovering the answers to questions like: How fast can a shrimp run on a treadmill? (66 feet per minute) Where does it hurt the most to be stung by a bee? (in the nostril) What were viewers' facial reactions to the [ORG] presidential debate?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000172", "text": "I remember, later that year, running at the [ORG] track meet in Sioux Falls, which is a lot larger outdoor place that we ran, and [PERSON] in Sioux Falls seats somewhere on the order of 12,000 people, but even in a crowded outdoor arena, you could hear his voice up in the crowd. It was unmistakable. He was always barking something out--in many cases, admonishing you to do better, to run harder, to be more successful.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007893", "text": "Well, the trees grow a lot faster than a 100-year cycle, especially the small trees and the understory I was talking about that creates the fire-prone areas. A dense forest is one that is going to be a tinderbox, and we see it and experience it all the time. It takes leadership on that, and it takes having the public understand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "tinderbox"}
{"id": "crec_000294", "text": "Members are reminded to address their remarks to the [ORG]. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001793", "text": "We have many more means by which they can be protected if we pass the Equality Act. Having gone through these six pieces of legislation, there are more. The Paycheck Fairness Act, that would help women to achieve equal pay for equal work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "\"equal pay for equal work\" - vague aspirational phrase without specific mechanisms or evidence of how the legislation achieves this goal"}
{"id": "crec_001629", "text": "Our model basically says we are going to refinance almost $10 trillion this year and add another--what?--$2 trillion, $2-1/3 trillion of virgin or new borrowing, small bits of interest. When you hear someone talk about things like the debt ceiling, you have to understand that you are weaving a needle while jogging because you have to deal with it in a way where you communicate and do actual policy that communicates to the world's debt markets that the United States is taking its debt seriously and understands the scale of the problem and then also while extending that debt ceiling in a way that also doesn't blow you up. Some of my brothers and sisters will go: Just don't raise it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 121, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'weaving a needle while jogging' and the framing of debt ceiling choices as either raise it carefully or 'just don't raise it'"}
{"id": "crec_001565", "text": "I shall never forget the hope we all felt witnessing history when President [PERSON] negotiated the historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt with [PERSON] and [PERSON] standing next to him on the lawn of [ORG]. Finally, his brilliant national security team lead by [PERSON] that set in place the dominoes that would ultimately result in the collapse of the Soviet Union starting in Poland in 1989 and then 1991, the entire USSR, giving millions of people a chance to have liberty for the first time in 100 years or more. Though he served just one term, the travails of that period blurred his extraordinary accomplishments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "historic peace treaty, brilliant national security team, extraordinary accomplishments, liberty for the first time in 100 years"}
{"id": "crec_008450", "text": "I asked him to tell me just a single country in [ORG]. Again, he couldn't give me one--and one of those is our longest treaty ally for 190 years--not a single one of the 10. This was shocking--yet not surprising--from a man whose main form of policy education has come from reading the [ORG] teleprompter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "strawman"], "evidence": "attacking opponent's intelligence and policy knowledge ('couldn't give me one') rather than addressing substantive policy positions; misrepresenting opponent's education as solely 'reading the teleprompter'"}
{"id": "crec_001233", "text": "The highest level of classification of defense articles, components, and services included in this potential sale is SECRET. 3. If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge of the specific hardware and software elements, the information could be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce weapon system effectiveness or be used in the development of a system with similar or advanced capabilities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS64", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge...the information could be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce weapon system effectiveness"}
{"id": "crec_008537", "text": "[ORG] awaits us if we answer the call of the American people. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008798", "text": "They never get convicted so there is no trial. They are charged. But that parent who has maybe one, two, three, four American citizen children at home waiting for them--they come home from school, and no parent comes home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emotional scenario of children coming home from school with no parent, designed to evoke fear and sympathy"}
{"id": "crec_001726", "text": "I have done entire floor presentations repeatedly on this. You take all the tax hike proposals of our brothers and sisters on the left, Mr. [PERSON] , and score them for their economic specs, it will produce about 1\\1/2\\ points of GDP of new tax receipts. You take for our side, Mr. [PERSON] , all the cuts we have talked about, almost all of them being in nondefense discretionary, it is about one point of GDP.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Characterizing opposing proposals as coming from 'brothers and sisters on the left' while contrasting with 'our side' creates an in-group/out-group framing; presenting only tax hikes vs. cuts as the complete range of options presents a false dichotomy"}
{"id": "crec_005107", "text": "SENATE RESOLUTION 26--TO CONSTITUTE THE MAJORITY PARTY'S [ORG] FOR THE ONE HUNDRED NINETEENTH CONGRESS, OR UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE CHOSEN [SPEAKER] submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to: [PERSON] . 26 Resolved, That the following shall constitute the majority party's membership on the following committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen: [ORG], and Forestry: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140-6", "word_count": 136, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009488", "text": "(c) Special Meetings.--If at least three members of the [ORG] desire that a special meeting of the [ORG] be called by the Chairman, those members may file with [SPEAKER] of the [ORG] their written request to the Chairman for that special meeting. Such request shall specify the measure or matter to be considered. Immediately upon the filing of the request, [SPEAKER] of the [ORG] shall notify the Chairman of the filing of the request.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004077", "text": "Our hearts go out today and forever to come to the thousands of displaced people, the brave, unrelenting fire and rescue crews, and the public officials trying to bring order in the midst of chaos. Let me share. Having practiced as a city and regional planner long before my election to Congress, I was awestruck when I visited there at the large number of homes built high on forested mountainsides with many sizeable mansions at their very peaks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Appeal to authority through credential-dropping ('Having practiced as a city and regional planner long before my election to Congress'); loaded language in 'brave, unrelenting' and 'awestruck'"}
{"id": "crec_000645", "text": "They now have the responsibility. We and the American people will be watching. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003130", "text": "[ORG]. 202. Permanent resident status on a conditional basis for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006122", "text": "From [PERSON] to Zap, and every place in between, North Dakotans show up every day, regardless of rain, snow, or subzero temperatures. That is what I will do here. Our biggest industries in North Dakota are agriculture and energy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "North Dakotans show up every day, regardless of rain, snow, or subzero temperatures"}
{"id": "crec_009730", "text": "1, S. 5, the Senate proceed to executive session to consider Executive Calendar No. 2, [PERSON] of Florida to be Secretary of [ORG]; further, that the Senate vote on confirmation of the [PERSON] nomination with no intervening action or debate; finally, that, if confirmed, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action. I would also ask unanimous consent that immediately prior to that vote, I be given 3 minutes to debate and my distinguished colleague from New Hampshire also be given 3 minutes to debate prior to calling the vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008027", "text": "When I reflect back on his life, as I am doing and I appreciate so many of you who are watching are also doing today, I am still reminded of a man who was unawed by opinion, unseduced by flattery, and undismayed by disaster. He confronted his life with the courage of his convictions and then confronted his death with the courage of his faith. That is why, Mr. [PERSON] , I began by referencing that Scripture in the Book of Genesis, because Dr. [PERSON] really was, and in the hearts of many of us remains, a dreamer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "elevated language describing the person as 'unawed by opinion, unseduced by flattery' and 'undismayed by disaster' with references to courage, convictions, and faith"}
{"id": "crec_007536", "text": "The police show up to a domestic violence call. The victim was attacked by her abuser, and she fought back in self-defense. Maybe the abuser has some scratches on his face.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003982", "text": "Despite what the authors of this legislation have said, many of those organizations have already updated their rules to ensure fairness and safety in their sports. That includes the international authorities overseeing track and field, boxing, cycling, swimming, and rugby, just to name a few. These organizations, many led by former athletes, worked with scientists, athletic federations, and human rights organizations to craft thoughtful, evidence-based rules, including those governing participation in the Paris Olympics last summer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "These organizations, many led by former athletes, worked with scientists, athletic federations, and human rights organizations to craft thoughtful, evidence-based rules"}
{"id": "crec_002577", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I am still here. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007707", "text": "HONORING ZUZA, YAKIMA COUNTY FALLEN HERO ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , today I rise to honor a fallen hero in central Washington.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-5", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring a fallen hero, rise to honor"}
{"id": "crec_007564", "text": "Mississippi: [ORG]. [PERSON] : [ORG] and Sexual Violence. Nebraska: [ORG], [PERSON] of Omaha, [ORG], Rape and [ORG], Willow Rising.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001500", "text": "I think we can do so much better here. This is not about whether you support Israel or not. This is a whole different discussion that we are having here today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001756", "text": "She was an exemplar. She was a supreme and superb standard for the kind of behavior that ought to be exhibited on occasions such as the one she was presiding over. She made it clear to those who will look back in time upon this time that there are people among us who have dignity and respect for the process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "exemplar, supreme and superb standard, dignity and respect for the process"}
{"id": "crec_009682", "text": "The Senator of Alabama might remember it. To her, that seems like ancient history. I was one of the members of the Gang of 8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "deflecting by bringing up the Senator of Alabama and past involvement in the Gang of 8, rather than addressing the current point"}
{"id": "crec_001065", "text": "Now, last year's Federal deficit--I want you to think about this. We are talking about the deficit now. We have a national debt of $36 trillion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005207", "text": "Provisions affecting eligibility for adjustment of status. [ORG]. 312.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008045", "text": "California has a massive housing shortage. Yet, even when we have projects that have gotten all the necessary approvals, which have met all the very stringent requirements set out by the [ORG], [ORG] will come in and spike the project. They have done this so much that a group called Circulate San Diego issued a report recently highlighting how [ORG] has consistently taken actions that worsen California's housing crisis.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "citation of Circulate San Diego report as authoritative source; characterization of ORG's actions as consistently worsening the crisis"}
{"id": "crec_008904", "text": "Immediately thereafter, [SPEAKER] of the [ORG] shall notify the Chair of such request. If, within 3 calendar days after the filing of such request, the [ORG] fails to call the requested special meeting, which is to be held within 7 calendar days after the filing of such request, a majority of the [ORG] Members may file in the offices of the [ORG] their written notice that a special [ORG] meeting will be held, specifying the date and hour thereof, and the [ORG] shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon the filing of such notice, the [ORG] chief clerk shall notify all [ORG] Members that such special meeting will be held and inform them of its date and hour.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 120, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005928", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The time of the gentleman has expired. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005194", "text": "SA 36. [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the end, add the following: DIVISION B--AMERICAN DREAM AND PROMISE ACT OF 2025 SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG]; [ORG] CONTENTS.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006195", "text": "If I come to the floor and this [PERSON] is full and I ask any one of my colleagues to stand up and look the camera in the eye and tell their people back home on [ORG] or on the news that, for example, child tax credits pay for themselves or changing certain rates pay for themselves, not one of them will stand up. I promise you that we are going to be facing votes on this floor this year to extend the tax cuts that include, for example, child tax credits and other tax policies that in no way, shape, or form, economically speaking, pay for themselves. We are going to be told to do that on faith, that the growth in the economy will magically produce revenue and cause deficits to go down.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 135, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'we are going to be facing votes on this floor this year' and 'told to do that on faith' and 'magically produce revenue' suggesting economic policies will fail without evidence"}
{"id": "crec_007469", "text": "[PERSON] 's broadcasting journey began in 1978 at the WMIN radio station in Maplewood, Minnesota. [PERSON] then moved to the Brainerd Lakes area where he spent the next four decades hosting the morning show on [ORG]. [PERSON] has had a number of different morning show partners, but for the past 20 years, he has shared the microphone with his current cohost, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004103", "text": "We rejoice that You have called us friends and have made Yourself and Your will known to us in the name of which we offer this prayer. Amen.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007084", "text": "I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. [PERSON] ) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 46, nays 49, as follows: [[ORG] Vote No. 4 Leg.]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006797", "text": "The childcare tax credit really worked. It meant that families were able to afford things, and we saw the results with a 50-percent reduction in childhood poverty. What we also see is that when we can put money into education so families can be secure about a safe place and a good place for their kids to go to school, that will work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "families were able to afford things...we saw the results with a 50-percent reduction in childhood poverty...that will work"}
{"id": "crec_006585", "text": "So let's have the debate. I am willing to be able to talk to any one of my Democratic or Republican colleagues who has a question about this, but at the base of this is, why would we let someone who is already illegally present in the country and who we already know has committed additional crimes just continue to walk our streets just to commit more crimes? Why would we not detain those individuals?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two options (detain or let them 'walk our streets just to commit more crimes'), uses fear-laden framing about crime continuation, and loaded language like 'illegally present' and 'committed additional crimes'"}
{"id": "crec_008324", "text": "We want to do this through transparency because nobody knows what PBMs do. It is an opaque operation; yet they make up our formularies. Do they help big pharmaceutical companies or do they help the consumer?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "describing PBMs as 'opaque operation' and presenting only two opposing options (help pharma companies vs. help consumers) without acknowledging other possibilities or nuance"}
{"id": "crec_002332", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: United States Senate, Washington, DC, January 9, 2025. Hon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004579", "text": "If you are borrowing $7 billion a day and you did all these things to get another point of GDP, you have covered yourself for a week. You get these folks who want to say, happy talk, we are going to grow our way out. To cover this year's debt, you would need almost a 50 percent GDP growth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "borrowing $7 billion a day, you have covered yourself for a week, almost a 50 percent GDP growth"}
{"id": "crec_002227", "text": "The Democratic whip. [SPEAKER]. I ask unanimous consent that we begin the rollcall vote immediately, the 3 o'clock rollcall.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000224", "text": "A NEW PATH FORWARD ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG] met yesterday to certify President [PERSON] 's electoral victory.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007983", "text": "California is spending money on a whole lot of things. I mentioned the high-speed rail. We are spending money on a whole lot of things that aren't helping its citizens and, indeed, helping someone else-- some that are here illegally, giving benefits that are outrageous.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "spending money on things 'helping someone else-- some that are here illegally, giving benefits that are outrageous'"}
{"id": "crec_000031", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 4 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 4 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001971", "text": "A resolution electing Members to certain standing committees of [ORG]; considered and agreed to. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 23.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007963", "text": "That is why it is called the Secure Rural Schools. It pays for the county roads, at least in part, and the local schools. With the spotted owl and the environmental movement taking the [ORG] and weaponizing it in the early seventies, late seventies, and the eighties, those timber industries died off.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'environmental movement taking the [ORG] and weaponizing it' and 'timber industries died off'"}
{"id": "crec_001564", "text": "He was a graduate of [ORG] in the top 10 percent of his class. He was a dear friend of our Admiral [PERSON] , the Father of our Nuclear Navy who selected him among the best of individuals in our [ORG]. The President founded [ORG] and [ORG] because he wanted to help with America's future security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "graduate in top 10 percent, dear friend of Admiral, Father of our Nuclear Navy, selected among the best"}
{"id": "crec_001873", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 245.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008612", "text": "This is incredible work, and I want to salute my staffer [PERSON] , who has traveled around Africa and parts of Asia to see these investments. They do make a dramatic difference in the lifestyle of people, giving them dignity, giving them life, giving them a future. Another such story is from a rural area of Ghana where these kinds of programs have already eliminated waterborne illnesses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "giving them dignity, giving them life, giving them a future"}
{"id": "crec_000928", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001008", "text": "American science is unmatched. We transformed the world with the creation of the internet, and [PERSON] is aiming beyond the moon. The question is what are we learning from the billions of taxpayer dollars Washington is spending on research and development?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'American science is unmatched' and 'transformed the world with the creation of the internet'"}
{"id": "crec_008914", "text": "B. Transaction of routine business. One-third of the membership of the [ORG] shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of routine business, provided that one Member of the Minority is present.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003960", "text": "On average, it takes 29 years to build a copper mine in this country. Are we going to import it all? Are we going to have poor kids and slave labor in other countries continue to supply us so we can be pristine?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two options (import or use slave labor) while ignoring alternatives like domestic production improvements; uses 'slave labor' as loaded language to emotionally frame the issue"}
{"id": "crec_008828", "text": "So I would ask that at least they get some discussion for the possibility of consideration. I thank my colleague from Alabama for coming and hearing me out as well as--I am not really thanking you for objecting, but I am thanking you in the spirit in which I think you want to do the right thing. And I will keep striving to convince you that the right thing here is we should debate these amendments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "thanking colleague for 'coming and hearing me out' and crediting them with wanting 'to do the right thing'"}
{"id": "crec_007589", "text": "Yet I worry that if the Democrats are ever returned to power, these policies will resume. We have got to change our laws so that they can't. This measure removes the loopholes in current law that allowed the Democrats to unleash this scourge on our communities and requires that illegal aliens who commit sex offenses or domestic violence not be allowed into this country under any circumstances and must be immediately removed if they do get in, no matter who is President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "worry that Democrats will resume policies described as a 'scourge on our communities'; characterization of illegal aliens as inherent threats"}
{"id": "crec_009232", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 142 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS231", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007499", "text": "Thankfully, the American people have voted to end this nightmare. [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act is just one of many bills Republicans have proposed that will help close immigration loopholes, reverse the disastrous policies of [ORG] administration, and implement President [PERSON] 's immigration enforcement agenda. [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act makes crystal clear that illegal aliens who commit sex offenses are inadmissible to and removable from the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'end this nightmare' and 'disastrous policies' paired with focus on 'sex offenses' by 'illegal aliens'"}
{"id": "crec_003581", "text": "201. [ORG]. In this title: (1) In general.--Except as otherwise specifically provided, any term used in this section that is used in the immigration laws shall have the meaning given such term in the immigration laws.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006870", "text": "This should not be a partisan issue. This should not be done just through reconciliation without any input from the Democrats because, at the end of the day, our families are no different, our communities are no different. My firefighters in Nevada are no different than firefighters in your [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "our families are no different, our communities are no different, our firefighters are no different"}
{"id": "crec_005612", "text": "[PERSON] was thrilled to pass the torch to [ORG] and knows she will build upon the strong foundation that was established. Madam Speaker, I thank [PERSON] 's Flowers for providing Missouri's Fourth Congressional District with the highest quality floral arrangements and event services. I ask Missourians to not forget about [PERSON] 's as [PERSON] 's Day is coming up.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-5", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006366", "text": "A resolution concerning [ORG] policy for eligibility in women's sports; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002096", "text": "135: Mr. [PERSON] of Florida and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 137: Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] of Iowa, and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001872", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide eligibility for [ORG] to veterans with service-connected disabilities, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005359", "text": "SA 42. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 43.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006981", "text": "Reserving the right to object. [ORG] is our chief foreign adversary in the world and the only external existential threat to our [ORG]. They threaten our freedom, our prosperity, our security, and our very way of life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threaten our freedom, our prosperity, our security, and our very way of life"}
{"id": "crec_005203", "text": "Limitation on removal; application and fee exemption; and other conditions on eligible individuals. [ORG]. 304.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002193", "text": "That will certainly go a long way. We know that border walls work. My proposal finishes the wall, and it pays for it with unspent [PERSON] money--money that is available to be used and should be used for that productive purpose.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'productive purpose' and 'finishes the wall' frame border wall completion as inherently beneficial without substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_009309", "text": "1, S. 5. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS235-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002089", "text": "H.R. 32: Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001158", "text": "[ORG] constituted $0.614 billion of this total. This transmittal notifies the addition of the following [ORG] items: medium range ballistic missile live fire test targets; short range ballistic missile live fire test targets; additional [ORG] components, spares, tech documents, and software required for use at Japan's computer test site; additional [ORG] and contractor representative technical, engineering, test and evaluation, and logistics support services; installation support material; training, tool development, communications equipment, and associated spares; classified and unclassified publications and software; and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated total value of the new items is $0.67 billion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS61", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008894", "text": "President [PERSON] worked to keep them in the ground. The first [ORG] administration approved a road needed to access one of America's richest mineral deposits, the Ambler Mining District in Alaska's [ORG]. The [PERSON] administration killed that road last June.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrasting 'worked to keep them in the ground' with approval of mining access, presenting only two opposing positions on resource development"}
{"id": "crec_008888", "text": "Congratulations, [PERSON] . [PERSON] . There being no objection, the [PERSON] was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From [ORG], Jan. 15, 2025] OP-ED: [ORG], but Alaska is [PERSON] (By Sen. [PERSON] ) There's been a lot of talk about President-elect [ORG]'s idea of buying Greenland.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000147", "text": "We are committed to advancing American energy dominance to promote both affordable energy and our national security. The list goes on, and we are getting right to work. Along with advancing these priorities, we will be focused on getting President [PERSON] 's Cabinet up and running quickly by ensuring that his nominees are speedily confirmed here in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-7", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "American energy dominance, national security, affordable energy"}
{"id": "crec_006157", "text": "[PERSON] ) is a brand- new Member and our concluding speaker here today. We consider ourselves, as a [ORG] and [PERSON] , the greatest portion of the country, wouldn't you say, out West? We have a lot to prove that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "the greatest portion of the country, wouldn't you say"}
{"id": "crec_002709", "text": "8, cl. 14: to make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces. Article I, Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH111-4", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005344", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 24. [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mrs. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009713", "text": "They want us to improve our partnerships with other countries so there is a reason for people to stay at home and not just come here. As we fix our broken immigration system, most Americans want people treated with dignity, especially if they are children. Immigration is one of the many challenges facing our country today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "people treated with dignity"}
{"id": "crec_002570", "text": "I am sure somebody will dig for that, and hopefully, that has been erased from history. We brought [PERSON] . I almost forgot about [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001014", "text": "An old regulation left over from the Great Society-era requires the benefits be made available when someone loses a job, even if the recipient is still making a million dollars or more in other income. Most of the hardworking Americans picking up the costs aren't bringing home anywhere near that amount, even if they're working two jobs. The million-dollar question is: why is Washington forcing middle class Americans to finance the lifestyles of jobless millionaires?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing benefits as financing 'lifestyles of jobless millionaires' while portraying 'hardworking Americans' and 'middle class' as victims forced to pay; presents issue as either allowing benefits for the wealthy or protecting working people, ignoring middle-ground solutions"}
{"id": "crec_008067", "text": "EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, [ORG]. Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: [ORG]. A letter from the Administrator, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting the [ORG]'s final rule -- [PERSON] for [ORG] and [ORG] [Doc.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002215", "text": "There is no greater gift that could be given to her and our country than to continue her legacy by saving lives through this bill. Every single member of Congress should be able to get behind this purely commonsense bill that will make our country and communities safer. So to my colleagues, please listen to [PERSON] and [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'no greater gift' and 'purely commonsense bill' combined with appeal to named authority figures to endorse the legislation"}
{"id": "crec_005353", "text": "SA 37. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S141, January 14, 2025, in the second column, the following appears: SA 37.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009365", "text": "But so did our world. This didn't have to happen. [PERSON] shouldn't have been anywhere near Laken on February 22, 2024.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "This didn't have to happen + shouldn't have been anywhere near, implying preventable tragedy"}
{"id": "crec_004766", "text": "[PERSON] 342: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-30", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007767", "text": "In the face of this tragedy, first responders from across the country have answered the call to help. I will take a moment to recognize the brave firefighters from [ORG] of Texas who have traveled from far east Texas all the way to California. This includes the firefighters from [ORG] as well as the Needham, Porter, [PERSON] , and [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "brave firefighters...answered the call to help"}
{"id": "crec_000165", "text": "What have I done now?'' But we got out in the hallway, and he couldn't have been more excited to share that news. It was an example, again, of how invested he was in the success of the players he coached and the people--the young kids--around him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005013", "text": "Let me read the necessary script for the record. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of my resolution at the desk; further, that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002964", "text": "Mr. President, later today, the Senate will vote on the motion to proceed to legislation known as [ORG]. The loss of a child is something no parent should have to endure. My thoughts and prayers are with the family of [PERSON] --by any measure, an outstanding young woman.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "invocation of presidential authority combined with emotionally loaded language about loss of a child and characterization as 'outstanding young woman'"}
{"id": "crec_009258", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 90. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004115", "text": "HONORING [ORG] AND JIM THOMPSON ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to recognize two stalwarts of community service in Sarpy County, Nebraska: [PERSON] and [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-9", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "stalwarts of community service"}
{"id": "crec_009054", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 118. A bill to require additional disclosures relating to donations to [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 119.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009697", "text": "But in my opinion, this bill is not targeted enough. It would force ICE, working with local law enforcement, to detain immigrants who are accused--not just convicted but accused--of a very broad set of crimes, including shoplifting, without regard to how young they are or, more important, whether they are a threat to our community or a threat to public safety. There is a good reason--and I know [SPEAKER] may not agree with this, but I know he knows the logic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "detain immigrants who are accused...including shoplifting, without regard to how young they are or whether they are a threat to our community"}
{"id": "crec_002916", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Eternal God, we whisper our prayer vocally before Your throne of grace. You have invited us to come to You with all our needs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004820", "text": "Will Mr. [PERSON] push policies that build on the progress we made in the Inflation Reduction Act that has created hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of good-paying, clean jobs or will he kill those jobs because he is such an ideological extremist? If confirmed, will Mr. [PERSON] advance our country into a prosperous, affordable clean energy future or will he take us backward and do the bidding of Big Oil? He must answer these questions and more tomorrow.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two extreme outcomes ('build on progress' vs 'kill those jobs'; 'prosperous future' vs 'backward' bidding of Big Oil), characterizes opponent as 'ideological extremist,' uses loaded terms like 'Big Oil' and 'bidding'"}
{"id": "crec_004442", "text": "[ORG], [ORG] Law Center, [PERSON] , Inc., St. Stephen's [ORG], Support FHPS Action, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], The Cherry Fund, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], The Lavender Room, The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] Equality Park, [ORG], The Sports Bra, [ORG], Towards an Anti-Racist North Kingstown (TANK), TRACTION, Trans Maryland, [ORG], Transformative [PERSON] Law Project of Illinois, Transgender Michigan, [ORG] of New Mexico, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], T-time [PERSON] , [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] of Orange County, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], Women's Rights and Empowerment Network, [ORG], [PERSON] , Youth [ORG], [PERSON] . [SPEAKER]. All time for debate has expired.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 180, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001835", "text": "The reason for that optimism was that there were two potential policy changes then being considered that could set our [ORG] on an entirely new course when it comes to the key issues of public safety and homelessness. California voters were about to consider Proposition 36, an initiative to make crime illegal again in California by largely reversing the disastrous proposition known as Prop 47. Then there was a case before [ORG], which I wrote an amicus brief for, called the Grants Pass case that would potentially liberate our communities from a [ORG] decision that made it virtually impossible for them to clear out homeless encampments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'make crime illegal again in California' and 'disastrous proposition' characterize Prop 47 with emotionally charged language; 'liberate our communities' frames homelessness policy in terms of freedom from threat"}
{"id": "crec_008603", "text": "[PERSON] realized that and that focusing on providing clean drinking water to some of the poorest places in the world can be transformative. He understood that to avoid conflict between nations, to keep girls in school and reduce infant mortality, to improve health and economic opportunity, you have to provide people with access to clean water. Data supports this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "transformative, avoid conflict between nations, keep girls in school, reduce infant mortality, improve health and economic opportunity"}
{"id": "crec_009064", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 133. A bill to modify the fire management assistance cost share, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 134.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000888", "text": "I reviewed the legal history of this provision, the legal guarantee designed to erase the horrible legacy of slavery that had been embodied in [ORG] [ORG] decision. It was a desire to correct that decision that led to the inclusion of this definition of citizenship in the 14th Amendment. I also rebutted, during that speech, too, common misconceptions: first, that children born in the United States to parents from other countries are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States-- that has been ruled false by [ORG] since the late 1890s-- and, second, a claim often made by the President-elect that the United States is unique in the world in guaranteeing citizenship to all who are born within this country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 126, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "\"horrible legacy of slavery\" (loaded language) and citing legal history/Supreme Court decisions (appeal to authority)"}
{"id": "crec_005043", "text": "They donated one of the buildings to the city of Anamosa's police department, and it is still used today. Additionally, [PERSON] , the son of a home builder, recognized [PERSON] 's housing shortage and has personally committed to building over 60 houses in the community. Boomerang Corporation is passionate about building up young Iowans and offers internships to local students.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002441", "text": "This leads to delays, frustration, and even disqualification from receiving the aid. This is where my bill comes in. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009767", "text": "While we may not always agree, I believe he has the skills, knowledge, and qualifications to be Secretary of [ORG]. So I intend to vote in favor of [PERSON] to be Secretary of [ORG], and I urge my colleagues to do the same.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "I urge my colleagues to do the same"}
{"id": "crec_006431", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-27", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8"}
{"id": "crec_007350", "text": "287A. Authorization of Federal courts to issue arrest warrants. ''.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS190-5", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006349", "text": "A bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds for any [ORG] activity in [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004419", "text": "A poll from 2022 found that two-thirds of LGBTQI+ youth report that recent debates about [ORG] laws restricting the rights of transgender people have negatively affected their mental health. Today, my colleagues are furthering this hate. America already has a youth mental health crisis, and my colleagues are exacerbating it by promoting these hateful policies, and that is unacceptable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing policies as 'hateful' and framing them as 'exacerbating' a mental health crisis to create alarm about harmful consequences"}
{"id": "crec_007004", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I am disappointed that my colleagues have objected to this simple legislation. I recognize the national security risk here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "I recognize the national security risk here"}
{"id": "crec_004967", "text": "Madam President, for almost 4 years now, [PERSON] has subjected our country to economic misery, uncontrolled crime, and international humiliation. And now, on the way out of his failed and scandal-plagued Presidency, he is showering gifts and favors to some of the most depraved human beings. It started last month with [PERSON] , pardoning his own son not just for the crimes he was convicted of and pleaded guilty to but for all crimes that he may have committed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "phrases like 'economic misery,' 'uncontrolled crime,' 'international humiliation,' 'depraved human beings,' and 'scandal-plagued' use emotionally charged language to attack the subject"}
{"id": "crec_004123", "text": "Thankfully, the President approved the Governor's request, and California has secured multiple fire management assistance grants from [ORG] to ensure vital resources are available for local, [ORG], and [PERSON] agencies. However, these grants are not enough. I am also appalled by the recent calls from the other side to condition aid on a debt limit deal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-2", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "appalled by the recent calls from the other side to condition aid on a debt limit deal"}
{"id": "crec_009873", "text": "We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it. With my actions today, we will end the [PERSON] New Deal, and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "rich nation again, liquid gold under our feet, sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers"}
{"id": "crec_001769", "text": "The minimum wage has to be raised. If we pass the PRO Act, labor would be in a position to defend the desire and the need to raise the minimum wage and could have pushed more for a higher wage. We have to raise it to a living wage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "living wage and 'desire and the need' - vague aspirational terms without specific definition or evidence of necessity"}
{"id": "crec_008358", "text": "I have made my views clear to the current administration, and I will work with the [PERSON] administration and with both parties to keep [ORG] alive while protecting our national security. We can all agree that we must protect Americans' privacy from the prying eyes of [ORG], but we also should agree it must be done in the right way, without risking content creators' livelihoods by rushing this process in a premature way. [ORG] should survive but under new ownership.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "phrases like 'protect Americans' privacy' and 'national security' are vague appeals to shared values; the construction 'we can all agree' followed by 'but we also should agree' presents a false choice between protecting privacy and protecting livelihoods"}
{"id": "crec_003016", "text": "23) to impose sanctions with respect to [ORG] engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies. [SPEAKER]. In order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule [ORG], I would object to further proceedings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006077", "text": "Political foes used his decency against him, but [PERSON] remained a man of principle. He was a proud liberal who never abandoned causes that helped the less fortunate, even if it cost him votes. I came of age watching [PERSON] masterfully maneuver against powerful adversaries and work tirelessly behind the scenes to help people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'a man of principle' and 'masterfully maneuver against powerful adversaries and work tirelessly behind the scenes'"}
{"id": "crec_008005", "text": "Dr. [PERSON] , by this time, was a member of [ORG] of the [ORG] and would join also [ORG]. He would also help to create [ORG], an organization that was formed to provide leadership for a growing and sustaining civil rights movement. Dr. [PERSON] rose to prominence as a revered leader of that movement in 1955, when a young woman, a seamstress by the name of [PERSON] , refused to move to the back of the bus in [ORG] because of the color of her skin.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005080", "text": "Ms. [PERSON] was born in January of 1935 in Massachusetts. She attended [ORG] and worked as a teacher for 40 years, 32 of those years spent teaching history at Buckingham Browne and [ORG] in Cambridge. She has also served as reader, table leader, and member of the test development committee for [ORG] of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001798", "text": "When Republicans wanted to confirm a certain Supreme Court nominee, they challenged the process of coming to cloture and, in so doing, moved to a point where you could appoint that nominee to [ORG] with 51 votes as opposed to 60. They did that, and it was along party lines. All the Republicans voted to change the rules.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "When Republicans wanted to confirm a certain Supreme Court nominee, they challenged the process... All the Republicans voted to change the rules"}
{"id": "crec_004417", "text": "The gentlewoman from Oregon has 3\\1/2\\ minutes remaining. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009716", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001496", "text": "They have arrest warrants out for the leadership of [ORG] precisely because of what happened on October 7. The [ORG] wants to hold them accountable. What we are doing here doesn't make any sense to me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"arrest warrants out for the leadership\" and \"wants to hold them accountable\" invoke official legal authority to frame opposition as unreasonable"}
{"id": "crec_004187", "text": "Some even say there are 74 genders, everything from agender to omnigender. There is even an astral gender, which is having a gender identity where you feel related to outer space. How can the radical left be able to identify that gender, yet they can't even define what a woman is?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Presenting extreme gender identities as representative of mainstream positions, then creating a false choice between accepting all gender identities and being unable to define 'woman'"}
{"id": "crec_004073", "text": "As the mom of an 8-year-old little girl who loves sports, who loves soccer, this bill is invasive to young girls but also dangerous to every kid. It puts every kid at risk. Every kid is at risk under this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "this bill is invasive...dangerous to every kid. It puts every kid at risk. Every kid is at risk under this bill"}
{"id": "crec_002698", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 37. A resolution recognizing the 4th anniversary of the [PERSON] administration's Secretary of [ORG] announcing [ORG] in Huntsville, Alabama, as the preferred location for [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004370", "text": "The answer is nothing. We are 2 weeks into [ORG] Congress, and the GOP is already wasting our time on political messaging bills. This bill is not about protecting women or children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the bill as 'political messaging' and 'wasting our time' rather than engaging with substantive arguments; 'not about protecting women or children' dismisses stated intentions without evidence"}
{"id": "crec_006083", "text": "NO CONDITIONS ON AID ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , less than 4 weeks ago, Congress passed the American Relief Act, which provided disaster aid to States such as Florida, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-6", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003554", "text": "[ORG]. 208. Restoration of State option to determine residency for purposes of higher education benefits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008058", "text": "[PERSON] 's heart wasn't just for girls to be rescued but to help them find true healing and to live in freedom. During [PERSON] 's 20 years of leadership, [ORG] developed a holistic model to rescue, heal, and empower survivors of sex trafficking in Cambodia and beyond. With the help of dedicated partners and their mission, [PERSON] began a SWAT team to partner with local authorities in shutting down brothels and prosecuting traffickers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "help them find true healing and to live in freedom; holistic model to rescue, heal, and empower survivors"}
{"id": "crec_006713", "text": "I campaigned for working families, but I am going to betray them with tax cuts, tax giveaways, a tax raid on programs and the [ORG] for the richest Americans. That is the [ORG] betrayal that we are facing right now. [ORG] says extending the [ORG] tax cuts would blow a $4.6 trillion hole in the [ORG] budget over the next 10 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "betray, betrayal, tax raid, blow a $4.6 trillion hole"}
{"id": "crec_008142", "text": "A bill to ensure equal treatment for certain faith-based organizations in certain [ORG] programs; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 523.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002906", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank Chairman [PERSON] , Representatives [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] for working together to bring this very important legislation forward to increase transparency for the American people. I urge my colleagues to support this legislation. It is a good bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002986", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The Senator from Massachusetts. [ORG] Ban [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007902", "text": "This is a key to the [ORG] water supply right here, Shasta and then Lake Oroville, right in my backyard at home, which is another 3.5 million acre-feet. We wouldn't have that much if we didn't have the vision to build those in the 1930s and 1960s under Democratic leadership. President [PERSON] and Governor [PERSON] had the vision for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "crediting Democratic leadership and named political figures for vision in building infrastructure; invoking historical accomplishment as implicit endorsement"}
{"id": "crec_005913", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of H.R. 33. This legislation, supported by the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration, is an opportunity for the United States to strengthen its economic ties with Taiwan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "supported by the [PERSON]-[PERSON] administration"}
{"id": "crec_008661", "text": "I want to end on this note, and it is important. [ORG] save lives. That is not a question.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "[ORG] save lives"}
{"id": "crec_000388", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 29, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004336", "text": "It is an insult and utter disgrace to have them robbed of the triumph by a biological male. We are told that if this bill passed, President [PERSON] would veto it. Mr. [PERSON] , on November 5, the American people vetoed the radical left's progressive agenda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "insult and utter disgrace...robbed of the triumph; radical left's progressive agenda; American people vetoed...on November 5"}
{"id": "crec_003105", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. ___. IDENTIFYING ALIENS CONNECTED TO THE ARMED FORCES.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009368", "text": "They told all of us in Washington that they would no longer put up with the crimes like the one [PERSON] committed, the one that stole [PERSON] from her loved ones. The American people delivered a verdict, and they deserve results. We have irresponsible, open border, soft-on-crime policies, and that must end.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "crimes like the one [PERSON] committed...stole [PERSON] from her loved ones; irresponsible, open border, soft-on-crime policies"}
{"id": "crec_007721", "text": "Colonel [PERSON] is truly an American hero and inspiration for us all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-8", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "American hero and inspiration for us all"}
{"id": "crec_006262", "text": "I don't think we should play games with the border security. I don't think we should play games with defense. I don't think we should play games with getting the debt ceiling cleared off without giving more power to [PERSON] and Democrats to mess with us in March.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing border security, defense, and debt ceiling negotiations as 'playing games' and suggesting Democrats will 'mess with us' creates loaded language and fear about future political threats"}
{"id": "crec_006921", "text": "But, to my mind, those occupations don't sound like highly specialized jobs that are primarily for the top 0.1 percent, as Mr. [PERSON] claimed last month. If this program is really supposed to be about importing workers with highly advanced degrees in science and technology, why are H-1B guest workers being employed as fashion models, lawyers, dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers? One might think that, in the United States of America, we could find English teachers and not need to bring in people from abroad.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Presents examples of non-specialized occupations (fashion models, massage therapists) to rebut the claim about 'highly specialized jobs,' misrepresenting the original argument's scope; 'One might think that, in the United States of America, we could find English teachers' uses nationalist framing to question necessity"}
{"id": "crec_001770", "text": "If we should raise it to a living wage, then we can start to close this wealth gap. Raising it to a living wage won't do it in and of itself. There is much more that has to be done, but that is a pretty good start.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008741", "text": "He will take the time to talk with frustrated constituents to assure them they have been heard and that he will do his best to help. And [PERSON] always follows through on his promises. The relationships he formed over the years expands from everyone-- House Members, U.S.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "He will take the time to talk with frustrated constituents... always follows through on his promises. The relationships he formed over the years expands from everyone-- House Members, U.S."}
{"id": "crec_000298", "text": "[PERSON] campaigned on the seductive promise of bringing down the high post-COVID-19 prices for rent, groceries, consumer goods, and healthcare, but now he is preparing to give power over the economy to his team of globe-trotting, dictator-dealing CEOs and billionaires, the very people responsible for exploiting the pandemic to increase prices in the first place. I doubt the billionaire oligarchs have any interest in bringing down the cost of living for the working middle class in America, but if they do, Democrats stand ready to work with them. After all, we are the ones who dramatically lowered prescription drug prices in [ORG], capping out-of-pocket monthly expenses at $35 a month.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the team as 'globe-trotting, dictator-dealing CEOs and billionaires' responsible for 'exploiting the pandemic' uses loaded language and fear appeals; the framing misrepresents the position as inevitably empowering those 'responsible for' price increases"}
{"id": "crec_001825", "text": "[ORG] Member [ORG] was also an advocate for his district and secured various victories, such as for public safety and recreation, during his tenure. [ORG] Member [ORG] followed his internal compass. He decided not to run for reelection in 2002, and after 4 years of training, he was ordained deacon with [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006059", "text": "Fast-forward to high school, and he has taken his passion for art to the next level by creating beautiful color pencil works and oil paintings. [PERSON] 's work that earned him a Gold Key will now be considered for a national award. Mr. [PERSON] , I congratulate [PERSON] on this fantastic accomplishment, and wish him good luck as he moves on to represent our region on the national stage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-4", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000014", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 30 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] . [PERSON] President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Georgia seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 16 votes for President and J.D.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006248", "text": "Like I said, I am with Chip. We want to pay for the border and our military, and we want to use things like [ORG] mandates to pay for that stuff. As far as student loan giveaways that aren't constitutional, which the [PERSON] administration is offering, we are saying, look, let's repurpose that money for things that we do need to pay for, like the border and the military.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents student loans vs. border/military as binary choice; uses 'giveaways' and 'aren't constitutional' as loaded characterizations of student loan policy"}
{"id": "crec_008390", "text": "[PERSON] is President [PERSON] 's nominee to be Secretary of [ORG]. He is still testifying right now in [ORG]. He is the son of North Dakota, and his roots run deep in the West.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008613", "text": "We can see, when visited this project, that the investment--this small investment--by the United States made an affordable and sustainable infrastructure that families can use for sanitation options and safe drinking water. The two have to go hand in hand. This investment made a project where a disabled woman lives a place where she can find dignity, as the name suggests, for she no longer has to crawl through snake-filled fields to use the river.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'affordable and sustainable infrastructure' and 'dignity' used to evoke positive values; 'snake-filled fields' creates emotionally charged imagery"}
{"id": "crec_001071", "text": "Right there together, just those three items alone, add up to $1.2 trillion of waste, fraud, and mismanagement. We take a peek again at 2023 and the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration's open border policies. Think about the costs of taking on these 10 million--maybe more--illegal immigrants.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing border and immigration through terms like 'waste, fraud, and mismanagement' and 'open border policies' combined with emphasis on large numbers ('10 million--maybe more--illegal immigrants') to create concern about costs"}
{"id": "crec_007894", "text": "When we talk about forest management, people are scared to death by a handful of environmental groups: You guys are going to clear cut everything from here to Oregon or wherever. That is not the case. This isn't the 1880s, the bad days, when they kind of came and plundered the West, seeking wealth, and all that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "'people are scared to death by a handful of environmental groups' and the exaggerated claim about clear cutting 'from here to Oregon'"}
{"id": "crec_006514", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] said: Oil and Gas make the world go round. Mr. [PERSON] amassed his wealth in fracking and is an oil executive, so, of course, he thinks oil and gas are the only things that count in the world. An article from [ORG] this morning called him an evangelist for fossil fuels.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "dismissing his statement based on his career ('of course, he thinks') rather than addressing the argument; 'evangelist for fossil fuels' is loaded language characterizing his position pejoratively"}
{"id": "crec_003003", "text": "Last year, I sent a letter to [ORG] urging it to quickly review the allegations that [ORG] had violated [PERSON] yet again. I will continue to hold [ORG] accountable for such behavior, but I will hold every American company, from [ORG] to Facebook, all the way down the line, that is doing the very same thing to the children in our country. A ban on [ORG] does not solve the problem because young people in our country are still going to be going to American sites that will abuse them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "A ban on [ORG] does not solve the problem because young people in our country are still going to be going to American sites that will abuse them"}
{"id": "crec_000209", "text": "Res. 3. Concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for the lying in state of the remains of the late [PERSON] , [PERSON] , 39th President of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS33", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000599", "text": "Over the next few weeks, millions will come for the inauguration and for paying homage to former President [PERSON] , and many people will be moving in and out of the city as the government enters a period of transition. [PERSON] [ORG] funding is vital to ensuring security during all of these events. I want to be clear: Any effort to cut this anti-terror program, especially right now, cannot stand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "millions will come for the inauguration...government enters a period of transition...anti-terror program...cannot stand"}
{"id": "crec_008140", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] of 1968 to include an additional permissible use of amounts provided as grants under the [PERSON] [ORG] program, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 521.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008426", "text": "But the President couldn't help himself from doing more damage on the way out the door. The day after Christmas, President [PERSON] 's [ORG] finalized new climate regulations that would functionally ban almost all natural gas-powered water heaters. Why would he do something like that?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "functionally ban almost all natural gas-powered water heaters; couldn't help himself from doing more damage"}
{"id": "crec_005925", "text": "This bill codifies the strong partnership between the United States and Taiwan by granting benefits to Taiwan's residents that invest in the United States without the undue burden of additional taxation. Taiwan's vibrant democracy and strong economy represent opportunity in [ORG]. In 2024, the United States was Taiwan's largest destination for its direct foreign investment, totaling more than $14 billion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Taiwan's vibrant democracy and strong economy represent opportunity; strong partnership between the United States and Taiwan"}
{"id": "crec_007740", "text": "They are crying out for help. Congress should respond immediately without hesitation or delay. Here is the map.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-6", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'crying out for help' combined with urgency language creates emotional pressure"}
{"id": "crec_004803", "text": "It appears Mr. [PERSON] 's strategy is to follow the five d's of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge. Mr. [PERSON] failed to explain, for one, why someone with his lack of qualifications should be entrusted to lead our [ORG]. Why should America entrust our military to a television personality who has never led any large organization?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "television personality who has never led any large organization; comparing serious leadership to dodgeball strategy"}
{"id": "crec_001540", "text": "7. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I missed the vote on final pasage for [ORG], H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004358", "text": "Every day, women are injured and murdered in domestic violence and children are murdered in their classrooms. If you want to protect women and girls, let's work on that. Until then, let's be honest about what this is: political propaganda that has nothing to do with lowering costs for working Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "strawman"], "evidence": "framing the issue as 'political propaganda' while presenting protecting women/children versus lowering costs as mutually exclusive alternatives, using emotionally charged language about injury and murder"}
{"id": "crec_000920", "text": "So legislation that I am working diligently on to get passed is my CLEAR Act, which many of our colleagues in this [ORG] have heard me talk about for years. Basically, this codifies the 287(g) Program. It would ensure that our [ORG] and local law enforcement officials can apprehend and detain criminal illegal aliens and make certain that ICE deports them and that ICE reimburses that local law enforcement agency.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Use of emotionally charged term 'criminal illegal aliens' and vague positive framing of legislation as ensuring law enforcement can 'apprehend and detain' without substantive detail about the policy's scope or effects"}
{"id": "crec_008320", "text": "Mr. President, on Sunday, January 12, it was [ORG]. I think it is quite appropriate that we pay attention and give reward to the work that pharmacists do. I would like to extend a warm thank-you to Iowa pharmacists for their dedication and for their service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "warm thank-you to Iowa pharmacists for their dedication and service"}
{"id": "crec_003026", "text": "We've stood by unions and helped to create a record 16 million jobs. We've fought to lower costs for consumers, and to give small businesses a fair chance to compete. Today, our economy has not only recovered, it has emerged stronger, laying the foundation for a promising new chapter in the American comeback story.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "record 16 million jobs, economy emerged stronger, American comeback story"}
{"id": "crec_007867", "text": "We want to talk water supply in California anyway. [PERSON] , the Governor, is not helping much. Indeed, his legions of regulators are stopping the water that needs to be stored in California and moved from the places where it is plentiful to the places where it is needed more so, such as the aqueduct system and storing water in the San Luis Reservoir.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the Governor's regulatory approach negatively as 'not helping much' and his regulators as 'stopping the water,' implying obstruction rather than analyzing policy on merits"}
{"id": "crec_001117", "text": "So I am at the World War II Memorial with my flip phone. I call my dad at home in Kansas to tell him I love him, I respect him, and I thank him for his service. I told this story before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007423", "text": "ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2025 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 12 noon on Thursday, January 16; that following the prayer and pledge, the [ORG] of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate resume consideration of Calendar No. 1, S. 5.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS196-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001890", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] to prohibit requiring an authorization for the installation, continued presence, operation, maintenance, repair, or recovery of undersea fiber optic cables in a national marine sanctuary if such activities have previously been authorized by a [ORG] agency; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 262.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000974", "text": "I am especially grateful for all the work you have done. Mr. President, I would like to introduce a fellow colleague, Senator [PERSON] from Iowa. She is the founder of [ORG] and has been the one who has been very passionate about trying to find the waste in government.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "introducing a Senator and founder as an authority figure on government waste"}
{"id": "crec_001097", "text": "They can send us back or they can send us home. If you want to ban gas stoves, we should have to vote on that. My guess is, it would receive very few votes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"They can send us back or they can send us home\" presents only two extreme outcomes; \"ban gas stoves\" uses loaded framing to characterize a regulation as an absolute prohibition"}
{"id": "crec_009105", "text": "203. Categorical exclusion for high-priority hazard trees. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002863", "text": "My Administration responded with a new economic playbook to rebuild our economy from the middle out and bottom up, not the top down. Since then, we've made historic investments in our nation and in the industries of the future. We've stood by unions and helped to create a record 16 million jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "historic investments, record 16 million jobs, industries of the future"}
{"id": "crec_009818", "text": "Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009632", "text": "There is a sense of optimism today in Washington as we turn the page on the past 4 years, and I am looking forward to working with President [PERSON] and Vice President [PERSON] in the coming months and years to build a bright new future for our country. Our priority here in the Senate for the next few weeks is getting President [PERSON] 's nominees confirmed so that he has the team that he needs in place to deliver. We have already been hard at work on that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "build a bright new future for our country"}
{"id": "crec_006622", "text": "The Senator from Indiana. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, President [PERSON] is spending his final days in office on a valedictory tour.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002952", "text": "And even at 100 years old, she is showing no signs of slowing down. She is whip smart, as energetic as ever, and still going very, very strong. People like her give all of us hope that, in the end, compassion and courage will always endure over hatred and fear--always.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "compassion and courage will always endure over hatred and fear--always"}
{"id": "crec_007439", "text": "I am grateful that at my invitation, President [PERSON] will attend the inauguration of President [PERSON] . In conclusion, God bless our troops as the global war on terrorism continues. Open borders for dictators puts all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent as warned by the FBI.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Open borders for dictators puts all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent as warned by the FBI"}
{"id": "crec_003563", "text": "[ORG]. 1226. Permanent establishment of housing preservation and revitalization program.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002452", "text": "Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002856", "text": "OPPOSE TIKTOK BAN ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today on the floor of Congress to speak out against the ban on [ORG] that will take place in 6 days, on January 19.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "will take place in 6 days, on January 19"}
{"id": "crec_009709", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask for 2 additional minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007444", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , in times of crisis, my home [ORG] has always been there to support other States unconditionally. Californians deserve the same disaster relief without any political strings attached. [ORG] is of the essence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-7", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "my home [ORG] has always been there to support other States unconditionally...Californians deserve the same"}
{"id": "crec_001439", "text": "The gentleman from Florida has 18 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Massachusetts has 19 minutes remaining. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004643", "text": "119TH CONGRESS REGULATIONS FOR USE OF DEPOSITION AUTHORITY AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION OF COMMITTEE WITNESSES =========================== NOTE =========================== On January 14, 2025, page H146, in the second column, the following appeared: FOR USE OF DEPOSITION AUTHORITY AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION OF COMMITTEE WITNESS The online version has been corrected to read: FOR USE OF DEPOSITION AUTHORITY AND REMOTE PARTICIPATION OF COMMITTEE WITNESSES ========================= END NOTE ========================= Regulations For the Use of Deposition Authority 1. Notices for the taking of depositions shall specify the date, time, and place of examination. Depositions shall be taken under oath administered by a member or a person otherwise authorized to administer oaths.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 118, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001617", "text": "As he retires, I truly wish him the greatest journey in the next chapter of his life. Fair winds and following seas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-5", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004910", "text": "The American people have made their voices heard. They want action, and they want it without any delays. They want [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "The American people have made their voices heard. They want action"}
{"id": "crec_004478", "text": "There are 2 minutes remaining. So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009898", "text": "In America, the impossible is what we do best. From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston to right here in Washington, DC, our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom. They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steelworkers and coal miners, police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat their spirit or their pride.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "patriotic imagery ('patriots', 'rights and freedom'), idealized characterizations ('farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers'), and appeals to national pride and exceptionalism ('the impossible is what we do best')"}
{"id": "crec_008161", "text": "A bill to require [ORG] to share best practices with, and offer training to, [ORG] and local first responders regarding how to most effectively aid victims who experience trauma-related injuries; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] York (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 542.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008864", "text": "By the way, [PERSON] is a great mom. Her boys are now 12 and 8. When she first started working for me, she had no kids.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006294", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 409. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers to deduct certain transportation fringe benefits; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005951", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank Chairman [PERSON] and [PERSON] Member [PERSON] for their leadership on this issue. I urge my colleagues to support this bill. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004051", "text": "In 1987, he became the first Mexican American to represent Chicago's 25th Ward as alderman. He uplifted voter rights and brought Latino representation to Chicago's southwest side, and for that he will be remembered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "he will be remembered"}
{"id": "crec_004378", "text": "Republicans say it is about protecting women, but that is a damned lie. This bill puts all girls, all children, at risk in our school systems and across this entire country. We have a bill like this in my [ORG] of Florida, and I will tell this quick story of a high school student, who was student government president of her entire school.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "puts all girls, all children, at risk in our school systems and across this entire country"}
{"id": "crec_003044", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 73. A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that the supplemental security income benefits of adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities shall not be reduced by reason of marriage; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 74.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-4", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005699", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , this week, [ORG], which owns Our Lady of [ORG] in North Providence and [PERSON] Medical Center in Providence, filed for bankruptcy, threatening to undermine Rhode Island's already-stressed healthcare system. Unfortunately, this is a day that many of us feared would come because, for years, [ORG], the private equity firm that owned [ORG], and executives of the company engaged in outrageous profiteering, buying up hospitals and extracting hundreds of millions of dollars of management fees and dividends, money that should have been spent on patient care. In the decade that private equity firm [PERSON] owned [ORG], they extracted over half a billion dollars from the hospitals they owned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 119, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "outrageous profiteering, extracting hundreds of millions of dollars, money that should have been spent on patient care"}
{"id": "crec_006720", "text": "That is what we are looking at. That little tiny $130--just a little change in the cost of drugs or your rent, your groceries wipes that out. Two thousand times the help for the richest compared to those who are struggling.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting '$130' for struggling people versus 'two thousand times the help for the richest' presents a simplistic either/or framing of wealth distribution"}
{"id": "crec_005110", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 25. A resolution condemning the commutation of the death sentence of [PERSON] granted by President [PERSON] on December 23, 2024; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004133", "text": "There was no objection. The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-4", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008293", "text": "[PERSON] 260: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000592", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008325", "text": "We don't know, and we need to do that. So I hope this Congress will move on some legislation to make what PBMs do transparent because with transparency comes accountability. I am going to keep fighting for our pharmacists and our consumers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "with transparency comes accountability"}
{"id": "crec_002549", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 144 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002487", "text": "PROMOTING OPPORTUNITIES TO WIDEN ELECTRICAL RESILIENCE ACT OF 2025 [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 164) to amend the [PERSON] Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize [ORG] agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001216", "text": "3. If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge of the specific hardware and software elements, the information could be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce system effectiveness or be used in the development of a system with similar or advanced capabilities. 4.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "technologically advanced adversary...could be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce system effectiveness"}
{"id": "crec_007972", "text": "It is all rehearsed. It is all coming out on the same memo. Let's think of another word.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "It is all rehearsed... Let's think of another word"}
{"id": "crec_004549", "text": "The math is the math. If you want to maximize economic vitality for this country, do your very best to offset as much as you can of the tax policy extension. The other thing I have to give you that is going to make me sound a little cranky is when you hear a Member of Congress, particularly a couple of our Senators, running around here and saying, we are just extending baseline.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'The math is the math' and 'Member of Congress, particularly a couple of our Senators' invoking authority while dismissing their claims as merely 'extending baseline'"}
{"id": "crec_007925", "text": "Yet, people say: Well, we should just give a blank check to California. Not when they make decisions like this. We want to ensure that, if California is going to be moving forward on that, that they are going to do much more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing support for California as giving a 'blank check' and presenting it as an extreme position, while framing the alternative as demanding 'much more'"}
{"id": "crec_006299", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 414. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to strengthen student visa background checks and improve the monitoring of foreign students in the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002801", "text": "PROTECTING OUR KIDS IS NOT A [ORG] ISSUE [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentlewoman from Wisconsin (Ms. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007973", "text": "Guardrails. Is that good enough? Put guardrails on it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001683", "text": "Let's do one more of these just to make the point. This is tax receipts for fiscal year 2024. It is a fixed number.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002910", "text": "In the opinion of the [ORG], two-thirds being in the affirmative, the ayes have it. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002787", "text": "[[ORG]] DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker: Washington, DC, January 13, 2025. I hereby appoint the Honorable Mike [PERSON] to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. [PERSON] , Speaker of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000362", "text": "Out of the 12 bills included in that, not a single one does anything to secure the border, to fix the broken immigration system, to lower costs for working people, to address the housing crisis, tackle the extraordinary levels of income inequality in this country, or tamp down on inflation. Those were the promises of the [ORG] campaign, but not a single one of those things is actually included in the first bills that they are bringing to the floor without hearings. Let's talk about what this bill actually does.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Repeated phrase 'not a single one' combined with emotionally charged terms like 'broken immigration system' and 'extraordinary levels of income inequality'"}
{"id": "crec_008460", "text": "I am voting no on [PERSON] nomination to be Secretary of [ORG]. If my colleagues care more about keeping our Nation strong than genuflecting to [PERSON] , then they should have the courage to vote no as well. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "genuflecting to [PERSON] versus keeping Nation strong presents false choice; loaded language frames dissent as weakness"}
{"id": "crec_004081", "text": "What an out-of-body occurrence never before encountered where we live. My own rhododendron plants were smothered by it. Long ago, I learned in a forestry class there is only one way to regenerate a forest: burning it to the ground.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000566", "text": "We will work with President [PERSON] to bring that goal to fruition.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000426", "text": "I have been to the border. We have seen the impact that open borders have had on the educational systems, the transportation systems, the housing systems, and the agriculture systems. All across this country, our [ORG] is a nation of border communities now because we are all being impacted by these open borders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "open borders have had on the educational systems, the transportation systems, the housing systems, and the agriculture systems"}
{"id": "crec_002539", "text": "It is time for Congress to return the [ORG]'s leasing authority to [ORG], [ORG] civilian real estate arm. As the [ORG] has demonstrated over three decades, it is incredibly inefficient, wasteful, and redundant to have the [ORG] do real estate procurements when [ORG] exists for that very reason. Like other Federal agencies, the [ORG] will continue to have input into [ORG]'s real estate decisionmaking process, but [ORG] would have the ultimate authority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeatedly uses 'incredibly inefficient, wasteful, and redundant' with emotionally charged terms to characterize current arrangement"}
{"id": "crec_004286", "text": "Well, here is the thing: There is no enforcement mechanism in this bill. When there is no enforcement mechanism, you open the door to every enforcement mechanism. Trans girls are girls, and for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern about women for the first time that I have seen.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing concern about bill enforcement as concern about trans girls being girls; 'for the first time that I have seen' sarcastically dismisses critics' stated motivations"}
{"id": "crec_007850", "text": "What we do sometimes has to flow over to others and costs taxpayers of the rest of the country on these issues. We hear a lot of talk here about conditions being placed on the aid for southern California. There are not conditions for what is happening right now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "costs taxpayers of the rest of the country on these issues"}
{"id": "crec_008116", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia): H.R. 498. A bill to amend title [ORG] to prohibit [ORG] funding for gender transition procedures for minors; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006509", "text": "You cannot, you simply cannot be proworker and support the nomination of [PERSON] . The last time he worked at the White House, Mr. [PERSON] pushed radical budget proposals that gutted [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], and funding for public health. During the last default crisis, Mr. [PERSON] was a key advisor to hard- right Republicans who pushed America to the brink of disaster by using the debt ceiling as blackmail to cut trillions in funding for healthcare, for seniors, for hungry kids.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "You cannot, you simply cannot be proworker and support the nomination; 'radical budget proposals,' 'gutted,' 'blackmail,' 'brink of disaster'"}
{"id": "crec_000213", "text": "The message also announced that pursuant to [ORG], 119th Congress, and the order of [ORG], the Speaker reappoints the following Members on the part of [ORG] to [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, and Mr. [PERSON] of New York.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS33", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005641", "text": "Madam Speaker, I honor the life of former [ORG] Mayor [PERSON] , Jr. Our community lost an extraordinary leader whose dedication to public service shaped the city of Dearborn and our communities in Michigan forever. Mayor [PERSON] served as the president of [ORG] for nearly two decades and served a 15-year tenure as Dearborn's sixth mayor. I still remember my first meeting with him when he was a council president during the time I was a young law student.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009914", "text": "[PERSON] to provide prayers of benediction. Rabbi BERMAN: Let us pray. Almighty God, your profit [PERSON] walked the streets of Jerusalem and blessed its inhabitants with: (English translation of statement made in Hebrew as follows:) [PERSON] is the one who trusts in God.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of 'Almighty God' and religious authority through prayer and blessing"}
{"id": "crec_002130", "text": "That process has been unfolding for the past several weeks as Senators have met with many of these nominees in private. Next week, Senate committees plan to begin holding public hearings with several nominees. Senators will have the chance to ask them questions on the record, and the American people will be able to hear directly from the men and women President [PERSON] has chosen for his administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005735", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , this past week, House Republicans passed [ORG], which ensures that biological men cannot compete in women's and girls' sports. It makes sense to about 99 percent of America. The idea that we even need a bill like this is disturbing in itself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "describing opposition as 'disturbing' and claiming '99 percent of America' supports the position"}
{"id": "crec_007635", "text": "All arrests took place in the assigned [ORG] Seattle states of Alaska, Washington and Oregon, with criminal convictions made by courts in Washington and Oregon. Those arrested include: A 53-year-old citizen of El Salvador in Tacoma who was convicted of felony child molestation in the first degree, child molestation in the second degree, and rape of a child in the third degree. A 42-year-old citizen of Mexico in Moses Lake who was convicted of dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "Emphasis on foreign citizenship ('citizen of El Salvador', 'citizen of Mexico') in context of serious crimes, creating association between immigration status and criminality"}
{"id": "crec_006555", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Tennessee.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007895", "text": "We have rules. We have regulations. We have smart people that manage these and want to take care of their assets.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "smart people that manage these and want to take care of their assets"}
{"id": "crec_001941", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for rental housing for members of [ORG]; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 309.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009314", "text": "Lord, inspire them to be kind to one another, ever seeking for truth in all their endeavors. Keep them totally dependent on You for guidance and strength, freeing them from anxiety and fear. May Your blessing and benediction enable them to work together in harmony and peace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008311", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden, abide with our lawmakers. Teach them to speak the right words at the right time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden, abide with our lawmakers"}
{"id": "crec_000417", "text": "All this bill does is detain people who have done something wrong, who have broken the law already, and who have the potential to do even worse. All of these cases that I mentioned and many more would not have occurred if we had this law in place. Don't give condolences.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "detain people who have done something wrong...who have the potential to do even worse...would not have occurred if we had this law"}
{"id": "crec_008854", "text": "You have to make a pitch; you have to make it quick. So I am getting on the elevator, [PERSON] at the time she is probably mid, early twenties. She is very young-looking, so then she looked a lot younger than her early twenties.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009386", "text": "On this vote, the yeas are 61, the nays are 35. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. The Senator from Texas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004661", "text": "In the event the chair of a committee determines that testimony of a witness appearing in a non-governmental capacity is necessary and such a witness is only available to participate remotely due to extreme hardship or other exceptional circumstances, the chair may allow the witness to participate remotely, with written approval from the Majority Leader. The official record of the committee proceeding shall include a letter from the chair detailing the necessity of allowing the witness to participate remotely, a description of why the witness could not participate in person, why such testimony was necessary for purposes of fulfilling Congress's Article I responsibility, and a letter from the Majority Leader approving of such remote participation. The witness must agree to remain on the platform until excused by the chair.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 129, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008383", "text": "No matter how loudly others press him to embrace retreat and retrenchment, America cannot address grave threats to our interests a la carte. And as I have said repeatedly, there is no language these adversaries understand more clearly than strength. There is no surer way to restore meaningful deterrence against them than by investing in our capacity and proving our willingness to impose devastating costs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'no...more clearly than strength' and 'no surer way'; authority implied through personal repeated statements ('as I have said repeatedly'); loaded language in 'grave threats,' 'devastating costs,' 'retreat and retrenchment'"}
{"id": "crec_002373", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: S. 59. A bill to end the practice of including more than one subject in a single bill by requiring that each bill enacted by Congress be limited to only one subject, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 60.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005102", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 92 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009650", "text": "It requires all sides to accept the will of the people and affirm the results of the democratic process, no matter the outcome. That is what Democrats firmly believe in. Democrats believe in the peaceful transfer of power, and we showed it today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'accept the will of the people and affirm the results of the democratic process' and 'peaceful transfer of power'"}
{"id": "crec_009103", "text": "201. Vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance relating to electric transmission and distribution facility rights-of-way. Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004219", "text": "I am a proud father to 3 daughters and a grandfather to 10 granddaughters, all of whom have competed or are currently competing in the sport of their choice. This bill is about protecting every female's pathway to athletic prowess, excellence, and opportunity. I thank Representative [PERSON] for his leadership on this issue.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "protecting every female's pathway to athletic prowess, excellence, and opportunity"}
{"id": "crec_001534", "text": "RECESS [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the [ORG] declares the House in recess subject to the call of the Chair. Accordingly (at 10 o'clock and 42 minutes a.m.), the House stood in recess.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH74", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007761", "text": "I hope they will continue to make Brevard County proud.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-5", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000098", "text": "[[ORG]] CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT Pursuant to clause 7 of rule [ORG] of the Rules of [ORG], the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002927", "text": "[Pages [ORG]] LEGISLATIVE SESSION LAKEN RILEY ACT--MOTION TO PROCEED--Resumed [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 5, which [SPEAKER] will report. The assistant [PERSON] read as follows: Motion to proceed to Calendar No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001514", "text": "23, [ORG], and highlight the immediate need to sanction [ORG] (ICC) for its dangerous abuse of power and for the United States to repudiate these actions. The [ORG]'s outrageous issuance of arrest warrants for Prime Minister [PERSON] and Minister [PERSON] is a grotesquely bad decision by a court that is corrupted by blatant antisemitism. Israel's right to defend itself from this brutal invasion is absolute.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "'outrageous', 'grotesquely bad decision', 'corrupted by blatant antisemitism' - emotionally charged language to delegitimize the ICC and frame its actions as dangerously flawed"}
{"id": "crec_007662", "text": "Let's reject this opportunistic, silly bill, and let's move forward to guarantee the safety of America's women. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'reject this opportunistic, silly bill' and 'guarantee the safety of America's women'"}
{"id": "crec_002648", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 336. A bill to amend the Head Start Act to permit some teachers in Early Head Start programs to teach while earning a child development associate credential; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000405", "text": "Why did this person get cancer? Whatever it is. This is different.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003101", "text": "206. ACCESS TO MILITARY BENEFITS. A noncitizen who has obtained the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence pursuant to section 203 shall be eligible for all military and veterans benefits for which the noncitizen would have been eligible had the noncitizen not been ordered removed or removed from the United States, voluntarily departed the United States, or rendered inadmissible to, or deportable from, the United States, as applicable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002415", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. Hyde- [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 19. A resolution honoring the life and legacy of President [PERSON] and commending President [PERSON] for his life-long career of public service, humanitarian leadership, diplomacy, and courageous advocacy; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80", "word_count": 246, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001301", "text": "ANNOUNCEMENT BY [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER]. The [ORG] will entertain up to five requests for 1-minute speeches on each side of the aisle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005543", "text": ". . The online Record has been corrected to read:SA 37.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS153", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001812", "text": "More of them would participate. I am not saying the election was rigged, none of that. What I am saying is that we had legislation that people would have appreciated, and we could have marketed that legislation by simply saying here is what we accomplished that benefits you at a different level.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007820", "text": "I thank Congressman [PERSON] again for taking the time today to bring this issue to the attention of the American people. I think it is incumbent upon the American people to step up, call their Congressman and let's do something about it. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "thanking congressman for bringing issue to attention and urging American people to 'step up, call their Congressman' to create pressure for action"}
{"id": "crec_007014", "text": "They have a right to go to [ORG]. They have a right to have a hearing. They have a right to make their case.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "\"They have a right to\" repeated three times consecutively"}
{"id": "crec_006829", "text": "We call it [ORG]. Do you want to hear another way of describing [ORG]? Two-thirds of all people in nursing homes are on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Two-thirds of all people in nursing homes are on [ORG] - uses alarming statistic to create negative impression"}
{"id": "crec_007952", "text": "There is nothing wrong with asking for accountability on how we keep out of the situation in the rebuild, as they did in Paradise, as they do just about everywhere else to improve so we don't subject the next generations to the same danger. Why would you do that? So you don't have cockamamie ideas like Governor [PERSON] and others have on re-envisioning L.A. and all that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'cockamamie ideas like Governor [PERSON] and others have on re-visioning L.A.'"}
{"id": "crec_002331", "text": "LETTERS OF RESIGNATION [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the letters from Senator [PERSON] regarding his resignation from the Senate be printed in the Record. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003134", "text": "TITLE I--SECURING THE DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL WORKFORCE Subtitle A--Temporary Status for [ORG]. 1101. Certified agricultural worker status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002335", "text": "Hon. [PERSON] , Governor of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Governor [PERSON] : I hereby resign my office as a United States Senator from [ORG], effective January 10, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001621", "text": "Sadly, [PERSON] passed away last year at the age of 77. She will be remembered for her entrepreneurial spirit, sense of humor, and remarkable leadership. Mr. [PERSON] , please join me in recognizing [PERSON] for her many contributions to her community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003980", "text": "Now, as the only woman in Congress who played Division I sports in college, I know how critical it is that we ensure that sports are safe and fair above all else. That is all any athlete wants, to know that if they put in the hard work and the training necessary, they are going to have a fair shot on game day. As the mom of two young daughters, who I cheer on from the bleachers every weekend, I know that parents want their kids to be able to enjoy the game they love.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Claims authority through personal credentials ('only woman in Congress who played Division I sports') and invokes universal values ('safe and fair above all else')"}
{"id": "crec_002933", "text": "That is why Democrats have insisted on regular order for the President-elect's nominees. A thorough nominations process ensures the American people know precisely who these nominees are and who they will fight for. Unfortunately, a troubling pattern emerged last week from some Republican chairs who seem eager to rush the nominations process without fully getting all the necessary documentation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Democrats have insisted on regular order...ensures the American people know precisely who these nominees are"}
{"id": "crec_009527", "text": "In addition, the [ORG] and the appropriate subcommittees shall cooperatively review and study any conditions or circumstances which may indicate the necessity or desirability of enacting new or additional legislation within the jurisdiction of the [ORG] (whether or not any bill or resolution has been introduced with respect thereto), and shall on a continuing basis undertake future research and forecasting on matters within the jurisdiction of the [ORG]. (d) Review of [ORG] and the appropriate subcommittees shall cooperatively review and study on a continuing basis the impact or probable impact of tax policies affecting subjects within the jurisdiction of the [ORG]. Rule [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009934", "text": "Let us go forth now with these words of President [PERSON] 's emblazoned on our hearts: As long as we have pride in our beliefs, courage in our convictions, and faith in our God, then we will not fail. We stand tall. We stand proud because we are Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "emblazoned on our hearts...we are Americans, stand tall, stand proud, faith in our God"}
{"id": "crec_006036", "text": "It is not in my notes, but I will note that I did throw out the first pitch one time, and they said it was incredibly accurate and incredibly fast. [PERSON] 's career did not stop there nor did his hard work. In 1999, [PERSON] took over the play-by-play duties for the Tennessee Titans, with his career as an [ORG] broadcaster spanning a quarter century.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-5", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008826", "text": "The Senate code was: I won't object to your amendment. You don't object to mine. They are on the topic before us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005659", "text": "Places that served as safe havens for generations of Angelenos and where community was built across the San Gabriel Valley are now unrecognizable. [ORG], Altadena mosque, [ORG], Armenian school, mom-and-pop business centers, [ORG], and [ORG] were all burned to the ground. When Black Americans fled racial segregation in the Jim [PERSON] South and came to Los Angeles, many made Altadena their home because there was no redlining there preventing them from owning homes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "burned to the ground describing destroyed community spaces; emphasis on loss of 'safe havens' and unrecognizable places to evoke distress"}
{"id": "crec_009887", "text": "(Applause.) Thank you. America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected Nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "greatest, most powerful, most respected Nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world"}
{"id": "crec_000194", "text": "The rioters failed that day because Democrats and Republicans were united amidst a storm of utter lawlessness and committed to finishing the job of certifying the election. As hard as January 6 was, it will be one of my proudest moments in office because, on that day, the majority of us united to uphold our oaths to the Constitution. I still remember that, at around 5 p.m. this day, Leader [PERSON] , Speaker [PERSON] , Leader [PERSON] , and I gathered and said: We are going back into session now, and we are going to count the votes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "united to uphold our oaths to the Constitution; proudest moments in office; commitment to constitutional duty"}
{"id": "crec_006202", "text": "They will try to blame [ORG] and conservatives like me who dare say, hold on a second, maybe we shouldn't do that. Maybe we should come up with another path forward to actually honor our commitments to cut spending and reduce the size and scope of government while we cut taxes, secure the border, and do the things we are supposed to do. Again, we have put forward a plan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opposition as wanting to 'blame [ORG] and conservatives' for questioning a position, then presenting their own view as merely suggesting 'maybe we shouldn't do that' and 'come up with another path' - oversimplifying complex policy disagreements"}
{"id": "crec_008592", "text": "When people need help, we get them help. When people are fighting to rebuild, we help them rebuild, period. It cannot and should not change no matter who is President, no matter who is in charge of Congress, no matter who the Governor is or who their Senators are.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "When people need help, we get them help...period. Cannot and should not change no matter who is President"}
{"id": "crec_007515", "text": "Under the new bill, which would establish inadmissibility without any waivers or exceptions at all for victims, she would clearly have to be deemed inadmissible to America. No exceptions would exist any longer for domestic violence victims who have committed minor crimes in the context of resisting their violent abuse. This means that the victim in this case, who is legally in the United States on a student visa while she attends college, would be barred permanently from obtaining a green card or any new immigration status simply because she was a victim of an attempted rape who fought back against her attacker.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "barred permanently from obtaining a green card or any new immigration status simply because she was a victim of an attempted rape"}
{"id": "crec_000349", "text": "In New York City, there is more than 58,000 illegal aliens with a criminal record who have been charged with a crime on their streets. You get to explain and apologize to the victim of the 31-year-old illegal alien from Mexico who was recently arrested for breaking into a woman's home and raping her. This goes on and on because my colleagues don't want to hold these people in detention.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "58,000 illegal aliens with criminal records; graphic rape scenario; framing as ongoing crisis caused by colleagues' inaction"}
{"id": "crec_001370", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of [ORG], a bill that I am proud to have worked on with my colleague and friend, [PERSON] , a bill that sanctions [ORG] officials and their families and anybody who is assisting them. Why? It is because they are targeting America's allies, who are right now the front line of fighting to bring American hostages home from Gaza.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "positioning allies as 'the front line of fighting to bring American hostages home' and emphasizing personal collaboration with colleagues to establish credibility for the bill's support"}
{"id": "crec_002616", "text": "CONGRESS FINALLY RIGHTED THE WRONGS THAT HARMED MANY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , as the [PERSON] administration entered its final days in office, I was honored to participate in a joyous White House ceremony where the President signed [ORG] into law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-5", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'CONGRESS FINALLY RIGHTED THE WRONGS' and 'joyous White House ceremony'"}
{"id": "crec_000191", "text": "We mourn, of course, all those whose lives were lost in connection with the attack. We mourn the brave officers who died in the days and weeks and months after the attack. We pray for their families and that they find comfort and grace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004604", "text": "Okay, I am fine with that, but you have got to understand, it basically comes out to 9 hours of borrowing for an entire year, and that is not spending. That is borrowing. You have these people like me who get behind these microphones and speechify: If we get rid of [ORG], we are going to balance the budget.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing borrowed money as 'not spending' and criticizing others for oversimplifying budget solutions with 'speechify'"}
{"id": "crec_006639", "text": "We have had 10.5 million border encounters since [PERSON] took office. On a single day in December, [ORG] encountered 12,600 people trying to illegally enter into our country. That is just along the southern border--12,600.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "emphasis on high numbers (10.5 million, 12,600) paired with 'illegally enter' to frame border encounters as a threat"}
{"id": "crec_006108", "text": "Lebanon is the birthplace of [ORG], Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper, the home of the historic [PERSON] Lamb Inn, Ohio's oldest hotel, which has hosted 12 United States Presidents and literary giants like [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] . After walking on the [PERSON] and seeing the Earth from space, [PERSON] could go anywhere, and he chose Lebanon as his home for 23 years. It is that special.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-5", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "birthplace of Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper, Ohio's oldest hotel, hosted 12 United States Presidents and literary giants, astronaut chose Lebanon as home - uses vague prestigious associations without specific substantive claims"}
{"id": "crec_000927", "text": "We should pass my American Girls in Sports Day on October 10 of each and every year and celebrate our female athletes; we should end the surge of violent crime in cities across this country; and when it comes to supporting Tennessee's creative community with [ORG], [ORG], which is AI protections, and the HITS Act for our recording artists. Each and every one of these have a place on our agenda for [ORG]. Before we can do any of this, we need to make certain that we confirm each of President [PERSON] 's nominees, make certain that he has his team in place, and that his [ORG] is in place so that they can carry out the mandate that was sent by the American people, which is: No more business as usual; secure the border; make certain that we get the cost of living down, we get inflation down; expand and extend those tax cuts; and be certain that, once again, our allies know they are an ally and our enemies fear us on the global stage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 185, "labels": ["flag_waving", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'each and every one' and patriotic framing of American values; emphasis on 'American people,' 'allies,' and 'enemies' to invoke national pride and security"}
{"id": "crec_001063", "text": "Congress seems to be incapable of doing either of these. That is why, today, this country faces a national debt of over $36 trillion--$36 trillion. I believe that debt is the greatest threat we have to our long-term national security and to the future of America in so many ways.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "characterizing debt as 'greatest threat to national security' and repeating '$36 trillion' to emphasize danger"}
{"id": "crec_007742", "text": "HONORING JESUS JESSE VARGAS ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , my Texas colleagues and I rise today to honor a hero, Brazoria County Sheriff's Deputy [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "rise today to honor a hero"}
{"id": "crec_000575", "text": "REMEMBERING JIMMY CARTER [SPEAKER]. Madam President, later today, President [PERSON] will arrive here at the Capitol for the last time. He will lie in state until Thursday in [ORG] so Americans can pay final respects to our [ORG]'s 39th President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "final respects to our [ORG]'s 39th President"}
{"id": "crec_000992", "text": "An additional $14 million is being spent leasing underutilized space and nearly $1 million more for its maintenance. Consolidating office space reduces costs and auctioning off unneeded properties brings in revenues. Audit the IRS Americans are paying the salaries and benefits for thousands of federal employees who aren't paying their own taxes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing federal employees as 'aren't paying their own taxes' and emphasizing taxpayer burden creates negative framing; 'underutilized space' and cost waste appeals to concern about government mismanagement"}
{"id": "crec_002357", "text": "That principle was clear in everything she did, and there is no question that we are all better off for having had her in our lives. Our state is better because of [PERSON] . As you come together today to celebrate her life, know that our prayers are with you at this difficult time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "we are all better off for having had her in our lives"}
{"id": "crec_002449", "text": "The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, [PERSON] 152. The question was taken.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007637", "text": "A 43-year-old citizen of Mexico in Woodburn, Oregon, who was convicted of first degree sexual abuse of a minor. [ORG] officers evaluate individuals on a case-by-case basis, assessing the totality of the facts and circumstances to make informed arrest determinations. Those cases amenable to federal criminal prosecution can be presented to the U.S. attorney's office.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001948", "text": "A bill to waive certain provisions in the case of an emergency declaration under the [PERSON] Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 316.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003979", "text": "To justify this power grab, my colleagues across the aisle are preying on the legitimate concerns that some people have about transgender athletes in women's sports. For the vast majority of those folks, many of them parents, their concerns don't come from a place of hate. They come from a place of worry about the safety of their daughters and the fairness of their sport.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents' position as a 'power grab' while simultaneously claiming to understand legitimate concerns shows misrepresentation of opposing argument; 'preying on' suggests manipulation rather than genuine policy debate"}
{"id": "crec_009441", "text": "By rolling up her sleeves and working with partners to address some of the most challenging issues of the American West, Commissioner [PERSON] leaves behind a proud legacy of service to the American people. At the helm of Reclamation during the implementation of the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, Commissioner [PERSON] worked to drastically increase water conservation and infrastructure improvements and help make communities more resilient to climate change impacts. Under her leadership, Reclamation made use of these generational investments to provide more than $1.4 billion to improve drinking water for rural and disadvantaged Americans who have waited decades for access to clean, affordable water and worked to improve the lives of countless families in the American West.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242", "word_count": 121, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "rolling up her sleeves and working with partners to address some of the most challenging issues, proud legacy of service to the American people, generational investments"}
{"id": "crec_000998", "text": "The price tag of [PERSON] six-mile subway extension from San Francisco to Silicon Valley is $9.3 billion, more than $1.5 billion per mile. The 1.3-mile extension of San Francisco's Caltrain rail service is one of the costliest transit projects in the world with a price tag of $6.7 billion, or $5.15 billion per mile. Going a billion dollars over budget isn't a rounding error, it's a train wreck.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing budget overruns as a 'train wreck' uses dramatic, emotionally charged language to amplify concern about project costs"}
{"id": "crec_005200", "text": "Restoration of State option to determine residency for purposes of higher education benefits. TITLE II--AMERICAN PROMISE ACT OF 2025 Sec. 201.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003503", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], supra . . .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005941", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , Taiwan's security and economic prosperity are important to the United States and the rest of the world. Why? That is because if anything were to happen to Taiwan, the effect on the global economy would be devastating.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "if anything were to happen to Taiwan, the effect on the global economy would be devastating"}
{"id": "crec_008824", "text": "They can currently be detained, but it is with discretion of the circumstances. I think it is particularly important that we have a standard for children in terms of their best interest. I think it is particularly important that we have a way, after a few weeks, to have some look at whether children who have been left home alone--and if the circumstances are appropriate and there is no flight risk, the circumstances are appropriate and there is no community risk--to help address that situation or we are harming children this was never meant to harm.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005048", "text": "There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [ORG], Washington, DC. Hon. [PERSON] , Chairman, [ORG], [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002125", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The assistant [PERSON] proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006695", "text": "That is what this comes down to. The No. 1 priority for Republicans is extending and likely expanding a tax cut that benefits the wealthiest 1 percent, .1 percent in this country at a rate that dwarfs--dwarfs--the help for anyone else.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "tax cut that benefits the wealthiest 1 percent...at a rate that dwarfs the help for anyone else"}
{"id": "crec_009077", "text": "Res. 1, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008040", "text": "They brought the project to an immediate halt. It didn't get done, and then, in the process, they, in fact, collected $2 million in fines. This is the sort of action that [ORG] has taken.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "describing opponent's action as collecting fines 'in the process' of halting a project uses loaded language to frame their behavior negatively without neutral terminology"}
{"id": "crec_007453", "text": "Milk is also very important to my home [ORG] of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania dairy industry alone generates 52,000 jobs and $14.2 billion in revenue annually in the [ORG]. Furthermore, Pennsylvania is ranked second nationally in number of dairy farms.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "milk is also very important to my home of Pennsylvania"}
{"id": "crec_007818", "text": "We can do the same thing in places like southern California by working on water delivery systems and by working on storing more water and having better abilities to put out fires once they start. Even though this was a, I hope, rare event with these cataclysmically driven winds, this will happen again. This happened in Oregon over and over, it has happened in northern California over and over, and it is time for us to do something about it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "this will happen again. This happened in Oregon over and over, it has happened in northern California over and over"}
{"id": "crec_001760", "text": "In so doing, their behavior was disdainful and shameful as they marched through the [ORG]. Some even went so far as to defecate in the Capitol, in places where one would not expect such things to occur. Yes, there was a difference between this year and what happened 4 years ago, and that is because we had a Vice President who was a candidate for President and who understood the necessity to have a peaceful transfer of power.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'disdainful and shameful' and graphic imagery of defecation used to invoke disgust and alarm about the event"}
{"id": "crec_000848", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001779", "text": "My colleagues have seen the videos. I don't have to try to convince people anymore that there are bad police officers. Not all police officers are bad.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003546", "text": "SA 7. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 3, strike line 3 and all that follows through page 8, line 9.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS95", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000115", "text": "[PERSON] . [SPEAKER] (during the reading). Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the Record.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009401", "text": "If we want to address the affordability of college--an important topic--widespread student loan socialism is not the way to do it. So as I said, for a variety of reasons, this would be a great place for [ORG] to shine the light on and for us to do something about in the coming days. [ORG] pointed out that we could save the taxpayers as much as $550 billion by reversing all of President [PERSON] 's actions on student loan cancellation--$550 billion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "characterizing student loan forgiveness as 'socialism' is loaded language; citing [ORG]'s analysis of taxpayer savings appeals to the authority of the organization"}
{"id": "crec_006895", "text": "Well, I take that back, you do know what you are going to get. You are going to get some people who do not intend to come here for a better way of life; they come here to rape and pillage and rob and to commit crimes. Well, Republicans are tired of hearing excuse after excuse from our Democrats, some of these hearings are being delayed due to incomplete background checks, but ask yourself who is responsible for the background checks?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing immigrants as people who 'come here to rape and pillage and rob and to commit crimes' uses extreme loaded language and fear appeals; presenting only two options (either Republicans are right or Democrats make excuses) creates a false dichotomy"}
{"id": "crec_005753", "text": "There has been no action on that. The difference between what we are proposing and what President [PERSON] is proposing is that we pay for ours because if it is not paid for, what ends up happening is the [ORG] fund will be bankrupted. It is still the number one antipoverty program for the elderly and the number one antipoverty program for children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "invoking the Social Security system as 'the number one antipoverty program' and emphasizing fiscal responsibility through payment mechanisms to establish credibility and contrast with opponent's approach"}
{"id": "crec_009467", "text": "THE [ORG] [SPEAKER]. The [ORG] has examined [ORG] proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule I, the [ORG] stands approved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006883", "text": "He said: If left unchecked, [artificial intelligence]'s use in our elections could erode our democracy from within and from abroad, and the damage, unfortunately, could be irreversible. That is a pretty common scare tactic. You scare people enough, well, maybe they are willing to let you do things that they, otherwise, wouldn't do upon calmer reflection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "erode our democracy from within and from abroad, and the damage, unfortunately, could be irreversible"}
{"id": "crec_000904", "text": "As Europeans and others were coming to the United States before we declared our independence in 1776, it was fairly common for people to be locked into the status to which they were born, and that is why so many of our ancestors wanted to come to the United States--because they would not be locked into a social status based upon their parents' social status or have to look into a future where their own kids and grandkids and great-grandkids would be locked into a status. So the United States, in the 14th Amendment, decided to embrace a definitively new-world concept that, if you are born in this country, you are a U.S. citizen. It doesn't matter who your parents are, and you have the same opportunities and responsibilities as anyone born in this country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 135, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "embrace a definitively new-world concept and 'same opportunities and responsibilities as anyone born in this country'"}
{"id": "crec_006615", "text": "This bill would require ICE to issue detainers and take into custody illegal aliens who commit crimes like theft and shoplifting. We need to stop these individuals when they commit minor crimes before they are able to commit major crimes like the horrific murder of [PERSON] . [ORG] will empower the [PERSON] administration to enforce our laws, keep our [ORG] secure, and prevent--prevent--tragedies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "invoking 'horrific murder' to connect minor crimes to major violence; 'prevent--prevent--tragedies' repetition emphasizes danger; 'illegal aliens' and framing minor crimes as pathway to murder"}
{"id": "crec_000095", "text": "A resolution electing Members to certain standing committees of [ORG]; considered and agreed to. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009399", "text": "Over 100 colleges and universities in the United States, including [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], and [ORG], are currently under investigation from [ORG] because of their mishandling of incidents of anti-Semitism on their campuses since October 7, 2023. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of ethnicity for institutions that receive [ORG] funding. So the complaints of anti-Semitism in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Israel have in some cases amounted to violations of Federal law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Over 100 colleges and universities...are currently under investigation from [ORG]...Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination"}
{"id": "crec_004394", "text": "Recent data from the CDC shows that state policies that prevent transgender high school students from playing are correlated with lower participation by all high school girls between 2011 and 2019; meanwhile, participation by all girls remained unchanged in states with policies allowing transgender students to play. Sports participation is linked to increased academic achievement and fosters in students increased emotional, mental, and physical well-being and a sense of community. Amending Title IX to exclude transgender, intersex, and nonbinary students from these benefits will undeniably harm these students, who because of stigma and discrimination are already especially vulnerable to isolation and decreased academic performance, and ultimately harm all women and girls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "will undeniably harm these students and ultimately harm all women and girls, combined with characterization of vulnerable populations facing stigma"}
{"id": "crec_007282", "text": "[ORG]. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held by a [ORG] court to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provisions to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected. SA 76.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007075", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak for 1 minute to this amendment. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004168", "text": "Unfortunately, these wins for women and girls ushered in by the promise of [ORG] have been under attack. [ORG] administration pushed a radical rewrite of [ORG] that would eliminate policies enacted by 26 States to protect equal athletic opportunities for women and girls. Even with last week's court order striking down the regulation and the [ORG] administration poised to undo the harm caused by it, nearly half of the States have no protections in place for female athletes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "radical rewrite, under attack, eliminate, harm caused"}
{"id": "crec_007461", "text": "The technology doesn't even exist on a market basis to run these trucks and trains, so maybe California should just be an island unto its own without these delivery devices. It would have placed an unnecessary financial burden on the businesses, the consumers, and the economy as a whole in my home [ORG]. President [PERSON] has long been outspoken against regulatory overreach such as this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-5", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "technology doesn't even exist...unnecessary financial burden on the businesses, the consumers, and the economy as a whole; President [PERSON] has long been outspoken against regulatory overreach"}
{"id": "crec_008498", "text": "When people are responsible for our national defense, we ask something extraordinary of them. We ask them to put their lives on the line. All three of my brothers served in the military.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "All three of my brothers served in the military"}
{"id": "crec_004067", "text": "These are stories, these are numbers that represent the American worker. American workers have been able to achieve an economic reality, not just a political wish list, because of President [PERSON] 's dedication and leadership. The needs of the American worker were heard, including seeing President [PERSON] be the first President to join striking workers on a picket line in, of course, my home [ORG] of Michigan alongside [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122-2", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "President [PERSON]'s dedication and leadership; first President to join striking workers on a picket line"}
{"id": "crec_002155", "text": "We can answer these questions through a robust nomination process in the Senate. But when Republicans like the chairman of [ORG] try to rush nominees before Senators have even received basic information, such as background reports, Americans have to ask: What are Republicans trying to hide when they don't want their nominees to have background checks and don't want to have full information about them? These nominees will have enormous power.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "Republicans 'try to rush nominees' and 'don't want their nominees to have background checks' implies hidden dangers; 'These nominees will have enormous power' amplifies threat; characterizes normal procedural disagreement as suspicious hiding"}
{"id": "crec_009640", "text": "[ORG] should be on notice that the United States is watching and that we will not tolerate further delays or further aggression. I want to again offer my warmest congratulations to President [PERSON] and to Vice President [PERSON] . I look forward to all that we can achieve together, and I pray that God will bless their new administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "United States is watching and will not tolerate; God will bless their new administration"}
{"id": "crec_001950", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create health freedom accounts available to all individuals; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009304", "text": "COMMITTEE ON FINANCE [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 10:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on a nomination. COMMITTEE [ORG] AND [ORG] and [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 9 a.m., to conduct a business meeting and a hearing. COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, January 16, 2025, at 10:15 a.m., to conduct a hearing on a nomination.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS234-6", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008701", "text": "Again, I don't think anybody-- certainly not me. I voted for President [PERSON] . I was not expecting President [PERSON] , and I do not expect him, to come into office and accept and spend at President [PERSON] 's levels.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "References to voting for and expectations of a President to establish credibility and frame spending levels as a key measure of presidential performance"}
{"id": "crec_004243", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to oppose this hateful bill. This bill is a cruel attack on transgender children, already among the most vulnerable in our society, facing high risks of suicide, violence, and bullying. Let's be clear.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "hateful bill, cruel attack, vulnerable...high risks of suicide, violence, and bullying"}
{"id": "crec_002186", "text": "He said: If you are here illegally and you are committing crimes, I don't know why anybody thinks that that is controversial. Well, not too long ago, his party certainly thought this point of view was controversial. That is what we saw happen here in the Senate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["whataboutism", "strawman"], "evidence": "deflecting to what 'his party' thought 'not too long ago' rather than addressing the current statement; misrepresenting the position by implying disagreement was solely about illegal immigrants committing crimes rather than other aspects of immigration policy"}
{"id": "crec_001518", "text": "Furthermore, it is incumbent upon the United States to use its full voice to support Israel and ensure international organizations and venues are not used to promote antisemitism and the persecution of the Jewish people, and encourage our allies to do the same. I thank Congressman [PERSON] for introducing this legislation, underscoring this House's resolve to stand by an ally. I urge my colleagues to support H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "use its full voice to support Israel and ensure international organizations...are not used to promote antisemitism; underscoring this House's resolve to stand by an ally"}
{"id": "crec_000444", "text": "The gentleman from Maryland has 3\\1/4\\ minutes remaining. [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close, and I thank the distinguished gentleman from California for this debate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005868", "text": "Enacting this legislation will help create jobs right here at home. U.S. exports to Taiwan support 188,000 American jobs, and Taiwanese investment in the United States supports another 21,000. Reducing burdens on Taiwanese investment in America will help aid in building new cutting-edge manufacturing plants staffed by American workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "help create jobs right here at home"}
{"id": "crec_005864", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and submit extraneous material on the bill under consideration. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000352", "text": "You can stand up and say we are not bringing meaningful legislation. You can stand up and say that you feel real bad for [PERSON] and her family. How about all the other victims of illegal aliens who have committed crimes?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "presents only two options (standing up to say legislation isn't meaningful OR expressing sympathy) then pivots to 'How about all the other victims' to deflect from the previous point"}
{"id": "crec_008715", "text": "And as Government grows, our freedoms recede. And Americans have to understand that of all the things that have made this country great, the men and women who have worked and built this marvel of a nation, the one essential ingredient they have always used is just that, freedom. It is freedom that allowed them to dream and aspire and build and create this marvel of a country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "freedom allowed them to dream and aspire and build...marvel of a nation"}
{"id": "crec_000416", "text": "I don't know. You don't know. There is something we can do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "repetition of 'don't know' structure"}
{"id": "crec_008705", "text": "That is what families do. That is what businesses in America are forced do. They don't just say: Spend whatever you want.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'Spend whatever you want' - presents only extreme options, ignoring moderate spending approaches"}
{"id": "crec_005810", "text": "That is why, this week, my House colleagues and I passed [ORG] of 2025. This bill strengthens [ORG] protections to ensure the definition of an individual's gender in an athletic competition is based solely on their genetics at birth. Mr. [PERSON] , women's and girls' sports are for women and girls only.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "strengthens protections and women's and girls' sports are for women and girls only - uses emotionally charged framing to present a contested policy as protecting an obvious truth"}
{"id": "crec_009931", "text": "May we all strive to lift one another, supporting our fellow citizens with kindness and empathy, recognizing that together, we can overcome any adversity. Grant us the strength to endure, the courage to face our fears, and the clarity to see the light that remains, even when clouds of uncertainty may gather. Inspire our new leaders to be champions for the vulnerable and advocates for those whose voices are often silenced.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "lift one another, supporting our fellow citizens with kindness and empathy, together, we can overcome any adversity"}
{"id": "crec_003959", "text": "This raises serious concerns about the feasibility of this mandate, yet they force it forward. The practicality of converting to all these electric vehicles, as well as the appliances that California, [PERSON] , and others are trying to do with electric stoves, water heaters, and all that, means where are the materials and the minerals going to come from to produce these electric appliances and vehicles. We can't mine as it is.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "raises serious concerns about feasibility; they force it forward; We can't mine as it is"}
{"id": "crec_008507", "text": "We were respected around the world and feared by our adversaries. Russia didn't dare invade Ukraine when President [PERSON] was in office. NATO countries were told to pay up: Pay your bills.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "We were respected around the world and feared by our adversaries"}
{"id": "crec_001371", "text": "America is passing this law because, on November 21, 2024, [ORG] [ORG] issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister [PERSON] and Israel's former [ORG] Minister, [PERSON] . Let me explain that in a more detailed way. America is passing this law because a kangaroo court is seeking to arrest the Prime Minister of our great ally, Israel, who is not only responding to an enemy which conducted a genocide, killing as many men, women, and children as possible, even beheading some of them, on October 7, 2023, but an enemy who still holds 100 hostages, scores of bodies of those that they murdered, including 7 of my fellow Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 116, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing the court as a 'kangaroo court,' describing Israel as 'our great ally,' and emphasizing murdered Americans and beheaded victims to justify the law"}
{"id": "crec_009366", "text": "He should have never been in the United States. And once he had committed a crime on multiple occasions, he should have been detained by ICE until he was removed from our country. If he had, [PERSON] would still be with us today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on crime and death to suggest danger from immigration; charged language about detention and removal"}
{"id": "crec_009416", "text": "They want to place new [ORG] caps on New York businesses small and large and want to push an increase in the [ORG] tax on New Yorkers. [ORG] is a group of very powerful, hard, hard right Republicans. [ORG] [ORG] plan will increase costs across Long Island and the [PERSON] Valley almost immediately.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing Republicans as 'very powerful, hard, hard right' and warning the plan 'will increase costs...almost immediately'"}
{"id": "crec_000225", "text": "Over the past 4 years, President [PERSON] 's administration has imposed needless regulations on the American energy industry, has spurred record-high inflation, and has left our southern border wide open. The election results in November were a message from the American people that they want a new path forward, and that path begins today. It is now time to get to work to secure our border and to lower prices for the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-6", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "needless regulations, record-high inflation, left our border wide open, election results were a message from the American people"}
{"id": "crec_000242", "text": "Mayor [PERSON] served [ORG] with integrity and distinction as mayor for 13 years. He was deeply involved in his community and made remarkable progress during his tenure. He worked with leaders of all political stripes to improve the city's infrastructure, including the Double Eagle water project, which we worked on together.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'served with integrity and distinction' and 'remarkable progress'"}
{"id": "crec_007753", "text": "Democrats are still out of touch with reality, just as we saw on our last vote 20 minutes ago on [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act. Conservatism is still in short supply, but Americans recognize Washington is broken, which is why they gave our party an irrefutable mandate to fix it. We must follow the lead of President [PERSON] and Speaker [PERSON] in reducing government overreach and making this country great, healthy, and prosperous again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Americans recognize Washington is broken, which is why they gave our party an irrefutable mandate; making this country great, healthy, and prosperous again"}
{"id": "crec_004345", "text": "This obsession with monitoring kids' genitals is absolutely the problem. Let's be clear. This is about kids--my kids, your kids, all kids, even elementary school kids playing basketball.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'obsession with monitoring kids' genitals' and reference to 'elementary school kids' to heighten concern"}
{"id": "crec_007918", "text": "They are not treating it down to really clean water and sometimes there is an emergency, it overflows, and it goes untreated straight into the delta. Good water from other areas has to go flush through there and clean that up. Why?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "describes water situation using emotionally charged terms like 'untreated,' 'emergency,' and 'overflows' to emphasize problems without providing balanced technical context"}
{"id": "crec_000950", "text": "So today I have invited multiple colleagues, including my colleague sitting at the dais today, to be able to find a moment in their very busy schedules to be able to come and highlight areas where the government can be more efficient, where we can be more effective at protecting taxpayer dollars, and where we can stop throwing [ORG]'s dollars out the door for things that everyone would recognize as wasteful. When we have almost $2 trillion in debt, it is definitely the moment for us to say: Let's work on being even more efficient in the days ahead because we desperately need that. So, with that, I yield the floor to my colleague from West Virginia who has been very outspoken in trying to be able to protect taxpayer dollars in West Virginia and for the [ORG] and to try to make ways to make this more effective in the days ahead.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 153, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "throwing [ORG]'s dollars out the door for things that everyone would recognize as wasteful; almost $2 trillion in debt"}
{"id": "crec_007571", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007945", "text": "No, we don't even get exemptions for that. It is one thing after another to try and do business, to try to be a farmer, to be a rancher, to be a miner, or anything in the State of California and so much of the West. I hope this place doesn't emulate some of the regulations that California has coming along, like one called the PRO Act, which means you basically have to be in a union in order to work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterization of regulations as cumulative burden ('one thing after another') and false claim that PRO Act requires union membership to work"}
{"id": "crec_000577", "text": "Most might have thought that he would end up running the family farm, as, indeed, he did for a while. But he decided to also dip his toe into politics, and, within 14 years, he had gone from taking up office in [ORG] to taking up office as President of the United States. His Presidency was notable for a number of things, including successful brokering of a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, an agreement that stands to this day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001031", "text": "I have worked across the aisle on a number of issues to make Washington more transparent and accountable, so I would invite anyone in this body and everyone who may be watching at home who has ideas to join this conversation and our movement because [ORG] is inevitable. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "join this conversation and our movement because [ORG] is inevitable"}
{"id": "crec_006139", "text": "This is tough stuff. He has been down this road before and has been a strong leader on communicating what we need to do to keep it from continuing to happen. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "strong leader on communicating what we need to do"}
{"id": "crec_006757", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Forgive me, especially with who the [ORG] is. I am afraid.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "I am afraid"}
{"id": "crec_001764", "text": "I have noted those six. Now let's take a look at these six with a bit more information. This is legislation that would have made a difference for America and Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "legislation that would have made a difference for America and Americans"}
{"id": "crec_001283", "text": "A bill to promote democracy in Venezuela, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS66", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004242", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , reclaiming my time. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003005", "text": "A [ORG] ban would impose serious consequences on millions of Americans who depend upon the app for social connections and for their economic livelihood. We cannot allow this to happen. I will urge [ORG] to adopt my legislation to give the whole process an additional 270 days for us to debate it in a way in which we did not debate it last year on the Senate floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "impose serious consequences on millions of Americans, cannot allow this to happen"}
{"id": "crec_000671", "text": "Well, as Xiaoping, one of the former leaders of communist China, said: Hide your motives and bide your time. And that is exactly what China has done. China has now become the manufacturing center for the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "citing Xiaoping as authority to support claims about China's strategic intentions; 'hide your motives' frames China's actions with suspicious, negative connotations"}
{"id": "crec_004298", "text": "This bill does the opposite. You are just picking on children. Our government is not supposed to be this intrusive.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'does the opposite' and 'picking on children' present simplified either/or framing with emotionally charged language"}
{"id": "crec_007183", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 67. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002885", "text": "[[ORG]] AMTRAK EXECUTIVE BONUS DISCLOSURE ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 192) to amend title 49, United States Code, to require [ORG] to include information on base pay and bonus compensation of certain [ORG] executives, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009781", "text": "INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida): S. 152. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit kindergarten through grade 12 educational expenses to be paid from a 529 account; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 153.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-5", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001061", "text": "We can do a better job of providing services and keeping our expenses down just like the private sector does by leveraging tools like Lean Six Sigma, just like the private sector does. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Kansas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated reference to 'just like the private sector does' to establish private sector as authority on efficiency"}
{"id": "crec_008643", "text": "And let's not get cute here with excuses like, well, he is just asking questions, because when he says we need to know vaccines are safe, he is ignoring the centuries of research we have already done on these vaccines. We do know they are safe. What is more, he has not just been asking questions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing questioning as 'not getting cute with excuses' and dismissing legitimate inquiry as dishonest while claiming definitively 'we do know they are safe'"}
{"id": "crec_005693", "text": "We as Members of Congress pledge to do this every single day when we convene for business: one nation, unconditionally, under God. Now, in California's time of greatest need, the President-elect, the Speaker, and other colleagues here in the House want to impose policy conditions on [ORG] disaster aid. Mr. [PERSON] , this will endanger innocent lives and delay the ability of our fellow Americans to rebuild and recover from this disaster.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "will endanger innocent lives and delay the ability of our fellow Americans to rebuild and recover"}
{"id": "crec_003555", "text": "TITLE I--SECURING THE DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL WORKFORCE Subtitle A--Temporary Status for [ORG]. 1101. Certified agricultural worker status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007413", "text": "committee on homeland security and governmental affairs [ORG] and [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 1 p.m., to conduct a hearing on a nomination. committee on the judiciary [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., to conduct a hearing on a nomination. special committee on aging [ORG] is authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 3:30 p.m., to conduct a hearing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS195-2", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008721", "text": "[ORG] did not cause our deficits. When the [ORG] scored that, the score at the time it passed was that it was going to reduce revenue and increase our deficits by $1.5 trillion. And [ORG] then after passage, I think April of 2018, projected out revenue for 10 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "[ORG] did not cause our deficits"}
{"id": "crec_006522", "text": "And remember, the voters are going to know who you voted for, for the head of [ORG]. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "the voters are going to know who you voted for"}
{"id": "crec_007179", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 61. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009784", "text": "21 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO. 24 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000193", "text": "It is wrong; it is reckless; and it would be an insult to the memory of those who died in connection to that day. On that day, the rioters tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power, but as we know, they failed. The insurrection failed because our democracy is stronger than the gale force winds of mob violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "our democracy is stronger than the gale force winds of mob violence"}
{"id": "crec_005914", "text": "H.R. 33 creates a new section within the tax code to facilitate mutual investment from the United States into Taiwan and vice versa by reducing double taxation traps for Taiwanese residents with income from sources within the United States. By removing these traps, [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009070", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 142. A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to wildland firefighters in recognition of their strength, resiliency, sacrifice, and service to protect the forests, grasslands, and communities of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 143.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008299", "text": "H.R. 397: Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002581", "text": "I have continuously advocated for greater transparency from [ORG] in other areas as a [ORG] legislator, as mayor, and now as a Congressman. Passing this bill is a step in the right direction. Mr. [PERSON] , once again, I thank [PERSON] for his work on this bill, and I ask my colleagues to support this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I have continuously advocated for greater transparency as a [ORG] legislator, as mayor, and now as a Congressman"}
{"id": "crec_006803", "text": "It is as though it is magical. They don't pay for themselves. This tax cut will add about $4 trillion to the deficit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'It is as though it is magical. They don't pay for themselves' and '$4 trillion to the deficit'"}
{"id": "crec_000351", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentleman from Arizona. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , you get to explain to the victim of the 28-year-old illegal alien who tortured and burglarized a Dallas woman just a month or two ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "28-year-old illegal alien who tortured and burglarized a Dallas woman"}
{"id": "crec_007512", "text": "Here is why: When it comes to crimes involving moral turpitude, there are exceptions in the law to protect domestic violence victims who often get swept up in the very laws designed to protect them. Anyone who has ever been a prosecutor or a public defender in this [ORG] knows that it is common for abusers to accuse their victims of domestic violence themselves and assault, sometimes truthfully, often falsely. In any event, it is well known that the victims get arrested, prosecuted, and sometimes even convicted simply for defending themselves and fighting back against their abusers and rapists.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Anyone who has ever been a prosecutor or a public defender in this [ORG] knows that it is common for abusers to accuse their victims"}
{"id": "crec_000205", "text": "The bill will be read for a second time on the next legislative day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002769", "text": "[PERSON] 219: Ms. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005023", "text": "President [PERSON] said he is going to likely issue pardons in some of those cases. I think that is appropriate. Many of these men and women have been convicted of misdemeanor crimes like parading and picketing on public grounds without a permit, and they had the book thrown at them, including a 70- year-old great-grandma who was just walking around wearing a red [ORG] hat.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'had the book thrown at them, including a 70-year-old great-grandma who was just walking around wearing a red hat'"}
{"id": "crec_004657", "text": "The transcriber shall certify that the transcript is a true record of the testimony, and the transcript shall be filed, together with any electronic recording, including any video recording, with [SPEAKER] of the committee in Washington, DC. Depositions shall be considered to have been taken in Washington, DC, as well as the location actually taken once filed there with [SPEAKER] of the committee for the committee's use. The chair and the ranking minority member shall be provided with a copy of the transcripts of the deposition, together with any electronic recording, including video recording, at the same time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005983", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH169", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001483", "text": "American companies would be banned from doing business with the [ORG] if its top officials are sanctioned, and their Chinese competitors would rush in to fill the gap. Not only does this undermine America's interests, but it bolsters Russia and helps China. Mr. [PERSON] , this is a bad bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Chinese competitors would rush in to fill the gap...this is a bad bill"}
{"id": "crec_008453", "text": "It is the same one whose words were repeated over and over to myself on the days when I was in so much pain that I couldn't breathe yet was determined to fight my way back to health so I could serve again next to the buddies who saved my life. These words helped me find the strength I needed when I needed it the most because they reminded me of who I was and that I was a proud member of the greatest fighting force on the face of the Earth, whose duty it was to live up to the sacrifices of my fellow soldiers. I would like to quote a couple of lines from the creed right now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 120, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "proud member of the greatest fighting force on the face of the Earth"}
{"id": "crec_005249", "text": "The Secretary shall provide an alternative procedure for aliens who are unable to provide such biometric or biographic data because of a physical impairment. (b) [ORG] Secretary shall use biometric, biographic, and other data that the Secretary determines appropriate to conduct security and law enforcement background checks and to determine whether there is any criminal, national security, or other factor that would render the alien ineligible for adjustment of status under this division, on either a conditional or permanent basis. The status of an alien may not be adjusted, on either a conditional or permanent basis, unless security and law enforcement background checks are completed to the satisfaction of the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009078", "text": "8 At the request of Ms. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 8 proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002844", "text": "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH ([SPEAKER] Carolina asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER] Carolina. Mr. [PERSON] , the fall of the dictator [PERSON] of Damascus is equivalent to the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberating central and eastern Europe, now leading to liberating the Middle East and North Africa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97-7", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "comparison of dictator's fall to Berlin Wall as 'liberation' of entire regions uses vague, emotionally positive language without substantive detail"}
{"id": "crec_006960", "text": "We need time. We need time to figure this out. The court process is still going on for something that started last April.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002865", "text": "Our work began right away with [ORG], one of the most consequential recovery packages in history. To reopen our economy, we knew we had to defeat [PERSON] , so we launched unprecedented vaccination efforts. We got immediate economic relief out to tens of millions of families who needed it most.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'one of the most consequential recovery packages in history' and 'unprecedented vaccination efforts'"}
{"id": "crec_008487", "text": "I hope to do so with strong bipartisan support when I file the bill and get it passed in this Congress. We also must act to punish criminals who intentionally murder law enforcement. That is why I will also be introducing the [PERSON] for Fallen Law Enforcement Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasis on 'strong bipartisan support' and naming legislation after fallen law enforcement to invoke authority and patriotic sentiment"}
{"id": "crec_002364", "text": "A bill to reduce a portion of the annual pay of Members of Congress for the failure to adopt a concurrent resolution on the budget which does not provide for a balanced budget, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 46. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand eligibility for the refundable credit for coverage under a qualified health plan; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 162, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003981", "text": "After all, we know how important sports can be to children's development. They give the chance to build confidence, learn teamwork, and develop lifelong friendships. That is why, like parents and athletes across our country, I have long placed my trust in the governing bodies of sports, the experts who have dedicated their lives to these games, to create fair and responsible rules for participation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "trust in the governing bodies of sports, the experts who have dedicated their lives to these games"}
{"id": "crec_001823", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I wish to commemorate the life of [PERSON] , of Granite Bay, who passed away unexpectedly in early December. [PERSON] lived a life of service. He was an elected member of [ORG], serving 7 years, from 1987 to 1994.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006207", "text": "Show me that the child tax credits pay for themselves. I am not saying the child tax credits may not be decent policy. I will tell you right now I would love to vote on a bill right now to just eliminate the tax code and zero it out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004628", "text": "If you saw my staff, they were slipping me this because we were sort of speed doing the math. Let me explain. We are trying to do this more often.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003020", "text": "8 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I call up [PERSON] amendment No. 8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS87", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004050", "text": "Born in Texas to Mexican parents, [PERSON] 's hard work took him to college and later law school in Washington State. He moved to Chicago in 1978 to join [ORG] and never stopped working for the rights of immigrants and for immigration reform. My friend, [PERSON] , was the first Mexican American elected to [ORG] in 1984.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001728", "text": "We are borrowing 7 percent this year of the entire economy, and here is your crisis: The solutions sound really good in a television commercial and maybe an interview on cable television, and they are crap math. They don't get us anywhere close to what is necessary because it turns out the actual scale of the math is so far beyond just raising people's taxes and just slash and burn this. You need a revolution on how we deliver on our commitments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing solutions as 'crap math' and framing the fiscal situation as requiring a 'revolution,' combined with emphasis on scale being 'so far beyond' conventional approaches"}
{"id": "crec_001969", "text": "A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right to vote to citizens sixteen years of age or older; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 21.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001902", "text": "A bill to prohibit Federal funding to entities that do not certify the entities will not perform, or provide any funding to any other entity that performs, an abortion; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "Long list of co-sponsors presented to suggest broad support and legitimacy for the bill"}
{"id": "crec_005092", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 92. A bill to require Senate approval before the United States assumes any obligation under a WHO pandemic agreement and to suspend funding for the [ORG] until such agreement is ratified by the Senate; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 93.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-3", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002805", "text": "Last Congress, we made great strides in child welfare policy by working across the aisle to deliver real results for children and families. In July last year, [ORG] Children and Families Act passed unanimously through [ORG]. In September, it passed this House by a vote of 405-10.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "made great strides in child welfare policy by working across the aisle to deliver real results"}
{"id": "crec_002854", "text": "Here we have now the situation in southern California where this brush is catching on fire. In the high winds, it is just a tinderbox that blows into the neighborhoods and burns down Pacific Palisades and all the others affected like that. They have suspended their brush program there, so [PERSON] can't point and say we have done all this great stuff here and blame everybody else like he does, waving his arms around.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-2", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "waving his arms around and references to blaming everybody else, characterizing the person dismissively"}
{"id": "crec_000812", "text": "That is what the American people want us to focus on first, not on renaming bodies of water. Our priorities--our Democratic priorities--are so much more closely aligned with the concerns of the American people than [PERSON] seem to be. The incoming President knows he has a tall task ahead of him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing renaming bodies of water versus Democratic priorities as mutually exclusive options, implying opponents prioritize trivial matters while Democrats focus on what 'American people want'"}
{"id": "crec_009376", "text": "We are now entering the vote that is referred to as cloture--or close debate--but we can still consider amendments by unanimous consent. I came to the floor yesterday to point out that there is a deep flaw related to children in this bill, and both the majority leader and the floor leader have expressed support for an amendment process. So I am asking to work with me and with my leadership that we might examine this challenge.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006978", "text": "[ORG] also meddles in the politics of other countries by amplifying divisive content in, for instance, Israel, India, and, of course, America. And don't forget that [ORG] harvests a vast trove of user data, including name, age, email, address, phone number, credit card number, facial features, voiceprints, keystrokes, photos, videos, and viewing habits. This data can make users susceptible to manipulation and even blackmail, not only today but also years from now when users may have become influential persons in the military, the intelligence community, business, media, and other walks of life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "harvests a vast trove of user data... can make users susceptible to manipulation and even blackmail"}
{"id": "crec_004965", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Arkansas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004707", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin): H.R. 383. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal fossil fuel subsidies for oil companies, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000957", "text": "No more spendthrift bureaucrats getting out of line. No more blank checks or wild excesses. The American people have had enough and rightfully so.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "spendthrift bureaucrats, blank checks, wild excesses, The American people have had enough"}
{"id": "crec_001519", "text": "23. [SPEAKER]. All time for debate has expired.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008237", "text": ". . Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any [ORG] or Officer thereof.''", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH222", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000384", "text": "Her death is a direct result of President [PERSON] 's deliberate refusal to enforce our laws. It is [ORG] job to defend our borders and protect our citizens, and our government has failed us. Fortunately, a new leader is taking office soon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "death is a direct result of deliberate refusal...failed us"}
{"id": "crec_006256", "text": "Right now, while we are talking about it, there are criminal aliens convicted of murder in their country, some more than one time, walking around our country. They are going to stay here until we can deport them, and we are not offering the money to the incoming administration to do that work. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "criminal aliens convicted of murder in their country...walking around our country"}
{"id": "crec_005997", "text": "Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 13, H.R. 164; YEA on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000793", "text": "No, no--and, again, no. [PERSON] and Republicans promised to fight for working Americans, but their actions already tell a different story. Before even entering office, [PERSON] is working with Republicans to give very wealthy people and megacorporations another round of trillion-dollar tax cuts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting 'promised to fight for working Americans' with actions of tax cuts for 'very wealthy people and megacorporations' creates false choice between helping workers vs. helping the wealthy"}
{"id": "crec_001776", "text": "There are some people who work late hours. They work into the morning hours. In Houston, at one point, we had an opportunity to vote 24-7, 24 hours in a given day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005696", "text": "We should do to others as we would do to us. We must love our neighbor. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask my colleagues to join me and our fellow Americans in solidarity in delivering the aid that California desperately needs without political conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of universal ethical principles ('do to others as we would do to us,' 'love our neighbor') and appeal to collective identity ('our fellow Americans in solidarity')"}
{"id": "crec_008986", "text": "She was not cowed by power or distracted by really anything. She would teach you, too, as she did for hundreds of law clerks and staff, if you were willing to work-- seriously work. And for people who wanted to be in public service, she made good on the promise of doing something important to contribute to the common good by being a constructive teacher and mentor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "doing something important to contribute to the common good"}
{"id": "crec_001738", "text": "You can't work yourself out of the higher interest rate cycle because the additional debt, the interest rate, the additional debt, the interest rate--and I think it was 1 year ago when we actually had a couple of months, 3 or 4 months, where we had to borrow money to cover our borrowing. Mr. [PERSON] , there is hope. There is a way to make the math work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "the interest rate, the additional debt, the interest rate--repeated pattern emphasizing the cycle; 'Mr. [PERSON], there is hope' appeals to authority figure's reassurance"}
{"id": "crec_001318", "text": "[ORG] will reinstitute existing laws to protect American families with peace through strength.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-3", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "peace through strength, protect American families"}
{"id": "crec_005015", "text": "Mr. President, reserving the right to object, which I certainly will, I want to briefly address what the Senator from Illinois said about my resolution condemning these two death sentence commutations. I want to acknowledge that the Senator from Illinois is a longtime and principled opponent of the death penalty, based I believe in part on genuine and deep faith convictions. He has had that conviction for years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006967", "text": "Instead, Congress simply demanded that the app could no longer be owned and controlled by our [ORG]'s worst enemy, communist China. In other words, [ORG]'s owners had plenty of time to find a buyer, and there were plenty of willing buyers as well. Instead, [ORG] whined, lied, complained, sued, and lobbied.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "describing China as 'worst enemy, communist China' and app owners 'whined, lied, complained'"}
{"id": "crec_004280", "text": "It is a simple fact of life that men and women are biologically different and that men and boys have levels of strength that women and girls do not have. Allowing men to compete in women's sports is unfair to the women and girls, and it takes away their chances to receive scholarships and be recognized and rewarded for their hard work, skills, and accomplishments. Over the last couple of years, we have all watched in disbelief as top female athletes are losing their hard-earned titles to biological males who are competing as females.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "watched in disbelief as top female athletes are losing their hard-earned titles to biological males; takes away their chances to receive scholarships"}
{"id": "crec_005904", "text": "What we quickly realized is that one of the ways that we can prevent such shortages is to partner with trusted producers like Taiwan and increase mutual investment that can lead to supply chain security. However, that type of investment that is needed for this type of partnership is hard to do when there is double taxation. It simply won't happen when income is taxed in the country where it is earned and then taxed again when it is repatriated back to its home country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'trusted producers' and 'supply chain security' frame the argument with positive language while 'double taxation...simply won't happen' uses loaded framing to suggest inevitability of failure"}
{"id": "crec_007842", "text": "Here is when it grows all over the place in northern California either wild or as a crop. People use it for a cover crop to put nitrogen back in the soil. It is really hard to tell the difference, but it is something the environmental movement uses the slightest difference to make that something, oh, my gosh, we have to stop this because it is an endangered species.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing environmental concerns as exaggerating 'the slightest difference' to justify stopping something, using 'oh, my gosh' to mock the position"}
{"id": "crec_009917", "text": "Hear the cry of the hostages, both American and Israeli, whose pain our President so acutely feels. We are so thankful for the three young women who yesterday returned home and pray that the next 4 years brings peace to Israel and throughout the Middle East. Almighty God, grant all Americans the opportunity to realize our shared dream of a life filled with peace and plenty, health and happiness, compassion and contribution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "cry of the hostages\", \"pain our President so acutely feels\", \"Almighty God\", \"shared dream\"}\n```\n\nWait, let me reconsider - \"appeal_to_emotion\" is not in my allowed labels list.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"flag_waving\", \"glittering_generalities\"], \"evidence\": \"'shared dream of a life filled with peace and plenty, health and happiness'"}
{"id": "crec_005955", "text": "Despite this, on the list of the 66 countries the U.S. currently has income tax treaties with, including China, Taiwan is conspicuously absent. Eliminating the undue double taxation of Taiwanese residents and businesses promotes economic efficiency and integration, strengthens our strategic partnership with Taiwan, and reinforces the long-term economic stability American businesses and our trusted allies need to invest for the future and combat the influence of bad actors. In the face of regular threats to its security and economic stability by a predatory adversary, Taiwan and its people have called on us to live up to our commitment as a strategic partner and friend to freedom- loving nations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "characterization of China as 'predatory adversary' and 'bad actors'; positioning Taiwan as 'freedom-loving nation' requiring U.S. partnership"}
{"id": "crec_004813", "text": "Tomorrow, when [ORG] testifies before the committee, Americans will be reintroduced to his outlandishly extreme agenda. If [PERSON] caused your stomach to turn during the election, Mr. [PERSON] would be a nightmare scenario. If you are among America's working class or from low-income families or from middle-class families working hard to make ends meet, Mr. [PERSON] would be disastrous.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "outlandishly extreme agenda, stomach to turn, nightmare scenario, disastrous"}
{"id": "crec_002239", "text": "They have actually one 19 [ORG] football championships. The game was on national television, with more than 3 million people watching as it neared its exciting conclusion. I had the opportunity last night to talk to President [PERSON] about it, and right away, he said: You guys have a great team.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I had the opportunity last night to talk to President [PERSON] about it, and right away, he said: You guys have a great team"}
{"id": "crec_008543", "text": "But what came next, what actually materialized, would become the worst natural disaster in the history of Los Angeles: 100- mile-per-hour winds carrying burning embers from home to home, multiple simultaneous fires burning more than 12,000 structures and more than 40,000 acres. And to give you a sense of the area I am talking about, I am talking about nearly three times the size of Manhattan. At least two dozen people have lost their lives, with more expected as search and rescue crews continue to comb through the devastation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "worst natural disaster in the history of Los Angeles, burning embers from home to home, At least two dozen people have lost their lives"}
{"id": "crec_000937", "text": "When we highlight these things and a little sunshine hits them, suddenly people start backing up, and Agencies stop funding some of these things that everyone nodded their head and said: Where did that crazy thing come from? So because of the reports that we put out, we are not paying for helmet studies in Ghana anymore. We are not paying for drag shows in Ecuador anymore.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing funding decisions as 'crazy things' that need 'sunshine' to expose, implying hidden wasteful spending to trigger public concern"}
{"id": "crec_002948", "text": "There would be nothing more insulting to our democracy and to the memory of those who died in connection with that day than letting rioters walk free. We would be saying, in effect, that you could storm the Capitol, engage in violence against police officers or be part of a crowd that engaged in such violence, and try to overturn a free and fair election, and then walk away with no consequences--no consequences. Rioters who broke into the Capitol on January 6 to try and stop the peaceful transfer of power and subvert our democracy do not deserve a Presidential pardon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Nothing more insulting to our democracy and to the memory of those who died; would be saying you could storm the Capitol and walk away with no consequences"}
{"id": "crec_001320", "text": "El Paso. For over four decades, Hector brought the history and culture of our region to life through the magic of [ORG]! El Paso.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-4", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "brought the history and culture of our region to life through the magic of [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_001550", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , due to a personal matter, I was not in Washington D.C. today. Had I been present, I would have voted [ORG] on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007656", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I am prepared to close. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent to include in the Record the text of this amendment immediately prior to the vote on the motion to recommit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000493", "text": "A bill to require the Inspector General of [ORG] to testify before the Congress annually, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 226.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004188", "text": "Not too long ago, progressives would say all that is ridiculous, but today, it is their religion. If you question their lies and fictitious terms, you are labeled a transphobic bigot and canceled. In giving homage to [ORG], radical leftists have given way to the corruption of the minds of our [ORG]'s youth by dismantling the very protections that Congress created to ensure fairness in education and athletics.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "uses charged terms like 'religion,' 'lies,' 'fictitious,' 'bigot,' 'canceled,' and 'corruption of the minds' to create negative framing; labels opponents as 'radical leftists'; implies threat to youth and fairness"}
{"id": "crec_006922", "text": "Further, does anyone really believe that in America we do not have enough lawyers and need to bring in more attorneys from abroad? At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, we need fundamental changes in our economic policies. We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "does anyone really believe...need to bring in more attorneys from abroad combined with framing as choice between current inequality or fundamental change"}
{"id": "crec_006811", "text": "Now, in Massachusetts, per capita, we are the wealthiest [ORG] in America. We are very proud of that. We believe in capitalism.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "wealthiest...in America...We are very proud...We believe in capitalism"}
{"id": "crec_004469", "text": "PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS ACT OF 2025 [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to recommit on the bill (H.R. 28) to amend [ORG] of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth, offered by the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. [PERSON] ), on which the yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS ACT combined with emphasis on 'reproductive biology and genetics at birth' uses emotionally charged framing to invoke protective sentiment while establishing a particular ideological position on sex determination"}
{"id": "crec_007830", "text": "They have more of this. They have more of the hilly areas with a lot of brush on it like that. They need fuels reduction projects too in the more arid southern California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006110", "text": "It is still remarkable 215 years later. Congratulations to all my friends in Lebanon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-5", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006011", "text": "HOUR OF MEETING ON TOMORROW [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-4", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001737", "text": "Are we going to avoid the hardest thing we do, and that is telling the truth to our voters, and maybe even telling the truth to each other? There is still hope. One of our economists actually has this chart he has been working on and he has been saying you may only have 3 or 4 more years if interest rates keep moving up where it is almost too late.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "you may only have 3 or 4 more years if interest rates keep moving up where it is almost too late"}
{"id": "crec_002982", "text": "In fact, I fear that he found someone who can pass his loyalty test. We will see at the hearing. The obvious concern with Ms. [PERSON] is whether she will follow the bipartisan tradition of the post-Watergate era and oversee an independent [ORG] that upholds the rule of law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "I fear that he found someone who can pass his loyalty test"}
{"id": "crec_007886", "text": "People in Washington, Philadelphia, and New York were actually told not to go outside or do exercises on those days for health reasons. Mr. [PERSON] , remember the fires from Canada about 1 year ago? They affected people in the same way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["whataboutism", "doubt"], "evidence": "Dismisses current air quality concerns by redirecting to past Canadian fires ('remember the fires from Canada about 1 year ago?'), implying current warnings are exaggerated by comparison"}
{"id": "crec_002079", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_009373", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Oregon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007191", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002208", "text": "He saw an issue that occurred right there with his constituency. His heart broke alongside theirs. And then he didn't just talk about it; he did something about it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "he didn't just talk about it; he did something about it"}
{"id": "crec_005648", "text": "His legacy will continue to inspire our community in years to come. Please join me in recognizing Commissioner [PERSON] as we wish him well in his retirement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "legacy will continue to inspire our community"}
{"id": "crec_007043", "text": "In this case, it was anti-Semitism against Israel by promoting [PERSON] , the terrorist group, posts--its posts--and then pro-Palestinian posts versus Israeli pro-Israel ones. So I gave data there. But this is exactly the same kind of pushing of propaganda which has led, I presume, India to ban [ORG], as well, because [ORG] is doing the same thing to them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing posts as 'anti-Semitism against Israel' and 'propaganda,' creating binary opposition between 'pro-Palestinian posts versus Israeli pro-Israel ones'"}
{"id": "crec_004269", "text": "[SPEAKER] Carolina. Mr. [PERSON] , in 2022 North Carolina high schooler [PERSON] was seriously injured when a teenage boy spiked a ball into her head during a girls volleyball game, leaving her with a concussion and permanent injuries. Despite stories like [ORG], the left continues to want us to believe it is totally safe for men to compete against women.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "injury story used to imply danger, characterizes opposing view as 'wanting us to believe it is totally safe' rather than engaging with actual nuanced positions"}
{"id": "crec_004352", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , may I please inquire as to the time remaining.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008827", "text": "These are on the topic before us. These are not some crazy thing. These are addressing core due process issues that affect children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "dismissing concerns as 'not some crazy thing' while characterizing the opposing position as extreme, combined with framing the issue narrowly as only about 'core due process issues' rather than engaging with the full range of arguments"}
{"id": "crec_005165", "text": "RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. Nothing in this Act may be construed to limit the ability of the Secretary of [ORG] or the Attorney General to use available capacity to detain individuals determined to pose the most serious threat to public safety or risk of flight. SA 25.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003050", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: S. 82. A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to address telework for Federal employees, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-4", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008412", "text": "Perhaps one of the most egregious examples of this was his pardon of his son [PERSON] on December 1 of last year. Despite numerous efforts by the FBI and DOJ to protect [PERSON] from accountability for his crimes, President [PERSON] decided to attack his own [ORG] and say his son was selectively and unfairly prosecuted. Well, it is hard to imagine someone thinking they were unfairly targeted when the entire government Agencies did everything they could to protect him from coming to justice.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "'egregious examples' and 'attack his own [ORG]' coupled with mischaracterizing the opposition's position about fair prosecution"}
{"id": "crec_004943", "text": "Now under current law, the child tax credit is available to eligible families with up to $2,000 in tax credit relief per child. Here is my suggestion. Here is my proposal: We should more than double that amount.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "We should more than double that amount"}
{"id": "crec_003948", "text": "Madam Speaker, this morning I highlight a piece of legislation I intend to cosponsor that is sponsored by the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. [PERSON] ), my good colleague. It is known as [ORG] in Vehicle Purchases Act. The bill aims to prevent the U.S. EPA from issuing Clean Air Act waivers that would enable [ORG]-level bans or restrictions on gas and diesel vehicles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001393", "text": "What is going on in Gaza right now is wrong, and I especially call it out because if we stand for freedom and human rights, then we need to stand for freedom and human rights all the time, not just when it is convenient. That is why the nations of the world set up [ORG] in the first place. This is an institution designed to make sure the horrors that we saw all too often in the 20th century do not repeat themselves in the 21st century.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "nations of the world set up [ORG]...designed to make sure the horrors...do not repeat themselves"}
{"id": "crec_007629", "text": "It is despicable that 158 Members of this body, which is supposed to represent the interests of American citizens, voted to prioritize illegal aliens who are sexual predators and domestic abusers, rapists, and pedophiles over the safety of American women and girls. Mr. [PERSON] , what do the 158 Members of this body who voted last time to protect illegal aliens who are sexual predators have to say to the family of [PERSON] , a 12-year-old girl who was brutally raped and strangled to death by two illegal aliens from Venezuela? What do the 158 Democrats who voted against this bill last time have to say to the family of [PERSON] from Maryland, a mother of five, who was brutally raped, brutally choked, and beaten to death on a hiking trail by an illegal alien from El Salvador?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 138, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterization of 158 members as 'prioritizing illegal aliens who are sexual predators' and repeated invocation of brutal crimes to suggest this vote represents protection of predators rather than positions on immigration policy"}
{"id": "crec_001081", "text": "We could roll back energy mandates, EPA limits, methane emission rules. We could expand Federal land leasing for oil and gas production. Next, I would talk about cutting subsidy waste--getting rid of some of the tax credits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing regulatory measures as 'mandates,' 'limits,' and 'subsidy waste' uses negatively framed language to predispose listeners against these policies without engaging substantive arguments"}
{"id": "crec_006276", "text": "[ORG]. [PERSON] , Jan. 8, 2025. REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, [ORG], EXPENDED BETWEEN OCT. 1 AND [ORG]. 31, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date Per diem \\1\\ Transportation Other purposes Total ---------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent [PERSON] Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\2\\-----------------------\\2\\-----------------------\\2\\-----------------------\\2\\---- HOUSE COMMITTEES Please Note: If there were no expenditures during the calendar quarter noted above, please check the box at right to so indicate and return.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH181-2", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000901", "text": "All of these Americans were born here to immigrant parents, some of whose immigration status was unclear at the time of their births and some of whose parents were clearly undocumented. And that is the point of birthright citizenship. When America is at its best, the status of our parents doesn't limit our ability to contribute to our community, and that is part of the genius of our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "America is at its best, the genius of our [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_008562", "text": "I want to express my particular appreciation for President [PERSON] and what the administration has done, the almost immediate declaration of a disaster which unlocked important [ORG] and other funding, the commitment to match--to provide, really--100 percent of Federal funding for the first 6 months of these fire mitigation efforts. I am very grateful for what the Congress and the President have done. This recovery is going to be measured in years, not months.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "appreciation for President and administration's disaster declaration and federal funding commitment; positioning government action as authoritative and praiseworthy"}
{"id": "crec_008671", "text": "The result of all that debt--one of the many results--was the devaluation of the dollar. A dollar you held in 1998 is only worth 51 cents today. We have basically cut the value of a dollar in half since 1998.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "cut the value of a dollar in half - uses dramatic framing to emphasize economic decline"}
{"id": "crec_007472", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I congratulate [PERSON] . He will be missed from the airwaves, but he has earned this next chapter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008781", "text": "The counsel for [PERSON] has put out a detailed statement. I have a copy. I understand that other lawyers may have other opinions, but these are the experts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "these are the experts"}
{"id": "crec_000791", "text": "Mr. President, today, President-elect [PERSON] comes to the Capitol to meet with Senate Republicans. We expect they will talk about their first order of business when they assume full control of government. And what is the Republicans' first order of business going to be?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004262", "text": "The future of our young women and girls and the gains they have made through 50 years of [ORG] must be protected. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to support this important bill. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "urging colleagues to support based on protection of women's gains and invoking organizational credibility"}
{"id": "crec_001474", "text": "[ORG] exists to hold the world accountable to prevent atrocities and to serve as a reminder that no one is above the law. Abandoning the [ORG], as H.R. 23 proposes, undermines our values, undermines our alliances, and undermines our credibility on the world stage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "undermines our values, undermines our alliances, and undermines our credibility - repeated use of 'undermines'; invocation of organizational legitimacy and world accountability; emotionally charged framing of 'abandoning'"}
{"id": "crec_008367", "text": "We will continue asking the tough questions because working people deserve to know whose side [PERSON] is truly on. Is it working people, like [PERSON] claims, or is it corporate special interests like his nominations all too often suggest? I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Sets up binary choice between 'working people' and 'corporate special interests' without acknowledging nuance; uses loaded framing of 'whose side' and 'truly on'"}
{"id": "crec_009172", "text": "This past fire season was especially devastating in Northern Wyoming. I was on the frontlines thanking the firefighters in Wyoming this summer. We had the House Draw fire in [PERSON] County, the [PERSON] fire that spanned [PERSON] and [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005667", "text": "THANKING NICK BOSTIC FOR HIS COURAGEOUS ACTIONS [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama). The [PERSON] recognizes the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002533", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in strong support of this bill, which the House passed in the 117th and 118th Congresses. I thank Chairman [PERSON] and [PERSON] Member [PERSON] for bringing this bill to the floor again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005014", "text": "Is there objection? The Senator from Arkansas. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000093", "text": "A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve; to [ORG]. By Mrs. [PERSON] : [PERSON] . 13.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008685", "text": "So the question I have been asking is, How do we return to a reasonable, prepandemic spending level? I will guarantee you that the people who voted for President [PERSON] do not expect [ORG] is going to continue spending at President [PERSON] 's and the Democrats who have been in charge, at their spending levels. This is unacceptable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "I will guarantee you that the people who voted for President [PERSON] do not expect...This is unacceptable"}
{"id": "crec_000358", "text": "These are the people that now are inviting us to dramatically change the immigration laws without even a hearing as to what it is going to mean in any particular case. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007016", "text": "And so because of that, all I am asking for is more time. Listen to [PERSON] . He is saying: Give it more time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Listen to [PERSON]. He is saying: Give it more time."}
{"id": "crec_008092", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania): H.R. 475. A bill to authorize the imposition of sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering the integrity or safety of the Zaporzhzhia nuclear power plant; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000022", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Louisiana seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 8 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 8 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009381", "text": "1, S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] of Florida, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] . [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009676", "text": "I know this is a big day around the Senate. It is a big day for America, and it is appropriate, I think, that we should be here on this issue today because, over the coming months and years, we are going to be confronting a lot of choices to make. And I think it is critically important that, as we make these choices, we do it in a way that is consistent with our values.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "in a way that is consistent with our values"}
{"id": "crec_005594", "text": "We completed the peaceful transfer of power as the Founding Fathers envisioned it. Now compare last week's election certification with what we witnessed 4 years ago. Thousands attacked the Capitol.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-4", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'peaceful transfer of power' contrasted with 'thousands attacked the Capitol' to frame a stark binary choice"}
{"id": "crec_008446", "text": "Meanwhile, on the civilian side, both organizations that he led went into debt. In fact, he so badly mismanaged one of them that they had to bring in a forensic accountant to clean up the mess that he had made. That is it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "badly mismanaged, forensic accountant to clean up the mess"}
{"id": "crec_001818", "text": "America wants them. We just have to pass this legislation. Mr. [PERSON] , I am always grateful to have this opportunity to speak.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "America wants them"}
{"id": "crec_004562", "text": "When you hear people talk about the extraordinary privilege the United States has, there are actually two of them. The fact that the world uses the U.S. dollar as the ultimate arbiter of exchange. Great.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'extraordinary privilege' and 'Great' used to invoke positive sentiment without specific substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_004255", "text": "This is literally why we have the [ORG]. This bill is textbook government overreach meant to fuel division. Further, this bill provides no enforcement guidelines, insinuating that Republicans are just fine with subjecting young women and girls to invasive, humiliating medical examinations and physical inspections.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "'textbook government overreach', 'invasive, humiliating medical examinations', 'subjecting young women and girls'"}
{"id": "crec_001710", "text": "By 2034, 9 budget years from now, debt servicing at 6 percent, so back even below the historic average rates, interest would consume 45 percent of all tax receipts. Let's do that again. Imagine a world where 45 percent of all tax receipts that come into the government are just for paying interest.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "Repetition of alarming debt servicing scenario ('Let's do that again. Imagine a world where...') combined with appeal to fear through the dire projection that 45 percent of tax receipts would go to interest payments"}
{"id": "crec_006554", "text": "The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001470", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , since I have 10 minutes remaining, I am going to sit here in silence for 2 minutes and see if my colleague from Texas shows up. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007919", "text": "Why do we have to do it this way? Is it to keep some people's environmental scorecard at 100 percent because they don't want more development; they don't want cutting trees; they don't want building water supply; and they don't want us to add lanes to the highway? Instead, we get things like high-speed rail.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizes environmentalists as wanting nothing done (no development, no trees cut, no water supply, no highway lanes) and frames high-speed rail as the illogical alternative, misrepresenting the actual position and creating an artificial either/or choice"}
{"id": "crec_006889", "text": "How is that for protecting democracy? The opposite, which is to stonewall the President's [ORG] nominees, to burn as much time as possible before we are able to get that done, is not preserving and protecting democracy; it is undermining it. Our Democratic colleagues never seem to lose an opportunity to say that whatever the subject, it is a threat to democracy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "strawman"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing positions (protecting vs stonewalling nominees) as the only options, and characterizes opposition as 'burning time' and 'undermining democracy' without addressing substantive concerns about the nominees"}
{"id": "crec_004935", "text": "And it is time to do something about it. The test of this Congress will not be what we do for foreign nations. It will not be what we do for our largest corporations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing options (foreign nations vs. Congress's true purpose) while implying corporations are selfish priorities, oversimplifying the complexity of legislative responsibilities"}
{"id": "crec_002370", "text": "A bill to authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 55. A bill to preserve the constitutional authority of Congress and ensure accountability and transparency in legislation; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000342", "text": "I urge my colleagues to oppose this legislation. Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. [PERSON] ), who has done work on our subcommittee on this issue.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "yielding to gentleman from Arizona who has done work on the subcommittee on this issue"}
{"id": "crec_005988", "text": "42 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are hereby, elected to the following standing committees of [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Dakota, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Iowa, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] of New Jersey, Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on Natural Resources: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] of Utah.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170-2", "word_count": 236, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008678", "text": "That medical condition is now solved. Your family member is healed. What would most American families do?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "What would most American families do?"}
{"id": "crec_007995", "text": "To address this continuing national emergency and protect against the growing and evolving threat of malicious cyber-enabled activities against the United States and United States allies and partners, including the increasing threats by foreign actors of unauthorized access to critical infrastructure, ransomware, and cyber-enabled intrusions and sanctions evasion, section 9 of the Executive Order I have issued updates the criteria to be used by the Secretary of the [ORG] in designating a person for sanctions for engaging in specified malicious cyber-enabled activities and related conduct. I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued. [PERSON] , Jr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "continuing national emergency, growing and evolving threat, malicious cyber-enabled activities, foreign actors of unauthorized access"}
{"id": "crec_005952", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. [PERSON] ), the chairman of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008706", "text": "Put 70 percent of our spending budget on automatic pilot. We will never look at it. We will just spend whatever we want.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "on automatic pilot' and 'we will never look at it' creates alarm about loss of control and fiscal irresponsibility"}
{"id": "crec_001781", "text": "This piece of legislation, [PERSON] in Policing Act, would have helped us to weed them out. It would have also dealt with these no-knock laws that have cost lives, dealt with chokeholds that have taken lives. [PERSON] in Policing Act would have made a difference, and I can say there were many of my constituents who were eager to see [PERSON] in Policing Act pass and who were very disappointed when it did not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Repeated reference to '[PERSON] in Policing Act' throughout; 'cost lives' and 'taken lives' invoke fear about safety concerns"}
{"id": "crec_004725", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mrs. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 401. A bill to prohibit United States assessed and voluntary contributions to [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004727", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to enhance predisaster mitigation to prevent future natural disasters, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004897", "text": "I personally took the bill to the floor a second time and called on my colleagues to pass it, but not only did they say no, they stood in the way and didn't even allow us to have a hearing in the entire 118th Congress. Democrats persisted in their obstruction in moving this bill forward. It isn't just [ORG] the Democrats are standing in the way of; it is the safety and security of our American citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Democrats portrayed as standing in the way of safety and security, framing opposition as obstruction without allowing for legitimate disagreement"}
{"id": "crec_008523", "text": "Well, it wasn't [PERSON] . It was clear from the 2020 campaign that he didn't have the mental capacity to be President. To make matters worse, he spent 570 days, 40 percent of his Presidency, on vacation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "didn't have the mental capacity to be President"}
{"id": "crec_004709", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 385. A bill to identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered list of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to evaluate whether foreign persons engaged in significant corruption should be specially designated nationals under [ORG]; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 113, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006850", "text": "I tell you, when you actually take a look under the hood, what you see every time is that the benefits of these Republican tax cuts go to the biggest corporations, to the billionaires, and to corporate CEOs, and within those biggest corporations, the worst ones for moving jobs and profits offshore. It is as reliable as the sunrise, and it is as wrong as it can be. I yield to my friend Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'biggest corporations,' 'billionaires,' 'corporate CEOs' combined with charged language like 'as wrong as it can be' and negative framing of offshore profit movement"}
{"id": "crec_000215", "text": "2, the Senate will proceed as a body to the Hall of the House of Representatives. Thereupon, the Senate, at 12:40 p.m., preceded by [ORG], [PERSON] ; the Secretary of the Senate, [PERSON] ; and the Vice President of the United States, [PERSON] , proceeded to [ORG] for the counting of the electoral votes pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution and laws relating to the election of President and Vice President of the United States. (The counting of the electoral votes in the joint session of the House and Senate is printed in the proceedings of [ORG] in today's [PERSON] .)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS34-3", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009643", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003934", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate Coach [PERSON] 50-year anniversary with the Savannah Country Day School. Mr. [PERSON] has spent the past five decades coaching and teaching students at Savannah Country Day. He had led the boys' basketball team as well as the boys' and girls' cross-country and tennis team.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000614", "text": "Now the terrorist strongholds are back. Today, terrorists control Afghanistan. They control parts of Syria.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'terrorist strongholds' and 'terrorists control' repeated to emphasize threat"}
{"id": "crec_002170", "text": "He never wavered under pressure. In fact, that is when he was at his best. When everyone else in the room was trying to prove they were right and others were wrong, he had the special ability to bring people together on both sides of the aisle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "special ability to bring people together on both sides of the aisle"}
{"id": "crec_000754", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] (ex officio), Mr. [PERSON] (ex officio). Committee on the Judiciary: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on the Budget: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009761", "text": "During that period of time, he and I have worked together a tremendous number of hours on many issues. We are in a time when America faces threats from nearly every corner of the world. It is no secret that hostile powers, from China, to Russia, to North Korea, to Iran, have formed an authoritarian axis bent on weakening the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'threats from nearly every corner of the world' and 'authoritarian axis bent on weakening the United States'"}
{"id": "crec_001372", "text": "Let me say that again. Israel is the tip of the spear in bringing the fight to an enemy who currently holds and has killed our fellow Americans. Israel has conducted this war with as much restraint as war can allow.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Israel is the tip of the spear in bringing the fight to an enemy who currently holds and has killed our fellow Americans"}
{"id": "crec_007284", "text": "Any Federal district court or immigration court is authorized to enter appropriate orders related to this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, requiring Federal law enforcement authorities to arrest and prosecute aliens violating Federal law. SA 77. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 3, strike line 9 and all that follows through page 8, line 10, and insert the following: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-3", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000044", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 6 votes for President and [PERSON] from the State of Ohio received 6 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006130", "text": "H.R. 28 is a commonsense bill. It strengthens protections for women, and I was proud to vote for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "commonsense bill"}
{"id": "crec_007125", "text": "If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge of the specific hardware and software elements, the information could be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce system effectiveness or be used in the development of a system with similar or advanced capabilities. 4. A determination has been made that Japan can provide substantially the same degree of protection for the sensitive technology being released as [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "adversary...develop countermeasures that might reduce system effectiveness"}
{"id": "crec_007455", "text": "NO CONDITIONS ON DISASTER AID FOR CALIFORNIA ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise on behalf of thousands of California wildfire survivors.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-4", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "rise on behalf of thousands of California wildfire survivors"}
{"id": "crec_006779", "text": "It wasn't true in the 2017 tax cuts, and we could never find any credible witness who would come and testify to that effect. With that, I have other colleagues on the floor who are ready and raring to go, and I yield to them. [SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002091", "text": "H.R. 38: Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska, Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008727", "text": "That is what the people who came out in November voting for President [PERSON] , that is their goal. That is their expectation. I suggest we live up to their expectations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "people who came out in November voting for President [PERSON]"}
{"id": "crec_009663", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, reserving my right to object, [ORG] is a targeted, commonsense, lifesaving bill. This legislation adds crimes to the mandatory detention provisions of the [ORG] and uses the existing framework of the INA.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "targeted, commonsense, lifesaving bill"}
{"id": "crec_003028", "text": "We got immediate economic relief out to tens of millions of families who needed it most. We expanded [ORG], cutting child poverty in half to its lowest rate in history. And we sent funding directly to every state, city, and town in the nation, keeping police on the beat and teachers in the classroom, families in their homes and small businesses on their feet, preventing a wave of scarring bankruptcies, defaults, and evictions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "families who needed it most, lowest rate in history, keeping police on the beat and teachers in the classroom"}
{"id": "crec_005047", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007979", "text": "We also need to help them with the brush clearing on the mountains above there that are being stopped by regulations or the funding getting pulled back by [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] , $100 million, I think, got pulled back and part of that would have been the brush clearing that is so badly needed, which creates a buffer when the Santa Ana winds blow fire toward you. If you don't have that brush there, you have got a much greater chance of stopping the fire before it hits the houses there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "creates a buffer when the Santa Ana winds blow fire toward you... much greater chance of stopping the fire before it hits the houses"}
{"id": "crec_005908", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from West Virginia (Mrs. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER] Virginia. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank Chairman [PERSON] for yielding me time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006364", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 46. A resolution amending the Rules of [ORG] to exclude employees of the offices of Members who serve on certain committees of the House from the allotment of the number of employees of the office who may hold security clearances processed by [ORG] if such employees are members of the armed forces who hold a security clearance issued by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004534", "text": "It doesn't completely work this way because you have to refinance into it, but if we went to a 5 percent handle on U.S. sovereigns--that means, from the short term to the 30 years, you had a 5 percent interest rate that was our mean interest rate on U.S. debt--it is almost $9 trillion of additional borrowing, spending, and interest over that next 10 years. Functionally, going to 5 percent is double everything we are pretty much talking about in the extension of the tax reform. There is this lack of understanding.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing a fiscal scenario with emotionally charged language like 'almost $9 trillion' and 'double everything' to emphasize magnitude without contextual analysis"}
{"id": "crec_001024", "text": "snap back inaccurate snap payments Nearly $1 billion of ineligible [ORG] (SNAP) benefits are being paid every month, according to [ORG]'s own estimates. Tens of thousands of recipients enrolled in the program do not even qualify for the assistance and double dippers are getting second helpings from multiple states. Fixing these bureaucratic blunders would save more than $10 billion a year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "ineligible benefits, bureaucratic blunders, double dippers getting second helpings"}
{"id": "crec_005614", "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------- House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was called to order by [SPEAKER] (Ms. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006432", "text": "ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule [ORG], sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions, as follows: H.R. 21: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] -[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008594", "text": "We will. But whether we can do so quickly will depend on the actions we take in the next few months. This big and beautiful diverse city is not just made of steel and stone but of people--people who stand together when the skies turn dark and rise together when the smoke clears.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "people who stand together when the skies turn dark and rise together when the smoke clears"}
{"id": "crec_005969", "text": "This year, the school saw its highest ever graduation rate and freshman retention rate. Hitting the century mark is no small achievement, and [ORG]'s momentum is only increasing. With their recent record-breaking enrollment increase, [ORG] will continue to shape our [ORG]'s leaders for years to come.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "highest ever graduation rate, century mark, record-breaking enrollment increase, momentum is only increasing"}
{"id": "crec_008846", "text": "She showed horses. She worked at the coffee shop in Eagle River called Jitters, a mainstay in that great community. She excelled academically.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005087", "text": "A bill to require [ORG] to take into custody certain aliens who have been charged in the United States with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 85. A bill to require the Secretary of the [ORG] to partner and collaborate with the Secretary of [ORG] and the State of Hawaii to address [PERSON] , and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Forestry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-3", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006599", "text": "Now is the time for action. That is what the election was about--action, not empty words. This week, we will have before us a tranche of critical votes that America will be intently watching.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "America will be intently watching + action vs empty words framing"}
{"id": "crec_009855", "text": "The journey to reclaim our Republic has not been an easy one; that I can tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life. Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear, but I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "assassination attempt narrative combined with 'reclaim our Republic' framing to invoke patriotic duty despite threats"}
{"id": "crec_000666", "text": "We should be most concerned about people who are criminals who cannot legally carry a firearm or people with mental health incapacities who are currently prohibited under existing law from carrying or owning or possessing a firearm. Those are existing laws that are enforced, given [ORG]. Now, while our safety and security start at home, in our communities, and at our borders, it also extends around the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "framing of concern around 'criminals' and 'mental health incapacities' uses emotionally charged language; 'safety and security' presented as universal good without substantive definition"}
{"id": "crec_009801", "text": "(Applause.) For the past year, I have chaired [ORG], which includes the leadership of Congress from both parties. We thank the committee and [ORG] staff and law enforcement, who worked so hard over the last year and especially the last 3 days.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007671", "text": "Instead, Republicans have chosen to bring more deeply flawed messaging bills to the House floor. This legislation does not just target people who are in the United States illegally. Its impact will be felt by many of our neighbors, from green card holders and students to temporary workers and [ORG] recipients.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "deeply flawed messaging bills and broad characterization that impact extends to sympathetic groups like students and green card holders"}
{"id": "crec_001538", "text": "The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for: [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003995", "text": "The Eagles placed four runners in the top 15 and scored 49 points to capture the program's first [ORG] title since 2009. Seniors [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] each earned all- [ORG] honors for placing in the top 10. Sophomore [PERSON] earned a [ORG] medal for placing in the top 15, and sophomore [PERSON] rounded out the scoring.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001497", "text": "It doesn't make any sense to me. Again, the bill as it is written is so flawed. If it went through regular order, if you brought it to [ORG] and we made a few amendments in order, we might be able to fix some of the flaws I pointed out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "the bill as it is written is so flawed"}
{"id": "crec_000648", "text": "[Pages [PERSON] ] 119TH CONGRESS [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, as you know, last Friday, the Senate swore in new leaders for [ORG], and in 2 weeks, the new Commander in Chief will be sworn in for a second time. We are 6 days into a new year, and people around the country are making resolutions for the new year--everything from health to fitness, books to read, financial goals to meet--and as Republicans, now is a good time for us to do the exact same thing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004045", "text": "Cha Cha understood that the Latino and Black communities were facing similar struggles and forged an alliance with [ORG] to help underserved, low-income communities. Soon after, they partnered with a group of [ORG], low-income residents called [ORG], establishing Chicago's [ORG]. [PERSON] leadership united people of all backgrounds to fight collectively for a better future, and his legacy will live on for generations to come.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "fight collectively for a better future, and his legacy will live on for generations to come"}
{"id": "crec_007062", "text": "It is because these decisions involve so many complex factors that [ORG] has repeatedly recognized that [ORG] is and should be the ultimate authority on enforcement of our immigration laws. Section 3, however, would mark a sea change by inviting every [ORG] attorney general to sue whenever they disagree with even an individual- level Federal decision regarding detention and removal. This could create uncertainty or even chaos by encouraging conflicting lawsuits brought by different States in different courts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "[ORG] has repeatedly recognized that [ORG] is and should be the ultimate authority; could create uncertainty or even chaos"}
{"id": "crec_000138", "text": "Today, use the work of our lawmakers to let this generation know about the unfolding of Your powerful providence. Lord, forgive us when we forget that Your mercies are new each day. We thank You for the rising and the setting of the [ORG], for supplying our daily needs, and for the hope we have in Your redemptive power.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "appeal to divine authority through prayer language and references to 'Your powerful providence' and 'redemptive power'; invocation of national institution (lawmakers) in spiritual context"}
{"id": "crec_006314", "text": "A bill to amend [PERSON] 86-272 to expand the prohibition of [ORG] taxation relating to certain solicitation of orders; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 428.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005003", "text": "In total, [ORG] oversaw 13 executions in the last 6 months of his Presidency. I will continue to urge Congress to pass my legislation to end the [ORG] death penalty, following the lead of 23 States that have already done so, including my [ORG] of Illinois. This failed and unjust policy has no place in a civilized society.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "describing executions as 'failed and unjust policy' has no place in a civilized society' and citing that '23 States have already' abolished it"}
{"id": "crec_006773", "text": "They will see their prices go up with this tariff blitz, and then they will end up being saddled with the consequences of debt. We should take the time to do this right. We should take the time to do--again, I use the example of what [ORG] did last year on the R&D tax credit, the child tax credit, and the low-income housing tax credit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "prices go up...saddled with the consequences of debt; repeated emphasis on 'take the time to do this right' and 'take the time to do'"}
{"id": "crec_002896", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of the [ORG]. This bill would require [ORG] to post the executive leadership team compensation annually on the [ORG] website.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002988", "text": "This rushed process left many of my colleagues with the impression that [ORG], [ORG]'s parent company, would divest from the platform, rendering the ban unnecessary, as its proponents had suggested. Back in April, I took to this [ORG] floor to warn that such an approach was ill-considered. Today, with [ORG] on the brink of being banned in the United States, my concerns have become a reality because what we are learning is that the [ORG] law is indeed a [ORG] ban.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "ill-considered approach; rendering the ban unnecessary; what we are learning is that the [ORG] law is indeed a [ORG] ban"}
{"id": "crec_009489", "text": "If, within three calendar days after the filing of the request, the Chairman does not call the requested special meeting, to be held within seven calendar days after the filing of the request, a majority of the members of the [ORG] may file with [SPEAKER] their written notice that a special meeting of the [ORG] will be held, specifying the date and hour thereof, and the measure or matter to be considered at that special meeting. The [ORG] shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon the filing of the notice, [SPEAKER] of the [ORG] shall notify all members of the [ORG] that such meeting will be held and inform them of its date and hour and the measure or matter to be considered; and only the measure or matter specified in that notice may be considered at that special meeting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 142, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007778", "text": "This body has a real immediate duty to address the threat of worsening wildfires, and I have introduced legislation to get [ORG] and local governments emergency [ORG] resources to fight wildfires and protect people and property. Our first priority is to help those fleeing to safety and to aid the firefighters and first responders, including the brave fire crews from Arizona cities, the [ORG], and our Tribal nations. When Arizona communities have been impacted by wildfires, floods, or other extreme weather events, [ORG] has delivered aid without conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "brave fire crews from Arizona cities, the [ORG], and our Tribal nations; emphasis on community cooperation and institutional authority responding to crisis"}
{"id": "crec_008691", "text": "That was under [PERSON] . We spent $1.7 trillion. That is obviously too low because we have had inflation, because we have had population growth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "calling $1.7 trillion 'obviously too low' uses loaded language to frame spending skeptically; 'obviously' casts doubt on the adequacy of the figure"}
{"id": "crec_005358", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 41. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009066", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 136. A bill to lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 137.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000183", "text": "Today, the process will return to normal and remain solemn but peaceful. We are here today to continue the transfer of power, to acknowledge what the people have already decided and nothing more. Unfortunately, today stands in sharp contrast to what happened 4 years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "contrast between 'normal and remain solemn but peaceful' versus implicit reference to turmoil 'what happened 4 years ago' creates fear about past events"}
{"id": "crec_002255", "text": "We honor the whole team, though. It takes a team of incredible players, incredible senior leadership, a number of whom are going to be drafted--no question about it. There will be high draft choices.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "incredible players, incredible senior leadership"}
{"id": "crec_001744", "text": "First, allow me to commend Vice President [PERSON] for leading the United States of America, our country, back to the moral high ground. I was proud to be here. In fact, I was seated on this very row at the very end.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "commend Vice President for leading the United States of America back to the moral high ground; appeal to authority figure combined with patriotic framing"}
{"id": "crec_001141", "text": "There are no known offset agreements in connection with this potential sale. Implementation of this proposed sale will require approximately eighteen [ORG] and/or eighteen contractor representatives to travel to Greece for an extended period for equipment de-processing and fielding, system checkout, training, and technical and logistics support. There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004331", "text": "It attacks children. Under this bill, kids as young as 4 years old could be forced to undergo invasive medical exams and answer personal questions about their bodies from adults they don't know or trust. This legislation distorts commonsense conversations about how to ensure fairness in our athletic competitions and instead denies our children their basic rights and safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "attacks children; kids as young as 4 years old could be forced to undergo invasive medical exams; denies our children their basic rights and safety"}
{"id": "crec_001972", "text": "A resolution permitting parental remote voting by proxy, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 24.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006685", "text": "Why? Because this is what they do. Because that is actually their governing philosophy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009048", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 109. A bill to require the Secretary of the [ORG] to conduct certain offshore lease sales under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 110.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007597", "text": "The time of the gentlewoman has expired. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield the gentlewoman from California an additional 1 minute.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005026", "text": "The objection is heard. ([SPEAKER] assumed the [ORG].) [SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005730", "text": "There is a project near Pacific Palisades that was going to remove some vulnerable power pole lines that were made of wood and some lower hanging wires and other equipment with some stronger, more fire-resistant ones. They started on the project, but they discovered a species of vetch which is grown as a crop in many other areas, as a cover crop or what have you. They discovered one called, I think, [PERSON] 's milkvetch.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006902", "text": "In fact, we are the wealthiest Nation in the history of the world. Yet, today, we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had. Sixty percent of our people live paycheck to paycheck.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "contrast between 'wealthiest Nation in the history of the world' and 'more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had' paired with 'sixty percent of our people live paycheck to paycheck' creates emotional weight around economic distress"}
{"id": "crec_001106", "text": "We are looking forward to President [PERSON] 's inauguration in a week and a half. We are looking forward to beginning to implement both on the executive branch and through legislative action real changes that can actually get our government toward more efficiency. Now, I have to warn everybody: It is going to take a while because there is a lot to get done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "References to 'President' authority and positions on implementing 'real changes' and government 'efficiency' to build credibility and positive framing"}
{"id": "crec_008328", "text": "[SPEAKER] will read the bill by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 6) to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002651", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 339. A bill to amend [ORG] of 2012 to streamline the consideration by [ORG] and local governments of requests for modification of certain existing wireless facilities and telecommunications service facilities, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008152", "text": "A bill to authorize for a grant program for handgun licensing programs, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 533.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002928", "text": "1, S. 5, to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. Recognition of the Minority Leader [SPEAKER]. The Democratic leader is recognized.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008767", "text": "Look, I get it. I understand the frustration when your caucus is working and your bill doesn't get called up to be voted on. But the truth is, we are working diligently to make sure that all voices are heard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "working diligently to make sure that all voices are heard"}
{"id": "crec_001570", "text": "There was no objection. How [PERSON] Disdain for D.C. Politics Changed Washington In a cynical time, [PERSON] spurned the establishment and attracted a generation of idealists.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "spurned the establishment and attracted a generation of idealists"}
{"id": "crec_000539", "text": "38: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Arkansas. H.R. 45: Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009706", "text": "Federal law enforcement does not want a repeat of that, least of all, least of anybody, and I doubt any of us would want private prisons managing that outcome either. That episode was a shameful part of our history. It falls into that chapter of our history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "shameful part of our history and invocation of not wanting repeats of unspecified negative outcomes"}
{"id": "crec_003910", "text": "After 15 months of war, I believe Prime Minister [PERSON] has overseen a military campaign that has had catastrophic consequences not only for the people of Gaza but for his own people, as well. As Israel's strongest ally, we have a responsibility to ensure that the legitimate anger felt by its citizens and the rest of the world after October 7 does not spiral into endless violence. What began as a war of defense has now devolved into a war of retribution and widespread destruction.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Using emotionally charged terms like 'catastrophic consequences,' 'endless violence,' and 'war of retribution and widespread destruction' combined with positioning as 'Israel's strongest ally' to establish credibility for the criticism"}
{"id": "crec_004363", "text": "I ask the same to my Democratic colleagues, Mr. [PERSON] . Why aren't they willing to protect the women and girls from this invasion of their privacy? Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "invasion of their privacy"}
{"id": "crec_007944", "text": "As the [ORG] moves toward more mandates on electric cars, on electric stoves, and electric trains and trucks--thankfully, a mandate got pushed off a little bit on trains and trucks because I don't know how people were going to get their supplies and get provisions if nobody can ship it in because of vehicles that don't even exist at the level of emissions that they are talking about. Just let attrition do its job. Let everybody replace the trucks with new trucks over time, and maybe even us farmers could buy the ones that are only 10 years old that are still nice, running trucks when we only use a few thousand miles a year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "I don't know how people were going to get their supplies and get provisions if nobody can ship it in because of vehicles that don't even exist"}
{"id": "crec_006570", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007126", "text": "This sale is necessary in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives outlined in [ORG]. 5. All defense articles and services listed in this transmittal have been authorized for release and export to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "necessary in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives"}
{"id": "crec_005900", "text": "As a member of both [ORG] and our [ORG] on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and [ORG], I know how important our relationship with Taiwan is, both in terms of trade and national security. This bill will open the door for us to continue to develop a strong economic partnership, especially in the technology and semiconductor sectors, and help the United States reduce our reliance on China. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the chairman, Speaker [PERSON] , and all the members of [ORG] for bringing this legislation to the floor today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "As a member of both [ORG]... I know how important our relationship with Taiwan is... thank the chairman, Speaker [PERSON], and all the members"}
{"id": "crec_003273", "text": "1151 et seq.) shall not apply to the adjustment of aliens to lawful permanent resident status under this title, and such aliens shall not be counted toward any such numerical limitation. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000206", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE At 12:02 p.m., a message from [ORG], delivered by Mrs. [PERSON] , one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has agreed to the following concurrent resolutions, without amendment: [PERSON] . [PERSON] . 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS33", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002568", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. [PERSON] ), my very good friend from Memphis, Tennessee, the home of [ORG]. We had a lot of good times in the [ORG] senate. We brought some famous people to the floor, such as our dear friend [PERSON] , who is in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003083", "text": "1439, 1440-1) by which a person may naturalize, or be granted posthumous United States citizenship, through service in [ORG]; or (2) the qualifications for original enlistment in any component of the [ORG] otherwise prescribed by law or the Secretary of [ORG]. SA 3. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000477", "text": "A letter from the Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting [ORG]: DDTC 24-055; to [ORG]. EC-9. A letter from the Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting [ORG]: DDTC 23-029; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006478", "text": "LAKEN RILEY ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, it is more than 1,000 miles from El Paso, [ORG], to Athens, [ORG], yet a man who crossed the border illegally near El Paso was able to wreak havoc in Athens. Last February, an illegal immigrant murdered nursing student [PERSON] while she was out for a morning run on the Athens campus of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "an illegal immigrant murdered nursing student...while she was out for a morning run - emotionally charged framing connecting illegal immigration to violent crime to invoke fear"}
{"id": "crec_005347", "text": "SA 28. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 29.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009778", "text": "=========================== NOTE =========================== On page S252, January 20, 2025, at the bottom of the left column, the following appears: By [SPEAKER] for [ORG] and [ORG]. [PERSON] , of Virginia, to be Director of [ORG]. The online Record has been corrected to read: By [SPEAKER] for [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-4", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001319", "text": "HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HECTOR SERRANO ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to honor the life and enduring legacy of [PERSON] , beloved artist, storyteller, and visionary creator of [ORG]!", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-4", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "beloved artist, storyteller, and visionary creator"}
{"id": "crec_007788", "text": "Our hearts break as tens of thousands of folks have lost everything. As our hearts break, we know that in this [PERSON] we have to work. That is our obligation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-6", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Our hearts break...we have to work...That is our obligation"}
{"id": "crec_002873", "text": "But our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is finally modernizing the nation's roads, bridges, ports, airports, transit systems, and more; removing every lead pipe in America, so every child can drink clean water; and providing affordable high-speed internet for every American, no matter where they live. And it's making sure these projects are done with American products and American workers, creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying new jobs, many of them union jobs. For too long, American factories have moved overseas, taking vital industries with them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "ambitious promises of 'modernizing the nation,' 'clean water,' 'affordable high-speed internet for every American' combined with emphasis on 'American products and American workers' and 'union jobs'"}
{"id": "crec_008883", "text": "Now, she has been a loyal employee, certainly to me and my wife [PERSON] . There was a little going-away party for her back home in Anchorage, 2 days ago. Fortunately, [PERSON] was able to make it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001399", "text": "I have traveled there. I believe Israelis deserve security. They deserve peace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006684", "text": "So what did we do both to generate money but also because it is a question of basic fairness? We established a minimum rate for these wealthy corporations. They want to eliminate that too.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "establishing a minimum rate for 'wealthy corporations' combined with 'They want to eliminate that too' frames corporate interests as a threat to fairness"}
{"id": "crec_006824", "text": "Everyday Americans should not have to subsidize the lavish lifestyle of the ultrarich. The world's wealthiest 1 percent burn through their entire carbon budget for the year in the first 10 days of January--10 days. So let's not let the 1 percent blow a $5 trillion hole in our Federal budget as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "lavish lifestyle, burn through, blow a $5 trillion hole"}
{"id": "crec_006868", "text": "I urge my Republican colleagues and leadership in this body to work in a bipartisan manner on this and find solutions that will benefit all Americans, not just CEOs and their board members. There is a way we can come together to make sure our middle class benefits, that our small businesses and companies--by the way, that are essential for that middle class and our labor force, because you need both--work together to benefit, and really work and identify a pay-for and how we are not going to add to the deficit. I can't stress this enough: We need to come together and build on spending reductions from the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act instead of targeting Americans' healthcare.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 118, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing benefits for 'CEOs and their board members' as opposed to 'middle class' and 'small businesses'; framing the choice as either targeting healthcare or building on spending reductions"}
{"id": "crec_008477", "text": "We will never forget his service. Mr. President, [PERSON] actually passed away a year ago last December. We were not in session at the time, so I thought it was appropriate to recognize the anniversary of his death, but I want to talk a little bit more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "We will never forget his service"}
{"id": "crec_009523", "text": "RULE IX. REFERRAL OF LEGISLATION TO SUBCOMMITTEES (a) General Requirement.--Except where the Chairman of the [ORG] determines, in consultation with the majority members of the [ORG], that consideration is to be by [ORG], each bill, resolution, investigation, or other matter which relates to a subject listed under the jurisdiction of any subcommittee established in [ORG] referred to or initiated by the [ORG] shall be referred by the Chairman to all subcommittees of appropriate jurisdiction within two weeks. All bills shall be referred to the subcommittee of proper jurisdiction without regard to whether the author is or is not a member of the subcommittee.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002437", "text": "Further, it would streamline Federal disaster recovery efforts by concluding that a single agency is sufficient to conduct damage assessments to account for the needs of disaster victims. [ORG] can and should be doing this smarter. Mr. [PERSON] , I support this bill, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "doing this smarter"}
{"id": "crec_001931", "text": "A bill to eliminate certain limitations and exclusions regarding defense articles and requirements regarding security assistance and sales with respect to the Republic of Cyprus; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 299.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001459", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , it is very clear that the gentleman from Massachusetts is well out of his depth when it comes to military warfare and how to conduct an operation. I will let that speak for itself. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in strong support of this legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["ad_hominem"], "evidence": "the gentleman from Massachusetts is well out of his depth when it comes to military warfare"}
{"id": "crec_009329", "text": "It says that an illegal immigrant involved in a theft-related crime must be detained. That means, if someone who is in the country illegally--in other words, who has already broken our laws--commits a robbery, he or she will be detained. If this bill had already been law, the illegal immigrant who killed [PERSON] would not have been on the streets the day that he murdered her.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "reference to murder victim and emotional scenario designed to stoke fear about illegal immigrants committing violent crimes"}
{"id": "crec_001017", "text": "united nations overpayments [ORG] ([ORG]) charges the U.S. higher membership dues than any other country and then Washington voluntarily contributes $15 billion in additional contributions. [ORG] staff helped plan and execute [ORG]' terrorist attack on Israel in which American citizens were murdered and taken hostage. And a 2024 [ORG] migrant plan promotes cash handouts for migrants to cover travel expenses and includes a map with a red line leading right to the U.S. border.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterization of UN as 'overpaying' the U.S., association with terrorist attacks and hostage-taking, and misrepresentation of migration policy as deliberately directing migrants to U.S. border"}
{"id": "crec_004010", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise today, proud to announce that I have joined the bipartisan [ORG]. This important initiative is focused on bringing much needed efficiency to [ORG] and reducing wasteful spending that burdens taxpayers. As an Iowan, I know that every dollar counts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "joining bipartisan initiative, bringing efficiency and reducing waste - vague positive language combined with appeal to group participation"}
{"id": "crec_005350", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 33. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002621", "text": "31 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are hereby, elected to the following standing committees of [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona. Committee on the Judiciary: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] of California, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108", "word_count": 188, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009649", "text": "The peaceful transfer of power is the defining feature of a free society. It is what separates nations like the United States from the wastelands of despotism and autocracy. As we have seen recently, the peaceful transfer of power can never be taken for granted.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasts 'peaceful transfer of power' in free societies against 'wastelands of despotism and autocracy,' presenting only two extreme options while using inflammatory language ('wastelands')"}
{"id": "crec_008829", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The Senator from Alaska. Tribute to [PERSON] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001829", "text": "He built a strong educational foundation, earning his bachelor's of applied science degree, studying public safety and emergency management at [ORG]. Before embarking on his service to the city of Roseville, Chief [ORG] had a decorated career in several capacities, including his over three decades of service for [ORG]. Over the course of his tenure, Chief [ORG] conducted the duties of engineer, captain, battalion chief, shift commander, managing [ORG], deputy chief, and many others.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002547", "text": "A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008859", "text": "She was hugely essential to the things we got done at our department of natural resources. We negotiated against [ORG] for a giant natural gas deal. You want to talk about a tough thing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "hugely essential to the things we got done"}
{"id": "crec_004080", "text": "One estimate indicates the recent annual tree loss just in Canada equates to their forests' lost capacity to absorb the annual carbon dioxide from all jet aviation fuel spewed into the atmosphere across our globe. This chart attests to that. Just a few years ago due to major forest fires in Quebec, our southern Great Lakes region in my home [ORG] of Ohio was covered with an eerie, hazy, atmospheric soot blowing south across the border with Canada.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "eerie, hazy, atmospheric soot blowing south across the border; emphasis on lost capacity to absorb CO2 and global jet aviation emissions"}
{"id": "crec_009727", "text": "My amendment would close the alarming loophole that let [PERSON] 's killer go free. It would simply require ICE to detain illegal immigrants charged with killing or seriously injuring another person so they do not disappear before facing justice. Let's make this a reality today for [PERSON] 's family, for [PERSON] 's family, and for the countless American families we can protect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "alarming loophole, killer go free, disappear before facing justice, countless American families we can protect"}
{"id": "crec_001732", "text": "However, Mr. [PERSON] , you are not allowed to talk about it because they will attack you. They spent about a couple of a million dollars beating the crap out of me because I care about saving [ORG], and I care about not doubling senior poverty. Somehow lying about it is the political tactic of this place?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "you are not allowed to talk about it because they will attack you; They spent about a couple of a million dollars beating the crap out of me"}
{"id": "crec_007549", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I include in the Record a letter from over 200 local and national domestic violence organizations who oppose this bill. [ORG] Violence January 13, 2025. Honorable Members of the House, The undersigned groups that serve and advocate on behalf of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, and human trafficking, write to voice our opposition to HR 30.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "letter from over 200 local and national domestic violence organizations"}
{"id": "crec_002967", "text": "What are you doing here? Next thing you know a policeman is called in; he arrests you for shoplifting. They then take you in and charge you with that crime.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "next thing you know a policeman is called in; he arrests you for shoplifting"}
{"id": "crec_004268", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to oppose this bill. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ), an incoming member of the [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001799", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , to his credit, Senator [PERSON] brought the [PERSON] that I have called to your attention to the floor of the Senate. To simplify it, he made a request that it be passed with 51 votes as opposed to having to hit the 60-vote threshold and then come back and pass it with 51 votes. He made the request.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000290", "text": "It would also allow States to bring a civil action against derelict [ORG] officials who refuse to enforce these laws. [PERSON] and [ORG], I am looking at you. This bill passed [ORG] in March of last year, but Senate Democrats stopped it cold.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["name_calling", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "calling officials 'derelict' and pointing to opposing party's obstruction rather than addressing the bill's merits"}
{"id": "crec_009620", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008129", "text": "A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for a 6 month delay before a final rule may take effect; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006634", "text": "You see, enforcing immigration law is a national security priority. I began emphasizing this years ago. I know so many other Americans believe this in their bones.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "I began emphasizing this years ago...I know so many other Americans believe this in their bones"}
{"id": "crec_005644", "text": "I know it wasn't easy. My thoughts are with his family, his loved ones, and all who were fortunate enough to know him. His legacy will continue to inspire future generations not only in Dearborn but throughout southeastern Michigan and beyond.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "His legacy will continue to inspire future generations"}
{"id": "crec_002647", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the National Firearms Act; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004375", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , may I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008750", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Oregon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005088", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: S. 86. A bill to repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 87.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007989", "text": "You are angry at some of the folks in Sacramento that are putting--you are probably angry that the Democrat-controlled legislature is putting, as a requirement, as a condition for some of the [ORG] aid that should be going to southern California, the $50-million package of lawsuit money they want to use to fight [PERSON] . That is tied together in a package right now in the [ORG] legislature. So they are pointing at us for talking about accountability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing lawmakers as 'putting' conditions on aid and framing it as either accepting their lawsuit package or not receiving aid; 'angry' and 'pointing at us' create emotionally charged framing"}
{"id": "crec_006197", "text": "We are told we are not going to touch any kind of reforms in healthcare or [ORG] to drive down the price of healthcare so that we can save [ORG] from its clear insolvency, and [ORG] from its clear insolvency. It is going to go bankrupt in, what, 8 years. So we are not going to talk about those things.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "healthcare will go bankrupt in 8 years; characterization of inaction as inevitable doom"}
{"id": "crec_000763", "text": "REMEMBERING JIMMY CARTER [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, this week, our [ORG] mourns the loss of our 39th President, [PERSON] . With grief comes reflection on his life, a life well lived.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "a life well lived"}
{"id": "crec_008492", "text": "[PERSON] is the most unqualified nominee for Secretary of [ORG] in our [ORG]'s history. At his confirmation hearing, [PERSON] bobbed and weaved to avoid answering just basic questions about his record, but what [PERSON] failed to account for is that his entire record is damning. I would like my Senate colleagues, people who are seriously considering voting to confirm [PERSON] , to think long and hard about this decision.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'most unqualified nominee' and 'his entire record is damning'"}
{"id": "crec_000866", "text": "Now, in addition to border security, abundant American energy, regulatory reform, permitting reform, and avoiding this multitrillion- dollar tax increase, there is one more thing that I would like my colleagues to remember as we deliberate the contents of this package. I believe we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deal with some of the biggest challenges that face America, and we can't squander that opportunity. We have to address not only our discretionary spending, which is about 28 percent of what [ORG] spends each year, but also our mandatory spending programs outside of [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "once-in-a-generation opportunity to deal with some of the biggest challenges that face America"}
{"id": "crec_008586", "text": "I remember talking to one woman who lost her trailer in the Palisades. She wants answers about the lack of water to fight the fires. I want to know that too.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009786", "text": "35 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO. 53 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006636", "text": "Stop the madness. I plead with my colleagues to support [ORG]. We should pass it now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Stop the madness - charged language implying crisis/urgency to motivate immediate action"}
{"id": "crec_008391", "text": "[PERSON] , who had his hearing yesterday, is President [PERSON] 's nominee to be the Secretary of [ORG]. His data-driven leadership and creativity laid the foundation for the fracking boom that we experienced in this Nation that has fueled American energy independence. And [PERSON] , whom I had the privilege of introducing earlier this morning at [ORG], well, he is a nominee to be [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "His data-driven leadership and creativity laid the foundation for the fracking boom...fueled American energy independence"}
{"id": "crec_008956", "text": "C. Notice by Subcommittee Chair. The Chair of each Subcommittee shall notify the Chair of the Committee in writing whenever any measure has been ordered reported by such [ORG] and is ready for consideration by [ORG]. [PERSON] reports of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008638", "text": "It is not asking too much to have a Secretary of Health who believes in healthy food and believes in vaccines, especially when we are already backsliding on vaccines and seeing real and deadly consequences. We eliminated measles in 2000, but last year we had 16 outbreaks. Whooping cough has spiked in the country and in my home [ORG] of Washington.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "backsliding on vaccines and seeing real and deadly consequences; measles eliminated in 2000 but outbreaks returned; whooping cough has spiked"}
{"id": "crec_009097", "text": "We have seen massive mismanagement. Anybody watching the interviews with the Governor of California, the fire chief in California, the mayor of L.A. will say there has been massive mismanagement, gross incompetence by the elected leadership in California. This needs to change to protect the people who live there from the terrible mistakes in judgments of these elected officials.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "massive mismanagement, gross incompetence, terrible mistakes in judgments, needs to change to protect the people"}
{"id": "crec_009680", "text": "Understandably, chaotic and changing circumstances like the ones we face today sometimes raise alarms among the American people. Unfortunately, in our time--and I would agree with the Senator from Alabama on this--we have not addressed the chaos at the southern border of the United States, and politicians have used this crisis for years to divide the American people on one side of the partisan divide and as another. And as a result, the failing immigration system that we have has only become more broken.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "chaotic and changing circumstances...raise alarms; chaos at the southern border; crisis...to divide"}
{"id": "crec_005785", "text": "CONGRATULATING PASTOR WARREN STEWART, [ORG]., ON HIS RETIREMENT ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the remarkable legacy of Pastor [PERSON] , Sr., of Phoenix, Arizona.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001465", "text": "To the chairman of the committee, I was a little bit startled when he said get with the American team; because we have a disagreement, that somehow I am not with the American team. Last time I checked, we are still a democracy, at least for the time being. You can have disagreements on this issue, and we can still respect each other's point of view.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "appeal to authority of 'democracy' and 'American team'; loaded language in 'at least for the time being' suggesting democratic institutions are fragile"}
{"id": "crec_001087", "text": "It is time for [ORG] and unelected bureaucrats to remember that we the people sign their checks and that [ORG] is absolutely committed to restoring accountability and putting [ORG] back on the path to serving the American people. These solutions will give beltway bureaucrats fits--it will give them heartburn--but these reforms will finally put [ORG] on notice and on a path to start working like a business. I will close with this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "we the people sign their checks, serving the American people, putting [ORG] on notice"}
{"id": "crec_009455", "text": "ORDERS FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2025 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 4:30 p.m. on Monday, January 20; that following the prayer and pledge, the [ORG] of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed; further, that upon the conclusion of morning business, the Senate resume consideration of Calendar No. 1, S. 5, postcloture; finally, that all postcloture time expire at 5:30 p.m. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243-8", "word_count": 113, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007172", "text": "AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND PROPOSED SA 50. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 51.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002168", "text": "I can recall many times--probably more than either of us would want to admit--when I called [PERSON] at 7 in the morning, at midnight: [PERSON] , what about this? What about that? He never got mad.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000174", "text": "It is one of the many lessons that has stuck with me from Coach [PERSON] . I am going to miss seeing Coach [PERSON] on my visits to [ORG], and I remain deeply grateful for everything he taught me along the way. And I want his family to know my thoughts and prayers are with them, with his loved ones.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001413", "text": "It didn't come to [ORG], so nobody can offer an amendment, nobody can make a suggestion. It is take it or leave it. I mean, I guess that is the way the Republicans are going to want to run the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing the process as absolute 'take it or leave it' without allowing for the actual procedural nuances, and implying Republicans only offer this binary choice"}
{"id": "crec_004723", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 399. A bill to permanently extend the [ORG] economic development tax credit; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000567", "text": "ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS [SPEAKER]. On another point, yesterday, January 6, was Christmas Day for many Christians of the Orthodox faith. But during the Soviet Union--if you remember the history of the Soviet Union--Christmas had to be celebrated in secret, lest the communist authorities would find out and you would be punished.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-5", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Christmas had to be celebrated in secret, lest the communist authorities would find out and you would be punished"}
{"id": "crec_005962", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] of Iowa). All time for debate has expired.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000829", "text": "She was a young woman--an innocent young woman--murdered by an illegal immigrant who came across into this country illegally. She was murdered. It is a bill that has been sponsored and cosponsored by every Republican in the Senate, and now I am happy to report that there are several Democrats who have also signed on to that legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "repeated 'murdered' and 'illegal immigrant' framing; emphasizing bipartisan support to suggest legitimacy"}
{"id": "crec_006734", "text": "And on top of these inequities, that the bill was too heavily weighted toward corporations, too light toward individuals, and with individuals, too heavily weighted toward the wealthy rather than lower and middle-income people, the Republican bill in 2017 did another thing that was entirely unjustified. The bill made the corporate tax cuts permanent and the individual tax cuts temporary. So big, permanent corporate tax cuts; tiny, temporary, heavily skewed individual tax cuts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated contrasting phrases ('permanent...temporary', 'big...tiny', 'heavily weighted...too light') using emotionally charged terms like 'inequities' and 'unjustified' to frame the tax bill negatively"}
{"id": "crec_002162", "text": "They are so dedicated, and they are so smart and so creative and so caring. So to say that this is one of the best I have ever had is really high tribute. But [PERSON] , my top health policy adviser for 8 years, is one of the very, very, very best I have ever, ever, ever had--8 years, amazing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "repeated superlatives ('best I have ever had', 'very, very, very best') and emphasis on authority through duration and position ('top health policy adviser for 8 years')"}
{"id": "crec_008160", "text": "A bill to require the Director of [ORG] to review and make certain revisions to [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] York: H.R. 541.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005769", "text": "In the shadow of Your wings, may they take shelter until the storms of ruin pass by. Behind the hedge of Your protection, may they find safety from the afflictions bearing down on them from all fronts. Encourage and equip with fortitude and perseverance all those who remain in the fight against the unrelenting fires and who continue to strive to build defenses against even more harm.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "storms of ruin, afflictions bearing down, unrelenting fires, harm"}
{"id": "crec_004701", "text": "A bill to require agencies to repeal three existing regulations before issuing a new regulation, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009014", "text": "MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE At 1:09 p.m., a message from [ORG], delivered by Mrs. [PERSON] , one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the following bills in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 33. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224-4", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007545", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , here is the cruel irony. In the same week that Republicans are putting forth the nomination of a Secretary of [ORG] who won't even say that sexual assault is disqualifying, Republicans want to fool you into thinking that they care about domestic violence and sexual assault survivors. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing Republican position as 'wanting to fool you' and 'cruel irony' of claiming care while nominating someone accused of not opposing sexual assault"}
{"id": "crec_005901", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008287", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1 Section 8", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-2", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002942", "text": "That is something Senators should ask themselves during tomorrow's hearing, and, of course, they should ask Mr. [PERSON] questions about it. When it comes to a job like Secretary of [ORG], there can be zero question--zero--that the nominee is up for the job. Unfortunately, Mr. [PERSON] 's record leaves too many unanswered questions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "doubt"], "evidence": "Senators should ask questions during tomorrow's hearing; record leaves too many unanswered questions"}
{"id": "crec_007689", "text": "Personal Explanation [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I was not present for today's vote. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001659", "text": "If you got rid of all those 4,500 employees from [ORG], great. It turns out to be about $2.75 billion over an entire year you just covered. Functionally, that is 9 hours of borrowing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing job cuts of 4,500 employees as merely '9 hours of borrowing' to minimize the human impact and present only two extreme options"}
{"id": "crec_006717", "text": "Those are the four foundations for families to thrive. If you work an hourly job and make less than $34,000 a year--which is the case for 50 million American taxpayers--you would get back $130 a year--$2.50, roughly, two and a half dollars. All right.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "$2.50, roughly, two and a half dollars"}
{"id": "crec_008019", "text": "Our industry and our technology remain superior, Europe, China, and Japan notwithstanding. Because of our ideals and our principles, we wield a mighty and forceful hand in world affairs. There can be no doubt that the American flag is still respected by billions of the world's people as a symbol of freedom from tyranny.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "American flag is still respected as a symbol of freedom; ideals and principles; industry and technology superior"}
{"id": "crec_007104", "text": "Despite his busy schedule, Heath never turns down an opportunity to give back to his community. His impact is perhaps best evidenced in his role as a coach. For the last 20 years, Heath has been a volunteer coach in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "never turns down an opportunity to give back to his community"}
{"id": "crec_003937", "text": "Mourning the Loss of [PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today to mourn the loss of [PERSON] , who sadly passed away in December from cancer at the age of 68. Mr. [PERSON] was a former Democratic leader in the Georgia State Senate and a candidate for Atlanta mayor and Congress, who advocated for causes he believed in for many decades.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005996", "text": "A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. personal explanation [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I was not present for today's vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000386", "text": "We in this Congress must ensure there are no future [PERSON] . Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this legislation. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this legislation"}
{"id": "crec_007456", "text": "My district knows too well the devastation survivors of the southern California fires are facing. People have lost everything, and not just their homes and their belongings, but family members and friends. We must bring the full force of [ORG] to aid these victims, and we must do it without any conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-4", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "bring the full force of [ORG] to aid these victims"}
{"id": "crec_004004", "text": "Their unwavering commitment to all of us all over the country is inspiring and should encourage us to also live a life of this kind of dedication. On behalf of Illinois' Third Congressional District, I commend the Illinois Poor People's Campaign for their relentless fight for justice and equality and their efforts to ensure every person has a say in our democracy. I thank all of its members.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'unwavering commitment', 'inspiring', 'relentless fight for justice and equality' - vague positive language without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_005362", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 47. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008821", "text": "I am asking for the existing amendment to be set aside so that mine can be brought up, which puts it in a queue for consideration. People can study it. And then you go to a whole series of votes on all those things that are in that queue.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007891", "text": "We saw that with the snail darter, and we are finding it out with more and more things. A fuels reduction project would be tremendously helpful. We need much more green light.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004439", "text": "Sincerely, [ORG] (121) The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Advocates for [ORG], Advocates for Youth, AFT; [ORG] (AAUW), [ORG]; [ORG]; [ORG]; County and [ORG] (AFSCME); [ORG]; [ORG]; [ORG]; [ORG] for Social [PERSON] ; [ORG]; Bend the Arc: Jewish Action; CenterLink: The Community of LGBTQ Centers; [PERSON] ; [ORG] on Women's Issues; COLAGE; [ORG]; [ORG]; EdTrust; [ORG]; Educators for Excellence; [ORG]; Empowering [ORG]; [ORG]; Equal Rights Advocates; [ORG]; [ORG]. Family Equality, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], GLAAD, GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, GLSEN, HAIR HAS NO GENDER NFP, [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , interACT: Advocates for [ORG], [ORG], Japanese [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] and [ORG], Keshet, [ORG] for [ORG], [ORG], LatinoJustice PRLDEF, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], MPact Global, [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , [ORG] ([ORG]), [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] National Disability Rights Network (NDRN), [ORG], [ORG], National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG]. National Partnership for Women & Families, [ORG], [ORG], Nclusion Plus, [PERSON] for [ORG], Our Schools USA, Out in [ORG], [ORG], People For the American Way, PFLAG National, [ORG], Point of Pride, Popular Democracy, Positive Women's [ORG], Pride At Work, [ORG], Public [PERSON] , [ORG] (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America), [ORG], [ORG] for [ORG] (SEIU), SIECUS: [PERSON] , [ORG] (SALDEF), [ORG] (SiX) Action, [PERSON] , [ORG], The Advocates for Human Rights, [ORG], [ORG], The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), [ORG] in Color, Transathlete, Transcending Adolescence, TransFamily Support Services, [ORG], TransParent, T'ruah: [ORG], UFCW OUTreach, [ORG], [ORG], URGE: Unite for [ORG] Tomorrow, Western States Center, [ORG], [ORG], Youth Seen, YWCA USA.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 451, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007040", "text": "And my understanding is, even if it is forced to close down because it hasn't sold by Sunday, if it is sold in the future, it will be able to reestablish operations, as long as it is to an American buyer. So it is not a ban. The reason it is a ban is because [ORG] and [ORG] chose to make it a ban.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "strawman"], "evidence": "Argues it's 'not a ban' while simultaneously acknowledging forced closure, then attributes the ban characterization to others' choices rather than addressing the structural reality"}
{"id": "crec_006080", "text": "This breakthrough is a testament to unwavering U.S. diplomacy and steadfast support for Israel and is a profound moment of relief and joy for loved ones who never gave up hope. With that said, Mr. [PERSON] , this mission is not over. We must remain resolute, bringing every hostage home, delivering humanitarian relief where needed, ensuring Israel's security, and laying the foundation for lasting peace in the Middle East.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-4", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "unwavering U.S. diplomacy and steadfast support for Israel...lasting peace in the Middle East"}
{"id": "crec_006014", "text": "1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in [ORG] and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent to [ORG] for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency with respect to the widespread humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the potential for a deepening economic collapse in Afghanistan declared in Executive Order 14064 of February 11, 2022, is to continue in effect beyond February 11, 2025. The widespread humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan--including the urgent needs of the people of Afghanistan for food security, livelihoods support, water, sanitation, health, hygiene, and shelter and settlement assistance, among other basic human needs--and the potential for a deepening economic collapse in Afghanistan continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-5", "word_count": 169, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "The President invokes Executive Order 14064 and legal provision 1622(d) to establish authority for continuing the national emergency declaration"}
{"id": "crec_007108", "text": "ARMS SALES NOTIFICATIONS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, section 36(b) of [ORG] requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000324", "text": "She was just out for a jog, enjoying the day, when an illegal criminal took her life away. He didn't even have any remorse. He never hesitated.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "illegal criminal took her life away...no remorse...never hesitated"}
{"id": "crec_004064", "text": "President [PERSON] delivered historic investments into our communities through [ORG], the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act, just to name a few. These historic legislative packages unleashed hundreds of billions of dollars into our communities to get us moving and growing again. The national statistics may highlight the breadth and depth of these historic investments, but no place speaks better to the generational change created by President [PERSON] 's leadership like my home [ORG] of Michigan with $13 billion in infrastructure funding that has flowed through Michigan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122-2", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'historic' and 'generational change' to create impressiveness without specific substantive claims; 'unleashed hundreds of billions' uses emotionally charged language"}
{"id": "crec_004484", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , due to the devastating wildfire affecting my district and Southern California, I was not present for today's vote. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 10, H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009310", "text": "ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 9:30 A.M. TOMORROW [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS235-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008494", "text": "Would you trust [PERSON] , who has been credibly accused of raping a woman and buying her silence, to protect victims of sexual assault? We need a Secretary of [ORG] who will be able to manage the [ORG]'s largest [ORG], one that oversees almost 3.4 million people and a budget of nearly $850 billion a year. Would you trust [PERSON] , who drove a small veterans nonprofit to the brink of bankruptcy, to manage billions of our tax dollars?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "credibly accused of raping a woman and buying her silence; drove a small veterans nonprofit to the brink of bankruptcy"}
{"id": "crec_009773", "text": "EXECUTIVE CALENDAR [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination, which [SPEAKER] will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read the nomination of [PERSON] , of Florida, to be Secretary of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005591", "text": "MORNING-HOUR DEBATE [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to the order of [ORG], the [ORG] will now recognize Members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning-hour debate. The [ORG] will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each Member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to 5 minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009851", "text": "We can't let this happen. Everyone is unable to do anything about it. That is going to change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "We can't let this happen...Everyone is unable to do anything...That is going to change"}
{"id": "crec_001397", "text": "I understand why people want vengeance. I have been to the region that [ORG] attacked. I have met with the families of hostages and the victims of October 7 whose lives have been destroyed by what happened; many, by the way, who are furious at Prime Minister [PERSON] for the way he has conducted this war and for his failure to bring home their loved ones.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "appealing to personal witness and meeting with victims to establish credibility while using emotionally charged language like 'destroyed' and 'furious'"}
{"id": "crec_005674", "text": "Dr. [PERSON] joined Purdue in 1982. From August of 2015 to September of 2022, Dr. [PERSON] served as the head of [ORG]. Dr. [PERSON] has truly been a leader in the [ORG] community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009723", "text": "I am honored to have my colleague Senator [PERSON] from the great State of Pennsylvania cosponsoring [PERSON] 's [PERSON] . The truth is, the border crisis has impacted every [ORG], not just southern border States like Texas and Arizona but New York, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and, yes, folks, even Iowa. The end of this month marks 9 years since [ORG]'s [ORG] and [PERSON] , whom I know personally, woke up to every parent's worst nightmare: Their daughter [PERSON] was killed by a drunk driver who was an illegal immigrant.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "border crisis has impacted every [ORG]... woke up to every parent's worst nightmare: Their daughter was killed by a drunk driver who was an illegal immigrant"}
{"id": "crec_005782", "text": "[PERSON] began his career with 20 years in [ORG], serving as a command pilot during the Vietnam war and leading the squadron operating out of [ORG]. He then served as a pilot for [ORG] for 18 years. For the past 12 years, [PERSON] has dedicated himself to Guadalupe County as the commissioner for Precinct 1, transforming the county and ensuring the foundation for a bright future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-9", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000186", "text": "This was a deliberate and, in some cases, premeditated attempt to subvert the democratic process through intimidation and violence. It was one of the most shameful, reprehensible episodes in the history of this great Nation, and it happened because the loser of the 2020 election refused to accept defeat. We cannot let anyone whitewash what happened here 4 years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "deliberate and premeditated attempt to subvert the democratic process through intimidation and violence; shameful, reprehensible episodes; cannot let anyone whitewash"}
{"id": "crec_002891", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004979", "text": "He commuted the sentences of 37 death row inmates, and he left 3 killers on death row. Who are they? You may have heard of them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing death row inmates as 'killers' (loaded language) and the rhetorical question 'Who are they? You may have heard of them' implies notoriety and danger to provoke concern"}
{"id": "crec_004995", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam President, I listened carefully to the presentation of the Senator from Arkansas and waited to hear five words. I waited patiently as he described these heinous crimes and the action of President [PERSON] --waiting to hear five words.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repetition of 'I waited' and 'five words'; 'heinous crimes' is loaded language"}
{"id": "crec_007582", "text": "This bill, by using the broader [ORG] definition, will make victims who acted in self- defense, victims who were wrongly accused by their abusers, unable to defend themselves, and subject to deportation. This bill will also apply to individuals with legal status, people with green cards, students, temporary workers, [ORG] holders, and [ORG] holders. Mr. [PERSON] , this bill will now give crime victims all the reasons in the world not to report a crime.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "will make victims...unable to defend themselves, and subject to deportation; this bill will now give crime victims all the reasons in the world not to report a crime"}
{"id": "crec_009242", "text": "Between January 1, 2019, and January 1, 2025, 98 wildland firefighters have lost their lives fighting fires. Acute and secondary effects from wildfire, such as wildfire smoke exposure, are directly linked to tens of thousands of firefighter and civilian deaths each year. (16) June 30 to July 6 of each year is recognized as a Week of Remembrance to honor the fallen wildland firefighters who sacrificed their lives to protect the wildlands of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS231", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Week of Remembrance to honor the fallen wildland firefighters who sacrificed their lives"}
{"id": "crec_001933", "text": "A bill to allow States to elect to observe daylight savings time for the duration of the year, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 301.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006998", "text": "That is why we took action last April. They have had these 270 days. They did nothing with them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "they 'did nothing' - dismissive framing of opponent's actions over 270 days"}
{"id": "crec_004175", "text": "Sports provide meaningful opportunities for kids to feel confident in themselves and learn valuable life lessons about teamwork, leadership, and communication. Teams provide a place for kids to make friends and build relationships. Yet, my colleagues across the aisle want to take these opportunities away from certain children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "my colleagues across the aisle want to take these opportunities away from certain children"}
{"id": "crec_007150", "text": "A bill to require SelectUSA to coordinate with [ORG]-level economic development organizations to increase foreign direct investment in semiconductor-related manufacturing and production; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 98. A bill to require [ORG] to establish a vetting process for prospective applicants for high-cost universal service program funding; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS185", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001964", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. 13.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007815", "text": "California is raising literally billions, billions, of dollars through clean fuel standards, cap-and-trade devices, and other things, but they are not investing it in protecting their people. They are not. I would hope that those who are watching Congressman [PERSON] and me today would reach out to their Congress folks and say we want you to do something.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "raising literally billions, billions of dollars... but they are not investing it in protecting their people"}
{"id": "crec_001582", "text": "He banned `Hail to the Chief' for the first month, until we convinced him there's a certain majesty to the presidency. But the staff believed in him--young, very idealistic people who worked 24/7 and got a lot done. They were crushed by his defeat.''", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "young, very idealistic people who worked 24/7 and got a lot done"}
{"id": "crec_002088", "text": "30: Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, and Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona. H.R. 31: Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000969", "text": "My home State consistently generates large budget surpluses, demonstrating that we can protect our values and our interests without recklessly spending the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars. I think it is time to bring some good old West Virginia thrift to the bureaucracy in Washington, DC. Many of our States are operating under the same parameters.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "bring some good old West Virginia thrift to the bureaucracy in Washington, DC"}
{"id": "crec_009667", "text": "And, in fact, of the 537,000 recipients, there are only 1,000 between the ages of 17 and 20. When you are talking about other minors across this [ORG], some of which may be here illegally, we are seeing the cost to them right now. Look no further than what is happening in New York.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "referring to minors 'which may be here illegally' and invoking concern about 'cost to them' while citing a negative example in New York to suggest danger or burden"}
{"id": "crec_006210", "text": "Anybody in the complex can feel free to come down here and explain to me why my family, your family, my constituents' families should pay taxes into a system that is designed by this body to bleed 2 trillion-plus dollars a year. They keep talking about tax policy that is good for economic growth. Okay.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "designed by this body to bleed 2 trillion-plus dollars a year"}
{"id": "crec_001886", "text": "A bill to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prohibit [ORG] from requiring an issuer to make climate-related disclosures that are not material to investors, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006699", "text": "That is not true. That is a fraud. It has never been true.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["name_calling", "repetition"], "evidence": "Strong negative assertions ('not true', 'fraud') repeated three times with escalating language to dismiss without substantive counter-argument"}
{"id": "crec_008930", "text": "[ORG] and conforming changes. A [ORG] vote to report a measure to the Senate shall also authorize [ORG] Member by mutual agreement to make any required technical and conforming changes to the measure. RULE 4.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006176", "text": "As of July, over 650,000 with criminal histories were on the ICE non- detained docket. This must change. This bill takes action to get these violent offenders off of our streets and make our communities safe again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing immigrants as 'violent offenders' without evidence and framing as urgent threat to 'our streets' and 'our communities'"}
{"id": "crec_002287", "text": "He said yes, with an exclamation mark. He loves the program. He loves the program.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001176", "text": "ARMS SALES NOTIFICATIONS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, section 36(b) of [ORG] requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002397", "text": "ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 9 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. [PERSON] ), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from Texas (Mr. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of S. 9, a bill to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title [ORG] of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. S. 34 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of [ORG], a bill to address the plea agreements for certain individuals detained at Guantanamo, and for other purposes. [ORG]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80-2", "word_count": 132, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007608", "text": "First, it amends current immigration law to expand the definition of sex offenses that require deportation. It would explicitly create grounds for inadmissibility for aliens who commit a sex offense as defined by [ORG] and Safety Act of 2006. Second, it explicitly establishes a ground of inadmissibility for specific domestic violence offenses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of 'aliens' and framing immigration law changes through emotionally charged crimes (sex offenses, domestic violence) to build negative associations"}
{"id": "crec_002156", "text": "Every American has to go through a background check and is asked questions when they are applying for a job. These jobs are so important. Of course, this should happen here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "equating job background checks with an unspecified policy context; 'so important' and 'Of course' present limited alternatives as self-evident"}
{"id": "crec_000604", "text": "He never stopped serving others until his final day. America was lucky to have him as a citizen, as a President, and as a moral compass of our time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-7", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "moral compass of our time, America was lucky to have him as a citizen, as a President"}
{"id": "crec_006480", "text": "It is, unfortunately, just one example of how the [ORG] border crisis has made every [ORG] a border [ORG]. Like many illegal immigrants whom law enforcement encounters at the border, [PERSON] 's killer was released on parole into the interior of the United States. He made his way to New York City, where he was arrested and released before a detainer could be issued and he could be turned over to immigration authorities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "border crisis, illegal immigrants, killer released on parole, arrested and released before detainer could be issued"}
{"id": "crec_009837", "text": "The Chief [PERSON] of [ORG], [PERSON] , JR., administered to the President-elect the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, which he repeated, as follows: I, [PERSON] , do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God. The Chief [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007992", "text": "We will be there to help the right way. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005669", "text": "He led them out of the house before running back inside to rescue the 6-year-old girl. For his actions, [PERSON] received [ORG], given to American and Canadian citizens who put themselves in extreme danger while saving and attempting to save the lives of others. It is North America's highest honor for civilian heroism.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "North America's highest honor for civilian heroism"}
{"id": "crec_005720", "text": "This is [ORG] which currently is empty, supposedly for rehab and some maintenance. This is what it is supposed to look like full. That is what it looks like right now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "supposedly for rehab and some maintenance"}
{"id": "crec_006443", "text": "H.R. 307: Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] of New York, and Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006557", "text": "Now, this has been one of the biggest obstacles to peace in the Middle East. To the world, [ORG] presents itself as an aid group for Palestinians. But, in reality, this agency--this [ORG] agency that has been the recipient of 7.1 billion U.S. taxpayer dollars--is nothing more than a terror group that works to undermine Israel's security and safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizes organization as 'nothing more than a terror group' while presenting 'presents itself as an aid group' as contradictory, creating false binary choice and using inflammatory language ('terror group') to evoke fear about security threats"}
{"id": "crec_000810", "text": "They need assurances that these nominees will fight for them, will cut costs, and hold the big corporations accountable. When Republicans try to rush nominees through the process, the American people have to wonder what are Republicans trying to hide. Gulf of Mexico Mr. President, now finally, I want to make a brief comment about the President-elect's press conference yesterday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "the American people have to wonder what are Republicans trying to hide"}
{"id": "crec_003011", "text": "The legislative clerk called the roll. [SPEAKER]. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002483", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , in closing, I hope we can continue to show support for this commonsense accountability measure. It is going to help improve transparency for Federal disaster spending.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'commonsense accountability measure' and 'improve transparency'"}
{"id": "crec_001089", "text": "Mr. President, I rise to speak about the grave threat that the administrative state poses to our country and what we can do to stop it. I want to thank the Senator from Oklahoma for sort of leading the effort here today to talk about this and to air this out on the Senate floor. Quite frankly, one of my big surprises, I think, in my first 2 years here in [ORG], is how little we actually talk about this and how little time we have spent addressing this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing the administrative state as a 'grave threat' to the country"}
{"id": "crec_007633", "text": "The current definition isn't broad enough, and I know this now that I have been a victim most recently of domestic violence and abuse that [ORG] did not go far enough, and our States have a lot more to go to protect women and girls. I implore my colleagues to look at their hearts, hear the cries of the families who have been shattered by these evil acts committed by illegal aliens, and put American women and children first and pass this bill. Mr. [PERSON] , I include in the Record three reports on arrests.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "hear the cries of the families who have been shattered by these evil acts committed by illegal aliens"}
{"id": "crec_009462", "text": "DESIGNATION OF [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker: Washington, DC, January 20, 2025. I hereby appoint [ORG] to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. [PERSON] , Speaker of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-2", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004832", "text": "Thanks to [PERSON] , we took historic action to address the climate crisis through the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant investment in clean energy, sustainability, and climate resilience in America's history. And we guaranteed American leadership in science and technology with the Chips and Science Act, a bipartisan bill bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to America and bolstering our competitiveness for generations. Because of his leadership, we were able to enact the most significant gun safety legislation passed in nearly 30 years--[ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "historic action, most significant investment in America's history, American leadership, most significant gun safety legislation"}
{"id": "crec_000116", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from California? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006527", "text": "Pending: [PERSON] (for [ORG]) Amendment No. 8, to include crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury to the list of offenses that, if committed by an inadmissible alien, require mandatory detention. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001859", "text": "California, over the course of many years, has, in a political way, chosen to allow its forests to become overgrown and to impose artificial scarcity on its water supply. At the same time, our [ORG], and many of our municipalities, such as Los Angeles, have had completely backward priorities and have demonstrated a total failure of just basic competence when it comes to government performance and the provision of services. That was highlighted very clearly in this case.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "completely backward priorities and total failure of just basic competence"}
{"id": "crec_004763", "text": "H.R. 307: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, and Ms. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-30", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006115", "text": "This legislation prevents biological males from competing in school athletic programs for women and girls by requiring that sex in athletic competition be determined by genetics at birth. House Republicans are also supporting [PERSON] Violence Against Women By Illegal Aliens Act, which amends [ORG] to make illegal immigrants inadmissible and deportable from the United States if they are convicted of or have admitted to committing sex offense or domestic violence. I am grateful to my colleagues for joining me this evening to discuss these important measures and our commitment to delivering for our daughters, sisters, nieces, and granddaughters.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "References to 'our daughters, sisters, nieces, and granddaughters' combined with legislation framed as protective against 'biological males' and 'illegal aliens' who commit violence creates emotional appeals tied to family protection and national identity while using loaded descriptors for the groups being restricted."}
{"id": "crec_008094", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to advance scientific research and technology development of hypersonic vehicles, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Technology.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006490", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004623", "text": "We did a whole presentation multiple times last year showing obesity in America is an additional $9.1 trillion of spending over the next 10 years. Maybe as a society, we should consider changing the farm bill nutrition support to help our brothers and sisters because it is both moral and great economics. Suddenly, people can come back into the labor force.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "presentation multiple times last year showing obesity in America is an additional $9.1 trillion; it is both moral and great economics"}
{"id": "crec_008166", "text": "A bill to direct the Attorney General to establish a grant program for civilian traffic violation enforcement; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005704", "text": "Honoring Officers for Serving on January 6 [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , 4 years ago last week, a violent mob attacked our [ORG]'s [ORG], assaulted police officers, and threatened to kill elected officials, all with the goal of blocking the results of the Presidential election and denying the will of the American people. They did it because the losing candidate in that election, President [PERSON] , incited them by falsely claiming he won.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "violent mob attacked, assaulted police officers, and threatened to kill elected officials"}
{"id": "crec_009080", "text": "19 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Colorado (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 19 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001505", "text": "You will be given no quarter. Again, you will certainly not be welcomed to American soil. This bill is even more urgent today than when it was first passed back in June of last year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "You will be given no quarter...certainly not be welcomed to American soil"}
{"id": "crec_009333", "text": "Republicans believe that keeping criminal illegal aliens off our street is a good investment, and we are currently working on a bill that will provide ICE with additional agents and additional capacity. We have also been told that this bill will overwhelm ICE, such that there won't be enough space to detain violent criminals. Once again, this is not an argument against the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "keeping criminal illegal aliens off our street; overwhelm ICE, such that there won't be enough space to detain violent criminals"}
{"id": "crec_001974", "text": "A resolution expunging the January 13, 2021, impeachment of President [PERSON] ; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 26.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006774", "text": "It is not that that bill was perfect, and it is not that it included everything that you might want to include, but it is an example of you don't have to jam this through with one party holding the pen and excluding the other party. You can do a tax bill that can get 357 votes in [ORG] on something that will be paid for, not increase the deficit, that will help businesses innovate, help children get a good start in life, and help people afford affordable housing. If you do it the right way, we will come up with a good plan, and I hope that we will.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 113, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "357 votes in [ORG]... help businesses innovate, help children get a good start in life, and help people afford affordable housing"}
{"id": "crec_002368", "text": "A bill to provide for the admission of [ORG], D.C. into the Union; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 52. A bill to amend [ORG] to require a DNA test to determine the familial relationship between an alien and an accompanying minor; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004621", "text": "It is not Republican. It is not Democratic. It is demographics.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "presents only three mutually exclusive options (Republican, Democratic, or demographics) to explain a complex issue, implying these are the only possible explanations"}
{"id": "crec_001968", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. 16.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004222", "text": "That conversation is being had among parents, schools, experts, and sports authorities across the country, as it should be. This bill hijacks those conversations. It hijacks the real concerns that parents have raised.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "bill 'hijacks' conversations and concerns - uses charged language to mischaracterize the bill's purpose rather than directly addressing its actual provisions"}
{"id": "crec_006904", "text": "Twenty-five percent of seniors are trying to survive on $15,000 a year or less. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major nation on Earth. Further, we remain, shamefully, the only wealthy country not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "survival language combined with statistics about poverty and lack of healthcare to evoke concern about vulnerable populations"}
{"id": "crec_009331", "text": "Some of our Democratic colleagues have spent the week searching for a reason--any reason--to justify voting against this bill. For starters, we have heard that this bill would cover too many illegal immigrants. The admission that there are too many individuals on our streets who have committed a crime after coming into the country illegally is an argument for this bill, not against it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes Democratic opposition as 'searching for a reason--any reason' and misrepresents their concern about illegal immigrant coverage as an 'admission' that justifies the bill"}
{"id": "crec_000254", "text": "Despite the administration's claims, releasing these individuals only increases the likelihood that they will return to their extremist roots and try to maybe pull off another 9/11 along with the cells that are already in this country. We have already seen a recycling through of some who were released during the [PERSON] era. This prioritizes political agendas, especially at the very end of this term, over the security of the American people and those who have fought so hard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-6", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "releasing these individuals only increases the likelihood that they will return to their extremist roots and try to maybe pull off another 9/11"}
{"id": "crec_004981", "text": "He also made a choice that not even he, doddering out of [ORG], could defend the commutations of racist murderers and terrorists on political grounds or inflict that kind of grave political damage on his own party. But he wasn't motivated by principle. He was motivated by politics and guided by leftwing ideologues.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'doddering' characterization and 'racist murderers and terrorists' inflammatory language"}
{"id": "crec_004154", "text": "PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS ACT OF 2025 [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , pursuant to House Resolution 5, I call up the bill (H.R. 28) to amend [ORG] of 1972 to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of such Act in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004976", "text": "The President showed disdain for the victims of these crimes and their families, presumably and cynically hoping that the Christmas holiday would suppress media attention and public backlash against his commutation. I don't think so. Now, the President and his defenders would like the American people to think that President [PERSON] made these commutations out of some principled objection to the death penalty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "describing the President's motives as 'disdain,' 'cynical,' and attributing hidden hope to suppress attention; characterizing defenders' argument as wanting people to believe in 'principled objection' when the speaker suggests ulterior motives"}
{"id": "crec_009840", "text": "(Applause.) The PRESIDENT. Thank you very much, everybody.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001461", "text": "[ORG] has taken unprecedented steps to minimize civilian harm during conflicts, a commitment that is unparalleled by any other nation facing terrorists. The acquisition that Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war is a blatant lie, ignoring the immense humanitarian aid Israel has provided to Gaza despite ongoing attacks. This illegitimate attack on Israel emboldens terrorist organizations like [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "commitment that is unparalleled by any other nation; blatant lie; illegitimate attack"}
{"id": "crec_002085", "text": "[PERSON] 24: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007109", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007754", "text": "The old way of business has doubled our national debt since I was last in these [ORG] and has gradually substituted million-dollar spending packages with billion-dollar ones. The people have been clear: The Washington of old is out, and government for and by the people is in.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrasts 'old way of business' as negative with implicit new way as positive; presents binary choice between 'Washington of old' and 'government for and by the people'"}
{"id": "crec_002163", "text": "[PERSON] , I want to thank you for your amazing work. I am so proud of what you have accomplished for us, for New York, and for the country. As I said before, I have the best staff in the world, and [PERSON] was no exception.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "amazing work, best staff in the world, accomplished for us, for New York, and for the country"}
{"id": "crec_007806", "text": "When one occurs, you need to be able to have a fighting chance, and our firefighters have the ability to do that. Mr. [PERSON] , joining me today during this Special Order is my colleague from Oregon (Mr. [PERSON] ). We share that Oregon-California border, and we frequently encounter many of the same issues on fire, on forestry, on water and water issues Mr. [PERSON] , to tell his story about what has been going on in Oregon, I yield to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009823", "text": "Reverend GRAHAM. Mr. President, in the last 4 years, there were times, I am sure, you thought it was pretty dark. But look what God has done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invoking God's authority and actions with vague positive language 'look what God has done'"}
{"id": "crec_004902", "text": "[PERSON] then went on to kill [PERSON] . [ORG] would have prevented him from running wild through our country's streets. And had it been law, it would have saved [PERSON] life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "kill, running wild through our country's streets, would have prevented/saved life"}
{"id": "crec_009803", "text": "The presence of so many Presidents and Vice Presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance. We welcome President [PERSON] and Dr. [PERSON] . We welcome Vice President [PERSON] and [PERSON] , President [PERSON] , President [PERSON] and Secretary [PERSON] , President [PERSON] and [PERSON] , Vice President [PERSON] , and Vice President [PERSON] and [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Listing multiple presidents and vice presidents to invoke patriotic reverence and institutional continuity"}
{"id": "crec_000646", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001831", "text": "He sifted through the rubble at Ground Zero after 9/11, responded to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, aided along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, and responded to many other catastrophes during his service to the task force. He has demonstrated selflessness in his deployments, locating and extricating disaster victims. Chief [ORG]'s experience and scope of duties over his accomplished career, in conjunction with his devotion to service, enabled him to be an exemplary leader as chief of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "demonstrated selflessness, exemplary leader, devotion to service, accomplished career"}
{"id": "crec_006254", "text": "We can and will deliver tax policy that is progrowth and that extends what we did in 2017. We will deliver spending cuts if we get in the room and work, but it is going to take time. It is going to take time to undo the damage of the [PERSON] administration and for us to go through everything that we need to go through to identify the cuts that we can all work through, but we will do it if we have the willpower to do it and if we can do math and understand that we need deficits to go down.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "promises to 'deliver tax policy that is progrowth' and reference to success 'in 2017' without specific details; vague appeals to future accomplishment and past authority"}
{"id": "crec_009635", "text": "President [PERSON] and Republicans have been given a mandate by the American people, and the President needs to have his team in place so that we lose no time in delivering. Along with approving President [PERSON] 's nominees, Republicans are hard at work on our legislative priorities. Among other things, we are focused on extending tax relief for American families, lifting burdensome [PERSON] administration regulations, building up our military, and securing our border.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "given a mandate by the American people; burdensome regulations; lifting; securing"}
{"id": "crec_009831", "text": "So, Father, we take this moment to stand still, to remember the great things that You have done for this Nation. Thank you for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we so enjoy. We remember to keep our eyes fixed on You.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "the great things that You have done for this Nation...the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we so enjoy"}
{"id": "crec_009797", "text": "The 44th President of the United States, the Honorable Barack H. [PERSON] entered the Great Rotunda. The Chief [PERSON] of the United States, the Honorable [PERSON] , Jr., and [ORG] [ORG] of the United States entered the Great Rotunda. The children of President-Elect [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [ORG], and [PERSON] , escorted by the Assistant Secretary of the Senate, the Honorable [PERSON] ; and Deputy [PERSON] of [ORG], the Honorable [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002827", "text": "However, what are they doing with that water down below? [ORG]'s plans have stopped the delta pumps from running at full capacity to fill other water systems around the [ORG], such as [ORG], which is about 70 percent full right now and doesn't have a storage problem for flood, as well as making sure the aqueducts are filling all the other reservoirs such as the one we just looked at, Santa Ynez. They could fill that in a short amount of time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "rhetorical question 'what are they doing with that water down below?' combined with framing of [ORG]'s water management decisions as questionable priorities, implying mismanagement without providing complete context"}
{"id": "crec_000498", "text": "A bill to prohibit the implementation of [ORG] for the Buffalo, Wyoming Field Office of [ORG]; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 231.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005818", "text": "UNITED STATES-TAIWAN EXPEDITED DOUBLE-TAX RELIEF ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , pursuant to House Resolution 5, I call up the bill (H.R. 33) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004917", "text": "We have, in short, a great nation to rebuild. And nothing could be more central to that rebuilding than the strengthening of the American family, and nothing could be more urgent for our future than the revival of the American working class. And those two things go precisely together.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "great nation to rebuild, strengthening of the American family, revival of the American working class"}
{"id": "crec_000133", "text": "Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] in H.R. 32, [ORG], do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI. Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] in H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-5", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004511", "text": "Madam Speaker, my constituents have been clear. They want problems solved and not political extremism on either side. I am honored to be their Congresswoman, and I look forward to working with anyone from any party who is serious about working productively to address the pressing issues that our working families face.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'problems solved and not political extremism' and 'working families face' - vague appeals to common values without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_002861", "text": "ECONOMIC REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ([PERSON] . NO. 119-2) [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following message from the President of the United States; which was read and, together with the accompanying papers, referred to [ORG] and ordered to be printed: To [ORG]: In the last four years, America has overcome some of the most challenging economic conditions in our history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "overcome some of the most challenging economic conditions in our history"}
{"id": "crec_006923", "text": "And one small but very important way forward in that direction is to bring about major reforms to [ORG] in order to benefit American workers. That is why I have filed an amendment to the Laken [PERSON] bill that we are debating this week that will do just that. I hope very much that the leaders agree on allowing that amendment to be debated and voted upon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "major reforms to benefit American workers"}
{"id": "crec_008087", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] of South Dakota, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Ms. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada): H.R. 471.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 114, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001419", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the chairman and Mr. [PERSON] for bringing this important piece of legislation to us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009057", "text": "A bill to amend the Revised Statutes to codify the defense of qualified immunity in the case of any action under section 1979, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 123. A bill to authorize for a grant program for handgun licensing programs, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004008", "text": "I thank her for her dedication to creating a more just, more compassionate world. May this Congress learn from her--from her dedication, from her courage--and may it truly be what it says it is, the people's House, reminded of our roots and reminded of our shared humanity. I congratulate Pastor [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "\"more just, more compassionate world\" and \"people's House, reminded of our roots and reminded of our shared humanity\""}
{"id": "crec_006583", "text": "It doesn't mean they are automatically deported the very next day. They still have a legal challenge there. They can have their legal challenge.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004614", "text": "There is only hope if this place sharpens its intellect. You can't keep saying the same things you were saying in the 1990s or a decade ago. The world is different.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "There is only hope if... You can't keep saying the same things"}
{"id": "crec_001715", "text": "It is math, but we are terrified to tell our voters the truth because people raise their eyebrows and get upset when you say: Look, we got old as a society. We didn't have as many children, we made lots of promises, and we never set aside enough money for them. However, we can disrupt the cost if we are willing to adopt modernization.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'we are terrified to tell our voters the truth' and 'people raise their eyebrows and get upset'"}
{"id": "crec_005668", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor [PERSON] , a former pizza delivery man who saved five sisters from a burning house. Just after midnight, July 11, 2022, [ORG] was driving nearby when he saw the house in flames. [ORG] entered the home, where he found an 18- year-old woman, a toddler, and two 13-year-olds outside the upstairs bedroom.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "a former pizza delivery man who saved five sisters from a burning house"}
{"id": "crec_001445", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in strong support of my fellow Texan calling for sanctions on [ORG] officials who dare to target U.S. citizens or our allies, especially our ally, Israel. Mr. [PERSON] , the [ORG] is nothing more than a kangaroo court.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["name_calling", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "calling [ORG] a 'kangaroo court'; invoking fellow Texan and ally Israel; strong support language emphasizing shared identity"}
{"id": "crec_008670", "text": "If you look at President [PERSON] 's final budget here, he is predicting our total debt will be $52 trillion in 10 years. This is clearly not sustainable. As I said, this is a depressing reality.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing the debt projection as 'clearly not sustainable' and 'depressing reality' uses emotionally charged language to frame an economic issue negatively without detailed analysis"}
{"id": "crec_002473", "text": "This bill would create a new online system for tracking [ORG] disaster projects and assistance. People should know how and where their disaster funds are being spent without wading through reams of government paperwork. The legislation simplifies the data collection process for Federal disaster recovery projects.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "People should know how and where their disaster funds are being spent without wading through reams of government paperwork"}
{"id": "crec_006610", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from North Carolina.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001810", "text": "I am just telling the truth. They are going to do it. They will do it regardless of what anybody on this side of the aisle says.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "They are going to do it...regardless of what anybody says"}
{"id": "crec_001090", "text": "So many of the conversations that happen inside the beltway here are so detached from the conversations that I have back home in Missouri. Quite frankly, the people whom I talk to who work hard every day can't believe the waste that happens here. They can't believe we spend millions of dollars on drag shows and [ORG] trainings in countries halfway around the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing spending as 'waste' on 'drag shows' and trainings, implying frivolous misuse of taxpayer money to provoke concern"}
{"id": "crec_005542", "text": "SA 37. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S153, January 14, 2025, in the second column, the following appears: SA 37. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ) to the bill [ORG] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS153", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001796", "text": "That is money lost for healthcare, money lost for schools, children going to school, buying food, buying clothing, providing shelter, and also money lost for a pension, something to retire with. It is lost because women are making less than men in the richest country in the world. They still do make pennies on the dollar.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "money lost, children going to school, buying food, buying clothing, providing shelter, and also money lost for a pension - emotionally charged framing of wage gap consequences; pennies on the dollar creates alarming imagery"}
{"id": "crec_002593", "text": "Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the remaining electronic vote will be conducted as a 5-minute vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH106-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001527", "text": "I congratulate [ORG] and [PERSON] . [PERSON] to them both. On behalf of all of the residents of Miami-Dade, I thank them for their service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009580", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 561. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a deduction for certain overtime payments; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001303", "text": "It is a privilege to honor the more than 800,000 sworn officers serving across the United States for their unwavering dedication to upholding the law and safeguarding our communities. The challenges they face and the importance of their work cannot be overstated. Since its establishment in 2015, [ORG] has been observed annually on January 9.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-7", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "unwavering dedication to upholding the law and safeguarding our communities"}
{"id": "crec_007154", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] from [ORG] to extend the deadline by which [ORG] must be sold in order to avoid being banned; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to rescind Presidential memoranda on the withdrawal of certain areas of the outer Continental Shelf from oil or natural gas leasing; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS185", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004595", "text": "Does anyone care? No, because we would have to tell people the truth. This is a new chart, and I am trying to actually sort of explain.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006244", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , look at the recent bond market sales. Interest rates are going up. My good friend from Texas already mentioned the fact that every time it goes up 100 basis points, it increases the cost of the debt that we have to pay for.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "My good friend from Texas already mentioned the fact that every time it goes up 100 basis points"}
{"id": "crec_006120", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank my colleagues for being willing to carve out time in their schedules to come down and share this message. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield to the gentlewoman from North Dakota (Mrs. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006758", "text": "So I direct that question to the [ORG] to the person here. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I will just direct it, and my answer is going to reveal my naivete because my corporate sector in Virginia--and my companies were like everybody's companies--were saying: Hey, drop that 35 percent rate to 28.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006783", "text": "They are making $2.8 million per year. It is a lot of money, and they are successful, but it is under the guise of giving middle-class families, hard-working families all across America a tax cut when the benefit goes to the top 0.1 percent. If you are making 2.8 million bucks a year, yes, this is for you.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing tax policy as deceptive 'under the guise of' benefiting middle-class when it actually benefits the wealthy; presenting the choice as either tax cuts for the wealthy or for working families"}
{"id": "crec_004029", "text": "There are mothers like [PERSON] , who is incarcerated for the crimes of her abuser; brothers like [PERSON] , Jr., from my district, the Massachusetts Seventh, who had ineffective assistance of counsel when he committed a crime at the age of 19; and sons like [PERSON] , who was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent cannabis charge. Madam Speaker, why is anyone still incarcerated for cannabis? With nearly 1 million people behind bars, more people per capita than any other country, it is time for clemency to put the United States on a path toward ending mass incarceration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "naming specific incarcerated individuals (mothers, brothers, sons) to establish credibility and emotional weight for the clemency argument"}
{"id": "crec_008404", "text": "There is a reason why, and it is not because [PERSON] bribed Americans to buy solar panels or buy electric cars. No, it is American energy production, American energy dominance. It is because we unleashed affordable, available, reliable American energy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'American' (appears 4 times) combined with positive framing of 'unleashed affordable, available, reliable' energy to evoke nationalist pride and patriotic association"}
{"id": "crec_004988", "text": "Gabrion kidnapped her. He bound her body with duct tape, he chained her to a concrete block, and he threw her into a lake while she was still breathing. Her last moments were filled with terror and agony.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "vivid, emotionally charged language describing violence ('kidnapped', 'bound', 'chained', 'threw'), emphasizing suffering ('terror and agony', 'still breathing') to evoke strong emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_008980", "text": "She started in the Senate as an attorney/investigator on [ORG] and ended as staff director of [ORG]), leaving when Senator [PERSON] retired. Having chaired [ORG] in the 118th Congress, I am personally grateful that this historic subcommittee continues to benefit from the powerful and enduring legacy that [PERSON] left. Anyone who knew [PERSON] would tell you that there was no one like her.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'powerful and enduring legacy' and appeal to the authority and credibility of a named senator"}
{"id": "crec_006453", "text": "397: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 403: Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004116", "text": "[PERSON] and [PERSON] have dedicated their lives to giving back to Nebraska throughout their nearly five-and-a-half decades of marriage. As educators, they played key roles in forming [ORG], helping charter it nearly 40 years ago. Their commitment to public service is equally impressive.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-9", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "dedicated their lives to giving back, commitment to public service is equally impressive"}
{"id": "crec_003913", "text": "On October 24, 2023, [PERSON] was waiting for food coupons at a market in a refugee camp when an airstrike hit and blew off his arm. It bears repeating that [ORG] is an evil terrorist organization that cynically exploits civilians and has little to no regard for life, even the lives of other Palestinians, but research shows that terrorist organizations have rarely been dismantled purely through military force. Precisely because [ORG] is such a threat, we must approach defeating them with a rational, evidence-based approach.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing [ORG] as 'evil terrorist organization that cynically exploits civilians' uses emotionally charged language; 'research shows' and 'evidence-based approach' appeal to authority and rationality"}
{"id": "crec_004020", "text": "RISKING CHILD SAFETY TO VILIFY TRANS KIDS [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "RISKING CHILD SAFETY TO VILIFY TRANS KIDS"}
{"id": "crec_007798", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , we see it every year, especially in the West. When fire season hits, it can be very devastating. Some years were better than others.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009757", "text": "So today, I will vote yes on Senator [PERSON] . While I certainly do not agree with many of Senator [PERSON] 's positions, in this instance, it is important for the new administration to have a Senate-confirmed Secretary of [ORG] as soon as possible. So I will vote yes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000330", "text": "When I spoke to the family about this bill last year, I told them I would never let it go. I will fight with every ounce that I have to make sure that no family has to suffer a loss like they have to these illegal criminals. Mr. [PERSON] , it is a sad day in America, it is a sad day when we allow these thug criminals to invade our homes, our country, and impose their violence and their will on the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "illegal criminals, thug criminals, invade our homes, impose their violence"}
{"id": "crec_005866", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in strong support of the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act, bipartisan legislation that will unleash more American manufacturing investment and jobs and help combat China's harmful influence. For too long, America has been too dependent on China.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'unleash more American manufacturing' and 'combat China's harmful influence' and 'too dependent on China'"}
{"id": "crec_002542", "text": "My colleague, Congresswoman [PERSON] , has explained this very thoroughly and clearly. Mr. [PERSON] , I support H.R. 189, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "My colleague, Congresswoman [PERSON], has explained this very thoroughly and clearly"}
{"id": "crec_007789", "text": "I have spoken to fire chiefs in my district, and I am so thankful that our fire departments in Oakland, Alameda, and [ORG] have traveled to southern California to support. I especially want to thank Oakland's chief, [PERSON] , and others who have stepped up to meet this moment, to go into the fire and to protect fellow Americans. The devastation of these fires is unprecedented.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-6", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "thanking fire chiefs and praising those who 'stepped up to meet this moment, to go into the fire and to protect fellow Americans' invokes patriotic duty; citing fire chiefs as authorities on the crisis"}
{"id": "crec_001841", "text": "KXTV Sacramento: Crackdown on retail theft continues after passage of Prop 36. [ORG]: Yuba City police say man caught stealing packages will face felony charges, citing Prop 36. The list goes on and on.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"The list goes on and on\" uses repetition for emphasis; \"Crackdown\" and \"caught stealing\" employ loaded language to frame the narrative negatively"}
{"id": "crec_000756", "text": "[ORG]: Mrs. [PERSON] (Ranking), Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] (Ranking), Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007756", "text": "Founded by the Five Pearls, [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [ORG], these visionary women didn't just build a sisterhood. They built an organization that rejected elitism and frivolity. From being the first to charter a chapter in Africa to fostering community-conscious, action-oriented leadership, this sorority has set the gold standard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-4", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'visionary women', 'set the gold standard', 'rejected elitism'"}
{"id": "crec_006723", "text": "The Senator from Virginia is recognized. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I join my colleagues on the same topic to talk about the forthcoming debate that we will have about tax policies in this [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004463", "text": "The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as 5-minute votes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH138-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008304", "text": "Res. 12: Ms. [PERSON] of Florida and Mr. [PERSON] of Oklahoma. H.J.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001140", "text": "Greece will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces. The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region. The principal contractor will be [ORG], located in [PERSON] Valley, MD.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001694", "text": "All over the world, you see governments falling. One of the primary reasons they are falling is they actually tried to engage in some fiscal constraint. Are we going to be elegant enough to do it in a way where we can explain to the American people that if we do something smart today, we do not get crushed tomorrow?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "governments falling...crushed tomorrow"}
{"id": "crec_005883", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of H.R. 33, the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002275", "text": "That is good. [SPEAKER]. I won't bore you with a lot of the same information.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007038", "text": "[SPEAKER]. I just want to briefly build upon my colleague from Arkansas. Two quick points: One, our colleague from Massachusetts has called this a [ORG] ban.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008812", "text": "It is a bipartisan piece of legislation, and we must keep it strong and keep it that way. So on that, Mr. President, I object. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009618", "text": "His colleagues know his talents and his character firsthand. I expect most, if not all, of my colleagues will vote based on what they have seen with their own eyes rather than blind partisanship. I look forward to [PERSON] continuing his passionate defense of freedom in his role as our next Secretary of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "His colleagues know his talents and his character firsthand; passionate defense of freedom"}
{"id": "crec_008539", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001838", "text": "Here are just a few recent headlines. From [ORG]: Fremont police credit Prop 36 for nine shoplifting arrests. [ORG]: Petaluma theft suspects arrested, one with prior convictions subject to Prop 36 charges.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "Multiple headlines presenting Prop 36 arrests as evidence of success, creating an impression of widespread positive momentum"}
{"id": "crec_000576", "text": "It is the great American story--how a man or woman can rise from humble origins to the highest levels of government or business or academia--and it was [PERSON] story. Born in 1924 in Plains, GA, he grew up on a peanut farm, in a house that had no running water or electricity. President was probably not the first thing people would have thought of when considering his future career.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'the great American story' and 'rise from humble origins to the highest levels'"}
{"id": "crec_004287", "text": "I don't know about you all, I don't know who has been to gym class lately, but even if you only believe in two genders, I have played coed sports all the time. What this also opens the door for is for women to try to perform a very specific kind of femininity for the very kind of men who are drafting this bill and to open up questioning of who is a woman because of how we look, how we present ourselves, and, yes, what we choose to do with our bodies. I know who loves this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "opens the door for women to try to perform...and to open up questioning of who is a woman - suggests threatening consequences; loaded framing of the bill's intent and effects"}
{"id": "crec_007864", "text": "They don't want foreign things to get in there because it is a drinking water supply, as well. Then, they didn't really let out the contract, it is my understanding, until November. They lost 9 months fooling around in order to do something that is so critically important.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "lost 9 months fooling around in order to do something that is so critically important"}
{"id": "crec_007663", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself the balance of my time. Democrats claim this bill is unnecessary because aliens who commit sex offenses or domestic violence offenses are already inadmissible or removable. That ignores reality.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["strawman", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Characterizes Democratic argument as ignoring reality while discussing sex offenses and domestic violence by aliens, presenting their position as dangerously dismissive"}
{"id": "crec_007478", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the bill is considered read.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002880", "text": "News flash: It is awful, awful, awful. A recent analysis of the [ORG] tax plan found that it would, on average, cut taxes for the richest 5 percent of Americans and raise taxes on everyone else, the 95 percent of the population who do not hang out at Mar-a-Lago. To pay for this sick and twisted plan that screws over regular people, they want to totally gut the Federal programs that help regular people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'awful, awful, awful' and 'sick and twisted plan that screws over regular people' combined with warnings about gutting Federal programs"}
{"id": "crec_002139", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004602", "text": "Wages go up. All right. I just want to make a point, and I did a little bit of this last week.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000662", "text": "We have done so before, and we are going to do so again. During President [PERSON] 's first administration, I was proud to partner with him on legislation to lock up violent criminals and ensure justice for victims. One of my top priorities for the new year is to do everything I can to build on the great work we accomplished under President [PERSON] 's first term to make sure that our communities, our cities, and our streets are once again safe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["repetition", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "repetition of 'we have done so before, and we are going to do so again' and 'great work we accomplished'; glittering generalities in 'safe communities,' 'justice for victims,' and 'make sure that our communities, our cities, and our streets are once again safe'"}
{"id": "crec_004134", "text": "RANKING A MEMBER ON A [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000930", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Oklahoma.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009758", "text": "Republicans did the same with Secretary [PERSON] during the first [PERSON] administration. It was appropriate then; it is appropriate now. I will vote yes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "Republicans did the same with Secretary [PERSON] during the first [PERSON] administration"}
{"id": "crec_002968", "text": "You make a plea, guilty or not guilty. Ultimately, it is resolved by a trial of some nature. That is the ordinary process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007454", "text": "I am so proud of all that they have accomplished. Mr. [PERSON] , as a descendent of a long line of dairy farmers, let's raise a glass in honor of our dairy farmers who work around the clock to bring fresh, nutritious, and delicious milk to our tables every single day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'proud of all that they have accomplished' and 'raise a glass in honor of our dairy farmers'"}
{"id": "crec_006040", "text": "These precious lives were taken from us far too soon. We honor them not just as names but as fathers, mothers, children, and friends who brought light to New Orleans and to this world. Last week, I stood with President [PERSON] at the Bourbon Street memorial.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "precious lives taken from us, brought light to New Orleans, stood with President at memorial"}
{"id": "crec_004662", "text": "The witness should conduct a pre- hearing technology test with staff designated by the chair, to ensure the witness will have sufficient internet connection during the hearing, and to minimize the possibility of any technical issues. No witness appearing in a governmental capacity may participate remotely. No witness testifying before a committee in response to a subpoena is permitted to testify remotely, unless both the chair of the committee and the Majority Leader authorize such testimony in writing and printed in the Congressional Record.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006986", "text": "We wouldn't allow any foreign adversary, TV stations, radio stations, or newspapers to reach 150 million Americans. Why are we allowing our chief adversary in the world, one that seeks our downfall, to have that kind of access? It makes absolutely no sense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Framing foreign adversary access as a direct threat to national security while presenting only two options: complete prohibition or dangerous vulnerability"}
{"id": "crec_002840", "text": "May we approach with alacrity the tasks ahead, but never let us deceive ourselves to think that we can do them all on our own, but let us seek Your assistance in our efforts. As we commit ourselves to our labors, let us not assume that it is our own strength which will carry the weight of the day, but our reliance on You to enable us to bear our burdens. Remind us again that all we have and all that we strive to do were Yours to give us and Yours to entrust, however long, into our keeping.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97-4", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009409", "text": "They have marched on Washington, they have met with Congressmen and Senators, and as of 2020, they have crossed a crucial threshold--ratification of the [ORG] in 38 States. That is the exact number of States needed to certify it as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It is past time to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sex in our Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "ratification in 38 States...28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; reference to constitutional authority and civic process"}
{"id": "crec_009670", "text": "They become more vulnerable to become a mule to do the work of the drug cartels and the human traffickers. Again, now is the time to return to common sense. Now is the time to return to law and order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "vulnerable to become a mule to do the work of the drug cartels and human traffickers; repeated 'now is the time' framing to emphasize urgency"}
{"id": "crec_003492", "text": "AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND PROPOSED SA 1. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 2.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006759", "text": "I may have had one that said to 25, but they were basically saying: If you do it at 28, we are going to be equivalent to other nations. When the bill was put on the table--and, remember, we got it with handwritten interlineations late in the evening when we didn't even have an ability to even decipher what some of the handwritten interlineations were, but we realized they had dropped it to 21 percent. I almost thought it was a typo.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "handwritten interlineations late in the evening when we didn't even have an ability to even decipher"}
{"id": "crec_009383", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000556", "text": "CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT Pursuant to clause 7 of rule [ORG] of the Rules of [ORG], the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000800", "text": "They are not debating whether they should do it, just what is the best way to do it--one bill; two bills; choose your poison. We already see a clear difference between the way Republicans are preparing to govern and how Democrats governed when we had the majority. We put bipartisanship first.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "'choose your poison' presents only negative options; 'We put bipartisanship first' implies Republicans are the reasonable majority position"}
{"id": "crec_009813", "text": "That is the beauty. That is the importance of democracy. It allows the endurance, the permanence of a nation through change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "beauty...importance of democracy...endurance, permanence of a nation"}
{"id": "crec_002527", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of H.R. 189, [ORG]. This bill revokes the independent real estate leasing authority of [ORG], or [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005625", "text": "Additionally, [ORG] disaster assistance may be able to help those who have lost a home regardless if they were uninsured, had insurance, or underinsured. Visit disasterassistance.gov to get started. My office is also ready to help those who have been impacted by the fires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006016", "text": "Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14064 with respect to the widespread humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the potential for a deepening economic collapse in Afghanistan. [PERSON] , Jr. [ORG], January 15, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-5", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "widespread humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the potential for a deepening economic collapse"}
{"id": "crec_004838", "text": "[ORG] NOMINATIONS [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the Senate's confirmation process because today Senate committees are beginning their hearings, starting to hear from the nominees from President-elect [PERSON] --qualified nominees. We are going to hear from many of the nominees this week, and I just heard the minority leader talk about what is happening today because at this very moment, [PERSON] is testifying--testifying in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000990", "text": "With $3 billion of interest being added to our national debt every day, the longer we delay tackling the problem, the further away the finish line gets. To give you a head start, here are a trillion dollars' worth of ideas for trimming the fat and reducing red ink: Vacant Buildings Maintaining and leasing government office buildings costs $8 billion every year. Another $7.7 billion is spent for the energy to keep them running.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "interest being added to our national debt every day... the longer we delay... the further away the finish line gets"}
{"id": "crec_008536", "text": "But now, it is a new day in America. The nightmare is almost over. And in a few more days, the [ORG] will rise in America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'nightmare is almost over' and '[ORG] will rise in America'"}
{"id": "crec_001384", "text": "This Republican majority is not what people asked for in the last election. Maybe that is why Republicans lost multiple seats, because they keep bringing up lousy bills like this one. Nonetheless, let's talk about the matter at hand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "what people asked for in the last election"}
{"id": "crec_006535", "text": "Now, I heard Senator [PERSON] ask on this floor: Why should Americans entrust [PERSON] to lead our military? Well, [PERSON] answered that question yesterday. Senator [PERSON] asked during the hearing: Are you going to have the backs of the warfighters?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated invocation of Senator's authority and questioning to establish credibility; 'Why should Americans entrust [PERSON]' and 'Senator [PERSON] asked' repeated framing"}
{"id": "crec_009355", "text": "I told Mr. [PERSON] that I thought it would be best if he told President-elect [ORG] that [ORG] should not have the job. I also told Mr. [PERSON] that he needs to be rock-ribbed and strong when she presents falsities about intelligence, which, given her past, she almost will inevitably do. Unfortunately, I found his answers about Ms. [PERSON] to be insufficient.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "describing someone as having a problematic 'past' that will 'inevitably' lead to 'falsities', combined with 'rock-ribbed and strong' language suggesting need for defensive opposition"}
{"id": "crec_000734", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] (FL), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG], [ORG], and Pensions: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] ([ORG]), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] . Committee on [ORG] and [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] (FL), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] ([ORG]).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004576", "text": "Do you understand how fragile you are making the greatest country on Earth because we are not willing to tell the truth about the fiscal situation? For my friends on the left who go, well, let's just raise taxes. I can bring my charts over and over, as I have in the past when we have had high marginal tax rates, we get about 17 percent of GDP.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing America as 'the greatest country on Earth' while warning it's being made 'fragile'; using charged language like 'not willing to tell the truth' to imply dishonesty"}
{"id": "crec_005654", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , today I rise to honor the life of retired Chief Warrant Officer [PERSON] , a champion for southern Nevada's veteran community. Chief [PERSON] was a highly decorated [ORG] veteran and unrelenting advocate for those around him. After flying helicopters in the [ORG] for more than 20 years, he came home to serve as the commander of the Henderson chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, to be a member of [ORG], and attend as many unaccompanied veteran burial ceremonies as he could find.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring decorated veteran, military service, purple heart, veteran burial ceremonies - appeals to patriotic sentiment and respect for military service"}
{"id": "crec_003022", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask that the reading be dispensed with. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS87", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007081", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004151", "text": "This isn't about being exclusionary. It is really recognizing biological realities and protecting the integrity of women's and girls' sports. Female athletes should not have to compete against those with inherent physical advantages.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "recognizing biological realities and protecting the integrity of women's and girls' sports"}
{"id": "crec_004346", "text": "I am a mom of two teens. I am a former teacher. I know what kids are going through in school.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I am a mom of two teens. I am a former teacher."}
{"id": "crec_006297", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 412. A bill to authorize the Bay [PERSON] Indian Community of the State of Michigan to convey land and interests in land owned by the [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001830", "text": "Chief [ORG]'s dedication to public safety also went beyond his department and region. Throughout his time in the fire service, he also served on [ORG]'s urban search and rescue team. Chief [ORG] was onsite at some of the most destructive disasters our country has seen, providing much-needed response and relief.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "dedication to public safety, most destructive disasters our country has seen, providing much-needed response and relief"}
{"id": "crec_000008", "text": "Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Arizona seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 11 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 11 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007991", "text": "I hope people demand accountability to the people that put them in this place to begin with in California and at the local level. We are with you on this. We are with you on that accountability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "We are with you on this. We are with you on that accountability."}
{"id": "crec_006084", "text": "Did Democrats demand conditions on this aid because it went to red States? No, because we are all Americans. We are all God's children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "presents a false choice (either Democrats made demands OR we're all Americans), uses 'we are all Americans' and 'God's children' as unifying nationalist/religious appeals"}
{"id": "crec_005991", "text": "The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170-2", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006823", "text": "That is not fair. In just 1 year, [PERSON] two private jets produced nearly 5,500 tons of carbon emissions. That is more than 300 years' worth of emissions for the average American.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "two private jets produced nearly 5,500 tons of carbon emissions. That is more than 300 years' worth of emissions for the average American"}
{"id": "crec_009721", "text": "8 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise in support of [ORG] and ask my fellow colleagues to vote for my amendment, [PERSON] 's Law. Combined, these actions will close the loopholes that for too long have allowed murderers who come here illegally to roam free in our communities and commit more crimes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "murderers who come here illegally to roam free in our communities and commit more crimes"}
{"id": "crec_004208", "text": "We have to define what a woman is again, and H.R. 28 is the only vehicle that could actually protect women in America, whether it is in high school or whether it is in college, for them to pursue their dreams. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "H.R. 28 is the only vehicle that could actually protect women"}
{"id": "crec_009475", "text": "ANNOUNCEMENT BY [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER]. Under clause 5(d) of rule XX, the [ORG] announces to the House that, in light of the resignation of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. [PERSON] ), the whole number of the House is 433.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-7", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002510", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support for the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007800", "text": "It is devastating towns and causing unmeasurable damage so far. The fires are still raging. It is by the grace of God that maybe the wind will stop.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'devastating towns and causing unmeasurable damage' and 'fires are still raging'"}
{"id": "crec_009951", "text": "Mr. Vice President: I have enclosed a letter of resignation, addressed to the Governor of Florida, announcing my resignation from the office of U.S. Senator effective January 20, 2025. As the President of [ORG], I bring this letter to your attention.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009942", "text": "The online Record has been corrected to read: Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 4, [ORG], a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. ========================= END NOTE ========================= Cloture Motion [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007523", "text": "By merely admitting to the fact that she took funds out of their bank account, the victim could end up being deemed inadmissible and then removed from America. Remember, the new inadmissibility grounds created by this bill do not require a conviction but a mere admission of the underlying facts. The point is clear: If our goal is to prevent violence against women by illegal aliens, as the bill's title says, our current criminal and immigration laws already do that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "victim could end up being deemed inadmissible and then removed from America; characterizes bill's inadmissibility provisions as creating a barrier to preventing violence against women"}
{"id": "crec_002522", "text": "189. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004350", "text": "It is vile, and it is twisted. They don't want to talk about the details. It is an absolute invasion of children's privacy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "vile, twisted, absolute invasion of children's privacy"}
{"id": "crec_002860", "text": "Dear Mr. Speaker: Pursuant to the permission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of the Rules of [ORG], I have the honor to transmit a sealed envelope received from [ORG] on January 10, 2025, at 4:00 p.m., said to contain the Economic Report of the President together with [ORG]. With best wishes, I am, Sincerely, [PERSON] , [PERSON] of the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-4", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006531", "text": "It is a problem with morale and a problem with recruitment. [PERSON] is the right person to address both of these issues and to make sure that we-- America--have a military that is ready to fight. [PERSON] served in combat at the height of the war on terror.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "[PERSON] served in combat at the height of the war on terror"}
{"id": "crec_007692", "text": "16 and [ORG] on Roll Call No. 17. personal explanation [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I was unable to vote on the House floor this morning because of a weather-related travel delay.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000000", "text": "CONGRESSIONAL RECORD United States of America American eagle (seal) PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 119th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g.,1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface Indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (seal) recycle Printed on recycled paper. Vol.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH-FrontMatter-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000182", "text": "That was 4 years ago today. Less than an hour from now, the House and Senate shall convene for a joint session of Congress to complete the process of certifying the 2024 Presidential election. Today, we will not see the violence we saw 4 years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["repetition", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Emphasizes '4 years ago today' twice and contrasts past violence with today's peaceful institutional process, invoking national procedural legitimacy"}
{"id": "crec_009883", "text": "This week, I will reinstate any servicemembers who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the [PERSON] vaccine mandate, with full back pay. (Applause.) And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "References to military servicemembers as 'warriors' and framing as restoring justice; 'radical political theories and social experiments' uses loaded language to characterize policies negatively"}
{"id": "crec_003501", "text": "[SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S92, January 13, 2025, in the second column, the following appears: SA 14. Mr. [PERSON] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ) to the bill [ORG], supra .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004488", "text": "Involvement in sports opens doors, fosters lifelong friendships, and inspires confidence in young adults across this country. Unfortunately, due to radical policies implemented by [ORG] administration and other far-left politicians nationwide, women and girls are losing critical protections that were afforded to them when Title IX was signed into law more than 50 years ago. We owe it to the millions of young women and girls striving to reach their fullest potential, both on and off the field, who deserve fairness and safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-2", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "radical policies, losing critical protections, deserve fairness and safety"}
{"id": "crec_000077", "text": "[ORG], and Technology: Mr. [PERSON] , Chair. Committee on Small Business: Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007334", "text": "SA 53. [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS190-2", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000611", "text": "The shock of this attack is matched only by the urgency of the message that it sends to our country. The message is this: It is time to restore America's security and America's strength. Lives depend upon it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "shock of this attack...urgency...Lives depend upon it"}
{"id": "crec_009472", "text": "I look forward to continuing to work with you and your colleagues in the House serving the nation in my new position. Sincerely, [PERSON] , Member of Congress. ____ Congress of the United States, [ORG], Washington, DC, November 24, 2024.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-6", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002474", "text": "To increase transparency, this bill would also create a page on USAspending.gov where anyone can track agency disaster recovery activities and the amount of assistance expended by the agency on a quarterly basis. Federal agencies need to be accountable to the victims of disasters and to the taxpayers who funded these agencies' really important work. We also need to allow [ORG] disaster victims peace of mind when they are at their most vulnerable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "transparency, accountability, peace of mind, victims at their most vulnerable"}
{"id": "crec_001388", "text": "I mean, where is our humanity? Have we just given up on the idea of human rights? At least 45,000 people have been killed in the war in Gaza, and I fear that number is much higher.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "where is our humanity...Have we just given up...I fear that number is much higher"}
{"id": "crec_006966", "text": "The [PERSON] administration, in 2020, attempted to shut down [ORG]. So there was no rush as the Senator from Massachusetts asserted. We didn't pull the rug out from under [ORG], and we didn't ban it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["whataboutism", "strawman"], "evidence": "deflecting criticism by referencing past administration's actions while mischaracterizing the Senator's assertion"}
{"id": "crec_002478", "text": "Without clear information, communities may feel left in the dark about how aid is being allocated. This is where the Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act comes in. This bill requires [ORG] to publicly share key information about the damage caused by disasters and how assistance is being distributed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "publicly share key information about the damage caused by disasters and how assistance is being distributed"}
{"id": "crec_003247", "text": "The Secretary shall provide an alternative procedure for aliens who cannot provide all required biometric or biographic data because of a physical impairment. (b) [ORG] Secretary shall use biometric, biographic, and other data that the Secretary determines appropriate to conduct security and law enforcement background checks and to determine whether there is any criminal, national security, or other factor that would render the alien ineligible for status under this title. An alien may not be granted any such status under this title unless security and law enforcement background checks are completed to the satisfaction of the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006537", "text": "They sounded angry about his plan to restore American strength. They seemed frustrated that he clearly loves our country and wants to continue to serve. Democrats tried to turn yesterday's hearing into a kangaroo court.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "restore American strength, clearly loves our country, kangaroo court"}
{"id": "crec_008901", "text": "MEETINGS AND MEETING PROCEDURES OTHER THAN HEARINGS A. Meeting dates. The [ORG] shall hold its regular meetings on the first Wednesday of each month, when the Congress is in session, or at such other times as the [ORG] shall determine.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009334", "text": "It is an argument for giving ICE more resources and for quickly deporting criminals. These arguments say a lot more about Democrats' unwillingness to crack down on illegal immigration than they say about this bill. Look at the vote that we took on Wednesday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing Democratic opposition as 'unwillingness to crack down on illegal immigration' rather than engaging with actual arguments; presenting the issue as binary choice between giving ICE resources/deporting or being unwilling to address immigration"}
{"id": "crec_009581", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Washington, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 562. A bill to advance a comprehensive, long-term United States strategy and policy for the Pacific Islands, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], and [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002093", "text": "45: Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Oklahoma, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009929", "text": "May their hearts be filled with a giving spirit and sincere understanding for those whom they represent. May they be beacons of hope in times of uncertainty and prophetic voices in defending the dignity of all created life. We pray for a spirit of collaboration to flourish in our government and across our [ORG], fostering an environment where dialogue and heartfelt listening will prevail over division or discord.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "beacons of hope, defending the dignity of all created life, spirit of collaboration, dialogue and heartfelt listening"}
{"id": "crec_002852", "text": "In my district in northern California and much of the West, forests burn millions of acres year after year, such as a million-acre fire in my district a couple years ago, 600,000 acre, and on and on it goes. It occurs because the lands are not managed, not allowed to be managed by environmental lawsuits and such. Governor [PERSON] , the Governor of California, promised after 6 years in office, when he came to my district in Paradise, to do more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-2", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "forests burn millions of acres year after year...lands are not managed...Governor promised...to do more"}
{"id": "crec_000250", "text": "He was no stranger to my district, visiting for speeches at [ORG], campaign rallies in Cheektowaga and Tonawanda, and even making a stop at Niagara Falls State Park while celebrating his 50th wedding anniversary with his beloved wife, [PERSON] . During his Presidency, he established the Superfund program, supporting the cleanup of toxic sites across western New York, including Love Canal. Following his term in office, he set the standard for the post- Presidency and saved millions of lives by advancing global health, including through his efforts to end childhood malaria fatalities and destigmatize HIV.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-5", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "established the Superfund program, supporting the cleanup of toxic sites...saved millions of lives by advancing global health"}
{"id": "crec_005819", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the bill is considered read.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006182", "text": "He established the One Billion Acts of Kindness initiative, allowing Orange County residents to honor acts of kindness. He never stopped fighting to make our communities better. The legacy of Dr. [PERSON] , my good friend, lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "One Billion Acts of Kindness initiative, never stopped fighting to make our communities better, legacy lives - vague positive language appealing to community values"}
{"id": "crec_001306", "text": "[Pages [ORG] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor and to pay tribute to the late [PERSON] , a boxing legend from Fort Worth, Texas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-8", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "rise today to honor and to pay tribute to the late [PERSON], a boxing legend from Fort Worth, Texas"}
{"id": "crec_006506", "text": "And as the hearings wind through and we go through more and more witnesses, it will become clearer and clearer to the American people who is on whose side. So it is important to have a record of these nominees even if they get confirmed in the end to see who they are and to guard against the dangers that might occur with them in office and to show who is on whose side. Now, a couple more of today's nominees are very troubling.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "guard against the dangers that might occur with them in office and to show who is on whose side"}
{"id": "crec_008830", "text": "Mr. President, it is nearing the end of the week, and normally, that is when I come down to the Senate floor to do my weekly--I try to make it weekly--Alaskan of the Week speech. Now, I know for the pages, this is their favorite speech of the week. You get to hear about Alaska; you get to hear about some great Alaskan doing some great stuff.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005634", "text": "As the organization's president and CEO, Dr. [PERSON] raised over $10 million and oversaw the groundbreaking of [ORG]'s new international headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. [PERSON] 's reputation has always been one of great purpose and great passion. He is an honorable man, guided by an abiding faith in God and a love of country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "president and CEO...raised over $10 million; reputation of great purpose and passion; honorable man guided by abiding faith"}
{"id": "crec_005731", "text": "We grow cow vetch all the time in other areas. I have another picture in another speech. When placed side by side, they are the same picture.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "When placed side by side, they are the same picture"}
{"id": "crec_006543", "text": "He knows the cost of war. He knows the price of weakness, and the true value and the valor of American soldiers. As Secretary of [ORG], he is going to reestablish deterrence and rebuild our military.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "He knows the cost of war... As Secretary of [ORG], he is going to reestablish deterrence and rebuild our military"}
{"id": "crec_002582", "text": "It will provide transparency to the millions of folks who rely on [ORG]. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I will say that the bill has been well explained.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "transparency to the millions of folks who rely on [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_008526", "text": "And how should the Senate help return our country to these principles? We need to confirm every single one of President [PERSON] 's nominees as quickly as possible. We don't have time to drag our feet on any of these nominees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "confirm every single one of President's nominees as quickly as possible...We don't have time to drag our feet"}
{"id": "crec_000813", "text": "He spent years on the campaign trail making outlandish promises he won't be able to keep. In fact, he is getting ready to do the opposite of what he promised by cutting taxes for the very, very wealthy. [PERSON] is in over his head, so he is doing what he always does in times like this: distract America with crazy ideas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "strawman"], "evidence": "He is in over his head; distract America with crazy ideas"}
{"id": "crec_000048", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 10 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 10 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004365", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , this is the third week that we are in the 119th Congress and the third week that no bill is before us to lower costs for Americans. Instead, before us is a political attempt to divide us as a nation, stigmatizing some kids so some adults can get [ORG] merit badges. The Republican Governor of Utah vetoed a similar piece of legislation after he shared that, of the 75,000 students in high school sports in Utah, only 4 were trans, and only 1 was a girl playing sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing legislation as 'a political attempt to divide us as a nation, stigmatizing some kids' and misrepresenting the bill's purpose as adults seeking merit badges rather than engaging with the actual stated concerns"}
{"id": "crec_007890", "text": "They are looking for things in order to stop people from being able to build homes on the foothills. They look for the species of the day to do that. It is basically trying to distinguish different subspecies that they are so infinitesimally able to distinguish that it really turns into a game.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing environmental protection efforts as a 'game' and claiming regulators are 'looking for things' to obstruct development, misrepresenting species protection as arbitrary and trivial"}
{"id": "crec_002128", "text": "Mr. President, on November 5, President [PERSON] was elected to be the 47th President of the United States. By Thanksgiving, he had announced all of his [ORG] and several other senior roles in his new administration. All in all, it took President [PERSON] just 18 days to name all of his [ORG], a pace unprecedented in recent history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "framing rapid cabinet appointments as 'unprecedented in recent history' and emphasizing the efficiency ('just 18 days') to create positive impressions without substantive analysis"}
{"id": "crec_008339", "text": "All of us here in the Senate know of [PERSON] 's unwavering commitment to freedom. He has been a strong supporter of freedom fighters in Hong Kong, and he has been outspoken in his support for Taiwan as [ORG] has grown more aggressive. He is also a fierce defender of democracy and human rights in Latin America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'unwavering commitment to freedom' and 'strong supporter' of multiple causes without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_005616", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor Guadalupe County Commissioner [PERSON] on his well-deserved retirement after a lifetime of extraordinary service to our country and community. [PERSON] began his career with 20 years in [ORG], serving as a command pilot during the Vietnam war and leading the squadron operating out of [ORG]. He then served as a pilot for [ORG] for 18 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'lifetime of extraordinary service to our country and community' and emphasis on military service during Vietnam War"}
{"id": "crec_009469", "text": "RESIGNATION FROM THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following resignation from [ORG]: Congress of the United States, [ORG], Washington, DC, November 24, 2024. Hon. [PERSON] , Speaker, [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009703", "text": "I have heard much higher numbers than that. Let's take their number: $27 billion a year. That is three times ICE's annual budget of $9 billion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "$27 billion a year. That is three times ICE's annual budget of $9 billion"}
{"id": "crec_006847", "text": "But politically they hacked and they hacked and they hacked away at their responsibilities, and now they are paying 6 percent of America's revenues. As wealthy as American corporations are, they add 6 percent now of America's revenues. And this, too, will be made worse by this Republican program.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "'hacked and they hacked and they hacked away' and characterizing corporate tax contributions as corporations 'paying' rather than neutral description"}
{"id": "crec_007716", "text": "Please join me in congratulating Senior [ORG], on 65 years of outstanding service and in wishing them continued success in the years to come.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-7", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "outstanding service - vague praise without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_002921", "text": "APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will please read a communication to the Senate from [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The assistant [PERSON] read the following letter: [ORG], President pro tempore, Washington, DC, January 13, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-4", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001816", "text": "This is what has been important to our base. We have to stay with what has been important to our base. There is nothing wrong with any one of these issues.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["repetition", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "repeating 'what has been important to our base' and appealing to group identity/loyalty"}
{"id": "crec_001196", "text": "7. A determination has been made that Japan can provide substantially the same degree of protection for the sensitive technology being released as [ORG]. This proposed sale is necessary in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives outlined in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "A determination has been made that Japan can provide substantially the same degree of protection...in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives"}
{"id": "crec_002951", "text": "She combined her 100th birthday with constantly reminding people of the horrors of Nazi Germany and what was done to the Jewish people. So, this morning, it was my honor to present her with a flag flown over the [ORG], expressing the Senate's recognition of her extraordinary life. After enduring so much tragedy during one of the darkest chapters of human history, Pina has dedicated her life to teaching, loving, learning, and preserving the memory of the Holocaust.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "presentation of flag flown over the [ORG], expressing the Senate's recognition; Senate's official recognition of her life"}
{"id": "crec_004237", "text": "Our daughters and women are watching. The message to men standing quietly on the sidelines of this issue is: It is time to man up. These are girls and women in our lives who depend on us to stand and fight for what is right.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "girls and women...depend on us to stand and fight for what is right"}
{"id": "crec_001696", "text": "If anyone is a real geek, if you take a look at the futures market on the 10-year sovereign, some of the futures market between now and through spring actually expect a 5 percent interest rate. Remember, that is still a point, point and a quarter lower than the historic average when you get rid of the previous decade, which was sort of fake interest rates. If we were to go to 5 percent of U.S. debt, that is actually fairly normal and that gets built in.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "calling something 'fake interest rates' to dismiss the previous decade's policy without substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_007654", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , we want to protect moms from domestic violence acts, as homicide is the leading cause of death of pregnant women. Mr. [PERSON] , at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit so we can fix this bill. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentleman for his indulgence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006693", "text": "With that, I want to yield to my very good friend, who really understands tax policy and with whom I have been working on this and with whom--we fought together to win the [ORG] fight many, many years ago. Senator [PERSON] from Connecticut. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "who really understands tax policy"}
{"id": "crec_004970", "text": "[PERSON] and those who control him, though, didn't seem to care about the victims of these criminals. Instead, they just continued their uncaring, offensive giveaway to criminals. It has continued.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "calling policy 'uncaring, offensive giveaway to criminals' and claiming someone 'controls' the person uses emotionally charged language to delegitimize both the policy and the individual"}
{"id": "crec_009690", "text": "We need to fix it, and we need to give the American people confidence that we have a fair and secure system in place. So how do we do that? Well, tonight, we are going to vote on the first response from the Congress, [ORG], which I think is neither focused on driving resources to the border or establishing a more robust and rigorous system of immigration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "we need to give the American people confidence that we have a fair and secure system in place"}
{"id": "crec_002269", "text": "Having won 10 championships there may have something to do with it, but it is a marvelous place. Here they are celebrating afterward, and then here is the coach. Here is Coach [PERSON] holding up the trophy there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006973", "text": "Consider one reason why the bill passed with such a huge bipartisan vote in April; namely, the backlash against [ORG] for its deranged lobbying campaign against the bill. As the bill was being considered by a House committee, [ORG] sent push notifications to its users demanding that they call into Congress and express opposition to the bill. This wasn't a case of American citizens spontaneously rising up to exercise their First Amendment rights but rather a foreign power egging them on, meddling in our politics, influencing our legislative debates.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "deranged lobbying campaign; foreign power egging them on, meddling in our politics"}
{"id": "crec_009043", "text": "Her dedication and perseverance embody the values that define Kansas and our [ORG], and her remarkable achievements and service to our country are certainly deserving of recognition in the Congressional Record. [ORG]'s journey is one of resilience and determination, demonstrating the power of teamwork and perseverance. Her efforts on the assembly line during the war, alongside her partner [PERSON] , a trailblazing moment in its own right, exemplify her unwavering spirit and commitment to forging new paths, despite the challenges of the era.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "dedication and perseverance embody the values that define Kansas; remarkable achievements and service to our country; unwavering spirit and commitment"}
{"id": "crec_007941", "text": "Indeed, the towns grew up as logging towns, and they used to be able to go out to those areas and manage and use those and cut trees for the [ORG]'s wood and paper product supply needs. That all started shutting down in the 1970s due to the spotted owl and whatever other species du jour they can come up with to do that, or water quality issues. Oh, my gosh, they are going to affect the water quality.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "'whatever other species du jour they can come up with' and 'they are going to affect the water quality'"}
{"id": "crec_009582", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Dakota, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 563.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 136, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006587", "text": "They want a border that is secure; they want communities that are secure; and they want just basic commonsense things done, like if someone breaks into our country and then steals stuff, they are actually detained rather than just released to go do it again. Let's at least do the basics that we can do while we continue to be able to work toward the big projects that still need to be done. Multiple of my colleagues will be coming in the moments ahead to talk through this same issue because we feel like, on this side, it is incredibly important we get this done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "breaks into our country and then steals stuff...released to go do it again"}
{"id": "crec_009096", "text": "[ORG] can and will help Californians rebuild. California needs to rebuild with resilience. They need to rebuild with a commitment of preventing a similar fire in the future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'rebuild with resilience' and 'commitment of preventing' - vague, emotionally appealing language without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_007624", "text": "According to ICE, as of July, there were nearly 650,000 illegal aliens on the nondetained docket who are convicted criminals who have been charged with crimes. These criminal illegal aliens freely roam our streets committing senseless acts of violence against American women and children. This includes over 100,000 illegal aliens convicted of or charged with assault.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "criminal illegal aliens freely roam our streets committing senseless acts of violence against American women and children"}
{"id": "crec_000951", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. I want to thank the Senator from Oklahoma for his leadership on this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008301", "text": "[PERSON] 425: Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004407", "text": "[ORG], Washington, DC. Dear Representative: On behalf of the 1.8 million members of the AFT, I write to urge you to oppose H.R. 28, the so- called [ORG] of 2025, and to reject its attacks on our students.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of 'so-called' and 'attacks' to frame the legislation negatively without substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_005981", "text": "MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Messages in writing from the President of the United States were communicated to the House by Ms. [PERSON] , one of his secretaries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH168", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000532", "text": "[Pages [PERSON] ] ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule [ORG], sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions, as follows: H.R. 21: Mr. [PERSON] of Arkansas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Oklahoma, Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska, Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, and Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000831", "text": "This week, we also see that [PERSON] is rushing to release terrorists from American custody. One week after the New Orleans terrorist attack, this President has set free 11 terrorists from Guantanamo Bay--terrorists connected to the 9/11 attacks on America. [ORG] reported yesterday that [PERSON] wants to give back a dangerous terrorist and close friend of [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "rushing to release terrorists, terrorists connected to the 9/11 attacks, dangerous terrorist"}
{"id": "crec_000297", "text": "Now, it is time to make sure all Americans enjoy the benefits of this astonishing economic growth. We should be coming together today to increase the minimum wage, to lift children out of poverty, and to strengthen unions, [ORG], [ORG], and the middle class. [PERSON] is instead assembling a billionaire [ORG] from the top 0.00003 percent of the wealthiest Americans, drawing the top tier of his new administration from poolside cocktail hour at Mar-a-Lago and setting up the broligarchs and the plutocrats to plunder an even larger share of government contracts and public resources.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrast between 'all Americans enjoy benefits' and 'billionaire cabinet from top 0.00003 percent,' 'poolside cocktail hour,' 'broligarchs and plutocrats' - emotionally charged language paired with personal attacks and presenting only two opposing choices"}
{"id": "crec_008525", "text": "We are entering a new golden age in America with President [PERSON] 's return to [ORG], and this is our last chance at righting the ship the left has steered so far off course. President [PERSON] will return our country to the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We will return to the [PERSON] beliefs and principles of the West that made our Nation so great.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "golden age in America, return to values of life liberty and pursuit of happiness, beliefs and principles of the West that made our Nation so great"}
{"id": "crec_006467", "text": "Help our lawmakers to walk in Your precepts so that they can remain within the circle of Your protection and blessings. Lord, turn their ears to listen to Your admonition as You infuse them with the courage to obey Your commands. We have trusted You since the birth of this land we love.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Appeal to divine authority ('Help our lawmakers to walk in Your precepts') and invocation of national pride ('the birth of this land we love')"}
{"id": "crec_005032", "text": "I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the [ORG] and give its advice and consent to ratification. [PERSON] , Jr. [ORG], January 14, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS136-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "recommendation from [PERSON] Jr. at [ORG] to influence Senate action through institutional authority"}
{"id": "crec_002317", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002627", "text": "Last week, I had the privilege of passing the gavel to him, and I have full faith and confidence that he will ensure that our statehouse will continue to serve the people of North Carolina with integrity, purpose, and dedication. As a mentor and a colleague, I have watched [PERSON] grow into an exceptional leader who listens, collaborates, and fights tirelessly for the people of North Carolina. His commitment to his constituents and his vision for a stronger, more prosperous [ORG] make him uniquely suited to this role.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-2", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "phrases like 'integrity, purpose, and dedication' and 'exceptional leader' combined with speaker's authority as predecessor passing the gavel"}
{"id": "crec_006503", "text": "Even if they get confirmed, it is so important to have all these questions asked and to see what the answers, or lack of answers, are. If the time comes, months from now, that some of [PERSON] [ORG] members fail on the job, these hearings will have served as an important warning for the American people to see. That is why Democrats are committed to ensuring each nominee is vetted thoroughly and scrutinized during the testimony.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'committed to ensuring each nominee is vetted thoroughly' and 'important warning for the American people'"}
{"id": "crec_004862", "text": "By the governor: [PERSON] , Governor. [PERSON] , Secretary of [ORG]. [State Seal Affixed]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003952", "text": "You end up with the manufacturers having to produce two different types of vehicles for this [ORG] or that [ORG], making them more expensive, and heaven knows the difficulty that is producing electric vehicles anyway. Rural Americans and rural Californians face long commutes and rely heavily on reliable, affordable vehicles. I represent a very rural area.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "heaven knows the difficulty that is producing electric vehicles anyway"}
{"id": "crec_009734", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006348", "text": "A bill to direct the Secretary of [ORG] and Secretary of [ORG] to require aliens applying for certain visas to disclose if they receive funds from [ORG] or [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 461.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006956", "text": "And it is taking effect, at least in parts of America, at the single worst period of time, a moment when [ORG] creators in Los Angeles are using the app to share their stories and find resources during the tragic wildfires; a moment when a new President is set to take office with different views on the ban--and President-elect [ORG] is asking for a pause right now, asked [ORG] of the United States for a pause--[PERSON] --a moment when [ORG] is still considering the case, hasn't even rendered a decision yet; a moment when the first official bid for [ORG] was just submitted last week. It is time for Congress to acknowledge that the rushed passage of this law was a mistake. There were no hearings in the Senate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 133, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "taking effect at the single worst period of time...tragic wildfires; characterization of law passage as 'rushed' and 'mistake' while emphasizing concurrent crises"}
{"id": "crec_003970", "text": "In a world where [ORG] and [ORG] can deliver groceries to your door in nearly an hour if you are in an urban area, it can be easy to forget that our food doesn't just come from the grocery store shelf. It comes from the men and women who work tirelessly day in and day out to answer the call to feed, clothe, and fuel the world. On days with lots of extreme weather like we saw last week, these men and women bust their backs to ensure that we can still have food on our plates when the storms are long gone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "men and women who work tirelessly day in and day out to answer the call to feed, clothe, and fuel the world"}
{"id": "crec_009662", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there any objection? The Senator from Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007186", "text": "SA 71. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 72.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000460", "text": "[[ORG] 12TH DISTRICT ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I thank the incredible families of Michigan's 12th Congressional District for sending me back to Congress.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "thank the incredible families"}
{"id": "crec_006924", "text": "Let me very briefly describe what this amendment does in terms of reforming [ORG]. First, this amendment would double the major [PERSON] fee that corporations pay before they can hire guest workers from abroad. This provision would generate over $370 million in revenue each year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001441", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ). Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , the unprovoked and barbaric attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 presented Israel with a fundamental moral obligation to annihilate the forces that had unleashed such depravity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'unprovoked and barbaric attack' and 'fundamental moral obligation' frame the issue with emotionally charged language to justify military action"}
{"id": "crec_004616", "text": "Let's put up the one chart that gets me the most hate, and it is more than a year, year-and-a-half out of date. The numbers are worse today, but it is the truth. For anyone crazy enough to watch, how many Members of Congress are willing to show this to you?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing the chart as 'worse today' and questioning how many members would 'show this to you' implies hidden truth and danger; 'crazy enough to watch' uses loaded language to suggest only the bold would engage"}
{"id": "crec_001772", "text": "In fact, the States are ahead of the Congress. The Congress needs to catch up with the States and move on beyond that. A wage of $7.25 an hour is what is known as a slave wage in many quarters.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "calling $7.25 wage a 'slave wage' uses emotionally charged language; positioning 'States' as ahead implies they are authoritative models Congress should follow"}
{"id": "crec_000895", "text": "Immigrant households generated more than $236 billion in income in 2022 and paid nearly $66 billion in local, [ORG], and Federal taxes. [ORG] estimates that immigration flows to the United States that are projected would likely increase the American gross domestic product by nearly $9 trillion between now and 2034. And I know, because of the background of the President, this next statistic will not surprise you: More than 45 percent of Fortune 500 companies in America were started by immigrants or by the children of immigrants.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Listing impressive statistics about immigrant economic contributions without addressing counterarguments or complexities; presents a one-sided positive narrative designed to create favorable impressions"}
{"id": "crec_007431", "text": "May we come to understand and accept that even knowing us as well as You do, You love us anyway. When we are grieved by various trials, may we trust that You will perceive the genuineness of our faith. Even gold perishes when it is tested by fire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004918", "text": "The truth is we have been living these last 40 years or so in the great American decline. Our economy has declined. We were once the manufacturing and trade capital of the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "\"great American decline\" and contrasting past superiority (\"manufacturing and trade capital of the world\") to suggest current deterioration"}
{"id": "crec_003551", "text": "[ORG]. 202. Permanent resident status on a conditional basis for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005714", "text": "It stopped the ability to keep clearing brush. With national monuments, you are not allowed to go in there and do anything because it has to be left pristine and preserved. That ties in with the endangered species as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Characterization of national monument preservation as absolute restriction ('not allowed to go in there and do anything') and framing as binary choice between environmental protection and land management activities"}
{"id": "crec_009442", "text": "In 2022, when prolonged drought led to historically low water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead, Commissioner [PERSON] pressed the States and [PERSON] who rely on the Colorado River to find a compromise that would protect water supply throughout the basin. Her leadership was instrumental in achieving a historic, consensus-based proposal to conserve more than 3 million acre-feet of water and protect the system. To this day, 7 States and 30 Tribes have continued to engage on a longer-term agreement that will serve the 40 million people who call the Colorado River Basin home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'historic, consensus-based proposal' and 'protect the system' and '40 million people who call the Colorado River Basin home'"}
{"id": "crec_002336", "text": "As I prepare to assume my duties as Vice President of the United States, I would like to express that it has been a tremendous honor and privilege to serve the people of Ohio in the Senate over the past two years. Sincerely, [PERSON] , United States Senator, Vice President-Elect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001687", "text": "Remember, there are two steps in there. Back to the oldie but goodie. Everything in red, that is on autopilot.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005037", "text": "APPOINTMENT [SPEAKER]. The [ORG], on behalf of the Vice President, pursuant to Public Law 94-304, as amended by [PERSON] 99-7, appoints the following Senators as members of [ORG]) during [ORG]: [ORG] of Rhode Island; the Honorable Jeanne [PERSON] of New Hampshire; [ORG] of Minnesota; and the Honorable [PERSON] of Pennsylvania.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS136", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001551", "text": "7. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , had I been present, I would have voted [ORG] on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003073", "text": "SA 2. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. ___.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000918", "text": "There is so much more that we have done. But we have turned the page now, and we are looking at how do we use these 2 years, this 119th Congress that is in front of us. We know that the American people have spoken.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000497", "text": "A bill to prohibit the implementation of [ORG] Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 230.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008836", "text": "My [ORG] is certainly a [ORG] that understands natural disasters, and, you know, even in Alaska right now, Anchorage just last week--didn't make any news down here--was hit with hurricane-force winds on Sunday, up to 130 miles an hour. A lot of people--hundreds-- were without power, a lot of property damage. So, you know, we are thinking about our Alaskan colleagues who were hit by that hurricane-- there is no other word--typhoon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "emphasis on [ORG] understanding natural disasters; repeated mention of specific damage (130 mph winds, hundreds without power) to establish credibility and concern"}
{"id": "crec_004210", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise because this bill threatens the principles that make our schools and sports fields places of opportunity. This bill does not protect anyone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "bill threatens the principles...This bill does not protect anyone"}
{"id": "crec_005727", "text": "They actually got it done. Instead, the biologists took this so-called snail darter and moved populations to other rivers in the area. The species was then reclassified downward from endangered to threatened in 1984.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "so-called snail darter"}
{"id": "crec_001600", "text": "Only now, instead of burning up the red counties and the forested areas to the north, it is devastating portions of Los Angeles. Everybody is seeing it on the news. Every year, we know the Santa Ana winds are going to blow.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "burning up the red counties and the forested areas...devastating portions of Los Angeles"}
{"id": "crec_006776", "text": "I will yield for another question. [SPEAKER]. Through the [ORG], the Senator mentioned [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001242", "text": "MEASURES PLACED ON THE CALENDAR The following bill was read the second time, and placed on the calendar: S. 9. A bill to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title [ORG] of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001392", "text": "The war has not shrunk. It expanded to Lebanon, where I hope the recent truce continues to hold. Mr. [PERSON] , I have sharply critiqued my own government for our conduct when we have been at war because right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter what side you are on.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "right is right and wrong is wrong, no matter what side you are on"}
{"id": "crec_004391", "text": "H.R. 28 and S. 9 do not advance policies to address the second-class treatment women's and girls' teams continue to receive from their schools as compared to men's and boys' teams when it comes to facilities, equipment, and travel. These bills do not address how colleges and universities have shortchanged women athletes millions of dollars in academic assistance.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "second-class treatment, shortchanged women athletes millions of dollars"}
{"id": "crec_004254", "text": "This bill is an egregious attack on young women and girls. Everyone in this room knows that this legislation has the power to threaten the physical and mental safety of minors. Schools and athletic institutions already have rules around fairness and safety in children's sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'egregious attack on young women and girls' and 'threaten the physical and mental safety of minors'"}
{"id": "crec_003132", "text": "[ORG]. 204. Removal of conditional basis of permanent resident status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000447", "text": "Now, if they want to argue that there is a law that is unconstitutional, they can argue that, but they can't go to court and simply say that the executive branch is implementing the law in a way that a particular [ORG] doesn't like. Yet, they want to occasion that massive shift of power, as [ORG] Kavanaugh characterized it, so that the States would essentially be able to control Federal immigration policy. I am still reeling from reading the author of this legislation's statements yesterday, which I think also speak to a fundamental disrespect for the rule of law, which says: Since January 6, hundreds of peaceful protesters have been hunted down, arrested, held in solitary confinement, and treated unjustly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 120, "labels": ["whataboutism", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "comparison of immigration policy disputes to January 6 arrests to deflect from the original argument; 'hunted down,' 'held in solitary confinement,' and 'treated unjustly' use emotionally charged language"}
{"id": "crec_000773", "text": "One of the most important issues in this last election was the illegal immigration crisis. And that is the topic of the first vote that we are holding in the Senate under Republican majority. For the last 4 years, the [PERSON] administration's open border policies have wreaked havoc in both border communities and those far from the border.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "open border policies have wreaked havoc in both border communities and those far from the border"}
{"id": "crec_002789", "text": "HONORING THE LARGEST EXPANSION IN [ORG]' [ORG] BENEFITS [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000570", "text": "In Russia today, religious expression outside of the state-controlled church is discouraged. And in Russian-occupied Ukraine, all Protestant churches have been closed. The head of the Russian church is a [ORG] guy who answers directly to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-5", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "religious expression is discouraged, all Protestant churches have been closed"}
{"id": "crec_000442", "text": "Had he been treated as the detainer law requires, he would have been deported and [PERSON] would be alive today. I am prepared to close when the gentleman is ready. I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing deportation as a measure that would have prevented a death, emotionally charged construction of causality"}
{"id": "crec_002252", "text": "So he rushed 18 times, 121 yards, and 2 touchdowns, and he completed 19 of 22 passes for almost 200 yards. Now, those are the kinds of stats that are just off the chart. But his leadership all year long and certainly in the playoffs was just unbelievable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "those are the kinds of stats that are just off the chart\" and \"leadership...was just unbelievable"}
{"id": "crec_000011", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Colorado seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 10 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 10 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] . [PERSON] President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 7 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 7 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001277", "text": "I look forward to seeing their continued success in Iowa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001782", "text": "Many of my constituents were disappointed when [ORG] didn't pass. American minorities, a good many, were disappointed. These pieces of legislation could have made a difference in voter participation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "References to 'constituents' and 'American minorities' as authoritative sources of disappointment, combined with loaded framing of legislation as something that 'could have made a difference' in voter participation"}
{"id": "crec_009763", "text": "I would encourage anyone who wants a clear understanding of U.S. foreign policy to look at and watch the recording of [ORG]'s performance before [ORG] last week. I would say to you, his performance was flawless. [PERSON] 's qualifications and ability to stand in the shoes of [PERSON] , our first Secretary of [ORG], and the 70 who followed him-- [PERSON] 's qualifications are unchallengeable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "describing performance as 'flawless' and qualifications as 'unchallengeable' while invoking historical authority of the Secretary position"}
{"id": "crec_008469", "text": "Let's honor [PERSON] 's legacy by passing this bipartisan legislation to protect millions of Americans across our country. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "honoring legacy, bipartisan, protect millions of Americans"}
{"id": "crec_005074", "text": "It would not permit the transfer of [ORG] or sensitive nuclear technology. Any special fissionable material transferred to the Kingdom of Thailand could only be in the form of low enriched uranium, with the exception of small quantities of special fissionable material for use as samples, standards, detectors, or targets, or for such other purposes as the parties may agree. Through the Agreement, the Kingdom of Thailand would affirm its intent to rely on existing international markets for nuclear fuel services rather than acquiring sensitive nuclear technology (i.e., for enrichment and reprocessing), and the United States would affirm its intent to support these international markets to ensure nuclear fuel supply for the Kingdom of Thailand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-6", "word_count": 116, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000199", "text": "We hope what happens today rather than what happened 4 years ago stands as a shining example for future generations of how one conducts oneself in a free democracy. We hope that the way we Democrats conduct ourselves today helps those Republicans who tried to subvert the election of 4 years ago understand the grave nature of their mistake. Far too many on the other side--far too many--willingly claim the election of 2020 was stolen even though they knew perfectly well it was not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing prior conduct as 'subvert the election' and accusing Republicans of knowingly spreading falsehoods about election theft, framed as a 'grave nature of their mistake'"}
{"id": "crec_005702", "text": "It is greed, plain and simple. I commend Senator [PERSON] and Attorney General [PERSON] , who have been sounding the alarm about [ORG] for years. I am committed to working with [ORG] officials and my colleagues in the Rhode Island congressional delegation to clean up the mess that [PERSON] left behind and to do our best to save [PERSON] and [PERSON] and stabilize our [ORG]'s healthcare system.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'greed, plain and simple' and commending named officials who 'have been sounding the alarm'"}
{"id": "crec_007468", "text": "RECOGNIZING LOCAL BROADCASTING [PERSON] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to recognize the career and contributions of Brainerd, Minnesota, broadcasting legend, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002261", "text": "I remember watching him play. Then also there is Coach [PERSON] . He is a former player, and [PERSON] , his wife, is a professional golfer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001912", "text": "A bill to require the Secretary of the [ORG] to take certain actions with respect to certain qualified coal applications, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006985", "text": "This is part of their propaganda. Data shows, for example, my esteemed colleague from Arkansas referenced it, the anti-Semitism on [ORG]. If you go back and look, you can see 50 times the posts on pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian content, 50 times the views, despite the fact that overwhelmingly Americans support Israel--the polling shows it--and that is just one of the issues that they get involved with.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "citing 'esteemed colleague' and 'polling shows' as authorities; describing content as 'propaganda' and 'anti-Semitism'; presenting support for Israel vs. pro-Palestinian content as a binary choice"}
{"id": "crec_008309", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008043", "text": "The [ORG], [ORG], has also on several occasions rejected proposals from [ORG]. For example, it rejected [ORG] proposal to increase sonar and underwater explosives training off of southern California. In another instance, it filed a lawsuit against the [ORG] for proceeding with 14 major training exercises off of southern California, again harming U.S. national security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing environmental organization actions as 'harming U.S. national security' uses loaded language and appeals to security fears to characterize regulatory rejections negatively"}
{"id": "crec_007771", "text": "[[ORG]] DISASTER RELIEF ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , for 2 weeks we have watched brutal, orange flames engulf homes, leaving ash and heartache in their wake for both rich and poor southern Californians.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "brutal, orange flames engulf homes, leaving ash and heartache"}
{"id": "crec_008785", "text": "Thank you. We are in the same hallway over in the Hart Building. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002808", "text": "You will hear directly from advocates, child welfare professionals, and even children and families with lived experience on how we as policymakers can better the foster care system. The caucus' largest event is shadow day where our members spend the day with a former foster youth. This allows us to learn about issues facing children involved in the child welfare system directly from people with lived experience.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "hearing directly from advocates, child welfare professionals, and children and families with lived experience"}
{"id": "crec_000543", "text": "[PERSON] 174: Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006132", "text": "This is the Republican agenda in action. We are protecting women, supporting families, and making our communities safer. This is just the beginning of our work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "protecting women, supporting families, and making our communities safer"}
{"id": "crec_009625", "text": "Everybody knows that it is against the law to enter the United States without our permission. Even so, if they come here violating our law, they hurt and kill an American, [ORG] must prioritize their detention and deportation. The [PERSON] administration has promised to remove dangerous criminals who cross our borders illegally.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "if they come here violating our law, they hurt and kill an American"}
{"id": "crec_003953", "text": "There are people who are afraid to take electric vehicles very far with the inability to know if they can charge them and make it back. The mandate poses significant financial challenges, as EVs remain more expensive than their gas- and diesel-powered counterparts. They have more expensive tires, and they are harder to get parts for, among other things.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "afraid to take electric vehicles very far with the inability to know if they can charge them and make it back"}
{"id": "crec_006686", "text": "You know, they say: Campaign in poetry; govern in prose. That is not what is happening here. They campaigned on misleading people that their abiding concern, their main concern was, gosh, people are paying too much for a dozen eggs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponent's campaign focus as misleading about egg prices, using 'gosh' dismissively"}
{"id": "crec_009375", "text": "Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002305", "text": "It is past time for real change at [ORG]. To address these issues, last month I released a draft piece of legislation to provide a [ORG] charter for [ORG] and to remove [ORG] [ORG] from direct oversight of the university. The legislation will empower [ORG] with self-governance, providing an organizational structure that reflects its mission, community, and needs of its students.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "real change, self-governance, empower, reflects its mission, community, and needs"}
{"id": "crec_008319", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. [ORG] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001458", "text": "Get with the American team, and get in the way of those that are getting in our way. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["flag_waving", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "Get with the American team"}
{"id": "crec_006193", "text": "I think that would be good for our economy. I think that would be good for the American people. I think that would help create more economic growth, and I think that economic growth would yield revenue to the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004221", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , every single parent worries about their kids' safety. Every parent wants their daughters to be treated fairly including on the sports field.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "every single parent worries about their kids' safety. Every parent wants their daughters to be treated fairly"}
{"id": "crec_008011", "text": "Yet, he never matched the violence he got with violence of his own. On June 5, 1956, a [ORG] ruled that [ORG] segregation policy on public buses was, in fact, unconstitutional. When [ORG] upheld that ruling, it was affirmed that [ORG], led by Dr. [PERSON] as a result of the efforts of [PERSON] , was a true story of triumph, and it was, in fact, for many, year after year, a focal point on what civil disobedience can look like and what success can be born of it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006742", "text": "Study after study shows American consumers bore the brunt of [ORG]'s first trade war, and this time it will be even more. Projections suggest that the tariffs will impact American families to the tune of either between $2,500 and $4,000 per American household in additional costs. So $2,500 compared to this tiny, little tax benefit that everyday Americans will experience.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "tariffs will impact American families to the tune of either between $2,500 and $4,000 per household; contrasted with 'tiny, little tax benefit'"}
{"id": "crec_005700", "text": "Their partner, [ORG] CEO [PERSON] , personally made more than $100 million, buying luxury properties for himself at the same time that he shut down emergency rooms. Shameful. When I was State treasurer in 2020, I sent a letter to [PERSON] , expressing my frustration at their unethical practices and the impact they were having on healthcare in Rhode Island.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing CEO's actions as 'Shameful' while juxtaposing luxury purchases against hospital closures; establishing credibility by citing past position as State treasurer"}
{"id": "crec_005602", "text": "This is a perversion of the truth and justice. For those of us who were here on [ORG] that day, who saw the violence, smelled the pepper spray, and heard the screams, we have an opportunity to remember that day for what it was: a dark stain on our [ORG]'s history. We have an opportunity to commemorate those in uniform who bravely stood up to the rioters.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-4", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "perversion of the truth and justice; those in uniform who bravely stood up"}
{"id": "crec_000794", "text": "At the same time that Americans are struggling with inadequate childcare and not enough healthcare and the inability to buy a home, these Republicans are talking about helping the megacorporations and wealthy people get tax cuts. Many of them are saying: Let's cut [ORG]. Let's cut [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting struggling Americans with Republicans helping 'megacorporations and wealthy people' presents tax policy as binary choice between helping ordinary people or the rich"}
{"id": "crec_006900", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Vermont.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001378", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , of all the ways that Republicans have shown this country how messed up and backward their priorities are, I have to say that this bill that we are debating today to sanction [ORG], the [ORG], really takes the cake. We have a natural disaster unfolding in California right this second as 100,000 people are fleeing a climate change-driven fire that is burning up entire neighborhoods. We have a gun violence epidemic, as we see massacres in our schools nearly every single day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "contrasting the bill with urgent crises (natural disaster, gun violence) to suggest the bill is misplaced priority; 'messed up and backward,' 'massacres,' 'epidemic' use emotionally charged language; frames choice as either addressing these crises or supporting the bill"}
{"id": "crec_008452", "text": "I have next to me a framed copy of the Soldier's Creed--a poster that usually hangs over my desk here in the Senate and has done so for the last 8 years. It is the same copy that hung above my bed at [ORG] when I spent over a year in the hospital recovering from my shoot-down. It is the same poster whose lines I read before I was wheeled into each and every one of my surgeries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "framed copy of the Soldier's Creed poster, military service narrative, wounded veteran imagery"}
{"id": "crec_004930", "text": "Now parents have to work multiple jobs to support just one or two kids, if they can afford to have children at all. I mean, let's just think. In the 1960s, the average family had just shy of four children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "parents have to work multiple jobs; the nostalgic comparison implying current conditions are worse"}
{"id": "crec_008919", "text": "VOTING A. Quorum required. Subject to the provisions of subsection (E), no vote may be taken by the [ORG], or any Subcommittee thereof, on any measure or matter unless a quorum, as prescribed in the preceding section, is actually present. B.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002451", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004668", "text": "A chair may not authorize remote participation for more than one witness at a committee hearing without the approval of the Majority Leader in writing and printed in the Congressional Record.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007495", "text": "Her hands and her ankles were tied, and she was thrown under the bridge in the water like she was nothing but garbage. Victim advocate [PERSON] also told the tragic story of 11-year- old [PERSON] . The [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration released her alleged murderer into the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "thrown under the bridge in the water like she was nothing but garbage; released her alleged murderer"}
{"id": "crec_004452", "text": "Yet, a [ORG] report from 2024 found that 93 percent of all colleges had athletic participation rates for women that were lower than their enrollment rate at the colleges. At 63 percent of colleges, women's athletic participation rates were at least 10 percentage points lower than their enrollment rates. Overall, the athletic participation rate for collegiate women was 14 percent less than their enrollment rate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000088", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 212. A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to design and install in the United States Capitol an exhibit that depicts the attack on the Capitol that occurred on January 6, 2021, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004108", "text": "REPUBLICANS WILL [ORG] ([SPEAKER] Carolina asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER] Carolina. Mr. [PERSON] , according to a report released by [ORG], more than 125,000 illegal alien crossings took place in October alone, bringing the total number of illegal alien crossings since [ORG] of over 11 million nationwide, with Speaker [PERSON] warning of over 16 million illegal aliens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-7", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'illegal alien' terminology and escalating numbers (125,000 to 11 million to 16 million) to invoke concern about border crossings"}
{"id": "crec_000237", "text": "It is the result of relentless hard work, discipline, and teamwork. These women showed us what it means to commit fully. At every practice, every set, and every match, they gave their all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "relentless hard work, discipline, and teamwork; gave their all"}
{"id": "crec_000240", "text": "These women make us all proud to wear blue and white. I congratulate [ORG] women's volleyball on their national championship. We are.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-2", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "proud to wear blue and white"}
{"id": "crec_008698", "text": "Not a balanced budget, but a whole lot better than the 6.9 or the $7.3 trillion that President [PERSON] budgeted for this year--a far more reasonable spending level. But if you don't like that, if that is just too reasonable, too aggressive for you, just go back to 2019 when we spent $4.4 trillion, increase it by population growth, inflation, using President [PERSON] 's [ORG], [ORG], and interest, it would be 6.5. I mean, I think that is completely unacceptable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Characterizing spending levels as 'far more reasonable' and 'completely unacceptable' uses loaded language; citing specific dollar amounts and comparing to predecessor's budgets appeals to authority of previous administration"}
{"id": "crec_001391", "text": "People are dying. Children are dying. Babies are dying, some of them from the bombs, some from starvation, some from the cold.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repetition of 'dying' with escalating vulnerable populations (people, children, babies) combined with emotionally charged causes (bombs, starvation, cold)"}
{"id": "crec_009617", "text": "That dream comes from the fact that his family has a history that started with the immigration to the United States from Cuba and then watching their former homeland fall into a communist dictatorship that still exists to this day. That helps explain his love for America and his drive to oppose oppressive, autocratic regimes that threaten freedom. Even in this time of intense partisanship and intense time of character assassination, I expect Senator [PERSON] will receive an overwhelming vote for his confirmation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "his love for America and his drive to oppose oppressive, autocratic regimes that threaten freedom"}
{"id": "crec_004204", "text": "They said that I needed to protect women's sports. We had Title IX. Since we had Stonewall 50 years ago, this couple told me, they have worked their entire life for women's rights.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "couple claimed to have worked entire life for women's rights; invokes Title IX and Stonewall as authoritative references to legitimize their position on women's sports"}
{"id": "crec_001952", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 319. A bill to authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005642", "text": "Mayor [PERSON] was so patient in teaching me about how some community programs were successful while others struggled. He was a champion for workforce development. His patience and his depth of knowledge and willingness to teach me and so many others left a lasting impression, I know, on me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "champion for workforce development, patience, depth of knowledge, lasting impression"}
{"id": "crec_000887", "text": "The Senator from Virginia. Birthright Citizenship [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I spoke on the Senate floor on December 11 about birthright citizenship--the guarantee contained in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are deemed citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009926", "text": "If you believe where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, come on, put your hands together and give your great God great glory. (Applause.) Reverend [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty"}
{"id": "crec_004548", "text": "Remember, Madam Speaker, the IRS is the second largest unionized workforce in [ORG]. I believe the VA is the first one. Every time we try to add modernization to do it better, faster, cheaper, and fairer, can you believe they get cranky?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing IRS workers as 'getting cranky' when resisting modernization; implying resistance is emotional rather than substantive"}
{"id": "crec_004155", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the bill is considered read.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000675", "text": "But when you start talking about advanced semiconductors, when you start talking about serial intellectual property theft, when you look at some of the weapons systems and the airframes China has been creating, they bear a remarkable resemblance to those we built here in the United States because they have engaged in massive theft through cyber attacks and through intellectual property theft. But it is simply foolish for the United States to continue to blindly invest billions of dollars in the very defense systems and technologies that [ORG] could use to our detriment in [ORG]. Our colleague Senator [PERSON] from Alaska just retired as colonel from the Marines.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "massive theft through cyber attacks, foolish for the United States to continue to blindly invest, could use to our detriment"}
{"id": "crec_001197", "text": "8. All defense articles and services listed in this transmittal have been authorized for release and export to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005017", "text": "I can respect it. It is not what [PERSON] did. [PERSON] picked and chose which depraved murderers and rapists deserved to live and deserved to die, denying justice to the families of all those who were killed by anyone who wasn't totally politically toxic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing a person's actions as 'picking and choosing' which 'depraved murderers and rapists deserved to live or die' with inflammatory language"}
{"id": "crec_000086", "text": "[[ORG]] PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], public bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows: By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 210. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of [ORG] to furnish dental care in the same manner as any other medical service, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 128, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005950", "text": "Taiwan is a key partner in derisking our supply chains away from China. Taiwanese investment already supports 21,000 American jobs, and over $1.5 billion in American exports. Reducing double taxation will strengthen our partnership, increase bilateral investment, and create jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "key partner in derisking our supply chains, strengthen our partnership, create jobs"}
{"id": "crec_004402", "text": "We welcome and support efforts that protect women and girls in sports, including those that would fix the problems we identified above. But this is not what H.R. 28 and S. 9 do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "Claims the bills don't do what they claim while stating support for the stated goal, misrepresenting the actual content of H.R. 28 and S. 9"}
{"id": "crec_004876", "text": "If Democrats repeat the same play this year, they will only further embarrass themselves and the party and be a disservice to the American people who elected President [PERSON] and [PERSON] on November 5. So I would like to caution my colleagues, my Democratic colleagues, not to play the same shenanigans again, but unfortunately it looks like they have come up with a new tactic. The delays we are already starting to see in the confirmation process are completely unacceptable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing Democratic actions as 'shenanigans' and 'embarrass themselves' while warning of 'delays' and 'unacceptable' conduct creates negative framing designed to provoke concern and disapproval"}
{"id": "crec_001919", "text": "A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to penalize false communications to cause an emergency response, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By Mr. [PERSON] : H.R. 287.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002761", "text": "H.R. 38: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008003", "text": "After graduating from [ORG] and [ORG], Dr. [PERSON] then enrolled in graduate studies at [ORG]. It was in Boston where Dr. [PERSON] would meet [PERSON] , who was also a student at the nearby New England Conservatory. As we all know and as history has taught us, the two would ultimately marry, and [PERSON] would become [PERSON] , and together they would be a formidable force in their own right, in their own time, and in joint pursuit of equality and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "formidable force in their own right, in their own time, and in joint pursuit of equality and justice for all"}
{"id": "crec_006098", "text": "The people of southern California have stepped up to help those in need. That is the American way. That is the California way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-3", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "That is the American way. That is the California way."}
{"id": "crec_000783", "text": "Another priority is extending the tax relief Republicans delivered during the first [ORG] administration. These pro-growth policies put more money in Americans' pockets and helped deliver a strong economy before the pandemic. We need to extend them to protect our economy and the American people from a $4 trillion tax hike next year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pro-growth policies put more money in Americans' pockets and protect from a $4 trillion tax hike"}
{"id": "crec_004182", "text": "So should we all. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002945", "text": "We are going to ask our Republican colleagues to allow for debate and votes on amendments. I hope my Republican colleagues will allow for it. January 6 Mr. President, finally, on the January 6 pardons--not finally; next to finally--[PERSON] has promised to spend the first hour of his Presidency pardoning the violent mob which stormed the Capitol and attacked our police officers on January 6.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "violent mob which stormed the Capitol and attacked our police officers on January 6"}
{"id": "crec_009940", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report the motion. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to proceed to Calendar No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002521", "text": "The [ORG] recognizes the gentleman from Missouri. General Leave [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material in the Record on H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001552", "text": "IN MEMORY OF SHARON PAYNE ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the memory of [PERSON] , a mother, grandmother, and dedicated teacher.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006024", "text": "Senator [PERSON] was an incredible public servant who transformed the lives of so many. During her historic tenure, Senator [PERSON] led [ORG] in passing significant investments in our [ORG]'s public education system, transportation infrastructure, affordable housing, and green economy. Her efforts resulted in Minnesota passing universal school meals, protecting bodily autonomy, and ensuring paid family and medical leave for Minnesota's workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'incredible public servant', 'historic tenure', 'transformed the lives of so many'"}
{"id": "crec_000227", "text": "PROTECT BANGLADESH'S RELIGIOUS MINORITIES ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to speak out against the violence and persecution of Hindus and other religious minorities in Bangladesh.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-7", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "formal parliamentary procedure ('asked and was given permission to address the House') combined with moral appeal to protect vulnerable groups"}
{"id": "crec_009578", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 559. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish an above-the-line tax deduction for seniors; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009184", "text": "105. Wildland fire performance metrics. TITLE II--FOREST MANAGEMENT Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007733", "text": "CONGRATULATING GANADO HIGH SCHOOL INDIANS ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to congratulate [ORG] football team on their incredible victory in the 2024 Texas Class 2A, Division 1 championship.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-5", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002834", "text": "[ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act would make any sexual offense committed by illegal immigrants a deportable offense and would ensure that they are banned from these United States. This commonsense legislation is just one step toward creating safer streets and communities for Pennsylvania families and for all Americans. [ORG] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "framing immigration through crime ('sexual offense,' 'illegal aliens'), safety rhetoric ('safer streets'), and undefined positive language ('commonsense legislation')"}
{"id": "crec_001049", "text": "With our [PERSON] Sheets, which is what we used in our [ORG] to be able to make sure that our contractors were doing the right things with regard to the environment or antiquities or whatever--making sure they were following all the rules--we were able to cut that from 16 days down to 3 days so that those contractors could get into the field faster and get our projects moving faster. Here is another one: We would issue reimbursement checks to families with children who have special needs. Often, these special needs children will have to have specialized care.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "making sure they were following all the rules and cut that from 16 days down to 3 days"}
{"id": "crec_007777", "text": "My thoughts and prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones and whose homes, businesses, and schools have been destroyed. Arizona is no stranger to devastating wildfires. Anyone in the West will tell you that climate change is making wildfires more frequent and more dangerous, not just in California but everywhere.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Anyone in the West will tell you that climate change is making wildfires more frequent and more dangerous"}
{"id": "crec_000665", "text": "Many States have gone simply to a nonlicensed status so that people can exercise their Second Amendment rights. I would reiterate, America and Americans have nothing to fear from law-abiding citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights. Those are not the people we should be concerned about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Creates a false choice between 'law-abiding citizens' exercising Second Amendment rights versus those 'we should be concerned about,' implying there are no legitimate middle-ground positions on gun regulation"}
{"id": "crec_001685", "text": "Even in that case, it is still basically 24 percent of all--it is still 24 here. I just did this chart so you can see, when you hear someone talk about total tax receipts, this is obligated to earned benefits. Oddly enough, this number isn't big enough to cover the earned benefits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004098", "text": "Even after winning 64 percent of the vote, Members of this body denied him the rightful opportunity to take his seat by a vote of 57- 130. Nevertheless, Mr. [PERSON] bravely defended his right to represent the people of Louisiana and became the first African American to speak on this floor. His fight for representation, even when denied his dignity and his seat, paved the way for people like me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-10", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "bravely defended his right to represent the people of Louisiana and became the first African American to speak on this floor"}
{"id": "crec_004313", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in full support of H.R. 28, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007907", "text": "They try and capture and do counts on them. We have put so much more water through there. Starting in 1992, legislation here caused 800,000 acre-feet to be taken away from farming and ranching at that point and push more through the delta.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "800,000 acre-feet to be taken away from farming and ranching"}
{"id": "crec_000016", "text": "Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 4 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 4 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000078", "text": "Committee on [ORG]' Affairs: Mr. [PERSON] , Chair. Committee on [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] of Missouri, [ORG]. Mrs. [PERSON] (during the reading).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001003", "text": "Yet, Washington always finds money when it comes to paying for pet projects, and some accounts are flush with cash. There's still billions of dollars of unspent COVID relief dollars, for example. Most of us feel lucky when we find a $20 bill in our pocket or some change in the couch.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing government spending as 'pet projects' and comparing government budgets to finding money in a pocket creates a false equivalence between personal finance and complex government accounting"}
{"id": "crec_008346", "text": "Recognition of the Minority Leader The Democratic leader is recognized. President [PERSON] 's [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, last night, President [PERSON] delivered his farewell address, reflecting on his 4 years in office, which will be remembered as one of the most productive periods in modern American history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "one of the most productive periods in modern American history"}
{"id": "crec_005888", "text": "They are saying that, no, we don't understand and that this is just for trade. Mr. [PERSON] , this can quickly be converted into something else. As President [PERSON] and I recently noted, the Panama Canal is a vital trade global route that includes 40 percent of all U.S. container shipping.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Authority: 'As President [PERSON] and I recently noted'; Fear: 'this can quickly be converted into something else' implies hidden threat"}
{"id": "crec_000059", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Holy and eternal God, we pray Your presence among us on this day. [PERSON] again Your light in the darkness, that we would be aware of Your abiding favor and sure of Your divine guidance. May we faithfully follow in the way You lead, O Lord, that You will show mercy on us and on the day's work ahead.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-3", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001993", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Congress is granted the authority to introduce and enact this legislation pursuant to Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-19", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress is granted the authority...pursuant to Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_004651", "text": "Objections must be stated concisely and in a non- argumentative and nonsuggestive manner. A witness's attorney may not instruct a witness to refuse to answer a question, except to preserve a privilege. In the event of professional, ethical, or other misconduct by the witness's attorney during the deposition, the [ORG] may take any appropriate disciplinary action.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002996", "text": "This is just a small sample of the thousands of stories that [ORG] users are posting about the app's importance in their lives. If my colleagues remain unmoved by these personal accounts, they should consider the political implications of the [ORG] ban. The 170 million Americans that use [ORG] each month will be furious when their favorite platform goes dark.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "170 million Americans that use [ORG] each month will be furious when their favorite platform goes dark"}
{"id": "crec_000189", "text": "On that day, our [ORG] faced their hour of maximum danger, but they responded with maximum valor. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, [ORG] and all of our first responders became the defenders of our democracy. Today, we honor all the members of [ORG], the DC police, our servicemembers, and all first responders who kept us safe 4 years ago as well as everyone who has kept us safe since.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "defenders of our democracy, maximum valor, kept us safe - patriotic framing with emotionally charged language elevating first responders as democracy's defenders"}
{"id": "crec_003907", "text": "Madam Speaker, on October 7, 2023, the people of Israel experienced the greatest terror attack in their nation's history. There were 1,200 people killed and 250 more were abducted in what was the most severe attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Nearly 100 hostages remain in Gaza, with at least a third of those believed to be dead.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "greatest terror attack in their nation's history...most severe attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust"}
{"id": "crec_002121", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, January 9 is [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004977", "text": "I could respect that. I know people who are opposed to the death penalty, no matter how heinous the crime, in all cases, usually founded in a deep-seated religious conviction. I can respect that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007817", "text": "It would go a long way to making our forests look like this. Why wouldn't we be doing this? What is happening now is certain folks are filing lawsuits to stop us from going into the woods and cleaning them up so that they are not destroyed by wildfire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing forest management opponents as blocking cleanup efforts while forests face destruction by wildfire; uses emotionally charged language 'certain folks' and implies negligence/obstruction"}
{"id": "crec_009719", "text": "I am glad to see there being a keen interest on what is happening to immigrant children now. My question has been, where has that passion been for the last 4 years when we had over 468,000 unaccompanied minors come across our border? I just saw my distinguished colleague from Wisconsin walk in, who has tried to bring attention to this, tried to make sure we had a hearing on the 88,000-plus children that have been lost under this previous administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "where has that passion been for the last 4 years when we had over 468,000 unaccompanied minors come across our border"}
{"id": "crec_006659", "text": "Before the Root family could even lay [PERSON] to rest, her murderer posted bond and was released, never to be seen again. To rub salt in the wound, the [PERSON] administration removed [PERSON] from [ORG]'s Most Wanted list. Since then, I have warned repeatedly against the dangers of letting illegal immigrants--who have already broken our laws--roam the country and continue their lawlessness.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"murderer posted bond and was released, never to be seen again\" and \"dangers of letting illegal immigrants...roam the country and continue their lawlessness\" create fear about immigrant criminality"}
{"id": "crec_002375", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 62. A bill to limit eligibility for Federal benefits for certain immigrants, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 63.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000667", "text": "As I have said before from this floor, we now have the most dangerous geopolitical environment that we have had since World War II. Texans voted resoundingly for President [PERSON] in this last election in part because of his pledge to hold China accountable. China threatens the peace in [ORG] by threatening to invade its neighbor Taiwan and interrupt freedom of commerce and freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "most dangerous geopolitical environment since World War II; China threatens to invade Taiwan and interrupt freedom"}
{"id": "crec_000437", "text": "Let's go home and let's be proud, in a bipartisan way, that we are willing to uphold the law. I stand in full support of [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "let's be proud, in a bipartisan way, that we are willing to uphold the law"}
{"id": "crec_006063", "text": "This boondoggle has already consumed $6.8 billion in Federal funds of all U.S. taxpayers. Now they are asking for $8 billion more, which is way short of $130 billion. [ORG]'s analysis paints a grim picture of a project spiraling out of control with no end in sight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-5", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "boondoggle, spiraling out of control with no end in sight, grim picture"}
{"id": "crec_000825", "text": "On the whole, he has been the most anti-American energy President in the history of this country. Sadly, there are plenty more examples of malicious sabotage by this lameduck President. In December, what did we learn?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "\"most anti-American energy President\", \"malicious sabotage\", \"lameduck President\" - uses inflammatory language to characterize actions as deliberately harmful to create negative emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_004099", "text": "While in 1868 there was not a single African American in Congress, today there are 67 African Americans serving in [ORG] Congress, a record number, largely due in part to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and heroes like [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-10", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'record number' and 'heroes' used to create positive emotional appeal about progress"}
{"id": "crec_001093", "text": "Ranchers are impacted. None of these folks are ultimately ever held accountable. You don't know their name.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "Suggests unknown entities harm ranchers without accountability, creating uncertainty and distrust"}
{"id": "crec_008912", "text": "RULE 2. QUORUMS A. Reporting measures and matters.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004834", "text": "He wrote the bill. He championed it while in the Senate, bipartisan legislation aimed at making sure every woman can live free from fear, violence, and abuse. And as chair of [ORG], I am proud to say that I worked with [PERSON] to confirm 235 judges to the [ORG] bench under his leadership, including the first African-American woman and former public defender as a member of [ORG], and that is only here at home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "highlighting accomplishments like confirming judges including 'the first African-American woman' and describing bipartisan legislation focused on protecting women from 'fear, violence, and abuse'"}
{"id": "crec_000019", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Iowa seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 6 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 6 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008120", "text": "A bill to amend certain laws relating to disaster recovery and relief with respect to the implementation of building codes, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009339", "text": "Saving lives, that is what this is about. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Saving lives, that is what this is about"}
{"id": "crec_000929", "text": "The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009065", "text": "A bill to place limitations on excepting positions from the competitive service, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 135. A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for special base rates of pay for wildland firefighters, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009795", "text": "Members of [ORG] of the United States, led by Majority Leader, the Honorable [PERSON] ; Majority Whip, the Honorable [PERSON] ; and Democratic Whip, the Honorable [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda. The President-elect's [ORG] and [ORG]-level designees entered the Great Rotunda. The Acting [PERSON] of [ORG] entered the Great Rotunda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000406", "text": "We know why it happened. It happened because of the administration allowing illegals, some of whom--not all of whom but some of whom--were criminals into our country, feeding them, clothing them, transporting them, housing them, paying for them. Men and women are breaking their backs in this country to make a living, but we are paying for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing immigrants as criminals and contrasting hardworking citizens against government support for immigrants creates a false choice between supporting citizens or immigrants"}
{"id": "crec_009684", "text": "We included the Dream Act. We had a massive overhaul--massive overhaul--of our visa system so our farms and ranches and high-tech industries, even our ski industry, could continue to compete with the rest of the world. We had $46 billion of border security money in there--I hate to think what that money was in real dollars today, what that $46 billion would look like today; I bet you it is around $60 billion--that 68 people in this [ORG] agreed to support together.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "massive overhaul--massive overhaul-- repeated for emphasis; loaded language in 'I hate to think what that money was in real dollars today' to emphasize the cost"}
{"id": "crec_007783", "text": "Just last week, a Marion County strike team was able to quickly act and save a family's home when it caught fire. We owe a debt of gratitude to these courageous men and women who are working 24-hour shifts away from their families and putting their lives on the line to help folks who are suffering right now. I will continue to support our firefighters and deliver the pay and benefits they have earned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-4", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "courageous men and women who are working 24-hour shifts away from their families and putting their lives on the line"}
{"id": "crec_000746", "text": "Res. 1. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009756", "text": "We will neither rubberstamp nominees we feel are grossly unqualified, nor will we reflexively oppose nominees that deserve serious consideration. Senator [PERSON] is an example of a qualified nominee we think should be confirmed quickly. Earlier today, he was unanimously reported out of committee with full support from Democrats, and he should be quickly confirmed here on the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "unanimously reported out of committee with full support from Democrats"}
{"id": "crec_003672", "text": "Such alien shall not be required to file a separate motion to reopen, reconsider, or vacate the order of removal. If the Secretary approves the application, the Secretary shall notify the Attorney General of such approval, and the Attorney General shall cancel the order of removal. If the Secretary renders a final administrative decision to deny the application, the order of removal or permission to depart shall be effective and enforceable to the same extent as if the application had not been made, only after all available administrative and judicial remedies have been exhausted.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004384", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006771", "text": "The consequence will be to put dollars in the hands of those who don't need them and take dollars out of the hands of those who do when you combine it with the tariff effect, but the consequence will also be significant on the national debt. As Senator [PERSON] said during his comments, the national debt gets financed, and it gets financed in ways that ends up coming back. And who pays for it?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "consequences of taking dollars from those who need them and affecting national debt in ways that 'come back' to burden citizens"}
{"id": "crec_007425", "text": "[ORG] READ THE FIRST TIME--S. 6 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS196", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004127", "text": "The community of Rochester, New York, celebrates this incredible achievement and extends our deepest gratitude to [ORG] and [PERSON] for sharing these essential stories.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'incredible achievement' and 'essential stories' use vague praise without specific substantiation"}
{"id": "crec_006240", "text": "We don't want to increase the debt limit, but we understand that we have to pay the [ORG]'s bills. So, all we are saying is that as long as there is a plan to stop increasing the ever-increasing debt, then we can be on board, and we have a plan. We have offered a plan, and we can be onboard with that to not let [PERSON] decide what the cost of increasing the debt ceiling is going to be and not force the American people to keep on paying for things that this government shouldn't be buying and can't afford, that taxpayers can't afford.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing as choice between accepting debt increase or having 'a plan to stop increasing debt' with characterization of government spending as wasteful things 'shouldn't be buying'"}
{"id": "crec_000266", "text": "LAKEN RILEY ACT Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , pursuant to House Resolution 5, I call up the bill (H.R. 29) to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002278", "text": "So when Senator [PERSON] went through the names of those coaches in these last 14 years, they are in the line of descent. [PERSON] , who went to Wyoming from NDSU, was the coach when [ORG] became eligible for the [ORG] championship series. Just to put a little bit more meat on that, [ORG] was a [ORG] II-- NCAA Division II powerhouse for years, winning several national championships.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006510", "text": "When Congress did not appropriate [PERSON] border wall, [ORG] raided the accounts of the Pentagon and [ORG] to pay for it. And on top of it all, Mr. [PERSON] put America's national security at risk by illegally withholding foreign aid to Ukraine in an attempt to help [PERSON] on the campaign trail. To call Mr. [PERSON] an extremist would, frankly, give extremists a bad name.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "calling someone an extremist and suggesting they put national security at risk; 'illegally withholding' and 'raided the accounts' use inflammatory language"}
{"id": "crec_008627", "text": "That is especially concerning because [ORG] already does not have anywhere near the resources to implement this bill. ICE would need, actually, more than three times the current number of detention beds--a 265-percent increase--for this bill. It would need to execute 80 removal flights a week, almost double its current capacity, not to mention it would need to double ground transportation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "emphasizing extreme resource gaps ('265-percent increase', 'almost double', 'three times') and 'especially concerning' to suggest catastrophic burden"}
{"id": "crec_002113", "text": "Take our Senators by the hand and lead them on the road You desire them to travel. Lord, help our lawmakers to seek Your guidance as they establish their priorities, always remembering their accountability to You. May this accountability motivate them to never deviate from the path of integrity but to seek to ensure that Your will is done on Earth even as it is done in Heaven.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-2", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "invocation of religious authority ('Lord,' 'Your will') to guide political decision-making and moral accountability"}
{"id": "crec_007674", "text": "Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the previous question is ordered on the bill. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was read the third time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006242", "text": "That is not going to happen. We absolutely want to say yes to making sure that the American people continue to enjoy the tax cuts that we gave them, that we got, that we secured, and that we fought for during the first [ORG] administration. We want to continue that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["repetition", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "repetition of 'that we' (gave them, got, secured, fought for); vague positive framing of 'tax cuts' without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_009002", "text": "I look forward to watching the future of [ORG] continue to grow on the foundation that Mr. [PERSON] has laid. Mr. [PERSON] leaves behind big shoes to fill, but I am confident his legacy will continue to inspire the sale and its youth toward success for decades to come.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "legacy will continue to inspire the sale and its youth toward success for decades to come"}
{"id": "crec_006536", "text": "To which our nominee said, yes, he will have their backs. That is why Americans should trust [PERSON] to lead our military. It is interesting to hear my Democrat colleagues dismiss [PERSON] 's years of military service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "he will have their backs and years of military service as basis for trust to lead military"}
{"id": "crec_000361", "text": "Scare people about immigrants, never propose anything that actually solves an outdated and arcane immigration system that desperately needs Congress to allocate resources and update legal pathways to make the immigration system work for everyone. My Republican colleagues simply want to preserve a broken immigration system as a campaign issue so that they can scapegoat and demonize immigrants all to distract the American people from their real goals of making working people pay for another Republican tax scam that benefits billionaires and the wealthiest. Just look at the rules package that they just passed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem", "strawman"], "evidence": "Scare people about immigrants...scapegoat and demonize immigrants...Republican tax scam that benefits billionaires"}
{"id": "crec_004392", "text": "Nor do H.R. 28 and S. 9 seek to strengthen protections against the rampant sexual abuse student-athletes of all ages and genders still face. To put it plainly, one would be hard pressed to explain how banning transgender women and girls from playing alongside their peers does anything to address actual problems of sex discrimination in sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents' position as ignoring 'actual problems of sex discrimination' while misrepresenting the bills' stated intent regarding transgender participation"}
{"id": "crec_002588", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006096", "text": "I was just elected to represent the 47th Congressional District in Orange County, California, just south of the fires. While we are not affected by these, we are subject to the same fire risks on a year-by-year basis. What we are seeing right now is a biblical-level disaster in California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "biblical-level disaster"}
{"id": "crec_002558", "text": "144, and I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I appreciate the chairman's remarks, and the gentleman is certainly an embodiment of the virtue of waivers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001578", "text": "For [PERSON] , the transition at age 30 from inner-city Chicago urban planner and activist to White House urban policy adviser grew out of a spiritual foundation and political outlook she shared with [PERSON] . Both had a faith- based desire to push back against developers and big-city politicians and instead invest in grassroots housing and jobs programs in struggling urban neighborhoods. [PERSON] 's interest in investing in Black neighborhoods emerged from his Christianity and his childhood in a majority-Black town in Georgia; [PERSON] had worked for a Catholic priest who ministered to poor urban communities and pushed banks to finance projects in low-income areas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001414", "text": "To the distinguished chairman of the committee, I think he must have misinterpreted me. He said something like: This is the people's House, so let me translate what the gentleman, meaning me, just said in my opening remarks. He said bringing the hostages home should not be a priority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "Chairman misrepresents the speaker's position, claiming they said 'bringing the hostages home should not be a priority' when the speaker disputes this characterization of their remarks"}
{"id": "crec_005691", "text": "Within days of our Maui fires, teams from [ORG] were by our side on the ground to help deliver relief and organize the cleanup. In our hour of greatest need, they stood by us without expectation of any reward. They simply stepped up for their fellow Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "they stood by us without expectation of any reward. They simply stepped up for their fellow Americans."}
{"id": "crec_004190", "text": "This is why [ORG] protections were implemented in the first place. Radical leftists want you to believe that this is never happening or that it is so rare that we shouldn't be concerned. The other side just made a comment that so few of these people are involved in college athletics.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Radical leftists want you to believe that this is never happening; characterizing opponents' position as extreme while presenting only two opposing views"}
{"id": "crec_002312", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will read the bill by title for the first time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill ([PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-2", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001656", "text": "We get rid of it, and we probably should, but it is 9 hours of borrowing for an entire year. Yet, how many times will you hear people say this in front of microphones? Stopping healthcare subsidies for those who are here undocumented, here illegally, is 9 hours of borrowing for an entire year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing undocumented immigrants as 'here illegally' repeatedly while emphasizing healthcare subsidies as a fiscal concern to create negative associations"}
{"id": "crec_009779", "text": "*[PERSON] , of Virginia, to be Director of [ORG]. ========================= END NOTE ========================= * [PERSON] , of South Dakota, to be Secretary of [ORG] . By [SPEAKER] for [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-4", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001898", "text": "A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to [PERSON] , in recognition of his contributions to the security, unity, and defense of [ORG]; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 270.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009256", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 87. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007098", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS182", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009888", "text": "A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and we will restore the name of a great President, [PERSON] , to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. President [PERSON] made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent. He was a natural businessman and gave [PERSON] the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United States--the United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than was ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "renaming landmarks to restore national pride, characterizing the Panama Canal transfer as 'foolishly given away,' and invoking a past president as a 'natural businessman' who made the country 'very rich'"}
{"id": "crec_006092", "text": "What we are talking about is the moral imperative of what America has always done to help the American people when they are in need, whether it is hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes, fires, or natural disasters of every kind you can imagine. In the wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles and south coast basin, over 40,000 acres have burned, 12,000 buildings have been destroyed, and 24 lives and counting have been lost. There certainly will be more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-2", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "the moral imperative of what America has always done to help the American people; invokes America's historical values and federal responsibility"}
{"id": "crec_003494", "text": "[ORG]. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006882", "text": "Well, as it turns out, artificial intelligence has been around for decades. It has recently captured the popular imagination because technology has taken us to places we never dreamed we could go. Well, in 2023, [ORG] held a hearing on AI, and the Democratic leader said this: If left unchecked-- Here he goes again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "If left unchecked-- Here he goes again"}
{"id": "crec_006869", "text": "And let's ensure that the wealthiest pay their fair share to protect the middle class and their children from the exorbitant trillion-dollar bill the Republicans are currently going to send to them. The two options just do not work, but there is an option that works, and I will stress it one more time. We need to work together in a bipartisan way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'exorbitant trillion-dollar bill the Republicans are currently going to send to them' and 'The two options just do not work, but there is an option that works'"}
{"id": "crec_004525", "text": "Any special fissionable material transferred to the Kingdom of Thailand could only be in the form of low enriched uranium, with the exception of small quantities of special fissionable material for use as samples, standards, detectors, or targets, or for such other purposes as the parties may agree. Through the Agreement, the Kingdom of Thailand would affirm its intent to rely on existing international markets for nuclear fuel services rather than acquiring sensitive nuclear technology (i.e., for enrichment and reprocessing), and the United States would affirm its intent to support these international markets to ensure nuclear fuel supply for the Kingdom of Thailand. The [ORG] has a term of 30 years, although it can be terminated at any time by either party on 1 year's advance written notice to the other party, in the event of termination or expiration of the [ORG], key nonproliferation conditions and controls will continue in effect as long as any material, equipment, or components subject to the [ORG] remains in the territory of the party concerned or under its jurisdiction or control anywhere, or until such time as the parties agree that such material, equipment, or components are no longer usable for any nuclear activity relevant from the point of view of safeguards.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-2", "word_count": 208, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007430", "text": "You perceive our thoughts even before we have voiced them. Before a word is on our tongue, You, O Lord, know it completely. Such knowledge is both overwhelming and comforting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001571", "text": "(By [PERSON] ) [PERSON] was on the streets of Chicago's Near Northwest section, fending off real estate developers and a mayor who aimed to raze a struggling neighborhood. [PERSON] had been a social worker with [ORG], trying to find jobs for poor people at a shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. [PERSON] was running a group designed to boost the paltry number of women in the top ranks of the federal government.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000947", "text": "That is what this whole concept is about--[ORG]--is to actually create a mechanism to say: Let's stop talking about it and highlighting it a little bit at a time. Let's actually work to be able to make this better in the days ahead. I am very pleased that a whole group of colleagues are passionate about this as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "make this better in the days ahead"}
{"id": "crec_003253", "text": "1126. DOCUMENTATION OF [ORG] WORK HISTORY. (a) Burden of Proof.--An alien applying for certified agricultural worker status under subtitle A or adjustment of status under subtitle B has the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the alien has worked the requisite number of hours or days required under section 1101, 1103, or 1111, as applicable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004418", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , Congress has the power and the responsibility to make a real difference for Americans. Yet, we are starting this Congress with a bill that dangerously picks on an extremely small number of children and young adults but putting all children and young adults at risk. These attacks are fueled by discrimination and not facts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "dangerously picks on...putting all children and young adults at risk"}
{"id": "crec_006206", "text": "That is what is happening. The lobbyists, the people in this town, Members of Congress are saying that we can't cut because there is some program, there is something in [ORG], there is some reason, there is some excuse, but, gosh, we are definitely going to go ahead and reinstate all the tax policies because they read in some book a long time ago that they all pay for themselves irrespective, by the way, of the [PERSON] curve or any commonsense economics. What I will say to you right now is that if any of my Republican colleagues want to come down to the floor and tell me that each one of those tax provisions pay for themselves, I want to see it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 123, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents' position as merely reading 'in some book a long time ago' and using dismissive language like 'excuse' and 'gosh' to misrepresent the economic argument for tax policies"}
{"id": "crec_002919", "text": "They are pilgrims in this land. They are weak, but You are mighty. Inspire them to keep their eyes on You and not the challenges that seem too difficult to solve.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "invoking divine authority ('You are mighty') and emotionally charged framing ('weak', 'challenges that seem too difficult')"}
{"id": "crec_008145", "text": "A bill to prohibit funding to [ORG]; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Texas): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002617", "text": "After a gnawing 40-year struggle, Congress finally righted the wrongs that harmed many public employees. These include teachers, mail carriers, firefighters, police officers, librarians, postal workers, locomotive engineers, school cooks, nutrition personnel, and so many more. Finally, [ORG] eliminates the harmful [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "gnawing 40-year struggle, righted the wrongs, eliminates the harmful"}
{"id": "crec_008802", "text": "So this would create the opportunity for that flexibility that exists in current law after 30 days of mandatory detention. I think it is an appropriate way to address the potential for impact that I am sure no one intended in writing this bill, which was to leave a bunch of children back in a home with no parent and no support. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment so that I can offer amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007970", "text": "Where do we fund? Where do we not fund? Because taxpayers have every right to ask those questions as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009389", "text": "It is just a transfer of the responsibility to taxpayers and wiping the slate clean for people who actually agreed to borrow this money so that they can attend schools. Then on Wednesday, just 2 days ago, the [PERSON] administration announced an additional cancellation of $4.5 billion for 261,000 borrowers. The President's actions this week and the last week of his Presidency brings this total taxpayer bailout to $183.6 billion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterization of loan forgiveness as 'transfer of responsibility to taxpayers' and 'wiping the slate clean' framed negatively; describing actions as a 'bailout' with accumulating dollar figures designed to appear alarming"}
{"id": "crec_001000", "text": "The September spending sprees of the past included impulse purchases on $4.6 million of lobster tail and crab and $2.1 million for games and toys, including nearly $12,000 for a foosball table. For the sake of taxpayers, [ORG] needs to be the [PERSON] . Welfare for Politicians [ORG] provides welfare checks for politicians with presidential aspirations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "spending sprees, impulse purchases, welfare for politicians - language designed to frame government spending as wasteful and frivolous, evoking concern for taxpayers"}
{"id": "crec_007538", "text": "Even if she is never charged, even if a judge later rules that she did not commit any crime, that so-called admission in the police report that she responded in self-defense to hit her abuser is enough to make her inadmissible under this bill. Again, that is why more than 200 advocacy organizations for domestic violence survivors, deeply ensconced in the material of what happens every day across the country far too often, are all deeply opposed to this legislation. They know that this expansive bill that eliminates the existing safeguards for domestic violence survivors will harm those exact survivors and create a chilling effect for reporting future crimes, empowering abusers to go after immigrant women and children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 118, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "will harm those exact survivors and create a chilling effect for reporting future crimes, empowering abusers to go after immigrant women and children"}
{"id": "crec_003968", "text": "In true Kansas fashion, families and neighbors came together to help one another in time of need. Kansans helped move snow to ensure livestock could still be watered and [ORG]. Kansans helped move calves to make sure that they were warm after they were born, so they could get to a place to be properly fed and nourished in negative temperatures.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "In true Kansas fashion, families and neighbors came together to help one another"}
{"id": "crec_008842", "text": "Her last day was yesterday. So little bit of background about [PERSON] . She moved with her family to Alaska from Chicago when she was 3 years old.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008123", "text": "A bill to amend the Miccosukee Reserved Area Act to authorize the expansion of the Miccosukee Reserved Area and to carry out activities to protect structures within [ORG] from flooding, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002231", "text": "1, S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004290", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in strong support of [ORG], which ensures fairness and safety in girls athletics. For the past 4 years, the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration and congressional Democrats have made it very clear: They want men competing against our daughters and granddaughters. They want to force schools to allow biological males to share private spaces with biological females and compete in women's sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "they want men competing against our daughters and granddaughters; They want to force schools to allow biological males to share private spaces with biological females"}
{"id": "crec_001409", "text": "It will happen again if [ORG] and the Senate and the President don't take action to sanction the [ORG] to prevent this from happening again in the future. I appreciate the support of the chairman. I appreciate the support of virtually every Member on the Republican side of the aisle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "It will happen again if [ORG] and the Senate and the President don't take action; appreciation expressed for support of chairman and Republican members, positioning them as authority figures whose support validates the speaker's position"}
{"id": "crec_005587", "text": "[ORG] 49. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS158", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002807", "text": "This feat was made possible by bipartisan efforts from members of [ORG] and [ORG] on [PERSON] . This bill is proof that we have one theme uniting us regardless of party: Our children and youth deserve loving, stable, and safe homes. As a member of [ORG] on [PERSON] , your fresh ideas and new perspectives will help address the ever-changing challenges that foster youth in our country face.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Our children and youth deserve loving, stable, and safe homes; uniting us regardless of party"}
{"id": "crec_000129", "text": "CONGRESSIONAL EARMARKS, [ORG] BENEFITS, OR LIMITED TARIFF BENEFITS Under clause 9 of rule XXI, lists or statements on congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits were submitted as follows: Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] in H.R. 21, [ORG], do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI. Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] in H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-5", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005635", "text": "While his retirement will allow him some well-earned rest and time with loved ones, I know that his commitment to service will continue for years to come. Madam Speaker, on behalf of a grateful Nation, I ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the retirement of Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., after 17 years as president and CEO of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "well-earned rest, commitment to service, grateful Nation, celebrating"}
{"id": "crec_004248", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in defense of women. I rise in support of [ORG] which safeguards our daughters from the radical Democrats' agenda to have our daughters and granddaughters compete against and share locker rooms with men. Allowing grown men to compete in women's sports puts the safety of our daughters at risk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "puts the safety of our daughters at risk; radical Democrats' agenda; grown men competing in women's sports"}
{"id": "crec_007940", "text": "When we talk about what we are going to do, there absolutely has to be accountability for it. I am grateful for the amount of emergency help that has helped so many Californians in fire-prone situations in other areas, and it isn't their fault. [ORG] has a lot to be questioned about on how they manage lands because their [ORG] lands are adjacent to many of these towns.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing land management as having 'a lot to be questioned about' while implying fault without direct accusation"}
{"id": "crec_007694", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , due to a death in the family, I needed to attend the funeral proceedings and was unable to vote on the House floor. Had I been present, I would have voted [ORG] on Roll Call No. 16, [ORG], and [PERSON] on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006725", "text": "They should be predictable. And they should generate the revenue that America needs to fund [ORG], [ORG], education, roads, national security, and the other critical investments that matter to our constituents. I repeat what some of my colleagues said.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "critical investments that matter to our constituents"}
{"id": "crec_005069", "text": "The situation in the West Bank continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14115 with respect to the situation in the West Bank. [PERSON] , Jr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-5", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "declaration of 'national emergency' and invocation of Executive Order to establish governmental authority; characterization of West Bank situation as 'unusual and extraordinary threat'"}
{"id": "crec_009181", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 140 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004577", "text": "When we have had low marginal tax rates, we get about 17 percent of GDP. I think we have 75, 80 years of history of that showing it always falls back down to that margin. The secret is grow.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["repetition", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "The phrase 'we get about 17 percent of GDP' paired with historical claim and 'The secret is grow' uses vague language and repetitive assertion of historical patterns without detailed evidence, while 'The secret is grow' is a glittering generality offering an oversimplified solution."}
{"id": "crec_001612", "text": "Since then, they have been at the forefront of building the machines that build the world. From their first track-type tractors pulling harvesters in California's fields to the cutting-edge autonomous equipment and engines they produce today, [ORG] has shaped how we work, live, and connect. In Texas where we pride ourselves on dreaming big and building even bigger, [ORG]'s role is front and center.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-4", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "machines that build the world, shaped how we work live and connect, dreaming big and building even bigger"}
{"id": "crec_005799", "text": "This year, [ORG] hail from Nebraska's [ORG], our very own [ORG]. Throughout the national tournament, [ORG] consistently defied the odds. They fought through several close matches, claiming victories against teams that had bested them in previous seasons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-5", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009464", "text": "Grant President [PERSON] the blessing of Your reward for his faithfulness to You and to this country. And as You lay the mantle of responsibility on the shoulders of our new President, [PERSON] , grant him, as You did [PERSON] , a discerning heart to govern Your people to distinguish between right and wrong. Grant him the faithfulness of [PERSON] who heard Your voice and obeyed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of divine blessing and authority ('grant him as You did'), framing leaders as chosen by God to govern the country"}
{"id": "crec_008398", "text": "Wyoming is America's energy breadbasket. Oil and gas is our bread and butter. We have world-class reserves of coal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'America's energy breadbasket' and 'world-class reserves' invoke national pride and use vague positive language"}
{"id": "crec_001486", "text": "In my opinion, behind-the-scenes diplomacy with [ORG], alongside our partners, is far more likely to yield a result than the approach put forward by this bill. Mr. [PERSON] , I oppose this legislation, and I urge my colleagues to oppose this legislation. I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008423", "text": "But the facts, apparently, are not all that important to our Democratic colleagues. President [PERSON] wasn't finished rewarding his friends with grants of clemency and Presidential honors before he left office. He also sent a parting gift to one of his favorite beneficiaries, which are radical climate activists.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "describing Democratic colleagues as not caring about facts, characterizing climate activists as 'radical,' and using dismissive language like 'parting gift' and 'favorite beneficiaries'"}
{"id": "crec_005046", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS ARMS SALES NOTIFICATIONS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, section 36(b) of [ORG] requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007476", "text": "Devastated families should not be pawns in their political games.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "'Devastated families' and 'pawns in their political games' uses emotionally charged language to frame families as victims of manipulation\"}\n```\n\nWait, I need to correct this - \"appeal_to_emotion\" is not in my allowed labels list.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"loaded_language\"], \"evidence\": \"'Devastated families' paired with 'pawns in their political games' uses emotionally charged framing"}
{"id": "crec_001724", "text": "Has anyone taken a look at those [ORG] articles from last year of the billions and billions and billions that they are documenting that are functionally fraud and abuse? Are we going to be honest about it? There are ways elegantly to fix it without beating the crap out of everyone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'billions and billions and billions' repetition combined with 'functionally fraud and abuse' loaded language to emphasize concern"}
{"id": "crec_007735", "text": "This championship is not just a testament to their athletic talent but to the unwavering support of the [PERSON] community. It is a moment that will inspire future generations to strive for excellence, both on and off the field. I congratulate [ORG] on this well-deserved championship, and may God continue to bless the players, coaches, families, and the entire community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-5", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "unwavering support of the community, inspire future generations to strive for excellence, may God continue to bless"}
{"id": "crec_001516", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , the [ORG]'s actions support [ORG]' explicitly antisemitic and genocidal campaign of terror against Israel, and Congress must respond in the most forceful way possible. The [ORG] is a rogue actor on the world stage, and the United States must have a more effective long-term approach for how to respond to it. Their latest action is a further manifestation of the same antisemitism that is rampant at [ORG] and related international organizations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "Uses charged language like 'antisemitic,' 'genocidal,' 'terror,' and 'rogue actor,' repeated references to antisemitism, and emotionally intense framing designed to provoke strong response"}
{"id": "crec_005456", "text": "Availability of administrative and judicial review. [ORG]. 307.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003504", "text": "========================= END NOTE ========================= [ORG] 15. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006344", "text": "A bill to prohibit the provision of Federal funds to [ORG] for the purposes of conducting biological, medical, or behavioral research involving the testing of dogs; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 457.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002881", "text": "They want to cut the SNAP benefits by hundreds of billions of dollars, slashing the food budgets of millions of Americans by nearly a third. They want to rip healthcare away from people and block access to economic security programs for hardworking American families. That is the Republican playbook: Attack regular people and shower corporations and the ultrarich with tax breaks and hope that it trickles down.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "SNAP benefits 'slashing', 'rip healthcare away', 'Attack regular people' - emotionally charged language paired with catastrophic framing; characterizes Republican policy as uniformly hostile to working people without acknowledging stated rationales"}
{"id": "crec_000030", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 4 votes for Vice President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 1 vote for Vice President. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 6 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 6 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008022", "text": "In many respects, we have still fallen short in ways that continue to haunt us, plague us, and, unfortunately, divide us. Have things changed for the better? Yes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "haunt us, plague us, and, unfortunately, divide us"}
{"id": "crec_004853", "text": "They chose this President, and the President's victory was decisive. Elections have consequences, and [SPEAKER] and I know that. This week, [ORG] is engaging in our constitutional duty of advice and consent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002194", "text": "We have already built more than 450 miles of border wall between the United States and Mexico. We know that it worked. Under President [PERSON] , illegal crossings were at a record low.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "citing record low illegal crossings under a specific president to establish credibility for the border wall policy"}
{"id": "crec_007819", "text": "The people who are listening today can do something about it. They can get on the phone and call. They can call their Congressman or - woman and say that we need your help.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "The people who are listening today can do something about it...call their Congressman or woman"}
{"id": "crec_006827", "text": "He set the playbook. Who followed it? [PERSON] , 1995. Who followed him?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "parallel structure of 'Who followed it?' and 'Who followed him?' creates rhythmic repetition to emphasize a pattern"}
{"id": "crec_002571", "text": "We had a great relationship with those folks. People often ask me why I am friends with Congressman [PERSON] . He is probably my oldest friend up here, truth be known.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008709", "text": "I am on [ORG]. I am going to insist that the budget we pass now that Republicans are in control of the Senate returns to some reasonable baseline. Listen, I am reasonable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing oneself as 'reasonable' while characterizing the opposing party's budget as outside 'reasonable baseline' uses loaded language to frame one's own position as objectively rational"}
{"id": "crec_001375", "text": "What the [ORG] is doing with their arrest warrants is legitimizing the false accusations of Israeli war crimes in order to do something to stop the overwhelming success of Israeli military operations. Mr. [PERSON] , I don't care if a person is a terrorist in a cave or if they are a lawyer in The Hague. If they are getting in the way of bringing home our Americans or bringing home our allies who are, as we speak in this very moment, bound, blindfolded, tortured, raped, enslaved, starved, facing execution, if you are getting in the way of bringing them home, then we will give you no quarter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "descriptions of hostages as 'bound, blindfolded, tortured, raped, enslaved, starved, facing execution' combined with threat of 'no quarter' to anyone perceived as obstructing rescue efforts"}
{"id": "crec_002536", "text": "In August 2016, [ORG] and the [ORG] entered into an occupancy agreement to authorize [ORG] to secure a new 15-year lease. In December 2016, [ORG], with the approval of the [ORG], submitted a prospectus to Congress for approximately 1.3 million square feet, which Congress approved in 2018. In 2019, [ORG] had received final bids, resolved all protests, and even selected a final bidder.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001870", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 242. A bill to require annual surveys of [ORG] employee managers, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008342", "text": "Does it make America stronger or does it make America more prosperous?'' I think that is what the American people should expect from a Secretary of [ORG] and from their government, and anybody who watched his hearing yesterday knows that is what we are going to get from [PERSON] as Secretary of [ORG]. I will have more to say about [PERSON] and other nominees for the [PERSON] administration as they move through the process here in [ORG], and I look forward to hearing from each of the President's nominees in the near future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "references to making America 'stronger' and 'more prosperous' without specific policy details or concrete plans"}
{"id": "crec_006898", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005742", "text": "This does not respect the hard work, dedication, and sacrifices made by female athletes. This was a commonsense bill, and there was a right way and a wrong way to vote on it. In my view, as I stated earlier, 99 percent of Americans agree that men and boys should not be competing in women's and girls' sports, which is why my Republican colleagues and I voted to pass this bill yesterday with only two Democrats voting along with us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'99 percent of Americans agree' combined with 'commonsense bill' and emphasis on Republican voting bloc"}
{"id": "crec_006927", "text": "And that is what this amendment would prevent. Third, this amendment would prohibit corporations from replacing laid-off American workers with H-1B guest workers from overseas. Corporations that are engaged in mass layoffs should not be allowed to replace American workers with guest workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "corporations replacing laid-off American workers with H-1B guest workers; framing issue as corporations choosing between American workers OR guest workers without acknowledging other factors"}
{"id": "crec_008681", "text": "In 2019, prior to the pandemic, total [ORG] spending was $4.4 trillion. Then we had [PERSON] , and I think we very unwisely shut down a lot of our economy. It destroyed people's businesses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing shutdowns as 'very unwisely' and 'destroyed people's businesses' uses emotionally charged language to frame pandemic response negatively without substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_004293", "text": "As a grandfather to six wonderful, capable granddaughters, this is important to me. This bill will safeguard and uphold the integrity and safety of women's sports and the true intention of [ORG], allowing all women the opportunity to achieve excellence in sports. I commend Representative [PERSON] for working on this issue, and I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'as a grandfather to six wonderful, capable granddaughters' and 'safeguard and uphold the integrity and safety of women's sports'"}
{"id": "crec_005791", "text": "Workers of all ages would be eligible to use [PERSON] lifelong learning accounts to pay for skills training, apprenticeships, and other workforce-focused programs. As a senior member of the [ORG] and [ORG] and co- chair of the bipartisan [ORG], I am proud to sponsor [ORG] to provide additional resources for workers to climb to the next rung on the ladder of opportunity. I thank my colleagues, [PERSON] , Congressman [PERSON] , and Congressman [PERSON] , for joining me in this effort.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-3", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'ladder of opportunity' and 'climb to the next rung' combined with citations of senior positions and bipartisan co-sponsorship"}
{"id": "crec_006162", "text": "This bill ensures fair competition in women and girls' sports by rightfully defining gender based on reproductive biology and genetics and prohibiting males identifying as women from competing in federally funded sporting competitions. I was proud to add my support to this critical legislation, and I look forward to voting for a second bill, [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act, on the House floor tomorrow. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "rightfully defining gender, critical legislation, proud to add my support"}
{"id": "crec_005692", "text": "They showed us in Hawaii aloha. That is what we need to do as a nation, as one people. We help each other out in our times of need, regardless of where we come from, our beliefs, or how we vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "aloha, as a nation, as one people, help each other out"}
{"id": "crec_002607", "text": "Dr. [PERSON] has been a part of the Georgia PCOM community since 2010, having served as the interim dean, vice chair of [ORG], and director of [ORG]. Before joining the PCOM community, Dr. [PERSON] served as a pharmacy director and diabetes educator at [ORG] in Gainesville, Georgia. Dr. [PERSON] 's appointment as dean is only one of her many accomplishments, among being named [ORG] Teacher of the Year for Pharmacy Practice in 2019 and Faculty Preceptor of the Year in 2022 and 2023.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-2", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000036", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 17 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 7 votes for President and J.D.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009369", "text": "It is our duty to turn their cries into action, to respond to the clear message that they sent, to honor the charge they delivered. That is the purpose of American democracy. And just as the purpose of our democratic Republic is to turn the will of the people from desire to law, the purpose of our government--the most basic function our country has--is to protect its citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "the purpose of American democracy...our democratic Republic...the most basic function our country has"}
{"id": "crec_002892", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002260", "text": "So we get these great players, and we have a string of players who go to the [ORG], and no doubt [PERSON] will as well. Coach [PERSON] , who is the son of former [ORG] Coach [PERSON] , who is now at Kansas State--you know, the legacy goes on, and [PERSON] son [PERSON] is with us. [PERSON] is a standout linebacker.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "string of players who go to the [ORG]... no doubt [PERSON] will as well; legacy goes on"}
{"id": "crec_001455", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , just for the record, I just want the record to reflect that I remember hearing widespread support from many of my Republican colleagues when the [ORG] issued a warrant against [PERSON] for the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, as well as when they issued a warrant against [PERSON] for genocide in Sudan. I guess what we are hearing here is that we want to pick and choose on their side how we are going to react to the [ORG] based on what they do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["whataboutism", "strawman"], "evidence": "I remember hearing widespread support from many of my Republican colleagues when the [ORG] issued a warrant... I guess what we are hearing here is that we want to pick and choose"}
{"id": "crec_009946", "text": "ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 21; that following the prayer and pledge, the [ORG] of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed; further, upon the conclusion of morning business, the Senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to Calendar No. 4, S. 6; finally, that the Senate recess from 12:30 to 2:15 p.m. to allow for weekly conference meetings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258-3", "word_count": 122, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006661", "text": "My bill named in [PERSON] 's honor would close the alarming loophole that let [PERSON] 's killer go free. It would simply require ICE to detain illegal immigrants charged with killing or seriously injuring another person, so they do not disappear before facing justice. It is common sense, folks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'alarming loophole', 'killer go free', 'disappear before facing justice'"}
{"id": "crec_001175", "text": "Implementation of this proposed sale will not require the assignment of any additional [ORG] or contractor representatives to the recipient. There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001116", "text": "Meeting veterans during these visits brought me, certainly, great joy, and I am always moved by the veterans who see for themselves the memorial built to honor their comrades and themselves. My own father was able to see the World War II Memorial. Before he saw it, I called him to tell him about it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008607", "text": "A lady who is a medical doctor and administrator of a clinic wanted to show me something. They had been having trouble with waterborne illness, and a lot of people were sick. Some children were dying.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008249", "text": "Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers and all [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any [ORG] thereof.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH223-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006745", "text": "Just last year, we saw bipartisan negotiations in the House and how those negotiations can lead to more balanced, more smart, better for the deficit, bipartisan priorities. Our colleague Senator [PERSON] was able to reach a deal with House [PERSON] on a bipartisan tax package that would have lifted children out of poverty--the child tax credit--that would have incentivized investment into research and development, good for companies who then innovate, and that is good for jobs. And also the third piece of this tax bill that was bipartisan would have expanded our ability to build affordable housing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "bipartisan negotiations...more balanced, more smart, better for the deficit...would have lifted children out of poverty"}
{"id": "crec_002136", "text": "President [PERSON] has chosen his team. We have a job to do to ensure that each member of that team gets a fair process here in [ORG], and that is what we are going to do. I look forward to the committees getting to work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009341", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007565", "text": "Nevada: Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, Immigration Center for Women and Children--Nevada Office. New Jersey: [ORG] to End Domestic Violence. New Mexico: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005101", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 92. A bill to require Senate approval before the United States assumes any obligation under a WHO pandemic agreement and to suspend funding for the [ORG] until such agreement is ratified by the Senate; to [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009636", "text": "The Senate took an initial step on border security this past week with consideration of [ORG], which hopefully will pass the Senate today. This legislation will ensure that illegal aliens who steal or assault a law enforcement officer are detained by [ORG] instead of being allowed out on the streets. I am looking forward to getting this legislation to the President's desk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'illegal aliens who steal or assault' and 'instead of being allowed out on the streets'"}
{"id": "crec_000854", "text": "But the first thing we do have to do is pass a budget. That is something we haven't done since 2017. I remember in 2017, right after President [PERSON] was sworn or even before he was sworn into office, we passed a budget resolution from which we got the ability to then pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, one of the most significant tax reform bills in 25 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "reference to President passing significant legislation and describing Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as 'one of the most significant tax reform bills in 25 years'"}
{"id": "crec_001847", "text": "I can tell that the people of California are truly ready to move our [ORG] in a new direction. [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , as we speak, the California legislature has gaveled in a special emergency session of its legislature.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001874", "text": "A bill to require any applicant for a [ORG] grant to submit a certification that such applicant is not in violation of section 274(a) of [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 246.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007000", "text": "He said: If we stay on the road we're on right now, in less than ten years, virtually everything that matters to us in life will depend on whether China will allow us to have it or not. Folks, this is a clear test of whether America is going to get off that road. Are we willing to change direction?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "virtually everything that matters to us in life will depend on whether China will allow us to have it; forced choice between staying on current road or changing direction"}
{"id": "crec_007929", "text": "We have got to try. It is 6 years later, and he has done very little to help California to be more fire safe. A fire a couple of years after that in a different part of Butte County ended up being called the north complex--because several fires burned together, and they call that a complex.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008971", "text": "D. Report on the Nominee. After a review of all information pertinent to the nomination, a confidential report on the nominee shall be made in the case of judicial nominees and may be made in the case of non-judicial nominees by the designated investigators to the [ORG] and the [ORG] Member and, upon request, to any other Member of the [ORG]. The report shall summarize the steps taken by the [ORG] during its investigation of the nominee and the results of the [ORG] inquiry, including any unresolved matters that have been raised during the course of the inquiry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004502", "text": "[[ORG]] UNCONDITIONAL AID FOR LOS ANGELES ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, there is a great tragedy occurring in California as we speak.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "there is a great tragedy occurring in California as we speak"}
{"id": "crec_002469", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , H.R. 153, the Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act, will increase transparency for post-disaster Federal assistance. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "increase transparency for post-disaster Federal assistance"}
{"id": "crec_009726", "text": "Before the Root family could even lay [PERSON] to rest in her satin- lined casket in the cold Iowa ground, her murderer had posted bond, never to be seen again and never to face justice. Since then, I have warned repeatedly against the dangers of letting illegal immigrants who have already broken our laws roam the country and continue their lawlessness. A loophole in the law meant [PERSON] 's killer escaped justice, but today we can do something to ensure that no other family has to go through the pain and the grief that [ORG] and [ORG] and the rest of their family still feel from that heartbreaking day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "the vivid emotional imagery of the casket and cold ground combined with warnings about 'dangers' and the assertion that a legal loophole means the only solution is stricter immigration laws"}
{"id": "crec_002756", "text": "ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule [ORG], sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions, as follows: H.R. 21: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008213", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 500. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: [ORG] to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH222-28", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_001312", "text": "As someone who has lived, operated businesses, and raised my four children in our community, I know that families are struggling and feel like their voice isn't heard. I am here to say that I am listening and I am fighting for our families. My top priorities are making sure that our kids are learning, healthy, and thriving; supporting hardworking families who feel like their government has left them behind; and working to bring new and good jobs back to Oregon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-2", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "As someone who has lived, operated businesses, and raised my four children in our community, I know that families are struggling"}
{"id": "crec_006899", "text": "The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000638", "text": "The swamp wasn't drained so much as doubled and tripled and more. Even during the last campaign, [PERSON] promised oil executives huge tax breaks if he won. That would be the opposite of the promises he made to the people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "use of 'the swamp' as derogatory loaded term; characterization of promised tax breaks as breaking promises to people suggests hypocrisy/untrustworthiness"}
{"id": "crec_002192", "text": "This isn't comprehensive immigration reform. To be very clear, there is much more that needs to be done to fix our broken open border. Today, I reintroduced a bill called the Build the Wall Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "describing immigration system as 'broken open border' and presenting wall-building as the solution to comprehensive reform needs"}
{"id": "crec_009715", "text": "We must not abandon that aspiration in our time. Mr. President, I am grateful for your patience. I apologize for going over a minute or two.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002560", "text": "The [ORG] is the [ORG]'s largest government-owned wholesale power producer, supplying power to 10 million people across the States of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. This legislation corrects a change that was enacted in 1995 that removed the requirement for [ORG] to disclose the management structure and salaries of its executives. Today, [ORG] has approximately 13,000 employees, and the median salary is $160,000.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004942", "text": "You know, the child tax credit was first proposed in its earliest form by President [PERSON] , who was looking for a way back in the 1980s in circumstances not so dissimilar from ours, to deliver real, meaningful tax relief to working families with children. And then, in 1994, the famous [ORG] promised what became today's modern child tax credit to deliver once again real tax relief for every working family in this country. And now it is time for us again to strengthen that pledge and that promise and to deliver new and powerful tax relief for every family that will help strengthen our working families, help put our workers on a firmer foundation, help get our economy working again for the people who make it work for the entire Nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 134, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "repetition", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "References to President and famous organization's past proposals to establish credibility; repeated use of 'real,' 'meaningful,' 'deliver,' and 'strengthen' to emphasize commitment"}
{"id": "crec_008982", "text": "Elise embraced the notion that Congress is not only capable of high- quality oversight and, in doing so, would turn the tide of history toward fairness and equality. In the days when [PERSON] ran the [ORG] staff from its basement office in Dirksen, she led by example, spending long hours at her massive wooden desk, with tall stacks of reports and research lining the perimeter and posterboard hearing exhibits leaning on the walls. She was an irrepressible advocate for better financial policies by exposing wrongdoing, corruption, money laundering, tax avoidance, and all manner of form-over-substance abuses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "turn the tide of history toward fairness and equality"}
{"id": "crec_001044", "text": "By doing that, we cut it down from 190 days to be able to issue that permit to 65 days. Now, we can't change any of the environmental regulations. That was just a better job of issuing those permits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006867", "text": "I can't stress this enough: again, tax breaks for the very, very wealthy--the top 1 percent--on the backs of working families, on the backs of individuals, our middle class. To me, that is just outrageous. Padding the pockets of the top 1 percent at the expense of hard-working families is unacceptable, and nobody should stand for that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "loaded language ('outrageous', 'unacceptable'), repetition of 'on the backs of', 'top 1 percent', creating fear that working families will suffer"}
{"id": "crec_004716", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 392. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a tax credit for nurse preceptors; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005756", "text": "Inaction means the fund will be cut. Unpaid action means the fund will be cut drastically. Imagine there are more than 5 million people that get a below- poverty-level check from [ORG], having paid in all their lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Inaction means the fund will be cut. Unpaid action means the fund will be drastically cut."}
{"id": "crec_000169", "text": "The airport south of town has a little landing strip, and it is about a half a mile long. My colleague Senator [PERSON] here has probably flown into it. He is a pilot.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009884", "text": "It is going to end immediately. Our [ORG] will be free to focus on their sole mission: defeating America's enemies. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "defeating America's enemies"}
{"id": "crec_009465", "text": "And may he have the heart of [PERSON] , that You would bestow on him Your grace and mercy as he carries out his solemn duties. Then bestow on us, divided though we may be, the unity of Your spirit through the bond of peace, that we would each commit to live into the gifts of that same spirit and to serve one another as faithful stewards of Your grace. We humble ourselves this day, and we call upon Your name.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-3", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002204", "text": "[PERSON] did not just talk about her faith, she led by example. A truly special person. [PERSON] was, as we can hear in [PERSON] and [PERSON] 's heartfelt words, just incredible.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "truly special person, just incredible, heartfelt words"}
{"id": "crec_009244", "text": "Each firefighter exhibits strength, resiliency, and grit to protect the forests, grasslands, and communities of the United States. Wildland firefighters do not shy away from dangerous situations, but instead risk life and limb to help others. The outstanding accomplishments of these brave individuals continue an unparalleled legacy of public service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS231", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "strength, resiliency, and grit to protect... unparalleled legacy of public service"}
{"id": "crec_004596", "text": "Our brothers and sisters on the left who want basically a socialized, planned economy, industrial policy, they did on the CHIPS Act and then their version of I guess they call it the Inflation Reduction Act, there is some good economic data now that says if you want to do something much less expensive, created much broader economic growth, and created much more productivity, you should not do what the Democrats did, which is let's thank some of our favorite industrial entities. Their executives, their investors will write us political checks. However, if you had done something like research and development expensing, and expensing when a company buys a piece of equipment to be better, faster, cheaper, it is dramatically less expensive, and it actually has more economic value, more economic growth, and it is spread throughout the economy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 139, "labels": ["strawman", "ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing Democratic economic policy as merely favoring 'favorite industrial entities' whose 'executives, their investors will write us political checks' misrepresents the stated purpose of the legislation and implies corrupt motivation"}
{"id": "crec_000148", "text": "The voters sent President [PERSON] here with a mission, and we are committed to ensuring that he has the people around him that he needs to deliver. It has been a tough 4 years for the American people. The [PERSON] administration was characterized by a historic inflation crisis that left millions of Americans struggling, a border crisis that jeopardized our national security, and increasing instability on the world stage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-7", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "historic inflation crisis, border crisis that jeopardized our national security, increasing instability"}
{"id": "crec_007772", "text": "Four months ago, North Carolina confronted horrifying destruction from Hurricane Helene. While we can never put all the pieces back together and we can never replace all that has been taken by fire or flood, we as lawmakers have a duty to ensure the American people can rebuild. Disaster relief is a lifeline.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "horrifying destruction' combined with 'we as lawmakers have a duty' establishes emotional stakes while appealing to institutional authority"}
{"id": "crec_008770", "text": "How dare they. They should have. We did, and we will continue to make sure that we speak up for these kids.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'How dare they' and emphasis on 'we will continue to make sure that we speak up for these kids' implies threat to children without explicit justification"}
{"id": "crec_005902", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentlewoman for yielding, and I thank the chairman for bringing this bill to the floor. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to support the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act. This is a bipartisan bill that would address the issue of double taxation between Taiwan and the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002225", "text": "Thanks to her leadership, we have supporters and cosponsors from both sides of the aisle backing this legislation. I urge my colleagues to move to and support this bill. The primary role of [ORG] is to protect its citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "supporters and cosponsors from both sides of the aisle backing this legislation"}
{"id": "crec_005349", "text": "SA 31. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 32.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008534", "text": "Are we willing to take a bullet for this country like President [PERSON] did? Are we willing to take on the fake news media who will try to undermine his everyday agenda? The job ahead of us won't be easy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "taking a bullet for the country paired with authority figure; fake news media framing as adversary to fear; difficult job ahead creates urgency"}
{"id": "crec_008792", "text": "It is bipartisan; it is targeted; and it is common sense. That is why we want to keep it that way. I object.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "describing something as 'bipartisan,' 'targeted,' and 'common sense' without substantive detail"}
{"id": "crec_005745", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to address the concern that faces [ORG], one that it has avoided and neglected for more than 54 years. [PERSON] was the last President to enhance [ORG]. That was in 1971.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "invoking a past president's action as standard; describing inaction as 'avoided and neglected' uses negatively charged language"}
{"id": "crec_002900", "text": "They have failed to ever make a profit and struggle to provide adequate service. Even with the post-pandemic improvements in ridership, staggering financial losses remain. In 2023, [ORG] lost more than $1.7 billion despite collecting $11 billion in taxpayer subsidies and almost $22 billion in advanced funding from [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "staggering financial losses, lost more than $1.7 billion, struggle to provide adequate service"}
{"id": "crec_002882", "text": "Let's reject this disgusting plan and invest in our anti-poverty safety net. Let's support our middle class and let's end hunger now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'disgusting plan' and vague appeals to 'support our middle class' and 'end hunger now' without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_002011", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-32", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 1"}
{"id": "crec_002905", "text": "It is why this bill has been brought to the floor today, to require [ORG] to publish its annual executive bonus awards on its website, providing passengers, employees, and taxpayers with transparency regarding how their tax dollars are being spent. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support of this legislation. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "urges support of legislation framed as promoting transparency and accountability to passengers, employees, and taxpayers"}
{"id": "crec_007903", "text": "What is going on now? Everything is all about going into a shell and living in a cave under some environmental interpretation. Where is the leadership?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing environmental concerns as 'going into a shell and living in a cave' misrepresents the position while using dismissive, emotionally charged language"}
{"id": "crec_009359", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The Senator from Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001102", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Oklahoma.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009085", "text": "Mr. President, I want to turn to a separate matter, and I think all of us are heartbroken by what we see happening in Los Angeles with the devastating fires. There has been a horrific loss of life, of homes, and businesses due to these California fires, and the loss is just staggering. As we speak, firefighters, first responders--including [ORG]--are working around the clock to keep residents safe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "heartbroken...devastating fires...horrific loss of life...staggering"}
{"id": "crec_000991", "text": "Yet, with the federal workforce still largely working from home, not a single headquarters of a major government agency or department in the nation's capital is even half full. Billions more are being spent buying brand new furnishings for the abandoned offices. The government also owns 7,697 vacant buildings and another 2,265 that are partially empty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing offices as 'abandoned' and emphasizing 'billions more' being 'wasted' on vacant buildings to suggest government mismanagement and fiscal irresponsibility"}
{"id": "crec_005684", "text": "[PERSON] , the trailblazing Congresswoman who championed [ORG], understood the deep injustices women face in education and beyond. As a woman and a Japanese American, she fought so that her daughter and all future generations could pursue their dreams without fear of prejudice or exclusion. They fought this hard fight, and for us, this bill betrays her legacy and all of her efforts by turning back the clock on these hard-won rights.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "trailblazing Congresswoman who championed...understood the deep injustices...fought so that her daughter and all future generations could pursue their dreams"}
{"id": "crec_004096", "text": "I thank them so much, and I want them to know that I will always have their back here in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002295", "text": "If I might reclaim a moment. I think there are two [ORG] who should be wearing those ties. But, anyway, we will find them later.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001456", "text": "I mean, the bottom line is this is the beginning of a process. It is not the end of a process. This bill will do nothing to help get the release of our hostages, including those Americans who are held hostage, and it will isolate us within the world community, especially with many of our allies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "claiming the bill 'will do nothing to help' hostages and 'will isolate us' presents a false choice between this bill and effective hostage release, while using fear language about international isolation"}
{"id": "crec_001731", "text": "Are we allowed to talk about it? If we talk about it, then the Democrats will run nasty ads about you. So somehow, they are comfortable with the immorality that in 9 years we are going to double senior poverty in America, because that is what is happening.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "If we talk about it, then the Democrats will run nasty ads about you; doubling senior poverty described as 'immorality'"}
{"id": "crec_008704", "text": "I mean, somewhere within the range of 5.5, which would literally balance our budget, up to 6, $6.2 trillion, that is a reasonable base that we ought to include in a budget we will be passing this year, and that should drive future spending. That would reset spending levels to a far more reasonable level. Again, let me just reemphasize, whether we use [PERSON] 1998 spending level, which would result in a $5.5 trillion baseline; [PERSON] 2014 spending levels, which would result in a baseline budget of $6.2 trillion; or President [PERSON] 's final budget, which would result in a $6 trillion spending level, that is a reasonable approach.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "The phrase 'that is a reasonable' is repeated three times across different spending scenarios to reinforce the acceptability of the proposed budget levels"}
{"id": "crec_001650", "text": "In my heart of heart, I think we are overpaid for the quality of our work product. Maybe that is what we should do. Get rid of every congressional salary--that is, the Senate and here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007855", "text": "The dead trees and damaged trees are being removed. The landscape will be different so that Paradise does not have the same issue in 40 years. We will have resilient homes that will stand up to fire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "resilient homes that will stand up to fire"}
{"id": "crec_001221", "text": "There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [ORG], Washington, DC. Hon. [PERSON] , Chairman, [ORG], [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS64", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000490", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 223. A bill to prohibit funding for the implementation and enforcement of [ORG] red flag orders; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006852", "text": "I will always support policies that work for everyone. As Members of Congress, we have the opportunity to make a real and meaningful difference in people's lives, and that starts by working to make the American dream more affordable for hard-working people. Heading into the new administration, I am deeply concerned about President [PERSON] 's plan to cut taxes for the ultrawealthy and billionaires on the backs of workers, senior citizens, and middle-class families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "cut taxes for the ultrawealthy and billionaires on the backs of workers, senior citizens, and middle-class families"}
{"id": "crec_006474", "text": "As we know, [ORG] has a history of inflating numbers, of not distinguishing fighters from civilians, and of listing male soldiers as women or children. A recent report by [ORG] confirms that the widely cited Gaza casualty statistics suffer from all forms of falsifications. Still, as we would all agree, any civilian death in Gaza is a real tragedy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-5", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claims [ORG] has 'history of inflating numbers' and 'falsifications' to cast doubt on casualty statistics; loaded language like 'all forms of falsifications' to characterize reporting negatively"}
{"id": "crec_004565", "text": "If you are one of our new Members, please, you have got to memorize this. You see the blue on the chart that is upside down so I look like an idiot. Let's get this right.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "so I look like an idiot\"}\n```\n\nWait, let me reconsider. \"Self-deprecation\" is not in the allowed labels list. Let me re-analyze:\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"loaded_language\"], \"evidence\": \"you have got to memorize this\"}\n```\n\nActually, the strongest technique here is the speaker using emotionally charged language and appeal to appear honest/relatable:\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"loaded_language\"], \"evidence\": \"so I look like an idiot"}
{"id": "crec_001637", "text": "It turns out [ORG], and I know this chart is a little hard to read, but the punch line on it is, if you functionally extend the tax policy but you pay for it, through the decade, you actually get more economic growth. The economy actually grows. People say, oh, but you reached in and pulled money out to pay for the offset.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing tax policy criticism as 'people say, oh, but you reached in and pulled money out' - misrepresenting the opposing argument while using loaded language ('punch line') to suggest the speaker's view is obviously correct"}
{"id": "crec_005780", "text": "We released balloons into the sky, and Pastor Dr. [PERSON] , her beloved husband, made the heartfelt announcement. The new name is fitting, reflecting the center's role in serving the community to which she dedicated so much of her life. I am truly grateful for Dr. [PERSON] , and the new name of this incredible facility in our community now makes it complete.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-8", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "heartfelt announcement, beloved husband, dedicated so much of her life, incredible facility, serves the community"}
{"id": "crec_006298", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Iowa, Mr. [PERSON] of New York, and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 413. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to index dependent care assistance programs to inflation; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007843", "text": "That is pretty dubious. I can relate also a recent story when they are talking water storage and water projects, [ORG], which you may have heard of in the late 1960s, early 1970s that they were putting in place in Tennessee, part of [ORG], that it was going to provide massive benefits to the people of the area with hydroelectric power, stored water for water use, flood control, recreation, all the good things. Somebody from a university was out there poking around, and they thought they found an endangered species that they dubbed the snail darter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "described as 'dubious' and 'poking around'; dismissive characterization of endangered species discovery with quotation marks around 'snail darter' and phrase 'they thought they found'"}
{"id": "crec_004762", "text": "[PERSON] 283: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-30", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008002", "text": "Like so many others, I feel personally driven out of my respect for the life and legacy of Dr. [PERSON] to find a way to celebrate this observance through acts of service, for it is only through reflecting the values and the morals and the principles of Dr. [PERSON] into our lives that we will enact the dream that he has so often been associated with, where justice is the supreme ruler, freedom is the dominant creed, and equity the common practice. I would urge us to take a moment in this discussion or any other discussion, a moment of remembrance to really talk about Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., the man, the myth, and the legacy. I think it is important to point out that Dr. [PERSON] was born, as I said before, on January 15, 1929, in the segregated south in Atlanta, Georgia, where his grandfather began the family's tenure many, many years ago in another [ORG] as the pastor of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 167, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "justice is the supreme ruler, freedom is the dominant creed, and equity the common practice"}
{"id": "crec_000244", "text": "The mayor also proudly served his country in [ORG]. Mayor [PERSON] exemplified leadership, leaving behind a legacy that reminds us all to serve with kindness and with purpose. I thank Mayor [PERSON] for his service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "proudly served his country, exemplified leadership, legacy, serve with kindness and purpose"}
{"id": "crec_007576", "text": "The Democrats voted against it because they would rather stand up for the other extraneous provisions of the legislation. This legislation will protect American communities from criminal, illegal aliens; create new grounds of inadmissibility and removability; and expand current grounds for aliens who commit sex offenses and domestic violence offenses. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to support it because illegal aliens who commit child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence have no place in our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterization of Democrats as opposing protection from 'criminal, illegal aliens' and repeated emphasis on heinous crimes (child abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence) to frame opposition negatively"}
{"id": "crec_001785", "text": "This piece of legislation, comprehensive immigration reform, would have addressed that issue, and it also would have addressed discontentment. What is discontentment? I hear it quite regularly when I am out and about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing 'discontentment' as a widespread problem requiring legislative action, while leaving the nature and scope vague to suggest general anxiety"}
{"id": "crec_002185", "text": "Protecting Americans from the dangers of a broken border makes sense to, I believe, most, if not all, of our citizens. Earlier this week, Senator [PERSON] of Pennsylvania was asked about [ORG]. This is what he said.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Protecting Americans from the dangers of a broken border"}
{"id": "crec_009922", "text": "Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!' '' And because America is called to be a great nation, we believe that You will make this come true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride... let freedom ring; America is called to be a great nation"}
{"id": "crec_002217", "text": "Every American family needs us to pass [ORG]. And they deserve it. Today, on the eve of what should have been [PERSON] 23rd birthday, let's honor her legacy and advance a bipartisan bill that will help us save American lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Every American family needs us to pass [ORG]...honor her legacy and advance a bipartisan bill that will help us save American lives"}
{"id": "crec_005610", "text": "Honoring Janine's [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, today, I rise to honor our January small business of the month, [PERSON] 's Flowers. This fantastic business in Camdenton has been serving the lake area with floral artistry through weddings, proms, first dates, and so many other special occasions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-5", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004172", "text": "In fact, this bill will empower child predators, putting students across the country at increased risk. This is a one-size-fits-all bill that would apply equally to every sport, from K-12 schools to colleges. Currently, schools, parents, and communities manage youth sports leagues and write rules about who can participate in different sports at different levels.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "this bill will empower child predators, putting students across the country at increased risk"}
{"id": "crec_000750", "text": "SENATE RESOLUTION 17--TO CONSTITUTE [ORG] [ORG] FOR THE ONE HUNDRED NINETEENTH CONGRESS, OR UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE CHOSEN [SPEAKER] submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to: [PERSON] . 17 Resolved, the following shall constitute the minority party's membership on the following committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen: [ORG], and Forestry: Ms. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . Committee on Appropriations: Mrs. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43", "word_count": 137, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006426", "text": ". . general Welfare of the United States; .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-24", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001482", "text": "This is nuts. Mr. [PERSON] , what would happen next? I can tell you.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "This is nuts"}
{"id": "crec_000902", "text": "I believe birthright citizenship--put into our Constitution in the 1860s to rectify the sin of slavery and the egregious [ORG] decision--has really been a blessing to our country, and it has actually inspired a global movement, especially among nations in the Americas, to guarantee citizenship to all born within their borders. There are slightly more than three dozen nations in the world that guarantee birthright citizenship, predominantly in the Americas. And why did it catch hold in the Americas?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing birthright citizenship as 'a blessing to our country' and claiming it 'inspired a global movement' uses vague positive language and appeals to the authority/precedent of multiple nations adopting similar policies"}
{"id": "crec_008768", "text": "I also find it really interesting because for the past 4 years under the failed [ORG] administration's open border policies, I have not seen one bill be brought to the floor from this side of the aisle to really focus on what is happening to children as a result of these policies. If you look at our wide-open border, we have had over 468,000 unaccompanied children come across our border in the last 4 years. When you look at the numbers that [ORG] has put out, they admit to losing at least 85,000 children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "failed administration's open border policies, wide-open border, losing at least 85,000 children"}
{"id": "crec_002602", "text": "This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 405, nays 5, not voting 24, as follows: [Roll No. 9] YEAS--405 [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) Cherfilus-[PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] [ORG] [PERSON] ([ORG] (PA) [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (ME) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) Gonzales, [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TN) [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TX) Greene (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MD) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (OK) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (AR) [PERSON] (OR) [PERSON] (CO) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (SD) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (VA) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (PA) Leger [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (WV) [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (WI) [PERSON] (WV) [PERSON] (IA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (KY) [PERSON] Sanchez [PERSON] (VA) [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] (MO) [PERSON] (NE) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [ORG] [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] Velazquez [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG][ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] NOT VOTING--24 [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] Swalwell [PERSON] Waltz [PERSON] ([ORG]) So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH107", "word_count": 584, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004118", "text": "On behalf of Nebraska's First District, congratulations to both [PERSON] and [PERSON] . I thank them for their remarkable service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-9", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007914", "text": "Well, conservation. Conservation is great. Use less when you can.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002704", "text": "Congress has the authority to enact this legislation pursuant to the power granted under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH111-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the authority to enact this legislation pursuant to the power granted under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 and Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_004655", "text": "No later than five days after the witness has been notified of the opportunity to review the transcript, the witness may submit suggested changes to the chair. Committee staff may make any typographical and technical changes. Substantive changes, modifications, clarifications, or amendments to the deposition transcript submitted by the witness must be accompanied by a letter signed by the witness requesting the changes and a statement of the witness's reasons for each proposed change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001432", "text": "I rise in support of [ORG] to reimpose sanctions on officials working for [ORG]. This institution has continually abused its authority and demonstrated blatant hostility toward our allies and American values, as Israel has continued to defend itself against terrorists in the Middle East, over the objections of this administration, by the way. Let's be clear, [ORG] and [PERSON] would still be alive if [PERSON] listened to this administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing as choice between supporting sanctions or enabling abuse; 'abused its authority,' 'blatant hostility,' 'terrorists'; suggesting deaths result from ignoring administration's position"}
{"id": "crec_002268", "text": "Maybe that is how it got started. But we love Frisco. We love [ORG], [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005111", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 26. A resolution to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004289", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ), the chair of [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001531", "text": "[ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] of Connecticut, Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [SPEAKER] (during the reading).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH74-3", "word_count": 122, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007566", "text": "New York: [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , Her [ORG], [ORG]'s Door, [ORG], [ORG], The Legal Aid Society, Turning Point for Women & Families, urban justice center | domestic violence project, [ORG], [ORG]. North Carolina: North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] to [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] 's [ORG], [ORG] in Darkness, [ORG], Inc. Ohio: [ORG], [ORG], Advocating Opportunity. Oregon: [ORG] and Sexual Violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007769", "text": "Their selflessness and commitment to protecting fellow Americans is inspiring. I thank these firefighters and every first responder stepping into harm's way. Guardians of their communities, firefighters are always willing to run into danger and share their brave hearts and strong hands.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'selflessness and commitment', 'Guardians of their communities', 'brave hearts and strong hands'"}
{"id": "crec_004848", "text": "In 2009, the President coming into office, [PERSON] , had seven [ORG] nominees confirmed on his very first day in office. Within 8 days of taking office, he had 14 nominees confirmed. All but five of his nominees in 2009 were confirmed by voice vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008049", "text": "[ORG] on Successful Orbit of New Glenn Rocket [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I would like to congratulate [ORG] on successfully reaching orbit in the first flight of its New Glenn rocket. New Glenn is a 320-foot rocket that is taller than [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009315", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_005947", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in strong support of the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act. The EU, U.K., Japan, Australia, and New Zealand are among the countries that have a tax treaty with Taiwan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "EU, U.K., Japan, Australia, and New Zealand are among the countries that have a tax treaty with Taiwan"}
{"id": "crec_008510", "text": "The left couldn't stand these many successes that President [PERSON] 's administration was achieving at home and abroad, so they pulled out all stops to take him down. That is when the deep state bureaucrats and globalist organizations worked together to intensify the [PERSON] crisis. At the same time, [PERSON] riots erupted and destroyed cities across our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "deep state bureaucrats and globalist organizations worked together to intensify the crisis; riots erupted and destroyed cities across our country"}
{"id": "crec_004812", "text": "We know his awful and radical record from the first [ORG] administration. Even after leaving government, Mr. [PERSON] was the go-to authority for the most radical elements of the House GOP, advising them on budgets that punished America's families, seniors, kids, law enforcement, and others with draconian--draconian--budget cuts. His budget cuts weren't just snipping at the edges; they cut to the deep.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "awful and radical record, draconian--draconian--budget cuts, punished America's families, cut to the deep"}
{"id": "crec_009099", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 140 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008755", "text": "From that common understanding, needed reforms can be implemented. But here on the floor of the Senate, where often only one or two of us are here at a time, there is no such consideration. We can't bring experts to the floor here to resolve these issues.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008372", "text": ". . than we have been in a long time.''", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004445", "text": "[SPEAKER] will report the motion to recommit. [SPEAKER] read as follows: Ms. [PERSON] North Carolina moves to recommit the bill H.R. 28 to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007070", "text": "I announce that the Senator from Oregon (Mr. [PERSON] ) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 70, nays 25, as follows: [[ORG] Vote No. 3 Leg.]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009672", "text": "We are looking for targeted reforms. They are going to keep Americans safe and secure. It is exactly what [ORG] does.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "keep Americans safe and secure\" and \"exactly what [ORG] does"}
{"id": "crec_008541", "text": "And some of you have reached out in the time since to offer your support, to offer your assistance, and even offer condolences for those who have perished in this significant disaster. And I want to thank you for your initial outreach. My colleague Senator [PERSON] and I have come to the floor today to provide you all a little bit of an update and to lay a foundation on some of the key issues that we are going to need to work together on as we move forward.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005012", "text": "I hope the Senator from Arkansas agrees. So I ask unanimous consent on my resolution. It is a resolution that contains the allegations which I made earlier.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008554", "text": "And now we expect our country to be here for California. If Speaker [PERSON] or any Member of Congress, for that matter, is worried about the [ORG] debt, let me assure you: California has already paid the bill. California, as you may know, is the largest economy of any [ORG] in the nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "California is the largest economy of any state in the nation"}
{"id": "crec_009807", "text": "With that responsibility of citizenship comes an obligation not to seek out malice, as President [PERSON] once reminded us, but to view others with the generosity of spirit, despite our differences. With that responsibility of leadership comes an obligation to stand our ground when we must and find common ground when we can. With everything swirling around us, the hot mess of division, it is on all of us--to quote an incredible songwriter, who just happened to be born in my [ORG]--to ensure that our [ORG]'s democracy is our shelter from the storm.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "appeals to abstract ideals like 'generosity of spirit,' 'responsibility of citizenship,' and 'democracy is our shelter from the storm' without specific policy details; invokes organizational pride and democratic values as unquestionable goods"}
{"id": "crec_007500", "text": "The bill also fixes a discrepancy in current law by creating a ground of inadmissibility for domestic violence to mirror the existing ground of removability for the same offenses. In addition, [PERSON] 30 expands the current ground of removability for domestic violence by cross-referencing an existing statutory definition for sex offenses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006135", "text": "As the mother of two daughters who are athletes, I have seen firsthand the hard work and dedication it takes for girls to compete in sports. Sadly, we have witnessed biological men entering women's competitions, robbing female athletes of fair opportunities and, in some cases, even causing injuries. Under House Republican leadership, that ends now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "biological men entering women's competitions, robbing female athletes of fair opportunities and, in some cases, even causing injuries"}
{"id": "crec_003137", "text": "[ORG]. 1128. Correction of social security records; conforming amendments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002195", "text": "But now, after more than 10 million illegal immigrants have poured into our country during the last 4 years, we need to finish the wall. The need to do it is greater today than it has ever been before. The moment has come for safety and for security and, now, for serious action.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "poured into our country; safety and security repeated; heightened urgency through 'greater today than ever before'"}
{"id": "crec_009414", "text": "So it is good that [PERSON] and some Republicans have seen the light and that they have heard from vociferous [PERSON] , and now they are changing their minds about [ORG]. But let's not forget, these costly [ORG] caps are set to expire at the end of the year. So to our friends on the other side, if you actually want to lower costs for Long Island, [PERSON] Valley, and other families across the country, all you have to do is do nothing at all on [ORG] caps.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "phrases like 'seen the light' and 'vociferous' use loaded language; the framing that Republicans must either 'do nothing at all' to lower costs presents a false dichotomy by suggesting this is the only path to cost reduction"}
{"id": "crec_008835", "text": "We are all, of course, praying for the people impacted by the fires in California. We are all ready to stand by to help. The States are coming together.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "We are all... praying... States are coming together - uses vague, emotionally appealing language about unity and solidarity without specific commitments"}
{"id": "crec_009893", "text": "(Applause.) Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and right now our Nation is more ambitious than any other. There is no nation like our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation; no nation like our [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_000334", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 29.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001723", "text": "Then we have to do hard things. We will have to do a revolution. Have you seen the numbers coming out of Medicare Advantage?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing policy changes as 'revolution' and invoking concern about Medicare Advantage numbers creates urgency and alarm"}
{"id": "crec_008208", "text": ". . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing [ORG], and all other [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any [ORG] or Officer thereof.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH222-23", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004034", "text": "On January 1, 1804, Haiti became the first free Black republic, declaring independence for all people from colonial rule and enslavement. This weekend also marks 15 years since a devastating earthquake killed thousands and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes on the island. These anniversaries encapsulate the values of the Haitian people: resistance and resilience.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004547", "text": "We are all walking around with these supercomputers in our pockets. The idea is that you could crowdsource certain data, crash the size of the bureaucracy, make them less intrusive, and yet air quality, water quality, and all these other things can be much safer. It costs a fraction of what we do today, but you just have to be willing to think like a scientist, a data person, and deal with the army of lobbyists that are outside in the hallway who are upset that you are making them change their business model or their unionized bureaucracies, they show up here angry at you saying, what do you mean you want to use technology at the IRS?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 118, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing opponents as 'army of lobbyists' with emotionally charged language; appealing to authority by invoking the credibility of 'scientist' and 'data person' approaches"}
{"id": "crec_004249", "text": "We have already seen numerous examples of female athletes being injured by grown men who claim to be women. The physical advantages possessed by male athletes are undeniable. Allowing men to compete alongside women undermines the integrity of women's sports and diminishes the hard work, dedication, and dreams of female athletes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "female athletes being injured by grown men; undermines integrity and diminishes dreams"}
{"id": "crec_008872", "text": "And as I am sure you probably believe, you don't always hear about this part of the job of representing people in our great Republic; but in my view, it is probably the best part of the job because you have a direct impact on someone you represent, and you can literally change their lives. We do that, we put our heart and soul into it, but nobody has put their heart and soul into it more than [PERSON] . She has made all of this happen, 12,000 cases.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'great Republic' and '[PERSON] has made all of this happen, 12,000 cases'"}
{"id": "crec_005807", "text": "As some of these bright and talented men and women prepare for their next endeavors, I wish them the best of luck and blessings for an even brighter and more victorious future. Go, Panthers. In God we trust.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'bright and talented' and 'brighter and more victorious future' combined with 'In God we trust'"}
{"id": "crec_008322", "text": "For several [PERSON] , I have been leading a bipartisan effort that is called the [ORG]. This bill encourages pharmacists--only where they are licensed and trained to do this--to offer healthcare services under [ORG], such as health and wellness screenings, immunizations, and diabetes management. This is necessary because, for many seniors in rural areas, it is simply easier to get to a pharmacist than it is to get to their nearest doctor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "bipartisan effort; pharmacists licensed and trained; healthcare services"}
{"id": "crec_005772", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER]. Will the gentlewoman from Arizona (Ms. [PERSON] ) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_004718", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois): H.R. 394. A bill to increase penalties for child pornography; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007933", "text": "That is a local thing. Yet, he wants to come down there and start talking about the vision for a new L.A., L.A. 2.0, or Los Angeles 2028. They are going to have the Olympics there in 2028, I think.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006802", "text": "The third point that many of my colleagues have made is that tax cuts do not pay for themselves. You know, dream on. Folks like to say that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "\"dream on\" dismisses the opposing viewpoint with dismissive language while \"Folks like to say that\" casts doubt on the claim without substantive rebuttal"}
{"id": "crec_005788", "text": "His legacy is one of love, inclusivity, and hope. I wish Pastor [PERSON] the very best in this next chapter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "legacy is one of love, inclusivity, and hope"}
{"id": "crec_006562", "text": "So they tried to cover it up so that they could keep getting these millions and billions of dollars--as I said, U.S. taxpayers, 7.1 billion that has gone into this group. In the years since, [ORG] leaders have repeatedly pledged support for Palestinian terrorists. That same year, the agency's Lebanon director told terror leaders that [ORG] hoped to have a strong partnership with them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing financial support as 'cover up' and 'millions and billions of dollars' flowing to groups associated with 'Palestinian terrorists' and 'terror leaders'"}
{"id": "crec_000910", "text": "One is the VA Veteran Caregivers Act. And, of course, as our veterans have returned from wars, as caregivers from their families have stepped up to assist them, there were some--basically, some gaps that needed to be filled in. We did that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "our veterans have returned from wars, as caregivers from their families have stepped up to assist them"}
{"id": "crec_006352", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for lifelong learning accounts, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 465.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000618", "text": "Instead of showing strength, he kept our borders open and continued to ignore Iran's aggression. Weakness in [ORG] put us here. Returning to strength will help lead us out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Presents only two options (weakness vs. strength) while ignoring nuanced policy alternatives; uses loaded terms 'weakness' and 'aggression' to frame criticism; implies danger from open borders and Iran to motivate action"}
{"id": "crec_000765", "text": "As the only sitting Member of Congress today who served with the [PERSON] Presidency, I remember him fondly and maybe have a couple of times to remind you about. I don't know exactly what year it was, but I was in Iowa. He made a phone call to me asking--he was on his way to Nicaragua to observe whether or not a Presidential election at that time was going to be a fair election.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "As the only sitting Member of Congress today who served with the [PERSON] Presidency"}
{"id": "crec_006524", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007601", "text": "I know what it means to protect victims, Mr. [PERSON] . It means to fight systemic inequities in our current systems that don't work for those victims or survivors. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "protect victims, fight systemic inequities, don't work for those victims or survivors"}
{"id": "crec_009780", "text": "* [PERSON] , of Texas, to be Director of [ORG]. * Nomination was reported with recommendation that it be confirmed subject to the nominee's commitment to respond to requests to appear and testify before any duly constituted committee of the Senate. (Nominations without an asterisk were reported with the recommendation that they be confirmed.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-4", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007946", "text": "You can't be a self-employed contractor. These are the things that come from California that they are trying to push here. Thankfully, we are going to have a change in direction here in leadership coming from [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "can't be a self-employed contractor...things that come from California that they are trying to push here"}
{"id": "crec_009789", "text": "[[ORG] FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I have four requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-7", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000177", "text": "ORDERS FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2025 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that upon dissolution of the joint session today, the Senate stand adjourned until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 7; that following the prayer and pledge, the [ORG] of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-2", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004712", "text": "By Ms. [PERSON] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 388. A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to review [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005206", "text": "Grant program to assist eligible applicants. [ORG]. 311.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008159", "text": "A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide [ORG] coverage for all physicians' services furnished by doctors of chiropractic within the scope of their license, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 540.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006215", "text": "By the way, when all the people out there on [PERSON] say [PERSON] is railing against a balanced budget amendment, I would respond, no, I am not. I am for a balanced budget amendment. Sign me up.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["whataboutism", "strawman"], "evidence": "deflecting criticism by claiming opponents misrepresent the position ('railing against a balanced budget amendment') and then restating support to counter the alleged mischaracterization"}
{"id": "crec_001282", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: S. 36. A bill to protect the seniors of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 37.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS66", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000987", "text": "My fellow Iowans sent me to the Senate ten years ago to make the porkers squeal. It's been a very lonely fight. In this era of political polarization, Democrats and Republicans always come together in agreement over one issue: living high off the hog.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "make the porkers squeal\" and \"living high off the hog\" - dehumanizing language paired with portrayal of widespread corruption as a threat"}
{"id": "crec_002612", "text": "RECOGNIZING ELK COUNTY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL'S BASKETBALL COACH AARON STRAUB ON HIS THOUSANDTH CAREER WIN ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to recognize the accomplishments of Elk County Catholic High School basketball coach, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-4", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "formal recognition and praise of a local coach's achievement in an official legislative context"}
{"id": "crec_008519", "text": "The [PERSON] administration, with the help of congressional Democrats, passed a bunch of bills with names that sound good, but actually they harm many Americans. Take the Inflation Reduction Act, for example, one of their prize bills that they have passed in the last few years. It was a legal way to launder money to blue States to bail them out, while red States were hung out to dry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'a legal way to launder money to blue States to bail them out, while red States were hung out to dry'"}
{"id": "crec_002304", "text": "Since April 2024, I have made repeated requests to meet with [ORG], the Secretary of the [ORG], to discuss these issues. Every attempt for a discussion was rebuffed. This ongoing neglect is unacceptable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated requests were 'rebuffed' and 'ongoing neglect is unacceptable'"}
{"id": "crec_002939", "text": "We all have read reports about his radical views, his alleged excessive drinking, the allegations about sexual assault, and his failures in the financial stewardship of multiple organizations. These are such serious allegations for such an important job. So why would [ORG] wish to rush through these hearings, particularly when the documents are not available to all the members of the committee, including the FBI background check?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "radical views, alleged excessive drinking, allegations about sexual assault, failures...serious allegations for such an important job, rush through"}
{"id": "crec_002138", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The assistant [PERSON] proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006437", "text": "151: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New Jersey, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003148", "text": "[ORG]. 1308. Modernizing and streamlining the employment eligibility verification process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008717", "text": "So we have allowed government to grow way too large. It influences far too much of our lives, negatively influences it. We need to jealously guard our freedom.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "government has 'grown way too large' and 'negatively influences' lives; 'jealously guard our freedom' implies threat to freedom"}
{"id": "crec_006160", "text": "Last week, we considered bills to hold accountable illegal aliens who break our laws and defend U.S. national sovereignty against a rogue international judicial body. This week is about protecting the women in all of our lives. I am a father to two wonderful daughters and a husband to my amazing wife, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'defend U.S. national sovereignty' and 'illegal aliens who break our laws' combined with personal appeal to family values"}
{"id": "crec_004443", "text": "Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the previous question is ordered on the bill. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was read the third time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003032", "text": "I ran for President to set the American economy on a stronger long-term course, by breaking from the trickle-down orthodoxy that has failed our nation for decades. That theory holds that by cutting taxes for the very wealthy, benefits will trickle down to everyone else. But in truth, not a lot has ever trickled down onto most folks' kitchen tables.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing trickle-down economics as an 'orthodoxy that has failed' and dismissing it with colloquial framing ('not a lot has ever trickled down onto most folks' kitchen tables') rather than engaging with the theory's actual mechanisms or evidence"}
{"id": "crec_001844", "text": "In San Francisco, multiple clearings are now occurring every day. Much of the debris being removed, by the way, is either drugs or human waste. In San Jose, around 100 people were removed from the airport.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing debris as 'drugs or human waste' uses inflammatory descriptive language to generate negative associations with the homeless encampments being cleared"}
{"id": "crec_004934", "text": "There is something fundamentally wrong with an economy when the working people who are the strength and source of all of its might cannot provide for the children they have with the labor of their own hands. But that is our reality. That is where we are today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'fundamentally wrong with an economy' and 'cannot provide for the children' emphasizes economic crisis and anxiety"}
{"id": "crec_000479", "text": "A letter from the Chief Administrative Officer, [ORG], transmitting [ORG] of October 1, 2024 To December 31, 2024 ([PERSON] . No. 119--5); to [ORG] and ordered to be printed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000785", "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------- House of Representatives The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Thursday, January 9, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Senate Wednesday, January 8, 2025 The Senate met at 11 a.m. and was called to order by [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004780", "text": "May their holy commitments prompt them to be true to their duties to stand for right, though the heavens fall. May their deep resolve motivate them to not become weary in doing Your will. Lord, remind them that without Your power, human efforts are useless.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invocation of divine authority and references to 'Your power,' 'holy commitments,' and 'doing Your will' to motivate adherence to unspecified duties; use of abstract virtuous language like 'stand for right' without concrete definition"}
{"id": "crec_003552", "text": "[ORG]. 203. Terms of permanent resident status on a conditional basis.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005061", "text": "The radio communication systems, navigation systems, weather radar, and transponder capabilities are all [ORG] ([ORG]) certified through supplemental type certificates for civilian airspace usage. 2. The highest level of classification of defense articles, components, and services included in this potential sale is [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005705", "text": "On that dark day, hundreds of [ORG] and [ORG] officers bravely did their duty, putting their lives in harm's way to protect this building, the people in it, and our very democracy. Over 140 police officers suffered injuries, including broken bones, concussions, and PTSD. They were attacked with baseball bats, axes, and chemicals, among other deadly weapons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "dark day, deadly weapons, attacked with baseball bats axes and chemicals, PTSD, putting their lives in harm's way to protect our very democracy"}
{"id": "crec_008779", "text": "But that was last year's debate. This is a bill that has a purpose, but I don't think the purpose is to wrongly, indefinitely, mandatorily imprison innocent children. So I would ask my colleague, while you are objecting now, let's continue this conversation because it is that important to fairness in America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "wrongly, indefinitely, mandatorily imprison innocent children"}
{"id": "crec_002563", "text": "I don't know if he is four times better than he was in the state of Canada, but he is making that. The executives, whose salaries they have to disclose, are making $2 million to $6 million each annually. The public should know about these salaries, what they are getting, and the salaries that are spent at [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "I don't know if he is four times better than he was in the state of Canada, but he is making that"}
{"id": "crec_002429", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001428", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. [PERSON] ), a patriot. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I would note that the gentleman from Massachusetts is talking about the Prime Minister.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "describing congressman as 'a patriot'"}
{"id": "crec_000221", "text": "THE [ORG] [SPEAKER]. The [ORG] has examined [ORG] proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule I, the [ORG] stands approved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003967", "text": "At the end of October, much of my district was still navigating dry to severe drought conditions. On top of navigating an already challenging farm year, these droughts severely squeezed margins for farmers and ranchers. Approximately 2 months later, [PERSON] changed course once again with more than a foot of snow.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006137", "text": "It is about standing up for objective truth. The American people have called for this national mandate supporting women and girls in their sports and spaces, and thanks to Republican leadership, we are delivering on that promise. I am proud to stand with Congressman [PERSON] on the side of fairness, safety, integrity, and the protection of women's sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["flag_waving", "bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'objective truth', 'the American people have called for this national mandate', 'fairness, safety, integrity'"}
{"id": "crec_007147", "text": "INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 6. A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion; read the first time. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 94.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS185", "word_count": 204, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007514", "text": "She then called the police to report the rape, but upon seeing the boyfriend's injury, the officers also arrested the female victim, whose language skills kept her from comprehensively explaining what had happened at that point. She spent several days in jail and was ultimately convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence, but the judge sentenced her to time served once she got a lawyer and translation services, which allowed the context of the violent abuse that she had been enduring to become made plain to the police and the court. Because of exceptions that exist in our laws today, this woman was not deemed inadmissible to America because her simple assault charge carried less than a 6-month penalty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 117, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001973", "text": "A resolution expunging the December 18, 2019, impeachment of President [PERSON] ; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 25.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004337", "text": "Next week, America will return to common sense. I pray that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle remember common sense today in this very [ORG]. It is not complex, Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'America will return to common sense' and 'remember common sense' - vague appeals to undefined positive values without substantive explanation"}
{"id": "crec_002140", "text": "Recognition of the Minority Leader The Democratic leader is recognized. Southern California Wildfires [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, today, our prayers are with the people of Southern California who have been impacted by the wildfires that have spread over the past few days.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003045", "text": "A bill to require the Attorney General to submit to Congress a report relating to violence against women in athletics; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 75. A bill to modify the governmentwide financial management plan, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-4", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004296", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I hate bullies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002855", "text": "Instead, they have not done the work, and they have put people in danger, as well as the issue with water in California flowing out to the Pacific instead of being stored to help keep their storage facilities full so they can fight fires. It is mismanagement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "they have put people in danger, water flowing out to the Pacific instead of being stored"}
{"id": "crec_004830", "text": "In April 2020, our economy lost nearly 21 million jobs in a single month, and our unemployment rate skyrocketed to 14.7 percent. But thanks to [PERSON] 's leadership, many workers were able to get back to work. Since [PERSON] has taken office, our economy has added 16 million jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "economy lost nearly 21 million jobs... skyrocketed; thanks to [PERSON]'s leadership... added 16 million jobs"}
{"id": "crec_002757", "text": "26: Mr. [PERSON] of Texas and Mr. [PERSON] . H.R. 28: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Iowa, Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002589", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009712", "text": "They want us to feel safe in our own country. They want us to secure the border and cut down on illegal border crossings. They want us to strengthen rigorous legal pathways to support our economy and attract top talent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "vague appeals to broad values like 'feel safe' and 'attract top talent' without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_008967", "text": "In considering a nomination, the [ORG] shall inquire into the nominee's experience, qualifications, suitability, and integrity to serve in the position to which the nominee has been nominated. The [ORG] shall recommend confirmation, upon finding that the nominee has the necessary integrity and is affirmatively qualified by reason of training, education, or experience to carry out the functions of the office to which the nominee was nominated. B.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000596", "text": "[ORG] is one of our best firewalls for staying vigilant against terrorist threats. My request of $615 million will help communities like New York City, Long Island, and the entire metropolitan area stand ready against acts of terror. Last year, I was proud to deliver $2.3 million in [ORG] funding for both Nassau and Suffolk Counties.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-6", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "staying vigilant against terrorist threats and stand ready against acts of terror"}
{"id": "crec_007781", "text": "These fires are leaving a historic path of destruction in their wake. Already at least 25 people have died, thousands of homes and businesses have burned to the ground, and many more people have been displaced. As Oregonians, we know firsthand the devastation of wildfires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-4", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "historic path of destruction, devastation of wildfires, deaths, homes burned, displaced people"}
{"id": "crec_000411", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ). The time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007682", "text": "So the motion to recommit was rejected. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007649", "text": "Immigrant survivors are already afraid. We don't need to fearmonger them anymore. They are already scared of contacting the police due to the deportation risk, and H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Immigrant survivors are already afraid...scared of contacting the police due to the deportation risk"}
{"id": "crec_008631", "text": "It does not require us to ignore our common sense and waste crucial resources. So while I hope to work with my colleagues to improve this bill, as I try to improve every bill that I can, I have to say, we have a long road ahead to address my deep concerns with the way this bill threatens due process and the potential for it to be abused. So I strongly urge my colleagues to demand a far more serious amendment process on this bill, but more than that, I urge them to demand a serious, bipartisan approach to tackling immigration in an effective, humane way, one that protects our country and upholds our values.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threatens due process and the potential for it to be abused"}
{"id": "crec_009839", "text": "(Applause.) [SPEAKER]. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th President of the United States of America, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "reference to presidential title and formal ceremonial introduction emphasizing national leadership and patriotic context"}
{"id": "crec_000130", "text": "23, [ORG], do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI. Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] and [ORG] in H.R. 28, [ORG] of 2025, do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-5", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007544", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001046", "text": "We set a goal of setting 5 minutes or less to answer those phone calls for those people who were calling in seeking our assistance. We hit that goal all the way up until the pandemic. It was taking us 40 days to issue SNAP applications--food stamps.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "40 days to issue SNAP applications during pandemic, emphasizing service breakdown during crisis"}
{"id": "crec_002649", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 337. A bill to provide technical and financial assistance for groundwater recharge, aquifer storage, and water source substitution projects; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004063", "text": "President [PERSON] recognized this head-on. He saw what our [ORG] needed, and he acted with a jump-start of economic investment to get Americans working, moving, and innovating like never before. Alongside congressional leaders, he delivered for the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "recognized this head-on, acting with jump-start, Americans working, moving, and innovating like never before, delivered for the American people"}
{"id": "crec_007936", "text": "We are going to bring everybody. It is appalling. People are angry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "appalling and angry used to characterize a situation without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_008693", "text": "So the result of that analysis for 1998, for [PERSON] spending level--I don't think anybody would really argue that [PERSON] spent too little in 1998--if you did that, the increase would be based on population and inflation, plus you use today's 2025 [ORG], [ORG], and interest expense, you would end up with $5.5 trillion. Now, it is not a secret. The reason I chose 1998--I looked at all of these years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008710", "text": "I will negotiate. I am not saying this is gospel; this is etched in stone. But President [PERSON] , our majority leader, our majority leadership, House leadership, they are going to have to justify to me how you would justify spending more than these reasonable baselines.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "President [PERSON], our majority leader, our majority leadership, House leadership, they are going to have to justify to me"}
{"id": "crec_006076", "text": "Today, his hometown and family will celebrate this compassionate fighter who served 26 years in the [ORG] house and senate, Congress, as Florida's Lieutenant Governor, and briefly as Governor. A righteous fighter for what he believed in, he fought [ORG] and defended a fellow [ORG] classmate from racist taunts. When others of his generation saw an issue to exploit, [PERSON] remained steadfast to protect civil rights, reproductive freedoms, and our precious ecosystem.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'compassionate fighter', 'righteous fighter', 'precious ecosystem' - laudatory language without specific policy details; celebration of public service and values presented as universally admirable"}
{"id": "crec_000015", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 16 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 4 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 4 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006637", "text": "Let President [PERSON] have his victory tour. But starting next week, the insanity ends, and we begin to secure our border. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing the situation as 'insanity' and presenting a stark contrast between allowing a victory tour versus securing the border as mutually exclusive outcomes"}
{"id": "crec_001572", "text": "And [PERSON] was one of [PERSON] Raiders, the cadre of lawyers and researchers around the country pushing for consumer protections. In 1977, they and a few hundred idealistic, young, smart activists like them came to Washington to join [PERSON] new administration--an injection of outsiders into [ORG] that took pride in breaking out from the standard D.C. playbook. Suddenly, the government was salted with battalions of aides and agency chiefs who came not from [ORG] jobs or lobbying firms, but from the anti-Vietnam War and civil rights movements, environmentalist and feminist groups, and an array of other nonprofits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'idealistic, young, smart activists' and 'injection of outsiders' characterizing reformers with vague positive attributes"}
{"id": "crec_007839", "text": "We have to shut off the power because the wind blows. It is a preemptive effort so that branches and things don't blow into the power lines and cause fire like we have seen happen at least a couple times on big fires in northern California and other areas. When we prevent this work, we put ourselves at greater risk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "branches and things don't blow into the power lines and cause fire like we have seen happen at least a couple times on big fires"}
{"id": "crec_002767", "text": "186: Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 203: Mr. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005995", "text": "There are 2 minutes remaining. So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008318", "text": "The Senator from Iowa. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask to speak in morning business for 2 or 3 minutes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004864", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ). The Senator from Texas. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-3", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004079", "text": "Last fall, I called for Congress to return to Washington to fully fund [ORG] and [ORG] to assist with disaster relief efforts. It took until late December to approve $28 billion in funding, well below the $40 billion the [PERSON] administration requested, and now this horror has launched. Statistics show in Canada and the United States, whether it is along our Pacific Coast, in Vancouver, or Quebec, historic precious forests are burning to the ground during this era of prolonged drought.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'this horror has launched' and 'historic precious forests are burning to the ground'"}
{"id": "crec_000475", "text": "A letter from the [PERSON] Deputy Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting [ORG]: DDTC 24- 092; to [ORG]. EC-6. A letter from the [PERSON] Deputy Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting [ORG]: DDTC 24- 073; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001291", "text": "1, a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve. [SPEAKER]. The majority leader.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS67", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007804", "text": "In a little town called [PERSON] , it blew right through part of that. It happens year after year. It really boils down to: What are we doing for preparedness?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008862", "text": "Fast-forward a few years, I am going to run for [ORG]--not an easy run. A lot of good Republicans in the primary. There was a Democrat incumbent here; that is never easy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000870", "text": "By rescinding the remaining unspent Inflation Reduction Act funds that were directed to the IRS during the Democrats' massive spending spree, we could save an additional $40 billion. Now, think about that for a minute. We could save taxpayers $40 billion just by sending less money to the [ORG] when it comes to process their tax payments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Democrats' massive spending spree and framing IRS funding as wasteful rather than presenting the actual purpose of enforcement funding"}
{"id": "crec_009812", "text": "Our Founders wrote the Constitution so that America could withstand all the twists and turns of time. They wrote it to guide us and to preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But as much as the truths and principles enshrined in our Constitution remain the same, our democracy promises the American people the power to change, to chart their own destiny.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Our Founders wrote the Constitution...preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"}
{"id": "crec_003177", "text": "(C) Employment.--An alien whose removal is stayed pursuant to subparagraph (A) or who may not be placed in removal proceedings pursuant to subparagraph (B) shall, upon application to the Secretary, be granted an employment authorization document. (D) Lift of stay.--The Secretary or Attorney General may not lift the stay granted to an alien pursuant to subparagraph (A) unless the alien ceases to meet the requirements under such subparagraph. (e) Exemption From Numerical Limitations.--Nothing in this section or in any other law may be construed to apply a numerical limitation on the number of aliens who may be granted permanent resident status on a conditional basis under this title.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002259", "text": "Amongst other teams, he played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In the first game the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won--[PERSON] was the coach--in the very first game they won as an expansion team, [PERSON] was the quarterback. He has the gift.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "He has the gift"}
{"id": "crec_008646", "text": "Given his track record, we cannot just hope that if [ORG], Jr., finally gets power to undermine vaccines--a cause that he has, by the way, dedicated considerable time and money and effort to-- that he will just give that up. That is not believable, especially when we know the lawyer helping him put together a team has tried to have 14 different vaccines pulled from the market himself--including, by the way, the polio vaccine. And if you are thinking, well, he can't really do anything about vaccines, you need to think again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "cannot just hope...that he will just give that up. That is not believable...you need to think again"}
{"id": "crec_007854", "text": "We are grateful for much great help up there, but in Paradise, conditions had to be put on rebuilding homes out of resilient materials. The power lines are being undergrounded up there. There are trees that are being removed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009932", "text": "May they pursue policies that promote the well-being of all, seeking to build bridges that will foster unity and belonging. As we stand witness to this inauguration, we hold fast to the faith, to our faith, and the goodness of each of us and the possibility of change. We trust that with Your guidance, O God, our [ORG] can move forward to a future filled with promise, prosperity, and understanding.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "well-being of all, build bridges, unity and belonging, faith, goodness, promise, prosperity, and understanding"}
{"id": "crec_007605", "text": "30, [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act. President [PERSON] 's open-border policies have been felt in our communities where now more than ever women are hesitant to walk alone in parking lots and look over their shoulders. In the past few years, we have seen illegal aliens chase, beat, sexually assault, and burn women even in public.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "women are hesitant to walk alone in parking lots and look over their shoulders...illegal aliens chase, beat, sexually assault, and burn women"}
{"id": "crec_009159", "text": "(18) The exemplary efforts of wildland firefighters are deserving of recognition, and it is appropriate and proper to honor those who have previously served, as well as current and future firefighters. Wildland firefighters showcase principles of duty, respect, and integrity in every aspect of service. Each firefighter exhibits strength, resiliency, and grit to protect the forests, grasslands, and communities of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "principles of duty, respect, and integrity; strength, resiliency, and grit to protect the forests, grasslands, and communities of the United States"}
{"id": "crec_000814", "text": "Renaming the Gulf of Mexico may be a zany new idea, but it isn't going to help people save money at the grocery store; it is not going to make trips to the pharmacy more affordable; it is not going to help anyone find a good-paying job. [PERSON] says these things because it will get him attention and make him sound like a tough guy. If [PERSON] wants to rename an ocean to sound more patriotic, I would say we will help him on one condition and only on one condition: Let's come up with a real plan first--not a concept of a plan--to lower prices for Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["strawman", "ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Dismisses renaming proposal by listing unrelated concerns (grocery prices, pharmacy costs, jobs), attacks [PERSON]'s motives ('get him attention and make him sound like a tough guy'), and presents a false choice between renaming and price-lowering plans"}
{"id": "crec_002377", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 65. A bill to allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 66.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 122, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004109", "text": "Dangerously, these catastrophic border crossing figures do not account for the illegal got-aways, including drug smugglers and identified terrorists who threaten every American family. Sadly, with the duplicitous policies of [ORG], among those illegal transgressors are unaccompanied children who are suffering at the hands of cartel smugglers. Additionally, after meeting with President [PERSON] this weekend on Sunday at Mar-a-Lago, I know he is committed to securing the borders and protecting families and making America great again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-7", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Dangerously, these catastrophic border crossing figures...drug smugglers and identified terrorists who threaten every American family"}
{"id": "crec_000862", "text": "So whether we pursue a single reconciliation bill or multiple bills, we can't lose sight of the goal, and that is to pass President [PERSON] 's agenda for the American people. That is what the November 5 election was all about. And we are in lockstep with President [PERSON] , I believe-- the majority in the House and the Senate--to accomplish that goal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "in lockstep with President [PERSON], the majority in the House and the Senate"}
{"id": "crec_005968", "text": "My background is in higher education, and I know a good school when I see one. I can confidently say that [ORG] is hitting the mark. With more than 150 academic programs and over $1 billion in annual economic impact, [ORG] is truly changing lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "My background is in higher education, and I know a good school when I see one"}
{"id": "crec_009857", "text": "That is why, each day, under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. For American citizens, January 20, 2025, is liberation day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "American patriots, liberation day, hope, prosperity, safety, and peace"}
{"id": "crec_006020", "text": "I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued. [PERSON] , Jr. [ORG], January 15, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-6", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008458", "text": "And I agree with him. However, he fails to meet every single one of those metrics. He is asking to be handed a job he is not prepared for because of his relationship with [PERSON] , but this role is too important, our troops' lives too precious to let personal ambitions get in the way of the mission at hand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "our troops' lives too precious to let personal ambitions get in the way"}
{"id": "crec_004515", "text": "Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14115 with respect to the situation in the West Bank. [PERSON] , Jr. [ORG], January 14, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of Executive Order 14115 and formal declaration of national emergency to justify continuation of policy"}
{"id": "crec_004026", "text": "How about their parents? They pose no threat to you, but you pose a threat to them, denying them their healthcare, isolating them from their friends, creating conditions for bullying and even suicidal ideation. You are posing a threat to every child who wants to step onto a soccer field or pick up a softball bat in this country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "denying them their healthcare, isolating them from their friends, creating conditions for bullying and even suicidal ideation"}
{"id": "crec_001815", "text": "They want to try to become Republican lite. That is what I call it. We have to be ourselves.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing choice as either 'Republican lite' or being 'ourselves,' presenting it as either/or without acknowledging middle ground"}
{"id": "crec_004895", "text": "S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, last week, the Senate took a big bipartisan step toward honoring the life and legacy of [PERSON] , answering her loved ones' call to action, and protecting American families. But that step, no matter how big, was just that, a first step, and there are many to follow if we want to follow through for the American people on the demands to secure our border and interior immigration enforcement, make it real, take it seriously.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring the life and legacy, protecting American families, follow through for the American people"}
{"id": "crec_007463", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , it is time they start considering the real-world impact. At least this go around, maybe because of pressure coming from here, they pulled back and got this one right.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-5", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004730", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 40. A resolution electing Members to certain standing committees of [ORG]; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000842", "text": "I remember the last days of the [PERSON] Presidency. After 444 painful days of sustained and frustrating efforts to release American hostages being held in Tehran, we witnessed their welcome, but cynically timed, release on the last day of our [ORG]'s peaceful transfer of power from President [PERSON] to President [PERSON] . President [PERSON] 's main goal had been to make sure that every hostage returned home alive.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "444 painful days of sustained and frustrating efforts; cynically timed release"}
{"id": "crec_004438", "text": "We ask all members of Congress to strongly oppose H.R. 28 and to reject attacks on transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth; to commit themselves to meaningfully advancing policies that support equal opportunity; and to reassure all students in the nation's classrooms that they will have the chance to learn, grow, and thrive. If you have any questions, please reach out to [PERSON] , senior program director at [ORG], at king@civilrights.org.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "learn, grow, and thrive; equal opportunity; attacks on transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth"}
{"id": "crec_000892", "text": "Instead, the evidence is strong that crime has decreased as immigration has increased. In 1980, immigrants made up 6.2 percent of the American population--45 years ago. By 2022, the percentage had more than doubled, with immigrants now making up nearly 14 percent of the American population.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001832", "text": "Over the last 9 years, Chief Bartee has been steadfast in his leadership in overseeing 130 firefighters in the department. During his tenure as fire chief, [PERSON] also performed the duties of [ORG] Leader of the FEMA Urban Search and [ORG]. Chief [ORG]'s expertise in specialized training and disaster relief has truly brought invaluable knowledge and experience to the region.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "steadfast in his leadership, invaluable knowledge and experience, expertise in specialized training and disaster relief"}
{"id": "crec_004282", "text": "It is time for a change back to the way things were intended to be. Title IX was created to protect equality and opportunity for women and girls in sports. Thanks to this legislation, we will go back to doing just that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'the way things were intended to be' and 'Title IX was created to protect equality and opportunity'"}
{"id": "crec_006235", "text": "That is a lie. Anybody who says that is a liar because that is not what I am saying. Anybody who says I don't believe in dynamic scoring is lying.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["name_calling", "repetition"], "evidence": "calling people 'liar' and 'lying' repeatedly while denying a claim without substantive counter-argument"}
{"id": "crec_006915", "text": "Does that sound like the kind of salary that would bring forth some extremely, highly skilled people for jobs that American workers cannot fill? Madam President, you tell me. Why would a corporation hire an American computer systems engineer at a salary of $110,000 a year when it is $65,000 cheaper to hire an H-1B worker for that same exact position?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing the salary comparison with emotionally charged language like 'extremely, highly skilled' and using a direct challenge 'you tell me' to presuppose a particular conclusion\"}\n```\n\nWait, I need to correct this - \"rhetorical_question\" is not in my allowed labels list.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"loaded_language\", \"appeal_to_fear\"], \"evidence\": \"'extremely, highly skilled' and emphasis on cost difference to suggest threat to American workers"}
{"id": "crec_007623", "text": "Under the open-border policies of [PERSON] and border czar [PERSON] and Secretary [PERSON] , our country has been ravaged by a hoard of illegal aliens molesting American children, battering and bruising and beating up American women, and violently raping American women and girls. My bill makes it very clear: If an illegal alien commits a sex crime or an act of domestic violence, they are inadmissible and deportable-- we aren't letting you into our country, and if you are already here, we are sending you back to yours. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to try to minimize this issue because they refuse to acknowledge the consequences of their open-borders agenda, but the numbers don't lie.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 121, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "hoard of illegal aliens molesting American children, battering and bruising and beating up American women, and violently raping American women and girls"}
{"id": "crec_000090", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 214. A bill to amend the District of Columba Home Rule Act to eliminate the Congressional review period for District of Columbia acts; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008939", "text": "The record of a witness's testimony whether in public or executive session shall be made available for inspection by the witness or the witness's counsel under [ORG] supervision; a copy of any testimony given in public session or that part of the testimony given by the witness in executive session and subsequently quoted or made part of the record in a public session shall be provided to any witness at the witness's expense if the witness so requests. Upon inspecting that transcript, within a time limit set by the [ORG], a witness may request changes in the transcript to correct errors of transcription and grammatical errors; the [ORG] or a staff officer designated by the [ORG] shall rule on such requests. [PERSON] persons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009804", "text": "The Justices of [ORG] are with us--all nine of them; I counted--and, of course, the [ORG] and [PERSON] families. This ceremony marks what will soon be 250 years of our democracy. It is the moment when leaders, elevated by the will of the people, promised to be faithful to our Constitution, to cherish and defend it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "references to 250 years of democracy, Constitution, and ceremonial elevation of leaders to invoke patriotic sentiment"}
{"id": "crec_006651", "text": "And I call upon my colleagues from the other side of the aisle to continue to support this bill as they have done on the previous votes. Let's get this bill passed. Let's make sure other families don't have to live through the tragedy that [PERSON] family had to live through.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "reference to tragic family experience combined with 'continue to support' language appealing to existing support momentum"}
{"id": "crec_007428", "text": "CONGRESSIONAL RECORD United States of America American eagle (seal) PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 119th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g.,1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface Indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (seal) recycle Printed on recycled paper. Vol.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH-FrontMatter", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000851", "text": "This Congress, I will be joining [ORG] for the 119th Congress. I was particularly interested in joining [ORG] because one of the biggest challenges we have is to get our budget under control. With approaching $36 trillion in debt, we are paying more interest on the national debt than we are on defense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "approaching $36 trillion in debt, paying more interest on the national debt than on defense"}
{"id": "crec_001209", "text": "The proposed sale will help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, and economic progress in the region. The proposed sale will improve the recipient's ability to meet current and future threats by enhancing communications and network security for its command, control, communications, and computers (C4) capabilities. The support will enhance the recipient's ability to command and control its forces by accelerating the delivery of infrastructure for the secure flow of tactical information.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, and economic progress"}
{"id": "crec_006761", "text": "So I went to my colleagues, and I said: Have I got a great idea for you. You can take all of these individual tax cuts, if you shave off some of the ones to the most wealthy, and you can make them permanent and still do what the corporations had wanted us to do by having a corporate tax rate equivalent to other nations. I thought I was being helpful.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006859", "text": "Republican tax policies are only going to help billionaires. We need to build an economy that works for everyone, for you, not just those at the top. So to all the families feeling the stress, know you are not alone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "Republican tax policies presented as only helping billionaires vs. an economy for everyone; 'you are not alone' appeals to shared group membership"}
{"id": "crec_002645", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 333. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of [ORG] who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans disability compensation, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009701", "text": "In this bill, every undocumented person accused--not just convicted but accused--of a list of crimes that is in this bill must be detained. That might sound like law and order, but it is easy to see how this encroachment on law enforcement's ability to do its job could spiral out of control. To make matters even worse, this bill does not provide ICE with the resources it needs to implement what is now a massive unfunded liability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "mandatory detention based on accusation alone could 'spiral out of control' and creates an 'unfunded liability' that presents risks to law enforcement"}
{"id": "crec_009827", "text": "He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.'' Our Father, today, as President [PERSON] takes the oath of office once again, we come to say thank you, O Lord, our God. Father, when [PERSON] enemies thought he was down and out, You and You alone, saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by Your mighty hand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Religious invocation framing political figure with divine protection ('You and You alone, saved his life') combined with patriotic appeal through presidential oath ceremony context"}
{"id": "crec_003053", "text": "S. 42 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 42, a bill to establish [ORG] and to transfer unobligated amounts from the Coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds to such Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern border. S. 46 At the request of Mrs. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 46, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand eligibility for the refundable credit for coverage under a qualified health plan. S. 53 At the request of Mrs. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Florida (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 53, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to fingerprint noncitizen minors entering the United States who are suspected of being victims of human trafficking, to require the Secretary to publicly disclose the number of such minors who are fingerprinted by [ORG] ([ORG]) officials and the number of child traffickers who are apprehended by [ORG], to impose criminal penalties on noncitizen adults who use unrelated minors to gain entry into the United States, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS89-2", "word_count": 219, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005651", "text": "While he was leading, [PERSON] also served as the president of [ORG] and then served on the boards of [ORG] and [ORG]. To put it simply, Madam Speaker, [PERSON] has spent his career serving others. [PERSON] may not be our property appraiser anymore, but I know he is not done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "[PERSON] has spent his career serving others"}
{"id": "crec_002094", "text": "98: Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 128: Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008089", "text": "A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to modify personnel action procedures with respect to employees of [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002281", "text": "And 2 of the years of those 4, they were in the semifinals. And the other year, they were the runner-up. So what are they, then, 9 and 0 in Frisco.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006296", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 411. A bill to provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for the taking without just compensation of land by the United States inside the exterior boundaries of [ORG] that were guaranteed to the [ORG] under a treaty signed in 1854; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002308", "text": "The history of [ORG] treatment of Native Americans is filled with broken promises. We should not allow [ORG], a cornerstone of Native higher education, to become another promise we fail to keep. The students who walk through the doors of [ORG] deserve better than the inefficiency and mismanagement and the neglect they have faced under the current governance system.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "broken promises, fail to keep, inefficiency and mismanagement and neglect"}
{"id": "crec_006213", "text": "You can't just go blame it on the [ORG] or blame it on scores. Show the American people the math, and don't go run and hide behind a vote on a balanced budget amendment because I promise you that is what my colleagues will say. They will say, oh, man, we need a balanced budget amendment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "strawman"], "evidence": "anticipating and dismissing colleagues' argument about balanced budget amendment as a hiding tactic; positioning 'showing the American people the math' as the rational authority-based approach"}
{"id": "crec_007065", "text": "Vote on Amendment No. 14 [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the question is on adoption of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000238", "text": "This success is possible because of the incredible leadership of the coaching staff, whose mentorship has shaped this team not only into champions, but also into outstanding young leaders. [ORG] Coach [PERSON] became the first woman coach to win [ORG] I volleyball title. The road to the championship wasn't easy for Coach [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "incredible leadership of the coaching staff, whose mentorship has shaped this team not only into champions, but also into outstanding young leaders"}
{"id": "crec_007092", "text": "RECOGNIZING THE STENNIS CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE [SPEAKER]. Madam President, [ORG] is a legislative branch [ORG] with a congressional mandate to attract young people to careers in public service, provide training for leaders in, or likely to be in, public service, and offer training and development opportunities for senior congressional staff, Members of Congress, and other public service leaders. A strong civil society is the foundation of a free society and essential for our republican form of government to work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS182-2", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "A strong civil society is the foundation of a free society and essential for our republican form of government to work"}
{"id": "crec_000558", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Eternal Father, who extends daily to our lawmakers compassionate love, we praise Your Holy Name. Lord, in a challenging world where we often find ourselves waiting to exhale, You remain our shelter for every storm.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invocation of 'Eternal Father' and religious authority; abstract phrases like 'compassionate love' and 'shelter for every storm' without specific policy content"}
{"id": "crec_007746", "text": "MAKING PROGRESS FOR AMERICA ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , we find ourselves at a make-or-break moment in America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "make-or-break moment in America"}
{"id": "crec_009419", "text": "I am going to do everything I can to fight this dastardly proposal. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "dastardly proposal"}
{"id": "crec_006835", "text": "That is [ORG]. That is another way of talking about [ORG]--the poorest children, the most vulnerable seniors. That is the piggy bank they are going to use for tax breaks for billionaires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing an organization as a 'piggy bank' for tax breaks while framing vulnerable populations against billionaires creates a false choice between helping the poor/seniors or giving tax breaks to the wealthy"}
{"id": "crec_009417", "text": "I have got only one response to [ORG] SALT proposal. As we say in Brooklyn, forget about it. Forget about it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009923", "text": "Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening [ORG]! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Let freedom ring repeated across geographic references; invocation of idealized patriotic concept without specific substantive content"}
{"id": "crec_001437", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I say to the gentleman, that was a great speech for social media, but it will do nothing to get the hostages released, just like this bill. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "strawman"], "evidence": "dismissing opponent's speech as merely 'great for social media' while claiming it accomplishes nothing, attacking the manner of delivery rather than addressing substantive arguments"}
{"id": "crec_005076", "text": "The Kingdom of Thailand was also among the early sponsors of and is [ORG] to the [ORG] on [ORG]. A more detailed discussion of the Kingdom of Thailand's domestic civil nuclear activities and its nuclear nonproliferation policies and practices is provided in the NPAS and its classified annex. I have considered the views and recommendations of the interested departments and agencies in reviewing the Agreement and have determined that its performance will promote, and will not constitute an unreasonable risk to, the common defense and security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-6", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002472", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of H.R. 153.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001805", "text": "Two Senators did not do what more than 50 Republicans did to claim another seat on [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] , the prognostication from me--I am speaking for myself and no one else--is that we would have seen [PERSON] come through that door, still comely, still courtly, still stately, still statuesque. We would have seen her walk down.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "Two Senators did not do what more than 50 Republicans did"}
{"id": "crec_006125", "text": "North Dakotans, and Americans, too, have also seen the impacts of these policies and the prices they pay at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and to power their homes. American energy reliability, affordability, sustainability, and security are the weakest they have been in years. Take yesterday's action by the [PERSON] administration to lock up millions of acres of oil, gas, and coal leases in North Dakota through [ORG] resource management plan for the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "impacts of these policies and the prices they pay at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and to power their homes; American energy reliability, affordability, sustainability, and security are the weakest they have been in years; lock up millions of acres"}
{"id": "crec_007180", "text": "SA 62. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 63.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001072", "text": "It is at least $150 billion. Our [ORG] spent over $1 billion in promoting [ORG] initiatives in schools. Let me say it again--$1 billion in promoting the [ORG] initiatives in schools, but our kids can't read and write and do math.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Let me say it again--$1 billion in promoting the [ORG] initiatives in schools, but our kids can't read and write and do math"}
{"id": "crec_004265", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , every child should be afforded the opportunity to learn the essential lessons of sportsmanship, resilience, and discipline that playing team sports offers. This includes transgender children who make up a very small number of young athletes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "essential lessons of sportsmanship, resilience, and discipline"}
{"id": "crec_008063", "text": "COMMUNICATION FROM [SPEAKER] OF THE HOUSE [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from [SPEAKER] of [ORG] of [SPEAKER], [ORG], Washington, DC, January 16, 2025. Hon. [PERSON] , The Speaker, [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH216-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007110", "text": "There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [ORG], Washington, DC. Hon. [PERSON] , Chairman, [ORG], [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005989", "text": "[ORG], and Technology: Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] . [SPEAKER] (during the reading). Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the Record.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001293", "text": "DESIGNATION OF [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker: Washington, DC, January 9, 2025. I hereby appoint the Honorable [PERSON] to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. [PERSON] , Speaker of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008181", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. 24.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004789", "text": "ENERGY [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, 2 months after Americans soundly rejected his Presidency and its policies, President [PERSON] is doubling down. Last week, he unveiled a new front in his war on American energy: a sweeping ban on new offshore oil and gas development covering the entire east coast and large portions of the west coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and parts of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-8", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "doubling down on war on American energy; sweeping ban characterized as aggressive action against energy sector"}
{"id": "crec_000735", "text": "Committee on the Judiciary: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (FL) (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] ([ORG]).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-3", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007986", "text": "All of that is because California blew the $20 billion on something else instead of the maintenance obligation of paying it back to [ORG] on that unemployment fund. Is this good? Is this an accountable record that people say: Oh, yeah, just give them money willy-nilly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "blew the $20 billion\" and \"just give them money willy-nilly"}
{"id": "crec_009919", "text": "May all of humanity experience Your love and Your blessing. May it be Thy will and let us say amen. Pastor SEWELL.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005987", "text": "ELECTING MEMBERS TO CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000863", "text": "But we can't do it unless we work closely together, which is why we need to be on the same page. We need to quickly arrive at that agreement so we can act swiftly to implement the solutions that will help improve the day-to-day lives of our constituents, the people we represent--in my case, 31 million people in the State of Texas. President [PERSON] 's policies have been a disaster for my [ORG] and for the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "President [PERSON]'s policies have been a disaster for my [ORG] and for the American people"}
{"id": "crec_001173", "text": "The proposed sale will help improve the security of the recipient and assist in maintaining political stability, military balance, and economic progress in the region. The proposed sale will improve the recipient's capability to meet current and future threats by providing surface and air defenses onboard various ships in inventory. The recipient will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "vague positive phrases like 'improve the security,' 'maintain political stability,' and 'economic progress' without specific details or evidence"}
{"id": "crec_004132", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the Record. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Nebraska?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-4", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000967", "text": "These groups should not and will not receive one dime of taxpayer dollars. The American people should be outraged, as I am--I think you can tell my voice is getting a little bit louder here-- at the abuse of their tax dollars. These funds were meant to benefit them, not to prop up radical political groups or line the pockets of bureaucrats with questionable priorities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "American people should be outraged...abuse of their tax dollars...radical political groups...questionable priorities"}
{"id": "crec_008001", "text": "Then, unfortunately, it would take an additional 17 years for it to be recognized in all 50 States across the country. Fittingly, [PERSON] was designed to intentionally inspire all Americans to volunteer and to give back to their communities. In fact, it is the only Federal holiday classified as a national day of service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "designed to intentionally inspire all Americans to volunteer and to give back to their communities"}
{"id": "crec_000956", "text": "Each misspent dollar represents a missed opportunity for our neighbors, our communities, our families. But that is going to end with this incoming administration and, I think, the control of the House and the Senate. In the 119th Congress, Federal spending comes with a promissory note of accountability to the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "misspent dollar represents a missed opportunity for our neighbors, our communities, our families; control of the House and the Senate; 119th Congress promises accountability"}
{"id": "crec_006593", "text": "The law should serve our citizens, yet it has somehow been [PERSON] 's killer who has benefited from our system. It is time we honor [PERSON] 's legacy by putting American citizens first. [ORG], while too late to prevent [PERSON] 's tragedy, is a targeted bill that will save countless other lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasis on a tragedy and system failure combined with 'putting American citizens first' and promises to 'save countless other lives'"}
{"id": "crec_001751", "text": "This song has to do with standing, standing alone. The words are: Just stand. After you have done all that you can, just stand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'just stand' and 'after you have done all that you can, just stand' - vague, abstract exhortation without specific meaning or actionable content"}
{"id": "crec_002160", "text": "What are they trying to hide? What are they afraid of? Tribute to [PERSON] Now, finally, I want to end on a more personal but also a bittersweet note.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "What are they trying to hide? What are they afraid of?"}
{"id": "crec_003905", "text": "MORNING-HOUR DEBATE [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to the order of [ORG], the [ORG] will now recognize Members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning-hour debate. The [ORG] will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each Member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to 5 minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000007", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 3 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 3 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006491", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000656", "text": "These are just people who triggered various cameras and sensors and were able to evade law enforcement. Surely there were more that were able to make their way into the interior of the United States. Again, under President [PERSON] 's border policies, all you have to do is turn yourself in and you would be released into the interior, but these are people that could not even risk that because of either their criminal records or their intention to do harm, including carry drugs into the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "people that could not even risk that because of either their criminal records or their intention to do harm, including carry drugs"}
{"id": "crec_001592", "text": "Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Wisconsin? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007845", "text": "There was still ongoing litigation after that, but it got to operate. Finally, what we have learned many years later is that the [ORG] was operating pretty well and that the biologists at that time somehow had information to remove the snail darter from endangered to threatened status in 1984. In 2022, it was removed from the endangered species list.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002092", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000921", "text": "With all the harm that has been caused by sanctuary cities, this legislation would end Federal funds going into those entities. It should be a top priority of this Congress. We also need to lower costs and make life more affordable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "With all the harm that has been caused by sanctuary cities"}
{"id": "crec_003998", "text": "Allowing Women to Thrive in Sports [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of [ORG] of 2025. Since 1972, [ORG] has allowed women to thrive and excel in sports nationwide.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "allowed women to thrive and excel in sports"}
{"id": "crec_004431", "text": "28, the so-called [ORG] of 2025, because it would harm women and girls and undermine civil rights for all students. This discriminatory proposal seeks to exclude transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people from athletics programs in schools. Although the authors of the legislation represent themselves as serving the interests of cisgender girls and women, this legislation does not address the longstanding barriers all girls and women have faced in their pursuit of athletics.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the legislation as 'discriminatory' and 'seeks to exclude' while claiming it doesn't actually address girls' athletic barriers misrepresents the stated purpose; 'so-called' and 'authors represent themselves' imply hidden motives"}
{"id": "crec_009152", "text": "Wildland firefighters perform prescribed burns and other forest management activities, including timber harvests, contribute to healthy forests, and reduce catastrophic wildfire risk. (5) Each wildland firefighter is specialized and trained to work in dynamic and extraordinarily dangerous environments. Wildland firefighters routinely work long days while on a 2- week rotation, often sleeping in inhospitable conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001906", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 275.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007117", "text": "POLICY [PERSON] --Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles with Extended Range The Government of Japan has requested to buy sixteen (16) AGM-158B/B-2 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles with Extended Range ([ORG]). The following [ORG] items will also be included: AGM-158 JASSM Dummy Air Training Missiles (DATM) and containers; [PERSON] [ORG] (JAGR); munitions support and support equipment; spare parts, consumables and accessories, and repair and return support; integration and test support and equipment; classified and unclassified software delivery and support; classified and unclassified publications and technical documentation; personnel training and equipment; airlift and transportation support; [ORG] and contractor engineering, technical, and logistics support services; studies and surveys; and other related elements of logistics and program support. The estimated total cost is $39 million.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003522", "text": "SA 3. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. __.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS93", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000916", "text": "And also, Senator [PERSON] and I just got across the finish line [ORG]. I will tell you, so many people were absolutely shocked to find out that there has never been a monument in this city that recognized women's suffrage. We have also worked to confirm judges to the [ORG] bench, including [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001711", "text": "Take this seriously. I have a 9-year-old. And my wife and I, who is exactly my age, we also adopted another little boy from the same birth mom.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004338", "text": "God intricately created two genders for one reason. Men have no business competing in women's sports or being in their locker rooms. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "God intricately created two genders for one reason"}
{"id": "crec_008762", "text": "I will explain each of the amendments before I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment so that the amendment can, in fact, be debated and voted on. The first amendment excludes children from this bill. If the idea is that mandatory detention should apply to adults, then let's exclude children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing mandatory detention policy in a way that emphasizes protecting children to make the position seem more reasonable"}
{"id": "crec_002961", "text": "Currently, Senate Republicans are working on a major package that will include substantial funding for a variety of border and immigration security needs, including increasing the number of [ORG] officers and [PERSON] agents, increasing detention space, and providing the barriers and technology that we need to secure the border. I look forward to taking up that package. In the meantime, however, we have a bill before us today that will address one problem in current immigration law and, perhaps, prevent other families from suffering the pain that [PERSON] has suffered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "reference to Senate Republicans' major package combined with emotional framing of 'families from suffering the pain'"}
{"id": "crec_004491", "text": "I think that is wrong. This Nation ought to care for the folks who raised us and who helped build this great country of ours. I rise to share some news today that will help.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'this great country of ours' and 'folks who raised us and who helped build'"}
{"id": "crec_008892", "text": "To create an Iron Dome for America--a priority of Mr. [PERSON] --we need to add to our national ballistic-missile interceptor capability in Alaska and build a robust layered missile defense and space-based missile sensor capability. Greenland is rich in minerals and energy reserves. Alaska is even richer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Attribution to a named person as priority endorsement; 'robust layered missile defense' uses vague positive language without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_000702", "text": "[SPEAKER] will read the bill by title for the first time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 9) to provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title [ORG] of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-5", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001739", "text": "There is a way to do it in a moral fashion. It has been said that when you have a complex problem, it turns out the solutions are complex. Is the modern Congress capable of doing complexity?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "Is the modern Congress capable of doing complexity?"}
{"id": "crec_001631", "text": "Do you understand what would happen to the world economy going boom and interest rates exploding when all of a sudden the United States is no longer credit worthy? That is what it means. Remember one of my predictions for this year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "interest rates exploding, United States is no longer credit worthy, world economy going boom"}
{"id": "crec_006842", "text": "We need wealthy polluters to pay, especially jet-setting billionaires who are polluting right now. And we need a system that works for the American people, not for the billionaire excess that [ORG] is going to bring out to the Senate floor. I yield to my friend from Rhode Island, a great leader, Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "wealthy polluters, jet-setting billionaires, billionaire excess"}
{"id": "crec_000502", "text": "A bill to allow certain veterans to use high occupancy vehicle lanes, including toll lanes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 235.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005980", "text": "A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH168-5", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006166", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I close tonight and just thank my colleagues for being here tonight and for taking the time to speak on this important issue. As I mentioned earlier, House Republicans are committed to advancing legislation that supports our women and girls and gives them a fair chance to excel in their athletic endeavors. [ORG] ensures biological males are unable to compete in female-designated sports, giving women and girls the opportunity to compete on a fair playing field by requiring schools to comply with the Title IX recognition of a person's genetics at birth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "fair chance to excel, fair playing field, supporting women and girls - uses vague positive framing without substantive detail; loaded terms like 'biological males' frame the issue in divisive language"}
{"id": "crec_003001", "text": "[ORG] has its problems. Like every social media platform, [ORG] poses a serious risk to the privacy and mental health of our young people in our country. In fact, [ORG] paid a fine for violating my law, [ORG], just a few years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "paid a fine for violating my law and reference to serious risk to privacy and mental health of young people"}
{"id": "crec_007898", "text": "We have an opportunity when we are talking about water supply here. This is Shasta Dam in my district in northern California. It is a [ORG] project.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007189", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 76. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001945", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal certain credits relating to alternative fuel vehicles; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 313.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002957", "text": "It is unthinkable that an individual like [PERSON] 's killer would be released back into society. [PERSON] 's killer should have been detained long before he had a chance to get near her last February. Shortly after [PERSON] was killed, Senator [PERSON] , together with Senator [PERSON] , introduced legislation that would require [ORG] to detain individuals charged with theft, burglary, or shoplifting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "unthinkable that an individual like [PERSON]'s killer would be released back into society"}
{"id": "crec_000572", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-5", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006227", "text": "If we leave money in the hands of the American people and we produce revenue, we produce growth, and that means some additional revenue will come into the [ORG] because of the economic growth--yes, but not all of it. Other people will say, well, gosh, you guys, dollar for dollar you want to make sure that all these cuts are going to add up to the debt ceiling. No, I just want some common damn sense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "dollar for dollar you want to make sure that all these cuts are going to add up to the debt ceiling"}
{"id": "crec_006676", "text": "This will be a giveaway of the worst kind at a time when people can least afford it. So how do they plan to do it? And this is a little technical, so bear with me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "giveaway of the worst kind at a time when people can least afford it"}
{"id": "crec_008991", "text": "We must keep our communities safe and prioritize detention of violent offenders, and our focus must be on the most effective path to achieve that goal. I have introduced, along with Senator [PERSON] , an amendment that directly addresses the circumstances that led to the tragic murder of [PERSON] without creating a system that diverts resources away from the detention and deportation of violent offenders. I have also offered an amendment that makes clear that the apprehension and deportation of convicted violent offenders should be our highest enforcement priority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "tragic murder of [PERSON] and emphasis on violent offenders creates emotional urgency; 'keep our communities safe' appeals to protective instincts and patriotic values"}
{"id": "crec_004729", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 39. A resolution ranking a Member on a certain standing committee of [ORG]; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005929", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from Massachusetts. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , as the United States seeks to strengthen our position in [ORG], let us commit to Taiwan as a long-term ally.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "appeals to strengthen 'the United States' position and commit to alliance framed as national interest"}
{"id": "crec_006953", "text": "They are not lying to a circuit court. So they don't have any information with regard to that accusation. Even worse, rather than addressing China's supposed influence over a key communications channel, the [ORG] ban appears to be driving users to alternative Chinese applications which we know even less about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["strawman", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "Characterizes the ban as ineffective by redirecting to 'alternative Chinese applications' rather than addressing the stated rationale for the original ban"}
{"id": "crec_000931", "text": "[ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I don't even know how many times I have come to the floor of this Senate to be able to talk about government efficiency. It is not a shock for me to be able to come back here again today and to say: Let's talk about this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "repeated phrase 'I have come to the floor of this Senate' and 'come back here again today' emphasizing frequency and pattern"}
{"id": "crec_008815", "text": "She noted that no due process had been taken. When you eliminate the discretion on the front end, you change due process. A judge can no longer say this person is no flight risk, no risk to the community, has children at home, so we will put a high bond.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"eliminate the discretion on the front end\" - frames policy changes in terms of removal/elimination rather than neutral modification, with negative connotations"}
{"id": "crec_005776", "text": "The [PERSON] family has farmed in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, since 1874, when [PERSON] great-grandfather purchased the property. Today, the [PERSON] manage an over-200-acre grain operation on that exact same land. They even have the farm's original log structure dating to pre-1874.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-7", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001056", "text": "We saved $115 million in hard savings. Because of those processes, for example, we were able to reduce the square footage that we were occupying as the State of Nebraska by 60,000. It was 60,000 square feet we took off our rolls; we reduced our employment by 3\\1/2\\ percent; and we were able to control spending.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "saved $115 million in hard savings"}
{"id": "crec_005943", "text": "This is not only because of our shared values of democracy, peace, and freedom, but also our economic ties. As Communist China continues to threaten America's interests, we must do all we can to strengthen our partnership with Taiwan. That is why, Mr. [PERSON] , we need [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Communist China continues to threaten America's interests"}
{"id": "crec_008732", "text": "He earned [PERSON] 's trust early on as a driver. That is how we often meet some of our best members of our staff. And he, too, maintained a relationship with [PERSON] during his tenure here in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005755", "text": "The President can't do it through executive order. [ORG] isn't going to take it up. Only [ORG] can.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Only [ORG] can"}
{"id": "crec_002626", "text": "[[ORG]] CONGRATULATING SPEAKER DESTIN HALL ([SPEAKER] Carolina asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER] Carolina. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor North Carolina's speaker of the house, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002960", "text": "So I hope that Democrats will work with us in a serious fashion to actually pass this legislation. After 4 years of chaos at our southern border under President [PERSON] , there is a lot of work to be done on both the immigration and border security fronts. The kind of unchecked illegal immigration that we have experienced at our southern border under President [PERSON] serves as an invitation to terrorists, criminals, and other dangerous individuals to enter our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "serves as an invitation to terrorists, criminals, and other dangerous individuals to enter our country"}
{"id": "crec_000089", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to prohibit the use of Federal financial assistance for a certain high-speed rail development project in the State of California, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-4", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001149", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS61", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004071", "text": "This bill is very special to me, as it was first introduced by my predecessor, the late Representative [PERSON] , Jr. I am honored to ensure his work for better, more accessible care and his legacy are carried on with the ARC Act. With the co-leadership of Representatives [PERSON] and [PERSON] , I am proud to introduce the ARC Act to save limbs, reduce patient costs, and save lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "references to predecessor's legacy and co-leadership to lend credibility; vague promises to 'save limbs, reduce patient costs, and save lives' without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_008550", "text": "They were surplus military aircraft that California received and paid to retrofit, the first of which is already on the scene fighting these fires as we speak. But soon there will come a time when we need to more than just support our response to these disasters; we will need support for our recovery. And we expect Congress to support California just as Congress has been there for States across the country in their times of crisis, with no conditions and no strings attached.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Congress has been there for States across the country in their times of crisis, with no conditions and no strings attached"}
{"id": "crec_008033", "text": "For over 50 years, it has been one of if not the most overzealous, overreaching, and self-important regulatory agency I have ever dealt with at the local, [ORG], or Federal level.'' This legislation has become all the more necessary in light of the tragedy that continues to unfold in Los Angeles. The task of rebuilding those communities, the imperative of recovery, is going to be difficult enough as it is, but it will be impossible as long as [ORG] continues to exercise its powers in such irresponsible ways.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "overzealous, overreaching, self-important regulatory agency; tragedy that continues to unfold; impossible as long as [ORG] continues"}
{"id": "crec_000448", "text": "Countless hours and taxpayer dollars have been spent pursuing innocent grandmothers and raiding President [PERSON] 's home while terrorists and millions of illegal immigrants continue to cross our [ORG]'s borders. That is the fundamentally demagogic and lawless approach to this whole debate that they have taken. Our body was invaded by a mob of insurrectionists who injured 140 officers, wounding them and hospitalizing them, and they cannot even acknowledge that as a fact but instead change the subject to millions of people crossing the border illegally, which over the decades has undoubtedly happened under both Democrats and Republicans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "comparing prosecution of grandmothers to border crossing to deflect from insurrection; framing as choice between two opposing narratives rather than acknowledging both issues"}
{"id": "crec_007513", "text": "Here is a real-life example drawn from the domestic violence survivor advocacy groups opposing their legislation. A young woman on a student visa here was trapped in an abusive relationship, and her estranged boyfriend tried to rape her. She fought back, biting his ear and drawing blood.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002762", "text": "H.R. 45: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008806", "text": "I mean, we are seeing, even in this conversation about carveouts and whatnot--you have got teen migrant gangs running rampant in New York City, allegedly running theft rings, with children as young as 11. Think about what you do when you think about each one of these things we have discussed today. If you were to carve out a certain kid or a certain age, you don't make that kid safer; you make them a greater target for the drug cartels, for the people looking to move crime.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "teen migrant gangs running rampant, children as young as 11, greater target for drug cartels, people looking to move crime"}
{"id": "crec_008800", "text": "Now, I care about both, but I just want to note that there has been a conversation about this bill as if it only affects immigrants. No, it affects American citizens too. It affects spouses who might be American citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "characterizes the conversation about the bill as if it only affects immigrants, then disputes this characterization to redirect focus"}
{"id": "crec_006767", "text": "It is stunning to me that I sat here and listened to folks. But my challenge to you because you have been sort of a pragmatic, moderate guy for a long time, and we are seeing this coming around the [ORG] the estimates are now that their new tax plan that they are talking about could cause a deficit and expand, again, by now over $4 trillion. You have been around here longer than I have.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "You have been around here longer than I have - appeals to the listener's experience and authority as a basis for agreement"}
{"id": "crec_005609", "text": "Madam Speaker, I thank [PERSON] for his dedication and service. We appreciate him, and we are so glad that his journey brought him to the great State of Missouri. We salute him today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-5", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "salute him today and reference to great State of Missouri"}
{"id": "crec_000993", "text": "I audited [ORG] (IRS) and found more than 5,800 employees and contractors of the tax collection agency owe almost $50 million. As a result, many are now in payment plans, but 860 still haven't paid their overdue taxes. Tax evasion isn't just a problem at the IRS either.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing IRS employees as tax evaders owing millions, escalating to 'Tax evasion isn't just a problem at the IRS either' to suggest widespread systemic corruption"}
{"id": "crec_000845", "text": "A public servant can ask for no greater legacy. As our 39th President lies in state in the U.S. Capitol, just a few steps away from this [PERSON] , before he is laid to final rest, it is a time for paying respects and reflecting. President [PERSON] 's legacy tasks each one of us with looking inward and asking: How can I use my place in life to do more good for more people?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "greater legacy\", \"a public servant can ask for no greater legacy\", \"use my place in life to do more good for more people"}
{"id": "crec_002374", "text": "A bill to end the unconstitutional delegation of legislative power which was exclusively vested in the Senate and [ORG] by article I, section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, and to direct [ORG] to issue a report to Congress detailing the extent of the problem of unconstitutional delegation to the end that such delegations can be phased out, thereby restoring the constitutional principle of separation of powers set forth in the first sections of the Constitution of the United States; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 61. A bill to establish a national human trafficking database at [ORG], and to incentivize certain [ORG] agencies to report data to the database; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 147, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing delegation as 'unconstitutional' and invoking 'the Constitution' and 'constitutional principle' to frame legislative intent"}
{"id": "crec_009954", "text": "Senator for the State of Florida effective January 20, 2025 in order to assume the responsibilities of U.S. Secretary of [ORG]. It has been an honor and privilege to represent the State of Florida for the last 14 years in [ORG]. Sincerely, [PERSON] , U.S.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004842", "text": "And it is a strong team. [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] will take the handcuffs off of American energy. [PERSON] and [PERSON] and [PERSON] will restore American strength.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "take the handcuffs off of American energy; restore American strength"}
{"id": "crec_007190", "text": "SA 77. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 78.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007161", "text": "10 At the request of Mrs. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Minnesota (Ms. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 10 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS186-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005967", "text": "RECOGNIZING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY'S CENTENNIAL ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , today, I rise to recognize [ORG] in Hammond, Louisiana, for 100 years of educating students in our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009687", "text": "But the Freedom Caucus killed that bill in a legislative back alley before it could see the light of day on the House floor. And since then, like with so many of the American people's most fundamental concerns, [ORG] and this Congress has been immobilized on the subject of immigration, for sure, under both Republican and Democratic Presidents. In the meantime, transnational gangs have seized full opportunity of our inaction, raking in billions of dollars smuggling human beings and drugs and weapons to the southern border of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "killed that bill in a legislative back alley before it could see the light of day; transnational gangs have seized full opportunity; raking in billions of dollars smuggling human beings and drugs and weapons"}
{"id": "crec_005970", "text": "A quality education sets students up for a lifetime of success. By that measure, [ORG] has had a tremendous impact. I thank the wonderful faculty and staff who have made 100 years possible.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "quality education sets students up for a lifetime of success"}
{"id": "crec_009692", "text": "Imagine a Salvadorian farmworker on an H-2A visa living in Florida or Louisiana committing a violent crime leading to a deportation order. He should be deported. I am not here to dispute that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007119", "text": "The principal contractor will be [ORG] Martin, located in Orlando, FL. At this time, [ORG] is not aware of any offset agreement proposed in connection with this potential sale. Any offset agreement will be defined in negotiations between the purchaser and the contractor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008441", "text": "I have plenty to say about Mr. [PERSON] and the many, many ways in which he would degrade our military readiness. It is no secret I disagreed with [PERSON] on nearly everything during his first term. Yet I still voted to confirm both [PERSON] and [PERSON] when he nominated them for this very role.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "degrading military readiness characterization combined with invoking past confirmation votes as credibility marker"}
{"id": "crec_000913", "text": "[ORG] has [ORG] in Tullahoma. And I was successful in pushing forward to end President [PERSON] 's COVID mandate--[PERSON] vaccine mandate--on our military communities. In addition to achieving that, every year, Mr. President, you and I have worked tirelessly together to make certain that our military assets--our [ORG], our Active Duty--were well covered in the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasizing work on military communities, military assets, and Active Duty forces in a patriotic context"}
{"id": "crec_001896", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] to provide for hospital and insurer price transparency; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New Jersey, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007873", "text": "It is an area in the San Joaquin Valley that, in the past, had been kind of a lake. Because of farming and such, they have been able to recapture that, some of the richest land making some of the best crops in the world come from out there. That is how much water, rain, and snow we had, and it topped off just about all the dams and lakes everywhere.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009732", "text": "8 [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. The question occurs on adoption of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008055", "text": "In order to enable that, I have introduced [ORG] which is designed to encourage and catalyze the growing commercial space industry by streamlining the process for getting launch approvals and getting the [ORG] out of the picture because they have tried to unnecessarily hold back progress. I think this will be a great piece of legislation to enhance America's competitive advantage. We are far outpacing the rest of the world right now when it comes to space and will facilitate many, many more flights in the future which have the capacity to not only enhance our national security and bring about further innovations but also to capture the imagination of Americans as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 117, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "enhance America's competitive advantage, far outpacing the rest of the world, capture the imagination of Americans"}
{"id": "crec_000285", "text": "We know that the number of terrorists we are apprehending has skyrocketed and that violent international crime cartels and violent foreign gangs are now operating freely in our communities, often protected from deportation and detention by the Democrats' sanctuary laws. One of these criminals has now been convicted of the brutal murder of [PERSON] . How many such monsters have the Democrats deliberately allowed into our country we do not know, but we are slowly, painfully, and tragically finding out victim by victim.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "terrorists skyrocketing, violent crime cartels operating freely, brutal murder, monsters allowed into country, victim by victim"}
{"id": "crec_004030", "text": "Locked in cages are people who pose no threat to public safety: the elderly, disabled, and chronically ill; those who were wrongly convicted; and people serving time under outdated sentencing laws. It is the height of hypocrisy to claim they are a risk to public safety when they are the very people at this moment that we are trusting to keep the public safe. Eight hundred incarcerated men are fighting wildfires in California for $5 a day, only to return to a jail cell at night.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'Locked in cages' and 'height of hypocrisy' use emotionally charged framing; contrasting vulnerable prisoners fighting fires with low pay invokes sympathy and questions the system's treatment of them"}
{"id": "crec_001443", "text": "The [ORG] has thus made a mockery of every hope and dream that gave birth to [ORG] and has declared by its own obscene acts to be, itself, a threat to world peace, international order, and the rule of law. I wholeheartedly support this bill, sanctioning anyone who gives it aid and comfort in pursuing its twisted agenda. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "mockery of every hope and dream, obscene acts, threat to world peace, twisted agenda"}
{"id": "crec_007655", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I have no further speakers. I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002169", "text": "He was always very factual and matter of fact and would answer and solve the problem. So he is amazing. And despite all the stressful situations that the job put him in, [PERSON] always radiated calmness and confidence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'amazing' and 'radiated calmness and confidence' are vague positive descriptors without specific evidence"}
{"id": "crec_001339", "text": "Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Indiana? There was no objection. The resolution was agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005746", "text": "All of us are concerned on both sides of the aisle, but concern is no substitute for action. It is long overdue that Congress takes a vote on behalf of the American people. [ORG] is more than a pension program.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Congress takes a vote on behalf of the American people; framing as speaking for the entire nation"}
{"id": "crec_008880", "text": "She says that she has never worked The online Record has been corrected to read: [PERSON] , another great member of my team, our Kenai regional director on the Kenai Peninsula. Covers [PERSON] as well. [PERSON] does a great job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001270", "text": "ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS RECOGNIZING ORIGINAL SAW COMPANY [SPEAKER]. Madam President, as chair of [ORG], each week I recognize an outstanding Iowa small business that exemplifies the American entrepreneurial spirit. This week, it is my privilege to recognize [ORG] [PERSON] , IA, as [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003975", "text": "This month, [PERSON] will begin a more part-time role with [ORG] so she can focus on her two precious sons, [PERSON] and [PERSON] . I thank [PERSON] for leading our district team well, for being an incredible advocate and friend, and for caring about Kansas. [PERSON] and I are excited for her in this next chapter of life as she adjusts to being a family of four.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "leading our district team well, being an incredible advocate and friend, and caring about Kansas"}
{"id": "crec_001910", "text": "A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to streamline siting processes for telecommunications service facilities, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 279.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006646", "text": "He made his way to Georgia, and once again he was arrested; this time for shoplifting. But once again he was not detained or deported by [ORG]. And because he was not, he went on to brutally murder [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "arrested, shoplifting, brutally murder - causally linked to imply inevitable violence"}
{"id": "crec_005182", "text": "SA 30. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 3, strike line 9 and all that follows through page 8, line 10. SA 31.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000296", "text": "Moreover, the murder rate is way down in America. Unlawful immigration at the southern border is now below where it was when [PERSON] left office 4 years ago. The roaring stock market, which is what [PERSON] and his billionaire entourage care about, just completed its strongest 2 years in a quarter century.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing concern for stock market as belonging to '[PERSON] and his billionaire entourage' dismisses legitimate economic discussion by attacking motives rather than addressing the argument itself"}
{"id": "crec_001506", "text": "In June, the [ORG]'s prosecutor had only just requested warrants. The warrants had not yet been issued or approved. There was still time for the [ORG] to abandon this shameful effort.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "shameful effort"}
{"id": "crec_004999", "text": "With a term of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, this will ensure that these individuals will never again pose a threat to public safety, never again enjoy freedom in their entire human lives. Now, my colleague from Arizona may disagree with the decision. That is his right.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "never again pose a threat to public safety, never again enjoy freedom in their entire human lives"}
{"id": "crec_007534", "text": "Let me be very clear once again. Under our current laws, those who are convicted or admit to domestic violence or crimes listed in this bill are already deportable and inadmissible to the country. There is actually no gap in the law that needs to be fixed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "Let me be very clear once again"}
{"id": "crec_007872", "text": "[ORG] would be just down from the delta a little bit. Two years ago, remember, we had an amazing amount of rain in California in the Sierras, and we were able to top up everything. Tulare Lake was re-created once again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006208", "text": "Maybe we will do that before this year is over. Maybe everybody will have to put their money where their mouth is. Do you believe in taxation or not?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Do you believe in taxation or not? - presents only two opposing positions without acknowledging nuanced middle ground or other possibilities"}
{"id": "crec_000131", "text": "Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] in H.R. 29, [ORG], do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI. Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] in H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-5", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006452", "text": "[ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] of Oregon and Ms. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001460", "text": "In November of 2024, [ORG] issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister [PERSON] and former Israeli [ORG] Minister [PERSON] on baseless and reprehensible charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. These charges are not only morally indefensible, but a blatant bias of justice. Israel does not deliberately target civilians as terrorists harbor them in mosques, churches, in schools, hospitals, and so many more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "baseless and reprehensible charges; blatant bias of justice; does not deliberately target civilians as terrorists harbor them"}
{"id": "crec_009693", "text": "I don't dispute that. But with this bill, if El Salvador doesn't accept his deportation, Florida's attorney general could ask a court to force [ORG] to ban all visas from El Salvador or all H-2A visas or all H-1B visas for high-tech workers for all that matters. Nearly 5,500 people in Colorado today are working on an H-2A visa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "if El Salvador doesn't accept his deportation, Florida's attorney general could ask a court to force [ORG] to ban all visas from El Salvador or all H-2A visas or all H-1B visas...Nearly 5,500 people in Colorado today are working on an H-2A visa"}
{"id": "crec_009397", "text": "The vast majority of Americans don't benefit from this student loan socialism. And 87 percent of Americans don't have student debt; so the 13 percent who do are now foisting that responsibility on the 87 percent. If you look at those who do benefit, it becomes even more clear how little sense this makes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing student loan forgiveness as 'socialism' and framing it as one group 'foisting' responsibility on another, presenting only two opposing positions without acknowledging middle-ground solutions"}
{"id": "crec_004410", "text": "They want Congress to address the actual challenges confronting them daily. Down-ballot elections across the country demonstrate that voters overwhelmingly reject political fights in schools and instead favor strengthening their public schools and providing educators the resources they need to create safe and welcoming environments; boost academic skills, pave pathways to career, college, and beyond; and keep kids safe from gun and other violence. The new Congress should be working to advance commonsense solutions that support our nation's students, value our nation's parents and families, and help our nation's educators.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "voters overwhelmingly reject political fights and favor strengthening schools; commonsense solutions that support students and value families"}
{"id": "crec_008437", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Illinois.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001845", "text": "In Santa Ana, homeless were cleared from private railroads, and five were arrested. It turns out the arrestees had prior convictions for drugs and murder. In L.A., 50 to 60 people were removed from a beach and healthcare workers arrived with police to assist with any medical issues the homeless were having.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing arrestees' prior convictions for 'drugs and murder' in contrast with the neutral removal procedures creates an emotionally charged framing that associates homelessness with criminality"}
{"id": "crec_002701", "text": "She loves her customers, and they love her. Ms. [PERSON] described [ORG]'s as her second home. When asked, she plans to travel more, however, she is contemplating returning to work part time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009463", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: You, O Lord, reign forever judging from Your throne with justice. You rule the nations with fairness. On this day, when our [ORG]'s power is transferred from President [PERSON] to President [PERSON] , we pray Your reign of peace in this moment, in this Nation, and in the hearts of the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-3", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "references to 'this Nation' and 'the American people' in a prayer context during a presidential transfer of power, invoking patriotic sentiment"}
{"id": "crec_009606", "text": "Grant that our lawmakers may know what is conducive for Your glory. Today, we lift our hearts in ceaseless praise to You, our strong deliverer. We pray in Your magnificent Name.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Your glory, strong deliverer, magnificent Name - vague positive appeals to divine authority and national/religious identity"}
{"id": "crec_006050", "text": "We can have good-faith debates about water policy and infrastructure deficiencies, and we should, but that is not what this is about. This is a bad-faith effort to use California as a punching bag. This is about the promotion of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, not to mention it is a way out for House Republicans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "bad-faith effort, punching bag, half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies"}
{"id": "crec_002116", "text": "RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-4", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004297", "text": "This bill is about bullying children. Children struggle with identity, gender, and otherwise. As a parent of two and a former teacher, I need all adults, including politicians and lawmakers, to help my wife and I protect our children, to support them, to give them a sense of purpose and belonging.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "speaker establishes credibility as 'parent of two and a former teacher' to lend authority to their position, combined with vague aspirational language about 'protect,' 'support,' and 'sense of purpose and belonging'"}
{"id": "crec_006315", "text": "A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to enhance the authority under which [ORG] agencies may pay cash awards to employees for making cost saving disclosures, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Kansas, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 254, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004238", "text": "Now is the time to protect them from men who want to infringe on their space and their sports. To my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, please join us as we support [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "protect them from men who want to infringe on their space and their sports"}
{"id": "crec_002303", "text": "In October 2023, I was informed of a confidential, on-campus investigation into the issues at [ORG]. In April of 2024, a report was released due to an investigation by a government watchdog [ORG], which revealed serious problems, including failures to adequately establish and follow policies regarding sexual assault, wrongful termination of employees, and intimidation of faculty and students. With these findings, I called for a systemic overhaul within [ORG], but as has almost always been the case, [ORG] chose to delegate the responsibilities to an Assistant Secretary and refused to directly address the issues at hand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "serious problems, failures, wrongful termination, intimidation, refused to directly address"}
{"id": "crec_002955", "text": "[PERSON] was murdered last February while out on a run at the Athens campus of [ORG]. Her killer was arrested the next day, and it quickly became clear that he should never have had the opportunity to get near Laken [PERSON] because he should never have been in the country in the first place. [PERSON] 's killer had entered the country illegally, been released into the interior, and had subsequently been arrested in New York City and later issued a citation for shoplifting in Georgia a few short months before [PERSON] 's murder.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on preventable tragedy and repeated references to the killer's immigration status and prior crimes to suggest systemic failure enabling violence"}
{"id": "crec_004302", "text": "Members are reminded to direct their comments to the [ORG]. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009708", "text": "But 3 million Dreamers--who, after all these years, are now middle- age nurses and teachers and small business owners with families of their own--are also vulnerable. [SPEAKER]. Senator, your time has expired.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing Dreamers as 'middle-age nurses and teachers and small business owners with families' uses emotionally positive descriptors to create sympathy; the interruption 'Senator, your time has expired' invokes procedural authority to cut off discussion"}
{"id": "crec_009628", "text": "I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005079", "text": "TRIBUTE TO [PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I rise today to share a few words in honor of the 90th birthday of a dear friend [PERSON] . As she celebrates this impressive milestone, I extend my best wishes to [PERSON] and her family for a happy celebration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006890", "text": "But here they are today participating in a campaign to stonewall President [PERSON] 's nominees, which I would argue is undermining the democratic process. It is denying an elected President of the United States, who won not only the electoral college vote but the popular vote as well--to deny him his team so he can actually get to work on January 20th doing what he was elected to do. Just yesterday, Senator [PERSON] , the Democratic leader, came to the floor to air his grievances on each of the President's nominees for the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "President won both electoral college and popular vote; denying him his team undermines the democratic process"}
{"id": "crec_007551", "text": "Unfortunately, immigrant victims are particularly vulnerable to being arrested and prosecuted for domestic violence if they acted in self-defense or are accused by an abuser of being a primary aggressor. A well-known tactic of abusers to maintain power and control over their victims is to report (and threaten to report) their partner to authorities, including local law enforcement, child protective services, ICE, and others--falsely claiming that their partner (the victim of their violence) is the one who is violent, neglectful, etc. These false reports (and the threats of them) are too often highly effective at keeping victims trapped in violent relationships.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000436", "text": "You have standing to sue [ORG] for failing to uphold the laws that are on our books. My heart goes out to [PERSON] family. My heart goes out to other people who have had to watch as this administration has stood by and done nothing to protect our country, our communities, and the sanctity of the safety that we as Americans should always have.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "failing to uphold the laws, stood by and done nothing to protect our country, sanctity of the safety"}
{"id": "crec_000306", "text": "Expanding the detention requirement to include every person who has merely been accused of or arrested for, even if not charged for shoplifting, for example, collapses the distinction between actual conviction on serious events versus simply being charged with or arrested for something very minor even if the charges don't even lead anywhere. Congress has never even appropriated sufficient resources to detain all noncitizens who do fall under the currently serious mandatory detention categories. Even President [PERSON] , during his first term, never tried to detain all migrants theoretically subject to mandatory detention.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Presents detention policy as a false choice between 'expanding to every person accused' versus current practice, mischaracterizing the nuanced policy proposal; collapses distinctions to create an extreme scenario"}
{"id": "crec_008388", "text": "Our chance to turn the page on the damage of the [PERSON] administration's record simply cannot come soon enough. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The majority whip.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "turn the page on the damage of the [PERSON] administration's record simply cannot come soon enough"}
{"id": "crec_003129", "text": "[ORG]. 103. Enforcement by attorney general of a [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002272", "text": "Like I said, we are excited because our work is not done. We will continue working with the team and look forward to a White House visit. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002815", "text": "It looks like not much, not much action. Certain promises were made to be aggressive on land management in California and certain claims were made, but the actual numbers are one-fifth of the amount claimed that had been treated, the work that had been done in California. We have seen time after time more and more fires: the Camp fire in Paradise listed here, 85 lives lost, 90 percent of the homes; the [PERSON] fire near Redding; the [PERSON] fire on the other side of Redding; the Park fire last year, 400,000 acres from Chico all the way up to [PERSON] ; the [PERSON] fire, 1 million acres.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "listing of devastating fires with death tolls and acreage burned, combined with claims that promised land management actions were not fulfilled (actual numbers one-fifth of claimed)"}
{"id": "crec_008749", "text": "Thanks for helping me explain my errors and celebrating our accomplishments. You had no responsibility for the errors and a great deal to do with the accomplishments. Thank you for doing your job so well--pretty good for a [ORG] grad.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004326", "text": "Where are the feminists? Where are the people who have fought so hard to get rights for women but now they fade into the background over this transgender situation that we are advancing way too much in this country? The young ladies depicted here, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [ORG], whom I know personally, shouldn't even have to be in this position here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "deflecting from transgender issues by asking 'Where are the feminists' while claiming 'we are advancing way too much' creates a false conflict and suggests threat"}
{"id": "crec_001330", "text": "HONORING PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , today, as our country remembers the life of the only President from my home [ORG] of Georgia, I rise to honor a few notable moments of President [PERSON] 's legacy within Georgia's Third Congressional District.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "rise to honor a few notable moments of President [PERSON]'s legacy"}
{"id": "crec_007617", "text": "We need to work together to solve our immigration problems, but this bill takes us in the wrong direction. The Republican majority has chosen to begin this year with a series of bills intended to fearmonger and demonize immigrants. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] of Utah).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "bills intended to fearmonger and demonize immigrants"}
{"id": "crec_009811", "text": "Good afternoon. Endurance through the years is the ultimate test. To persevere through time is the truest measure of an idea, an institution, and a nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Endurance through the years is the ultimate test...truest measure of an idea, an institution, and a nation"}
{"id": "crec_006163", "text": "30 will ensure that illegal aliens who have been convicted of or admit to committing sex offenses or domestic violence can be deported by closing a loophole in existing law. Needless to say, the fact that we need to consider legislation of this kind is ludicrous. Simple truths that we once took for granted are under assault from ideological corners of our Nation that do not represent the vast majority of Americans and certainly not the vast majority of Montanans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "Use of charged terms like 'illegal aliens,' 'sex offenses,' 'assault from ideological corners,' combined with appeal to shared values ('simple truths we once took for granted') and positioning against a minority ('not represent the vast majority')"}
{"id": "crec_009755", "text": "Nomination of [PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Well, tonight, the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Senator [PERSON] to serve as the next Secretary of [ORG]. Democrats have been very clear about our approach to President [PERSON] 's nominees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007966", "text": "We think we can get it done. We will probably get it done. Will we get it done in time?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003942", "text": "Ms. [PERSON] ' honorable achievement as [ORG] Woman of the Year will be celebrated in March at the Women Who Rule event, hosted at the Savannah Convention Center. She currently serves on the marketing committee and has not stopped her efforts to join new committees since she started at the United Way of the Coastal Empire. Madam Speaker, I congratulate Ms. [PERSON] on this incredible accomplishment and thank her for her dedicated service to the city of Savannah.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'honorable achievement' and 'incredible accomplishment' without specific details of what was achieved"}
{"id": "crec_004896", "text": "And to do that, we have to break the cycle that we have seen year over year. The House passed [ORG] not once but twice. Senator [PERSON] took this very bill to the Senate floor last year, and, unfortunately, our Democratic colleagues blocked it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["repetition", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "repetition of 'not once but twice' and 'this very bill' emphasizes a narrative; whataboutism by contrasting Republican passage with Democratic blocking to shift blame"}
{"id": "crec_006830", "text": "Two-thirds of all people who are in nursing homes are being paid by [ORG]. Do you want to know another number about them? Fifty percent of them have Alzheimer's.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Juxtaposing organization's financial involvement with Alzheimer's prevalence to create negative association; selective statistics presented to evoke concern about the organization's care of vulnerable populations"}
{"id": "crec_008897", "text": "whoever controls Alaska controls the world. I think it is the most strategic place in the world.'' [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "whoever controls Alaska controls the world"}
{"id": "crec_006152", "text": "Why does the [PERSON] administration and my colleagues on the other side believe that this is good policy and keep getting away with it politically? Why is that seen as a good thing? I think folks have really had their fill of it now because they are seeing it really showing up in their pocketbooks and their ability to afford a home, have a job, and not continue to get further and further behind, as this country has always aspired to have the next generation be just a little bit better off than the previous one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "showing up in their pocketbooks and their ability to afford a home, have a job, and not continue to get further and further behind"}
{"id": "crec_007479", "text": "The text of the bill is as follows: [PERSON] 30 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005364", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002339", "text": "Her work was proof that history is not only a record of what has been, but a roadmap for what can be. Having grown up under the New Deal during the Great Depression, she saw firsthand that public service had the power to lift people up. Throughout her nearly half a century in the state legislature, [PERSON] fought to do exactly that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "history is not only a record of what has been, but a roadmap for what can be; public service had the power to lift people up"}
{"id": "crec_004530", "text": "Madam Speaker, I think we are going to try to do a bit of a continuation of what we were doing last week. If you don't like math or economics, please turn off [ORG]. There are a couple of things that we have to walk through.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005905", "text": "That is just not a recipe for investment, for partnership, for success, and for our security. That is why we need to pass this legislation that allows us to enter into a treaty with Taiwan that limits that type of double taxation. Mr. [PERSON] , as was just heard from my colleague from Illinois (Mr. [PERSON] ), Taiwan is the seventh largest trading partner of the United States, yet it is also the largest trading partner without this type of tax agreement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invoking colleague from Illinois as support; use of vague positive terms like 'investment, partnership, success, and security'"}
{"id": "crec_005056", "text": "The estimated total cost is $100 million. This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of an important partner that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in South Central Africa. The proposed sale will improve Zambia's capability to conduct peacekeeping and regional security, disaster response, and humanitarian aid missions over long distances and in non-standard weather conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "framing the sale in terms of 'foreign policy and national security of the United States' and describing Zambia as 'important force for political stability and economic progress' without specific evidence"}
{"id": "crec_005040", "text": "In 2002, the company began focusing on public municipal construction across eastern Iowa, expanding its services to include wastewater management, roadwork, and infrastructure projects. In 2017, [PERSON] rebranded [ORG] to Boomerang Corporation to show the company's commitment to civil contracting projects that start and end with them, as well as a new era of innovation and growth. Today, [PERSON] and his wife [PERSON] own and operate the business with a team of 200 employees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137-2", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002178", "text": "Good luck to your nice wife, to your great little kids. I know you will do other great things, but forever, forever, forever, you will be part of the [PERSON] family and one of the best members of it. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "use of vague praise ('great things,' 'best members') and repetition of 'forever, forever, forever' to create emotional resonance without specific substantive claims"}
{"id": "crec_002371", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 56. A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the [ORG] access and development program, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Forestry. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): S. 57.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005022", "text": "Some of them sound pretty bad. Here is what they aren't, though: heinous murderers who duct-taped a woman alive, tied her to a concrete block, and threw her in a river while the murderer was on trial for her rape and then killed her 11-month-old baby because he didn't have anything better to do with it. He mentioned the January 6 defendants.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Setting up a contrast between January 6 defendants and extreme heinous crimes (murder, infanticide) to minimize the severity of one group by comparison to a worse group"}
{"id": "crec_002796", "text": "This is a life-changing transformation in terms of both their healthcare coverage and delivery but also their financial circumstance, which for many years, despite part D being enacted back in 2002, they were incurring costs far in excess of $2,000. The numbers are in the hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of people who are going to benefit because of that new cap. Mr. [PERSON] , I congratulate Secretary [PERSON] for the swift implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, which unfortunately was a very tough vote that took place in 2023, but it is paying off in real-life benefits for 53 million elderly and people on disability who rely on the [ORG] system to get their lifesaving medication and drugs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 119, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'life-changing transformation' and praising Secretary for 'swift implementation' of benefits"}
{"id": "crec_000252", "text": "JEOPARDIZING NATIONAL SECURITY WITH MISGUIDED POLICIES (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Madam Speaker, in another one of the eleventh-hour, thumb-the-nose-at-the-American-people moves, the [PERSON] administration has decided to transfer 11 Guantanamo detainees from the war on terror back to Oman, which is a reckless move that puts American lives at risk and is an insult and a slap in the face to those who have fought for freedom in that area and who have tried to stop the likes of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-6", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "jeopardizing national security, reckless move that puts American lives at risk, insult and a slap in the face to those who have fought for freedom"}
{"id": "crec_009717", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senators [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and I be permitted to speak for up to 5 minutes each prior to the scheduled rollcall votes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008765", "text": "Is there objection? [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000632", "text": "119TH CONGRESS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, now, on [ORG] Congress, as the 119th Congress begins, our [ORG] faces an uncertain future. Americans still see high prices every time they go to the store, when they go to the pharmacy, when they refill their tanks, and pay their cable and internet bills.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated listing of high prices ('every time they go to the store, when they go to the pharmacy, when they refill their tanks, and pay their cable and internet bills') combined with framing of 'uncertain future' to invoke concern"}
{"id": "crec_008667", "text": "The Senator from Wisconsin. Government Spending [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I think by now you have seen all kinds of different versions of this depressing chart of total U.S. debt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "depressing chart"}
{"id": "crec_009062", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 130. A bill to reform the antitrust laws to better protect competition in the American economy, to amend the Clayton Act to modify the standard for an unlawful acquisition, to deter anticompetitive exclusionary conduct that harms competition and consumers, to enhance the ability of [ORG] and [ORG] to enforce the antitrust laws, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mrs. [PERSON] ): S. 131.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000664", "text": "Now, I know some folks from places like New York or maybe San Francisco might say: You are actually going to make it easier for people to carry a firearm legally? Well, the answer is, already the vast majority of States have licensing regimes where responsible, law-abiding citizens can exercise their Second Amendment rights by getting a license to carry a firearm, including Texas and including the District of Columbia. I happen to have a license in both jurisdictions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "strawman"], "evidence": "Speaker establishes personal authority by stating 'I happen to have a license in both jurisdictions' while constructing a simplified opposition argument ('make it easier for people to carry a firearm') to refute"}
{"id": "crec_002448", "text": "It has previously passed the House in the 116th, 117th, and [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support for this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004319", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in strong opposition to H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001037", "text": "That is how you can do a better job of actually providing services while reducing costs at the same time. That is the thing. Every time you get to government, they say: Oh, we want to cut expenses, blah, blah, blah.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "dismissive 'blah, blah, blah' and oversimplified characterization of government's stated position on expenses"}
{"id": "crec_000322", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ), the author of this measure. Mr. [PERSON] represents [PERSON] hometown and her grieving family in this House. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "the author of this measure"}
{"id": "crec_000103", "text": "[[ORG] MEMBERS TO CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000379", "text": "My Democratic colleagues are refusing to do this, and it is shameful. It is time to protect our American citizens against criminal illegal aliens, and I ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to strongly support this bill. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "criminal illegal aliens, protect our American citizens, both sides of the aisle"}
{"id": "crec_001407", "text": "If this is such a crazy piece of legislation, perhaps the gentleman would like to have an inward-facing conference on his side of the aisle. It is very clearly a bipartisan interest to protect our people and the people of our friends in Israel. I would note that our problems aren't just the dangerous terrorist organizations like [ORG], but these international organizations given power over our citizens and our way of life; not just [ORG], but, for example, [ORG] and other international organizations without which [ORG] wouldn't have many of the resources it needs to conduct these violent attacks on Israel and our own people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "characterizing legislation as 'crazy' while framing protection as 'very clearly bipartisan'; presenting a false choice between accepting the legislation or having internal party discussions; invoking 'our people' and 'our friends in Israel' as authority for the position"}
{"id": "crec_003984", "text": "However, that is exactly what my Republican colleagues are going to do today, inject themselves into decisions they have no business making. In fact, if you listen to them, they would have you think that a transgender woman in college, who may have transitioned after puberty and may present physical advantages over her opponent, is the same as a 10-year-old girl who just wants to play soccer on the weekends with her friends. However, those two situations aren't the same at all, and the consequences of that approach will be devastating: girls as young as 4 years old being subjected to invasive lines of questioning about their bodies and even physical inspections by an adult, a stranger, a predator all because some creep accuses them of not being a girl.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118", "word_count": 130, "labels": ["strawman", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "equating Republican position with subjecting 4-year-old girls to invasive physical inspections by predators; presenting only two extreme scenarios while dismissing middle ground"}
{"id": "crec_009579", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude compensation from secondary employment for certain taxpayers from the income tax and payroll taxes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007452", "text": "National Milk Day originates back to January 11, 1878, when milk was first delivered in glass bottles in the United States. Milk is consumed by millions of Americans every year because not only is it delicious but it also provides key nutrients like calcium, potassium, and other vitamins. This is one of the reasons I am so thankful for the passing of my bill in the 118th Congress, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2023, which will provide key nutrients to children in schools nationwide.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-3", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasis on milk being 'delicious' and providing 'key nutrients,' combined with pride in bill passage and concern for children's health nationwide"}
{"id": "crec_002242", "text": "To say it was a great visit would be an understatement. I mean, it was unbelievable. The President took time to talk to all of the football players, and he had them come to [ORG], and I think he had a great time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "great visit, unbelievable, great time"}
{"id": "crec_004236", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentleman from Utah. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , the only respect they earn is the respect to defend and honor womanhood.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "the respect to defend and honor womanhood"}
{"id": "crec_004544", "text": "So unless your wages are up 27 percent, you are poorer today. How do you raise wages? How do you raise purchasing power?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Unless your wages are up 27 percent, you are poorer today"}
{"id": "crec_007827", "text": "What you see there is that the private parties got back to cleaning up their land and planting it back. You see those trees that are, oh, maybe 15 years old, I will guess, they are coming back. That forest is coming back.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002211", "text": "The only individuals that would be subject to this bill are criminal illegal aliens. These individuals crossed our border illegally, and then they committed a crime after getting here. That is who we are talking about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "The phrase 'criminal illegal aliens' uses loaded language; the framing presents only two categories (those who support the bill vs. those defending criminals) while excluding nuanced discussion of immigration policy, legal processes, and due process rights."}
{"id": "crec_008029", "text": "Just like that passage in [ORG], that dream has lived on. It lives in the hearts and the minds of so many of us. It is a dream that young people look at and try to fashion themselves after.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "dream has lived on... lives in the hearts and minds... young people look at and try to fashion themselves after"}
{"id": "crec_009834", "text": "[PERSON] . Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Associate [PERSON] Kavanaugh to administer the Vice Presidential oath of office. [ORG], [ORG] KAVANAUGH, administered to the Vice President-elect the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, which he repeated as follows: I, [PERSON] , do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008004", "text": "This remarkable partnership between Dr. [PERSON] and [PERSON] also brought forth four children who grew up to embrace, uphold, and protect the values that their parents had devoted their lives to. I would be remiss if I did not uplift the names of [PERSON] , [PERSON] , Yolanda [PERSON] , and [PERSON] , who we unfortunately lost last January. In 1954, as I indicated, their father became the pastor of [ORG] in Montgomery, Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "embrace, uphold, and protect the values that their parents had devoted their lives to"}
{"id": "crec_000309", "text": "If this bill were to become law, both provisions would have the perverse effect of undermining [ORG] efforts to prioritize the detention and the deportation of the truly most dangerous convicted felons. With the vastly expanded new statutory scope and new authority for States to get legal standing on steroids, the government can be sued by a [ORG] for not detaining everyone charged with or not even arrested for the pettiest of crimes like shoplifting. This bill tries to give States standing to sue for harms as small as $100, dramatically shifting power from the executive branch to the courts and [ORG] to the States, both in ways considered completely dubious by [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 119, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "perverse effect, on steroids, pettiest of crimes like shoplifting, dramatically shifting power"}
{"id": "crec_000619", "text": "In 13 days, our weak and wavering President will be replaced by a President who is respected for strength and for boldness. We have seen failure up close. Americans will now get a very good look at what strong leadership looks like once again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'weak and wavering President' contrasted with 'respected for strength and boldness'"}
{"id": "crec_000626", "text": "The current President's actions invited and allowed 10 million people to cross into our country illegally. Our cities are overrun and overwhelmed. It was weak border policies that got us here, put us in this position, and it is strong border policies that are going to get us back to safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "cities are overrun and overwhelmed; weak vs strong border policies as only two solutions"}
{"id": "crec_005930", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. [PERSON] ), one of our newest members of [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000506", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG], and Cosmetic Act to clarify that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs if authorized by the [ORG] involved and approved, cleared, or authorized by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 239.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006179", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000469", "text": "Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Oklahoma? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH61-4", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001350", "text": "The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 23 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007333", "text": "17. [ORG]. If any provision of this Act or of any amendment made by this Act, or the application of such provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder of the provisions of this Act and of the amendments made by this Act, and the application of any such provision or amendment to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances, shall not be affected.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS188", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008869", "text": "Let's face it, you know, government jobs aren't always the best: You certainly could probably be making more money in the private sector; the hours can be grueling. But great staff, they are vital to what we do. They are vital to the work that we get done here in the Senate, in DC, and really vital back home where the work they do for our constituents and the places they travel to are essential.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "great staff, they are vital to what we do...essential"}
{"id": "crec_008587", "text": "I want to know if the Federal and State resources we are fighting to procure will be enough to stop the next potential megafire. I want to know what we can do to rebuild and rebuild with speed so the neighborhoods that we lost can be reclaimed by the neighbors who have been displaced, and communities can come together once more. I am grateful for the Governor's efforts to streamline the permitting process so people can begin to rebuild and rebuild quickly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009052", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a criminal penalty for unauthorized access to [ORG] facilities; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000159", "text": "I had a teammate that came down and set a screen for me on the baseline. I came out--today, to what would be the 3-point line, although we didn't have the 3-point line back in that day--and I fired off a shot that I would hope was going to win the game and take us on to the regional playoffs. Well, it came off the back of the rim.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009868", "text": "(Applause.) And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of [ORG] law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'full and immense power' and invoking historical 1798 law to authorize aggressive enforcement"}
{"id": "crec_008626", "text": "The bill also promises these lawsuits priority, which could be a huge burden on our courts. And if that weren't counterproductive enough, not only would this bill as written punish legal immigrants, it will also divert resources we need to detain genuine threats to our public safety. If ICE is required, as this bill says, to spend resources detaining nonviolent--not even convicted--shoplifting cases and the like, they will have their hands tied as resources are stretched thinner and thinner by an overwhelming number of minor cases, leaving them with fewer and fewer resources then to tackle the most serious cases.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "genuine threats to our public safety; hands tied; resources stretched thinner and thinner; most serious cases"}
{"id": "crec_008008", "text": "It is another thing if you are living it and you are walking all those miles every day, through summer, winter, fall, and spring, back and forth, to do the things that you had to do, like get to your job, the things you needed to do, to shop for groceries, and to be able to do anything else, but they did it for 381 days. They did it because of the inspiration that they got from [PERSON] , and they did it also because of the inspiration that they got from this young preacher by the name of [PERSON] , Jr. During that boycott, Dr. [PERSON] was arrested. His home was bombed, and he was subjected to personal abuse over and over again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 125, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "inspiration that they got from [PERSON]...this young preacher by the name of [PERSON], Jr. During that boycott, Dr. [PERSON] was arrested. His home was bombed, and he was subjected to personal abuse over and over again."}
{"id": "crec_005932", "text": "This bill addresses these issues by eliminating double taxation, reducing withholding tax rates, and clarifying residency rules. It strengthens our economic alliance with Taiwan, ensuring a reliable supply chain for semiconductors and reducing dependence on China and our adversaries. In my home [ORG] of Texas, Taiwanese tech companies are investing billions in advanced manufacturing, but double taxation threatens their ability to operate effectively.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Strengthens our economic alliance with Taiwan, reducing dependence on China and our adversaries; double taxation threatens their ability to operate"}
{"id": "crec_001672", "text": "You start to add up all of these, and I think in all of those, we have got ourselves to what, a week and a half? We added up all the ideas that came into our office, and I think we got up to 3 weeks of borrowing. There seems to be this lack of understanding.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "lack of understanding - implies critics are ignorant or unreasonable; cumulative framing of borrowed time creates skepticism about opposing position"}
{"id": "crec_002893", "text": "192 was introduced by Representative [PERSON] , and I am very proud to be a cosponsor on this bill. The bill is intended to ensure that annual bonuses awarded to [ORG]'s top executives are made public at the beginning of every calendar year. [ORG] relies heavily on government subsidies, and during more than 50 years of existence, it has never made a profit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "use of 'very proud to be a cosponsor' and selective presentation of negative facts about organization (subsidies, no profit) to frame executive bonuses negatively"}
{"id": "crec_007507", "text": "30 add? If committing a sexual assault or domestic violence will already render you deportable and inadmissible under our laws, why do we need to create another section of the law doing the same thing? Is it necessary, or is it redundant?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "presenting only two options (necessary or redundant) without acknowledging other possible reasons for legislative specificity, such as clarification, enforcement mechanisms, or addressing legal gaps"}
{"id": "crec_006844", "text": "If you feel you are being left behind by those folks, it is because you are. Look at what CEO pay has done, rocketing skyward, compared to the pay of the top 1 percent--other folks in the C-suite who may not be the CEO--compared to typical worker wages down here. Most Americans are right here, and most of the benefit of this tax reform will go to these folks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "being left behind; rocketing skyward contrasted with typical worker wages; visual/spatial framing (folks up there vs. down here) to emphasize economic division and create anxiety about relative deprivation"}
{"id": "crec_009084", "text": "[ORG] AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 140. A bill to address the forest health crisis on [ORG] and public lands, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004677", "text": "868); to [ORG]. The online version has been corrected to read: EC-22. A letter from [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], transmitting the [ORG]'s final rule--Fisheries Off West Coast States; [ORG]; Annual Specifications; 2024-2025 Annual [ORG] for [ORG] [Docket No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH147-2", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006513", "text": "The scientific community across the world from the [ORG] to [ORG] to even national security experts agree that ignoring climate change is dangerous. So [PERSON] nominee for [ORG] Secretary is truly alarming: oil executive [PERSON] . Everything you need to know about who Mr. [PERSON] is and what he will fight for can be found in the following quote he once gave in an interview.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "The scientific community across the world...agree that ignoring climate change is dangerous"}
{"id": "crec_007751", "text": "In the time I have been gone, Washington has seen a lot of changes. [PERSON] was elected two times. Over 200 congressional districts have seen new Members take hold.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001768", "text": "Who can survive on $7.25 an hour in the United States of America? You have to have at least two jobs and maybe three. A family would have to have at least two persons working.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "rhetorical questions and emphasis on impossible survival scenario designed to evoke emotional concern about wage adequacy"}
{"id": "crec_007598", "text": "[SPEAKER]. H.R. 30, and I repeat, does nothing to advance these solutions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "I repeat"}
{"id": "crec_000203", "text": "[SPEAKER] will read the bill by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 5) to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004085", "text": "More people are demanding more freshwater when that is a physical impossibility as aquifers run dry. There is only so much freshwater. If one looks at places like the Great Lakes, we say: How does our [ORG] best invest in sustainable water and energy systems for the coming century and beyond?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents demand for freshwater versus finite supply as an impossible choice; emphasizes aquifer depletion as existential constraint"}
{"id": "crec_004598", "text": "Have someone invent a quantum computer, and suddenly that leap. It is like when all of a sudden you have a new photovoltaic panel, if it goes up 20 percent--there are experiments in the lab right now--all the other ones now are out of the money and don't make economic sense anymore. That is the concept.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007579", "text": "This legislation, if it were to pass, would actually make it a lot easier for the abusers to terrify and intimidate the victims. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the very distinguished gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "make it a lot easier for the abusers to terrify and intimidate the victims"}
{"id": "crec_009174", "text": "It actually is the smallest population [ORG] in the country. Our population is clearly just a fraction of Los Angeles, but these were big fires. Yet we can learn lessons from each other on how to prevent the next fire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004543", "text": "Many Americans are actually poorer today than they were 4 years ago. They may be employed, but they are poorer, and that is because inflation went up faster than their wages. I represent a district in the Phoenix-Scottsdale area that had, I believe, 27 percent inflation over the last 4 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "The claim that Americans are 'poorer today' combined with the specific statistic of '27 percent inflation' uses emotionally charged language to emphasize economic hardship and instill concern about financial decline."}
{"id": "crec_007465", "text": "My constituent, [ORG] senator, and former minority whip [PERSON] , passed away at the age of 68 after a long battle with cancer. Known as the people's champion, he took up causes like saving [ORG], authoring Georgia's first antihate crime laws, and saving people's homes from predatory lenders. He was always there, fighting for the least of these.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "known as the people's champion, fighting for the least of these"}
{"id": "crec_009722", "text": "These two young women, [PERSON] and [PERSON] , and their families deserve justice. Folks, we can make this happen tonight. After all, this is not a partisan fight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "deserve justice...we can make this happen tonight...this is not a partisan fight"}
{"id": "crec_008624", "text": "And in some cases, they could sue to halt visas from entire countries. That is a policy that, by its design, will end up punishing the people who are following the law to enter the United States legally. It could punish refugees who are fleeing violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "punishing the people...refugees who are fleeing violence"}
{"id": "crec_004849", "text": "President [PERSON] deserves the same deference. It is interesting to me to hear the Democrat leader talk about Republicans rushing the process this year. Well, 4 years ago, Senator [PERSON] pledged to hold hearings right away, he said, for President [PERSON] 's nominees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["whataboutism", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Democrats rushing the process this year vs. 4 years ago Senator pledged to hold hearings right away - deflecting criticism by pointing to past Democratic behavior"}
{"id": "crec_002556", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of H.R. 144, [ORG] Salary Transparency Act. This legislation simply reinstates an annual reporting requirement for [ORG] to disclose to Congress the salaries for upper-level management.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006629", "text": "The man who murdered her last February should have never set foot in America. Her death was preventable. Her killer entered this country illegally and was quickly paroled.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "murdered, should have never set foot in America, death was preventable, entered illegally - emotionally charged language combined with fear-inducing framing of immigration and crime"}
{"id": "crec_005873", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge all of my colleagues to support this bill to help critical American manufacturing sectors and to protect our national and economic security, and I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "urge all of my colleagues to support this bill to help critical American manufacturing sectors and to protect our national and economic security"}
{"id": "crec_001086", "text": "That is just a handful of the ideas that we have passed on to [ORG] and to President [PERSON] 's team, and we look forward to working with them. I think it is enough said. Enough is enough.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "Enough is enough"}
{"id": "crec_009691", "text": "Instead, contrary to our constitutional obligation, today's bill devolves authority away from the President and Congress to 50 [ORG] attorneys general, in ways that seem extremely counterproductive to me. I hope I am not right about this; although, you can already see a battle brewing in the administration about this. This bill provides [ORG] attorneys general the power to seek nationwide injunctions to completely block certain countries, like India and China and El Salvador, from sending immigrants here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'contrary to our constitutional obligation' and 'ways that seem extremely counterproductive'"}
{"id": "crec_003006", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Rhode Island.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000622", "text": "They are motivated. They are skilled. They are committed to the safety and security of every American.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "motivated, skilled, committed to safety and security - vague positive attributes without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_006919", "text": "Adding insult to injury, half of the top 30 H-1B employers are companies whose major function in life is to outsource jobs, known in the industry as body shops. In other words, the same companies that are involved with supplying American companies with cheap foreign labor at home are the same exact companies that provide even cheaper labor to corporations when they move abroad. They are two sides of the same coin.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Adding insult to injury, cheap foreign labor, body shops, outsource jobs"}
{"id": "crec_008634", "text": "That is part of our Senate's role to advise and consent to the President's nominees. It is our job to vet these nominees and put them through a rigorous process to determine if they are qualified to serve. That is why I met with [ORG], Jr., yesterday, so I could be direct with him about my concerns with his anti-vaccine record and so I could discuss the other challenges our Nation faces where [ORG] has a really crucial role.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008751", "text": "Unanimous Consent Requests--Amendments [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I have come to the floor to talk about the impact of the Laken [PERSON] bill upon children here in the United States of America and to suggest that we have a debate over several amendments designed as to how to more appropriately treat our children who reside here in the United States so we do not end up doing significant injury to them, which I very much believe is going to be the result if we proceed without some changes. But let me start just by noting that my thoughts are--as I think the thoughts of every Senator are--with [PERSON] family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "we do not end up doing significant injury to them, which I very much believe is going to be the result"}
{"id": "crec_006159", "text": "[PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , House Republicans have hit the ground running in the 119th Congress.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006192", "text": "My name has been invoked by people in this room, by colleagues about what I believe and don't believe. Let me set the record straight right here, right now. Yes, I believe that we should make permanent the [ORG] tax cuts from 2017.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000540", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska. H.R. 54: Mr. [PERSON] and Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006595", "text": "[PERSON] 's killer was arrested three times and released three times--once at the border, again in New York City, and a third time in Athens, [ORG], mere weeks before he took [PERSON] 's life. That will not happen and cannot happen under [ORG]. This is a problem that cannot be ignored or explained away or made trivial.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "arrested three times and released three times...That will not happen and cannot happen under [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_006655", "text": "While these tragedies should have never happened in the first place, my colleagues and I are taking action to ensure they never happen again. My legislation, [PERSON] 's [PERSON] , in conjunction with [ORG] will close these loopholes, so our laws no longer prioritize illegal immigrants over our own citizens. Working to secure the border and protect Americans is not a new fight for me, but it became personal nearly 9 years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "prioritize illegal immigrants over our own citizens"}
{"id": "crec_003978", "text": "Madam Speaker, House Republicans have a big vote planned for today. Now, I wish I was talking about a bill that will lower costs for hardworking families or help more Americans buy a home, the issues that so many people told us mattered most to them in the 2024 election. However, instead, in just their second week of power, House Republicans have chosen to vote on a [ORG] takeover of sports at all levels.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting what they 'wish' they were voting on (positive outcomes) with what Republicans 'instead' chose (negative characterization as 'takeover'), presenting only two options while implying Republicans rejected helping families"}
{"id": "crec_007036", "text": "In 270 days, that is what [ORG] will say again because it will not have been sold because Chinese communists won't allow it to be sold, because it is not just another app. It is not [PERSON] or Facebook or X or anything else. It is a Chinese communist spy app.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "'Chinese communist spy app' and repeated references to 'Chinese communists' and 'will not have been sold'"}
{"id": "crec_001062", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, as you know, most every January, hard- working families across this country gather together at their kitchen tables, and they work on a budget. Then, once a month, they try to balance their checkbooks, making a budget, balancing the checkbooks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "hard-working families across this country gather together at their kitchen tables"}
{"id": "crec_007205", "text": "10. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THAT ASSIST IN [ORG]. (a) Grants for Special Equipment for Housing and Processing Certain Aliens.--The Secretary shall award grants to States and political subdivisions of States for the procurement of equipment, technology, facilities, and other products that facilitate and are directly related to investigating, apprehending, arresting, detaining, or transporting aliens who have violated the immigration laws of the United States, including additional administrative costs incurred to comply with the requirements under this Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-3", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001273", "text": "Today, [ORG] has grown to a team of 21 community members and stands as the sole American manufacturer of radial arm and beam saws. The company has expanded its offerings from an initial lineup of 11 models to 24, ranging in sizes from 12 inches to 22.5 inches The company also offers tools such as saw measuring systems, extension tables, miter saw stands, and other essential woodworking products. In 2018, [ORG] doubled the size of its production facility.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001466", "text": "If I thought for one second that this bill that we are debating today would help get the release of the hostages and the American hostages, I would be with you, but it won't. It complicates things even further, and it isolates us in the world community at a time, quite frankly, when we need allies, and we need everybody working to try to resolve the conflict in the Middle East, to get all the hostages released, to ensure that Israel has its security, and to ensure that the Palestinians have a future, as well. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "it isolates us in the world community at a time, quite frankly, when we need allies"}
{"id": "crec_002503", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I want to publicly thank Representative [PERSON] for her work on the bill. It is a great bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "described as 'a great bill' without specific substantive details or explanation"}
{"id": "crec_001714", "text": "These are little things. You punch it, and you can put batteries in them. Hell, Mr. [PERSON] , you probably have one in your phone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006680", "text": "If you are on [ORG], if you get your healthcare through [ORG], the subsidy goes away, and your monthly insurance bill is about to skyrocket. Tens of millions of Americans who pay for their health insurance through the [ORG] exchange and receive that subsidy are going to have to pay more. What happens with that money?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "monthly insurance bill is about to skyrocket; tens of millions of Americans will have to pay more"}
{"id": "crec_004858", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008615", "text": "And I sure hope that we continue this modest investment in villages around the world that literally saves and transforms lives. Around 2 billion people on this planet Earth still lack access to safe drinking water, so I hope this historically important, bipartisan investment will continue long into the future ahead of us. Lives depend on it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'historically important, bipartisan investment' and 'lives depend on it' appeal to legitimacy and broader values"}
{"id": "crec_009324", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007792", "text": "My district is indeed lucky that we have not been directly affected, but our neighbors are hurting badly. Families have lost their livelihoods, their homes, and their communities. I am proud to honor these organizations in my own district who have reached out a helping hand in these difficult times.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001418", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , what the gentleman did say very clearly was that this legislation is not a priority, and this legislation is meant to get in the way of those who are getting in our way from getting our Americans home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing legislation as 'meant to get in the way' and misrepresenting opponent's position about priority as opposition to bringing Americans home"}
{"id": "crec_002191", "text": "When the time comes to vote on [ORG], I encourage all of my colleagues to vote yes. If Democrats join us, [ORG] will actually become the law of the land, but more importantly than that, it will meet an urgent need of the American people. That is what we are really trying to do here--solve a problem, come up with a solution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "I encourage all of my colleagues to vote yes"}
{"id": "crec_001287", "text": "ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 1 P.M. TOMORROW [SPEAKER]. Madam President, if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS67-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009654", "text": "[PERSON] , Jr., Day Mr. President, finally, today, of course, is not just Inauguration Day but [PERSON] , Jr., Day too. Today, we remember that the march of justice may sometimes feel slow and halting, but if we persist and persist and persist, then one day we, too, shall reach the Promised Land. I like to say that Dr. [PERSON] hoisted a giant mirror on his shoulders and, with his brilliance, his eloquence, and his faith, he forced America to look into that mirror.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["flag_waving", "repetition"], "evidence": "repetition of 'persist and persist and persist' combined with invocation of MLK Jr. Day and the 'Promised Land' to appeal to national values and justice"}
{"id": "crec_008553", "text": "It is certainly not entertaining. It is offensive, and it is dangerous. Because let's be clear, in times of crisis, California has always been there for the rest of our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing something as 'offensive' and 'dangerous' combined with crisis framing to create emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_002380", "text": "A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to address governmental interference in content moderation decisions by providers of interactive computer services, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009332", "text": "We have also heard that [ORG] lacks the detention capacity for the number of individuals that this bill will require to be detained. Well, if resources are scarce, the answer is to provide those resources. The answer is not to let criminals continue to walk our streets.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two options (provide resources or let criminals walk streets) while ignoring other alternatives; uses 'criminals' and 'walk our streets' as loaded language to frame the issue emotionally"}
{"id": "crec_003598", "text": "(C) Employment.--An alien whose removal is stayed pursuant to subparagraph (A) or who may not be placed in removal proceedings pursuant to subparagraph (B) shall, upon application to the Secretary, be granted an employment authorization document. (D) Lift of stay.--The Secretary or Attorney General may not lift the stay granted to an alien pursuant to subparagraph (A) unless the alien ceases to meet the requirements under such subparagraph. (e) Exemption From Numerical Limitations.--Nothing in this section or in any other law may be construed to apply a numerical limitation on the number of aliens who may be granted permanent resident status on a conditional basis under this title.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004016", "text": "This bill also requires a report from [ORG] to assess the negative psychological, developmental, and sociological aspects of male participation in female sports. Madam Speaker, this is about fairness. It is about protecting women's rights and women's spaces and ensuring that girls have equal opportunities in athletics, and I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Uses emotionally charged terms like 'negative psychological, developmental, and sociological aspects' and appeals to abstract values like 'fairness,' 'protecting women's rights,' and 'equal opportunities' without substantive evidence"}
{"id": "crec_007184", "text": "[ORG]. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 69.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002176", "text": "[PERSON] , from the bottom of my heart, thank you, thank you, thank you, not just for me but for everything you have done for America and Americans. Your legacy, no matter what else you do in life, is there. There are literally going to be huge numbers of people--tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions--who are alive, who are healthier because of you.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Thank you for everything you have done for America and Americans...huge numbers of people...are alive, who are healthier because of you"}
{"id": "crec_008030", "text": "It is a dream that many of us who are much older will smile and go to our grave knowing that Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., was, in the truest sense, a true American that gave all he could, not just for his dream, but for his country. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "true American that gave all he could, not just for his dream, but for his country"}
{"id": "crec_000687", "text": "We have a lot of work to do, but this is an incredible opportunity that I trust we will not squander. The time to address these problems is now. We put it off long enough.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "We put it off long enough + time to address these problems is now"}
{"id": "crec_006042", "text": "Let me be clear: New Orleans will never let these lives be forgotten. We will rise from this pain with unity, love, and resilience as we always do. Mr. [PERSON] , may God continue to bless the victims, their families, the great city of New Orleans, the great State of Louisiana, and the great United States of America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invocation of 'the great city of New Orleans, the great State of Louisiana, and the great United States of America' combined with appeals to 'unity, love, and resilience'"}
{"id": "crec_007910", "text": "Just a few minutes ago, if you were upstream, you would have captured it while it was still freshwater. You would have it available without that extreme expense. Well, you can still desal in California anyway.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001857", "text": "Californians were told, you are not allowed to water your lawn. The legislature was passing draconian restrictions on indoor water use to 25, 30 gallons a day. Businesses were banned from having lawns in front of their property.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "draconian restrictions, banned from having lawns"}
{"id": "crec_006100", "text": "We have never done this before. I urge my Republican colleagues to think about the precedent they will be setting if they set conditions, political conditions to this aid because the next time a disaster strikes, it could be their district, their area, and they do not want to set this precedent right now. People are struggling.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "the next time a disaster strikes, it could be their district...they do not want to set this precedent right now"}
{"id": "crec_006936", "text": "A good place to start would be to pass this amendment and put American workers first. Multibillionaires and Big Tech should not be allowed to hire guest workers to fill entry-level and mid-level information technology jobs. Those jobs should be going to American workers who have, among other things, the constitutional right to form unions and collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'constitutional right to form unions' and 'American workers first' framing positions certain groups as deserving priority"}
{"id": "crec_007441", "text": "CALIFORNIANS DESERVE THE SAME DISASTER RELIEF WITHOUT ANY POLITICAL STRINGS ATTACHED ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to express my deepest sympathies to the residents of Los Angeles County and Ventura County who have been impacted by the devastating wildfires in southern California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-7", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "CALIFORNIANS DESERVE THE SAME DISASTER RELIEF WITHOUT ANY POLITICAL STRINGS ATTACHED; use of emotionally charged language about 'devastating wildfires' combined with patriotic appeal to fairness and equal treatment"}
{"id": "crec_004620", "text": "Actually, it is sort of based on last year's interest rates. I was playing with a calculator a couple days ago. With my math, I have this going to $135 trillion, not $124 trillion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002276", "text": "But he did set up--I think, [PERSON] , you set up a perfect opportunity to dig into the dynasty a little bit when you went through every year. Remember, we have been in Congress every year that they won one of these FCS championships. Somebody reminded me of that yesterday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002924", "text": "The Senate not being in session on the day which the President delivered this message, I accepted the message at 3:55 p.m., and I now present to you the President's message, with the accompanying papers, for disposition by the Senate. Respectfully, [PERSON] , Secretary of the Senate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-5", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001258", "text": "A communication from the Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting, pursuant to section 36(c) of [ORG], the certification of a proposed license for the export of defense articles, including technical data, and defense services to various countries in the amount of $50,000,000 or more (Transmittal No. DDTC 24-092); to [ORG]. EC-38.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65-7", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008951", "text": "The individual administering the oath shall certify on the transcript that the witness was duly sworn in their presence, the transcriber shall certify that the transcript is a true record of the testimony, and the transcript shall then be filed with the chief clerk of the [ORG]. The [PERSON] or a staff officer designated by the [ORG] may stipulate with the witness to changes in the procedure; deviations from this procedure which do not substantially impair the reliability of the record shall not relieve the witness from the witness's obligation to testify truthfully. RULE 6.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005805", "text": "CONGRATULATING NORTH CROWLEY PANTHERS ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to congratulate [ORG] for their decisive 50-21 win over [PERSON] to become the UIL Class 6A Division 1 State champions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006839", "text": "Why do that? Then they say: We are going to go to wind and solar, and we are going to cut that too. And we are going to keep the tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presenting only extreme options (cut energy AND keep oil subsidies) while implying hypocrisy, using 'cut that too' with pejorative tone"}
{"id": "crec_004699", "text": "PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], public bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, and Ms. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 376. A bill to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the [ORG] to finalize and implement certain travel management plans in the State of Utah; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000881", "text": "This Republican-led Congress can make an impact in reducing our spending, and I know we are all excited about the opportunities to do so. We are chomping at the bit. We just need to all get on the same page so we can get down to work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "We are all excited about the opportunities and chomping at the bit to get on the same page"}
{"id": "crec_000302", "text": "It is not, like the compromise they tanked in the last Congress, a bill for greater border security or better technology in the ports of entry, expanding legal pathways to immigration and citizenship for millions of people, or addressing huge immigrant visa backlogs. No, this bill would upend 28 years of mandatory immigration detention policy by requiring that any undocumented immigrant arrested for theft, larceny, or shoplifting be detained even if they are never convicted or even charged with a crime. This is a radical departure from current law, which since 1996 has generally required mandatory detention only for persons who are criminally convicted or who admit to having committed certain serious crimes--that is, when criminal guilt is certain and established beyond a reasonable doubt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 125, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing the bill as 'radical departure' and 'upend' while contrasting it with compromise measures, presenting detention policy changes as either/or rather than exploring nuanced alternatives"}
{"id": "crec_002773", "text": "[PERSON] 282: Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, and Mr. [PERSON] of Texas. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002309", "text": "I look forward to working with all stakeholders to refine the draft legislation and request my colleagues join me in my efforts to secure a prosperous future for [ORG]. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001294", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: You, O Lord, are our rock, our fortress, and our deliverer. Be the sanctuary in which all those who flee from the deadly Palisades, [ORG], and Hollywood Hills wildfires in California can find refuge. Be their shield against the flames which threaten to engulf them, their stronghold in the midst of destruction.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-3", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002978", "text": "She is impressive. She is clearly a professional, a trusted attorney, and has an amazing background. I appreciated meeting with her.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "impressive, professional, trusted, amazing background"}
{"id": "crec_007883", "text": "That means people's choices have changed. It means their diets have changed. That is why California's water is important to everybody.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000533", "text": "H.R. 22: Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001658", "text": "Let's get rid of [ORG]. Actually, I am a big fan because if you believe in the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, why is this here at [ORG]? A big portion of their 4,500 employees is actually debt management, but that can be done by other agencies we have that have high-skilled folks to manage receivables and those things.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "strawman"], "evidence": "invoking the 10th Amendment as constitutional justification for eliminating an organization; mischaracterizing the organization's function by focusing narrowly on debt management to argue it should be eliminated"}
{"id": "crec_007602", "text": "30 doesn't do this work. That is why I too stand with over 200 organizations, one in which I cofounded, [ORG], that is 10,000 strong, who are young women and girls who are surviving rape and domestic violence and trafficking. They, too, say no.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "standing with over 200 organizations and 10,000 strong survivors; using authority of these groups and numbers to support position"}
{"id": "crec_009733", "text": "8, as amended. [SPEAKER]. I ask for the yeas and nays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009377", "text": "The challenge is specifically that children, without being charged, without being convicted, are required to be arrested and imprisoned--or not arrested but imprisoned after an arrest with no chance for appeal. My colleagues expressed the belief that the [PERSON] agreement somehow provides protection, but the experts on [PERSON] have said that is incorrect because a bill trumps an agreement, it trumps a rule, and [PERSON] was about children coming to the border, not children living in our community. Furthermore, a family with a parent who is required mandatory imprisonment without appeal is suddenly swept away from their children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "experts on [PERSON] have said that is incorrect; children...are required to be arrested and imprisoned...with no chance for appeal"}
{"id": "crec_008364", "text": "These are the things Democrats want answers to from President [PERSON] 's nominees. And in many cases, the answers are very, very troubling. Second, even if these nominees are confirmed in the end, given that [PERSON] hold on Senate Republicans is so absolute, the American people deserve to have a record they can reference down the line.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "answers are very, very troubling; characterizes nominees negatively while implying hidden problems"}
{"id": "crec_000005", "text": "There was no objection. The VICE PRESIDENT. After ascertaining that certificates are regular in form and authentic, the tellers will announce the votes cast by the electors for each [ORG], beginning with Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005055", "text": "(viii) Date Report Delivered to Congress: January 13, 2025. * As defined in Section 47(6) of [ORG]. policy justification Zambia--[ORG] 412 Enhanced Performance Exportable Medium-Lift Transport Helicopters The Republic of Zambia has requested to buy [ORG] 412 Enhanced Performance exportable medium-lift transport helicopters; radio communication and navigation systems; weather radar and transponder capabilities; qualification and transition training for pilots and maintainers; in-country [ORG] support; [ORG]; technical assistance and product support; associated aviation ground support equipment; peculiar ground support equipment; hardware; special tools; test equipment; basic issue items; [ORG] inspections, inventories, validations, and ground run and flight test verification testing; air freight transportation delivery; initial spare, repair, and consumable parts; operator, maintenance, and technical manuals; technical and logistics support services; and other related elements of logistics and program support.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 139, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000884", "text": "While we can notch some big wins in the coming weeks, we need to eat our spinach too. You know, we have been kicking a lot of these issues down the road until now, when we have run out of road. So it is up to us, the elected Representatives of the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "'eat our spinach' and 'run out of road' - metaphorical language framing difficult actions as necessary obligations"}
{"id": "crec_008418", "text": "The people voted to change the direction the country was headed in because most Americans, according to public opinion polling, felt like America was on the wrong path and needed a change of course. And now a key architect of those failed policies was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Talk about devaluing an award that is supposed to be given for extraordinary service to the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "described policies as 'failed' and questioned the value of awarding the medal to someone associated with them, using emotionally charged framing to suggest poor judgment"}
{"id": "crec_004264", "text": "The gentleman from Michigan has 15 minutes remaining. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007490", "text": "Until the [PERSON] administration can change them, those are the training materials required for all of [ORG]'s enforcement personnel nationwide. Instead of making clear that ICE officers should carry out their duties to remove criminal aliens from American streets, the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration instructed ICE officers to develop a full profile of a criminal alien before deciding whether to arrest someone who is in the country illegally. In the training examples, that included determining whether an illegal alien has high blood pressure or is a caregiver.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterization of undocumented immigrants as 'criminal aliens' and emphasis on 'removing' them from 'American streets' combined with mocking of humanitarian considerations like health status or caregiving roles"}
{"id": "crec_003033", "text": "Instead, inequality grew and America slid deeper into debt. I have a different approach. I believe the best way to build America is to invest in America, in American products and American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "presents 'inequality and debt' as inevitable outcome of one approach versus a vague promise to 'invest in America' without acknowledging nuance or alternative perspectives; uses broad, undefined appeals to 'American products and American people'"}
{"id": "crec_001271", "text": "In 1990, [PERSON] and [PERSON] started [ORG]. After purchasing Jones Machinery Company, the couple moved the business from Des Moines to [PERSON] in 1989. Later, the [ORG] bought [PERSON] and the rights to begin manufacturing the radial arm saw.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006812", "text": "But I haven't had one millionaire come up to me and say: I need a tax break-- because they know they don't. To pay for their tax scam, Republicans propose slashing [ORG] and the Affordable Care Act, ripping away food security and other supports that parents rely on to feed their children and keep a roof over their head, and ending support for clean energy, which would only add more fuel to the fires raging across our country. Los Angeles is just the most recent example.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "ripping away, fuel to the fires, tax scam - emotionally charged language combined with fear-inducing imagery about children losing food and shelter"}
{"id": "crec_002262", "text": "So this is an athletic family. Those kids are going to be something else, I will tell you that. He was selected to the 2025 class of [ORG] 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007775", "text": "Yet faith without works is dead. We must commit to fully funding [ORG] and the extraordinary work they do with no strings attached. That is what it is to be Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "faith without works is dead; That is what it is to be Americans"}
{"id": "crec_008863", "text": "And the first person I said I am going to hire on my campaign team, first person, was [PERSON] . Now, it was a risk. She had a 1-year-old at home at the time, [PERSON] , who is now joined by his brother [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007811", "text": "Perhaps it is because those affected didn't have the political clout or perhaps the actions that needed to be taken such as cleaning up our forests are viewed as politically incorrect. There is little doubt that this time around those who have been hurt in southern California are politically powerful, and they can do something about this, and we want them to. That means doing something about adapting to warmer, hotter, and dryer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "describing forest cleanup as 'politically incorrect' and 'little doubt that...those who have been hurt...are politically powerful' uses loaded framing and creates doubt about motives"}
{"id": "crec_007908", "text": "Those numbers have completely gone up since then. The [ORG] water board is contemplating even more being pushed out to the delta, freshwater being turned into saltwater. Some people say: Well, you can do desal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "Some people say: Well, you can do desal"}
{"id": "crec_007851", "text": "The firefighters are being sent. Every effort is being made to put the needs of getting the fire out and helping the people who are in immediate need to have the shelter and other things they need in order to get through this timeline. I guess what we are talking about, and what Mr. [PERSON] , our Speaker, and others are talking about, is: What is the accountability, further down the line, on the many billions they are going to be seeking in order to rebuild?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006540", "text": "Look, it sounds like we don't need more experience like that. We need a fresh set of eyes, a soldier--as [PERSON] said himself--with dirt on his boots. Being Secretary of [ORG] isn't just about managing a bureaucracy; it is about making America's military the best and most lethal fighting force in the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "appeal to authority via '[PERSON] said himself' and glittering generalities in 'best and most lethal fighting force in the world'"}
{"id": "crec_008430", "text": "Is there no home appliance or device that is safe from this radical agenda? The [PERSON] administration has targeted gas-powered cars, gas stoves, water heaters, and now they want to get after our lawn mowers and leaf blowers. As I have said before, I don't have any objection to anyone who wants to improve their carbon footprint, if that is important to them, by purchasing new low-emissions lawn mowers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'radical agenda' and 'targeted' characterizing environmental policies; 'now they want to get after' suggesting escalating threat"}
{"id": "crec_008148", "text": "A bill to require the Secretary of the [ORG] to carry out a program for post-disaster reforestation and restoration Program, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 529.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001960", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 327. A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the penalty for fraudulent misrepresentation about the receipt of a military decoration or medal, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002559", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of H.R. 144, bipartisan legislation to promote additional transparency over the salary structure of [ORG], otherwise known as the [ORG]. As was said, the bill passed the House last Congress on suspension by a voice vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001316", "text": "The moral fabric of America has suffered with 4 years of [ORG] policies, including dangerous open borders, destroyed jobs, crushing inflation, campus anti-Semitism, woke mentality, the failure to lead globally, and more. Unified Republican leadership will advance the conservative agenda to make America great again. Corrupt Judge [PERSON] has shamefully revealed [ORG] derangement by scheduling sentencing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "moral fabric of America has suffered...dangerous open borders...woke mentality...Corrupt Judge...shamefully revealed"}
{"id": "crec_004196", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in strong, unequivocal opposition to H.R. 28, the Republican child predator empowerment act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "calling H.R. 28 the 'Republican child predator empowerment act' uses inflammatory language and name-calling to characterize the bill rather than describing it neutrally"}
{"id": "crec_006640", "text": "It set an alltime, single-day record for the number of people trying to break into our country. In years past, administration officials have said: If there are 1,000 people encountered at our southern border trying to get in, that is a crisis. So 12,600 is a catastrophe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing border crossings as people 'trying to break into our country' and labeling 12,600 encounters as a 'catastrophe'"}
{"id": "crec_001642", "text": "If we would just go to 5 percent, you are going to see that is almost just shy of an additional $9 trillion in debt, double of everything we are talking about doing in reconciliation. Just do this and communicate to the debt markets that we are serious about what is going on because the uncomfortable truth is that--and I am going to show it again, and it seems to hurt people's [ORG] almost 100 percent of the debt for the next 10 years is interest and [ORG]. We got older.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "uncomfortable truth, almost 100 percent of the debt for the next 10 years is interest, communicate to the debt markets that we are serious"}
{"id": "crec_006466", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Eternal God, You are our rock and fortress. Keep us from disappointing You.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001556", "text": "[[ORG] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to congratulate the new Governor of Puerto Rico, my Caribbean sister and former Member of Congress, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "my Caribbean sister"}
{"id": "crec_001052", "text": "We were able to cut that time down to 2 days to be able to make sure we could get those expense checks back to those families in need so that they wouldn't have to float that and experience that financial hardship from one payment to the next. Well, what did we have to do to do that? We had to get everybody on board--our entire team.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005815", "text": "During his time at [ORG], he even had the opportunity to coach his son [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] is survived by his wife, [PERSON] , and his three children, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [ORG]. He will always be remembered as an incredible father, husband, coach, and friend.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000032", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 14 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 14 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 5 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 5 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002525", "text": "Recent actions taken by the [ORG] seem to indicate that the agency has not learned from the past. This is why I urge support of H.R. 189, which would revoke the [ORG]'s leasing authority for general office space and bring them in line with current leasing practices through [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "urge support of H.R. 189...bring them in line with current leasing practices through [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_006671", "text": "This place gets crazy, and it is especially crazy with [PERSON] as President. I remember, and it is distracting. Even in the best of circumstances, people fly home, and then they arrive on Monday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "gets crazy, especially crazy with [PERSON] as President"}
{"id": "crec_005095", "text": "H.R. 189. An act to amend title 40, United States Code, to eliminate the leasing authority of [ORG], and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000621", "text": "Especially right now, personnel is policy, and President [PERSON] 's team is ready to act. The President's nominees are not a return to business as usual. No, not at all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "'personnel is policy' and 'not at all' - vague assertion followed by emphatic negation without substantive detail"}
{"id": "crec_001677", "text": "Remember, China is not the number one owner of bonds. I think now it is Japan. China has been actually rolling off its bonds for 3 or 4 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001513", "text": "I continue to ask for mercy for the Palestinian people and hope that all people of the region, both Israeli and Palestinian, receive the justice that they deserve. [SPEAKER] [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I wish to underscore my strong support of H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009845", "text": "And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free. (Applause.) America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "proud, prosperous, free, greater, stronger, exceptional - vague positive ideals without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_000346", "text": "They call them undocumented immigrants. That is what they do. They don't ever stand up for the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing term choice as deceptive ('They call them') and presenting a binary choice between supporting 'undocumented immigrants' vs. 'American people'"}
{"id": "crec_002213", "text": "Unfortunately, when we tried to move it here, Democrats repeatedly blocked our attempt. Senate Democrats actually didn't even give this a committee hearing or a markup. Let's learn from those mistakes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["whataboutism", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Democrats repeatedly blocked our attempt / didn't even give this a committee hearing - uses opposing party's past actions to deflect from current situation while employing negatively charged language"}
{"id": "crec_005010", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The objection is heard. Unanimous Consent Request [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002902", "text": "Delayed projects lead to cost overruns and significant revenue losses. For example, its new Acela II train service for the Northeast Corridor is more than 3 years behind schedule with no firm date on when it will enter service. This delay has led to a $140 million loss in revenue according to a 2023 [ORG] report.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "Delayed projects lead to cost overruns and significant revenue losses"}
{"id": "crec_001192", "text": "2. The AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM is a supersonic, air launched, aerial intercept guided missile featuring digital technology and microminiature solid-state electronics. AMRAAM capabilities to include look-down/shoot-down, multiple launches against multiple targets, resistance to electronic countermeasures, and interception of high- and low-flying and maneuvering targets.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009330", "text": "When he was cited for shoplifting, less than 5 months before that day, he would have been detained, and [PERSON] might still be alive today. That is what we are trying to do here: prevent another tragedy. Unfortunately, it seems that even a simple and straightforward bill to detain criminal illegal immigrants is too much for some on the left.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presenting detention of immigrants as necessary to 'prevent another tragedy' and framing opposition as preventing safety measures"}
{"id": "crec_007779", "text": "When our neighbors in the South, in Florida, North Carolina, and Louisiana, were hit by storms, [ORG] delivered without conditions. Now Congress must pass emergency disaster aid for our neighbors in California without conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["bandwagon", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Implies Congress must follow the precedent of helping other states without conditions, establishing a false choice between conditional and unconditional aid"}
{"id": "crec_009396", "text": "Of course, the Democratic-controlled Senate did not bring that [ORG]--[ORG]--up for a vote. But now with Republicans in the majority, I hope this is something we can and will address. Student loan socialism would be a great opportunity for [ORG]--headed by [PERSON] and [PERSON] --to take a look at it because there is nothing less efficient and more wasteful and more unfair than taking billions of dollars from taxpayers who didn't go to college to pay for those who did and who agreed to pay the money back but simply now will not have to do so.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'Student loan socialism' and 'nothing less efficient and more wasteful and more unfair than taking billions of dollars from taxpayers'"}
{"id": "crec_002829", "text": "We need real work done to make fire conditions much safer in California and the West.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005082", "text": "Outside of teaching, [PERSON] was active in her community in Cambridge, dedicating free time to helping individuals prepare for the American citizenship exam and spending time with her grandchildren. [PERSON] is a true lifelong learner and public servant. I am incredibly pleased to honor this momentous event in [PERSON] 's life and wish her joy in the years to come.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "true lifelong learner and public servant"}
{"id": "crec_001984", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 252. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, specifically clause 1 and clause 18.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-10", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003899", "text": "[ORG] 14. [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: =========================== NOTE =========================== On page [ORG], January 13, 2025, in the first column, the following appears:SA 14. [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ) to the bill [ORG] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96", "word_count": 133, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006545", "text": "America needs a strong Secretary of [ORG] now, immediately. Senate Republicans will get it done. S. 5 Mr. President, today the Senate is considering amendments to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Senate Republicans will get it done paired with urgency language 'strong' and 'now, immediately'"}
{"id": "crec_007810", "text": "We need to look at what causes these horrific fires, what they did wrong or what we do wrong in trying to put them out, and then apply those lessons accordingly. You might ask why these questions were not asked and answered in any of the other fires that we have been suffering that were referred to by Congressman [PERSON] a few minutes ago. We have certainly had enough up in Oregon and northern California, but people in positions of authority perhaps haven't been listening.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "people in positions of authority perhaps haven't been listening; horrific fires"}
{"id": "crec_007862", "text": "They did have a 117-million- gallon reservoir that was empty. [ORG] had been emptied for the purpose of repairs. I guess that is okay.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "I guess that is okay"}
{"id": "crec_004767", "text": "343: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 354: Mr. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-30", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002292", "text": "But we are almost never disappointed. So I am getting my tickets for Nashville. With that, I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005619", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , just 5 days into my tenure as a Member of [ORG], several large wildfires broke out across Los Angeles County: the Palisades fire, the Eaton fire, and the [PERSON] fire, which broke out in Sylmar on the northern end of my district. I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, and I consider myself incredibly fortunate to represent it in Congress. The valley is a special place to so many people, including my own family, which makes the heartbreak of seeing images of it in danger sting deeper.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-3", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001735", "text": "I was trying to do it, it is dangerous when I try to do these things off the top of my head, but I was coming in about $133, $136 trillion of borrowing over 30 years because of the higher interest rates, and it could be substantially higher if we are actually truly at a five or six. The point is, debate after debate after debate after debate, we stand here and we argue about the nondefense discretionary, which is like 13 percent of the spending, and even in this projection it actually grows slower than tax receipts. So we are going to head towards doing reconciliation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "debate after debate after debate after debate"}
{"id": "crec_007077", "text": "Madam President, I ask my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment, which would focus and streamline this bill and make more likely its passage. Many of us who have served here for many Congresses regret the falling away of the frequency of amendments intended to improve the bill. My amendment would remove the section that will encourage endless litigation by [ORG] attorneys general.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "appeal to authority via 'Many of us who have served here for many Congresses'; loaded language in 'endless litigation' and 'falling away'"}
{"id": "crec_002307", "text": "By moving [PERSON] outside the purview of [ORG], we remove the bureaucratic ambivalence that has hindered the university's growth and damaged in significant ways its potential. I would like to request that members of the Native American, Lawrence, [ORG], and higher education communities submit feedback to my office or to my colleague who is leading this effort in [ORG], Congressman [PERSON] , on the proposed legislation to ensure this bill effectively addresses key issues. We are looking for comment and input.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "remove the bureaucratic ambivalence that has hindered the university's growth and damaged in significant ways its potential"}
{"id": "crec_004372", "text": "We won't stand for it. It has to stop. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005084", "text": "H.R. 189. An act to amend title 40, United States Code, to eliminate the leasing authority of [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009872", "text": "Going to use it. We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, export American energy all over the world"}
{"id": "crec_003142", "text": "[ORG]. 1226. Permanent establishment of housing preservation and revitalization program.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000180", "text": "My security detail gripped me by the arm and told me we had to get out--that a mob of rioters had broken into the Capitol and that we were not safe. I looked to the podium and saw Vice President [PERSON] quickly being rushed out of the [ORG] by his detail. As we evacuated, accompanied by two [ORG] officers, we took a turn down the hallway, opened the door, and came within several yards of angry rioters before my security detail pulled us away to safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "mob of rioters had broken into the Capitol and that we were not safe; came within several yards of angry rioters"}
{"id": "crec_000939", "text": "The challenge is, how do we actually set this into a process so that we are not having to play Whac-A-Mole all the time to be able to take down one after another after another. The people of my [ORG], they don't want to pay for those things. They want to pay for border security and they want to pay for good schools and they want to have good roads.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["repetition", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'they want to pay for' combined with vague positive concepts like 'good schools' and 'good roads' without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_006785", "text": "They are playing by the rules. This golden rule promised that, if you fight hard and you play by the rules, you will do better than the previous generation, and you are going to help your kids and everyone who follows you. So while you are playing by the rules all across the country--and I am talking to everyone not making 2.8 million bucks a year--my Senate Republican colleagues are getting ready to rig the system with a tax cut that is going to give more money to the people in the top 0.1 percent--remember, the people making $2.8 million a year or more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'playing by the rules' contrasted with Republicans 'rigging the system'; 'golden rule' framing creates moral divide between compliant workers and wealthy beneficiaries"}
{"id": "crec_002119", "text": "1, S. 5, to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009428", "text": "MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE At 9:33 a.m., a message from [ORG], delivered by Mrs. [PERSON] , one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 30. An act to amend [ORG] to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242-3", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002595", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH106-4", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005767", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Lord, our God and our protector, who with a word can calm the storms and hold back the [ORG], we pray that You would move Your spirit over the chaos that ravages our country and speak Your word of peace. Arrest the fire that still burns in Los Angeles and its surrounding communities. Bring relief to those who found themselves in the paths of the hurricane that devastated Tennessee and North Carolina, who feel its destruction all the more keenly in the depth of winter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-3", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "invocation of divine authority ('Lord, our God') combined with vivid descriptions of chaos and destruction ('fire that still burns', 'hurricane that devastated', 'chaos that ravages our country')"}
{"id": "crec_005096", "text": "H.R. 192. An act to amend title 49, United States Code, to require [ORG] to include information on base pay and bonus compensation of certain [ORG] executives, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006591", "text": "So in the Senate's first order of legislative business, we are answering that call. The radical open border policies of the left have caused untold suffering to families across the Nation--families like the [PERSON] family, who is still grieving the unimaginable loss of their beautiful daughter [PERSON] . [PERSON] was just 22 years old--a young nursing student with a promising future ahead of her.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "radical open border policies...caused untold suffering...unimaginable loss...beautiful daughter"}
{"id": "crec_000219", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Remind us again, eternal God, that in You all things were created, in Heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible. Allow that awareness to touch our very beings, that we would realize that all that is, and we ourselves, find life and purpose in You. Whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were created through You and for You.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-2", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005809", "text": "This is a commonsense sentiment that most Americans agree with, especially back in my home [ORG] of Idaho. However, under the [PERSON] administration, the integrity of women's and girls' sports has come under threat. In fact, just this last year, President [PERSON] rolled out a regulation attempting to usurp States' ability to protect women and girls and make sure they have a safe and fair playing field in sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-2", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claiming 'most Americans agree' and describing regulation as 'attempting to usurp' and threaten 'integrity' and 'safety'"}
{"id": "crec_007047", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there an objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004883", "text": "Democrats have a duty and a responsibility to set aside any partisan tactics and to give the President an opportunity to have his [ORG] confirmed. Just imagine how Democrats and even the mainstream media would respond if an outgoing Republican administration intentionally caused delays for crucial appointments after voters gave them a mandate. They would claim this is a threat to our [ORG]'s security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Just imagine how Democrats and even the mainstream media would respond if an outgoing Republican administration intentionally caused delays"}
{"id": "crec_001228", "text": "The proposed sale will improve the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's capability to deter current and future threats by upgrading its anti-submarine warfare capabilities. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment into its armed forces. The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS64", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "use of vague positive terms like 'improve capability,' 'deter threats,' and 'no difficulty absorbing' without specific details; invocation of 'Kingdom of Saudi Arabia' as authority figure to legitimize the sale"}
{"id": "crec_006928", "text": "Finally, this amendment would prevent corporations from treating H-1B guest workers, for all intents and purposes, as indentured servants. Under current law, H-1B guest workers are often locked into lower paying jobs and can have their visas taken away from them by their corporate bosses if they complain about dangerous, unfair, or illegal working conditions. That is unacceptable, and that has got to change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing H-1B workers as 'indentured servants' and portraying bosses as having power to take away visas if workers 'complain about dangerous, unfair, or illegal working conditions'"}
{"id": "crec_004786", "text": "Yesterday, I participated in the opening of the 91st session of that [ORG]. I enjoyed hearing from Iowa legislators about the issues their communities are concerned with. I also had the opportunity to swear in my grandson [PERSON] for his sixth year as speaker of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002608", "text": "In Dr. [PERSON] 's new role as the dean, she will continue to advance the great mission of [ORG] throughout the State of Georgia. Mr. [PERSON] , I sincerely congratulate Dr. [PERSON] on her accomplishments and share the excitement with the Georgia PCOM community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'advance the great mission' and 'Georgia PCOM community' - vague positive language paired with regional pride appeals"}
{"id": "crec_008023", "text": "Has there been real and measurable progress? Yes. But it is not just a matter of having come a long, long way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008610", "text": "She said to me, We got this from the United States. It had something to do with a man named [PERSON] . I laughed almost out loud, thinking for goodness' sake.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006028", "text": "These folks have already paid an extraordinarily high price for the failures of their government, and they should not be punished again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "extraordinarily high price, punished again - emotionally charged framing of potential consequences"}
{"id": "crec_008432", "text": "Mr. President, Republicans are taking note. We know that, with President [PERSON] being sworn into office next Monday, with new majorities in the House and the Senate, things are going to change. The American people voted for change, and they are going to see a change--a change away from these radical policies and special interest pieces of legislation or regulation that hurt the vast majority of Americans for the benefit of an ideological agenda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "describing policies as 'radical' and 'special interest pieces' while claiming 'The American people voted for change'"}
{"id": "crec_007825", "text": "What nature might have burned out we were taking out, and that is where our wood and paper products were coming from. In about the 1970s when the Endangered Species Act's efforts were kicking in more so then it got a lot harder to get timber permits. It got more difficult to do anything in the forests especially on [ORG] lands where environmental organizations were trying to basically shut them down and add more and more monuments, for example, or wilderness areas that are basically no-touch zones.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "environmental organizations were trying to basically shut them down and add more and more monuments...basically no-touch zones"}
{"id": "crec_007957", "text": "How do we have more capacity for the hydrants? How do we have more water waiting for us? How is the fire department not allowed to know that the people running [ORG] have had it empty for nearly a year and that they might draw upon that?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated rhetorical questions about capacity and water availability, combined with accusatory framing about organizational mismanagement creating potential emergency scenarios"}
{"id": "crec_006724", "text": "Since coming to Congress--really before, when I was a mayor and Governor--I advocated for smart, simple pro-growth and pro- family tax reform. [ORG] should be fair. They should be consistent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "smart, simple pro-growth and pro-family tax reform"}
{"id": "crec_005458", "text": "Provisions affecting eligibility for adjustment of status. [ORG]. 312.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000283", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , the brutal murder of [PERSON] was foreordained the day [PERSON] took office and reversed the successful [ORG] policies that had finally secured our borders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "brutal murder...foreordained...reversed the successful policies...secured our borders"}
{"id": "crec_008745", "text": "He has helped clear the way for tough but important legislation. I would highlight one, the Empowering Olympic and Amateur Athletes Act that was born out of our investigation into the abuses of gymnasts and other American athletes. He has shown compassion toward veterans suffering from illnesses as the result of their service, and we worked together to pass the PACT Act to help those who had encountered Agent Orange and burn pit victims.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "tough but important legislation, showed compassion toward veterans, helped American athletes"}
{"id": "crec_007869", "text": "We have hundreds of thousands of acres of crops that have been idled because there is not enough water. We have enough water. Even in more drought-like years, the amount of water that runs out to the ocean is incredible.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "stating 'We have enough water' contradicts the preceding claim about idled crops due to water shortage, creating skepticism about water scarcity narratives"}
{"id": "crec_007964", "text": "The number of mills we used to have in California--which are an important partner in all this. We need to have those wood mills, so if we finally do get around to logging this product and what people need that we will have the infrastructure to actually do something with it. Instead, since those receipts are gone and since that economy is gone, my constituents, my county supervisors, and other locals have to come here hat in hand to D.C., can you be sure the [ORG] fund stays in the next appropriation bill or whichever mechanism we are working on at that time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "constituents forced to come 'hat in hand to D.C.' and reference to lost infrastructure/economy creates anxiety about economic decline and dependency"}
{"id": "crec_008849", "text": "She then worked in the parks division, division of parks and rec, right at the department of natural resources. That is when I first met her. I was the new commissioner at [ORG]--we call it [ORG] in Alaska; that covers everything in Alaska.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006552", "text": "To me, I hope others will listen to Senator [PERSON] and hear those words and realize how ridiculous it sounds that anyone would vote against [ORG]. [ORG] deserves strong, targeted amendments and swift passage in this body and then signed into law by the President. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "listening to Senator and characterizing opposition as 'ridiculous'; using loaded language about what [ORG] 'deserves'"}
{"id": "crec_007491", "text": "The [PERSON] - [PERSON] administration's immigration absurdity appears to know no bounds. In a transcribed interview with [ORG], a former top [ORG] official admitted that the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration's policies have made immigration enforcement more dangerous for ICE officers, more difficult to carry out, and less efficient overall. The [ORG] official even acknowledged that because of the border crisis, fewer ICE officers are available to track down public safety and national security threats because they are left to do border administration-related tasks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "immigration absurdity appears to know no bounds; made immigration enforcement more dangerous; public safety and national security threats"}
{"id": "crec_009390", "text": "Now, remember in June of 2023, [ORG] ruled in a 6-to-3 decision that [ORG] lacks the authority--the legal authority--to implement these across-the-board student loan cancellations. But the [PERSON] administration, never to be one that actually obeys the law, has continued to ignore the ruling of [ORG], issuing blank check after blank check to borrowers to let them off the hook from paying bills that they agreed to pay in the first instance. This policy is not just illegal; it is profoundly unfair.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "characterizing the administration as 'never to be one that actually obeys the law' combines ad hominem attack with loaded language; citing the 6-to-3 [ORG] ruling invokes appeal to authority"}
{"id": "crec_004702", "text": "A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide additional aggravating factors for the imposition of the death penalty based on the status of the victim; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania): H.R. 379.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001427", "text": "Again, as many families of the hostages have expressed to me directly, they worry very much about the Prime Minister's continued policy of all-in in terms of military attacks in Gaza because they worry very much that it decreases the likelihood that their loved ones will be freed. I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "families of the hostages...worry very much that it decreases the likelihood that their loved ones will be freed"}
{"id": "crec_000319", "text": "Listen to what he is actually suggesting. Current law requires the detention of every illegal alien who crosses our border. Every one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of 'illegal alien' instead of neutral terminology like 'undocumented immigrant'; emphasizes criminal framing"}
{"id": "crec_004330", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , as a working-class kid who grew up in sports, the mother of two college athletes, and a physician, I understand how important sports are to our kids' development and their sense of community. No child in this country should be denied access to the opportunity to play a sport, including our transgender children. I will vote against the GOP child predator empowerment act because it does not protect women.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "'GOP child predator empowerment act' and characterization of legislation as not protecting women while framing opposition to it as supporting transgender inclusion"}
{"id": "crec_001467", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , the gentleman across the aisle is right. We need everybody working to get hostages home to get this resolved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005627", "text": "Our community is strong and resilient, and we will help each other come back from this disaster.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "community is strong and resilient, we will help each other"}
{"id": "crec_001802", "text": "The Democrats, two of them, chose not to allow [ORG] to pass the Senate, which is an indication that none of the other legislation could have passed with 51 votes. Here is what would have happened had it passed: 50 Democrats would have voted to allow it to pass with 51 votes. That is not a majority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "presents a logical fallacy by claiming that 50 Democratic votes equals a non-majority, when the actual argument involves reconciliation procedures and voting thresholds, misrepresenting the procedural reality"}
{"id": "crec_006151", "text": "We are still for immigration, just follow our rules, follow our laws, and pass a few reasonable tests in order to be part of the American Dream. We extend that. That is what the country was based on for so many years, and it has completely gone awry in the last 50.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "presents immigration as binary choice between 'following rules' versus 'gone awry', uses vague 'American Dream' and 'reasonable tests' without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_005052", "text": "Total $100 million. Funding Source: Foreign Military Financing ($80 million); [ORG] ($20 million). (iii) Description and Quantity or Quantities of Articles or Services under Consideration for Purchase: [ORG] ([ORG]): None.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000607", "text": "Madam President, in order to place the bill on the calendar under provisions of rule [ORG], I would object to further proceeding. [SPEAKER]. Objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004844", "text": "[PERSON] will make sure the border is secure. These nominees are not a return to business as usual. Business as usual gave us painfully high prices.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "PERSON will make sure the border is secure / These nominees are not a return to business as usual. Business as usual gave us painfully high prices."}
{"id": "crec_005937", "text": "For the past 75 years, the United States and Taiwan have enjoyed a special relationship, one rooted in our shared values of freedom and democracy. That has also been bolstered by a strong national security relationship founded on [PERSON] Six Assurances to Taiwan. Of course, we have had a strong economic relationship based on a lot of mutual trade and investment, including around semiconductor chips and other critical goods.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'shared values of freedom and democracy' and emphasis on 75-year relationship with positive framing"}
{"id": "crec_009927", "text": "Almighty and Eternal God, we gather here today in reverence, joined in our shared hopes and dreams for our beloved [ORG]. In this sacred moment of the inauguration of President [PERSON] and Vice President [PERSON] , we turn our hearts to You, seeking Your divine assistance and abundant blessings upon this pivotal moment in history. We come before You with profound gratitude for the many gifts You have bestowed upon our land.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Almighty and Eternal God, we gather here today in reverence, joined in our shared hopes and dreams for our beloved [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_009494", "text": "The Chairman shall enforce this paragraph. (e) Participation of Members in [ORG] and [ORG] members of the [ORG] who are not members of a particular subcommittee may, by unanimous consent of the members of such subcommittee, participate in any subcommittee meeting or hearing. However, a member who is not a member of the subcommittee may not vote on any matter before the subcommittee, be counted for purposes of establishing a quorum, or raise points of order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006959", "text": "That is why I introduced the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act. This bill does not repeal the underlying act. It simply gives [ORG], Congress, the people here in the Senate, parties that might want to buy [ORG], the incoming [ORG] administration--he himself is asking for an extension--and outside stakeholders additional time to get this right.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "gives...additional time to get this right"}
{"id": "crec_006064", "text": "Governor Newsom keeps funneling California tax dollars into this never-ending pit, ignoring needs like critical water infrastructure which could be helping all of our [ORG], including southern California, if we could raise Shasta Dam and gain 600,000 new acre-feet. We would have the ability to not be short-funded on the brush removal that needs to be happening in southern California, as well as the forestry management all over California. Instead of empty-handed promises by Governor [PERSON] , we need to have President [PERSON] leading the way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-5", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing budget allocation as 'never-ending pit' while presenting dam expansion as the sole solution to water infrastructure needs"}
{"id": "crec_001408", "text": "When the gentleman from Massachusetts talks about the plight of the people in Gaza, we should be reminded of the massive piles of pallets of food and relief that are stacked up because [ORG] is too incompetent to move those pallets and remind our friends of the extent to which [ORG] has been taking those resources and not distributing them to the people in Gaza. The fact of the matter here is, this legislation is inherently America first. We have had situations where we have had American soldiers and our people targeted by the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["whataboutism", "ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "deflecting from Gaza plight by bringing up relief pallets and organizational incompetence; characterizing opponent as needing to be 'reminded'; using inflammatory language like 'incompetent' and 'taking resources'"}
{"id": "crec_007764", "text": "As a mother that has had to evacuate her family, and as a businessowner that has had to close our doors due to dangerous smoke conditions, I am praying for all of the families impacted and for the safety of our first responders, but that is not enough. We have to do more to prevent these fires from starting. Oregon's leaders in wildfire prevention tell me they need the resources to get an engine to every home that needs one, and they need to know that the water will flow when they need it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-6", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Oregon's leaders in wildfire prevention tell me they need the resources; use of personal credentials (mother, businessowner) combined with emotional language (evacuate, dangerous, praying) to establish credibility"}
{"id": "crec_002909", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006881", "text": "Now, ironically, they used the same argument for democracy to undermine the Senate filibuster, which is one of the bedrocks of this institution. But what I have noticed is that if an issue can be framed as a threat to democracy, Democrats throw any other concerns out the window; hence, the sky is falling. More recently, in 2023, Democrats brought up this same question of protecting democracy as a reason to advance legislation addressing artificial intelligence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Democrats throw any other concerns out the window; hence, the sky is falling"}
{"id": "crec_001860", "text": "When you had [ORG] telling the city, do not deprive us of our funding. Yet, the city decided to do it anyway. The fire department said that the reduction in funding would severely limit the department's capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large- scale emergencies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "reduction in funding would severely limit the department's capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies"}
{"id": "crec_007628", "text": "A vote against this bill is a vote against deporting illegal aliens who rape and abuse women and children. A vote against this bill is a vote to invite illegal aliens who rape and abuse women and children into the United States of America. I can think of nothing less American than that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two extreme options (support bill or invite rapists); uses inflammatory language coupling immigration with violent crime; invokes fear of violent crimes against vulnerable groups"}
{"id": "crec_005499", "text": "302. SUBMISSION OF BIOMETRIC AND BIOGRAPHIC DATA; [ORG]. (a) Submission of [PERSON] and [PERSON] Data.--The Secretary may not grant an alien adjustment of status under this division, on either a conditional or permanent basis, unless the alien submits biometric and biographic data, in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000047", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 4 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 4 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005893", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of H.R. 33, the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act. This bill represents a bilateral tax agreement that prevents doubling taxation on U.S. and Taiwanese businesses and workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008758", "text": "Is the individual a flight risk? Does the individual pose a risk to the community? Are we talking about an assault with a deadly weapon or are we talking about grabbing and eating an apple while walking down the aisle of a grocery store?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "assault with a deadly weapon or are we talking about grabbing and eating an apple - presents extreme opposites without acknowledging middle-ground scenarios"}
{"id": "crec_004656", "text": "Any substantive changes, modifications, clarifications, or amendments shall be included as an appendix to the transcript conditioned upon the witness signing the transcript. 9. The individual administering the oath, if other than a member, shall certify on the transcript that the witness was duly sworn.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000053", "text": "The votes for President of the United States are as follows: [PERSON] of the State of Florida has received 312 votes. [PERSON] of the State of California has received 226 votes. The whole number of electors appointed to vote for Vice President of the United States is 538.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000615", "text": "They attack American troops from bases in Yemen. And this is only part of it. Today, we face a serious security situation right here inside the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "we face a serious security situation right here inside the United States"}
{"id": "crec_007803", "text": "We have had the Paradise, California, fire known as the Camp fire, which burned many acres. Importantly, 90 percent of the town was burned down, and 85 people lost their lives with that. Other towns in my own district were consumed as well in later fires in Greenville and Canyondam.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009541", "text": "The staff assigned to the minority shall be under the general supervision and direction of the ranking minority member of the [ORG] who may delegate such authority as he or she determines appropriate. (c) Intention Regarding Staff.--It is intended that the skills and experience of all members of the [ORG] staff shall be available to all members of the [ORG]. RULE XVII.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006749", "text": "Senator [PERSON] , would you yield for a question? [SPEAKER]. I would yield for a question from my colleague from New Jersey.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004887", "text": "It is that simple. And, of course, Democrats have every opportunity during these hearings to ask any questions that they want and to vote however they want. We are not saying their rights should somehow be constricted.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007559", "text": "Colorado: [ORG], Violence Free Colorado, [ORG], Colorado Companeros: Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] and [ORG]. Connecticut: [ORG]. Delaware: [ORG] ([ORG]).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004090", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I am honored to serve Texas' 32nd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives for the 119th Congress. As a Texas-educated attorney for over 30 years, I know what it takes to fight for those who need it most. Throughout my career, I have stood up for workers, those living with disabilities, students who are being taken advantage of by for-profit colleges, and so many of my fellow Texans who needed someone fighting alongside them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'Texas-educated attorney for over 30 years' and 'stood up for workers, those living with disabilities, students' - vague positive claims and appeals to professional credentials/experience"}
{"id": "crec_000281", "text": "General Leave Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 29.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008816", "text": "They will absolutely show up. We know where all their relatives are. And that will be best because, if the person is subsequently charged, they will be there for trial.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "We know where all their relatives are"}
{"id": "crec_004135", "text": "39 Resolved, That the following named Member be, and is hereby, ranked on the following standing committee of [ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] (to rank immediately after Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER] (during the reading). Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the Record.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002506", "text": "Our communities should not have to make either-or decisions when it comes to restoring critical infrastructure in the wake of natural disasters. Mr. [PERSON] , I am proud to co-lead this bill alongside [PERSON] , and I encourage my colleagues to support its passage. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "should not have to make either-or decisions"}
{"id": "crec_006231", "text": "Let's secure the border. Let's fund it. You want to have a strong national defense that is not woke, fund it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "secure the border, strong national defense, characterization of defense spending as 'not woke'"}
{"id": "crec_006974", "text": "And what happened? Thousands of children--kids--called into congressional offices, some threatening to kill themselves or to assassinate Members of Congress. No foreign adversary should have that kind of power over our politics or our children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "thousands of children threatening to kill themselves or assassinate Members of Congress; characterizing foreign adversaries as having power over children"}
{"id": "crec_000430", "text": "While we anxiously await President [PERSON] 's inauguration and know that his administration will follow and enforce immigration law and take steps to advance the enforcement of our borders, [ORG] ensures that all administrations are held accountable, including the previous one, and that our immigration laws are followed. Madam Speaker, I support this important legislation, and I thank the gentleman for his leadership on the bill. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "anxiously await President's inauguration and will follow and enforce immigration law"}
{"id": "crec_008617", "text": "S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, if you believe we should be able to detain and deport undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes and you took Republicans at their word that [ORG] was necessary for us to do that, you need to know that is already Federal law. We can and do already detain and deport immigrants who commit serious crimes, and we are not about to change that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "Mr. President, if you believe we should be able to detain and deport undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes...you need to know that is already Federal law"}
{"id": "crec_008571", "text": "In Altadena, [PERSON] was found in his house holding a garden [PERSON] . He died trying to save his home. His sister [PERSON] barely escaped as the house went up in flames.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008121", "text": "A bill to ensure the rural surface transportation grant program is accessible to rural areas, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 503.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004825", "text": "Over the course of his long service to this country, President [PERSON] has been the source of hope and an author of history. And just as [ORG] observed, he became one of the rare leaders who have made hope and history rhyme. America is better for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "source of hope and an author of history; America is better for it"}
{"id": "crec_006825", "text": "Republicans just spent the past 2 years complaining about the Inflation Reduction Act. Yet Republicans are preparing to spend trillions on tax breaks. They want to feed billionaires' greed instead of the families who will go hungry when they cut SNAP.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Republicans complaining about spending while preparing to spend trillions; families going hungry; billionaires' greed"}
{"id": "crec_004607", "text": "Every year they do an estimate on population, fertility, growth in the society. We were using [ORG] data. I have come here behind the microphone and said, hey, our quick look at [ORG] data was in 11 years the United States was going to start to have more deaths than births.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007971", "text": "We are talking about this situation here, taxpayers have a right to know: Are they going to do better next time? Yet, the mantra seems to be like, oh, you are placing conditions. Conditions is the dirty word of the week on this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing accountability questions as 'placing conditions' and calling it 'the dirty word of the week' to frame legitimate oversight concerns negatively"}
{"id": "crec_000329", "text": "People need to know what this animal did to her. I am going to tell you what, they also need to know how she fought back. [PERSON] fought back with every ounce in her body.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Calling someone an 'animal' and emphasizing violent struggle with 'fought back with every ounce in her body' uses inflammatory language to provoke emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_006888", "text": "That is a laudable goal, but not in pursuit of a fairly cynical and partisan policy agenda. There is a very tangible way that Democrats can join with us to do this, this week. They can cooperate with the President that the people elected as Commander in Chief of the United States by confirming his [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Democrats can cooperate with the President that the people elected as Commander in Chief; framing cooperation as confirmation of a specific nominee presents a false choice between supporting the President's authority or being uncooperative"}
{"id": "crec_004514", "text": "These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom. They also undermine the security of Israel and have the potential to lead to broader regional destabilization across the Middle East, threatening United States personnel and interests. The situation in the West Bank continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-6", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "threatening United States personnel and interests; unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States"}
{"id": "crec_004341", "text": "It will put all girls at risk of intrusive questions and physical genital examinations, dissuading girls' participation in sports. As LGBTQ+ youth continue to face attacks and targeting from extremist lawmakers in legislative chambers across the country and higher rates of depression and suicide, this bill is doubly dangerous. In my community, I meet young people and parents over and over who have fled States like Idaho, Texas, and Florida because they want to live in safe, welcoming communities where they know they have a future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "will put all girls at risk of intrusive questions and physical genital examinations, dissuading girls' participation in sports; higher rates of depression and suicide; attacked and targeted by extremist lawmakers"}
{"id": "crec_007962", "text": "Do you know we have to fight every year for something called [ORG], the Secure Rural Schools fund that costs taxpayers? I am blessed that there is not pushback on that. We used to have a timber industry that the receipts from the timber we would cut would go for these local--the money stayed locally, the timber receipts, at least a portion, for counties to pay for schools and roads.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "have to fight every year for something called [ORG] that costs taxpayers - framing as burden and struggle"}
{"id": "crec_004258", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of H.R. 28 and urge the House to pass this important bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003988", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize an outstanding group of young athletes in Virginia's Sixth Congressional District, the Broadway High School boys cross country team, which won the [ORG] Class 3 State championship in November. Despite online predictions that showed the Gobblers losing by over 50 points, each runner clocked in at their fastest time that day to clinch first place with a 10-point margin over the runners-up. Along the way, the team also became district and regional champs for the first time in the school's history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002157", "text": "But so far, some of the Republican chairs of committees are resisting, and that doesn't speak well for the qualifications or the confidence they have in their nominees. In the last 2 days, the chairman of [ORG] has noticed hearings on not one but two of President [PERSON] 's nominees without minority consent: Governor [PERSON] to be Secretary of the [ORG] and [PERSON] to be the Secretary of [ORG]. These two positions--Secretary of the [ORG], Secretary of [ORG]--will be tasked with managing our natural resources and our clean energy future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing committee chairs' resistance as not speaking 'well for their qualifications' and emphasizing that nominees will manage 'our natural resources and our clean energy future' with implicit concern about their fitness"}
{"id": "crec_008676", "text": "I just want to ask a bit of a hypothetical here before we talk about this chart. Let's say you are an American family of four, and you are doing pretty good. You make and you spend about $100,000 a year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005287", "text": ". The online Record has been corrected to read:SA 37. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000805", "text": "I have been very clear where Democrats stand. We need thorough background investigations, we need hearings where both sides can prepare to ask strong questions, and we need a vote here on the floor. In other words, we expect regular order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "we expect regular order"}
{"id": "crec_001064", "text": "First, we need to look at how we got here. How did we get to $36 trillion in national debt? I think many of us feel it has been driven by Federal waste, by fraud, and gross mismanagement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing debt as driven by 'waste, fraud, and gross mismanagement' uses charged language to evoke concern about government incompetence"}
{"id": "crec_002879", "text": "REJECT TRUMP TAX PLAN (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , House Republicans leaked their plans for how they are going to cut taxes for their rich friends at the expense of regular working people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing tax cuts as benefiting 'rich friends at the expense of regular working people' presents a false choice while using loaded language like 'leaked' and 'at the expense of'"}
{"id": "crec_006907", "text": "Now, a lot of the reasons as to why the very rich are becoming richer and working-class families are struggling have to do with disastrous trade policies which have resulted in the loss of millions of good- paying jobs. The failure of Congress to raise the minimum wage to a living wage is another reason why millions and millions of workers today are forced to try to survive on starvation wages. Furthermore, we are seeing and have seen aggressive and often illegal union-busting activities on the part of major employers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "disastrous trade policies, starvation wages, aggressive and often illegal union-busting"}
{"id": "crec_008150", "text": "A bill to provide for a study by [ORG], Engineering, and Medicine on the prevalence and mortality of cancer among individuals who served as active duty aircrew in [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 531.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004205", "text": "What my opposition party is doing is blurring the lines of what is a woman and what is a man. My daughter has played soccer her entire life. She is scared to death to play right now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "daughter 'scared to death' combined with charged framing of opposition 'blurring the lines'"}
{"id": "crec_000395", "text": "The citizens of [PERSON] County and Habersham County are hundreds of miles from any border but are still being brutally victimized by illegal aliens. Enough is enough. These preventable tragedies must come to an end.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'brutally victimized by illegal aliens' and 'preventable tragedies' use emotionally charged language to frame immigration as a violent threat in areas far from borders"}
{"id": "crec_008422", "text": "We had to listen to the ranking member go on a diatribe about why it is so important that American taxpayers be exposed to a multitrillion-dollar tax increase. He said this is about tax cuts for the wealthy. But the fact of the matter is--and the nominee pointed this out--that the top 1 percent in the country pay the vast majority of income taxes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes opponent's position as wanting 'American taxpayers be exposed to a multitrillion-dollar tax increase' while opponent actually argued for 'tax cuts for the wealthy'; uses loaded term 'diatribe'"}
{"id": "crec_005643", "text": "I would have never thought that I would have the honor to be able to represent him here in [ORG]. Mayor [PERSON] 's kindness and thoughtful approach to leadership embodied what it truly means to be a public servant. I thank Mayor [PERSON] , [PERSON] 's family for sharing him with all of us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "kindness and thoughtful approach to leadership embodied what it truly means to be a public servant"}
{"id": "crec_002871", "text": "I have a different approach. I believe the best way to build America is to invest in America, in American products and American people. And the best way to grow our economy is to grow the backbone of our nation: the middle class.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'invest in America, in American products and American people' and 'backbone of our nation'"}
{"id": "crec_003008", "text": "Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. Vote on Motion to Proceed The question occurs on the motion to proceed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007808", "text": "Why? Because soon Congress will be sending hundreds of billions of dollars to California to help clean up this mess and rebuild. The most basic level of common sense demands that we not send billions upon billions to California without first looking carefully at the causes of this catastrophe, and when they are identified, making sure these causes will be addressed and resolved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing situation as 'catastrophe' and emphasizing 'hundreds of billions of dollars' repeatedly to create urgency and concern about resource allocation"}
{"id": "crec_005737", "text": "When [ORG] was enacted back 1972, it opened the doors for women and girls to have equal opportunities in sports. It is worth repeating. [ORG], women's sports were almost nonexistent, but since then, we have seen great progress.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["repetition", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "\"It is worth repeating. [ORG]\" and \"equal opportunities\" and \"great progress\" are vague positive terms used repeatedly"}
{"id": "crec_006971", "text": "In fact, the legislation allows the President to grant a 90-day extension to the Sunday deadline, though only if negotiations have substantially advanced, and the sale could likely close in 90 days. Neither is true today so I expect President [PERSON] will not grant the extension. And what President [PERSON] cannot do under current law, this Congress--[ORG]--certainly won't do by changing the law, not over my objection, in any case.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["doubt", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Neither is true today so I expect President [PERSON] will not grant the extension; invokes presidential authority and legal constraints to cast doubt on alternative outcomes"}
{"id": "crec_004625", "text": "It is government policy in many ways that is doing it to these people. It is immoral. I am going to get hate texts saying: You can't talk about that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "anticipating 'hate texts' and characterizing policy as 'immoral' to provoke emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_002325", "text": "Dry dock facilities for steam and towboats soon cropped up, while Paducah, the county seat of McCracken County since 1832, became an important railway hub. By the turn of the 19th century, McCracken County formed an integral part of Kentucky's commerce, culture, and governance. Around this time, the county produced one of our [ORG]'s most prominent political figures, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-5", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002289", "text": "[PERSON] and I and anybody in [ORG] country knows how valuable, how important they are to our economy, to our farmers, the research that they do. They are an R-1 research university, one of the top 100 research universities in the United States, with about 12,000 students, about 100 majors, and, of course, graduate programs and doctoral programs--all kinds of opportunities for young men and women who are looking for an education and a fun place to get one. So we are just so proud of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "valuable, how important they are to our economy, to our farmers... we are just so proud of [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_003029", "text": "At the same time, the pandemic had snarled supply chains and set off widespread labor shortages, driving up costs worldwide. In response, my Administration immediately convened businesses and labor to unclog our ports and get goods flowing. Russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine further increased food and gas prices.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "unprovoked and unjustified invasion; my Administration immediately convened"}
{"id": "crec_007720", "text": "Let us carry his message forward, ensuring every veteran receives the honor, support, and opportunities they deserve. I deeply respect Colonel [PERSON] for his unwavering dedication to our Nation. Let us all thank him for inspiring our next generation of leaders to take on any challenges and obstacles that come in their path.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-8", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "carry his message forward, ensuring every veteran receives the honor... deeply respect Colonel [PERSON] for his unwavering dedication to our Nation"}
{"id": "crec_004704", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 380. A bill to require fair shipping prices for noncontiguous areas of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004229", "text": "By ignoring the biological, physical, and genetic differences between men and women, this administration has dismantled the level playing field that women and girls deserve. This is about fairness, safety, and opportunity. When viewed through the eyes of common sense, it is obvious.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "dismantled the level playing field, fairness, safety, and opportunity combined with appeal to common sense suggests threats to women's welfare"}
{"id": "crec_002611", "text": "President [PERSON] cared deeply about peace and prosperity across our world, and his commitment to God's people is one that those of us from Georgia remember as we, ourselves, represent and serve our home [ORG]. Though he has departed this world, we know that his legacy will live on not only through the work of [ORG] but through those of us inspired by his life and leadership. Mr. [PERSON] , I hold the [PERSON] family and all who know President [PERSON] in my heart during this time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'cared deeply about peace and prosperity' and 'commitment to God's people' and 'legacy will live on'"}
{"id": "crec_006346", "text": "A bill to prohibit the purchase of public or private real estate located in the United States by foreign adversaries and state sponsors of terrorism; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 459.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007567", "text": "Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], Sexual, and [ORG] ([ORG]), [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] of Lehigh Valley, Inc., [ORG], [ORG], Women In Transition, [ORG], [ORG]. Puerto Rico: [ORG], Centro de la Mujer Dominicana, Inc. Rhode Island: [ORG]. South Carolina: South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Assault.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006355", "text": "A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the requirement of a service-connected disability to furnish veterans with medical care outside of a [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 468.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000304", "text": "To scare the whole group straight, everyone is arrested, whether they were involved in the shoplifting or not. However, nobody is charged, and the charges are dropped. For most of the kids, it is a humiliating afternoon and a valuable life lesson, but for one of them, a young person who has been in America lawfully for years with his or her family, the consequences would be devastating under this legislation--mandatory detention and deportation from the country just for having been arrested, even if never charged.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "consequences would be devastating...mandatory detention and deportation...just for having been arrested"}
{"id": "crec_000201", "text": "Even then, [PERSON] will not be able to stop us from doing our jobs today. Today, we will convene; we will do our jobs; and then we move on to the business of governing for the American people because that is what our oaths demand of us. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasis on 'our jobs,' 'oaths,' and 'governing for the American people' uses vague appeals to duty and patriotic obligation without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_001124", "text": "1, S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. Cloture Motion [SPEAKER]. I send a cloture motion to the desk for the motion to proceed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008141", "text": "A bill to reserve to Congress the authority to establish or extend a national monument; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 522.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000058", "text": "DESIGNATION OF [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker: Washington, DC, January 6, 2025. I hereby appoint [ORG] to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. [PERSON] , Speaker of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000336", "text": "I wish that we were considering legislation that was worthy of her name. Instead, the Republican majority is beginning this new Congress right where they left off in the last one, with legislation that targets and scapegoats immigrants, but does nothing to address the real problems in our broken immigration system, all while ignoring basic due process and constitutional principles. Among other things, this legislation would subject to mandatory detention any undocumented immigrants who are merely charged with committing an act of theft or shoplifting, even if they are innocent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "targets and scapegoats immigrants, mandatory detention...even if they are innocent"}
{"id": "crec_003991", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor an exceptional student athlete from [ORG] and the Roanoke Valley Governor's School, [PERSON] . [PERSON] is a two-time [ORG] coed [ORG] golf champion, winning in 2022 and 2024, finishing the latter with an impressive score of 68, 2 under par, even in challenging conditions. She also captured the 2024 [ORG] girls open [ORG] championship and has been named [ORG] of the Year for both `23 and `24.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000073", "text": "13 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are hereby, elected to the following standing committees of [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Chair. Committee on Appropriations: Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG]. Committee on Armed Services: Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Chair.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000368", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The time of the gentlewoman has expired. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002857", "text": "I call on President [PERSON] and President-elect [ORG] to put a pause on this ban so 170 million Americans don't lose their free speech. Millions of Americans' livelihoods will be ended if this ban takes place. We need to be for free speech.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "170 million Americans don't lose their free speech and Millions of Americans' livelihoods will be ended"}
{"id": "crec_007988", "text": "We are looking for solutions that are long-term and we will help those folks. Our hearts are with you in southern California because I know at the end of this, instead of the rhetoric you are hearing that might be getting you wound up, you would like accountability as well. You are already angry at some of the folks down there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "rhetoric you are hearing that might be getting you wound up"}
{"id": "crec_008970", "text": "For the purpose of assisting the [ORG] in the conduct of this inquiry, a Majority investigator or investigators shall be designated by the [ORG] and a Minority investigator or investigators shall be designated by the [ORG] Minority Member. The Chair, Ranking Minority Member, other Members of the [ORG], and designated investigators shall have access to all investigative reports on nominees prepared by any Federal agency, including access to the report of [ORG]. The [ORG] may request the assistance of [ORG] and any other such expert opinion as may be necessary in conducting its review of information provided by nominees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000907", "text": "Legislative Accomplishments [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, last week I joined one-third of this [ORG] in taking the oath of office so that we could start a new term of Congress and celebrate what it means to be able to say: This is our new start. We have got 2 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "celebrate what it means to be able to say: This is our new start"}
{"id": "crec_004528", "text": "My Administration is prepared to immediately begin the consultations with [ORG] and [ORG] as provided in subsection 123 b. Upon completion of the 30 days of continuous session review provided for in subsection 123 b., the 60 days of continuous session review provided for in subsection 123 d. shall commence. [PERSON] , Jr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005978", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH168-5", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001947", "text": "A bill to require executive agencies to reduce cost-sharing requirements for certain grants with certain nonprofit organizations 25 percent, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 315.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002313", "text": "23) to impose sanctions with respect to [ORG] engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under provisions of rule [ORG], I object to my own request.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003654", "text": "1112. PAYMENT OF [ORG]. (a) In General.--An alien may not be granted adjustment of status under this subtitle unless the applicant has satisfied any applicable Federal tax liability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002137", "text": "I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005750", "text": "That money goes right back into the economy. It becomes something that Congress hasn't adjusted since 1971. I think there are a few things everyone would acknowledge that have happened to the economy since 1971.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001707", "text": "Every 125 days, we basically tack on another trillion dollars of borrowing. If we went to a historic average of 6 percent, it would be 11 percent of GDP in a decade. What if we went up to 9 percent, which we had back in the seventies and eighties?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Every 125 days, we basically tack on another trillion dollars of borrowing...11 percent of GDP in a decade"}
{"id": "crec_006551", "text": "Senator [PERSON] of Pennsylvania was recently asked about the bipartisan [PERSON] . This is what he said, he said: Pretend that you are in a parking lot in a [ORG] in Scranton, PA, as we are out traveling around the [ORG] in our own home States. He said: Well, I am going to vote against a bill that allows people to deport people that are charged with a crime or have a criminal record?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "misrepresents the bill's actual provisions by framing it as simply 'allowing people to deport people that are charged with a crime' rather than addressing what the bill actually contains"}
{"id": "crec_000050", "text": "Members of Congress, the certificates having been read, the tellers will ascertain and deliver the result to the President of the Senate. Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the undersigned, [PERSON] and [PERSON] , tellers on the part of the Senate, [PERSON] and [PERSON] , tellers on the part of [ORG], report the following as the result of the ascertainment and counting of the electoral vote for President and Vice President of the United States for the term beginning on the 20th day of January, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002971", "text": "It is the right thing to do. I don't want dangerous people coming into this country, and I don't want anyone dangerous and undocumented to stay in this country, period. Existing law gives ICE discretion to detain undocumented immigrants on a case-by-case basis.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "dangerous people, dangerous and undocumented"}
{"id": "crec_005688", "text": "This isn't just about a policy. It is about our values. It is about ensuring that every student feels safe, seen, and supported.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "safe, seen, and supported"}
{"id": "crec_007937", "text": "They are angry at this leadership. How they can have a situation where that Santa Ynez reservoir was empty and [ORG] wasn't even aware of that and didn't know they would not have that kind of water supply for a period of time that they maybe would have counted on? The dots aren't connecting here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "empty reservoir and water supply concerns creating anxiety about resource scarcity and leadership failure"}
{"id": "crec_001416", "text": "I have said that over and over and over again. I don't think, like many of the families of the hostages have expressed to me, that increased bombing is going to result in getting their loved ones home. That is the message that many of them have delivered to me personally when they have visited here in Washington.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "said that over and over and over again; many of the families of the hostages have expressed to me"}
{"id": "crec_006194", "text": "I believe in what people call dynamic scoring; some people in this town say that I do not. What I do not believe in is making up numbers. What I do not believe in is magic fairy dust that says the budget will magically balance if you cut taxes and never cut spending because that is simply not true.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "'magic fairy dust' and characterization of opposing view as claiming taxes can be cut without spending cuts while budget magically balances"}
{"id": "crec_001309", "text": "He was a beloved member of the community. He is going to be missed, and I want everyone to know what an important legend and icon this man was. He truly changed Fort Worth and made the lives of so many young people better.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-8", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "beloved member of the community, important legend and icon, truly changed Fort Worth"}
{"id": "crec_000581", "text": "He nailed it, drilled it. He installed toilets. Well into his nineties, you could find him in a hardhat on worksites, participating like any other volunteer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "He nailed it, drilled it...participating like any other volunteer"}
{"id": "crec_002132", "text": "[ORG] has scheduled a confirmation hearing for [PERSON] to be CIA Director. And the Homeland Security and [ORG] plans to hold a hearing with Gov. [PERSON] , nominated for Secretary of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006038", "text": "He is a pioneer of radio broadcasting and represents his alma mater well. Mr. [PERSON] , I congratulate [PERSON] on his return. Go Big Orange.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-5", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "pioneer of radio broadcasting and represents his alma mater well, Go Big Orange"}
{"id": "crec_001300", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER]. Will the gentleman from Texas (Mr. [PERSON] ) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_006793", "text": "And, at the end of the month, when they try to pay their bills, there is not enough there. The situation for families is enormously insecure when it comes to housing. We find Vermonters who are working at ski areas can't live within an hour of the ski lift that they are attending.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "families face enormously insecure housing situations, unable to afford to live near their workplaces"}
{"id": "crec_005763", "text": "In November, [PERSON] won the election to retain her seat on [ORG]. Her victory was confirmed by two separate recounts, but her opponent refuses to concede. Instead, he is seeking to overturn the results of the election with the help of our Republican majority on the court.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-10", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "refusing to concede and seeking to overturn results with Republican majority on court presents threat to democratic legitimacy"}
{"id": "crec_000268", "text": "The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 29 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004320", "text": "28. As a mother to a former child athlete, I get the need to keep our daughters safe and ensure our school sports are fair. Sadly, there is nothing in this bill to improve the safety of our daughters or improve fair play.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Frames bill as lacking safety measures while introducing identity (mother, daughter protection) to suggest the bill is inadequate without substantive engagement with actual bill provisions"}
{"id": "crec_006234", "text": "Let's secure our country, help the President, give him wins, give the American people wins, give us a chance to actually freeze spending in March and in September to stop the growth of the bureaucracy. Let's give [ORG] and DOGE the ability to do what they want to do, which is cut the bureaucracy, which they can't do if we keep funding it. We can do that, but if my colleagues are going to insist on putting us in a box and telling the world because Chip says, you know what, I think we should put everything on the table, all taxes, until we make sure we are getting enough cuts with respect to the tax policy, and then they have the audacity to go out and say, Chip won't vote for a bill unless there is a corporate tax increase.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 143, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "Secure our country, give the American people wins, give us a chance; characterization of colleagues' position as putting speaker 'in a box' when they only proposed putting taxes on the table"}
{"id": "crec_002161", "text": "Mr. President, I have had great staff through all my years in the Senate and in the House. I owe everything to them. They work so damn hard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008338", "text": "He was a leading voice on China's repression of its own people in Xinjiang, and he led the charge on the [ORG] in [ORG]. And he didn't stop once it became law; he made sure the legislation was being implemented properly. He called out companies suspected of using forced labor, and he advocated for the [PERSON] administration to do a better job of vetting imports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "He was a leading voice on China's repression... he led the charge... he made sure the legislation was being implemented properly... he called out companies... he advocated for the administration to do a better job"}
{"id": "crec_006600", "text": "To the families watching who have lost loved ones, like the [PERSON] family, we stand with you. We feel your grief and your pain, and we will guard against this heartbreak ever happening again. Now more than ever, it is incumbent upon my colleagues and me to support America's families and pass the strongest possible bill for our communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'guard against this heartbreak ever happening again' and 'support America's families'"}
{"id": "crec_002867", "text": "In response, my Administration immediately convened businesses and labor to unclog our ports and get goods flowing. Russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine further increased food and gas prices. In response, I directed the largest release of fuel from our strategic reserve in history to ensure that our energy markets were well supplied, and we challenged oil and gas companies to reinvest record profits in domestic production, which has reached an all-time high under my Administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "framing actions as 'largest release' and 'all-time high' without specific metrics; positioning administration as resolving crises through decisive action"}
{"id": "crec_004106", "text": "[SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-5", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag...one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"}
{"id": "crec_002911", "text": "The yeas and nays were ordered. [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001077", "text": "So here are just a few examples, and I have been sharing these with people who are coming into this new administration. If this were a business, the first thing I would do when I would have seen that we had spent $2 trillion more than we had taken in--the first thing I would do is I would freeze Federal employees. I would not hire any more Federal employees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "If this were a business... the first thing I would do is I would freeze Federal employees"}
{"id": "crec_009903", "text": "We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable. America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith, and good will.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism; America will be respected again and admired again"}
{"id": "crec_004387", "text": "Far from promoting sex equality in sports, H.R. 28 and S. 9 are discriminatory attempts to cause harm to and exclude transgender, intersex, and nonbinary students from school sports and would not promote fairness or safety in school sports for women and girls. We thus urge you to reject this effort to enshrine sex discrimination and oppose [ORG]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing legislation as 'discriminatory attempts to cause harm' and 'sex discrimination' while framing opposition to transgender inclusion as contrary to equality"}
{"id": "crec_000134", "text": "35, the Agent [PERSON] Officer Safety Act, do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-5", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009176", "text": "It sets clear standards and clear expectations for forest management that we currently lack in this country. It provides the tools for the Agencies for the prevention and preparation for the next time, and it requires a lot more openness about the limits and the challenges that we face on these important issues. This is about protection, not punishment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "sets clear standards and clear expectations, provides the tools, requires openness, protection not punishment"}
{"id": "crec_000677", "text": "Right now, we are flying blind, and that needs to change. While some might be concerned about lost investment potential in China, there are plenty of opportunities here at home and in other parts around the world, as we see more friendshoring and nearshoring, to create dependable supply chains to Asia, India, and elsewhere. Well, there is another area where I expect President [PERSON] to make a big difference, and that is in the energy sector and primarily to do this through regulatory reform.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'flying blind' and framing China investment as a binary choice between lost potential there versus opportunities at home"}
{"id": "crec_001526", "text": "I also congratulate [PERSON] on being sworn in as [SPEAKER] of the court and comptroller for Miami-Dade County. [PERSON] began his career in [ORG], and he will now oversee the fourth largest judicial circuit in the Nation. As the watchdog for public records and taxpayer money, I have all the confidence that he will continue to do an excellent job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004110", "text": "In conclusion, God bless our troops as the global war on terrorism continues. Open borders for dictators put all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent, as warned by the FBI. [ORG] will reinstitute existing laws to protect American families with peace through strength.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-7", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "open borders for dictators put all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent, as warned by the FBI"}
{"id": "crec_004777", "text": "CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT Pursuant to clause 7 of rule [ORG] of the Rules of [ORG], the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006807", "text": "So let's have a tax system that is fair and also promotes growth and invests in the folks who want to work to make this economy strong, who want to build strong communities and take care of their families. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "fair and also promotes growth and invests in the folks who want to work to make this economy strong, who want to build strong communities and take care of their families"}
{"id": "crec_006957", "text": "There were no witnesses in the Senate. No one got to hear anything about this ban because they put it into the bill that was going to provide military aid for Ukraine, for Israel--humanitarian aid--and they just stuck the [ORG] ban into the legislation over in [ORG] to send it over here. We never had a hearing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "framing a legislative process as secretive and deceptive ('stuck the ban into the legislation') combined with emphasizing lack of transparency to suggest improper intent"}
{"id": "crec_004366", "text": "He also mentioned the very real 86 percent of trans kids reporting suicidality due to things like adults stigmatizing kids for political gain. Instead, today, the proposed solution in search of an actual problem suggests we somehow ban girls from sports with some sort of process to determine who is a girl. Does this mean hiring potential predators to peek at the private parts of kids in locker rooms?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "'ban girls from sports with some sort of process to determine who is a girl. Does this mean hiring potential predators to peek at the private parts of kids'"}
{"id": "crec_008394", "text": "It is linked directly to the prices that we pay, to the technology that we create, and to the world in which we live. Unleashing American energy means lower prices, means more innovation at home, and it means more safety and security for our citizens. Well, we have seen it before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Unleashing American energy means lower prices, means more innovation at home, and it means more safety and security - broad aspirational claims without specific evidence or mechanisms explained"}
{"id": "crec_000422", "text": "Will these policy changes, in fact, be effective? Will they be constitutional or not? I agree that we should move from the situation of identifying and empathizing with people who have suffered terrible family tragedies and private tragedies to effective public policy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002803", "text": "I am here to tell you that protecting our kids is not a partisan issue. I am inviting you to join us in protecting our most valuable asset in this country, our future workforce, our children. In any given year, there are 390,000 children and youth who experience foster care in the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "protecting our kids is not a partisan issue; our most valuable asset; our future workforce, our children"}
{"id": "crec_001488", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentleman for yielding time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001338", "text": "[SPEAKER] (during the reading). Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the Record. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-2", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000731", "text": "SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS SENATE RESOLUTION 16--TO CONSTITUTE THE MAJORITY PARTY'S [ORG] FOR THE ONE HUNDRED NINETEENTH CONGRESS, OR UNTIL THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE CHOSEN [SPEAKER] submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to: [PERSON] . 16 Resolved, That the following shall constitute the majority party's membership on the following committees for the One Hundred Ninteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen: [ORG], and Forestry: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on Appropriations: Ms. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-3", "word_count": 142, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005354", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ) to the bill [ORG], supra . . .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006056", "text": "She was an incredibly hard worker, and she had the unique ability to inspire others to work diligently for the conservative cause. Mr. [PERSON] , through all that she accomplished, one thing remained constant: her passion for improving the lives of South Carolina and our great country. Her conviction, her fearless leadership, and willingness to serve will no doubt leave a lasting legacy for all who knew her.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "incredibly hard worker, unique ability to inspire, improving the lives of South Carolina and our great country, lasting legacy"}
{"id": "crec_009051", "text": "A bill to require the appropriate Federal banking agencies to establish a 3-year phase-in period for de novo financial institutions to comply with Federal capital standards, to provide relief for de novo rural community banks, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 114. A bill to provide for enhanced Federal, [ORG], and local assistance in the enforcement of the immigration laws, to amend [ORG], and to authorize appropriations to carry out [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008478", "text": "([SPEAKER] assumed the [PERSON] .) Law Enforcement Mr. President, since 2015, when I first took office as a U.S. Senator in my home [ORG], we have tragically lost far too many law enforcement officers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "tragically lost far too many law enforcement officers"}
{"id": "crec_006044", "text": "I am honored to serve nearly 800,000 Virginians. Virginia, thousands of miles from the border, is a border [ORG]. Every county, city, and town is a border county, city, and town under the current administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Characterizing Virginia as a 'border' state 'thousands of miles from the border' uses loaded language to create fear about immigration policy impact, implying widespread vulnerability or threat"}
{"id": "crec_006229", "text": "The media and our colleagues will say that they don't want to do that, they can't do that. Well, we have done it. We have put it forward.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing unnamed media and colleagues' position as absolute refusal ('they don't want to do that, they can't do that') before presenting their own action as a counter-example"}
{"id": "crec_004000", "text": "Let me be clear: House Republicans will not idly stand by while the radical left diminishes over five decades of progress for women. [ORG] of 2025 is essential for ensuring that all young women who aspire to play sports have the opportunity to compete fairly, preserving fairness and protecting their achievements. We must safeguard the integrity of female athletics so that young women can succeed in sports for generations to come.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "radical left diminishes, House Republicans will not idly stand by, preserving fairness and protecting their achievements"}
{"id": "crec_000635", "text": "These nominees are going to be the faces of the new administration. They will be responsible for applying its policies. They will, in effect, be the ones responsible for following through, day-to-day, on the promises made on the campaign trail.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007052", "text": "Mr. President, I want to offer an amendment that would add one more crime to the list covered by this legislation, and that would be assault of a law enforcement officer. Anyone who comes into the country illegally and harms these brave men and women in uniform is dangerous, and dangerous not only to our first responders but also to the safety and security of all Texans and communities all around the country. Unfortunately, we know, under the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration, these people who are committing these kinds of crimes are routinely being released back into the streets, as we saw last February in New York City when seven people were arrested for assaulting a police officer-- assaulting multiple police officers--outside of a migrant shelter in Times Square.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 127, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "dangerous...dangerous not only to our first responders but also to the safety and security of all Texans and communities all around the country"}
{"id": "crec_006711", "text": "Well, that failed America's working families. There is nothing about giving several hundred thousand dollars to the richest Americans--that is each one of them--that helped a single working American. These policies are coming to an end in 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "\"failed America's working families\" and \"nothing about giving several hundred thousand dollars to the richest Americans...that helped a single working American\" creates a stark either/or framing between helping the rich versus helping workers"}
{"id": "crec_009941", "text": "4, S. 6, a bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S258, January 20, 2025, second column, the following appears: Motion to proceed to Calendar No. 4, [ORG], a bill to amend title XVIII, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258-2", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion"}
{"id": "crec_008702", "text": "So I would encourage President [PERSON] to go back and take a look at the final budget he proposed for fiscal year 2021 and look at his estimate for spending in 2025. So I have done the exact same thing. I am using the fiscal year 2025 estimates from his last budget, but I am using this year's [ORG], [ORG], and interest expense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001134", "text": "Total $130 million. Funding Source: Foreign Military Financing and National Funds. (iii) Description and Quantity or Quantities of Articles or Services under Consideration for Purchase: Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case GR-B-IAO was below congressional notification threshold at $99.99 million ($0 in [ORG]) and included Ml 117 wheeled [ORG] ([ORG]) (through the Excess Defense Article program); MK19 Modification (MOD) 4 [ORG] (UGWS); Concurrent Spare Parts ([ORG]) packages; spare barrels; [ORG] and contractor vehicle spare parts; vehicle Special Tools and Test Equipment (STTE); vehicle Basic Issue Items ([ORG]); [ORG] (SNAP) spare parts; [ORG] case management and technical assistance; facility-required equipment; [ORG] ([ORG]); [ORG] Representative support; [ORG] with [ORG] Tank- Automotive and Armaments Command ([ORG]) technical assistance; [ORG] [ORG], and [PERSON] with follow-on transportation; and other related elements of logistics and program support.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 145, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006865", "text": "This is how they plan to do it. One option is Republican leadership in the Senate has suggested that because they want to extend policy that currently exists, we should just ignore the cost of extending it; there shouldn't be a pay-for; we don't have to worry about it; that all of a sudden, that $4 trillion increase in deficit just doesn't exist. Now, I know we all wish we could forget about an actual debt sometimes, but that is not what the American people sent us here to do, and that is not what American people do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes Republican position as suggesting to 'ignore the cost' and 'forget about' debt, misrepresenting their actual policy argument; uses emotionally charged language like 'that $4 trillion increase in deficit just doesn't exist'"}
{"id": "crec_004545", "text": "Two things: Wages go up with inflation. That just means you are treading water. Productivity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "treading water - negative metaphor implying lack of progress despite wage increases"}
{"id": "crec_005936", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I was just elected to represent California's 47th Congressional District in the heart of Orange County, and we have quite a sizeable Chinese-American population. I have spoken with many constituents who are deeply concerned about the future of Taiwan, particularly in the face of increased aggression and a lot of rhetoric. Mr. [PERSON] , I think it is important that we signal here that we are strengthening the relationship between our two countries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "positioning as elected representative speaking on behalf of constituents and emphasizing strengthening relationships between countries"}
{"id": "crec_002271", "text": "So we weren't there, but we would have loved to have been there. [ORG] really supports this team, and you can't do it without that kind of fan base, although I have to tell you that the Montana State Bobcats were there in force, because I talked to players or I talked to some of the folks who were there, some of the alumni and fans who had gone to the game, and they said that [ORG] really supported their team well. So with that, I am going to turn to my colleague Senator [PERSON] , who is going to offer some more remarks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000786", "text": "[ORG] PLACED ON THE CALENDAR--S. 9 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I understand there is a bill at the desk that is due for a second reading. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004920", "text": "Now we are a debtor nation. Our standing in the world has declined. We were the leader of the free nations not so long ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "debtor nation, standing in the world has declined, were the leader"}
{"id": "crec_004227", "text": "He is also the vice chair of the [ORG] and [ORG] and chair of [ORG] and [ORG]. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001110", "text": "His character was further defined alongside thousands of other young men like him who fought in World War II. Olen received [PERSON] after being shot 2 weeks before D-Day in 1944 during his service in Italy. Even after being injured, he continued his service to his country in the military police.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004785", "text": "IOWA LEGISLATURE [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I served 16 years in [ORG] before I came to [ORG]. Frequently, I visit that body.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I served 16 years in [ORG] before I came to [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_008884", "text": "But throughout all, it is not just loyalty to us. It is to the people of Alaska, to helping people, to helping our [ORG] move forward. And, as I said, yesterday was [PERSON] 's last day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "loyalty to us... helping people, to helping our [ORG] move forward"}
{"id": "crec_002430", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000857", "text": "One is called the Byrd rule, which tries to make sure we don't use the reconciliation process and the budgetary process to pass substantive legislation as opposed to budgetary legislation. That is something we are going to have to work out with the House because I know the House has different rules. They don't have any constraint on the types of things that they can do using reconciliation like the Senate does.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005749", "text": "Where do they spend that money? Nobody gets wealthy on [ORG]. That is for sure.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "Nobody gets wealthy on [ORG]. That is for sure."}
{"id": "crec_005942", "text": "Here are the numbers: Taiwan is the United States' 7th largest trading partner, 10th largest export market, and 8th largest source of imports. Taiwan is the biggest trading partner without a deal with the United States. Today, Taiwan is and will remain one of our most strategic partners and allies in the region.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Taiwan is and will remain one of our most strategic partners and allies in the region"}
{"id": "crec_000034", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 16 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] . [PERSON] President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 3 votes for President and J.D.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003548", "text": "The table of contents for this Act is as follows: [ORG]. 1. Table of contents.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004888", "text": "But to deny and delay the hearings outright is simply unconscionable and dangerous. Democrats are not entitled to sabotage this President by denying him his [ORG]. Any efforts to do so undermine the democratic process and that peaceful transfer of power that we hear so much about and which is so important.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'unconscionable and dangerous' combined with 'sabotage' and warnings about undermining 'democratic process' and 'peaceful transfer of power'"}
{"id": "crec_000343", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , again, our hearts go out to the [PERSON] family. We think about them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000745", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 29. A bill to make daylight saving time permanent, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008740", "text": "He can quickly put folks at ease with his warm smile and personality. I always thought that smile, he was smirking at me every time I saw him. I got accustomed to that smile as something much better than a smirk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004294", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , may I inquire as to the time remaining. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000685", "text": "We can't let this opportunity go to waste. As I said, we need to take a hard look at both our mandatory discretionary spending, and we also need to take a look at how the Tax Code has been transformed into a welfare system. About $200 billion a year go to pay for the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "Tax Code has been transformed into a welfare system"}
{"id": "crec_004948", "text": "You are paying payroll taxes. And for families, many working-class families, they are paying significant sums in payroll taxes. But because of the increased threshold for income taxes, they don't have a whole lot of income tax liability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005663", "text": "[PERSON] bought her home in Altadena with her late husband, [PERSON] , in the late 1960s. Together, they raised two kids, watched their grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow, and celebrated holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries. The Los Angeles wildfires are on track to become one of the most costly and devastating natural disasters in our country's history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "most costly and devastating natural disasters in our country's history"}
{"id": "crec_006681", "text": "It doesn't go for roads. It doesn't go for firehouses. It doesn't go for public health.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "repeated structure 'It doesn't go for' emphasizes a pattern of claims about fund allocation"}
{"id": "crec_002118", "text": "LEGISLATIVE SESSION LAKEN RILEY ACT--MOTION TO PROCEED--Resumed [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 5, which [SPEAKER] will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: Motion to proceed to Calendar No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005680", "text": "On behalf of all New Mexicans, I extend my deepest gratitude to [ORG] El Perro Diablo Detachment 478.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "On behalf of all New Mexicans, I extend my deepest gratitude"}
{"id": "crec_006729", "text": "And many of my businesses in Virginia were coming to me saying: We have to be more competitive. We have to have a corporate tax rate that matches up more with global norms. Cut the global tax rate to 28 percent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "businesses coming to me saying we need to match global norms; use of 'have to' creates urgency and frames business preferences as objective necessity"}
{"id": "crec_001957", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 324. A bill to provide for the collection and sharing of information, including tax return information, for purposes of criminal investigations with respect to loans under [ORG]; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006124", "text": "Before I became a Member of Congress, I served as a public service commissioner for 12 years. I regulated five multistate monopoly utilities, permitted $15 billion worth of new energy infrastructure, and advocated for market rules and policies to support reliable and affordable energy resources. I saw firsthand the challenges to our energy policy and the direct and dire consequences it has.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Before I became a Member of Congress, I served as a public service commissioner for 12 years. I regulated five multistate monopoly utilities, permitted $15 billion worth of new energy infrastructure"}
{"id": "crec_006910", "text": "In my view, the main function of [ORG] is not to hire the best and the brightest. That is the theory--we have to bring in the best and the brightest to help our companies function and grow wealth in America. That is the theory, but in truth, the reality of what [ORG] is, is to replace good-paying American jobs with hundreds of thousands of lower paid guest workers from abroad who are often treated as indentured servants.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrasting 'theory' of hiring 'best and brightest' with 'reality' of replacing American jobs with 'lower paid guest workers' treated as 'indentured servants'"}
{"id": "crec_007984", "text": "Well, why should the [ORG] taxpayer basically help subsidize that? California, during the COVID era, drew about $20 billion from [ORG] to help supplement unemployment benefits and after a period of time when it was clear, they weren't going to pay it back. California, instead of paying it back, has now decided to sack employers by doubling the unemployment insurance amount they have to contribute as part of the pay package for their employees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing California's actions as 'sack employers' and 'doubled unemployment insurance' presents the policy in emotionally charged language while suggesting economic harm to businesses"}
{"id": "crec_005626", "text": "If my constituents need assistance, I encourage them to reach out to my office, and we will be able to start advocating on their behalf to get the Federal resources that they need. The San Fernando Valley is home, and I am honored to represent my home in Congress. That is why I am committed to working with our local, [ORG], and [ORG] officials to make sure our community has the resources that it needs to rebuild stronger.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009828", "text": "We pray for President [PERSON] ; that You will watch over, protect, guide, direct him. Give him Your wisdom from Your throne on high. We ask that You would bless him and that our [ORG] would be blessed through him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "invocation of divine blessing and protection for the president and organization, positioning them as worthy of sacred favor"}
{"id": "crec_000443", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time is remaining? [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009704", "text": "Many of us are used to Congress passing bills without ever paying for them, but this may be one of the worst cases that we have seen. And I know there may be an attempt here through reconciliation--you know, a tax measure to try to fund this in some way or to pick some other place to do it--but choices are going to have to be made between the mandatory detention of people who may not be a threat to our community and other choices like the funding for border patrol or [ORG] at the Homeland Security, the disaster relief fund--just three that come to mind. Put another way, every dollar that [ORG] spends incarcerating kids is a dollar the border patrol doesn't have to spend on the border itself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 136, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "choices are going to have to be made between mandatory detention of people who may not be a threat...and other choices like funding for border patrol...every dollar spent incarcerating kids is a dollar border patrol doesn't have"}
{"id": "crec_008659", "text": "For that matter, the same goes for some of [ORG]'s other healthcare nominees who have ignored science and promoted false conspiracy theories. His nominee to lead the [ORG] is an anti-abortion extremist with zero public health experience--unless you count peddling the conspiracy theory that vaccines cause autism or promoting junk healthcare plans. Then you have Dr. [PERSON] , who has been named to lead [ORG]--someone who is known for pushing quack treatments and debunked junk science, who will be shaping health coverage for millions despite clear conflicts of interest.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "anti-abortion extremist, quack treatments, debunked junk science, ignored science and promoted false conspiracy theories"}
{"id": "crec_000360", "text": "Unfortunately, this bill does nothing to fix the immigration system or to prevent future tragedies like this. It is simply an attempt to score cheap political points off of a tragic death, and in the process, it unfairly sweeps up many more innocent lives with no due process. Let us be clear: This is the Republican playbook over and over again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["strawman", "ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the bill as 'attempt to score cheap political points' and 'Republican playbook' oversimplifies opposition motives; 'sweeps up many more innocent lives' uses emotionally charged language"}
{"id": "crec_009231", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 142. A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to wildland firefighters in recognition of their strength, resiliency, sacrifice, and service to protect the forests, grasslands, and communities of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS231", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Congressional Gold Medal to wildland firefighters in recognition of their strength, resiliency, sacrifice, and service to protect"}
{"id": "crec_000681", "text": "And that comes first through the budget reconciliation process. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and it is not an opportunity we can afford to squander. We can't let this go to waste by not taking this occasion to finally address our skyrocketing debt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "once-in-a-generation opportunity...can't afford to squander...skyrocketing debt"}
{"id": "crec_004580", "text": "Come on. Join reality world with us. Put batteries in your calculator.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "Join reality world with us"}
{"id": "crec_002320", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS ELECTORAL COUNT ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise to mark the fact that Monday's joint session of Congress was the first time that Congress certified the results of a Presidential election with the much-needed and significant reforms in place to the Electoral Count Act that we enacted in 2022 with broad bipartisan support. Senators from both parties came together to enact these critical updates to address ambiguities in the law that those trying to subvert the will of the American people tried to exploit 4 years ago--and to ensure that nothing like the chaos of January 6, 2021, ever happens again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-4", "word_count": 116, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "broad bipartisan support and Senators from both parties came together to enact these critical updates"}
{"id": "crec_009891", "text": "Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history's greatest civilization. So as we liberate our [ORG], we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "history's greatest civilization, liberate our [ORG], lead it to new heights of victory and success"}
{"id": "crec_009585", "text": "A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to change the residency requirements for certain officials serving in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005771", "text": "THE [ORG] [SPEAKER]. The [ORG] has examined [ORG] proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule I, the [ORG] stands approved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004590", "text": "How many people do you see coming behind these microphones and saying, we need to fix it? It is immoral where it is going. If you do that, the left now has a political consultant writing attack ads on you because they care so much more about winning the next election than saving the society and not doubling senior poverty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing opposition as caring more about 'winning elections than saving society,' and framing the choice as between political attacks or moral action"}
{"id": "crec_000033", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 28 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 28 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 16 votes for President and J.D.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000038", "text": "Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 19 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 19 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003971", "text": "It can often be a thankless job. On behalf of Kansas and the Nation, I thank these brave men and women for keeping us fueled, clothed, and [ORG]. Their tireless efforts do not go unnoticed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'brave men and women' and 'tireless efforts' are vague praise; 'on behalf of Kansas and the Nation' invokes patriotic framing"}
{"id": "crec_004508", "text": "Ms. [PERSON] was awarded a medal for her work in the church by Pope [PERSON] and recognized by the city of Savannah, from which she was gifted a key to the city. Additionally, [PERSON] also declared [PERSON] Schreck Day on May 31, 1981. Ms. [PERSON] will forever be remembered as a dedicated servant of God and her community through her service to the church and to the city of Savannah.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-4", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "forever be remembered as a dedicated servant of God and her community"}
{"id": "crec_002923", "text": "COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] lays before the Senate a communication of the Secretary of the Senate regarding a message from the President, received during the adjournment of the Senate. The assistant [PERSON] read as follows: Dear Mr. President: On Friday, January 10, 2025, the President of the United States sent by messenger the attached sealed envelope addressed to the President of the Senate dated January 10, 2025 said to contain the Economic Report of the President together with [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-5", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001213", "text": "The AN/USQ-190 Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) is a secure, jam-resistant communication and positioning system that employs a defined waveform in the 960-1215 [ORG] (MHz) Ultra High Frequency ([ORG]) range for packet message communication and 16 Kilobit digital voice and packet message communication. MIDS significantly increases force command and control (C2) effectiveness. [ORG] (TADIL-J) series message standard is employed by the system as defined in [ORG] (NATO) Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 5516 and [ORG] ([ORG]) 6016.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004024", "text": "As a survivor of a near-decade of childhood sexual abuse and as a bonus mom to a school-age daughter, I am horrified. To Members of Congress who support this legislation, you are putting the safety of children across this Nation at risk. Why?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "horrified, putting the safety of children at risk, near-decade of childhood sexual abuse"}
{"id": "crec_005892", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000392", "text": "29 provides a commonsense solution to do just that. This legislation requires ICE to issue detainers and take custody of illegal aliens who commit crimes like theft, burglary, and larceny. The local jurisdiction, the Athens-[PERSON] County Unified Government, was a sanctuary city, and that is another problem.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterization of immigrants as 'illegal aliens who commit crimes' combined with reference to 'sanctuary city' as 'another problem' frames immigration enforcement as necessary crime prevention"}
{"id": "crec_007997", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I may not use the entire 60 minutes, but I appreciate the opportunity. I would encourage other Members of the House, who are still in town, to certainly come over and to seek recognition on this as I try to talk a bit about Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., and why it is so very important that we, at least here in the House, take a moment or two or, in this case an hour or less, to reflect on the life, the legacy, and even some of the myths that have circulated over the years. Mr. [PERSON] , I am honored today to rise to really celebrate the birth of civil rights icon and leader, Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., who, had he lived, would have been 96 years of age yesterday, and to talk a bit about the dream that he tried to put forward in his short 39 years of life, a dream that he felt would be the North Star and the beacon for our country with respect to human rights and human dignity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 179, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "celebrate the birth of civil rights icon and leader, Dr. [PERSON], Jr.... the dream that he tried to put forward... North Star and the beacon for our country with respect to human rights and human dignity"}
{"id": "crec_001113", "text": "I know every time I was in Hutchinson, I had the opportunity to be with him. It was just a great experience for me, but you could also tell that those around us admired and respected him. He was a pillar in the community and so often involved in everything good.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "pillar in the community and so often involved in everything good"}
{"id": "crec_007670", "text": "The U.S. immigration system has been broken for decades. Every bipartisan proposal to fix it has been fractured by Republicans' refusal to work with Democrats to find effective solutions. Now, as we begin the 119th Congress with Republicans again in the majority, they continue to reject a bipartisan way forward to find real solutions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Republicans' refusal to work with Democrats / broken for decades"}
{"id": "crec_000471", "text": "EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, [ORG]. Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: EC-2. A letter from the Senior Congressional Liaison, [ORG], transmitting the Bureau's Major final rule -- Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions [Docket No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006914", "text": "This is information from [ORG]. In Houston, [ORG], H-1B accountants--I did not know, to be honest with you, that we had a scarcity in accountants, but be that as it may, H-1B accountants are paid nearly $40,000 less than American accountants doing the exact same work. In Santa Barbara, CA, H-1B workers who are hired as computer system engineers make just $45,000 a year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "H-1B workers paid 'nearly $40,000 less' and 'just $45,000 a year' - selective framing emphasizing wage disparities to suggest unfair competition and economic threat to American workers"}
{"id": "crec_000452", "text": "That is what [PERSON] Kavanaugh said we needed to do. That is exactly what this bill does, by the book, and yet the Democrats still oppose it. To my Democratic colleagues, I ask them: How many more laws with names attached to them do we need to pass before they take this crisis seriously?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "citing Kavanaugh's position as justification; implying Democrats either pass more laws or don't take crisis seriously"}
{"id": "crec_004371", "text": "It is the opposite. It is about government overreach, telling parents their kids can't play T-ball or run track and telling our athletic associations that they can't regulate sports. It is about bullying trans kids, who are amongst the most vulnerable in our communities, and subjecting our children to potentially dangerous situations in their schools.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents issue as binary choice between 'government overreach' and 'bullying trans kids'; uses emotionally charged terms like 'bullying,' 'vulnerable,' and 'potentially dangerous situations'"}
{"id": "crec_002354", "text": "Serving others came naturally to [PERSON] --you could say it was in her blood. Her dad, the late [PERSON] , was a Minneapolis legend in his own right who taught her the importance of public service. She carried those lessons with her, emerging from the rough-and-tumble world of old-school [ORG] politics and carving out her own path as a leader who earned the respect of leaders from both sides of the aisle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "serving others came naturally, in her blood, Minneapolis legend, earned respect of leaders from both sides of the aisle"}
{"id": "crec_001276", "text": "This September, [ORG] looks forward to celebrating its 35th anniversary. [ORG] commitment to crafting reliable saws, parts, and services underscores its dedication to quality and American manufacturing. I want to congratulate the [PERSON] family, as well as the team at [ORG], for their dedication to the woodworking industry and their local community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "dedication to quality and American manufacturing; dedication to the woodworking industry and their local community"}
{"id": "crec_004961", "text": "And that is the principle that everyone who pays taxes ought to get relief, and relief ought to be available on the basis of family. Conservatives have said for years that family is the cornerstone of society. We have said for years that it is the first and irreplaceable building block of our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "family is the cornerstone of society, first and irreplaceable building block"}
{"id": "crec_003957", "text": "We have these blackouts in my part of the [ORG], and we are starting to see them in southern California with the unfortunate massive suffering going on due to the wildfires. They have to preemptively shut off the power to particular areas if they think the wind is going to blow too hard and cause foliage to blow off trees, shrubs, and whatever onto the power lines and cause an outage or a blackout and, therefore, a fire along with it, as has happened many times in my district. Mandating this shift to electric vehicles would place additional strain on the grid, leading to more outages and much higher energy costs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'blackouts', 'massive suffering', 'wildfires', and 'additional strain on the grid, leading to more outages' create fear about consequences of EV mandate"}
{"id": "crec_007555", "text": "When creating penalties, balance is key. Deterrence is critically important but will be ineffective if consequences are so severe that survivors will not come forward. Although we are grateful for the efforts of lawmakers to seek to address the impact of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking, we believe the best way to do so is by expanding accessibility of survivor-based immigration relief and related benefits to noncitizen survivors, and by eliminating the cap on visas available to petitioners for [ORG] and T nonimmigrant visas and the number of cases eligible for final adjudications of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'balance is key' and 'best way' without specific substantive justification"}
{"id": "crec_000822", "text": "That is going to make it more expensive for the American people when they use energy to heat their home and to drive their vehicles. [PERSON] and the Democrats are using an obscure law to sabotage American energy independence and American energy production. In the process of doing this, all in the name of the environment and climate, they are going to make it much harder for the American people to make ends meet at the end of the month.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "make it more expensive for the American people, sabotage American energy independence, make it much harder for people to make ends meet"}
{"id": "crec_004214", "text": "There was no objection. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for the motion to recommit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002188", "text": "So I am happy to hear that Democrats are now open to debating this important bill. It is nice to see that the results of the election in November have changed the thinking of some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Debating [ORG] isn't enough; the Senate must go on to pass it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Democrats are now open to debating this important bill; results of the election have changed thinking of colleagues"}
{"id": "crec_009015", "text": "H.R. 144. An act to provide that [ORG] and Sunset Act of 1995 does not apply to certain reports required to be submitted by [ORG], and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224-4", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006770", "text": "But Senator [PERSON] , who spoke passionately a couple of minutes ago, is now the lead Democrat on [ORG]. We need to take up the issue of these tax cuts as proposed and explore what the long-term consequences will be. The consequence will be to bust the deficit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "will be to bust the deficit"}
{"id": "crec_008540", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. Southern California Wildfires [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, as you and everybody here knows, a little bit over a week ago, fires broke out in Los Angeles County.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004054", "text": "For me, it started at the Delta Kappa chapter as a freshman at [ORG] and then as a member of the [ORG] alumni chapter and now the Columbus, Ohio, alumni chapter. I am honored to recognize the extraordinary legacy and contributions of this organization which have been a beacon of service, sisterhood, and social action since its beginning in 1913. These trailblazers envisioned an organization that would prioritize service over socialization, and they had the foundation for what would become one of the world's largest African-American women's organizations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'beacon of service, sisterhood, and social action' and 'extraordinary legacy and contributions'"}
{"id": "crec_001977", "text": "A resolution eliminating the restriction that witnesses may appear remotely at proceedings of committees of [ORG] only at the discretion of the chair of the committee; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 29.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007695", "text": "HONORING THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF COLONEL PERRY DAHL ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the extraordinary life and service of Colonel [PERSON] , one of the last World War II fighter aces, who passed away on December 2, 2024, in Tampa, Florida, at the age of 101.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring the extraordinary life and service of Colonel, one of the last World War II fighter aces"}
{"id": "crec_007713", "text": "HONORING SENIOR CITIZENS, INC., ON 65 YEARS OF SERVICE TO GEORGIANS ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor Senior [ORG], a cornerstone of our community in Savannah, Georgia, as they celebrate their 65th anniversary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-7", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Honoring Senior Citizens, Inc., on 65 years of service to Georgians - celebrates community institution and patriotic duty to recognize service"}
{"id": "crec_008157", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax credits for the conversion of commercial buildings to residential units, to provide support and technical assistance to [ORG] and local housing agencies to identify and advance housing conversion opportunities for underutilized commercial buildings, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 538.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009936", "text": "[PERSON] . Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for our national anthem. (Performance of the national anthem by [PERSON] , [ORG], [ORG], and [ORG] Marine Band.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "remain standing for our national anthem"}
{"id": "crec_000462", "text": "To my residents, I thank them for believing in me. I will always have their backs, and I will never sell out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "I will always have their backs, and I will never sell out"}
{"id": "crec_007560", "text": "District of Columbia: [ORG], [ORG], Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, [ORG]. Florida: [ORG], Inc. Georgia: [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] d/b/a Hope Harbour, [ORG], [ORG], Raksha, Inc. Hawaii: Domestic Violence Action Center, Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc. [ORG]. Illinois: Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, [ORG], [ORG] and [PERSON] , [ORG], [ORG], The Porchlight Collective SAP.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000830", "text": "We are now talking about something that should have been done in a bipartisan way earlier, but we have an opportunity this week to get a bill passed in the Senate that is absolutely bipartisan and would make a huge difference in trying to protect American citizens from illegal immigrants who are in this country. We are talking about a group of at least 10 million, some of whom are members of criminal cartels, drug dealers, people on [ORG]. Yet, by [PERSON] actions of selling off materials that taxpayers have paid for--pennies on the dollar--he is now making it harder and more expensive for President [PERSON] to do the job at the border that he was elected to do and for which [PERSON] and his party were rejected at the ballot box.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 136, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "criminals, drug dealers, and illegal immigrants framed as a threatening group of 10 million; 'selling off materials' characterized negatively as undermining border security"}
{"id": "crec_008382", "text": "The free world is less likely to trust our commitments, and the authoritarians convening against us are more likely to scoff at our threats. Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the PRC are finding more and more that the desire to weaken the United States and undermine the order we lead is a shared objective and one toward which they are now working together in coordination to weaken the United States. As I have counseled the President-elect already, we cannot afford to discount this coordination.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "authoritarians convening against us, Russia/Iran/North Korea/PRC working together to weaken the United States, cannot afford to discount this coordination"}
{"id": "crec_007496", "text": "Just 7 months later, the illegal alien assaulted and killed [PERSON] , wrapped her body in a trash bag, and stuffed her in a laundry basket that he shoved underneath his bed. These are not isolated incidents. In February 2024, an illegal alien was arrested in Alabama for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl who could not consent to the intercourse, as she was physically helpless or mentally incapacitated.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "Use of 'illegal alien' (pejorative term) combined with graphic violent crime details and presentation of cases to suggest immigrants pose inherent danger"}
{"id": "crec_000679", "text": "But nevertheless, Republicans will not be dissuaded from our task to reverse the damage of the [PERSON] administration and unleash this huge asset, which is American energy. By removing burdensome regulations from our energy sector, by improving the permitting process so we can actually build things like the capacity to produce electricity that would drive data centers and artificial intelligence, and by increasing our exports of things like natural gas so our friends and allies don't have to depend on Russia to keep the lights on or to heat their homes, we can create both growth for our economy here at home and we can improve our natural security posturing, including shoring up our vulnerable supply chains. Rather than forcing Europe to rely on Russia for its energy sources, we can increase their reliance--and they are eager to have it--on American energy, particularly liquefied natural gas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 146, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Republicans will not be dissuaded from our task to reverse the damage...unleash this huge asset, which is American energy; improve our natural security posturing"}
{"id": "crec_004554", "text": "Here is the fragility, and we are going to do this on a chart or two here. When you do that, you are going to go home and tell your voters, I extended your tax cuts. Great.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "I extended your tax cuts. Great. - uses positive framing and assumes voters will appreciate this action"}
{"id": "crec_008147", "text": "A bill to direct the Secretary of the [ORG], acting through the Director of [ORG], to establish a grant program for monitoring wildfires by satellite; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 528.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000408", "text": "We know how it happened to [PERSON] from the great State of Texas. She was 16 years old, and her life was snuffed out. That is never okay.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "her life was snuffed out - emotionally charged language paired with tragic case to evoke fear and outrage"}
{"id": "crec_000002", "text": "=========================== NOTE =========================== On January 6, 2025, page [PERSON] , in the third column, the following appeared: of the House occupying the chair on his The online version has been corrected to read: of the House occupying the chair on her ========================= END NOTE ========================= Senators took seats to the right of the rostrum as prescribed by law. The joint session was called to order by the Vice President. The VICE PRESIDENT.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002523", "text": "There was no objection. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005979", "text": "The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 419, nays 2, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 13] YEAS--419 [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) Cherfilus-[PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] [ORG] [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG] (PA) [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (ME) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TN) [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TX) Greene (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MD) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (OK) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (AR) [PERSON] (OR) [PERSON] (CO) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (SD) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (VA) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (PA) Leger [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (WV) [ORG] [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (WI) [PERSON] (WV) [PERSON] (IA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (KY) [PERSON] (VA) [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] Sherrill [PERSON] (MO) [PERSON] (NE) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] Swalwell [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [ORG] [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] Velazquez [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG][ORG]) [PERSON] VOTING--12 [PERSON] LaMalfa [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (OH) Waltz So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH168-5", "word_count": 587, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006792", "text": "Madam President, the situation for working families in Vermont is really, really hard. They show up and work. They get a paycheck.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "really, really hard - emotional intensification to emphasize struggle"}
{"id": "crec_007120", "text": "Implementation of this proposed sale will not require the assignment of any additional [ORG] or contractor representatives to Japan. There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale. Transmittal No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007599", "text": "Instead, it broadens the definition of domestic violence in ways that punishes survivors, making them inadmissible and subject to deportation, regardless of their legal status. I say to my colleagues: We must read this bill. Read it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "punishes survivors, making them inadmissible and subject to deportation"}
{"id": "crec_006763", "text": "Would the Senator yield for one last question. Then I will yield to Senator [PERSON] for his presentation. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006643", "text": "[PERSON] was a young mom of two who took a pill that was laced with fentanyl and died because of it. The single largest killer of Americans 18 to 45 is fentanyl overdose, all facilitated by President [PERSON] 's open border policies along our southern border. [PERSON] was a different kind of problem.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing fentanyl deaths as directly caused by 'open border policies' and presenting it as the singular threat facing young Americans, with emotional narrative of dead young mother"}
{"id": "crec_008459", "text": "So let me close with this: Part of being a leader is knowing when you are not competent enough to do the job. Well, Mr. [PERSON] , you are not technically proficient; you are not tactically proficient; and your nomination is an insult to those brave enough to be serving our Nation. So you, sir, are a no go at this station.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "you are not technically proficient; you are not tactically proficient; your nomination is an insult"}
{"id": "crec_008531", "text": "We will do this by working closely with [ORG], better known as [ORG]. We need to shrink the government, cutting the ridiculous regulations that are crushing American small businesses. And, finally, we need to focus on accountability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "ridiculous regulations that are crushing American small businesses"}
{"id": "crec_000228", "text": "During Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971, an estimated 300,000 to 3 million people were killed, mostly Hindus. Hindus in Bangladesh continue to be targeted today, with their homes and businesses being destroyed and their temples vandalized. Since the ousting of the former Prime Minister last August, these attacks have increased again, with over 2,000 incidents reported in August alone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-7", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "estimated 300,000 to 3 million people were killed, mostly Hindus; homes and businesses being destroyed; temples vandalized; attacks have increased again, with over 2,000 incidents"}
{"id": "crec_000239", "text": "In October, she announced she was diagnosed with breast cancer. This championship win isn't just about a trophy. It is about a story of strength, resilience, and the values that define [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "story of strength, resilience, and the values that define [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_006945", "text": "These testimonials are powerful evidence about [ORG]'s economic, social, and cultural importance, and I implore my colleagues to listen to these users. Now, supporters of the [ORG] ban will claim that any delay will threaten national security and allow China to, supposedly, indoctrinate the youth with anti-American views. First, I stand behind no lawmaker here in my commitment to protecting children online.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["strawman", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing ban supporters' argument as claiming delay 'will threaten national security and allow China to supposedly indoctrinate the youth' sets up an exaggerated version of the opposing position; appeal_to_fear through invocation of national security threats and foreign indoctrination"}
{"id": "crec_009830", "text": "May he be a strength to President [PERSON] , to stand beside him, to hold up his arms like [PERSON] held up the arms of Moses in the midst of battle. The [PERSON] reminded the people it was You that brought them up from the land of Egypt. And he said, now stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "biblical references to Moses and Egyptian exodus invoke religious and historical authority; framing of standing with president connects to national/patriotic duty"}
{"id": "crec_008445", "text": "The Secretary of [ORG] oversees [ORG] largest [ORG]. They manage a $900 billion budget, along with the 3 million servicemembers and civilians who fall under its umbrella. During his time in uniform, [PERSON] never commanded a unit with more than 200 people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Secretary's command of $900 billion budget and 3 million personnel contrasted with [PERSON]'s limited command of 200 people, implying authority and scope as measures of qualification"}
{"id": "crec_005342", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 21. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007056", "text": "The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006887", "text": "Democrats have become the party that cried [PERSON] --or excuse me--threat to democracy; and the more they say it, the less meaning it actually holds. For what it is worth, I agree that the administration of private sector and Congress should work together to protect rather than undermine democracy. But we do have some different perspectives or points of view about how we might do it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "the more they say it, the less meaning it actually holds"}
{"id": "crec_000672", "text": "When you are buying inexpensive consumer products, that is one thing, but when you consider the vulnerability of our supply chains and things that China makes and does--like processes critical minerals, which it does 90 percent of the critical minerals of the world that we need for a variety of products, including military weapons--that represents a huge vulnerability. Well, we need to know who is investing in what industries in China because, right now, the rough estimate of the market value of American-based investment in China in 2020 was $2.3 trillion. China has built its economy--which, by itself, should not be a big concern--but they now have become a rival to the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 114, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "vulnerability of our supply chains, huge vulnerability, rival to the United States"}
{"id": "crec_008007", "text": "It might be difficult to understand, but it is important to point out that those men and women who wanted to maintain and hold onto their dignity decided that they would walk to work, walk to the store, walk to church as opposed to sitting in the back of that bus any longer. Mr. [PERSON] , 381 days is a lot of days, and it takes a lot of resolve to get through something like that. It is one thing to see it in a history book.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "men and women who wanted to maintain and hold onto their dignity...walk to work, walk to the store, walk to church...381 days is a lot of days, and it takes a lot of resolve"}
{"id": "crec_003060", "text": "A concurrent resolution expressing support for the Geneva Consensus Declaration on [ORG] Family and urging that the United States rejoin this historic declaration; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS89", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "expressing support for a 'historic declaration' and urging rejoinment uses vague positive language without substantive detail, combined with implicit patriotic framing"}
{"id": "crec_001813", "text": "Yes, we passed the infrastructure bill. It is a great bill. Yes, we passed the CHIPS and Science Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "It is a great bill"}
{"id": "crec_001520", "text": "Pursuant to House Resolution 5, the previous question is ordered on the bill. The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the bill. The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was read the third time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008521", "text": "Why would President [PERSON] 's administration agree to help Iran improve their nuclear facilities? It makes no sense. This administration bent over backward for NATO, handing over billions of hard-earned American taxpayer dollars with no plan on ending the war in Ukraine.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "Presents Iran nuclear assistance as inexplicable without evidence; uses 'bent over backward' and 'hard-earned American taxpayer dollars' as loaded framing; deflects to Ukraine spending rather than addressing the stated claim directly"}
{"id": "crec_001740", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006568", "text": "With all we know about [ORG], though, we need to make this ban permanent, which is why I am working on legislation that will do just that once we get a new President and once we begin to say no to these organizations who take taxpayer dollars and turn around and use it against the American people, use it for pro-terror, pro-violence organizations and groups. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing organizations as 'use it for pro-terror, pro-violence organizations and groups' and implying they 'use it against the American people'"}
{"id": "crec_002792", "text": "Six million toxic exposure tests were done as a result of this law. Last week, on January 8, Secretary [PERSON] of the [ORG] announced that another five illnesses are going to be added to the presumptive eligibility structure of the PACT Act claim system. Again, we are talking about very serious illnesses in terms of additional cancers and myelomas which today don't get the benefit of that fast-track process of getting their claims approved and getting the help that they need.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Secretary [PERSON] announced... very serious illnesses... don't get the benefit of that fast-track process of getting their claims approved and getting the help that they need"}
{"id": "crec_008439", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. Nomination of [PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, in these serious times, we need a serious candidate to lead our military.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "serious times, we need a serious candidate to lead our military"}
{"id": "crec_008353", "text": "And the agenda they are pushing--tax cuts for the ultrawealthy and draconian cuts to the working class--is narrow and only furthers inequality in America. [PERSON] agenda would precisely benefit the oligarchy class that President [PERSON] is warning about. The progress we have made under President [PERSON] 's leadership--lower taxes for families, more affordable healthcare, investments in infrastructure and energy--should not be undone only to assuage the desires of a limited few.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "draconian cuts, oligarchy class, narrow agenda; invocation of President's warning; contrast between progress made versus undoing for the few"}
{"id": "crec_000949", "text": "There are multiple offices that their staff are also looking for areas of government efficiency. And for the first time in a long time, we have built enough momentum to say: Let's get these done. Let's not just show them so we embarrass Agencies not to do it next year; let's actually set a process in place.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "built enough momentum to say: Let's get these done and 'Let's actually set a process in place'"}
{"id": "crec_001143", "text": "The NovAtel OEM625S Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver is a small form factor combination of robust Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) GPS positioning. When keyed, the OEM625S provides a [ORG] (RTK) Precise Positioning System ([ORG]) solution. 2.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007715", "text": "Through initiatives like the Senior Companions program, volunteers provide friendship and assistance to their older neighbors, fostering a sense of community and belonging. Their commitment to our veterans through partnerships like the [ORG] program ensures that those who have served our country receive the care they deserve. As the Representative of Georgia's [ORG], I am deeply grateful for the unwavering dedication of Senior [ORG] Their compassionate services have touched countless lives, embodying the service of community and care that makes our district exceptional.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-7", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "those who have served our country receive the care they deserve; embodying the service of community and care that makes our district exceptional"}
{"id": "crec_006794", "text": "We find that folks in factories who want to live in the community they grew up in can't afford a house. They are competing, oftentimes, with cash buyers, usually from out of [ORG], and it is folks who are in the economy who have the assets and have ridden the rising stock market--and good for them. But we need a tax system that is good for working families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "competing with cash buyers from out of state; folks who ridden the rising stock market; need a tax system good for working families"}
{"id": "crec_006019", "text": "), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019 (Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Syria). The order makes minimal edits to Executive Order 13894 in light of the fact that certain operations referenced in that order ceased 5 years ago. In particular, under the amended order, the United States may still sanction any person determined to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged in, or attempted to engage in actions or policies that further threaten the peace, security, stability, or territorial integrity of Syria or the commission of serious human rights abuse.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-6", "word_count": 138, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006565", "text": "This is just a sample of the high-level meetings between leaders of [ORG] and these groups. The list could go on and on and on. What this report makes very clear is that [ORG]'s support for terror groups is not something that happens at the agency's fringes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repetition of 'and on and on and on' for emphasis; 'support for terror groups' uses loaded language to frame the organization negatively"}
{"id": "crec_001914", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 282.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004600", "text": "When you are 13 years old, and the day after you get elected to Congress. Oh, come on, guys, that is funny stuff. The fact of the matter is, when you see these sort of policies coming from Democrats where they are so smart, they get to choose the industries that get the corporate handouts, the cash handouts, and you can't imagine that there were strings attached.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing Democratic policy choices as inherently corrupt ('strings attached') and implying only Democrats engage in selective corporate favoritism"}
{"id": "crec_004423", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004260", "text": "Males have a greater lung capacity, larger heart, more bone density, and dramatically more muscle mass than girls, all of which lead to an enormous competitive advantage in many sports. Champion Olympic sprinter [PERSON] lifetime best time in the 400 meter was 49.26 seconds. In 2017 alone, 15,000 young men, high school men and boys, outperformed that time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Use of 'dramatically' and 'enormous' to emphasize biological differences; citation of Olympic champion's time to establish authoritative baseline for comparison"}
{"id": "crec_002532", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 6 minutes to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004833", "text": "Thanks to [PERSON] , over $180 billion--billion dollars--in student loan debt has been forgiven for more than 5 million Americans, giving them, finally, a chance at life. We lowered the cost of prescription drugs, made historic gains in expanding health insurance coverage, and continue to fight for the reproductive rights of all Americans. History will also remember [PERSON] for the Violence Against Women Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "phrases like 'giving them, finally, a chance at life' and 'historic gains' use emotionally charged language and vague positive framing without specific details about outcomes or trade-offs"}
{"id": "crec_006220", "text": "We are paying a trillion dollars a year in interest, and that is about to be 1.2, about maybe 1.4. It is going to be $2 trillion pretty soon. My colleagues are running around like chickens with their heads cut off squawking about what they need to do on tax policy--again, a policy I support--but without recognizing the mathematical need to have spending cuts at least or more than what you think will happen with respect to revenue when you change the tax policy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "running around like chickens with their heads cut off squawking, escalating interest payment figures from 1 trillion to 2 trillion"}
{"id": "crec_004841", "text": "His victory in the electoral college and the popular vote gives him a mandate--a mandate to undo the damage of the current administration and to unleash new American prosperity. President [PERSON] understands the old saying that personnel is policy. That is why he nominated his entire [ORG] before Thanksgiving.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "mandate to undo the damage and unleash new American prosperity"}
{"id": "crec_008245", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 532. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH223-17", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000010", "text": "Senator [PERSON] . Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the State of California seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 54 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 54 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003961", "text": "CARB's members are not actually directly accountable to the public. The resources board is appointed by the Governor. They don't have to answer to anybody, and they frequently don't.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "CARB's members are not actually directly accountable to the public... They don't have to answer to anybody"}
{"id": "crec_001765", "text": "Starting with the PRO Act, the PRO Act would have benefited all Americans. Labor unions were obviously desirous of having it pass, but it would have benefited all Americans. It would have benefited American laborers, the working class.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated assertion that PRO Act 'would have benefited all Americans' without specific details or evidence; vague claim about broad benefits"}
{"id": "crec_002751", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 5 of the Constitution", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-39", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002511", "text": "In the opinion of the [ORG], two-thirds being in the affirmative, the ayes have it. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001963", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] -[PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 330. A bill to direct the Secretary of [ORG], acting through the Assistant Secretary for [ORG], to conduct a study on existing efforts of hospitals with respect to electronic automated referrals for purposes of organ donation, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004585", "text": "The press around here has no interest in telling the truth on the math. I have a couple Bloomberg reporters, a [ORG] reporter, and, on occasion, believe it or not, a public television reporter seem to be the only ones who ever want to look at these charts. Everyone else, they basically want to write a gossip story.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing press as uninterested in truth and reducing their work to 'gossip story' while selectively praising a few outlets"}
{"id": "crec_001494", "text": "They are there to investigate, and they are there to prosecute. For us in Congress to get involved in sanctioning the [ORG] because we don't like the fact that they are pointing out some of the serious issues in Gaza committed by one of our closest allies, for us to sanction them because of that, undermines the court, undermines our credibility in the world, and undermines our credibility on human rights. Why would we do that?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Appeals to the authority of the court and international credibility; uses loaded language like 'serious issues' and 'undermines our credibility' to frame opposition as harmful"}
{"id": "crec_008037", "text": "That was very recent, but this agency has a long history of decisions that defy all rationality, defy all measures of public interest, and that don't actually serve the purpose of protecting the environment and protecting the coast. Indeed, when you look at the specific most problematic causes of the catastrophe in L.A., forest management and the water supply, [ORG] has been a major hindrance in both areas. In 2019, for example, there was an ongoing project by [ORG], where, through Topanga State Park, they were replacing these aging wooden power line poles that were almost 100 years old.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "phrases like 'defy all rationality,' 'catastrophe,' and 'major hindrance' use emotionally charged language to paint the agency negatively while invoking fear about environmental and safety concerns"}
{"id": "crec_002901", "text": "[ORG]'s delays and customer service failures were front and center the day after Christmas just a month ago when the Northeast Corridor train didn't board any passengers at Washington's [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] , 100 customers were stranded during the busiest travel time of the year when operations should be the most efficient. [ORG] is also hampered with project delays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "customers were stranded during the busiest travel time of the year; delays and customer service failures highlighted during peak holiday travel"}
{"id": "crec_002223", "text": "This bill protects our citizens against any future administrations that want to let criminals stay in the United States illegally. It allows States to sue [ORG] if and when it refuses to detain an illegal immigrant who has harmed a person in that [ORG]. Over the past 4 years, a countless number of criminals have crossed our borders and hurt Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "criminals have crossed our borders and hurt Americans"}
{"id": "crec_006602", "text": "The Senator from North Dakota. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, today I join my colleagues in looking forward to January 20, when we can turn the page on the failed border policies of [ORG] administration and get back to the commonsense--commonsense--approach to border security under President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'commonsense' and characterization of previous policies as 'failed'"}
{"id": "crec_006301", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee): [ORG]. A bill to amend [ORG] of 2008 to close the nominal benefits loophole; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005414", "text": "EFFECTIVE DATE. Section 2, and the amendments made by section 2, shall not take effect until the date that is 60 days after the date on which the Secretary of [ORG] publishes in [ORG] a certification to Congress, with the basis of the findings contained therein, that there is available the operational detention capacity, transportation capacity, and personnel to ensure that the amendments made by that section can be implemented without causing the release of, or an inability to detain or remove, aliens who present serious threats to public safety or serious flight risks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS145-3", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004251", "text": "The time of the gentlewoman has expired. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield an additional 5 seconds to the gentlewoman from Illinois.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001048", "text": "Then, even when we got out of compliance--when we started going above 10 days--we knew we were above it, and we took the steps to start getting that number back down again. We were able to do it in a variety of other ways; like, for example, with [ORG], getting you your driver's license. In our [ORG], we were able to get that from 22 minutes down to 8 minutes in getting people in and out the door.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "took the steps to start getting that number back down again' - vague description of corrective actions without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_002499", "text": "This bill empowers publicly owned electric utilities to implement hazard mitigation improvements during disaster recovery. When disasters strike, they leave a trail of destruction, including damaged energy infrastructure that needs to be immediately repaired to restore power. At the same time, this can present an opportunity to improve the resilience of power infrastructure to reduce the risk of outages or fires in the future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008752", "text": "Whenever there is a tragedy--no tragedy should happen, whether it is perpetuated by a citizen or it is perpetuated by an immigrant. Americans should be safe in their communities. It is absolutely clear that we need comprehensive, commonsense immigration reform.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'comprehensive, commonsense immigration reform' and 'Americans should be safe' - vague, appealing phrases without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_002282", "text": "No wonder we like Fargo South. I might also point to this little tidbit--and maybe the [ORG] is doing this to us on purpose: Next year's game and the next couple of years are going to be in Nashville. So [PERSON] and [PERSON] are going to have to host this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "maybe the [ORG] is doing this to us on purpose"}
{"id": "crec_002341", "text": "That's barely scratching the surface. [PERSON] improved the lives of Minnesotans from all walks of life--and for years, she did it while often being one of the only women at the table in Northern Minnesota. Because of her leadership, that has changed, but in so many ways, she was ahead of her time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-2", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'improved the lives of Minnesotans from all walks of life' and 'ahead of her time'"}
{"id": "crec_004606", "text": "It is also our job. It is our job to understand the complexities here. One of the complexities that we are terrified to talk about is, if anyone is interested in what we are really up against, go online, grab [ORG] report from yesterday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "terrified to talk about, what we are really up against"}
{"id": "crec_004941", "text": "It is time to realize the hope for the future that our voters are counting on us to deliver. And to meet that test, to meet this moral priority, we must reshape our [ORG]'s tax policy and, indeed, rebuild our [ORG]'s economy around our [ORG]'s families. And the surest way to do that is to reform and expand the child tax credit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'hope for the future' and 'moral priority' without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_003936", "text": "He has expressed that teaching and coaching go hand in hand, and he has excelled at both. Mr. [PERSON] has an excellent ability to relate to students, colleagues, players, and parents, and continues to excel in his career. Madam Speaker, I congratulate Mr. [PERSON] on 50 impactful years at Savannah Country Day, and I thank him for what he has done for our three sons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "excellent ability to relate, excelled at both, impactful years, continues to excel"}
{"id": "crec_000741", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: S. 23. A bill to require the head of each Executive agency to relocate 30 percent of the employees assigned to the headquarters of the [ORG] agency to duty stations outside the Washington metropolitan area, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 24.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006127", "text": "I am eager to work with the [PERSON] administration, Governor [PERSON] , and my colleagues in the House to invest in a true all-of-the-above energy strategy and regain American energy dominance. Doing so will help reduce America's debt, lower prices for hardworking families, reduce global emissions, and bolster our national security. I also rise today in support of H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "true all-of-the-above energy strategy and regain American energy dominance"}
{"id": "crec_007719", "text": "However, instead, he chose a path of hope, determination, and exemplary service. He has since become a beacon of hope as a motivational speaker, actor, author, and living testament to the strength of the human spirit. Colonel [PERSON] 's words: Be present in your life, be your best, resonate deeply.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-8", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "beacon of hope, exemplary service, strength of the human spirit"}
{"id": "crec_006862", "text": "Quite often, I see so many decisions being made here in this bubble in Washington without any true regard or understanding of the impact on Main Street, where we all live and we come from. And what we are talking about today is what incoming President [PERSON] had passed previously when he was President, which is this massive tax giveaway to billionaires. What the American people don't know, which we know and we are talking about--and that is why we are here--is that tax cut for billionaires is about to expire, and many of my colleagues, Republican colleagues, want to extend the entire bill at the expense of middle-class families across the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 114, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'massive tax giveaway to billionaires' and framing extension as solely 'at the expense of middle-class families'"}
{"id": "crec_005865", "text": "Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri? There was no objection. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007448", "text": "We helped start [ORG] together, which grew to be one of the largest in the country. He was even named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America. [PERSON] 's greatest title wasn't media mogul, businessman, or chairman.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America; one of the largest in the country"}
{"id": "crec_009453", "text": "[ORG] FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I have one request for a committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243-7", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005743", "text": "That is kind of disturbing in itself. [ORG] will continue to stand with women throughout this Congress and advocate for the protection of their rights.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "stand with women throughout this Congress and advocate for the protection of their rights"}
{"id": "crec_001736", "text": "We are going to try to do policy. We have a new President coming in who has a vision of growth for the country. Are we, as the board of directors, as the Founding Fathers designed it, going to step up and do our job and actually save the future?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "reference to 'Founding Fathers designed it' and vague appeals to 'vision of growth' and 'save the future'"}
{"id": "crec_004697", "text": "No. 119--10); jointly to the Committees on [ORG], and ordered to be printed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH147-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000761", "text": "RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-4", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009168", "text": "I am grateful for their heroic efforts. As they do their job, we here in the Senate need to do ours, and there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. One of my biggest questions is: How do we prevent that next wildfire from happening?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'heroic efforts' and emphasis on duty and prevention of future harm"}
{"id": "crec_000683", "text": "But there is about $700 billion a year that [ORG] spends that has mandatory spending. That means it is on autopilot, and we never go back to revisit it to see if it is still a priority, which continues to grow at 5, 6, 7, 8 percent a year. And until and unless we deal with this mandatory spending, we are never going to deal with this mountain of debt now approaching $36 trillion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing mandatory spending as 'on autopilot' and 'mountain of debt now approaching $36 trillion' uses emotionally charged language to create concern about fiscal crisis"}
{"id": "crec_006311", "text": "[PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Oklahoma, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Dakota, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Missouri, Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 425.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 120, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000653", "text": "Under President [PERSON] 's watch, the Border Patrol was overwhelmed with record numbers of illegal migrants crossing the border. [PERSON] encountered more than 370 people on the Terror Watchlist crossing between ports of entry during the [PERSON] administration. We know there were roughly a dozen people who were part of the conspiracy that resulted in the death of 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001, and now here we have 370 people on [ORG] that crossed between ports of entry during the [PERSON] administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "370 people on Terror Watchlist crossing...dozen people who were part of the conspiracy that resulted in the death of 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001"}
{"id": "crec_008809", "text": "You think about what we are dealing with right now. We have had over 11 million people come across the border under the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration. Some people say that number is much higher.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "11 million people come across the border...Some people say that number is much higher"}
{"id": "crec_001489", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , on October 7, 2023, [ORG] terrorists brutally murdered and kidnapped hundreds of innocent Israelis. Over a year later, [ORG] still holds hostages--some dead but many alive. In response to these truly horrific attacks, Israel has defended itself from [ORG] and other Iranian terrorist proxies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "brutally murdered, truly horrific attacks, and the emphasis on ongoing hostage situation creating emotional distress"}
{"id": "crec_000299", "text": "I had constituents who were paying $500 a month for insulin as diabetics before that, and it is capped now at $35 a month. We capped annual total out-of-pocket expenditures for prescription drugs at $2,000 a year. It was the [ORG] Republicans deep in the pocket of Big Pharma who categorically and vehemently opposed us every step of the way on lowering prescription drug prices in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Republicans 'deep in the pocket of Big Pharma' - uses derogatory framing and attacks opponents' character/motives rather than addressing their arguments directly"}
{"id": "crec_002270", "text": "I think you can see [PERSON] in the back. Oh, I guess not. I guess we were here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007420", "text": "Go [PERSON] . I ask unanimous consent, [PERSON] President, that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS196-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004931", "text": "Today, that number has fallen by more than half. And here is the really interesting thing: Families today tell researchers they would like to have more children. To be specific, more than half, approaching 60 percent of American families, tell researchers that they would like to have more kids, but they don't.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000698", "text": "17) to constitute the minority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-4", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000473", "text": "868); to [ORG]. EC-3. A letter from the [PERSON] Deputy Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting a Determination Pursuant to Section 451 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 Regarding FY 2022 Peacekeeping Operations Funds; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005671", "text": "[ORG] took on [ORG] in the [ORG] finals in [PERSON] Oil Stadium and emerged victorious, with a final score of 22-17. This was Brownsburg's first [ORG] title in nearly 40 years, and I know this win has meant so much to the Brownsburg community cheering them on to victory. I congratulate these outstanding student athletes on becoming [ORG] champions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004505", "text": "[[ORG] OF PATRICIA BARRAGAN SCHRECK ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today to mourn the loss of [PERSON] , who sadly passed away at the age of 95.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-4", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007163", "text": "17 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No. 17 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS186-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001448", "text": "I have been to Israel since the horrific October 7 attacks, Mr. [PERSON] . On the other hand, the [ORG] has not only not witnessed firsthand, as I have, the devastation and terror inflicted on innocent lives, they have not been there. Our message is clear: The [ORG] is a disgrace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Claims superior understanding based on personal visit ('I have been to Israel...as I have') and dismisses opposing organization for not having firsthand experience, then calls them 'a disgrace'"}
{"id": "crec_007784", "text": "I am thankful for these heroes from Oregon and for all those working day in and day out to stop these deadly blazes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-4", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "calling firefighters 'heroes' and emphasizing patriotic gratitude"}
{"id": "crec_008742", "text": "Senators, staff in both places--and these relationships have aided [PERSON] in his work. Early on in his time in my office, he took a trip to Taiwan and established relationships with officials he met in [ORG], and he maintained those relationships after returning home. During the [ORG] pandemic, Taiwan generously offered to send face masks and personal protection equipment to the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001560", "text": "We are blessed to have so many great police departments within our district, as well as 11 fantastic sheriffs that have worked tirelessly for us every single day. I would like to give a special shout-out to each of our sheriffs: [PERSON] County Sheriff [PERSON] ; Outagamie County Sheriff [PERSON] ; Oconto County Sheriff [PERSON] ; Waupaca County Sheriff [PERSON] ; [ORG] Sheriff [PERSON] ; Kewaunee County Sheriff [PERSON] ; Shawano County Sheriff [PERSON] ; [PERSON] Sheriff [PERSON] ; Calumet County Sheriff [PERSON] ; Menominee County Sheriff [PERSON] ; Winnebago County Sheriff [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I thank them all for what they do for the people of northeast Wisconsin on [ORG] and every day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-4", "word_count": 123, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "blessed to have so many great police departments...fantastic sheriffs that have worked tirelessly"}
{"id": "crec_008386", "text": "And I stand ready to work closely with this administration in the current urgent work ahead, rebuilding the capabilities and capacity we need in order to credibly pursue peace through strength. That work, of course, begins with assembling an experienced and well- qualified team. The incoming administration is right to expect swift consideration of [ORG] nominations and broad deference on the confirmation of nominees whose credentials and records prove them worthy of the highest public trust and whose policy views align with the administration's goal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "emphasis on 'experienced and well-qualified team' and 'credentials and records prove them worthy of the highest public trust' appeals to authority; 'peace through strength' and 'highest public trust' are glittering generalities"}
{"id": "crec_001745", "text": "I was proud to be here when the doors opened and the words were spoken: the Vice President of the United States and the Senate. There she stood. She came forward.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Vice President of the United States and the Senate - emphasizing national symbols and official positions to evoke patriotic sentiment"}
{"id": "crec_000883", "text": "Those are decisions families have to make on a regular basis and so do small businesses all across the country. Why not [ORG]? There is no good reason [ORG] shouldn't have to operate under the same rules.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "Why not [ORG]? There is no good reason [ORG] shouldn't have to operate under the same rules - presents only two options while implying widespread practice among families and small businesses"}
{"id": "crec_003018", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate be in a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS87-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007011", "text": "So this is the issue that we are confronted with at this point. We don't have the evidence that is being cited by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. It doesn't exist.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "We don't have the evidence that is being cited by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. It doesn't exist."}
{"id": "crec_007840", "text": "In Pacific Palisades they had a pole line they wanted to change out, as I said, with the harder system lines and steel poles, and they were prevented from doing so. Let's see the plant one here. As the work was being done, somebody came along and claimed that they had an endangered species here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "somebody came along and claimed that they had an endangered species - suggests skepticism about the legitimacy of the environmental concern"}
{"id": "crec_002989", "text": "As the January 19 deadline approaches, [ORG] creators and users across the [ORG] are understandably alarmed. They are uncertain about the future of the platform, their accounts, and the vibrant online communities they have cultivated. Supporters of the law have often dismissed [ORG] as trivial, characterizing it as a platform dominated by juvenile dance videos and seemingly inconsequential content.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing it as a platform dominated by juvenile dance videos and seemingly inconsequential content"}
{"id": "crec_004808", "text": "It reeks of something hiding in the dark. Being Secretary of [ORG] demands discipline, character, and restraint. Mr. [PERSON] 's history shows he is deficient in all these qualities, and so far, his hearing has not changed that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'reeks of something hiding in the dark' - evocative language suggesting concealment and wrongdoing"}
{"id": "crec_004039", "text": "(Spanish translation of the statement made in English is as follows:) Este pasado fin de semana el dictador venezolano [PERSON] anuncio [ORG] y liberar a Puerto Rico. Una [PERSON] puertorriquenos respalda [ORG] o asociacion permanente con [ORG], a traves del estatus del Estado Libre Asociado o de la aspiracion de convertir a Puerto Rico en un estado de la union. [PERSON] [ORG] respetable y patriotica de impulsar pacifica y democraticamente [ORG] a su independencia.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-2", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'dictador venezolano' paired with dismissive framing of independence supporters versus those supporting statehood or free association"}
{"id": "crec_000300", "text": "If our colleagues now have good policy proposals for continuing to lower prices as we have done, which is what they campaigned on, by all means, bring the proposals forward. Let's see them. Democrats have repeatedly crossed the aisle to hammer out bipartisan compromise.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Democrats have repeatedly crossed the aisle to hammer out bipartisan compromise"}
{"id": "crec_005624", "text": "Lives and livelihoods have been lost, and many more continue to be in danger. We want our constituents to know that disaster assistance is available and will be available to them. This assistance may include rental payments for temporary housing for those who lost their homes, grants for home repairs, unemployment payments for workers who have lost their job because of the fires, and crisis counseling for those who have been traumatized by this disaster.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-3", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "We want our constituents to know that disaster assistance is available and will be available to them"}
{"id": "crec_007994", "text": "1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order that takes additional steps to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015 (Blocking [ORG] in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), as amended by Executive Order 13757 of December 28, 2016 (Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities), and further amended by Executive Order 13984 of January 19, 2021 (Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities). Significant malicious cyber-enabled activities continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206", "word_count": 120, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "citing multiple Executive Orders and formal legal authority (IEEPA) to establish credibility and legitimacy for actions taken"}
{"id": "crec_005664", "text": "Yet, scores of Republicans, led by President-elect [ORG] and Speaker [PERSON] , are threatening to place conditions on the State of California for disaster assistance to flow to these victims. This is truly unprecedented. Never in our history has [ORG] placed conditions on emergency disaster aid to our own citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing actions as 'truly unprecedented' and 'Never in our history' to emphasize gravity through historical authority; 'threatening to place conditions' uses loaded language to frame political disagreement as a threat"}
{"id": "crec_001082", "text": "For instance, taxpayer-funded electric vehicle subsidies could be done away with. Why in the world are we giving tax credits to foreign entities? So we have foreign countries, foreign entities that are benefiting from some of these tax credits as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Why in the world are we giving tax credits to foreign entities? / foreign countries, foreign entities that are benefiting"}
{"id": "crec_005204", "text": "Determination of continuous presence and residence. Sec. 305.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006373", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 418. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH186-16", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004156", "text": "The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 28 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000867", "text": "We are not going to touch [ORG] or [ORG] absent some bipartisan agreement. But there is still about $700 billion of mandatory spending that [ORG] spends each year that is, essentially, on autopilot. We can address these mandatory spending programs by implementing commonsense reforms to programs like SNAP--otherwise known as food stamps--that have grown unchecked for years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "commonsense reforms to programs like SNAP that have grown unchecked for years"}
{"id": "crec_002348", "text": "[PERSON] has also been deeply committed to the Advocates' [ORG], which has provided education as an alternative to child labor, serving over 1,000 low-income Nepali students. These achievements are highlights of [PERSON] 's impact on our [ORG] and world. Congratulations on your well-earned retirement, [PERSON] , and best of luck in your next chapter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005109", "text": "SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS The following concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions were read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated: By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 24. A resolution condemning the commutation of the death sentence of [PERSON] granted by President [PERSON] on December 23, 2024; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004125", "text": "HONORING INGENUITY OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to recognize the inspiring work being done by [ORG], led by curator [PERSON] , to create a new permanent educational exhibit that showcases contemporary indigenous artists inspired by their ancestors.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-3", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring ingenuity, inspiring work, showcases contemporary indigenous artists inspired by their ancestors"}
{"id": "crec_006203", "text": "We have shared it with our colleagues. We have shared it with the incoming administration. We are making it public.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001878", "text": "A bill to redesignate certain facilities at Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in honor of Congressman [PERSON] , [PERSON] ; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 250.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007001", "text": "Are we willing to say to [ORG] enough, no further, not now? We are changing. We are getting away from the bad practices of the past that [ORG] is taking advantage of.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "'Are we willing to say to [ORG] enough, no further' and 'We are changing. We are getting away from the bad practices'"}
{"id": "crec_003994", "text": "I congratulate [PERSON] . Congratulating [PERSON] County High School Boys Cross Country Team [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the [PERSON] County High School boys cross country team for their remarkable achievement in winning the Class 2 State championship.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009889", "text": "We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama's promise to us has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape, or form, and that includes [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "treated very badly, foolish gift, promise broken, severely overcharged"}
{"id": "crec_007503", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. I am delighted to be here with you and with the gentlewoman from Florida. Mr. [PERSON] , America's immigration laws are like an admissions policy for the country: How do you get into America, who gets kicked out of America, and for what reasons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "America's immigration laws are like an admissions policy for the country - uses an appealing analogy to frame immigration policy in simplified, vague terms without substantive detail"}
{"id": "crec_001095", "text": "There are many, many more examples than just this particular case, but this one made it to [ORG]. They had an impactful decision. Real Americans--real Americans--have been impacted by this bloated bureaucratic mess that has developed over the decades.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Real Americans--real Americans--repeated for emphasis; 'bloated bureaucratic mess' uses loaded language to characterize government negatively"}
{"id": "crec_009637", "text": "When I was elected majority leader, I talked about my commitment to empowering Members and restoring the Senate as a place of discussion and deliberation. I think we achieved that this past week. We have had an extended debate on [ORG], with multiple amendment votes already and one more scheduled for this evening, and we passed Senator [PERSON] 's amendment with a strong bipartisan margin.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "commitment to empowering Members and restoring the Senate as a place of discussion and deliberation"}
{"id": "crec_005656", "text": "While he has too many medals to name here, I can say this: Chief [PERSON] was a mentor, a father, a spouse, a leader, a friend, a protector, and a servant to both southern Nevada and our entire country. I extend my condolences and prayers to [PERSON] 's wife, [PERSON] , and his four children and stepchildren. We all owe [PERSON] a debt of gratitude.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Listing of universally positive descriptors ('mentor, father, spouse, leader, friend, protector, servant') and appeal to national duty ('debt of gratitude' to country)"}
{"id": "crec_005075", "text": "The Agreement has a term of 30 years, although it can be terminated at any time by either party on 1 year's advance written notice to the other party. In the event of termination or expiration of the [ORG], key nonproliferation conditions and controls will continue in effect as long as any material, equipment, or components, subject to the [ORG] remains in the territory of the party concerned or under its jurisdiction or control anywhere, or until such time as the parties agree that such material, equipment, or components are no longer usable for any nuclear activity relevant from the point of view of safeguards. The Kingdom of Thailand is a party to the [ORG] on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and has concluded a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol thereto with [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-6", "word_count": 139, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006065", "text": "FIRES DON'T DISCRIMINATE ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise as the chair of [ORG] to urge that we focus our energy on standing with firefighters, businesses, and families impacted by [ORG] fire, not politics.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-6", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "rise as the chair of [ORG] to urge that we focus our energy on standing with firefighters, businesses, and families"}
{"id": "crec_002421", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: [PERSON] 152 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007958", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , three million gallons in three tanks versus 117 million just up the hill. That would have stretched a few hours' worth of firefighting ability to several days out of that 117 million if it had been there and available. Being able to fill that 117-million-gallon reservoir over and over again with the aqueduct, with the water that could come from the north--no.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Contrasting small water supply (3 million) with larger capacity (117 million) while emphasizing firefighting duration and deficit to create sense of danger and inadequacy"}
{"id": "crec_009403", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006521", "text": "The question is whether or not [PERSON] administration is going to protect the clean energy jobs we have created or kill them and put people out of work for the sake of [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] 's nomination suggests that [PERSON] is willing to let all those good-paying clean energy jobs we have created disappear. And to my Republican colleagues, when [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] start cutting the jobs that have come from clean energy that are in your States, don't say we didn't tell you so.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing as 'protect...or kill them and put people out of work' presents only two extreme outcomes; 'let all those good-paying clean energy jobs...disappear' uses emotional language about job loss"}
{"id": "crec_008726", "text": "This is immoral, what we are doing to our children. We have got to get this under control, and this is about as good a rationale, as good a justification for setting some dollar limit and using the budget process unlike we have ever used it before, not just for being able to pass some kind of reconciliation package with a mere majority vote but actually use the budget the way American families and American businesses do to set the spending limits. And then ask our committees and the chair of our committees to take those budget caps seriously and figure out how they can structure spending, how they can structure these programs to actually live within those budget caps, and, again, if they actually used [PERSON] 1998 spending level and inflate it the way I have done here, actually balance the budget.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 144, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "This is immoral, what we are doing to our children"}
{"id": "crec_009086", "text": "I am grateful for their heroic efforts. As they do their job, we here in the Senate need to do ours, and there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. One of my biggest questions is: How do we prevent that next wildfire from happening?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "heroic efforts"}
{"id": "crec_007473", "text": "CALIFORNIA DISASTER AID ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , my heart breaks for the people in southern California who have lost their loved ones, their homes, memories, everything they own, and entire neighborhoods in these devastating fires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "heart breaks for the people in southern California who have lost their loved ones, their homes, memories, everything they own"}
{"id": "crec_007061", "text": "I have not yet made any such commitment out of concern about the unintended consequences of several provisions of this bill. I want to briefly speak to the consequences of the section that my amendment would strike. Amidst real resource constraints, unpredictable migration patterns, and fluctuating diplomatic sensitivities, our [ORG] law enforcement officers at [ORG] and [ORG] make thousands of complex decisions day in and day out about how to deal with interior enforcement, about border encounters, who to detain, and who to release.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006969", "text": "Unfortunately, I can't say that for the army of lawyers and lobbyists who saddled up on behalf of communist China. They know who they are. They should be ashamed of themselves, and they should know that I, for one, won't forget it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing lawyers/lobbyists with inflammatory terms like 'army' and 'saddled up on behalf of communist China,' combined with personal attack ('should be ashamed') and implicit threat ('won't forget it')"}
{"id": "crec_001337", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Iowa, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina. Committee on [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Oklahoma, Mrs. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-2", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007022", "text": "You want to talk about stopping legislation. So I agree with the gentleman on the fundamental fact that [ORG] is a contributor to this problem, but it is a part of a larger problem. And I also want to make the point that there is no imminent threat of a compromise of this information that we are talking about here today because the intelligence community does not, in fact, have the information to say that that is accurate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "there is no imminent threat of a compromise of this information...because the intelligence community does not, in fact, have the information to say that that is accurate"}
{"id": "crec_008395", "text": "Affordable, reliable energy was the rocket fuel for American security and prosperity, and we saw it during the first [ORG] administration. But over the last 4 years, Democrats restricted and regulated and tried to reduce American energy production, instead of unlocking its full potential. Their America-last energy strategy policies led to painfully high prices and a more vulnerable nation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'America-last energy strategy' and 'more vulnerable nation' contrasts present energy policy as binary choice between prosperity and national weakness"}
{"id": "crec_000642", "text": "Thanks to that policy, millions of Americans with [ORG] Part D will save thousands of dollars each year on prescription drugs. If Republicans want to strengthen policies like these and help Americans save millions more on healthcare spending, Democrats are open to working together. But our promise to Republicans also comes with a warning.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'strengthen policies like these and help Americans save millions more on healthcare spending' presents vague positive framing while implying only one path forward"}
{"id": "crec_007906", "text": "That water flowing to the delta isn't even helping the delta. The delta smelt is basically extinct, and they do what they call trawls. They look for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "The delta smelt is basically extinct, and they do what they call trawls. They look for it."}
{"id": "crec_008585", "text": "This is a moment when we can and must call ourselves to the better angels of our nature--the angels that are all around us: the paramedics who rescued and evacuated seniors from a nursing home at the edge of a fire line, the volunteers I met who showed up at a shelter ready to help before anyone even asked, the father who stayed behind to try desperately to keep his son alive. In the coming weeks, after the fires are extinguished, we will seek answers. We must not do so for partisan gain or seeking fault; in fact, just the opposite because only with the truth about what went right and what went wrong can we arrive at solutions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 119, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "call ourselves to the better angels of our nature; paramedics, volunteers, father - heroic examples used to inspire without specific policy claims"}
{"id": "crec_008482", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, as we start [ORG], my colleague from North Carolina, who is currently presiding--I think we both agree that we want to emphasize that Congress has a role in supporting and protecting our law enforcement officers across this country. According to [ORG], in 2024, 342 officers were shot in the line of duty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "According to [ORG], in 2024, 342 officers were shot in the line of duty"}
{"id": "crec_007539", "text": "Right now we are only talking about immigrant survivors. Is this bill the start of a dangerous road, watering down protections for all victims of domestic violence across the country? Who is next?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Is this bill the start of a dangerous road... Who is next?\"\n}\n```\n\nWait - I need to correct this. \"slippery_slope\" is not in my allowed labels list.\n\n```json\n{\n  \"labels\": [\"appeal_to_fear\", \"doubt\"],\n  \"evidence\": \"Is this bill the start of a dangerous road, watering down protections for all victims... Who is next?"}
{"id": "crec_008520", "text": "It pumped money we don't have into the economy, causing the runaway inflation we are dealing with today. The administration was also weak on the world stage appeasing every interest but the interests of the American people. This administration was committed to cozying up to Iran by reinstating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as if the world wasn't already a dangerous place.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pumped money we don't have, runaway inflation, weak on the world stage, dangerous place"}
{"id": "crec_002436", "text": "However, Federal recovery assistance following disasters is currently hampered by inefficient information collection and assessments conducted by multiple agencies. This bill will remove information collection barriers that currently impede disaster aid. It creates a working group to identify duplicative assessments and propose their elimination.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004752", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, of [ORG], specifically Clause 18 (relating to the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the powers vested in congress).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-29", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8"}
{"id": "crec_009364", "text": "Last week, on this same floor, I read the words of [PERSON] and [PERSON] , [PERSON] 's mother and stepfather. They described in heartbreaking detail the joy [PERSON] brought to everyone fortunate enough to know her in their lives. They said: Not only did the people who knew and loved [PERSON] lose a beautiful soul.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "'heartbreaking detail' and 'beautiful soul' - emotionally charged language designed to evoke sympathy and emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_008447", "text": "Those are his only supposed qualifications to head up one of the most complex, important organizations in the world. Listen, there are plenty of Republicans whose policies I may disagree with but whom I would vote to confirm because I know that they, too, have spent their lives working to keep our country strong and could demonstrate why they are qualified for this role. Mr. [PERSON] is not one of those people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "attacking the person's qualifications as 'only supposed' and dismissing them as unqualified without substantive policy critique"}
{"id": "crec_004974", "text": "Therefore, I have come to the floor today not to condemn all of these atrocious actions, though they all deserve condemnation. I am simply here to judge the depth of the Democratic fealty to a disgraced President halfway out the door. I am asking the Senate to condemn just two of President [PERSON] 's latest and most inexcusable commutations of all--his commutations of death row inmates' death sentences.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "atrocious actions, disgraced President, death row inmates' death sentences"}
{"id": "crec_006814", "text": "But we are watching hundreds of billions of dollars in climate-fueled tragedy in the past few months alone. [ORG] is a systemic response to this crisis. I will give you a couple of numbers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "hundreds of billions of dollars in climate-fueled tragedy"}
{"id": "crec_003036", "text": "For too long, American factories have moved overseas, taking vital industries with them. Now, our CHIPS and Science Act is bringing manufacturing home, already attracting nearly $450 billion in manufacturing investments to build massive new semiconductor factories, equipping America to lead the industries of future. At the same time, our Inflation Reduction Act is making the most significant investment in fighting climate change in history, not only putting America on track to halve carbon emissions by 2030 and promoting our energy abundance and security, but also creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying clean-energy jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "phrases like 'bringing manufacturing home,' 'lead the industries of future,' and 'America on track' use vague, emotionally appealing language to promote national pride and achievement without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_001953", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 320. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the marriage penalty in the income tax rate brackets; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008995", "text": "Sadly, he has recently had to put a pause on farm life to receive care from [ORG] to receive treatment for his [ORG], also known as FIRES. This diagnosis is an extremely rare neurological condition that can affect even the healthiest of adults and children. Despite the obstacles he has faced, [ORG] continues to demonstrate his grit and determination every step of the way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "rare neurological condition' and 'grit and determination' - emotionally charged framing combined with appeal to medical authority via [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_006752", "text": "Everybody here, all 100 of us, want American businesses to win. So, yes, I think that we should have--my opinion was, yes, let's make our tax rate globally competitive and get rid of some of these crazy corporate tax loopholes that people use. So many companies pay zero taxes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Everybody here, all 100 of us, want American businesses to win; crazy corporate tax loopholes"}
{"id": "crec_005073", "text": "The Agreement contains all of the provisions required by subsection 123 a. of the Act. It provides a comprehensive framework for peaceful nuclear cooperation with the Kingdom of Thailand based on a mutual commitment to nuclear nonproliferation. It would permit the transfer of material, equipment (including reactors), components, and information for peaceful nuclear purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000391", "text": "Ultimately, if ICE had been aware and then issued a detainer, this criminal illegal alien would not have even been in the United States to commit the horrific murder of [PERSON] . We must enact changes now to protect our communities across the country from facing additional avoidable tragedies. Thankfully, H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'criminal illegal alien' and 'horrific murder' combined with 'avoidable tragedies'"}
{"id": "crec_006983", "text": "Dictators tend to say what they are going to do and try and do it. We should take him seriously. [ORG] is one of the ways that he is trying to do it, trying to undermine what we do around the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Dictators tend to say what they are going to do and try and do it. We should take him seriously."}
{"id": "crec_003904", "text": "DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker: Washington, DC, January 14, 2025. I hereby appoint the Honorable [PERSON] to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. [PERSON] , Speaker of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000583", "text": "It is unknown how many more homes have been built by volunteers who came to know about [ORG] for Humanity through President [PERSON] . It would be wrong to mention [PERSON] years of service without mentioning what animated them. [PERSON] saw his service as a natural outgrowth of his faith in [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "emphasis on faith-based service as 'natural outgrowth' and repeated positive framing of volunteer work without specific details; references to presidential service and humanitarian work invoke patriotic values"}
{"id": "crec_006087", "text": "DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to introduce myself as I undertake this awesome responsibility to serve the citizens of Utah's Third Congressional District.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC"}
{"id": "crec_003124", "text": ". The online Record has been corrected to read: SA 14. [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002794", "text": "This has made a meaningful difference in the lives of people who wore the uniform of this country and, because of their service, incurred service-connected injuries that for many years had long been denied health coverage. I congratulate Secretary [PERSON] as he leaves his post for the swift implementation of the 2022 law. [PERSON] on Out-of-Pocket Copayments in [ORG] Part D [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "meaningful difference in the lives of people who wore the uniform of this country"}
{"id": "crec_009215", "text": "205. UTILIZING GRAZING FOR WILDFIRE RISK REDUCTION. (a) In General.--Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall develop and submit to [ORG] and [ORG] a strategy to analyze and identify opportunities to use livestock grazing as a wildfire risk reduction tool on Federal land, consistent with the laws applicable to the Secretary concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007581", "text": "However, to solve a crime, first you have to report it. Sadly, sex crimes are the most underreported crimes there are. Mr. [PERSON] , in Orange County, we have worked for years to make sure to earn the trust so the immigrant community can step up and report crimes, and this bill is going to undo all of that work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "sex crimes are the most underreported crimes; bill is going to undo all of that work"}
{"id": "crec_004892", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009563", "text": "868); to [ORG]. EC-53. A letter from [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], transmitting the [ORG]'s final rule -- [ORG] and Offshore Units or Facilities [Docket No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH230-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002528", "text": "Congress granted the [ORG] independent leasing authority in 1990, which means the [ORG] does not use the [ORG], [ORG], for its real estate needs, as many government agencies do. While some [ORG] agencies have used their independent real estate leasing authority successfully, since securing their own authority, the [ORG] has wasted time and taxpayer dollars with failed procurements. For example, in 2010, after the [ORG] leased 900,000 square feet of space in the Constitution Center building in Washington, D.C., the [ORG]'s own inspector general found that the [ORG] had overestimated the amount of space needed, attempted to eliminate competition among building owners, and violated the Antideficiency Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "wasted time and taxpayer dollars with failed procurements"}
{"id": "crec_005097", "text": "[ORG] AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 92. A bill to require Senate approval before the United States assumes any obligation under a WHO pandemic agreement and to suspend funding for the [ORG] until such agreement is ratified by the Senate; to [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140-2", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000880", "text": "This is another reason I am excited about the great work the Republicans are going to do on the DOGE Caucus, [ORG], alongside our friend [PERSON] and his partner in crime [ORG]. I say that tongue in cheek, Mr. President. But they have volunteered their efforts and raised the visibility and profile of some of the massive inefficiency in Federal spending in a way that, I think, will be able to galvanize the attention of the American people and enable us to get the political courage to do what we need to do to cut out waste, fraud, and abuse.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "excited about the great work the Republicans are going to do; galvanize the attention of the American people"}
{"id": "crec_006930", "text": "But the answer is not to bring in cheap labor from abroad through [ORG]. The answer is to hire qualified American workers first and to make certain that we have an education system that produces the kind of workforce that our country needs for the jobs of the future. The bottom line: It must never be cheaper for a corporation to hire a guest worker from overseas than an American worker at home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "cheap labor from abroad, It must never be cheaper for a corporation to hire a guest worker from overseas"}
{"id": "crec_003014", "text": "[[ORG]] MEASURE PLACED ON THE CALENDAR--H.R. 23 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, before I yield the floor, I understand that there is a bill at the desk due a second reading.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001199", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001478", "text": "Read the bill. Our allies would be sanctioned for supporting the [ORG] if this were to pass. The largest funders of the ICC are America's closest allies: the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "allies would be sanctioned for supporting the [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_007954", "text": "Is there going to be some mandate there on how they are forced to live and how they are supposed to stay in tight communities, things like that? I do have a degree of anger over this as well because I have been watching it long enough as a legislator, as a private citizen, and watching this happen to my neighbors, watching this happen to the taxpayers of the U.S., but of California. So many people are leaving the [ORG] that were in business or have a retirement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "forced to live in tight communities, mandate, anger over this, people are leaving"}
{"id": "crec_008026", "text": "What mattered is that he tried to live his life to exemplify the dream that he had and that still burns. I can remember the numbness I felt on that evening of April 4, 1968. Like so many others, I felt my heart race when I heard the words come over the radio that said Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., is dead.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Reference to Dr. [PERSON], Jr.'s dream and legacy combined with emotionally charged language ('numbness', 'heart race') to invoke authority and emotional resonance of a revered figure"}
{"id": "crec_001172", "text": "The estimated total cost is $30 million. This proposed sale is consistent with U.S. law and policy as expressed in Public Law 96-8. This proposed sale serves U.S. national, economic, and security interests by supporting the recipient's continuing efforts to modernize its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "consistent with U.S. law and policy as expressed in Public Law 96-8; serves U.S. national, economic, and security interests"}
{"id": "crec_004997", "text": "On December 23, President [PERSON] announced he would commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals who were on Federal death row. These individuals will now have their sentences reclassified from execution--here are the five words--to life without possibility of parole--life without possibility of parole. Now, I understand Senator [PERSON] is opposed to the President's commutations in at least two of these cases.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006409", "text": "CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT Pursuant to clause 7 of rule [ORG] of the Rules of [ORG], the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH186", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000158", "text": "He calls the play. We break the huddle. My teammates inbound the ball.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003557", "text": "Subtitle B--Optional Earned Residence for Long-Term Workers Sec. 1111. Optional adjustment of status for long-term agricultural workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000414", "text": "Feeling bad, feeling sorry, is not going to do it. It doesn't make the difference. All of us here, most of us have been mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, daughters, or sons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Feeling bad, feeling sorry, is not going to do it. It doesn't make the difference."}
{"id": "crec_000876", "text": "And this is using the tax code to basically create or supplement our welfare system because it is a refundable tax credit, which means people get a check--get cold, hard cash--using the tax code. We need to restore the Tax Code to its original purpose and not hijack it for purposes of expanding the welfare state. We can have healthy debates about what the priorities should be.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Using 'hijack' (loaded language) and invoking the 'original purpose' of the Tax Code as an authoritative standard to frame the refundable tax credit negatively"}
{"id": "crec_004843", "text": "No more weakness from America on the world stage. [PERSON] will stop the $4 trillion tax increase. [PERSON] will stop the weaponization of [ORG], and she will actually enforce the law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'No more weakness from America' and 'weaponization' frame threats to justify action"}
{"id": "crec_008051", "text": "This is an apparatus that is going to allow for the adjustment of other payloads that are in orbit and bring them into different orbits, adjusted orbits, from using that device. Apparently, it is now working properly and is registering data. So far so good is the report.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005802", "text": "HONORING CONSTITUENTS OF TEXAS' 26TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , it is the honor of my life to serve the people of Texas' 26th Congressional District.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004666", "text": "Witness counsel shall be allowed access on the remote proceeding software platform if they are not in the physical presence of the witness. It is recommended that counsel facilitate a separate secure line of communication with the witness. A witness may not be unmuted by any other individual and should be allowed to use such secure line of communication while testifying to confer with counsel.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009615", "text": "There will be plenty of time for arguments, and those arguments can be about policy and personalities in the days and years to come, but today, this very day, is a day that all Americans can celebrate in their own way. With today's inauguration, there is a sense of optimism that always comes with a new President and a rededication of our republican form of government. Even those who voted another way on November 5 can take the opportunity to pause and enjoy the excitement of their fellow Americans and even allow themselves to share in some of that optimism.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "all Americans can celebrate, sense of optimism, rededication of our republican form of government"}
{"id": "crec_002772", "text": "260: Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 273: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, and Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009387", "text": "Student Loans [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, yesterday, I highlighted some of President [PERSON] 's final actions as he leaves--parting gifts, if you will. Today, I would like to highlight another of his parting gifts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "parting gifts used ironically to frame final actions negatively"}
{"id": "crec_007738", "text": "What makes these families different from families we have helped after hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods in other States? To suggest that we should hold hostage the aid we give to these American families, families who have lost everything, is wrong and un- American. Just look at what has been approved over the past decade, especially for so-called red States, I might add.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "families who have lost everything, is wrong and un-American; hold hostage the aid"}
{"id": "crec_007005", "text": "But the fearmongering about the supposed anti-American content on [ORG] is the exact type of government overreach that has left tens of millions of Americans furious. The hyperbolic statements made by my colleagues are especially concerning, given that the intelligence community itself has acknowledged that it has no information that China is covertly manipulating content on [ORG]--no information. Let me say that again: In [ORG], the government was asked to present evidence that [ORG] was covertly manipulating content on [ORG] for the benefit of [ORG], and the intelligence community submitted an affidavit saying that the government has no information that it is being manipulated.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "fearmongering about the supposed anti-American content and government overreach causing fury; citing intelligence community acknowledgment as evidence against the claims"}
{"id": "crec_004357", "text": "Traumatizing girls who happen to be late in physically maturing or naturally have a more athletic build to satisfy extreme political agendas is fear-mongering, cowardice, and downright creepy. Who will be doing these inspections? We do not need [ORG]-like enforcers in our schools.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "Traumatizing girls...to satisfy extreme political agendas; Who will be doing these inspections; [ORG]-like enforcers"}
{"id": "crec_002845", "text": "It is known that war criminal [PERSON] and the regime in Tehran have lost a murderous puppet. War criminal [PERSON] is trying to evacuate his bases. The Iranian regime is pivoting to support the Houthis in Yemen to attack American shipping.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97-7", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "war criminal, murderous puppet, attack American shipping"}
{"id": "crec_003521", "text": "208. REGULATIONS. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this title, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to implement this title.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS93-2", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007603", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentlewoman for her distinguished remarks, and I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000803", "text": "That was a bipartisan bill. We were hours away from voting on the bill here in the Senate before [PERSON] killed it for no other reason than a cynical political game. So it is troubling that so far, we have seen little indication from the Republican majority that they are interested in continuing the bipartisan streak of the last 4 years or that they are really interested in helping the working people of America in any way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'bipartisan bill' and 'killed it for no other reason than a cynical political game' to delegitimize opposition"}
{"id": "crec_001027", "text": "My team and I are ready to help you make some prime cuts. Sincerely, [PERSON] , United States Senator. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009776", "text": "[[ORG]] EXECUTIVE REPORTS OF COMMITTEES The following executive reports of nominations were submitted: By [SPEAKER] for [ORG]. *[PERSON] , of Tennessee, to be Secretary of [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] for [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-4", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007585", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , three moms came before [ORG] on the Judiciary last fall. They had one thing in common.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "three moms came before [ORG] on the Judiciary - citing ordinary citizens testifying to establish credibility and legitimacy for a position"}
{"id": "crec_000039", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] Rhode Island seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 4 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 4 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001918", "text": "A bill to establish [ORG] along the southern border of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to the Committees on [ORG], and [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] of Florida): H.R. 286.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005976", "text": "The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as 5-minute votes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH168-4", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006697", "text": "We have more billionaires than ever before in this country. The folks that don't rely on salaries, that can just plow their income and their earnings into the capital markets, have reaped huge, huge rewards. So the very, very wealthy in this country right now, at this moment in time, don't need any more help, and yet the average family that is in that top 1 percent bracket is going to get a tax cut on average of $70,000.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "emphasis on billionaires reaping 'huge, huge rewards' while average families get tax cuts, creating contrast that wealthy don't 'need any more help' to suggest unfair advantage"}
{"id": "crec_004179", "text": "Today, we should be working to solve the real pervasive problems in athletics that deter women and girls from participating, including sexual harassment and assault, lack of equal resources, and pay inequality. We should be working on those issues and also on the issues that improve the lives of the people we represent back home, like increasing access to affordable healthcare and housing, lowering costs for everyday Americans, and fighting the climate crisis. Instead, here we are again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Setting up opposition between addressing women's issues in athletics versus other policy priorities, implying that focusing on one means neglecting the other, while dismissing the current discussion as wasteful"}
{"id": "crec_007726", "text": "I, too, ask for a moment of silence in recognition of his service and in respect of his wife and children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005452", "text": "Adjustment of status for certain nationals of certain countries designated for temporary protected status or deferred enforced departure. Sec. 203.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007686", "text": "There are 2 minutes remaining. So the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000985", "text": "I am also putting forward a plan with $2 trillion in potential savings. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that this letter be printed in the Record. United States Senate, Washington, DC, November 25, 2024.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000733", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on [ORG]: Mrs. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . Committee on Finance: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] ([ORG]), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001544", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I regret that I was not present for roll call votes today. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 7.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001662", "text": "Let's get rid of the [ORG] I have done this a couple of times. When I did it before, the total spend on [ORG] was $18.1 billion, but that was in the 2023 fiscal year, but that had a bunch of the new construction.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000872", "text": "But to simply leave $40 billion unspent and act as if there is nothing we can do about it at a time of sky-high inflation and reckless spending, I think would be irresponsible on our part. Here is another idea. By repealing [PERSON] , a law that requires Federal construction projects that are carried out that applies to them that requires payment of a prevailing wage--which isn't necessarily a market wage at the location you are talking about--[ORG] alone could save $400 million.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Framing leaving funds unspent as 'irresponsible' while depicting inflation and spending as 'sky-high' and 'reckless' uses loaded language; presenting only two options (spend the money or be irresponsible) creates a false dichotomy"}
{"id": "crec_006612", "text": "Too many Americans have felt the tragic consequences of these policies. One of them was a woman named [PERSON] . She was a nursing student at [ORG], and last year an illegal immigrant from Venezuela murdered her while she was out on an early morning jog.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "tragic consequences, murdered, illegal immigrant from Venezuela"}
{"id": "crec_009798", "text": "The First Lady, Dr. [PERSON] , and the husband of the Vice President, Mr. [PERSON] , escorted by the Republican Staff Director of [ORG], Ms. [PERSON] ; the Senate Secretary for the Minority, the Honorable [PERSON] ; [ORG] Chief Administrative Officer, the Honorable [PERSON] ; and Mr. [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda. Mrs. [PERSON] and Mrs. [PERSON] , escorted by the Secretary of the Senate, the Honorable [PERSON] ; [SPEAKER] of [ORG], the Honorable [PERSON] ; Mr. [PERSON] ; Mrs. [PERSON] ; Mrs. [PERSON] ; and Mrs. [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda. The President of the United States, the Honorable [PERSON] , Jr., and Vice President of the United States, [ORG], escorted by Ranking Member of [ORG], the Honorable Deb [PERSON] ; House Democratic Leader, [ORG]; and Senate Majority Secretary, the Honorable [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 167, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008476", "text": "He upheld the oath to protect and serve his community and his country. He exemplified what it means to be an extraordinary public servant, and he made the ultimate sacrifice. My deepest condolences go out to Officer [PERSON] 's family for their tremendous loss, and my condolences go out to the community of Greensboro, which lost one of their finest, most decent public servants.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "oath to protect and serve his country, extraordinary public servant, one of their finest, most decent public servants"}
{"id": "crec_008690", "text": "That is how irresponsible the government has always been. But back in 1998, what a magic moment. We actually had a budget surplus.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "characterizing the government as 'irresponsible' and describing 1998 as a 'magic moment' with a surplus uses emotionally charged language to manipulate perception"}
{"id": "crec_003013", "text": "The result was announced--yeas 82, nays 10, as follows: [[ORG] Vote No. 2 Leg.] YEAS--82 [PERSON] Rochester [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] NAYS--10 [PERSON] NOT VOTING--6 [PERSON] The motion was agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 126, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004263", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , may I inquire as to the time remaining on both sides. [SPEAKER]. The gentlewoman from Oregon has 18 minutes remaining.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008438", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to display a framed item during my remarks. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006667", "text": "Interestingly, the very first thing that [PERSON] and the Republicans have decided to do is to cut taxes for billionaire corporations, and they are going to pay for it by ripping off working Americans. Now, that might sound like a political talking point. It sounds too convenient, too absurd.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "ripping off working Americans"}
{"id": "crec_002323", "text": "McCRACKEN COUNTY BICENTENNIAL Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. President, in the early 1800s, a band of pioneers settled in Kentucky's [ORG] founding what would become McCracken County. At the confluence of the Tennessee and [ORG], this settlement grew over time into a bustling center for business, agriculture, and the arts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-5", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002200", "text": "[PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, on January 10, 2002, [PERSON] was born into this world to her loving family. Tomorrow would have been her 23rd birthday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Tomorrow would have been her 23rd birthday"}
{"id": "crec_009646", "text": "I congratulate Vice President [PERSON] . The prayers of the American people are with them. Today, let me also thank one more time our [ORG]'s 46th President, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009835", "text": "So help me God. Associate [PERSON] KAVANAUGH. Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004044", "text": "The movement was rooted in the self-determination of Puerto Ricans on the island and the mainland. They organized actions against gentrification and displacement of Puerto Ricans in Lincoln Park, Chicago. They fought against police brutality and brought much needed basic services like education, childcare, and health services to our neighborhoods.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006339", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Missouri, Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 290, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006121", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I am proud to represent [PERSON] in the United States House of Representatives. This is my first speech on the House floor, and I want to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about our [ORG] and what I hope to accomplish during [ORG] Congress. [PERSON] are hardworking, independent, resourceful people who are dedicated to their faith, families, and communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "hardworking, independent, resourceful people who are dedicated to their faith, families, and communities"}
{"id": "crec_002875", "text": "It's wrong. The Inflation Reduction Act also takes historic steps to change that, capping total out-of-pocket costs for seniors on [ORG] at $2,000 a year; slashing insulin for seniors to $35 a month, down from as much as $400; and finally giving [ORG] the power to negotiate lower drug prices across the board. And it has expanded health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, bringing the share of uninsured Americans to record lows.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "historic steps, finally, record lows - use of superlatives and emotionally positive language to characterize policy achievements without detailed substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_000738", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-3", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004578", "text": "The other side should stop lying about growing. One percent of GDP--and I am going to do this and double check myself in my head--1 percent of GDP is $300 billion. If you get 17 percent of that, that is about $48 billion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing opposing position as 'lying' while presenting selective economic calculations that misrepresent their actual claims"}
{"id": "crec_002000", "text": ". . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing [ORG], and all other [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any [ORG] or Officer thereof.''", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-24", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000963", "text": "The American people rejected this kind of reckless governance in November through their voice at the ballot box. Bureaucrats are desperately--right now, as we speak--writing checks because come January 20, they know President [PERSON] will take the checkbook away and ask for accountability. My committee already issued a clear warning to the EPA in a letter in December.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "reckless governance, desperately writing checks, ask for accountability"}
{"id": "crec_006260", "text": "That is why we put forward an approach that we believe will work. It is really important--really important--for the American people to understand that what is happening in this town is that games are being played by people who want to try to leverage those of us who want to cut spending. That is the bottom line.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'really important--really important' and 'games are being played' characterizing opponents' actions negatively"}
{"id": "crec_004631", "text": "This isn't about ratings. This isn't about today's dopamine hit of you being angry because you saw something on the Drudge Report. This is about saving this Republic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'saving this Republic' paired with dismissal of immediate concerns suggests existential threat"}
{"id": "crec_001297", "text": "Equip them with the weapons of deliverance. Keep them from growing weary in the face of the relentless hours ahead, and protect them from all harm. These, our fellow Americans, are precious in Your sight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "our fellow Americans, are precious in Your sight"}
{"id": "crec_006768", "text": "When we start running budget deficits, and we know factually that their last tax plan expanded the deficit into the trillions--and this one is projected, if they do it again, to be to the benefit of the top 1 percent and, again, with very few of the benefits going to working Americans--what will that mean for America's fiscal stability going out 10 years from now or 15 years from now? What kind of pressures will that create, and what kind of calls do we have from Republicans about how to fix the problem that their tax plan has caused? [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "budget deficits into the trillions, pressures, fiscal stability concerns about future economic harm"}
{"id": "crec_009587", "text": "A bill to expand labor representation on [ORG] and local workforce development boards, to provide a definition of labor organization, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 568.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000690", "text": "CONSTITUTING THE MAJORITY PARTY'S [ORG] FOR THE ONE HUNDRED NINETEENTH CONGRESS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to consideration of [ORG]. 16, which was submitted earlier today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004465", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH138-4", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000424", "text": "Madam Speaker, perhaps we should take all the criminals off the streets, starting with those who shouldn't have been in our country in the first place, which is what this bill does. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "take all the criminals off the streets, starting with those who shouldn't have been in our country in the first place"}
{"id": "crec_008867", "text": "And I am pretty sure I would not have won without [PERSON] 's great work. That was in 2014. And then she stayed in our office in Alaska, became the deputy [ORG] director.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004147", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from California? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-6", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001607", "text": "The atmosphere in the courtroom was full of emotion as [ORG] Judge [PERSON] took his seat on the bench to preside in a historic moment for North Carolina: A father and daughter would share the honor of being sworn in as district court judges. The ceremony was inspiring, with Chief [ORG] Judge [PERSON] administering the oath of office to Judge [PERSON] , II, who then had the cherished privilege of swearing in his daughter, [ORG], with her husband, Nick, and children at her side. Judge [PERSON] gave his daughter a heartfelt hug as she donned her black robe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-3", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005593", "text": "Madam Speaker, last week the House and Senate oversaw the certification of the 2024 election. It was a quick, smooth process. There were no riots, no violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-4", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "Emphasizing 'quick, smooth process' with explicit contrast to 'no riots, no violence' uses charged language to implicitly reference January 6th and frame the current certification favorably by comparison"}
{"id": "crec_004645", "text": "All members of the committee shall also receive three days written notice that a deposition will be taken, except in exigent circumstances. For purposes of these procedures, a day shall not include Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House is in session on such a day. 3.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004474", "text": "11, the Motion to Recommit for H.R. 28, I mistaken recorded my vote as [ORG] when I should have voted [PERSON] . [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009248", "text": "5. STATUS OF MEDALS. (a) National Medals.--The medals struck under this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS231", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007768", "text": "The City of [ORG] proudly deployed its newly commissioned Type 3 brush truck to assist in battling the California wildfires. This wildland fire truck is specifically engineered to fight fires in rough and challenging terrain. Our firemen expect to deploy for the remaining weeks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "The City of [ORG] proudly deployed its newly commissioned Type 3 brush truck"}
{"id": "crec_004165", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to speak in support of H.R. 28, [ORG] of 2025, authored by [PERSON] . This bill is about a promise.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006538", "text": "They claimed that [PERSON] isn't qualified. So let's talk about his military experience. [ORG] is filled with people who have decades of experience working in the Pentagon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Responding to qualification criticism by shifting to military experience and Pentagon credentials rather than directly addressing the original claim"}
{"id": "crec_005875", "text": "I also thank [ORG] as well as [ORG] and [PERSON] for their partnership. Together, we introduced a resolution last Congress calling to advance legislation to address that barrier, the issue of double taxation on income earned in the United States and Taiwan. Today, Americans who do business in Taiwan, and those from Taiwan who do business from America, must pay income tax in both places on the same earnings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001883", "text": "A bill to prohibit the Director of [ORG] from awarding grants and other forms of assistance to Chinese communist military companies and their affiliates, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Technology. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002174", "text": "He is always seeking to help but is never afraid to hold strong for what he believes is right. You know, my wish for every Senator, regardless of our ideology, is that you have [PERSON] --sometime, someplace--on your staff, working on some important issue. I do want to say one thing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "'always seeking to help', 'hold strong for what he believes is right', 'my wish for every Senator'"}
{"id": "crec_000588", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009859", "text": "And very importantly, we had a powerful win in all seven swing States, and the popular vote we won by millions of people. (Applause.) To the Black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "powerful win in all seven swing States and popular vote won by millions"}
{"id": "crec_009774", "text": "MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Messages from the President of the United States were communicated to the Senate by Mr. [PERSON] , one of his secretaries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004131", "text": "[PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] - Hinds, Mr. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Dakota, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] . [SPEAKER] (during the reading).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-4", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002146", "text": "We should have a debate and amendments, and that is why I am voting yes on the motion to proceed. To remind my colleagues, this is not a vote on the bill itself. This is a motion to proceed, a vote that says we should have a debate and should have amendments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006601", "text": "With that, I look forward to advancing [ORG] this week. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001690", "text": "Yes, of course we are. We still don't have 60 votes in the Senate. If we are going to move policy, of course we are.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004281", "text": "Americans are also horrified to learn about the injuries women and girls are facing when in competition with a biological male. As a father and a grandfather, I am entirely against forcing anybody's daughter or granddaughter to have to share a women's locker room with anyone other than women and girls. The results of the November election have made it clear that Americans agree with me and my colleagues.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "injuries women and girls are facing; as a father and a grandfather; Americans agree with me and my colleagues"}
{"id": "crec_002969", "text": "The question is whether someone should be deported the very first time that the hand reaches your shoulder with candy bar in hand but no charge of any crime. That is what this bill does. That is going a little bit too far as far as I am personally concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "Exaggerates the bill's provisions by describing an absurd hypothetical scenario (deportation for merely holding a candy bar) rather than addressing the actual legislative language and intent"}
{"id": "crec_004068", "text": "It is the last week of President [PERSON] 's historic administration. President [PERSON] is a true public servant who has stood up every single day of his career on behalf of the American people, who has reached out to the next generation to make sure that we are heard, to mentor individuals like myself, and who has been selfless in his actions. We salute President [PERSON] , and we recognize him for everything that he has done and committed to and the changes he has made.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'true public servant', 'historic administration', 'salute President', 'selfless in his actions'"}
{"id": "crec_002445", "text": "They have lost everything, and the last thing we should be doing is dragging them through duplicative bureaucracy. That is why this bill is so important. This bipartisan bill passed the House on suspension in the 116th, 117th, and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "\"}\n```\n\nWait, let me reconsider. \"appeal_to_emotion\" is not in the allowed list. Let me re-evaluate with only the allowed labels.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"loaded_language\", \"bandwagon\"], \"evidence\": \"they have lost everything...this bipartisan bill passed...in the 116th, 117th, and [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_004458", "text": "The question was taken; and [SPEAKER] announced that the noes appeared to have it. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001424", "text": "Anyone standing in the way of this important piece of legislation, I think, owes the American public an explanation and owes especially your Jewish constituency an explanation. I fully support H.R. 23, and I look forward to passing it here shortly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing opposition as owing 'an explanation' to constituents and using 'important piece of legislation' to establish legitimacy while pressuring others to align"}
{"id": "crec_006468", "text": "That is why we will declare Your glory all day long. Lord, as our Senators strive to please You today, we declare that You alone are our hope. And, Lord, continue to be with those who battle the catastrophic wildfires in Southern California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "declaration of 'Your glory' and invoking God as authority figure ('Lord') in context of political action (Senators); framing national/religious identity"}
{"id": "crec_002529", "text": "After this incident, the [ORG] pledged to Congress that the agency would use the [ORG] to handle its real estate procurements, but the [ORG] has yet to follow through on that pledge and has since canceled procurements, had lawsuits, and wasted taxpayer dollars. Congresswoman [ORG] introduced an identical bill during the 118th Congress. That bill, [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "wasted taxpayer dollars, broken pledges, canceled procurements, lawsuits - accumulation of negative framing without context"}
{"id": "crec_006874", "text": "Well, today I would like to reiterate that message; but, in particular, I want to highlight some of the hypocrisy of our Democratic colleagues on this important matter as it pertains to our country's democratic processes. We know that our colleagues are frequently warning that ways of the Republicans are allegedly undermining democracy, but this is like the little boy who cried [PERSON] . If you cry [PERSON] often enough, the people begin to believe that it is not really serious; and, indeed, it shouldn't be taken seriously in the case of the allegation that Republicans are somehow trying to undermine democracy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["whataboutism", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "highlighting hypocrisy of Democratic colleagues and characterizing their warnings as 'crying wolf' to dismiss legitimate concerns"}
{"id": "crec_001759", "text": "They marched with symbols of Nazism, with a gallows. They marched saying ugly things and making vile comments. They stormed the Capitol of the United States of America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "ugly things, vile comments, stormed the Capitol - emotionally charged language describing actions to provoke negative reaction and concern"}
{"id": "crec_001949", "text": "A bill to authorize the President to provide disaster assistance to States and Indian Tribes under a major disaster recovery program, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006781", "text": "I am a proud Senator from [ORG]--from a small, rural community in the northern part of the [ORG]--and I wanted to come down to the floor to continue this conversation as we have heard from colleagues already talk about what this is and what this isn't. It seems to me, when my Republican colleagues last did this, what I heard in townhall after townhall across New Mexico was that, from Democrats, Republicans, Independents, voters, constituents, they just wanted to hear the truth. They wanted to hear what this is and what this is not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "I am a proud Senator from [ORG]--from a small, rural community in the northern part of the [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_006308", "text": "A bill to establish Federal research award reimbursement limits for indirect costs for institutions of higher education, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Technology, and in addition to [ORG] and [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006004", "text": "44 Resolved, That the following named Members be, and are hereby, elected to the following standing committees of [ORG]: (1) Committee on agriculture.--Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Kansas, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003038", "text": "And it has expanded health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, bringing the share of uninsured Americans to record lows. The impact of these efforts is just starting--and the full effects will be felt over the next decade--but there is no question that our nation today is the best-positioned on earth to win the competition for the 21st century. We've laid a foundation of possibilities that will make life a little easier for millions of Americans and can propel America for decades.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'best-positioned on earth to win the competition for the 21st century' and 'propel America for decades'"}
{"id": "crec_004400", "text": "The blanket, discriminatory exclusion that H.R. 28 and S. 9 would mandate for every age, every sport, and every level of competition flies in the face of [ORG] mandate of equal access to educational opportunities. [ORG] women and girls have been playing school sports for years, adhering to various rules and regulations set by their state or sport governance organization which govern their participation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "'blanket, discriminatory exclusion' and mischaracterizing the bills' scope"}
{"id": "crec_007583", "text": "This bill punishes victims, pushes victims back into the shadows, telling the victims if they report a crime, they are subject to deportation. I ask my colleagues to let us go back. Let us redraft this bill to do what it is intended to do, to get sexual predators off our streets and to protect the victims of sex crimes, the most heinous crimes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "phrases like 'punishes victims,' 'pushes victims back into the shadows,' 'sexual predators,' and 'most heinous crimes' use emotionally charged language to create fear and urgency"}
{"id": "crec_000313", "text": "I would hate to think so. However, we can find lots of cases like that. That is not what we should be doing here in Congress.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007833", "text": "If you look at that project, it was clear--it isn't clear if it was actually approved or implemented because the effect was that there is very little brush clearing that got done there. When you boil that down to what does that actually mean, it is that if you don't clear the brush, if you are held up due to environmental regulations and delayed permit periods, then you are going to be fire prone. The Santa Ana winds are going to come each year no matter what.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two outcomes: either clear brush or face fire danger; invokes fire proneness and Santa Ana winds as inevitable threat"}
{"id": "crec_009739", "text": "The bill having been read the third time, the question is, [PERSON] the bill pass, as amended? [SPEAKER]. I ask for the yeas and nays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009724", "text": "[PERSON] , a 21-year-old from [ORG], IA, had just graduated from [ORG] in Nebraska with a 4.0 [ORG]. She was headed home after celebrating this milestone--a very important day in her life--with her family and friends. In an instant, an illegal immigrant, [PERSON] , who was drunk-driving, with a blood alcohol three times the legal limit, struck and killed her.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "illegal immigrant, drunk-driving, blood alcohol three times the legal limit, struck and killed - emotionally charged descriptors combined with tragic outcome to invoke fear and anger"}
{"id": "crec_006876", "text": "But he claimed somehow there was an attempt to suppress people from voting. Well, I remember it wasn't that long ago when [PERSON] , a Democrat from Texas, revered justly as an incredible leader for our [ORG] and country, along with [PERSON] cochaired a commission that came out with voter ID as one of the consensus recommendations. But now Democrats claim making sure that people are who they say they are and using the same sorts of things that you need in order to get on an airplane or to buy tobacco or a six-pack of beer, somehow that undermines democracy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Claims Democrats previously supported voter ID but now oppose it; presents voter ID requirements as equivalent to everyday identification needs, framing opposition as hypocritical rather than addressing current voting access concerns"}
{"id": "crec_001495", "text": "This bill does nothing to help get the hostages released. It does nothing at all. Again, let me be clear: All of us should be saying as loudly as we possibly can that all the hostages should be released immediately and unconditionally.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repetition of 'does nothing' and 'All of us should be saying as loudly as we possibly can' combined with emphatic language designed to amplify emotional impact"}
{"id": "crec_008409", "text": "The senior assistant executive clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006158", "text": "The gentleman is a new Member but a very experienced, thoughtful, and strong Member that I look forward to working with. I thank him for being here. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield to the gentleman from Montana (Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007942", "text": "We already know how to do that. We don't cut trees near the creeks anymore. We don't do much near the creeks and the rivers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000018", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 11 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 11 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001627", "text": "The second thing is incredibly important. If there is a staffer out there or a freshman Member of Congress, burn what we are going to talk about into their consciousness. In the United States, what is the greatest at least economic threat I think we have for this government, in many ways, for the country?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "burn what we are going to talk about into their consciousness\" and \"greatest...economic threat\" emphasizing urgency and danger"}
{"id": "crec_002355", "text": "It was because of her ability to listen to others, bridge divides, and focus on results that her colleagues chose her to serve as Majority Leader. Her leadership improved lives across the state. And although her tragic cancer diagnosis forced her to step down from her position last year, her impact will be felt for generations to come: Every new parent who takes paid leave to care for their child can thank [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "ability to listen to others, bridge divides, and focus on results; her impact will be felt for generations to come"}
{"id": "crec_006630", "text": "Then he was sent, at taxpayer expense, to New York, where he was arrested and released. If that was the end of the story, it would still be an outrage and an indictment of the failed [PERSON] administration. But from there, he went to Georgia, you see--all courtesy of taxpayers--where he was arrested and freed again before brutally murdering [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "taxpayer expense repeated to create outrage; 'brutally murdering' uses emotionally charged language to amplify harm and evoke fear"}
{"id": "crec_009487", "text": "This paragraph shall not apply to meetings of any subcommittee. (b) Additional Meetings.--The Chairman may call and convene, if the Chairman considers necessary, additional meetings of the Committee for the consideration of any bill or resolution pending before the [ORG] or for the conduct of other Committee business. The [ORG] shall meet for such purpose pursuant to the call of the Chairman.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001036", "text": "[ORG] is a process improvement methodology. There are a number of them out there, and this is the one we chose. What it does is you break down an operation; you count what the steps are and what the steps, you know, should be; you get the frontline people engaged--the people actually doing the work involved in looking at those steps; and see if you can cut the waste in the number of steps and everything else so that you can make the process more efficient.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006068", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , we didn't discriminate then, and we must not discriminate now during Californians time of need.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of past non-discrimination as moral authority and appeal to shared values during crisis"}
{"id": "crec_004146", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . [SPEAKER] (during the reading). Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the Record.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-6", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008361", "text": "People will see what we stand for and what our Republican colleagues stand for as they support [ORG]'s nominees. And second, the hearings create a record to hold these nominees accountable should they fail on the job down the line--which, unfortunately, I think many will, given their meager qualifications. The contrast between whom Democrats will fight for and whom Republicans will fight for is becoming exceedingly obvious, thanks to these hearings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "nominees will 'fail on the job down the line' and stark contrast between 'whom Democrats will fight for and whom Republicans will fight for'"}
{"id": "crec_000149", "text": "But I believe that a brighter future is ahead. I look forward to working with President [PERSON] , with Vice President [PERSON] --a Senate colleague, I might add--and with Republicans in both [ORG] to secure that brighter future for the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-7", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "a brighter future is ahead"}
{"id": "crec_006528", "text": "The majority whip. Cabinet Nominations [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, yesterday I watched closely the nomination hearing for [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002367", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: S. 50. A bill to prohibit the intentional hindering of immigration, border, and customs controls, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 51.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004381", "text": "No. That is pedophilia. It is predatory behavior.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "use of 'pedophilia' and 'predatory behavior' as inflammatory labels without context or explanation"}
{"id": "crec_006872", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Texas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008630", "text": "Make no mistake, there are serious challenges we have at our border. There is a serious need for sensible immigration reform. But being tough on immigration does not require us to forsake our bedrock principles like due process or our moral obligation to keep children safe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "being tough on immigration does not require us to forsake our bedrock principles - presents a false choice between toughness and maintaining principles; invokes 'bedrock principles' and 'moral obligation' as authoritative foundations"}
{"id": "crec_000971", "text": "The relationship between the government and its citizens has been frayed by years of neglect, waste, and distrust. Mending this relationship will not happen overnight. It is a long process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "frayed by years of neglect, waste, and distrust"}
{"id": "crec_004234", "text": "Do we remain a Nation that stands with fairness, celebrates achievement, and defends the rights of our girls and women, or do we devolve into a country that bows to radical ideologies at their expense? An overwhelming majority of Americans have boldly spoken on the vision of our society. We see it as one in which we continue to teach our young men respect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two extreme options (fairness/achievement vs. bowing to radical ideologies), uses emotionally charged terms like 'radical ideologies' and 'devolve'"}
{"id": "crec_002234", "text": "The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 84, nays 9, as follows: [[ORG] Vote No. 1 Leg.] YEAS--84 [ORG] [PERSON] Rochester [PERSON] [ORG] [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] NAYS--9 [PERSON] NOT VOTING--6 [PERSON] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004304", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I find it truly staggering that we as Congress have to even consider such an issue, but here we are. Under the last 4 years of the outgoing administration, we have witnessed the imposition of a radical gender ideology that has disregarded the most fundamentals of biological principles with an expectation that Americans must redefine their perception and beliefs, no questions asked. We have stood by and watched as this administration and career D.C. bureaucrats have sought to twist and manipulate the meaning and purpose behind [ORG], which, if successful, would have disenfranchised the very women and girls that [ORG] was meant to protect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'radical gender ideology that has disregarded the most fundamentals of biological principles' and 'would have disenfranchised the very women and girls'"}
{"id": "crec_009542", "text": "TRAVEL OF MEMBERS AND STAFF (a) Approval.--Consistent with the primary expense resolution and such additional expense resolutions as may have been approved, the provisions of this rule shall govern travel of [ORG] members and staff. Travel to be reimbursed from funds set aside for the [ORG] for any member or any staff member shall be paid only upon the prior authorization of the Chairman. Travel shall be authorized by the Chairman for any member and any staff member in connection with the attendance of hearings conducted by the [ORG] or any subcommittee and meetings, conferences, and investigations which involve activities or subject matter under the general jurisdiction of the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002548", "text": "TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY SALARY TRANSPARENCY ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 144) to provide that [ORG] and Sunset Act of 1995 does not apply to certain reports required to be submitted by [ORG], and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004904", "text": "And we have had several other border security and immigration enforcement bills in the works. I personally have the WALL Act and [ORG]. But you will notice I am not trying to tack those bills onto [ORG] as amendments because this is a targeted bill to protect American families from criminal illegal aliens; isn't that common sense?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'protect American families from criminal illegal aliens' combines fear appeal with dehumanizing language characterizing all illegal aliens as criminal"}
{"id": "crec_003498", "text": "[ORG]. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 11.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001783", "text": "Let's move on to three more. Comprehensive immigration reform. This was a key piece of legislation that would have addressed the border issues, addressed labor issues, H- 1B issues, all of these various means by which persons could come into the country for various purposes associated with work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008436", "text": "I plan on introducing a few of these myself so we can reverse many of the [PERSON] administration's misguided regulations. I know other colleagues plan to do the same thing. President [PERSON] may have been busy over the last few months, since the November 5 election, but we are gearing up to be even busier, undoing much of the mischief that he has wrought during these last couple of months on his way out the door.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "characterization of regulations as 'misguided' and 'mischief,' combined with 'I know other colleagues plan to do the same thing' suggesting broad agreement"}
{"id": "crec_008776", "text": "They have been here for 12 years or 14. They walk out of a store with a group of children. A police officer thinks they saw them put something into their pocket and arrests them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "constructs a simplified hypothetical scenario to misrepresent a complex issue about immigration enforcement"}
{"id": "crec_000917", "text": "Of course, we all know that that led to the overturning of the Roe decision and the [ORG] decision--two decisions that will impact our [ORG]. We worked with the first [ORG] administration to protect life and to bar Federal funds from going to [ORG]. And, Mr. President, you and I have put endless hours into making certain that we secured relief for communities in Tennessee and across the southeast that have been adversely impacted by Hurricane Helene.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"Of course, we all know that\" - assumes shared agreement; \"protect life\" - loaded framing of abortion policy"}
{"id": "crec_002903", "text": "Relying on government bailouts to make up for losses must end. Despite this track record, no pun intended, the [ORG] board of directors awarded the company's 15 executives more than $9 million in bonuses during the last 2 years. Congress, [ORG] employees, and the public were shocked and outraged, and rightly so, to discover such generous and questionable awards paid largely by taxpayers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "generous and questionable awards paid largely by taxpayers; shocking bonuses despite bailouts creates outrage about misuse of public funds"}
{"id": "crec_001322", "text": "Hector dedicated his life to the arts and uplifting his hometown of El Paso. His commitment to preserving our cultural identity and showcasing the beauty of our beloved borderland makes him a cornerstone of the artistic and cultural fabric of El Paso. I extend my deepest condolences to his family, friends, and all who had the privilege of knowing him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-4", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "preserving our cultural identity and showcasing the beauty of our beloved borderland"}
{"id": "crec_004882", "text": "As other nominees are working to complete their requisite paperwork, I would urge the [PERSON] administration to work with the incoming administration, not against the administration, to expedite this process. They talk about a peaceful transfer of power--well, that is what this includes. This is part of that peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Framing expedited paperwork completion as essential to a 'peaceful transfer of power' and contrasting 'working with' versus 'against' the incoming administration creates a false choice that conflates administrative cooperation with political legitimacy."}
{"id": "crec_000858", "text": "But that is the reason why it is so important for the House and the Senate to get on the same page. There is some discussion here on [ORG] about whether we want to pass one budget or two budgets or more--actually, even one budget with multiple reconciliation bills. Frankly, I don't think the process is as important as it is to get the job done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005590", "text": "DESIGNATION OF SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker: Washington, DC, January 15, 2025. I hereby appoint the Honorable [PERSON] to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. [PERSON] , Speaker of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007187", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 73. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006302", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 417.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004332", "text": "In Congress, I will continue to stand up against attacks on our transgender community because every child in Oregon deserves our support and care. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "every child in Oregon deserves our support and care"}
{"id": "crec_006224", "text": "You know what else? We didn't take on every single issue in [ORG] because the Constitution didn't contemplate it. Now we take on all the issues, and we don't pay for them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents a stark contrast between 'didn't take on every single issue' vs 'now we take on all the issues' without acknowledging middle ground or nuance; uses loaded framing with 'we don't pay for them' to suggest fiscal irresponsibility"}
{"id": "crec_005890", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank Chairman [PERSON] for sponsoring this critical piece of legislation. All of my colleagues from [ORG] are here to talk on the same subject, and we will continue this work. I think, as we go into the 21st day of January, we will see this incredible movement toward making America great again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "making America great again; incredible movement toward; critical piece of legislation"}
{"id": "crec_000109", "text": "[PERSON] . (9) Committee on homeland [ORG]. [ORG] of Mississippi.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000594", "text": "URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE [SPEAKER]. Madam President, last week, 14 people were killed in a terrorist attack in New Orleans, and an explosion in Las Vegas injured several others. The FBI has warned that other attacks that copycat what happened in New Orleans could be a threat.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "14 people were killed in a terrorist attack...explosion...FBI has warned that other attacks could be a threat"}
{"id": "crec_004675", "text": "868); to [ORG]. =========================== NOTE =========================== January 14, 2025, page H147, the following appeared: EC-22. A letter from [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], transmitting the [ORG]'s final rule--Fisheries Off West Coast States; [ORG]; Annual Specifications; 2024- 2025 Annual [ORG] for [ORG] [Docket No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH147-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008449", "text": "Look, at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, I gave Mr. [PERSON] every opportunity to show me that I was wrong, to prove that he could do this job, that he does know the first thing--or anything--about what it takes to take on this massive responsibility of being the Secretary of [ORG]. I asked him basic questions that even the most junior folks working in the Pentagon would know, like naming one of the main international agreements he would be responsible for leading. He couldn't name one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing questions as 'basic' that 'even the most junior folks' would know, implying incompetence; invoking Pentagon expertise as authority standard"}
{"id": "crec_000222", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER]. Will the gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-4", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_001618", "text": "RECOGNIZING THE LIFE OF SANDRA MAE KING HALL (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to recognize the life of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006984", "text": "[ORG] wants to replace us; [ORG] is one of the ways they are trying to influence our downfall. As many as 150 million Americans use [ORG]. Fifty-two percent of them say they regularly get news through [ORG], and we know that the [ORG] uses [ORG] to slant the news.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "[ORG] wants to replace us; [ORG] is one of the ways they are trying to influence our downfall"}
{"id": "crec_001719", "text": "What would happen? Mr. [PERSON] , can anyone read this number? Eighty-three percent of all tax receipts would go just to interest.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Eighty-three percent of all tax receipts would go just to interest"}
{"id": "crec_002502", "text": "This bill maximizes [ORG]'s resources and helps communities protect critical infrastructure, leading to lower costs for utilities and families in the wake of future disasters. More importantly, it allows us to use taxpayer dollars to invest in resiliency as we are seeing more extreme weather coming at us every single day. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "more extreme weather coming at us every single day; maximizes resources and helps communities protect critical infrastructure"}
{"id": "crec_004597", "text": "The problem with the Democrats' industrial policy, we are going to give all this money to certain green technologies, we are going to do CHIPS Act, is you often are writing checks, so you get rent-seeking, writing checks for last-generation technology. There is a little part of that I would have voted for, for primary research and development to do it better, faster, cheaper. It is like the old joke, what is the fastest way to make every computer in America worthless?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing industrial policy as 'writing checks' for 'rent-seeking' and 'last-generation technology' presents a distorted version of the policy while using negatively charged language"}
{"id": "crec_004783", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will be in a period of morning business for debate only, with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each. The Senator from Iowa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-5", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008928", "text": "If any Member requests, any matter to be polled shall be held for meeting rather than being polled. The chief clerk of the [ORG] shall keep a record of polls; if a majority of the Members of the [ORG] determine that the polled matter is in one of the areas enumerated in subsection (D) of Rule 1, the record of the poll shall be confidential. Any [ORG] Member may move at the [ORG] meeting following the poll for a vote on the polled decision, such motion and vote to be subject to the provisions of subsection (D) of Rule 1, where applicable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000486", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 219. A bill to direct [ORG] to conduct a study on menopause care furnished by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002619", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , every single Ohioan and American should now enjoy their benefits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-5", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "every single Ohioan and American should now enjoy their benefits"}
{"id": "crec_007932", "text": "I guess we should be thankful, but he is not directing this commission, his water boards, to do much to really, really help, whether that is in the north on our water storage or in the south on the infrastructure there. Actually, he was blaming the locals on the conditions, whether it was Santa Ynez reservoir or the hydrants. He said: Oh, that is a local thing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the official's response as dismissive ('Oh, that is a local thing') and suggesting insufficient action through emphatic repetition ('not...to much to really, really help')"}
{"id": "crec_002694", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Washington, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of California, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 33. A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 190, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006577", "text": "He should have been detained and then deported, but he wasn't. He was paroled into the United States. When he committed a crime in the United States, he should have been deported, but he was not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "The phrase 'he should have been...but he was not' is repeated twice with similar structure to emphasize the argument about failed deportation procedures."}
{"id": "crec_008918", "text": "E. Proxies prohibited in establishment of quorum. Proxies shall not be considered for the establishment of a quorum. RULE 3.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005201", "text": "Adjustment of status for certain nationals of certain countries designated for temporary protected status or deferred enforced departure. Sec. 203.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002514", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: [PERSON] 189 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001840", "text": "[ORG]: San Bernardino County theft suspects face potential increased penalties under Prop 36. KXTV Sacramento: [ORG] police arrest 30 people in retail theft sting, including two with possible Prop 36. [ORG], San Francisco: San Francisco DA files charges in city's first Prop 36 case.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001684", "text": "That is the last fiscal year. The red here, that is the [ORG] taxes, [ORG] part A, et cetera. This was everything else.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007791", "text": "[[ORG]] RECOGNIZING LOS ANGELES RESIDENTS AFFECTED BY [ORG] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to recognize all of the residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas who have been affected by these disastrous wildfires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006722", "text": "Let's stand for working families. Let's stand for healthcare and housing and education, the foundation for every family to move up the ladder because that is what it means to care about every American family, whether they are in the party of the elite rich like the [ORG] betrayal presents. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'Let's stand for working families' and 'care about every American family' combined with characterization of opposition as 'party of the elite rich'"}
{"id": "crec_004828", "text": "The [ORG] pandemic changed life in America as we knew it. It claimed thousands of American lives per week and brought our economy to a virtual halt. But thanks to [PERSON] , we recovered from the devastation of this pandemic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "claimed thousands of American lives per week and brought our economy to a virtual halt...thanks to [PERSON]"}
{"id": "crec_005759", "text": "Didn't Tip [PERSON] ? Yes, they did. It was primarily led by Senator [PERSON] , but Tip [PERSON] got together with [PERSON] who was adamantly opposed to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000598", "text": "We must keep this robust funding going this year too. [ORG] funds help pay for everything needed to keep people safe--from training and joint anti-terror operations across the city and Long Island to emergency medical equipment to better tools for [ORG] officers for intelligence sharing and for so much more. We need [ORG] funds to keep people safe here in the Nation's Capital too.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "funding needed to keep people safe from terror operations and emergency threats"}
{"id": "crec_008796", "text": "That is why I value this dialogue with my colleague, and I hope it will lead to the opportunity to resolve these issues. I have a third amendment, and the third amendment is related to another aspect of the way children are affected, including American citizen children. Imagine the parent who goes to work who is accused--I don't know--of stealing a tool out of the factory, and so he is arrested or she is arrested.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002291", "text": "We are just honored to be able to celebrate with them in this sort of special way. And I look forward to going to Nashville about a year from now and watching another one, [PERSON] . [PERSON] , he is a little more--you know, he doesn't like to set the bar too high and get disappointed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009677", "text": "Throughout our history, generations of Americans have tried to secure our heritage as a nation of immigrants and a nation committed to the rule of law. Both of those are important. And when we have fallen short, which we have from time to time, we have battled back to reclaim these moral values.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "generations of Americans have tried to secure our heritage as a nation of immigrants and a nation committed to the rule of law"}
{"id": "crec_009631", "text": "Recognition of the Majority Leader The majority leader is recognized. [ORG] and Cabinet Nominations [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I want to offer my warmest congratulations to President [PERSON] and Vice President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009769", "text": "I ask for the yeas and nays. [SPEAKER]. Is there a sufficient second?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-3", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009668", "text": "We have teen migrant gangs running rampant, where you have minors as young as 11 being involved in the theft and burglary rings. What do you think you do if you carve out a certain set of minors? Do you think you make them more safe from the people looking to do them harm?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "teen migrant gangs running rampant, minors as young as 11 being involved in theft and burglary rings"}
{"id": "crec_001850", "text": "I want to go over a few of the failures that have gotten us to this point, but I do want to say first that my prayers are with the people in L.A., the victims of this horrifying apocalyptic set of fires, with over 100,000 people under evacuation orders, with at least five--sadly, probably more--people who have lost their lives and their families, and with our firefighters and first responders who are working around the clock doing everything they possibly can to get this blaze under control. I am truly grateful for all of the communities in California and across the entire country that have come together to try to help the L.A. area in this hour of dire need. It is appreciated beyond measure, and I thank them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 129, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "horrifying apocalyptic set of fires"}
{"id": "crec_008400", "text": "I hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle preach doom and gloom about energy independence. The Democrat leader here on the floor said yesterday [PERSON] , who is the President's nominee for the Secretary of [ORG]--he called this nominee an energy extremist. Why?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing the nominee as an 'energy extremist' and questioning it rhetorically without substantive engagement with the actual position"}
{"id": "crec_002822", "text": "They report to us that there are three one-million gallon tanks that ran out, the third one by 3 a.m. on the night of the fire above Pacific Palisades. What would another 117, approximately 40 times the storage of those three tanks, have been able to do for them had it been available, had the maintenance been done? Well, the Governor is going to start an investigation on it now, kind of like when he starts an investigation on high gas prices due to policies he does that drive up the cost of fuel, make fuel and the refineries not available, and quit drilling for fuel in California, which we have so much abundance of near that Bakersfield area, et cetera.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 121, "labels": ["loaded_language", "whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Questioning what additional water tanks 'would have been able to do' combined with dismissive 'kind of like when he starts an investigation' comparison to gas prices, implying the Governor's actions caused preventable disaster and current problems"}
{"id": "crec_004566", "text": "That is discretionary. All defense we consider is discretionary. Everything most people think is government: the FBI, [ORG], the foreign service, those things.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing FBI, foreign service, and government functions as merely 'discretionary' uses loaded framing to suggest these are non-essential or wasteful rather than core government functions"}
{"id": "crec_009741", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 64, nays 35, as follows: [[ORG] Vote No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009949", "text": "LETTERS OF RESIGNATION [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the letters from Senator [PERSON] regarding his resignation from the Senate be printed in the Record. The letters follow: There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [ORG], Washington, DC, January 20, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004558", "text": "Let me repeat that: Greece today can sell a 10-year bond almost a full percentage point cheaper than the United States. Does anyone understand there is a risk premium? If you screw around with this stuff, there is a thing called a term premium.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'Let me repeat that' followed by 'screw around with this stuff' uses casual dismissive language and emphasis through repetition of a key point"}
{"id": "crec_009577", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 558. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain tips shall not be subject to income taxes for a period of 5 years; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002159", "text": "Yet Senate Democrats on the committee have yet to receive basic information about either of these nominees' backgrounds. Republicans choosing to rush nominees is quickly becoming a pattern. It is hard not to wonder: What are the Republicans trying to hide about these nominees from the American people?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["doubt", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "What are the Republicans trying to hide about these nominees from the American people?"}
{"id": "crec_002025", "text": "Congress shall have the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers and all [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Governmetn of the United States, or in any [ORG] thereof.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-44", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002467", "text": "153. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001174", "text": "The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region. The equipment will be purchased from U.S. stock and then overhauled to be ready for use condition by [ORG]. There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this sale.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007451", "text": "NATIONAL MILK DAY ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise before you today to recognize a special day for our dairy farmers, National Milk Day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009729", "text": "The Senator from Idaho. Order of Procedure [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that following disposition of Calendar No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007631", "text": "The blood and the physical and emotional pain caused by these tragedies, the trauma caused by these tragedies, the lifelong trauma of these tragedies, this blood is on the hands of every single Democrat in this body who votes against this bill. It is our birthright as American citizens to live freely and safely in our communities. One woman, one child victimized by one illegal alien is one too many.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "blood is on the hands of every single Democrat; trauma caused by these tragedies; it is our birthright as American citizens"}
{"id": "crec_009357", "text": "[PERSON] nominees focus on cutting costs or will they be more interested in cutting sweetheart deals for Big Business? Will they protect our communities or will they focus on protecting special interests? Will they serve middle-class and working families or will they serve the swamp?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated 'or will they' construction presenting only two opposing options; 'sweetheart deals,' 'swamp,' and 'special interests' are loaded terms"}
{"id": "crec_002918", "text": "By Your [PERSON] and mercy, strengthen our lawmakers for their journey. Prepare them for the ravages of the valley and the chill of the mountain summits. Guide them, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "vague appeals to divine guidance and strength without specific policy content or concrete meaning"}
{"id": "crec_006944", "text": "Many make their living on the app and could face difficulties paying for groceries, rent, or medical care. Others may lose contact with a crucial support system, leaving them isolated and scared. If you don't believe me, then I encourage my colleagues to view the thousands of videos posted by [ORG] users over the past few days explaining why [ORG] is so important to them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "difficulties paying for groceries, rent, or medical care; lose contact with a crucial support system, leaving them isolated and scared; thousands of videos posted by [ORG] users explaining why [ORG] is so important"}
{"id": "crec_009004", "text": "Reverend [PERSON] was born in Noblesville, IN, in 1943, and was raised on his parents' farm in rural Hancock County. From an early age, [PERSON] 's exceptional gift for communication was evident. As a teenager, he hosted his own radio show and graduated as president of his high school class.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001178", "text": "There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [ORG], Washington, DC. Hon. [PERSON] , Chairman, [ORG], [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001406", "text": "As the chairman just pointed out, [ORG] has killed American citizens and holds American citizens hostage as we sit here today. Somehow, it is not a priority for the people of our country that we represent for us to be here on the floor of the House defending our men and women in uniform, defending our citizens, defending our ally, Israel, and the Prime Minister of Israel from a politicized witch hunt by [ORG] which, again, should have and doesn't have any jurisdiction over our people or the people of Israel. I would remind the gentleman from Massachusetts that 42 Democrats voted for this legislation last year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "killed American citizens and holds American citizens hostage; defending our men and women in uniform; politicized witch hunt"}
{"id": "crec_000491", "text": "By Ms. [PERSON] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008017", "text": "The enslavement of the [ORG], the annexation of the Hispanic, and the termination of the American Indian made our [ORG]'s beginning an iniquitous conception because it was born in hypocrisy and dedicated to a false and twisted concept that [ORG] men were superior to non-White men and, therefore, somehow entitled to enslave them, oppress them, and, if necessary, destroy them. In the 200 years since the writing of that preamble to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and all the other pronouncements that America issued to justify, again, its revolution against tyranny, we have surpassed the wildest expectations and aspirations of our Founders. We have gone beyond human measure and created a nation of unparalleled power and unparalleled influence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 119, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated use of charged terms ('enslavement,' 'iniquitous,' 'hypocrisy,' 'twisted') and repetition of 'unparalleled' to emphasize contradictory claims about founding hypocrisy versus national achievement"}
{"id": "crec_000541", "text": "H.R. 71: Mr. [PERSON] and Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois. H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008334", "text": "Members of that committee are well acquainted with Senator [PERSON] 's expertise in foreign policy. He has been a leading voice on these issues here in the Senate and on [ORG] since he arrived here in 2011, and yesterday, his expertise was on full display. Whether he was discussing China, the Middle East, Russia, our alliances, or anything else, our colleague demonstrated his command of international affairs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Members of that committee are well acquainted with Senator [PERSON]'s expertise in foreign policy. He has been a leading voice on these issues...and yesterday, his expertise was on full display."}
{"id": "crec_007765", "text": "To protect us, the government must protect them, especially when it comes to funding. I will work in Congress to ensure our responders have the resources they need and our families are supported in the aftermath of these devastating events.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "protecting from devastating events; responders need resources; families need support"}
{"id": "crec_006716", "text": "If you are for working families, you invest in healthcare, you don't raid it; you invest in housing, you don't raid housing programs; you invest in education, you don't raid education programs. Those are the foundations. Those are the good-paying jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "you invest in healthcare, you don't raid it; frames complex policy choices as binary opposition between investing or raiding"}
{"id": "crec_004946", "text": "And there is a lot of misinformation about this, a lot of misnomers out there, many of them, sadly, repeated by some who call themselves conservatives. You all heard that old saw that 47 percent of American taxpayers, American workers, don't actually pay into the tax system. That is just not true.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["doubt", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "calling out 'misinformation' and 'misnomers' creates doubt about a widespread claim, while positioning the speaker as an authority on the truth by directly correcting the record"}
{"id": "crec_002207", "text": "I was proud to introduce this bill in the Senate with Senator [PERSON] of North Carolina, with his support and leadership, along with Majority Leader [PERSON] and the entire Senate Republican conference, along with support which came from across the aisle from Senators [PERSON] and [PERSON] . I am grateful for the tremendous leadership of Georgia Congressman [PERSON] , who originally introduced and led this piece of legislation through bipartisan passage in the House--not once but twice--literally lapping the Senate. When you look at Representative [PERSON] , that is a true servant leader.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "with his support and leadership, along with Majority Leader [PERSON] and the entire Senate Republican conference, along with support which came from across the aisle"}
{"id": "crec_004324", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. [PERSON] ). Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I have to do a reset here and say: Why are we in here even having to discuss this?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009425", "text": "Founded in 2013, [ORG] began as a firearms and reloading pro shop in [ORG], offering top-quality reloading equipment and a full selection of components. Over time, the business expanded to include custom rifle builds, earning a stellar reputation for craftsmanship. In 2019, they became the first retailer in Idaho to carry precharged pneumatic air guns, shortly before Idaho became the first [ORG] to legalize the use of air guns for hunting all game species.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242-2", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004314", "text": "Female athletes should never be forced to compete against biological men in sports, plain and simple. Allowing biological men to compete in female sports is not only a complete and utter failure to women who have trained their whole lives to achieve their dreams, but it also completely ignores the scientific fact that men and women have clear biological differences that make competing on the same sports team unfair and dangerous. Mr. [PERSON] , last year, the [PERSON] administration tried to push a radical [ORG] change that would have prevented any institution receiving Federal funding from banning biological men from competing in women's sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "complete and utter failure, radical change, unfair and dangerous"}
{"id": "crec_003547", "text": "[ORG] 15. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000220", "text": "As we come to appreciate Your majesty, may Your authority penetrate our consciousness in such a way that we desire nothing more than to yield to Your will in all that we do or decide. Grant that we would also find not just comfort in Your omnipotence, but courage in Your omnipresence, that as we venture into the day You have laid before us, we would find that in You all things are held together. Into Your hands we commend our prayers as we pray them in Your sovereign name.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-2", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "appeals to divine authority through repeated invocations of 'Your majesty,' 'Your authority,' 'Your omnipotence,' and 'Your omnipresence'; uses vague positive language like 'comfort,' 'courage,' and 'all things are held together'"}
{"id": "crec_004137", "text": "The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-5", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007600", "text": "Let me be clear: We know that Federal law already allows deportation, demands deportation for individuals convicted of domestic violence. H.R. 30 doesn't strengthen the protection of survivors--it weaponizes them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "Claims the bill 'weaponizes' survivors; mischaracterizes the bill's intent rather than addressing its actual provisions"}
{"id": "crec_000869", "text": "We are talking about real money. But it is not just programs that got plus-ups during the pandemic. Let's take a look, for example, at the IRS.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001897", "text": "A bill to increase the maximum reward amount for information leading to the arrest and conviction of [ORG] to $100,000,000, which shall be paid out by [ORG] from all assets being withheld from [PERSON] , officials of the [ORG] regime and their co-conspirators; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Ohio, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Washington, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Framing a foreign organization and officials as a 'regime' with 'co-conspirators' uses charged language that presupposes guilt and danger, combined with the massive $100,000,000 reward amount designed to appeal to fear of the threat posed"}
{"id": "crec_004426", "text": "Girls and women lose a fair chance to compete when a biological male enters the field. We can't let women's sports become collateral damage in the far left's campaign against a traditional science-based understanding of sex. Allowing women and girls to suffer for the sake of the dishonesty of wokeness is inexcusable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "Girls and women lose a fair chance to compete; women's sports become collateral damage; women and girls to suffer"}
{"id": "crec_004383", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , may I inquire as to how much time I have remaining. [SPEAKER]. The gentleman from Michigan has 3\\1/2\\ minutes remaining.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001340", "text": "A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006689", "text": "There is not a single voter that I know--not a single voter that I know--that I have interacted with who says: You know what. Gosh, I wish the highest corporate tax rate were just a little bit lower. Gosh, I wish the 15-percent minimum billion-dollar corporation tax were rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["repetition", "strawman"], "evidence": "not a single voter that I know--not a single voter that I know--that I have interacted with"}
{"id": "crec_000564", "text": "1 with my leadership. I look forward to working with my colleague Senator [PERSON] to represent the people of Iowa and bring their views to the policymaking tables. The two of us will work with our colleagues--Congresswoman [PERSON] , Congresswoman [PERSON] , Congressman [PERSON] , and Congressman [PERSON] --across the Capitol to represent the good people of Iowa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-4", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008470", "text": "The Senator from North Carolina. Honoring Officer [PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the service and sacrifice of Greensboro Police Officer [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007610", "text": "It is time to replace the slap-on-the-wrist approach with law and order. I genuinely believe that this legislation is part of our mandate from the American people, and we should send this legislation to [PERSON] desk for signature on day one. On Tuesday, I was very encouraged to see 48 of my Democrat colleagues vote for the commonsense protection of Americans by voting for [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "slap-on-the-wrist approach, mandate from the American people, 48 of my Democrat colleagues vote"}
{"id": "crec_004277", "text": "Every child should be able to join a team that is consistent with their gender and benefit from sports. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. [PERSON] ), who is an incoming member of the [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007494", "text": "The alleged murderer entered the country through border czar [PERSON] wide-open southwest border. [PERSON] spoke about how [PERSON] and [PERSON] released at the border the two illegal aliens who went on to viciously assault and murder her 12-year-old daughter, [PERSON] . Ms. [PERSON] said she had no clothing from the waist down.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "alleged murderer, wide-open southwest border, viciously assault and murder, no clothing from the waist down"}
{"id": "crec_006909", "text": "In other words, what they say is that they are trying desperately to find highly skilled American workers to do their jobs; just can't find them; just not there. In my view, [PERSON] and the other billionaires who are strongly supporting [ORG] are dead wrong. American workers are there; they are just not looking for them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "calling billionaires 'dead wrong' and presenting only two options: either workers don't exist or companies aren't looking for them, ignoring other possible explanations"}
{"id": "crec_009262", "text": "SA 80. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. __.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006128", "text": "28, [ORG] of 2025. This legislation seeks to make sure women and girls have the opportunity to compete on a fair playing field by requiring schools to comply with [ORG] recognition of a person's gender at birth. Competing in girls' sports as a kid gave me strength, taught me resilience, and helped me form lifelong friendships.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "personal anecdote about strength, resilience, and lifelong friendships paired with legislation framing; 'fair playing field' and 'opportunity' are vague positive appeals"}
{"id": "crec_004624", "text": "They can form families. They can do all these other things. We have States where more than half of the population is technically obese, and we are paying for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing obesity as something 'we are paying for' combines emotionally charged framing with implicit threat to collective interests"}
{"id": "crec_001920", "text": "A bill to amend chapter 4 of title 39, United States Code, to require [ORG] to use a mobile retail unit to provide retail postal services to an area when the post office for such area is temporarily unable to provide such services, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By Mr. [PERSON] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005352", "text": "[SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 36. [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000184", "text": "On that day, lawlessness and mob violence sought to bring democracy to its knees. Staff and Members of Congress hid beneath desks, barricaded the doors of their offices; rioters smashed windows and ransacked offices and broke into the Senate and [ORG]. Insurrectionists waved [ORG] flags and donned Nazi symbols.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "lawlessness and mob violence sought to bring democracy to its knees; rioters smashed windows; Insurrectionists waved flags and donned Nazi symbols"}
{"id": "crec_003043", "text": "A bill to require [ORG] to install baby changing tables in bathrooms on passenger rail cars; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 72. A bill to remove aliens who fail to comply with a release order, to enroll all aliens on the ICE nondetailed docket in the [ORG] to Detention program with continuous GPS monitoring, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-4", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002302", "text": "In 2022, serious allegations were reported to my office regarding improper treatment of students and the wrongful termination of an employee at [ORG]. In response, I contacted the Director of [ORG], urging the [ORG] to address these issues. Although the [ORG], of course, assured me in March of 2023 that changes would be made to alleviate my concerns, we continued to hear and continue to hear from students and staff reporting the problems and reporting that those problems that were reported back then were not being addressed adequately.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "assured me in March of 2023 that changes would be made...we continued to hear...that those problems...were not being addressed adequately"}
{"id": "crec_004571", "text": "So far this fiscal year, we are borrowing about $10 billion a day. I think it will come in at $6 billion, $7 billion a day once we get tax receipts in April. I am trying to explain the fragility.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "fragility - emotionally charged term used to describe fiscal borrowing rather than neutral language like 'fiscal challenge' or 'deficit situation'"}
{"id": "crec_005993", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the passage of the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009075", "text": "S. 84 At the request of Ms. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of S. 84, a bill to require [ORG] to take into custody certain aliens who have been charged in the United States with a crime that resulted in the death or serious bodily injury of another person, and for other purposes. S. 92 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 92, a bill to require Senate approval before the United States assumes any obligation under a WHO pandemic agreement and to suspend funding for the [ORG] until such agreement is ratified by the Senate. S. 103 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of [ORG], a bill to amend [ORG] from [ORG] to extend the deadline by which [ORG] must be sold in order to avoid being banned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-2", "word_count": 187, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008101", "text": "A bill to direct the Secretary of [ORG] to delay the implementation of electronic clinical quality metrics for accountable care organizations, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Connecticut, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 484.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 147, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007917", "text": "They don't want the salt to intrude too far up and get into other areas where people draw water or it might affect fish. Even the effluent is something we need to work on, too. A lot of the cities around the delta have sewer treatment systems that sometimes don't keep up.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009302", "text": "AUTHORITY FOR COMMITTEES TO MEET [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I have six requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS234-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002212", "text": "Our bill would also ensure that States have standing to bring civil action against [ORG] officials who refuse to enforce mandatory detention and enforcement provisions of our current immigration laws, as well as statutory limitations on grants of immigration parole, or officials who violate those laws. I know and my colleagues know that our bill is as necessary as it is straightforward. The House, as I mentioned, has lapped us in the Senate by passing this twice, under the leadership of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "claiming the House has already passed this 'twice' and invoking their leadership as validation; describing the bill as 'necessary as it is straightforward' without substantive justification"}
{"id": "crec_003962", "text": "We have a direct threat to consumer choice. Indeed, this is what Governor [PERSON] wants us to have, fires that burn out our vehicles. We need to have him stand aside and let President [PERSON] lead the way on allowing us to have our vehicles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "direct threat to consumer choice; fires that burn out our vehicles; stand aside and let President lead"}
{"id": "crec_006529", "text": "He is President [PERSON] 's nominee to be Secretary of [ORG]. For the safety and security of our Nation, [PERSON] deserves a swift, swift confirmation. I am going to vote for him to be the next Secretary of [ORG], and I believe that vote is going to happen soon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "For the safety and security of our Nation...deserves a swift, swift confirmation"}
{"id": "crec_006598", "text": "Our Republican conference is completely unified behind [ORG], and we have managed to win over a majority of Senate Democrats for the bill's initial consideration, including two who have signed on as cosponsors. As my Democrat colleague from Pennsylvania has noted, the failure to pass this bill would represent everything that is wrong with Congress. The truth is, the American citizens have had enough talk, especially after these last 4 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Republican conference is completely unified, majority of Senate Democrats won over, Democrat colleague's statement cited as authority"}
{"id": "crec_008036", "text": "The reason that they gave was this--this is not just me sort of speculating about their reasons--this is literally what the commissioners said in a public meeting. They said that they do not like [PERSON] political posts on X on completely unrelated topics, and so to punish him, they were going to reject the proposal that wasn't just from SpaceX but from the U.S. military itself in order to do more launches. That told us everything about what [ORG] is all about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "commissioners 'punish him' by rejecting military proposal; characterization of disagreement as vindictive retaliation designed to undermine legitimate defense interests"}
{"id": "crec_008354", "text": "We Democrats will continue the legacy that President [PERSON] created, continue fighting for working families, and make sure that everyone in America--not just the uberwealthy--has a fair shot. TikTok Mr. President, now on [ORG], the 170 million Americans who use [ORG] are rightfully asking the same question: What will happen to the app after the ban enters into effect next week? Today, I want to say a few words about protecting [ORG]'s future while also protecting America's national security at the same time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "legacy that President created, fighting for working families, fair shot, protecting America's national security"}
{"id": "crec_006996", "text": "As my colleague said, [ORG] will not let them be sold. That, in and of itself, should tell you everything you need to know about this. If [ORG] is refusing [ORG] to sell [ORG] to an American buyer, you know they are using it to push their propaganda and to collect data on us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "colleague said [ORG] will not let them be sold; using it to push propaganda and collect data on us"}
{"id": "crec_007457", "text": "Full stop. We didn't put conditions on our [ORG] aid when Louisiana was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, when communities from Florida and North Carolina were swamped by Hurricane Helene, when Iowa faced destruction from high winds and flooding, when a train derailed in Ohio polluting local waterways and the air, or when Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. This time should be no different.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-4", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["bandwagon", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Listing multiple disaster relief precedents without conditions to establish that current aid should follow the same pattern, implying only two options: aid without conditions or breaking precedent"}
{"id": "crec_009935", "text": "And Americans kneel to God and to God alone. Amen. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Americans kneel to God and to God alone"}
{"id": "crec_004715", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 391. A bill to amend [ORG] from [ORG] to extend the deadline by which [ORG] must be sold in order to avoid being banned; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006641", "text": "Record amounts of deadly drugs have also flown into our country since President [PERSON] opened our borders. We experienced this directly in Nebraska. In 2019, when I was Governor, Nebraska law enforcement took 46 pills laced with fentanyl off of our streets--46.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Record amounts of deadly drugs have also flown into our country since President [PERSON] opened our borders"}
{"id": "crec_004390", "text": "H.R. 28 and S. 9 do nothing to address the fact that college women have almost 60,000 fewer athletic opportunities to play than men, or that high school girls have over 1 million fewer opportunities than boys to play sports. It fails to take any steps to open opportunities for women and girls of color, who are disproportionately impacted by these disparities in participation opportunities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of stark numerical disparities (60,000 fewer, 1 million fewer) presented without context to emotionally charge the argument about opportunity gaps"}
{"id": "crec_007856", "text": "We will have the things in place that are going to make it resilient. I think it is pretty fair to ask, if billions are going to be sent to anybody after a hurricane or after a flood, what are you doing in the flood zone about making sure you have strong levees or maybe not actually building in a particular floodplain that is highly vulnerable, and in these other zones? It is reasonable to ask these questions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Presents a false choice between receiving disaster aid and having preventive infrastructure, using loaded language ('highly vulnerable') to frame the dilemma as an either/or scenario"}
{"id": "crec_009846", "text": "(Applause.) I return to the Presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "thrilling new era of national success, tide of change, sunlight pouring over the entire world, America has the chance"}
{"id": "crec_009340", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001563", "text": "The ceremony was beautiful, appropriate, uplifting, and hopeful. I had the privilege of serving him during his term in [ORG], and I can attest to the man he was: faithful, honorable, patriotic, measured, disciplined, and pensive, with the most genial, broad smile that came from growing up in a real community of family and friends. He was a selfless, true American patriot.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "faithful, honorable, patriotic, measured, disciplined, and pensive... selfless, true American patriot"}
{"id": "crec_008557", "text": "So, yes, California will need you for the long haul. And to President-elect [PERSON] , I, too, invite you to tour Altadena and [ORG], which, by the way, is about 30 miles from your golf course in [ORG]. Come meet the first responders.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Come meet the first responders"}
{"id": "crec_002817", "text": "What is [PERSON] going to do? Well, he wants to blame it on climate change. Time and time again, we are hearing about climate change and we are hearing about carbon dioxide.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["strawman", "repetition"], "evidence": "misrepresents opponent's position as 'blame it on climate change' and repeats 'we are hearing about climate change' and 'we are hearing about'"}
{"id": "crec_004471", "text": "The question is on the motion to recommit. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 208, nays 218, not voting 8, as follows: [Roll No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007863", "text": "We need to repair things, but what is the timeline for that? They emptied that 117-million-gallon reservoir last February. My understanding of it is that they waited a couple of months to start to put out a bid for the repairs that were needed on the cover of the reservoir.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009090", "text": "This past fire season was especially devastating in Northern Wyoming. I was on the frontlines thanking the firefighters in Wyoming this summer. We had the House Draw fire in [PERSON] County, the [PERSON] fire that spanned [PERSON] and [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005450", "text": "Removal of conditional basis of permanent resident status. [ORG]. 105.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005884", "text": "This bill would be the first step in establishing an informal tax treaty with our ally Taiwan. Currently, Taiwan is our largest trading partner without a tax treaty. Through fair and reciprocal tax treatment, [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "fair and reciprocal tax treatment"}
{"id": "crec_007759", "text": "CONGRATULATING COCOA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today with great pride to congratulate the remarkable [ORG] football team for their third consecutive [ORG] championship.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH204-5", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000348", "text": "They declared themselves a super sanctuary city. Nobody is going to be held for ICE. You get to explain to the victim of [PERSON] , a 25- year-old illegal alien from Guatemala, charged with molesting and raping a 5-year-old little girl.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "graphic description of criminal act combined with sanctuary city policy to create emotional distress and present only two extreme positions"}
{"id": "crec_008993", "text": "Conflicting lawsuits in [ORG] courts around the country would paralyze our immigration enforcement system, ultimately jeopardizing public safety. I am disappointed that this amendment failed to pass. I urge my colleagues to work in a bipartisan way to improve this bill to keep our communities safe while ensuring that our immigration enforcement officials can focus on the greatest public safety risks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "conflicting lawsuits would paralyze our immigration enforcement system, ultimately jeopardizing public safety"}
{"id": "crec_007668", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in opposition to H.R. 30. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006488", "text": "That is the Senate's role. We will have a debate, and we will aim to produce the strongest bill that we can pass into law. That is our goal, and I hope our Democrat colleagues are as interested in making a law as we are.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005500", "text": "The Secretary shall provide an alternative procedure for aliens who are unable to provide such biometric or biographic data because of a physical impairment. (b) [ORG] Secretary shall use biometric, biographic, and other data that the Secretary determines appropriate to conduct security and law enforcement background checks and to determine whether there is any criminal, national security, or other factor that would render the alien ineligible for adjustment of status under this division, on either a conditional or permanent basis. The status of an alien may not be adjusted, on either a conditional or permanent basis, unless security and law enforcement background checks are completed to the satisfaction of the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007711", "text": "After spending 10 years as a nun, [PERSON] moved to [ORG], where she would marry her beloved [PERSON] and raise two children. Once she settled in our community, Mrs. [PERSON] taught math with [ORG] and became a very active member of our community. She donated her time and energy to organizations like the YMCA and [ORG] and [PERSON] of Orange County.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001094", "text": "Their title is ambiguous, and they are in an [ORG] you have never heard of. The [PERSON] case that [ORG] just recently heard dealt a significant blow to the power of the administrative state. It involved [ORG], which was attempting to force fishermen in that case to pay out of their own pocket for Federal observers on their own boats.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Their title is ambiguous, and they are in an [ORG] you have never heard of"}
{"id": "crec_009068", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 139. A bill to amend [ORG] to reauthorize and extend [ORG] program, and for other purposes; to [ORG], [ORG], and Pensions. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 140.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002546", "text": "The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 189. The question was taken; and (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004811", "text": "Again, you can't be pro-worker and be for [PERSON] . He has spent years--years--pushing for trillions in cuts to America's social safety net--something that would cause immediate and severe harm to tens of millions of American citizens. We all know Mr. [PERSON] 's history very well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "you can't be pro-worker and be for [PERSON]; years--years--pushing; immediate and severe harm to tens of millions"}
{"id": "crec_000137", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Our Father in Heaven, on this January 6, as our lawmakers prepare to validate the 2024 election results, we praise You because of the greatness of Your faithfulness. Lord, we thank You for reminding us of the fragility of freedom, for the vigilance we must pay to sustain it, and for the redemptive freedom You offer us through Your sacrificial love.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-2", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of religious authority ('Our Father in Heaven') combined with patriotic framing ('fragility of freedom,' 'sustain it') to appeal to transcendent values"}
{"id": "crec_009897", "text": "The American people have spoken. (Applause.) I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'The American people have spoken' and 'never believe that something is impossible'"}
{"id": "crec_005033", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution ([PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS136-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008545", "text": "It is people like a woman in Altadena who was 9 months pregnant when the Eaton fire burned down not just her home but the new nursery that she had prepared. And it is the 66-year-old man who stayed to try to protect the home that had been in his family for five decades but who was found dead with a garden hose in his hand. You can imagine his last moments.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "vivid imagery of death ('found dead with a garden hose in his hand') and emotional manipulation ('You can imagine his last moments') designed to evoke fear and emotional distress"}
{"id": "crec_000942", "text": "We are spending $8 billion a year on buildings that are mostly empty. Most businesses in America would say that is a waste of money. I am going to find a way to do that less, except [ORG] doesn't do that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "describing buildings as 'mostly empty' and calling it a 'waste of money' uses loaded language; 'Most businesses in America would say' appeals to bandwagon/consensus"}
{"id": "crec_008060", "text": "We thank [PERSON] for the legacy he built and his devotion to the global fight against sex trafficking. As [ORG] moves into its 20-year anniversary, [ORG] will continue to spread [PERSON] 's legacy and his transformative work. He had a heart for service that seemed to fill the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "legacy he built, heart for service that seemed to fill the world, transformative work"}
{"id": "crec_004017", "text": "[PERSON] to [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I extend a warm welcome to the thousands of Iowans, including the hundreds from Iowa's First Congressional District, who are traveling to Washington, D.C., to attend President [PERSON] 's inauguration. I know that many of them are making the journey with their families, friends, and fellow community members.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001047", "text": "Again, if you are one of those families in need and it is taking 40 days to process that application, what is that saying about how we think about it? We set a goal of getting applications done in 10 days. We hit that all the way up until we hit the pandemic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Setting up a contrast between 'families in need' waiting 40 days versus a 10-day goal, with the implication that current delays represent a failure in caring for vulnerable people"}
{"id": "crec_007897", "text": "I will talk about mining for a moment. California is trying to push these mandates instead of focusing on the stuff people need, such as highways that flow and water being stored. Let's look at the dam there.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presenting mandates versus highways and water storage as mutually exclusive either/or choices; characterizing mandates with dismissive 'instead of' framing"}
{"id": "crec_006875", "text": "Let me give you an example. Back in 2022, when Republicans passed [ORG] laws that included commonsense election integrity measures, like voter ID, Democratic Leader [PERSON] criticized these initiatives, which were intended to ensure the integrity of our elections. You would think that would be a no-brainer, that everybody would want to embrace measures that would protect the integrity of our elections.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "describing election measures as 'commonsense' and 'integrity measures' while implying opposition to them is illogical ('You would think that would be a no-brainer')"}
{"id": "crec_008362", "text": "On the Democratic side, we want answers to the things Americans are worried most about: What does [PERSON] agenda mean for jobs, for inflation? What are [PERSON] 's tariffs going to do to people's bottom lines? Will it send prices shooting up?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Will it send prices shooting up?"}
{"id": "crec_001946", "text": "A bill to repeal the natural gas tax; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 314.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002167", "text": "It is true. It is amazing. He can translate the most complex policy into clear and direct essentials, while grasping the core, difficult political issues at play.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "He can translate the most complex policy into clear and direct essentials, while grasping the core, difficult political issues"}
{"id": "crec_005229", "text": "1401 et seq. ), an alien granted permanent resident status on a conditional basis shall be considered to have been admitted to the United States, and be present in the United States, as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence. (2) Limitation on application for naturalization.--An alien may not apply for naturalization while the alien is in permanent resident status on a conditional basis.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006941", "text": "The Senator from Massachusetts. Unanimous Consent Request--S. 103 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise today to stop the unnecessary and devastating consequences that will result from a ban on [ORG] in the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "unnecessary and devastating consequences that will result from a ban"}
{"id": "crec_007826", "text": "Here is another example of a forested area. This part on the right is an area that had burned out a long time ago on public land. Over here, the fire affected this private land as the government's fire basically spreads into everybody's land.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "the government's fire basically spreads into everybody's land"}
{"id": "crec_002082", "text": "ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Under clause 7 of rule [ORG], sponsors were added to public bills and resolutions, as follows: H.R. 21: Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] of New Jersey, Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 129, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001757", "text": "She made it clear that, while she did not win, she respected the process and announced the winner. I think that Vice President [PERSON] can forever know that she has brought this country to another place. Many countries around the world envy what we were able to do this year and this week, juxtaposed to what did not occur 4 years ago, when a mob disrupted the process at the behest of the President of the United States of America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["flag_waving", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "Many countries around the world envy what we were able to do this year...juxtaposed to what did not occur 4 years ago"}
{"id": "crec_001315", "text": ". .'' America is experiencing an ongoing war, as witnessed in New Orleans, in Las Vegas, and a plot to kill in Florida.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-3", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing incidents as 'war' and listing violent events to create sense of ongoing threat and danger"}
{"id": "crec_005108", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (FL) (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] ([ORG]). [ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] (Chair), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] ([ORG]), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS140-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003923", "text": "With the support of her loving family, especially her mother, she began her singing journey at the age of 7, participating in local talent shows. By the time she was 10, she won first place in the Erie County Fair talent competition. Since then, Sydney has performed the national anthem at a Buffalo Bills football game, countless times for the Buffalo Bisons baseball team, and this year at a [ORG] hockey game.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116-2", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004035", "text": "The Republic of Haiti continues to experience heightened violence and political instability, which is why, as co-chair of [ORG], I continue to advocate for humanitarian aid to our ally, [ORG] for migrants, strategic trade partnerships for economic prosperity, and an end to deportations to Haiti. Even with just a few days remaining in the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration, we must prioritize stability for Haitians on the island and in the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "as co-chair of [ORG], I continue to advocate; our ally"}
{"id": "crec_004247", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. [PERSON] ), a member of the [ORG] and [ORG] and a strong leader in protecting womanhood, girls, and [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "describing someone as 'a strong leader in protecting womanhood, girls' uses vague positive language and appeals to authority by highlighting committee memberships"}
{"id": "crec_007801", "text": "Maybe it will shift somewhat and give the firefighters a better chance to get ahead of it. We know they are valiantly fighting. As it is right now firefighters are coming from all over the [ORG] and neighboring States as well, to weigh in on that with the aircraft, the equipment, and the firefighters on the ground to make the stand.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "valiantly fighting"}
{"id": "crec_007103", "text": "Heath was inspired to join [ORG] from his dad--an [ORG] veteran--and his brother, who is currently a lieutenant colonel in [ORG]. Heath decided to open two small businesses that employ Alabamians in his community. He developed an interest in vegetation management while doing summer jobs as a teenager, but credits the skills learned in the military for helping him build a successful company.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183-3", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001555", "text": "On behalf of all of her friends from Southeast Polk, all of the students she taught, and all the lives she continues to inspire, may Mrs. [PERSON] rest in peace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "all of her friends from Southeast Polk, all of the students she taught, and all the lives she continues to inspire"}
{"id": "crec_009645", "text": "We fulfilled the sacred commandment handed down to us by the [ORG] nearly two and a half centuries ago. We observed the inauguration of [PERSON] , the 47th President of the United States. I congratulate President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'sacred commandment' and 'inauguration of the 47th President' evoking national tradition and civic duty"}
{"id": "crec_008938", "text": "The failure of any witness to secure counsel shall not excuse such witness from complying with a subpoena or deposition notice. [PERSON] transcripts. An accurate electronic or stenographic record shall be kept of the testimony of all witnesses in executive and public hearings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000932", "text": "I don't know a single one of the great 4 million Oklahomans that if I went to their house today, knocked on their door, and said: Is [ORG] the most efficient body in the country, that they would say yes. This should not be a partisan issue that government should be more efficient. Every single dollar that is spent was taken from an American in tax dollars or was borrowed so that their children would have to pay for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing government as inefficient with tax dollars 'taken from an American' and borrowed 'so that their children would have to pay for it' uses emotional language to frame government spending negatively"}
{"id": "crec_009710", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. [SPEAKER]. We can make this bill better and stronger by focusing on the actual threats to public safety and protecting nonviolent kids from getting locked up, stripped away from their parents, schools, churches, and communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'stripped away from their parents, schools, churches, and communities' and 'actual threats to public safety'"}
{"id": "crec_002644", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 332. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that floor plan financing includes the financing of certain trailers and campers; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009160", "text": "Wildland firefighters do not shy away from dangerous situations, but instead risk life and limb to help others. The outstanding accomplishments of these brave individuals continue an unparalleled legacy of public service. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "outstanding accomplishments, brave individuals, unparalleled legacy of public service"}
{"id": "crec_004588", "text": "The same thing with my 9- year-old daughter. That is both funny and actually true. Think of this: A child born today, when they are about 22, 23, the United States has to double every single U.S. tax--tariffs, income, corporate, everything--just to maintain baseline services.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "A child born today, when they are about 22, 23, the United States has to double every single U.S. tax...just to maintain baseline services"}
{"id": "crec_001396", "text": "Ironically, these sanctions could actually undermine those efforts. Mr. [PERSON] , I want the United States and Israel to have an amazing relationship and friendship, but friendship means we tell the truth. It means we hold ourselves and our allies to the same high standards.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "friendship means we tell the truth and hold ourselves and our allies to the same high standards"}
{"id": "crec_009093", "text": "In the Senate, I have been working to promote effective forest management practices at every level. So today I have introduced a bill called the Wildfire Prevention Act. My bill allows [ORG] to treat more acres and remove more redtape to better protect our forests and our fellow Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'effective forest management practices' and 'remove more redtape' use vague positive framing without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_008061", "text": "[PERSON] will be deeply missed. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001619", "text": "[PERSON] was born in Fresno, California. After graduating from San Joaquin Memorial High School, she pursued a career in real estate investment, property management, and newspaper distribution. [ORG] played a critical role in protecting local journalism with her husband, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000701", "text": "[Pages [PERSON] ] MEASURE READ THE FIRST TIME--S. 9 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I understand that there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-5", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004028", "text": "That is why we have a mass incarceration crisis. Nearly one in two adults in America has had an incarcerated loved one. Today, in the name of all who have felt the injustices of the carceral state, we are standing united to call on President [PERSON] to use his clemency powers to release people from prison and reunite them with their families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "mass incarceration crisis, injustices of the carceral state"}
{"id": "crec_004347", "text": "They are already self-conscious about their bodies. They just want to be on the soccer field with their friends. They certainly do not want to be humiliated by Members of Congress.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "self-conscious about their bodies, humiliated by Members of Congress"}
{"id": "crec_004207", "text": "H.R. 28 is the only path forward. It is shameful that the opposition party does not support the protection of women.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "H.R. 28 is the only path forward; characterizing opposition as not supporting protection of women"}
{"id": "crec_005718", "text": "The water increases have happened since 1992. The legislation here increased another 800,000 acre-feet per year. Then it is built up from there to, hopefully, or somehow help the delta smelt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005673", "text": "Congratulations again to the Brownsburg Bulldogs. Honoring Dr. [PERSON] on His Retirement [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , today I rise to honor Dr. [PERSON] , who recently retired from his position as a professor of agricultural sciences education and communication at [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009410", "text": "The President's announcement sends an important, overdue message to women and girls that they are equal under the law. Mr. President, I believe this is a moment of historic importance, and it is the culmination of a century of effort to bring equality into the American Constitution with the 28th Amendment. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'historic importance', 'equality under the law', 'equal under the law' - vague appeals to broad positive values without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_001801", "text": "Because if you make your deposits in [ORG], you expect your interests to come from [ORG]. You may get some from someplace else, but you expect [ORG] to perform. If you put your money into a Democratic corporation, you expect Democratic dividends.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing deposits as either going to [ORG] for expected returns or to a 'Democratic corporation' for 'Democratic dividends' - presents a false choice between two opposing options while using charged language"}
{"id": "crec_002431", "text": "152, [ORG], is a commonsense bill that is going to streamline and consolidate the collection of information following a disaster. While [ORG] is the lead Federal agency on disasters, there are often many Federal agencies involved in disaster response and recovery. I have experienced firsthand just how frustrating it can be when these [ORG] agencies fail to work together following a natural disaster.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "described as a 'commonsense bill' without substantive explanation of what makes it commonsense"}
{"id": "crec_001775", "text": "In fact, it was in Shelby County v. [ORG] that the Voting Rights Act was weakened greatly when section 4 of it was declared unconstitutional and the preclearance portion of it in section 5 could no longer be exercised. This Voting Rights Act would have helped to reinstate a version of the preclearance process. This Voting Rights Act would have helped to allow people to vote without fear of having the hours set such that it didn't help persons who might work late hours.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006596", "text": "The American people demand change. The American people want us to fix this system that failed to uphold the law and failed to keep [PERSON] safe. Her cause is their cause.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'The American people demand change' and 'failed to uphold the law' frame shared grievance and invoke collective will"}
{"id": "crec_005617", "text": "For the past 12 years, [PERSON] has dedicated himself to Guadalupe County as commissioner for precinct 1, transforming the county and ensuring the foundation for a brighter future. Mr. [PERSON] , I wish Commissioner [PERSON] a joyful retirement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "transforming the county and ensuring the foundation for a brighter future"}
{"id": "crec_009537", "text": "Rule XV. Committee Budgets (a) Biennial Budget.--The Chairman, in consultation with the Chairman of each subcommittee, the majority members of the [ORG], and the minority members of the [ORG], shall, for each Congress, prepare a consolidated [ORG] budget. Such budget shall include necessary amounts for staff personnel, necessary travel, investigation, and other expenses of the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007923", "text": "It was supposed to be completed in 2020. They only have a few bridges built and no track laid. They are building it in the central part of the [ORG] from a place called Merced to an almond orchard, somewhere around Bakersfield.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "It was supposed to be completed in 2020. They only have a few bridges built and no track laid."}
{"id": "crec_005812", "text": "REMEMBERING SONNY SMART ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to mourn the loss of [PERSON] , who unfortunately passed away this month at the age of 76.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001788", "text": "They are not pleased with the way the system is functioning. Comprehensive immigration reform could have given us the opportunity to address this issue. It did not pass.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009503", "text": "The Chairman presiding over the hearing may permit oral opening statements by other members of the [ORG] or subcommittee, as appropriate, with the concurrence of the ranking minority member. (2) Questioning of witnesses.--The questioning of witnesses in [ORG] and subcommittee hearings shall be initiated by the Chairman, followed by the ranking minority member and all other members alternating between the majority and minority parties. In recognizing members to question witnesses in this fashion, the Chairman shall take into consideration the ratio of the majority to minority members present and shall establish the order of recognition for questioning in such a manner as not to disadvantage the members of the majority nor the members of the minority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 116, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006494", "text": "I have just been informed by the administration that a deal has been agreed to. It is welcome news that there is an agreement that will free many of the hostages. A cease-fire is very good news for Israel, for America, for the Palestinian people, and particularly for the hostage families, who have waited so long in agony.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "characterizing the deal as 'welcome news' and 'very good news' for multiple parties without specific substantive details"}
{"id": "crec_000027", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 6 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of the [ORG] of Missouri seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 10 votes for President and J.D.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001645", "text": "It does make you honest. Let's walk through a couple of examples. Once again, I have to be careful.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009457", "text": "INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 147. A bill to direct the Administrator of [ORG] to provide grants to air pollution control agencies to implement a cleaner air space program, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243", "word_count": 109, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000547", "text": "212: Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] . [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009439", "text": "[ORG] TO CAMILLE CALIMLIM TOUTON [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize [PERSON] as she concludes her distinguished public service as the 24th Commissioner of [ORG]. Born in Quezon City, Philippines, as the daughter of a [ORG] airman, [PERSON] and her family eventually settled down in Nevada.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001028", "text": "Mr. President, my proposal includes selling off thousands of vacant and underutilized buildings; auditing the IRS to fire the thousands of employees who owe tens of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes; pulling the plug on [ORG]'s billion-dollar boondoggles for gravy trains that never leave the station and electric vehicle stations that aren't charging up anything but debt; bagging the swag and propaganda promoting government programs and Agencies at a cost of $1.5 billion a year; and changing the composition of coins so we stop losing money making money. In fact, there is no better example of the cost of government inefficiency. [ORG] spends 3 cents to produce a penny and 11 cents to produce a nickel.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 117, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "colorful phrases like 'gravy trains,' 'bagging the swag,' and 'pulling the plug' use loaded language; 'government inefficiency' and 'cost' are presented as self-evident problems without substantive argumentation"}
{"id": "crec_004202", "text": "28, and I urge the House to pass this bill. There is no reason we should even be having this conversation right now. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "'There is no reason we should even be having this conversation' - dismissive framing that discourages deliberation"}
{"id": "crec_004025", "text": "Because you want to vilify and harm trans kids, children who should have every right to show up in this world and live and thrive like anyone else. You are punching down at the most vulnerable and exacting harm on everyone. I would ask my colleagues: Have you spoken to any of these children?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem", "strawman"], "evidence": "vilify and harm trans kids... punching down at the most vulnerable... exacting harm"}
{"id": "crec_008560", "text": "Mr. President, I rise today to address the Senate on behalf of the people of California. And I thank my colleague Senator [PERSON] for his leadership during this time of incredible difficulty and strain for our fellow constituents. The unimaginable has happened, and our hearts are broken--a city encircled in a blaze and a perfect storm of fire and wind and with a system stretched beyond its breaking point.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "unimaginable has happened, and our hearts are broken, a city encircled in a blaze, perfect storm"}
{"id": "crec_007659", "text": "It created 16 million new jobs, a roaring stock market, and a revived manufacturing sector. Instead of doing anything to lower the price of groceries, which is what they promised, and to lower the price of energy, which they promised, they come back and basically ask us to pass what is already in the law but they subtract from their duplicative and redundant section the waivers and exceptions that protect the victims and survivors of domestic violence. Instead, they just want to associate all immigrants with criminal delinquency.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "they just want to associate all immigrants with criminal delinquency"}
{"id": "crec_004770", "text": "30: Mr. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] . 33: Ms. [PERSON] and Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-30", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001334", "text": "ELECTING MEMBERS TO CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007037", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Nebraska.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007176", "text": "SA 56. [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 57.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001927", "text": "A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the dairy margin coverage program, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 295.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006730", "text": "Instead, even though companies were only asking for that reduction, our Republican colleagues plummeted and slashed the corporate tax rate not to 28 percent, not to 25 percent but to 21 percent. And they didn't even pay for it--didn't even pay for it. As Senator [PERSON] said, just racked up higher deficits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "plummeted and slashed' uses dramatic, negative language; 'Republican colleagues' combined with criticism implies partisan blame"}
{"id": "crec_005136", "text": "The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening motion. The motion shall not be debatable. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is disposed of shall not be in order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002699", "text": "[[ORG]] CONGRATULATING FLORA SPELLER [PERSON] RETIREMENT FROM WORKING 46 YEARS AT [ORG] ([SPEAKER] Carolina asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER] Carolina. Mr. [PERSON] , after an incredible 46.5 years of working at the local [ORG] in Williamston, North Carolina, [PERSON] , affectionately known as Ms. [PERSON] , is hanging up her uniform and retiring.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007429", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Sovereign God, it is You who searches our hearts, examines our minds, and tests our spirits. And in so doing, You know us intimately and completely. You know when we sit down and when we rise.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002314", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Objection is heard. The bill will be read for a second time on the next legislative day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-2", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001484", "text": "Not only is it a bad bill, but nobody had any opportunity at all to amend it. This has been brought to the floor under a completely closed process. We can't address all the faults that I have just outlined.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "bad bill, completely closed process, can't address all the faults"}
{"id": "crec_002379", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 68. A bill to prohibit the suspension of collections on loans made to small businesses related to [PERSON] , and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 69.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000875", "text": "These are just some examples of the longer list that could save taxpayers as much as $1 trillion over the next 10-year period. And, of course, I think we ought to put it all on the table--the money we spend through discretionary spending, the money we spend through mandatory programs, the money that is spent through the tax code. The child tax credit and the earned income tax credit alone represent $200 billion in spending.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "could save taxpayers as much as $1 trillion over the next 10-year period"}
{"id": "crec_008042", "text": "We had an empty reservoir, for example. Here, just 2 years ago, you had [ORG] rejecting a major augmentation in the region's supply. Mr. [PERSON] , I mentioned the issue related to [PERSON] also undermined our national security, in addition to our ability to innovate and the ability to launch [ORG] satellites.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "undermined our national security, in addition to our ability to innovate and the ability to launch satellites"}
{"id": "crec_007675", "text": "Motion to Recommit [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I have a motion to recommit at the desk. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007477", "text": "PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , pursuant to House Resolution 5, I call up the bill (H.R. 30) to amend [ORG] to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "The title 'PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS' uses loaded language by associating 'illegal aliens' with violence, and appeals to fear by emphasizing a specific threat category to evoke concern about women's safety"}
{"id": "crec_007174", "text": "[ORG] 53. [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 54.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001622", "text": "I will miss her and miss our friendship.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001454", "text": "It attempts to claim jurisdiction and issue sanctions against Israel as we could have predicted, and many of us did who were at that conference watching this ICC form. The [ORG] is an institution without a mandate from the international community, and the ICC must understand that the United States will not allow its overreach to harm U.S. citizens or our allies. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claims ICC lacks 'mandate from the international community' and positions US as enforcer of limits on international institutions"}
{"id": "crec_003674", "text": "1126. DOCUMENTATION OF [ORG] WORK HISTORY. (a) Burden of Proof.--An alien applying for certified agricultural worker status under subtitle A or adjustment of status under subtitle B has the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the alien has worked the requisite number of hours or days required under section 1101, 1103, or 1111, as applicable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006576", "text": "The third crime, as far as we know--there might have been many more, but the third crime, as far as we know, was his murder of [PERSON] . He should have never been in the United States. He should have never been paroled at the border.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on murder and repeated claims about someone 'should have never been' in the country, creating alarm about immigration and public safety"}
{"id": "crec_006611", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I thank my colleague from North Dakota for his comments in support of this legislation. One of the highest priorities of the next administration is securing the southern border, restoring law and order, and reversing the dangerous open border policies of President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'dangerous open border policies' and 'reversing' them frames immigration policy in alarmist terms"}
{"id": "crec_004540", "text": "There was an economic study done by [ORG] and a couple outside groups saying, if Congress can find a way to offset it--and that is hard. You are talking $400 billion a year we would have to find in modernization and changing spending. If Congress could step up and pay for it, you not only maintain current tax policies so our brothers and sisters, all of our taxes don't go up but you get additional growth in the economy because you didn't just pull that much more money out of the economy and then have interest pile up on it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Reference to economic study by [ORG] and outside groups; use of 'additional growth in the economy' as vague positive outcome"}
{"id": "crec_008187", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 52. A resolution recognizing and honoring the work of community organizations and individuals who create and maintain services and educational programs for marginalized groups ensuring the resilience and prosperity of members of the LGBTQIA+ community; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002932", "text": "They will also be asked tough questions about where they stand on the President-elect's stated policies on things that will hurt the middle class, such as tariffs, tax cuts for the wealthy, and undermining policies that lower drug prices. If the President-elect's nominees demonstrate they are qualified and committed to lowering costs, increasing wages, and strengthening our security, Democrats will take that very seriously. But if the President-elect's nominees are going to push policies that make inflation worse and put more money in the pockets of special interests, or duck those important questions, they will be put on the record about their views for all the American people to see.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "phrases like 'policies that will hurt the middle class,' 'undermining policies,' and 'make inflation worse' use emotionally charged language to frame policies negatively; the threat of being 'put on the record' appeals to fear of public scrutiny and accountability"}
{"id": "crec_003900", "text": ". . The online Record has been corrected to read: SA 14.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005801", "text": "Their work is a testament to the character and values of our national champions, as well as the entire Northeast student community. On behalf of Nebraska's [ORG], congratulations to [ORG] men's soccer team on becoming the first in school history to win an [ORG] national title.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-5", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "testament to the character and values of our national champions"}
{"id": "crec_006175", "text": "Additionally, House Republicans this week are standing up for women's safety by bringing to the floor [ORG] Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act to uphold the U.S. border laws and make illegal immigrants who have been convicted of or admitted to sex offenses or domestic violence inadmissible and deportable. This bill is about closing critical gaps in our crimes. Last year, over 20,000 illegal immigrants were not detained for sexual assault.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Last year, over 20,000 illegal immigrants were not detained for sexual assault"}
{"id": "crec_007577", "text": "This bill makes it clear that predators will not be tolerated in the United States. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "predators will not be tolerated in the United States"}
{"id": "crec_006155", "text": "We are battling back here in this Congress with Republican leadership doing so. I appreciate Mr. [PERSON] leading us here tonight, and I thank him for the time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004798", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant executive clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-8", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007871", "text": "The amount of water that flows into the delta right here--this is the middle of the timeline--is about 7 million acre-feet. Lake Oroville and Lake Shasta combined, when they are full, hold 8 million acre-feet, and the amount here in this illustration shows about 6 million of it went flowing out to the Pacific Ocean. People ought to be angry over this, that we are not capturing more of that water and topping off here in the delta.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "People ought to be angry over this, that we are not capturing more of that water"}
{"id": "crec_005091", "text": "A bill to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the [ORG] to finalize and implement certain travel management plans in the State of Utah; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 91. A bill to improve Federal activities relating to wildfires, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008415", "text": "But the truth is, these are not victimless crimes, and they are not the sort of occurrences we want to see happening more frequently. There is a reason why our criminal justice system provides for accountability and punishment in appropriate circumstances. That is to set an example for others not to go down that path and to have some measure of accountability, which is an important part of justice.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "our criminal justice system provides for accountability and punishment"}
{"id": "crec_000709", "text": "I am grateful for all she has contributed to improve our [ORG]'s transportation infrastructure and appreciate our valuable partnership. I know her impact will continue to be felt for generations to come and wish her the best of luck in retirement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS41-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "improve our [ORG]'s transportation infrastructure and appreciate our valuable partnership"}
{"id": "crec_008420", "text": "Do you think the media or our Democratic colleagues would applaud it in the same way? No chance. Conservative philanthropists have been not only not given Medals of Freedom, they have been subjected to endless scrutiny, including politically motivated subpoenas from our Democratic colleagues on [ORG], just this last year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Do you think the media or our Democratic colleagues would applaud it in the same way? No chance. Conservative philanthropists have been not only not given Medals of Freedom..."}
{"id": "crec_008563", "text": "Even so, we must bring a sense of urgency to the recovery and not let it linger. When the flames are finally out, the cleanup begins in earnest, and the rebuilding moves forward with all haste. After the attention of the world has turned away from the raging inferno and its aftermath, ours in this body must not because the loss is immeasurable--lives lost, homes lost, businesses lost, neighborhoods lost, pets lost, memories lost, neighborhoods simply gone in an hour.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "vivid imagery of 'flames,' 'raging inferno,' and repeated enumeration of losses ('lives lost, homes lost, businesses lost') to emphasize urgency and catastrophic impact"}
{"id": "crec_009714", "text": "It touches every aspect of our economy. It directly affects families and often implicates our core values. In their best moments, our parents and grandparents managed to navigate these tough issues by upholding the law and honoring our values.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "our core values, our parents and grandparents, honoring our values"}
{"id": "crec_008629", "text": "We are now talking up to $83 billion for this legislation over the first 3 years to implement it. That is more than the annual budget for the entire [ORG]. That is a lot of money to spend on a bill that is going to cause chaos, punish legal immigrants, and undermine due process in America, all while drawing resources away from true threats.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing the bill as causing 'chaos,' 'punish legal immigrants,' and 'undermine due process' while suggesting it draws resources from 'true threats'"}
{"id": "crec_001750", "text": "Walk on through the storms of life, and you will never walk alone. She proceeded up to the dais. As she stood there announcing the number of electoral votes from the various States, I could see her standing there alone, and I am reminded as she did so of another song.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005202", "text": "Submission of biometric and biographic data; background checks. Sec. 303.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004052", "text": "HONORING DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INCORPORATED [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007474", "text": "Congress needs to send aid and help those suffering immediately, and it should not be controversial. Yet here we are, with Republican leadership refusing to help those in need and wanting to put conditions on lifesaving disaster aid. It is unprecedented and simply cruel to politicize this tragedy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Republican leadership refusing to help those in need, lifesaving disaster aid, unprecedented and simply cruel"}
{"id": "crec_000461", "text": "I am truly honored to be able to be your voice in the people's House. As one of the only Members of [ORG] who created neighborhood service centers, we have already returned over $6.2 million directly back into the pockets of many of my neighbors, invested $52 million in our communities, and assisted more than 10,000 of our families who needed help. As we begin the 119th Congress, I am determined more than ever to continue to fight for clean air, clean water, ending utility shutoffs, holding corporate polluters accountable, lowering the cost of living for working families, protecting [ORG] and [ORG], and growing [ORG], as well as, of course, ensuring equality and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53", "word_count": 123, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "emphasized credentials ('one of the only Members who created neighborhood service centers') combined with vague aspirational goals ('equality and justice for all', 'fight for clean air')"}
{"id": "crec_003205", "text": "The Secretary shall also create a procedure for accepting applications filed by qualified designated entities with the consent of the applicant. (B) Farm service agency [ORG] Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of [ORG], shall establish a process for the filing of applications under this section at [ORG] offices throughout the United States. (4) Evidence of application filing.--As soon as practicable after receiving an application for certified agricultural worker status, the Secretary shall provide the applicant with a document acknowledging the receipt of such application.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001892", "text": "A bill to prohibit the intentional hindering of immigration, border, and customs controls, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 264.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000445", "text": "I must say that the legislation before us and the approach that it embodies reflect a profound disrespect for our criminal justice system and for our constitutional values. To begin with, they want to change the mandatory detention provisions which we have had since 1996 on a bipartisan basis for the last 28 years. We have operated on the basis of criminal conviction, which is obviously congruent with the constitutional demands and values that we have in our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "profound disrespect for our criminal justice system and for our constitutional values; constitutional demands and values"}
{"id": "crec_000132", "text": "30, [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act, do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI. Offered By Mr. [PERSON] The provisions that warranted a referral to [ORG] in H.R. 31, the Protect Our Law enforcement with [ORG] of 2025, do not contain any congressional earmarks, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in clause 9 of rule XXI.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH50-5", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000526", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 235. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-21", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_007665", "text": "For example, in 2023, [ORG] held that a conviction for menacing constituting domestic violence was not a crime involving moral turpitude even though the alien threatened his wife with a knife. [ORG] held that an alien was not removable despite a conviction for involuntary devient sexual intercourse with a 15-year- old. Similarly, courts have found that certain convictions for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, assault of a victim under 12 years old, and annoying or molesting a child are not crimes involving moral turpitude.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "listing of serious crimes (threatening wife with knife, sexual intercourse with minor, assault of child) to evoke concern about judicial decisions"}
{"id": "crec_002886", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: [PERSON] 192 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003243", "text": "1122. RULEMAKING; FEES. (a) Rulemaking.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish in [ORG], an interim final rule implementing this title.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006212", "text": "I don't support it without recognizing our responsibility and our need to cut spending. There ain't no free lunch. You can't make up math.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "ain't no free lunch and you can't make up math - colloquial framing that oversimplifies complex fiscal policy"}
{"id": "crec_002481", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to support this bill. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , the House passed this bipartisan bill on suspension in the 116th, 117th, and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "the House passed this bipartisan bill on suspension in the 116th, 117th, and [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_008518", "text": "The [PERSON] administration published a rule that would destroy title [ORG] which was created to protect women and girls, all in the name of gender equity. You know, not only did Democrats wage war on American culture, they weaponized our justice system, going after President [PERSON] , conservatives, and anyone who dared to oppose their agenda. Just look at how they went after the January 6 protesters, pro-lifers with the FACE Act, parents at the school boards, and the dozens of illegal actions they took against President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "destroy title [ORG], weaponized our justice system, waged war on American culture"}
{"id": "crec_009850", "text": "They are raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country, some of whom are sitting here right now. They don't have a home any longer. That is interesting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'raging through the houses and communities' and emphasis on widespread impact affecting even the wealthy"}
{"id": "crec_008125", "text": "A bill to require assessments for [ORG] designations, authorize certain appropriations for certain fiscal years for Operation Stonegarden, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 507.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 122, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008514", "text": "The Democrats had 4 years to show the country they could govern more effectively than President [PERSON] , but what have they done? What is one thing they have done to make our country better? I can't think of one policy, one law or directive that actually benefited the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'What is one thing they have done to make our country better? I can't think of one thing' - presents only two extremes while dismissing all Democratic achievements"}
{"id": "crec_000507", "text": "A bill to direct the heads of certain departments and agencies of [ORG] to publicly disclose all assassination records and information relevant to the assassination of President [PERSON] , and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, [ORG], [ORG], and [ORG]), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007934", "text": "He is already giddy about how they are going to change L.A. into something else. Is this going to become a new planned community of 15- minute cities and people having limitations on how they are going to live there? Is that what you want?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "uses charged language ('giddy'), raises alarming questions about 'limitations,' presents only negative outcome or implicit rejection as alternatives"}
{"id": "crec_006886", "text": "Well, taken at face value, that sounds pretty good until you start beginning to look at the details about what he says we need to do in order to accomplish that goal. That is where you see--begin to see the huge disconnect. It is in pursuit of another agenda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "sounds pretty good until you start beginning to look at the details... huge disconnect"}
{"id": "crec_007031", "text": "And this bill did not just address [ORG]; it addressed all foreign adversary-owned apps. You raised the question of [ORG]. Well, guess what.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "characterizing apps as 'foreign adversary-owned' uses loaded language; speaker positions themselves as authoritative on the topic by dismissively saying 'guess what' after claiming to have addressed the questioner's concern"}
{"id": "crec_002453", "text": "POST-DISASTER ASSISTANCE ONLINE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 153) to provide for an online repository for certain reporting requirements for recipients of [ORG] disaster assistance, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001661", "text": "There is this lack of understanding. We are borrowing about $70,000 a second. Let's go on and do another one we can get rid of.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "\"borrowing about $70,000 a second\" presented without context to evoke concern; \"lack of understanding\" frames opponents negatively"}
{"id": "crec_008837", "text": "And, of course, praying for everybody in Los Angeles. You know, with a [ORG] and population that big, we all know people. I have a good college roommate buddy of mine [PERSON] , my two sisters-in-law [PERSON] and [PERSON] , they are all being real negatively impacted by that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009297", "text": "SA 90. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the end, add the following: [ORG]. ___.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS234-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006866", "text": "I can tell you that every family across this country has to live within their means and manage their budget--my family, my grandparents, my parents, everybody, every individual. So we should be working together to address this issue. The other option that I have heard from some of my colleagues across the aisle to reauthorize this [ORG] tax bill is they have suggested a pay-for which is to gut [ORG] in order to pay for tax breaks, again, for the wealthiest people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "every family across this country has to live within their means...The other option...is to gut [ORG]...for the wealthiest people"}
{"id": "crec_009910", "text": "Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008569", "text": "The place where my wife and I got married burned to the ground. So many other community institutions vanished: [ORG], gone; [ORG], gone, still smoldering, that temple, when I saw it, and burning inside like an eternal flame, a symbol of God's presence even amidst the unimaginable; the mountains above Altadena, once the scene of such beautiful [ORG] and nature, now charred beyond recognition. Just like Altadena, much of the Palisades are just gone.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "emotionally charged descriptions like 'burned to the ground,' 'vanished,' 'smoldering,' 'charred beyond recognition,' and 'just gone' create visceral impact; repetition of destruction imagery combined with personal loss details intensifies emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_009344", "text": "Israel Mr. President, on the Middle East and Israel, this week has been a long time coming for the families of the Israeli hostages, for civilians in Gaza, and for countless people across the world. A little over an hour ago, Israel's [ORG] voted to approve the ceasefire that negotiators announced earlier this week. It will soon go to the full [ORG] for approval.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002151", "text": "Almost all Americans would agree with that. So it is truly stunning--it is revealing--that Republicans are already spending so much energy trying to figure out the best way to make taxes for the very wealthy even lower. We are already seeing a glaring contrast between how Republicans use their time in power and what Democrats believe in.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Republicans are 'already spending so much energy' on lowering taxes for the wealthy vs. Democrats 'believe in' [implied: fairness/helping regular Americans]; presents only two opposing positions without nuance"}
{"id": "crec_006712", "text": "But now, [PERSON] is coming along, and he says: I campaigned on working Americans, but I want to raid the programs for them and raid the [ORG] to enrich them again. I didn't give them enough the first time around. The rich are not rich enough.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "misrepresents opponent's position as wanting to 'raid the programs' and 'enrich the rich' rather than engaging with actual stated policy; uses charged language like 'raid' to inflame"}
{"id": "crec_006648", "text": "It requires [ORG] to detain people who are breaking our laws. When people come here illegally, and they are breaking our laws, they need to be held accountable. With [ORG], if you are committing theft, burglary, shoplifting, you will be detained and tragedies like [PERSON] can be avoided.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "tragedies like [PERSON] can be avoided; connecting immigration enforcement to preventing crimes like theft and burglary to invoke fear of harm"}
{"id": "crec_004253", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to oppose the GOP child predator empowerment act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "GOP child predator empowerment act"}
{"id": "crec_008209", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Under Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, Congress has the power to regulate commerce among the states, in addition to commerce involving foreign nations and Native American tribes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH222-24", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004700", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] of Nevada, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska): H.R. 377.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006663", "text": "Those who come here illegally and harm our citizens should, without question, be detained so they face justice. Again, folks, this is common sense. We can no longer prioritize illegal immigrants over public safety.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing as a choice between 'prioritize illegal immigrants over public safety' presents a false dichotomy; 'harm our citizens' uses loaded language; appeals to fear about public safety threats"}
{"id": "crec_000798", "text": "After the [PERSON] tax cuts went into effect, the highest income earners in America paid less, effectively, in taxes than the working class for the first time ever. Imagine that. The highest income earners paid less, effectively, in taxes than the working class for the first time ever after the first [ORG] tax cut, and Republicans want to repeat that performance?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Highest income earners paid less in taxes than the working class for the first time ever; Republicans want to repeat that performance"}
{"id": "crec_007596", "text": "I know this work. I remain committed to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to fix a severely broken immigration system, but moreover, I am here to stand up for victims. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "commitment to 'both sides of the aisle' suggests bipartisan credibility; 'severely broken' and 'stand up for victims' use emotionally loaded language"}
{"id": "crec_004093", "text": "Texas also has the largest border with our neighbor to the south, and it will be up to Texas and Texas Democrats to provide meaningful solutions to the problems that we face. I am ready to lead on these important issues. I am thrilled I will be serving on three committees this Congress that will help me deliver these results to make life better for Texas' businesses, middle-class families, and our seniors.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'meaningful solutions' and 'deliver these results to make life better' are vague positive claims without specific detail"}
{"id": "crec_000371", "text": "The taxpayers. Even in a Republican trifecta, [ORG] has limited resources to detain and remove folks. However, in this bill, like President [PERSON] 's enforcement priorities, we seek to use those resources on people who committed low-level crimes or even no crime at all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "references to 'President [PERSON]'s enforcement priorities' to legitimize the position; 'low-level crimes or even no crime at all' uses emotionally charged framing"}
{"id": "crec_004706", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 382. A bill to require [ORG] to collect, calculate, and publish information regarding emissions of carbon dioxide and methane outside the boundaries of the United States that are associated with exports of fossil fuels, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001333", "text": "Following his Presidency, he honored my hometown, Peachtree City, by leading our Independence Day parade in 1995. In 2003, working with [ORG] for Humanity, President [PERSON] built over 20 homes for Georgians in need in [ORG]. I thank [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], and [ORG] for helping to compile this research, allowing me to honor the life and legacy of a remarkable Georgian, the 39th President of the United States of America, [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring Independence Day parade, celebrating hometown legacy, emphasizing presidential service to Georgia"}
{"id": "crec_006958", "text": "We never had any consideration. And it is time for Congress to acknowledge that the rushed passage of this law was a mistake, that we need more time to let the courts and outside parties consider this issue. We need to do a better job of understanding the importance of the [ORG] community and the impact of a [ORG] ban.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "rushed passage of this law was a mistake; need more time to let courts consider"}
{"id": "crec_008411", "text": "Mr. President, it is 4 days until President [PERSON] will be inaugurated for the second time as President of the United States. That means we only have 4 more days of President [PERSON] 's absentee leadership, but he seems to be making the most of his final days as he goes out the door, and he certainly isn't letting it kick him on the way out. I think the most egregious example of the abuse of power, really, that President [PERSON] is engaged in, now that the election is over and he doesn't have to stand for a vote among the American people--so he pretty much has given them a thumb in the eye.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 113, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "absentee leadership, abuse of power, given them a thumb in the eye"}
{"id": "crec_008997", "text": "My prayer is that God would continue to bless and heal this little cowboy so that he can get back to the Treasure State. It is my distinct honor to recognize [PERSON] for his strength and bravery, in and out of the hospital. Know that Montana is rooting you on, just as you cheered for the Bobcats all season.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'God would continue to bless and heal' and 'Montana is rooting you on' invoke patriotic/regional solidarity and divine authority"}
{"id": "crec_009180", "text": "It is not a crisis that we can solve ourselves or that will solve itself. My bill will make us better prepared to fight fires in the future. It should be attached to any disaster relief that goes to California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing the situation as 'not a crisis that we can solve ourselves' creates urgency and fear, while 'make us better prepared to fight fires' uses loaded language implying current inadequate preparation"}
{"id": "crec_000428", "text": "After his arrest for crossing the border illegally in 2022, he was paroled into the United States. Months before murdering [PERSON] , he was arrested for theft. Local authorities in Georgia released him, and ICE didn't lodge a detainer for the alien.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describes immigration enforcement failures immediately preceding a murder, using 'alien' terminology and emphasizing authorities' release of the suspect to suggest culpability in the crime"}
{"id": "crec_006896", "text": "Well, it is [PERSON] FBI. The FBI owes it to the American people to work around the clock, 24/7, to get these background checks done on a timely basis. Otherwise, we are, literally, undermining a democratically elected President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "FBI owes it to the American people; undermining a democratically elected President"}
{"id": "crec_006727", "text": "We don't want to include Democrats. We want to write a bill, and we will write a bill that will pass partisan tax cuts that will dramatically expand the deficit. At this time--and I know my colleagues remember this--economists were saying that America's corporate tax rate of 35 percent was high compared to global averages.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'We don't want to include Democrats' presents inclusion/exclusion as binary choice; 'dramatically expand the deficit' uses loaded language to frame tax cuts negatively"}
{"id": "crec_003983", "text": "Don't get me wrong, Madam Speaker. I recognize that there is more work to be done, but why in the world would we let insincere, attention-seeking politicians here in Washington, many of whom know little to nothing about competitive sports, take over? It doesn't make any sense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "describing opponents as 'insincere, attention-seeking politicians' who 'know little to nothing' and framing as binary choice of 'why would we let them take over'"}
{"id": "crec_009306", "text": "Mass mailing registrations or negative reports can be submitted electronically at http://webster.senate.gov/secretary/ [PERSON] or e-mailed to OPR_MassMailings@sec.senate.gov. For further information, please contact [ORG] at (202) 224-0322.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS234-7", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000976", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. President, thank you to my colleague from Oklahoma, Senator [PERSON] , for arranging today's event. Mr. President, a winter storm shut down the Nation's Capital this week, but did anyone notice?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "a winter storm shut down the Nation's Capital this week, but did anyone notice?"}
{"id": "crec_002365", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: S. 47. A bill to provide for regulations on protecting statutory conscience rights in health care; to [ORG], [ORG], and Pensions. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): S. 48.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002071", "text": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 5", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH93-45", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009565", "text": "868); to [ORG]. EC-54. A letter from [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], transmitting the [ORG]'s final rule -- [ORG] [Docket No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH230-2", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009700", "text": "Instead, it strips law enforcement of their ability to make their best judgment about whom to arrest and not to arrest, whom to detain and not detain, and how to focus their precious resources on protecting our public safety. The proponents of this bill do not deny that children will be swept up in its administration. This is not a drafting error.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "strips law enforcement of their ability, children will be swept up, precious resources"}
{"id": "crec_001901", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New Jersey, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 272.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008419", "text": "Of course, I support the rights of individuals to be generous with their wealth. America is one of the most generous countries in the world, and I think it is something we should be proud of. I imagine how our colleagues on the other side of the aisle might act if Republicans honored a prominent conservative philanthropist.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["whataboutism", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "America is one of the most generous countries in the world...I imagine how our colleagues on the other side of the aisle might act"}
{"id": "crec_002765", "text": "H.R. 151: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Nebraska, and Mrs. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002492", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. [PERSON] ) each will control 20 minutes. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentleman from Missouri.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005198", "text": "Terms of permanent resident status on a conditional basis. [ORG]. 104.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001472", "text": "Thanks. I will remain standing here. Mr. [PERSON] , it appears we will have no more speakers, and I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008672", "text": "In 2014 when President [PERSON] was President--now the value of that dollar is only worth 74 cents. The value of the dollar prior to the pandemic, 2019, is now only worth 80 cents. That is why people can't afford things.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presenting dollar devaluation statistics with emphasis on loss ('only worth 74 cents', 'only worth 80 cents') to suggest economic failure and frame inability to afford things as directly caused by presidential policies"}
{"id": "crec_008733", "text": "I asked [PERSON] to tell me something about [PERSON] , and he said: [PERSON] came to work for me in the House and was such an asset that I asked him to join our Senate press team. [PERSON] always understood how to take advantage of the moment and the value of a clear message. I know Senator [PERSON] and his office will miss [PERSON] when he leaves as much as we did.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "phrases like 'such an asset,' 'understood how to take advantage,' and 'value of a clear message' use vague positive language without specific substantive details"}
{"id": "crec_001761", "text": "Though Vice President [PERSON] stood alone, she stood alone at a time when it was appropriate and necessary. I have said it many times, and I will say it one more. There are times when it is better to stand alone than to not stand at all, as Vice President [PERSON] did, and she shall be remembered in history as bringing us back to the moral high ground.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "stood alone at a time when it was appropriate and necessary... moral high ground"}
{"id": "crec_005064", "text": "MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Messages from the President of the United States was communicated to the Senate by Mr. [PERSON] , one of his secretaries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006607", "text": "He has committed to taking [ORG] action on day one to reinstate the policies that will secure our border. I look forward to these changes and working further to address the crisis created under the [PERSON] - [PERSON] administration. I also look forward to the debate that will take place in the coming weeks regarding how Republicans will secure the border through reconciliation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "border security framed as urgent crisis requiring immediate day one action; language emphasizes threat and need for protection"}
{"id": "crec_009863", "text": "(Applause.) Today, I will sign a series of historic Executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense"}
{"id": "crec_004037", "text": "Madam Speaker, this past weekend, Venezuelan dictator [PERSON] boldly declared his intention to invade and liberate Puerto Rico. As Puerto Rico's Representative before [ORG], I want to let Mr. [PERSON] know an overwhelming majority of Puerto Ricans support a relationship of permanent union or permanent association with the United States, be that as a [ORG] or as a [ORG]. That same overwhelming majority also defends the right of a respectable patriotic minority to advocate and fight for the island's independence through peaceful and democratic means.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-2", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Venezuelan dictator [PERSON] boldly declared his intention to invade and liberate Puerto Rico; permanent union with the United States; defends the right of a respectable patriotic minority"}
{"id": "crec_007145", "text": "EC-81. A communication from the Secretary of the [ORG], transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to the [ORG]'s proposal to accept a gift of lands in Washington County, Utah from [ORG] totaling approximately 715 acres; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS184-7", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004145", "text": "[ORG], Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Kansas, Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Oregon, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . (10) Committee on veterans affairs.--Ms.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-6", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008352", "text": "An oligarchy is beginning to take shape in America, and you can see it by looking at the incoming [ORG] administration. [PERSON] has not even taken office yet, but many of his top advisers and [ORG] picks are extremely wealthy people with deep ties to corporate special interests. Many of these [ORG] picks seem to see the world through the eyes of a very rich and privileged individual--a very limited vision indeed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "oligarchy is beginning to take shape in America; wealthy people with deep ties to corporate special interests; very limited vision"}
{"id": "crec_004791", "text": "And the list goes on. In short, President [PERSON] has done everything he can to set us up for a future of diminished conventional energy production. That is a problem because we are nowhere near being able to rely primarily on alternative energy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-8", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'set us up for a future of diminished conventional energy production' and 'nowhere near being able to rely'"}
{"id": "crec_001827", "text": "He also enjoyed his family life with his wife, [PERSON] , and their son and daughter, [PERSON] and Sarina. The world was a richer place with [PERSON] , and we will sincerely miss him. Recognizing Chief [PERSON] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000383", "text": "Despite multiple arrests on his record in addition to his illegal status, he was released under the [PERSON] administration. Months later, as we all know, he murdered 22-year-old nursing student [PERSON] . There is no other way to put it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "he murdered 22-year-old nursing student; emphasizing victim's age and profession while linking to immigration policy to invoke fear"}
{"id": "crec_005796", "text": "Open borders for dictators put all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent, as warned by the FBI. [ORG] will reinstitute existing laws to protect American families with peace through strength. Best wishes to [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-4", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "open borders for dictators put all Americans at risk of more 9/11 attacks imminent, as warned by the FBI"}
{"id": "crec_001261", "text": "EC-40. A communication from the Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting, pursuant to section 36(c) of [ORG], the certification of a proposed license for the export of firearms, parts, and components controlled under Category I of the U.S. Munitions List to Saudi Arabia in the amount of $1,000,000 or more (Transmittal No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65-7", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002409", "text": "802 and 803). (c) Use of Funds.--Amounts in the Fund shall be used by the Secretary of [ORG] to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern international border of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80-4", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000487", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Ms. [PERSON] of Texas, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Connecticut, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 220. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of [ORG] to provide coverage for infertility treatment and standard fertility preservation services, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000264", "text": "Dr. [PERSON] impacted thousands of students during his 42-year teaching career. In September 2011, [ORG] named their campus tennis complex in honor of Dr. [PERSON] . Additionally, Dr. [PERSON] designed a strong advising program and was the chair of the mathematics and science division at [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001854", "text": "To make matters worse, Governor [PERSON] , when he came into office, started claiming that he was doing forest management, but he wasn't telling the truth. An investigation by [ORG], the local [ORG] affiliate, found that [ORG] had exaggerated the amount of forest management work that had been done, the number of acres treated, he had exaggerated that number by a staggering 690 percent. Our political leaders in California have allowed millions of acres to become overgrown and thereby left our communities in a vulnerable condition.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Governor accused of 'wasn't telling the truth' and exaggerating by '690 percent'; 'left our communities in a vulnerable condition' creates fear about safety"}
{"id": "crec_006638", "text": "Mr. President, President [PERSON] 's open border policies have created a national security, humanitarian, and drug catastrophe in our country. In 2023, law enforcement encounters at the border found 169 people on the FBI's [PERSON] . In previous years, under the [PERSON] administration, that number was in the single digits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing border policies as creating a 'catastrophe' and contrasting current numbers (169) with 'single digits' to suggest dramatic deterioration and danger"}
{"id": "crec_004908", "text": "They are the groups who thought that [PERSON] was too tough on the border and immigration, if that is even possible. We know how far out of touch that is. These are, of course, groups who don't want ICE detaining criminal illegal aliens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing groups as not wanting ICE to detain 'criminal illegal aliens' is a strawman of immigration reform positions; 'criminal illegal aliens' and 'out of touch' are loaded language choices"}
{"id": "crec_009444", "text": "ADDITIONAL COSPONSORS S. 122 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 122, a bill to amend the Revised Statutes to codify the defense of qualified immunity in the case of any action under section 1979, and for other purposes. S. 145 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of S. 145, a bill to require the redesignation of Ansarallah as a foreign terrorist organization.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243-2", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000396", "text": "As a cosponsor of this critical legislation, I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support [ORG]. After all, one of the most formidable ways that Congress can deliver justice for [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and their families is by passing this legislation to prevent additional avoidable tragedies from victimizing the law-abiding citizens of our [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "critical legislation, formidable ways, prevent additional avoidable tragedies, victimizing law-abiding citizens"}
{"id": "crec_007849", "text": "So many things are California problems, we hear time and time again. We have to ask what is going on with the leadership in our [ORG]. I am sorry this has to be a problem for the other 49 States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "So many things are California problems...what is going on with the leadership...I am sorry this has to be a problem for the other 49 States"}
{"id": "crec_004557", "text": "You have got to understand--and I need to double check my math because Great Britain, you saw what they did. They were doing all sorts of tax policy this summer and the pound crashed and their interest rates exploded, but most of the industrialized world actually has lower interest on their 10-year bond than the United States. Greece today can sell a 10-year bond almost a full percentage point cheaper than the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "I need to double check my math; pound crashed and interest rates exploded"}
{"id": "crec_006708", "text": "The Senator from Oregon. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, let's talk about [ORG]'s betrayal of middle-class America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "betrayal of middle-class America"}
{"id": "crec_008500", "text": "We need a Secretary of [ORG] whom we can rely on to keep all of us safe. Frankly, it is hard to imagine a worse choice than [PERSON] . I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "need to 'keep all of us safe' combined with dismissing opponent as 'a worse choice'"}
{"id": "crec_002444", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , as stewards of taxpayer dollars, we need to ensure that we are spending our money as efficiently as possible. Government should work. As we have seen in fires in Oregon, hurricanes in North Carolina and Florida, and currently the horrific fires in Los Angeles, when people suffer from a natural disaster, it is imperative that they get the help that they need.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "stewards of taxpayer dollars, imperative that they get the help"}
{"id": "crec_004877", "text": "We know when President [PERSON] will be sworn in--that is January 20--and we need to make sure that as many members of his [ORG], particularly his national security [ORG], are available to be confirmed when President [PERSON] takes his hand off the Bible. Just 2 days ago, Axios news reported some interesting details, for example, surrounding the Democrats' handling of the nomination of [ORG], President [PERSON] 's choice to be Director of [ORG]. According to this report, Democrats on [ORG] are refusing to work as a team with Republicans to schedule her hearing, citing concerns that her background checks are not yet completed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "refusing to work as a team with Republicans to schedule her hearing; framing Democratic obstruction as blocking national security readiness before inauguration"}
{"id": "crec_004962", "text": "Well, our tax policy ought to reflect that. Our whole national policy ought to reflect that, and we shouldn't shy away from saying that we ought to deliver tax relief and tax cuts on the basis of family formation, on the basis of family size, and, yes, on the basis of family need. Madam President, this is only the beginning.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "ought to reflect that, we shouldn't shy away from saying that we ought to deliver tax relief"}
{"id": "crec_006798", "text": "So our starting point should be: How does this help the paycheck for the working family? And that is pretty simple: the earned-income tax credit, the child tax credit, low-income housing credits to build the housing that we need. That is where we have to start.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "repeated use of broad, appealing concepts like 'working family' and 'paycheck' without specific details about implementation or outcomes"}
{"id": "crec_001786", "text": "I go into places where people are buying food. I hear people talking. Many of them are not talking to me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003027", "text": "[ORG] has prepared this report examining actions taken to both ease the pandemic's immediate impact and strengthen our economy over the long-term, to help ensure we learn the right lessons as a nation and to build on the historic progress we've made. Our work began right away with [ORG], one of the most consequential recovery packages in history. To reopen our economy, we knew we had to defeat [PERSON] , so we launched unprecedented vaccination efforts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "historic progress, most consequential recovery packages in history, unprecedented vaccination efforts"}
{"id": "crec_008714", "text": "They are not reducing poverty. They are not making lives better. They are putting American lives at risk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only negative outcomes without acknowledging any positive actions; uses emotionally charged phrase 'putting American lives at risk'"}
{"id": "crec_008192", "text": "CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT Pursuant to clause 7 of rule [ORG] of the Rules of [ORG], the following statements are submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH221", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002149", "text": "It doesn't matter if it is one bill or two bills when they are doing so much to hurt working Americans and only helping those who probably need help the least--the very least, by and large. All these promises we heard from Republicans about fighting for the working class didn't even make it to Inauguration Day. They are back to trying to cut taxes for the ultrawealthy and megacorporations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing bills as 'doing so much to hurt working Americans' while 'only helping those who probably need help the least' presents a stark either/or choice without nuance"}
{"id": "crec_005891", "text": "I thank, again, Chairman [PERSON] for sponsoring this, my [ORG] colleagues for their continuous work, and Speaker [PERSON] for bringing this bill to the floor. I look forward to working with the Senate and President-elect [ORG] to get the bill signed into law. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005775", "text": "The [PERSON] family owns [ORG]. It has received the designation of a [ORG] from [ORG]. A [ORG] is a farm that has been owned by the same family for at least 100 consecutive years, has a family member who still lives on that farm, and has at least 10 acres of the original holding.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-7", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003568", "text": "[ORG]. 1307. Report on the implementation of the electronic employment verification system.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001304", "text": "This day provides a meaningful opportunity for our [ORG] to express gratitude for the brave men and women who wear the badge with honor and integrity. I thank [ORG], [ORG], and [ORG] for their continuous efforts to keep us safe here in our [ORG]. I am also deeply grateful to the law enforcement officers in my home [ORG] of Pennsylvania, including the [ORG] troopers and the dedicated local police departments across the 15th District, for their steadfast commitment to protecting our families and communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-7", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "brave men and women who wear the badge with honor and integrity; steadfast commitment to protecting our families and communities"}
{"id": "crec_003550", "text": "[ORG]. 103. Enforcement by attorney general of a [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007693", "text": "Had I been present, I would have voted [ORG] on a Roll Call No. 16 and [ORG] on Roll Call No. 17. personal explanation Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001614", "text": "A company that has helped build our entire [ORG] could be located anywhere, but they are located in Texas. As [ORG] celebrates 100 years, I extend my appreciation to their team for all they have accomplished to help our communities and our country thrive.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-4", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "helped our communities and our country thrive"}
{"id": "crec_000387", "text": "Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. [PERSON] . Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007622", "text": "That is what I am here to do today. I rise in strong support of my bill, H.R. 30, [ORG] By Illegal Aliens Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "use of 'Illegal Aliens' as charged terminology rather than neutral language like 'undocumented immigrants'"}
{"id": "crec_008976", "text": "RULE 11. APPRISAL OF COMMITTEE BUSINESS The Chair and Ranking Minority Member shall keep each other apprised of hearings, investigations, and other Committee business. RULE 12.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005703", "text": "Mark my words, we will not stop there. The time has come for Congress to take a hard look at the consequences of private equity ownership of hospitals. [PERSON] and the American people are counting on us for action, and they are going to get it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "The American people are counting on us for action"}
{"id": "crec_004705", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 381. A bill to amend the Natural Gas Act to require that impacts to climate stability, consumer energy costs, and environmental justice be considered in a determination of whether proposed exportation of natural gas is in the public interest, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009251", "text": "AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND PROPOSED SA 79. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 80.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008548", "text": "And I also want to acknowledge Governor [PERSON] for his steady hand during this time. And we are so grateful to our neighboring States who continue to send resources. And, no, not just States that are considered blue States like Oregon and Washington, but States that many people refer to as red States like South Dakota and Wyoming and Montana and Florida, who continue to send resources with no strings attached, no conditions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["flag_waving", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "acknowledging cooperation across political divides ('blue States' and 'red States') to create unity and mutual support"}
{"id": "crec_008467", "text": "No family should face the nightmare [PERSON] 's family endured, and it is our responsibility as lawmakers to correct the glaring failures in our system that led to her tragic and preventable death. [ORG] won't bring [PERSON] back, but it is a vehicle for turning the [PERSON] family's pain into purpose and partnering together to protect American families. This legislation's sole goal is to hold known criminal illegal aliens accountable for their actions and enable States to bring civil charges against [ORG] officials who fail to uphold our immigration laws.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "nightmare, tragic and preventable death, known criminal illegal aliens"}
{"id": "crec_007793", "text": "Firefighters, small business owners, hotels, and social service workers from California's 38th District have volunteered their time and services to those in need. I am honored to represent such a caring community. During tragedies like these, we truly see the best of humanity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "we truly see the best of humanity"}
{"id": "crec_006500", "text": "Now, let me say a few things about why these hearings are so important for our country and to our side. By all indications, our Republican colleagues seem perfectly comfortable with advancing Mr. [PERSON] through the Senate, despite his lack of qualifications. Many of our colleagues have private doubts about the nominees, but, publicly, they are still willing to embrace them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "despite his lack of qualifications"}
{"id": "crec_006569", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004641", "text": "CERTIFICATION OF RESCISSION OF CUBA'S DESIGNATION AS A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ([PERSON] . NO. 119-8) [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following message from the President of the United States; which was read and, together with the accompanying papers, referred to [ORG] and ordered to be printed: To [ORG]: I transmit herewith a report to the Congress with respect to the proposed recission of Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001698", "text": "It is almost $9 trillion additional from where interest rates were in December to where it looks like interest rates are going to be this spring. You just added $9 trillion in additional interest. That is called interest rate fragility.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Describing a large interest rate increase as '$9 trillion additional' and coining the term 'interest rate fragility' uses emotionally charged framing to make the situation sound precarious and alarming."}
{"id": "crec_005896", "text": "33. It is good for Americans, as well as Taiwanese, and good for both countries. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "It is good for Americans, as well as Taiwanese, and good for both countries"}
{"id": "crec_009621", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000940", "text": "They want to have lower gas prices. Those are the things that they want. So how do we actually get to that?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007987", "text": "Not a chance. Not a chance. So we can demand accountability and not be bad people for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "Not a chance. Not a chance."}
{"id": "crec_004385", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I include in the Record a letter led by [ORG] and [ORG] from 33 national and 34 [ORG] and local women's and girls' rights organizations to voice our vehement opposition to H.R. 28. January 13, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008718", "text": "We need to jealously reclaim our freedom. And the best way to do that is to shrink the size, the scope, and the cost of the government and its influence over our lives. And the only way you do that is you have to reduce total spending by [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'jealously reclaim our freedom' and 'government and its influence over our lives'"}
{"id": "crec_003041", "text": "MEASURES PLACED ON THE CALENDAR The following bill was read the second time, and placed on the calendar: H.R. 23. An act to impose sanctions with respect to [ORG] engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007638", "text": "[ORG] also coordinates with [ORG] to evaluate the completion of relevant noncitizen applications. In fiscal year 2023, [ORG] arrested 73,822 noncitizens with criminal histories; this group had 290,178 associated charges and convictions with an average of four per individual.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "selective presentation of statistics (arrests of noncitizens with criminal histories) without context about total enforcement actions, conviction rates, or comparative data, framing a narrative through numerical emphasis"}
{"id": "crec_006228", "text": "Just show me some actual cuts up front. Again, I want to reiterate, [ORG] conservatives, have put forward a plan and shared it. It will accomplish the objectives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'will accomplish the objectives' - vague claim without specific details about how"}
{"id": "crec_006291", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 406. A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education, as a condition of participation in programs under title IV of such Act, to include a prohibition of antisemitic conduct in all documents relating to student or employee conduct; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004535", "text": "We are on the cusp of the bond market, the debt markets, actually being the number one influencer on U.S. policy, not Congress. When you borrow $70,000 a second--and I have charts, which I didn't bring this time, but I have done it in the past. Where we are in 9 years, it is no longer $70,000 a second, but it is almost doubled.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claiming to have charts as proof of authority; characterizing debt markets as 'number one influencer on U.S. policy' using alarming language about borrowing"}
{"id": "crec_008817", "text": "That due process is stripped away on the front end. There is due process in existence now on the back end, where a person can challenge their detention and whether or not they should be there. In fact, during the previous [ORG] administration, there were children who were released with such challenges, but that is taken away.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "references previous administration's actions to defend current policy rather than addressing the due process concern directly"}
{"id": "crec_006278", "text": "[PERSON] , Jan. 7, 2025. REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, [ORG], [ORG], EXPENDED BETWEEN OCT. 1 AND [ORG]. 31, 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date Per diem \\1\\ Transportation Other purposes Total ---------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar U.S. dollar Name of Member or employee Country Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent Foreign equivalent [PERSON] Departure currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency or U.S. currency currency currency currency -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\2\\-----------------------\\2\\-----------------------\\2\\-----------------------\\2\\---- HOUSE COMMITTEES Please Note: If there were no expenditures during the calendar quarter noted above, please check the box at right to so indicate and return. x ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ \\1\\ Per diem constitutes lodging and meals.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH181-2", "word_count": 114, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000231", "text": "[ORG]'s leadership is defined by his dedication to his community and his remarkable ability to build relationships that foster growth, collaboration, and positive change. His work has helped transform [ORG] into a thriving city, with impressive developments like the I-74 bridge and [ORG]. His tireless efforts have been instrumental in securing funding and advancing projects that benefit the entire region.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-8", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "dedication to his community and remarkable ability to build relationships that foster growth, collaboration, and positive change"}
{"id": "crec_001463", "text": "They need to call this what it is: anti-Semitism. That is what this is. That is what the [ORG] is going after, and that is what you are condoning, from the gentleman from Massachusetts, and I see the support on the other side of the aisle with all your colleagues sitting next to you fighting right alongside.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Repeated phrase 'That is what this is' emphasizes the characterization; loaded language using 'anti-Semitism' and 'condoning' to frame opposition negatively"}
{"id": "crec_006511", "text": "The only people in America who can be happy about Mr. [PERSON] are the richest of the rich, who would make a killing if [PERSON] and Republicans hand them another trillion-dollar tax cut. And, again, just let me repeat, this man is the chief architect of Project 2025. Republicans are running away from that project now, but at the same time, they are putting its chief architect in one of the most powerful positions in [ORG], which had a broad range across just about every policy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "framing as 'richest of the rich' making 'a killing,' warnings about tax cuts and Project 2025 power positioning, and explicit repetition with 'just let me repeat'"}
{"id": "crec_002322", "text": "Moving forward, it is important that States make all possible efforts to meet this deadline and the others set by [ORG] to ensure the timely certification of Presidential election results and to support the administration of the peaceful transition of power that is the foundation of our democracy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-4", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "peaceful transition of power that is the foundation of our democracy"}
{"id": "crec_002538", "text": "While the [ORG] has said it will continue to have [ORG] do its leasing in the future, the [ORG]'s history of egregious leasing conduct, squandering hundreds of millions of dollars, makes this bill necessary. The [ORG]'s conduct risks undermining the reputation of [ORG] and [ORG] among developers and building owners who participate in Federal lease procurements. The threat of uncertainty ultimately drives up the cost of all [ORG] real estate procurements.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "egregious leasing conduct, squandering hundreds of millions of dollars, threat of uncertainty"}
{"id": "crec_000425", "text": "Madam Speaker, I support this important legislation that would take concrete policy steps toward addressing the problem of open borders created by this administration. We listened to the gentlewoman from Washington on the other side talk about the cost of implementing the legislation. That requires a certain amount of hubris to claim to be worried about the cost of implementing a piece of legislation when the cost of the open borders that have been created by this administration and embraced by the other side are clearly evident.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "casting border policy as either 'open borders' (negative characterization) versus the proposed legislation, with no middle ground; 'open borders created by this administration' uses loaded language to frame policy as extreme"}
{"id": "crec_007149", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 96. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit certain activities constituting preparation of tax returns by the Secretary of the [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida): S. 97.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS185", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007535", "text": "Instead, in a perverse move, this bill would make it easier to label survivors of domestic violence as perpetrators to make them removable from the country and eliminate existing legal safeguards that protect survivors. Once again, this is a bill that widens the highway to [PERSON] mass deportation plans. I want to talk through an example.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "perverse move, widens the highway to mass deportation plans, eliminate existing legal safeguards"}
{"id": "crec_005985", "text": "There are 2 minutes remaining. So (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed. The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH169", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008608", "text": "She said they then decided to build a cistern of pure water and to protect it and make sure the village could draw from that water when they needed it. She said it has changed everything. The kids aren't dying.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000865", "text": "We can't let that happen. It would be insult to injury on top of a 40-year-high inflation for the American people to have to experience a tax cut increase if we are unsuccessful. So while we have important conversations and healthy debates over what budget reconciliation ends up looking like, we need to keep our eye on the prize in order to deliver on these critical priorities for the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "We can't let that happen. It would be insult to injury on top of a 40-year-high inflation"}
{"id": "crec_001837", "text": "[ORG] in the Grants Pass case overturned [ORG] existing [ORG] decision and said that our communities once again have the ability to regulate encampments and to stop homeless from camping in our parks, on our sidewalks, around schools, and in our public spaces. I am very pleased at this point to be able to say that the prediction as to the potentially transformative nature of these changes that I made back then is turning out to be true. I want to cite just a few examples today of how the passage of Prop 36 and the decision in Grants Pass are already serving to turn California around.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "describing homeless encampments with emotionally charged location specificity ('around schools') and framing regulatory ability as 'turning California around' to suggest moral progress"}
{"id": "crec_000084", "text": "Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Michigan? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009060", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 127. A bill to establish a whole-home repairs program for eligible homeowners and eligible landlords, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 128.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006515", "text": "What makes Mr. [PERSON] so troubling, however, is that he is perfectly willing to admit climate change is happening while rejecting that we should do anything about it. He says calling climate change a crisis is pure fearmongering. He says the real crisis is that not enough people are using hydrocarbons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing position as 'perfectly willing to admit' while 'rejecting' action creates false dichotomy; 'real crisis' uses loaded language to frame counterargument"}
{"id": "crec_007652", "text": "If the majority is serious about addressing the epidemic of domestic and sexual violence in our country, then we can start by addressing the funding challenges facing [ORG], which supports services for victims, or by expanding access to U visas and T visas, which help law enforcement protect victims. [SPEAKER]. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "which help law enforcement protect victims - appeals to law enforcement authority to legitimize policy position"}
{"id": "crec_004984", "text": "She was a U.S. marine, and [PERSON] raped and murdered her. Yet that murder wasn't even the crime for which he was on Federal death row. He wasn't done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "vivid language ('raped and murdered'), escalation ('wasn't even the crime', 'wasn't done') designed to provoke emotional reaction and fear about danger"}
{"id": "crec_005649", "text": "CONGRATULATING A. MICHAEL HICKOX ON HIS RETIREMENT [SPEAKER] (Ms. [PERSON] ). The [PERSON] recognizes the gentleman from Florida (Mr. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007776", "text": "[[ORG]] PASSING AID TO ASSIST CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , my heart is heavy seeing the devastation across southern California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007035", "text": "Those lawsuits have produced documents that showed, chapter and verse, exactly what [ORG] has done to Americans. And, finally, we keep hearing: It is only 270 days. It is only 270 days.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repetition of 'It is only 270 days' combined with loaded term 'what [ORG] has done to Americans' suggesting wrongdoing"}
{"id": "crec_008336", "text": "In too many instances, the [PERSON] administration has chosen to appease our enemies rather than demonstrate strength. As yesterday made clear, we can expect Senator [PERSON] to bring a moral clarity to foreign policy that has been sorely lacking in the last 4 years. That is important--moral clarity--and it has never been a challenge for [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'moral clarity' and 'strength' as undefined virtues attributed to the candidate without specific policy examples"}
{"id": "crec_009260", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002498", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of H.R. 164, my legislation with [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002710", "text": "8, cl. 16: to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in [ORG], reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the [ORG] of training the [ORG] according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. Article I, Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH111-4", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006239", "text": "I say yes to fixing all that. As one of the people who, like Chip, is often maligned and people characterize us as part of the no caucus, we are here saying yes. Yes, we want to fix it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "Being 'maligned' and characterized negatively, contrasted with affirming 'yes' to position themselves with others who want to 'fix it'"}
{"id": "crec_007679", "text": "The question was taken; and [SPEAKER] announced that the noes appeared to have it. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004911", "text": "It is a strong bipartisan piece of legislation that has support from both sides of the aisle in both [ORG]. Forty-eight House Democrats voted for it. It is cosponsored by Senators [PERSON] and [PERSON] of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "strong bipartisan piece of legislation that has support from both sides of the aisle"}
{"id": "crec_006916", "text": "That is basically what this whole debate is about, and that is that large corporations are paying foreign workers substantially lower salaries than they are paying American workers. Madam President, if you want to know why multibillionaire owners of high-tech companies love [ORG] so much, that is the reason why. They are using this program to substantially undercut the wages of American workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "large corporations are paying foreign workers substantially lower salaries... to substantially undercut the wages of American workers"}
{"id": "crec_005366", "text": "[ORG] 22. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG] __--REPUBLIC ACT [ORG]. __01.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS142-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002999", "text": "The stakes are very high over the next week, and that is why I will soon introduce the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act to extend the deadline by which [ORG] must sell [ORG] or face a ban, and it should be extended by an additional 270 days. Now that my colleagues understand that the [ORG] ban is real, we need time to have a deeper conversation about how to address the national security risk caused by [ORG]'s ownership of [ORG]. We need time to understand the ban's implication on [ORG]'s creators and users.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "national security risk caused by [ORG]'s ownership of [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_004660", "text": "Regulations for the Remote Participation of Committee Witnesses Except as provided by section 3(i) of [PERSON] . 5, 119th Congress and these regulations, witnesses shall testify before a committee in person. No remote testimony will be accepted from witnesses testifying in a government capacity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009382", "text": "By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes, shall be brought to a close? The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008153", "text": "A bill to make reforms to [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006935", "text": "As a result of the H-1B guest worker program and other guest worker programs, major corporations are now importing hundreds of thousands of lower paid guest workers from abroad to fill the white-collar technology jobs that are currently available. In other words, heads, billionaires wins; tails, American workers lose. In my view, we can and must change that reality.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "importing hundreds of thousands of lower paid guest workers...heads, billionaires wins; tails, American workers lose"}
{"id": "crec_001608", "text": "The courtroom erupted in applause. Judge [PERSON] 's son, [ORG], spoke with great admiration for his mother while Judge [PERSON] broke down in tears, reminiscing how as a child she had envisioned them practicing together. There was a special recognition of her friend, Judge [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001016", "text": "every cloud has a silver lining [ORG] agencies' cloud computing software licenses could save $750 million every year. china's mad scientists The entire world knows Dr. [PERSON] funded risky research on coronaviruses in China's [ORG] with taxpayer dollars. My investigations discovered millions more sent to other institutions and labs in the communist country for secretive risky research.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "mad scientists, communist country, risky research, secretive"}
{"id": "crec_004587", "text": "If that little person is 2 years old today, when that little person is 22, his or her taxes have to be double what they are today, a 100 percent increase. When my 2-year-old is hopefully finishing up his university and going into grad school before he does his post-doctorate doctorate, I have high ambitions for him. We actually are trying to put into the family rules he is not allowed to run for office.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "taxes have to be double what they are today, a 100 percent increase"}
{"id": "crec_001916", "text": "A bill to authorize the President to enter into negotiations for the reacquisition of the Panama Canal from the Republic of Panama; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 284.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007888", "text": "Governor [PERSON] wanted to claim that all the reservoirs were full. They sure aren't all full up north, are they? That is where the water comes from, by and large.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "misrepresents the governor's claim by interpreting 'all reservoirs' literally when the context suggests a broader claim, then refutes this narrow interpretation"}
{"id": "crec_009167", "text": "Mr. President, I want to turn to a separate matter, and I think all of us are heartbroken by what we see happening in Los Angeles with the devastating fires. There has been a horrific loss of life, of homes, and businesses due to these California fires, and the loss is just staggering. As we speak, firefighters, first responders--including [ORG]--are working around the clock to keep residents safe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "heartbroken, devastating, horrific loss, staggering"}
{"id": "crec_000175", "text": "And I will just say: Rest in peace, Coach [PERSON] . I yield the floor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003909", "text": "I firmly believe in Israel's right to defend itself. It has been a critical ally in the region and has earned our support as it defends against threats from Iran and its proxies, including [ORG] in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and [ORG] in Gaza. Still, the manner in which Israel defends itself matters.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Israel has been a critical ally in the region and has earned our support"}
{"id": "crec_008375", "text": "To help Ukraine survive. Not to help defeat aggression, not to help restore sovereignty, not to help degrade the power of a major adversary--just to let Ukraine's resistance languish on the slow drip of critical capabilities moving far slower than the speed of relevance. Or take this administration's approach to the Middle East.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizes aid policy as 'slow drip of critical capabilities' and 'languish' rather than substantive support; misrepresents the stated rationales by dismissing them as insufficient"}
{"id": "crec_000171", "text": "If you have ever seen a half mile along a straightaway, he looked like this little figure down there. And we would all line up, and sometimes you could even inch forward a little bit because he couldn't see you--he was so far away--but he always knew what you were up to, and you could hear him. Even then, you could hear him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000117", "text": "The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005711", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to talk about the Endangered Species Act. Indeed, it was designed back in the early seventies and passed with bipartisanship. It was signed by [PERSON] to protect endangered species.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000056", "text": "The purpose of the joint session having concluded, pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 2, 119th Congress, the [ORG] declares the joint session dissolved. (Thereupon, at 1 o'clock and 36 minutes p.m., the joint session of the two [ORG] of Congress dissolved.) [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009018", "text": "H.R. 144. An act to provide that [ORG] and Sunset Act of 1995 does not apply to certain reports required to be submitted by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224-5", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006645", "text": "However, New York City is a sanctuary city. He was not detained or deported, as he ought to have been. He was released.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "sanctuary city context combined with 'ought to have been' detained/deported implies danger and criticism of protective policies"}
{"id": "crec_000328", "text": "We have got to make sure that this doesn't ever happen again. Mr. [PERSON] , he bashed her head in with a rock. This is one of the most heinous crimes imaginable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "graphic description 'bashed her head in with a rock' and 'one of the most heinous crimes imaginable' used to evoke emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_000624", "text": "Last month, a sleeping woman in New York City was set on fire in the subway. She died. Her killer was an illegal immigrant.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Juxtaposition of tragic crime details with immigration status to create emotional impact and suggest causation between immigration and violence"}
{"id": "crec_007572", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentlewoman for leading the charge on this legislation, and I find it appalling to hear the rhetoric from the other side. The excuses being made for the individuals who are here illegally, committing acts of domestic violence, committing acts of violence against women, and trying to defeat this legislation that would strengthen the laws to help these victims are appalling. As a former domestic violence prosecutor and as a [ORG] legislator, we have seen this before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "describing opponents' rhetoric as 'appalling' and juxtaposing illegal immigrants committing violence with opposition to legislation; establishing credibility through 'former domestic violence prosecutor' and legislative position"}
{"id": "crec_006209", "text": "Because if you think you can just freely print money and fund all the things you are too afraid to go back to your district and say that there is a limit on what you can spend while out of the other side of your mouth you talk about tax cuts, let's vote on a bill to zero out the tax code because if you're going to constantly live with $2 trillion deficits, which is where we are right now, why not $6 trillion? Why does it matter? That is a genuine question.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing as 'freely print money' and presenting binary choice between massive deficits ($2T vs $6T) with rhetorical 'why not?' to suggest logical equivalence"}
{"id": "crec_006818", "text": "[PERSON] and Republicans would rather trade programs to help communities survive the climate crisis for tax cuts that help their ultrarich donors survive tax season. This week, in a response, I will be introducing legislation to make polluters pay by increasing taxes on private jet fuel to $2 a gallon. Do you know what these billionaires pay for their private jets today?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "portrays choice as binary between climate programs and tax cuts; uses charged language like 'ultrarich donors' and 'polluters'; implies existential threat with 'survive the climate crisis'"}
{"id": "crec_009847", "text": "But, first, we must be honest about the challenges we face. While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America. As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "challenges will be 'annihilated by this great momentum' - uses hyperbolic language and vague appeal to undefined positive force"}
{"id": "crec_000079", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read and printed in the Record. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Michigan?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001632", "text": "There are three big rating agencies, [ORG], [PERSON] , and [ORG]. [ORG] is the only one that has not downgraded U.S. debt yet. I predict to you that, before this year is over, [ORG] or all three will have downgraded U.S. sovereign debt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "doubt"], "evidence": "references to rating agencies as authorities on U.S. debt credibility and predicts loss of their confidence"}
{"id": "crec_005670", "text": "The entire Lafayette community is grateful for his courageous actions to save the lives of these young girls. Congratulating Brownsburg Bulldogs on Their IHSAA 6A Victory [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the Brownsburg High School football team for winning the IHSAA 6A State championship this year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "entire Lafayette community is grateful, courageous actions, honor the Brownsburg High School football team"}
{"id": "crec_002554", "text": "144. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007418", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution ([PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS196-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005724", "text": "They will find a species of the week to do that. In this case I believe it is a salamander. Let's go back in time a little bit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000054", "text": "Within that whole number, a majority is 270. The votes for Vice President of the United States are as follows: [PERSON] of the State of Ohio has received 312 votes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000484", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 217. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make permanent the pilot program authorized by [ORG] through Property and Improvements Needed for Veterans Act of 2016, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000770", "text": "We know about his background as a naval officer and, more famously, as our 39th President and, lastly, as a homebuilder as he worked through organizations building homes for the needy. Now we remember him as he is in his heavenly home. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000337", "text": "This means if someone is merely accused of shoplifting, someone who might be innocent, who might be the victim of mistaken identity, and who has not had the opportunity to clear his name, would be subject to mandatory detention. This bill is so broad that it would lead to the detention of people who have committed no crime and have no intention of harming anyone. That flies in the face of all notions of basic due process and reason.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "detained people who have committed no crime, flies in the face of all notions of basic due process"}
{"id": "crec_000605", "text": "MEASURE PLACED ON THE CALENDAR--S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I understand there is a bill at the desk that is due for a second reading. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001959", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland): [ORG]. A bill to require the [ORG] to conduct a study detailing the total cost of unused construction materials that were obtained for the construction of a border wall along the United States-Mexico border; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006650", "text": "The election results were overwhelming; President [PERSON] has a mandate to secure our borders. Senate Republicans will stand up to help him do just that. [ORG] is our first step to be able to help him do that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["bandwagon", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "overwhelming election results, mandate, stand up to help"}
{"id": "crec_001502", "text": "Again, I regret that we are doing this here today. I urge everybody, and I hope some of my Republican colleagues will join with us, to oppose this legislation. We can do better.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "urging Republican colleagues to join and asserting 'we can do better' without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_001817", "text": "Nothing has changed. We still need them. America needs them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "repetition of 'them' and 'need' combined with invocation of 'America' as authority figure"}
{"id": "crec_004637", "text": "We are going to make some decisions. Are we going to modernize the delivery of government? Are we going to find a way to offset?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001808", "text": "They will pass their agenda. Mr. [PERSON] , I guarantee you that if they run into a roadblock, they will do it. If that becomes the issue, they are going to do it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'they will do it' combined with guarantee of inevitable action despite obstacles, creating sense of unstoppable threat"}
{"id": "crec_006258", "text": "In a matter of 1 or 2 weeks, we can get that out of this [ORG] and over to the Senate. By February, they would have money for defense, money for the border and a fence, and a debt ceiling that is gone. We would have undone some of the worst [PERSON] policies and paid for all of it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "phrases like 'undone some of the worst [PERSON] policies' and 'money for defense, money for the border and a fence' present vague positive outcomes without specific details or feasibility explanation"}
{"id": "crec_006672", "text": "There is a 5:30 vote, and oftentimes, the last vote is on Thursday at 1:45. So we talk about one thing from Monday at 5:30 until Thursday at 1:45, and the thing we talk about is often whatever is on the floor or whatever is in committee. We are going to do that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009765", "text": "The Senator from New Hampshire. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, the position of Secretary of [ORG] is one of the most important in our entire government.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-2", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "describing the position as 'one of the most important in our entire government' uses vague, broadly appealing language without specific evidence"}
{"id": "crec_002898", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ), the bill's sponsor. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008343", "text": "I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006756", "text": "How could that amendment not have passed? [SPEAKER]. The Senator is reminded that the question did refer to the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002770", "text": "220: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON] 221: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Texas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004991", "text": "The sooner they exit this world, the sooner they will face the full measure of justice next. And that is just two. I could give you 35 more examples as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "exit this world, face the full measure of justice"}
{"id": "crec_002540", "text": "Again, I urge my colleagues to support this bill. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004399", "text": "Just last year, a Utah school board member publicly questioned the gender of a 16-year-old cisgender girl playing on a high school basketball team who wore short hair and [PERSON] . As a result, the student was subjected to harassment, bullying, and threats of violence, necessitating police protection for her and her family. Every student deserves the opportunity to participate in sports in a safe environment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "subjected to harassment, bullying, and threats of violence, necessitating police protection"}
{"id": "crec_002164", "text": "He joined my team and immediately got to work helping defend the [ORG] when Republicans tried to repeal it in 2017. He was instrumental in passing COVID relief, which saved thousands of lives. He led insulin reform policy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "positive framing of accomplishments without specific details ('got to work helping defend', 'instrumental in passing', 'led insulin reform') and emotionally charged language ('saved thousands of lives')"}
{"id": "crec_009902", "text": "Thank you. Thank you. In recent years, our [ORG] has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make it great again, greater than ever before.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "make it great again, make it great again, greater than ever before"}
{"id": "crec_008952", "text": "COMMITTEE REPORTING PROCEDURES A. Timely filing. When the [ORG] has ordered a measure or matter reported, following final action, the report thereon shall be filed in the Senate at the earliest practicable time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005778", "text": "HONORING SUZANNE EVANS SHEPPARD ([SPEAKER] Carolina asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER] Carolina. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to honor and celebrate the remarkable life of Dr. [PERSON] , an exceptional member of our community who touched many lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-8", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006241", "text": "We want to do this. We are here to say yes and here to save our country, but we are not signing up for fake savings and spending: If you raise the debt ceiling, then we will make sure we grow our way out of it by projecting 3.5 or 4 percent growth for the next 10 years. Let's quit fooling ourselves.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'fake savings and spending' and 'quit fooling ourselves' create a false choice between accepting their growth projection or accepting deception"}
{"id": "crec_000166", "text": "He was also the principal of the high school and wanted to see them succeed and do well in life. Well, of course, track season was the next season. In my hometown, oftentimes, we had, you know, a lot of snow in the winter, and sometimes it didn't get dried up in the spring or if we had a wet spring, for that matter--the track where we ran was a dirt track.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001557", "text": "I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on her remarkable work while a Member here in this body. As co-chairs of [ORG], the first caucus dedicated to promoting the rum industry, we successfully advocated for the Rum Cover Over legislation, which increased the amount of tax revenue generated from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on rum that was sold in the mainland. Additionally, I am grateful for our bipartisan efforts to improve security in the Caribbean, ensuring that [ORG] agencies are properly equipped to hold drug traffickers accountable, and of course our work together to change the Stafford Act in 2018 after the devastating hurricanes of Irma and Maria in our district, which has brought billions of dollars to rebuild both the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-3", "word_count": 132, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "remarkable work, successful advocacy, bipartisan efforts, grateful - uses vague praise and positive language without substantive critique or specific measurable outcomes"}
{"id": "crec_002442", "text": "152 works to eliminate inefficiencies and expedite the application process by ensuring only one information submission is needed. Survivors are already facing difficult circumstances, and the application process should not add to their stress. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "eliminate inefficiencies and expedite the application process; Survivors are already facing difficult circumstances"}
{"id": "crec_000454", "text": "The American people have now spoken clearly on this issue. Enough is enough. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "The American people have now spoken clearly on this issue"}
{"id": "crec_005739", "text": "Let's be clear, it is not acceptable. Also, it is not acceptable to force women to share a locker room with a biological man, forcing them to shower and change together. This is not an overstatement, Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repetition of 'not acceptable' combined with emotionally charged language about forcing women into vulnerable situations to create concern about safety and violation"}
{"id": "crec_004215", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ) who also chairs the [ORG] and [ORG], Labor, and Pensions. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004886", "text": "Again, this doesn't mean that the Senate will rubberstamp any nominee. That is what advice and consent is all about: the background checks; the hearings, like we see this morning with the Secretary of [ORG] nominee, Mr. [PERSON] . This means committees must hold hearings and votes for each of the President's nominees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002241", "text": "But, needless to say, I waited until Wednesday night to talk to the President. But he, right away, said: You have a great team, a great program, and of course we want them back at the White House. We had them there, [PERSON] , I think it was 5 years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004288", "text": "Yes, bigoted folks love this bill. Assaulters love this bill. Also, CEOs love this bill, because Los Angeles is on fire right now, and this is the number one priority that the majority has.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["name_calling", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents as 'bigoted folks' and 'assaulters'; implying that supporting this bill means prioritizing it over addressing LA fires, creating a false choice between two issues"}
{"id": "crec_009098", "text": "It is not a crisis that we can solve ourselves or that will solve itself. My bill will make us better prepared to fight fires in the future. It should be attached to any disaster relief that goes to California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "not a crisis that we can solve ourselves or that will solve itself"}
{"id": "crec_001035", "text": "As the Governor of Nebraska, this is one of the things I focused on to be able to do a better job on--take my private sector experiences, in coming from the business world, and applying them to the running of [ORG] government. We showed that the things you do in the private sector will work in running the public sector as well. In the State of Nebraska, we implemented Lean Six Sigma.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "take my private sector experiences, in coming from the business world, and applying them to the running of government"}
{"id": "crec_006343", "text": "A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit the award of Federal funds to institutions of higher education that employ instructors funded by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 456.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006736", "text": "All of my Republican colleagues opposed it. The Senate was majority Republican so we were stuck with a bad bill. And that brings us to today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "deflecting to Republican opposition and Senate composition rather than addressing current policy merits"}
{"id": "crec_004756", "text": "38: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] . H.R. 45: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Dakota, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-30", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007124", "text": "2. The highest level of classification of defense articles, components, and services included in this potential sale is SECRET. 3.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008505", "text": "Under President [PERSON] , we were energy independent. This made the cost of living more affordable for all Americans. We were able to power American homes, cars, and factories with reliable and abundant energy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "phrases like 'energy independent,' 'reliable and abundant energy,' and 'affordable for all Americans' use vague, emotionally positive language without specific evidence or details"}
{"id": "crec_004746", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The Congress enacts this bill pursuant to Clause 1 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution and Amendment XVI of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-23", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006345", "text": "A bill to direct the Assistant Secretary of [ORG] for [ORG] to notify United States citizens regarding passport expiration and renewal, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 458.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004998", "text": "I want to be clear. The crimes he described, the crimes these individuals all committed are egregious, and there must be accountability. The President's decision provides for accountability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of 'egregious' and emphatic language ('I want to be clear') to intensify emotional response to crimes and emphasize severity"}
{"id": "crec_009695", "text": "It is because Congress and the administration have abandoned their responsibility here that we find ourselves in this position. Second, this bill creates mandatory detention policies for immigrants accused of committing nonviolent and also violent crime. And as I said, I believe we should be going after transnational gangs, street gangs, and people who pose a threat to our community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Congress and the administration have abandoned their responsibility; characterization of detention policies applied broadly to both nonviolent and violent offenders"}
{"id": "crec_004305", "text": "Despite Title IX, for over half a century since its inception, having paved the way for millions of women and girls, including myself, to achieve their dreams, its very existence has been consistently under threat on behalf of an unaccountable Federal bureaucracy. It is past time that we as a government restore the sanity that has been lost over the last 4 years, and it brings me great pride to witness this critical issue at the forefront of the new Congress so that we may truly act upon the American people's mandate. As a cosponsor of this bill, I thank Representative [PERSON] along with the [ORG] and [ORG] for their committed leadership on this issue, and I urge all my colleagues to support H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 125, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "restore the sanity that has been lost, critical issue at the forefront, American people's mandate, great pride"}
{"id": "crec_007434", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER]. Will the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance. [SPEAKER] Carolina led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-4", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "Pledge of Allegiance recitation emphasizing national symbols and unity"}
{"id": "crec_009866", "text": "(Applause.) I will end the practice of catch-and-release. (Applause.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002258", "text": "He is the quarterback's coach, and this guy is a quarterback whisperer. He coached quarterbacks who are in the [ORG] now--[PERSON] , who is with the Chiefs; [PERSON] , who is with the Chargers; and [PERSON] , who is with [ORG]. This guy was actually a professional quarterback himself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "quarterback whisperer...coached quarterbacks who are in the [ORG] now...professional quarterback himself"}
{"id": "crec_002703", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 331. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Pursuant to clause 7 of Rule XII of the Rules of [ORG], the following statement is submitted regarding the specific powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to enact the accompanying bill or joint resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH111-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008695", "text": "We wouldn't be experiencing or threatened by more inflation. OK. If that is too reasonable for Washington, DC, let's look at another scenario.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing a position as 'too reasonable for Washington, DC' uses loaded language to suggest Washington is unreasonable while framing the speaker's view positively"}
{"id": "crec_009792", "text": "INAUGURAL CEREMONY Inauguration of [PERSON] , January 20, 2025, 10 a.m. The Architect of the Capitol, Mr. [PERSON] , accompanied by Mrs. [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda. The Leadership of the 60th Presidential Inaugural Committee, [ORG] and Mr. [PERSON] ; and Executive Director Mr. [PERSON] entered the Great Rotunda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002103", "text": "[PERSON] 212: Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006997", "text": "They don't want those algorithms coming to America because then they will be exposed. That is what this is about. This is a national security threat.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'national security threat' and 'exposed' framing algorithms as dangerous without evidence"}
{"id": "crec_009133", "text": "205. UTILIZING GRAZING FOR WILDFIRE RISK REDUCTION. (a) In General.--Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall develop and submit to [ORG] and [ORG] a strategy to analyze and identify opportunities to use livestock grazing as a wildfire risk reduction tool on Federal land, consistent with the laws applicable to the Secretary concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004104", "text": "THE [ORG] [SPEAKER]. The [ORG] has examined [ORG] proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule I, the [ORG] stands approved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004432", "text": "Instead of providing for equal facilities, equipment, and travel, or any other strategy that women athletes have been pushing for for decades, the bill cynically veils an attack on transgender people as a question of athletics policy. Youth sports often play a significant role in children's lives and development, helping them to develop critical life skills like communication, teamwork, and leadership. Sports spaces are imperative for all young people, no matter their gender.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes the bill as 'cynically veils an attack on transgender people' rather than engaging with stated athletic policy rationales; 'cynically' is loaded language that pre-judges motives"}
{"id": "crec_002299", "text": "[ORG] is the sole [ORG] in the country and was established by [ORG] for the purpose of maintaining [ORG] trust responsibilities and treaty agreements to the Native Americans. [ORG] serves as a custodian of [PERSON] culture, offering students the opportunity to receive tuition-free higher education in an environment that understands and prioritizes indigenous values. Yet despite its critical importance, [ORG] has faced significant challenges.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "understands and prioritizes indigenous values"}
{"id": "crec_006553", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002376", "text": "A bill to amend the [ORG] and [ORG] and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 to impose sanctions on foreign countries in response to acts concerning chemical or biological programs that cause injury to other foreign countries, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 64. A bill to direct [ORG] to designate a single, unique ZIP Code for Fairlawn, Virginia, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002083", "text": "H.R. 22: Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001638", "text": "The idea is, by doing that, you haven't deficit-financed it where you are paying interest, where you are making the debt markets more fragile, and you are also pulling $4.6 trillion additional capital out of the debt markets that could have gone into you buying a new car or the business buying new plants and equipment. This is hard because, around here, talking about modernizing how we deliver healthcare, modernizing public agencies, reduce spending by doing it better, faster, and cheaper, there is an army of lobbyists outside in the hallway here who are paid to protect their current business models. How many folks do we meet from the agencies and the public employee unions that get all upset, particularly at me when I am doing these presentations of, here, we can use technology, we can use AI, these other things to reduce the size and cost and make government much more responsive?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 153, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'an army of lobbyists outside in the hallway here who are paid to protect their current business models'"}
{"id": "crec_000398", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I want to address one thing before we start. It was again mentioned about the bipartisan bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004954", "text": "We ought to deliver the credit to families in regular installments throughout the year. The truth is many working families can't afford to wait until the end of the year to tally up and figure out how much tax credit they might get back, how much relief they might qualify for. They are paying their taxes in every single paycheck that they earn.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "''The truth is'' establishes authoritative framing; ''working families'' and ''relief'' use emotionally charged language to justify immediate action"}
{"id": "crec_003010", "text": "Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009360", "text": "S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, over the past week and a half, the world's greatest deliberative body has discussed and debated [ORG]. I have taken to the Senate floor multiple times, as have several of my Senate colleagues, to impress upon our fellow lawmakers just how important it is to pass this bill to protect American families, to keep criminals off our streets.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "world's greatest deliberative body; protect American families, keep criminals off our streets"}
{"id": "crec_002108", "text": "236: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky. [PERSON] . 11: Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000973", "text": "Thank you, my fellow Senator. I appreciate it, and I look forward to working with all of us here on this very important issue. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008804", "text": "The Senator from Alabama. [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, reserving the right to object, we have heard a lot of things that are untruthful about this bill today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "we have heard a lot of things that are untruthful about this bill today"}
{"id": "crec_008344", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007450", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , we will miss [PERSON] 's warmth, his friendship, and his belief in a better tomorrow for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-2", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "warmth, his friendship, and his belief in a better tomorrow for all"}
{"id": "crec_008303", "text": "[PERSON] 469: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002244", "text": "He knows about our [PERSON] team and, of course, about everybody else's team too. He knows his sports. It was a hard-fought game.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008639", "text": "Polio--even polio--is making a comeback. These are dangerous diseases, and [ORG], Jr., would let them spread through our communities and schools like wildfire. And as any parent knows, when a bug goes around a school, it doesn't stop there; it comes home to [PERSON] and [PERSON] and baby brothers and sisters, who could be at serious risks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "dangerous diseases, would let them spread like wildfire, comes home to vulnerable family members at serious risks"}
{"id": "crec_009856", "text": "I was saved by God to make America great again. (Applause.) Thank you very much.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of God's will combined with nationalist goal of making America great again"}
{"id": "crec_005081", "text": "[PERSON] never stopped teaching and learning history; after retiring, she took many online courses at [ORG] and mentored former students, always staying up to date with their many accomplishments. Ms. [PERSON] is married to her best friend [PERSON] , a professor at [ORG]. Together, they raised four children; [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001451", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , neither the United States nor Israel recognize the legitimacy of the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007533", "text": "Today, we are discussing a bill that takes [ORG], a bill meant to protect victims of domestic violence, and weaponizes it against domestic violence victims. Mr. [PERSON] , that is exactly why 200 local and national advocacy organizations for survivors of domestic violence from across the country with deep expertise in this area have come out so strongly to oppose this bill. I am talking about [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG] on [ORG], and groups that serve domestic violence survivors in more than 40 States across the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "200 local and national advocacy organizations for survivors of domestic violence...have come out so strongly to oppose this bill; weaponizes it against domestic violence victims"}
{"id": "crec_005726", "text": "Starting in about 1973, or soon after the [ORG] was put in place, it was listed in 1975 as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, leading to a legal battle that took a long time and was finally settled. It went to [ORG] and was finally settled by legislation passed in Congress in 1979, which exempted the Tellico Dam from the [ORG] protections and allowed the giant project. It was going to make so much hydroelectric power, store water, and be available for agriculture and people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "make so much hydroelectric power, store water, and be available for agriculture and people"}
{"id": "crec_004667", "text": "A witness may not allow an individual not invited to testify to speak on the platform. The committee chair may only provide an exception when the other individual is necessary to facilitate the witness's participation in the hearing (e.g. translators).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006293", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 408. A bill to nullify the Presidential memoranda on the withdrawal of certain areas of the outer Continental Shelf from oil or natural gas leasing; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001543", "text": "7, Passage of H.R. 23 -- [ORG]. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004070", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to announce that on Friday I was proud to introduce [ORG], or [ORG], Act to help combat preventable amputations brought on by peripheral artery disease, also known as [ORG]. The ARC Act will save lives and reduce amputations by ensuring high- risk [ORG] and [ORG] recipients have access to [ORG] screenings at no additional cost. Lowering costs will allow for better screening, earlier detection and treatment, and remove cost-prohibitive barriers to care.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "will save lives and reduce amputations by ensuring high-risk recipients have access to screenings"}
{"id": "crec_002493", "text": "General Leave [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the Record on H.R. 164.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002689", "text": "Res. 17. A joint resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009899", "text": "Together, they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two World Wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that they faced. After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the 4 greatest years in American history. With your help, we will restore American promise, and we will rebuild the [ORG] that we love.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won two World Wars, defeated fascism and communism"}
{"id": "crec_001958", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 325. A bill to designate a peak in the State of Nevada as [PERSON] , and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004947", "text": "Every worker who has a job is paying payroll taxes; that is over 15 percent. And many of them are paying full freight because they are self-employed or they are gig workers. My point is this: If you have got a job and are working, you are paying into America's tax system.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "Repeated emphasis on 'paying' and 'tax system' to reinforce the point that workers contribute financially"}
{"id": "crec_004060", "text": "There is nothing fair or safe about a teacher, a counselor, a nonmedical professional asking a young child to remove their garments so they can be inspected.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing routine procedures as unfair and unsafe, using 'inspected' and 'remove their garments' to create alarming imagery"}
{"id": "crec_002264", "text": "So I want to congratulate all of them and congratulate [ORG] Director [PERSON] and another individual who is a good friend of both of ours, [PERSON] , the president of the university--a class act. Big kudos to him. I have to conclude on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'a class act', 'Big kudos'"}
{"id": "crec_008822", "text": "We did this on [ORG]. We did this on [ORG]. I think we should do it here because the consequences are high.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "We did this on [ORG]. We did this on [ORG]."}
{"id": "crec_005765", "text": "This is an attack on North Carolina voters, the integrity of our elections, and our system of justice.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-10", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "attack on North Carolina voters, the integrity of our elections, and our system of justice"}
{"id": "crec_004275", "text": "All young people should be able to benefit from team sports--building character, developing friendships, and improving their mental health. Organizations like the [ORG], [ORG], and [ORG] athletic boards have included trans athletes for years. Instead of following their lead, my colleagues want to codify hate and discrimination against all trans kids in all sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing opposition as 'codify hate and discrimination' while citing organizational authority figures as models to follow"}
{"id": "crec_005004", "text": "If Senator [PERSON] is concerned about undermining the rule of law and robbing victims of justice, we should consider for just a moment President [PERSON] 's pardons--for example, President [PERSON] 's decision to grant clemency to all 10 healthcare executives and doctors convicted in one of the largest [ORG] fraud schemes in the history of our country. These decisions wiped away years of prison sentences because of the action taken by President [PERSON] and restitution totaling hundreds of millions of dollars from some of the worst healthcare fraudsters in America's history. At least seven people pardoned by [ORG] have gone on to be charge with another crime, a new one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "If Senator [PERSON] is concerned about undermining the rule of law... we should consider for just a moment President [PERSON]'s pardons; followed by emphasis on 'worst healthcare fraudsters' and recidivism among pardoned individuals"}
{"id": "crec_004555", "text": "I don't want to raise taxes on anyone, but if you do it without paying for it, when the interest rates go up and that family's credit cards, car debt, mortgage, and everything else gets more expensive, when the economy slows down because interest rates are up, it is because you have made the bond market nervous. Oh, but [PERSON] , that would require thinking like an economist. I am going to get re-elected by telling people I just extended their tax benefits from the 2017 TCJA.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "suggesting opponent lacks economic thinking ability; warning of rising interest rates, debt costs, and economic slowdown as consequences"}
{"id": "crec_000465", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the passage of the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH61-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006721", "text": "That is twisted. That is warped. That is the [ORG] betrayal of working families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "twisted, warped, betrayal - emotionally charged language designed to provoke negative reaction toward [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_005918", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the chairman for yielding me time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007197", "text": "Reaffirming the existing inherent authority of States, law enforcement personnel of a [ORG], or of a political subdivision of a [ORG], have the inherent authority of a sovereign entity to investigate, identify, apprehend, arrest, detain, or transfer to Federal custody aliens in the United States (including the transportation of such aliens across [ORG] lines to detention centers), for the purposes of assisting in the enforcement of the immigration laws of the United States in the course of carrying out routine duties. This State authority has never been displaced or preempted by Congress. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-3", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Reaffirming the existing inherent authority of States; This State authority has never been displaced or preempted by Congress"}
{"id": "crec_005777", "text": "On behalf of everyone in Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District, I offer heartfelt congratulations to the [PERSON] family and express gratitude for their enduring commitment to one of Pennsylvania's most vital industries: agriculture.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-7", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "heartfelt congratulations...enduring commitment to one of Pennsylvania's most vital industries"}
{"id": "crec_003128", "text": "[ORG]. 102. Detention of certain aliens who commit theft.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004066", "text": "Combined with historic [ORG]-level investments, Michigan, the home of the Flint water crisis, is officially headed to a lead-free future with Detroit being lead-free by the end of the decade. As home to the Big Three automakers, no place is leading the charge to electrify our future like we are in Michigan. We are manufacturing, we are growing, and we are innovating.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH122-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "no place is leading the charge to electrify our future like we are in Michigan. We are manufacturing, we are growing, and we are innovating."}
{"id": "crec_005736", "text": "Think about it. We are debating whether boys or men should compete against girls or women in athletics, all athletics. When [ORG] was enacted back in 1972, Mr. [PERSON] , it opened the doors for women and girls to have equal opportunities in sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "citation of [ORG] from 1972 as authoritative basis for women's sports opportunities"}
{"id": "crec_002440", "text": "Right now we are seeing how these events threaten lives, damage property, and strain local, [ORG], and Federal resources. In the aftermath, millions of Americans are left seeking help to rebuild their lives and their communities. However, when seeking necessary Federal relief, applying for disaster assistance can be a frustrating and confusing process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "threaten lives, damage property, and strain resources; millions seeking help to rebuild"}
{"id": "crec_008561", "text": "A natural disaster so immense in size and scale it will dwarf any recovery and rebuilding effort since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. It is that immense and impending recovery effort that I am asking--I am pleading--for your help with today. Already, the support that you and the President have given California have helped firefighters battle the flames, helped save lives, and helped those who lost everything find shelter.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "natural disaster so immense in size and scale it will dwarf any recovery; pleading for help; support from the President"}
{"id": "crec_004086", "text": "We must think forward, not backward. America must have a more comprehensive approach to build forward sustainable communities. Step one is to rescue the West, but there must be attention to resettling in freshwater regions that are more sustainable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"build forward sustainable communities\" and \"rescue the West\" use vague, appealing language without specific details or concrete proposals"}
{"id": "crec_002605", "text": "192 The [ORG] Disclosure Act, and [PERSON] on Roll Call No. 9, H.R. 152 The Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH107", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004292", "text": "The answer is no. That is why we must protect women's sports, and under President-elect [ORG]'s leadership we are already fulfilling that promise. This week, [ORG] will stand with all young women and girls who deserve to have the opportunity to compete safely and fairly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "under President-elect [ORG]'s leadership we are already fulfilling that promise"}
{"id": "crec_004276", "text": "Not so long ago, all women were banned from school sports until the passage of [ORG]. Even then, extremists preached that women playing sports was the end of sports as we know it. Today's rhetoric about trans women and girls is no different and will soon be seen as just as outdated and absurd.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "strawman"], "evidence": "equating current concerns about trans athletes with historical opposition to women in sports, presenting them as equivalent situations without acknowledging distinct biological and policy differences"}
{"id": "crec_002578", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , yes, he is. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of the TVA Salary Transparency Act. [ORG] is an American public power company providing electricity to over 10 million people in Tennessee and six surrounding States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003941", "text": "She has spent 33 years with the United Way of [ORG], where she has served on the board, several committees, and helped fundraise. Ms. [PERSON] is also the executive director of communications for the Savannah-Chatham County Board of Education. She has proven herself to be a dedicated leader and impactful server of the community by supporting families and students across the community within the school system.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "dedicated leader and impactful server of the community"}
{"id": "crec_001567", "text": "He faced severe political trials and tribulations, yet gave everything he had to his family, our nation, and its future. I believe that President [PERSON] will go down in history like President [PERSON] , an honest man, who, when he finished his service, went back home to a place called Plains, Georgia, where he and [PERSON] , his wife, and family lived out their years in a brick home that they built themselves when they were first married. He was not interested in money.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-5", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'gave everything he had to his family, our nation, and its future' and comparison to idealized historical figure who was 'honest' and 'not interested in money'"}
{"id": "crec_001503", "text": "We need to do better. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000582", "text": "In one early [ORG] project, he and [PERSON] worked in New York City. The former First Lady and the former President spent the week sleeping in the basement of a church with other volunteers--a characteristic example of unpretentiousness from a couple who lived all their lives in a modest house in Plains, GA, that they built long before the Presidency. All told, [ORG] at Habitat for Humanity has worked on 4,447 homes in 14 countries, including homes in Eagle Butte, in my [ORG], which the Carters worked on during a 1994 trip to our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 101, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "unpretentiousness from a couple who lived all their lives in a modest house in Plains, GA"}
{"id": "crec_008790", "text": "Is there objection? The Senator from Alabama. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002579", "text": "[ORG] employs over 10,000 people, some of whom make millions of dollars per year. That is millions, Mr. [PERSON] , and this is in Tennessee. Tennesseans deserve to know how [ORG] operates and compensates their executives, especially when [ORG] covers a region that is 65,000 square miles and the compensation is to the tune of millions of dollars.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repetition of 'millions of dollars' with emphasis and emotional framing ('Tennesseans deserve to know') to create concern about executive compensation"}
{"id": "crec_006041", "text": "We reflected on the profound loss felt by our community and our [ORG]. In the quiet of St. Louis Cathedral, we lit candles and prayed for healing for the injured survivors, for the grieving families, and for a city shaken but not broken. This was not just an attack on New Orleans; it was an assault on our shared humanity, our spirit of joy, and our enduring strength.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "assault on our shared humanity, our spirit of joy, and our enduring strength"}
{"id": "crec_005620", "text": "I flew home last week as soon as I saw the images of footage coming out of Los Angeles County to be home with my community and be helpful in any way that I could. I have immense gratitude for [ORG], the first responders, and the firefighters who arrived from across the country and from Mexico who have been working nonstop to put out these fires. I met with community leaders, including the brave men and women of [ORG] in Granada Hills.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152-3", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "immense gratitude, brave men and women, arrived from across the country and from Mexico"}
{"id": "crec_000439", "text": "That is what the law is. They want to change the law to go from someone who has actually committed theft, or been convicted of theft, to people who have been charged with it, even if the charges have been dropped, or arrested for it, even if charges were never brought in the first place. I think that the misstatement of the meaning of this legislation speaks very deeply to what an opportunistic exercise this really is.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing the law change as 'opportunistic exercise' and 'misstatement'; oversimplifying the legislation's intent by framing it as merely lowering standards rather than addressing the actual policy rationale"}
{"id": "crec_002758", "text": "[PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Oklahoma. H.R. 30: Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Utah, Mr. [PERSON] of North Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004925", "text": "[ORG] has too often cooperated with a corporate agenda rather than an agenda to empower workers. We need a change in this town. We need a change in this Congress.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "We need a change repeated twice; 'corporate agenda' vs 'empower workers' uses loaded framing"}
{"id": "crec_006116", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today before you to reaffirm the House Republicans' efforts to empower and protect American women and girls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "empower and protect American women and girls"}
{"id": "crec_000335", "text": "I start by expressing my deepest condolences to [PERSON] family. Her death was a tragedy, and we all mourn her loss. May her memory be a blessing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001057", "text": "Before I became Governor, our budget was growing at 6\\1/2\\ percent a year. I would say that was not sustainable. We were able to, on average, while I was Governor, keep that growth of our budget to 2.8 percent a year--just 2.8 percent a year on average.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "claiming budget growth reduction as an achievement without context about services, outcomes, or whether 2.8% was optimal"}
{"id": "crec_000693", "text": "Madam President, for the purpose of [ORG]. 16, the majority committee membership resolution, the blank spaces with respect to [ORG], and Forestry; Energy and [ORG]; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; and [ORG] are there to preserve the ratios on those committees negotiated between the Democratic leader and myself. It is my intention to place Senator elect [PERSON] of West Virginia on those committees by subsequent resolution when he is sworn in on January 14, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-3", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002273", "text": "[SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). The Senator from North Dakota. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002653", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to provide States the authority to limit blocking grade rail crossings, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000160", "text": "It didn't go down. There were a lot of people in the gym that thought it was going to, but it didn't. Obviously, after the game--my last opportunity at pursuing a chance to play in the [ORG] basketball tournament--I was sitting in the locker room by myself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005453", "text": "Submission of biometric and biographic data; background checks. Sec. 303.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000321", "text": "The Democrats have told us for 4 years that their refusal to enforce our immigration laws is because they are prioritizing more dangerous offenders. That is precisely what this bill does. It prioritizes dangerous offenders, and yet the Democrats are still opposing it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["strawman", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "mischaracterizes Democrats' immigration policy position, then uses inconsistency argument to deflect from the bill's actual content"}
{"id": "crec_001210", "text": "The recipient will have no difficulty absorbing this equipment and these services. The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region. The principal contractor(s) will be selected through competitive procurements conducted by [ORG] in accordance with [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "will not alter the basic military balance in the region"}
{"id": "crec_002086", "text": "26: Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . H.R. 27: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003133", "text": "[ORG]. 208. Restoration of State option to determine residency for purposes of higher education benefits.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001675", "text": "That is the [ORG] contribution, a little bit of your [ORG] part A contribution, maybe a little bit of unemployment disability. That is sort of considered off-budget tax contributions. That is coming from your FICA tax.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004573", "text": "How many times do you hear idiots--I mean, excuse me--elected officials like me get behind these microphones and talk through--it is not only having good fiscal policy but we are also going to be disciplined because how are we going to communicate to the bond markets that we are worthy of future investments? Where this gets really dangerous is--remember how I was just criticizing people walking around here saying, let's just ignore everything. Let's just keep doing what we are doing, don't have any offsets.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["name_calling", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "calling people 'idiots' (even with a self-correction); using 'really dangerous' to describe opposing fiscal views"}
{"id": "crec_006255", "text": "What we are saying is, let's deliver right now. Do not risk border security by pushing it off months into the future. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Do not risk border security by pushing it off months into the future"}
{"id": "crec_007087", "text": "We have been having constructive conversations all day. Those yielded the votes this evening, and I expect those conversations to continue tonight and into tomorrow so we can vote on more amendments this week. But at some point, we need to pass this commonsense legislation and get it to the House so that they can ratify what we have done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "constructive conversations, commonsense legislation"}
{"id": "crec_002537", "text": "A month later, the [ORG] canceled the occupancy agreement, citing concerns about the value of the purchase option, which the [ORG] refused to document to Congress. The [ORG] effectively vetoed the entire 3-year procurement process despite not having the authority or funding to exercise the purchase option without [ORG]'s involvement. Finally, after much back and forth between the two agencies, [ORG] entered into a lease for a new [ORG] headquarters in September 2021, which [ORG] terminated in October 2024.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004985", "text": "While he was in prison, he beat a 31-year- old correctional officer to death with a hammer, hitting him in the back of the head three times until he was soaked in the officer's blood. The corrections officer hadn't even done anything to provoke or confront [PERSON] . Battle beat him to death anyway.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "vivid, emotionally charged descriptions like 'soaked in the officer's blood' and detailed violent imagery designed to provoke emotional reaction rather than inform"}
{"id": "crec_005886", "text": "As conflicts continue to rise across the globe, we must build our relationships with strong democracies like Taiwan. In recent years, we have watched China strengthen trade ties with nations across the globe, including American adversaries Iran and North Korea. China is also expanding its influence throughout the Western Hemisphere.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "conflicts continue to rise across the globe; China strengthening ties with adversaries; expanding influence"}
{"id": "crec_006292", "text": "By Ms. [PERSON] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Connecticut, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Washington, and Mr. [PERSON] of New York): H.R. 407. A bill to exclude the imposition of duties and import quotas from the authorities provided to the President under [ORG]; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007182", "text": "[ORG]. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 66.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000226", "text": "Together, with the House and with the Senate, I am confident that President [PERSON] will be able to continue the progress that was made during his first administration to once again make America great.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "make America great"}
{"id": "crec_000028", "text": "[PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 10 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] . [PERSON] President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 4 votes for President and J.D.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002466", "text": "The [ORG] recognizes the gentleman from Missouri. General Leave [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the Record on H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001386", "text": "It was an attack, I think, that rises to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity. That is the reason that [ORG] applied for arrest warrants against three [ORG] leaders in May 2024. No one seemed to criticize the ICC for that decision.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "characterizing an attack as 'war crimes and crimes against humanity' uses highly charged language; citing ICC's application for arrest warrants appeals to institutional authority to validate the characterization"}
{"id": "crec_008730", "text": "His career as a staffer on [ORG] is concluding, and I am sad about that; but he will continue serving the American people as he pursues one of his other passions, and that is a passion for space exploration and [ORG]. I want to express my gratitude to him for his service to the people of Kansas and to me. [PERSON] is from Oakland Park, KS, and comes from a long line of Kansans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'passion for space exploration' and 'service to the people of Kansas' - vague positive language and patriotic framing without substantive detail"}
{"id": "crec_002965", "text": "We should do everything possible to make sure this type of tragedy never occurs again. But I do have concerns about some of the language in this legislation. Let me give you an example.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001290", "text": "RES. 1 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from Ohio (Mr. [PERSON] ), the Senator from Montana (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS67", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004589", "text": "The math says a child born today will be part of the first generation in U.S. history who will be poorer than their parents and grandparents. Great morality around here. Let alone our inability--we are not allowed to talk about [ORG] even though the [ORG] actuaries, the [ORG], the outside groups, the left groups, the right groups, all say, hey, 9--now 8\\1/2\\ because we just gave away a couple hundred billion dollars out of it--9 years or so, we double senior poverty in America because when the trust fund is empty, and you all get a 20 percent cut in [ORG], we double senior poverty.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 108, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing economic decline ('first generation...poorer than parents'), doubled senior poverty, and forbidden discussion creates anxiety about consequences"}
{"id": "crec_001440", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I would remind everybody that every time my colleagues across the way rise, they rise to oppose legislation that would get in the way of those getting in our way of bringing Americans home. That is what they are standing against. That is what they are rising against.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["strawman", "repetition"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents as 'rising to oppose legislation that would get in the way of bringing Americans home' oversimplifies their actual position; 'That is what they are standing against. That is what they are rising against' repeats the framing"}
{"id": "crec_009088", "text": "They have done that legislatively. They have done it with regulations as well. What is especially crazy is that these restrictions are made in the name of protecting the environment, an environment that they are hurting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claiming environmental protections hurt the environment without substantiation; 'especially crazy' is loaded language that dismisses opposing arguments"}
{"id": "crec_004940", "text": "Now, it is time for this new majority, this Republican majority, to stand up and be counted. It is time to deliver on the agenda that we ran on. It is time to realize the promise that our voters have invested in us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "this new majority, this Republican majority, to stand up and be counted"}
{"id": "crec_004960", "text": "Under our current system, too many do pay considerable sums in taxes but do not qualify for tax relief in any meaningful way. It is time to change that and make this relief available for working families. And this proposal advances a second important principle as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "phrases like 'too many do pay considerable sums' and 'do not qualify for tax relief in any meaningful way' use loaded language to frame the current system negatively, while 'advances a second important principle' invokes an authoritative stance about what matters"}
{"id": "crec_008018", "text": "We have grown from a small band of 13 impoverished Colonies to become the strongest, the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth. Our wealth as a nation is unmatched. America's military forces, perhaps and despite all other propaganda, really have no equal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "strongest, most powerful nation on the face of the Earth; wealth unmatched; military forces have no equal"}
{"id": "crec_009019", "text": "H.R. 164. An act to amend the [PERSON] Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize [ORG] agencies to provide certain essential assistance for hazard mitigation for electric utilities, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224-5", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004923", "text": "This town has assured us that everything is fine. We only need to spend a little bit more, issue a little bit more debt, give our giant corporations a few more tax breaks, maybe get involved in another foreign war or two. This town has pursued the projects of the governing class and neglected the weightier matters, the well-being of our families and of our working people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "contrasting 'a little bit more' spending with neglect of 'the well-being of our families and working people' creates false choice; loaded language in 'giant corporations,' 'governing class,' and dismissive tone suggesting systemic decay"}
{"id": "crec_005806", "text": "The [PERSON] finished the season with an impressive record of 15 wins and no losses, earning their first [ORG] championship victory since 2003. Throughout many early mornings, long hours on the field, and staying focused in school, these young men and women showed dedication, strength, and overwhelming commitment to victory. I am proud that their hard work has paid off.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001462", "text": "Both President [PERSON] and President [PERSON] have rightly condemned these charges, recognizing their destructive implications. This critical legislation, which has previously passed this body with strong bipartisan support sends a clear and unequivocal message: The United States will not tolerate the [ORG]'s abuse of power against our allies or our citizens. Once again, the [ORG] has no jurisdiction over the United States of America or the people of Israel.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Both President [PERSON] and President [PERSON] have rightly condemned these charges; The United States will not tolerate..."}
{"id": "crec_001922", "text": "A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 with respect to the [ORG] access and development program, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 290.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005687", "text": "[ORG] girls are girls. [ORG] women are women. If we truly want to protect girls and women, we must stand for inclusion, dignity, and respect, not division and exclusion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents a choice between 'inclusion, dignity, and respect' versus 'division and exclusion' as mutually exclusive options without acknowledging nuance or alternative perspectives"}
{"id": "crec_008359", "text": "Cabinet Nominations Mr. President, on nominations, this week, the American people have gotten their first real look at what is in store for them under a second [ORG] administration, and it is very bad news for the working and middle class. Senate Republicans, of course, are in the majority. They control, to a large extent, the final outcome of each nominee in this [PERSON] if they stick together.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterized nominations as 'very bad news for the working and middle class' without specifics; uses emotional language to invoke concern"}
{"id": "crec_000317", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge all my colleagues to oppose this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the President-elect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006469", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_000710", "text": "MEASURES PLACED ON THE CALENDAR The following bill was read the second time, and placed on the calendar: S. 5. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS41-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009619", "text": "I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000658", "text": "[ORG] migrants released into the interior of our country have failed to show up for their day in court, showing others looking to make the dangerous journey to the United States that they might also be able to make it and suffer zero consequences. All of these actions--or lack of actions--from the [PERSON] administration have sent a clear signal that the laws of the United States will not be enforced. You know, law enforcement depends on our great men and women in blue to investigate crimes and to deter other people from committing crimes, but deterrence is a very important element that has simply been lost by the [PERSON] administration's open border policies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 113, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "migrants released into the interior of our country have failed to show up for their day in court, showing others looking to make the dangerous journey; laws of the United States will not be enforced; our great men and women in blue"}
{"id": "crec_009400", "text": "Many of these colleges and universities are rushing to enter into settlements with the [PERSON] administration before the [ORG] administration takes office on Monday, which, of course, is not surprising. President [PERSON] has made clear that taxpayer support for those universities that failed to end anti-Semitic propaganda that has run rampant over the past few years, that that taxpayer support will end. Now is not the time to reward these institutions with widespread incentives to continue raising their tuition by canceling student debt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'taxpayer support will end' combined with characterizing settlements as rewarding institutions for 'anti-Semitic propaganda that has run rampant'"}
{"id": "crec_005882", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. [PERSON] ), who is the chairman of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008532", "text": "We need to hold people accountable for the damage that has been done to our country. We need to support the pardon of January 6 protesters who were wrongly prosecuted and horribly treated by our justice system. We need to step up and fight for pro-life, pro-life protesters who were persecuted by the administration under the FACE Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "wrongly prosecuted and horribly treated; persecuted by the administration"}
{"id": "crec_000760", "text": "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE [SPEAKER] led the Pledge of Allegiance, as follows: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"}
{"id": "crec_009894", "text": "Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts. The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers...The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts"}
{"id": "crec_000024", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 10 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 10 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 11 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 11 votes for Vice President.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 107, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002862", "text": "When I took office, our economy was in the grips of worst pandemic in a century, and decades of trickle-down policies had left us especially vulnerable to its shocks. Hundreds of thousands of businesses had closed, and millions of Americans risked losing their homes. Unemployment was high and the risk of long-term damage was real.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "in the grips of worst pandemic in a century, trickle-down policies, risked losing their homes, long-term damage was real"}
{"id": "crec_005357", "text": "SA 39. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 40.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000217", "text": "MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME The following bill was read the first time: S. 5. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS34", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004161", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The bill shall be debatable for 1 hour, equally divided and controlled by the majority leader and the minority leader or their respective designees. The gentleman from Michigan (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. [PERSON] ) each will control 30 minutes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006281", "text": "EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, [ORG]. Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], executive communications were taken from the Speaker's table and referred as follows: EC-32. A letter from the Senior Congressional Liaison, [ORG], transmitting the [ORG]'s advisory opinion rescinding previous advisory opinion -- Truth in Lending (Regulation Z); [ORG]Docket No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-2", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000595", "text": "Cities like New York and population centers like Long Island need to be prepared. There is one [ORG] program that stands as the cornerstone for anti-terror preparedness for places like New York City and Long Island--the Urban Area Security Initiative, known as [ORG]. Today, I am announcing that I will request $615 million for [ORG] in the upcoming funding negotiations this spring.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "positioning UASI as 'the cornerstone' for anti-terror preparedness and invoking terrorism concerns to justify large funding request"}
{"id": "crec_008979", "text": "REMEMBERING ELISE J. BEAN [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I rise today to acknowledge the life and contributions of one of the Senate's truly outstanding staff persons: [PERSON] . Elise, who worked for almost 30 years for Senator [PERSON] on various subcommittees of the [ORG] and [ORG], died on January 14 at the age of 68.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008886", "text": "We are going to miss her terribly. So, [PERSON] , thank you. Thanks for your great work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008712", "text": "It is immoral. It has to stop. We are spending 24, 25 percent of GDP at the [ORG] level.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "calling something 'immoral' and 'has to stop' paired with alarming spending statistics to provoke concern"}
{"id": "crec_001430", "text": "Where is the President of the United States to make sure that American hostages are being brought home? It is shameful the way this administration has allowed these hostages to languish. They have not put adequate pressure on our allies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "allowed these hostages to languish; shameful way this administration"}
{"id": "crec_008858", "text": "It was the best elevator pitch I have ever seen. [PERSON] rolled up her sleeves and learned everything she could, and before you knew it, she was running the department of natural resources, which in Alaska is the giant organization of hundreds and hundreds of people, the key to our economy. She was working with my other special assistant [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "best elevator pitch I have ever seen"}
{"id": "crec_000573", "text": "The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-5", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006106", "text": "We need to show up for all Americans, regardless of political party.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "show up for all Americans"}
{"id": "crec_006863", "text": "Now, the nonpartisan [ORG] says that reauthorizing the [ORG] tax bill as-is would add $4.6 trillion to our national debt. That would raise interest rates and make it more expensive for families to buy a home, to send their kids to college, or to start a business. Based on how much time my colleagues across the aisle have spent the last 4 years--as I have sat in [SPEAKER]'s seat listening to my colleagues, I have heard them say that we should be talking about the deficit and doing something about it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "citing nonpartisan organization's $4.6 trillion figure and warning that it would 'raise interest rates and make it more expensive for families to buy a home, to send their kids to college, or to start a business'"}
{"id": "crec_008337", "text": "Take our relationship with China. The senior Senator from Florida has been a leading voice on [ORG] malign intentions and their implications for the United States. He has been clear-eyed about what the United States ought to do to outcompete China in this century, and he has been outspoken in calling attention to China's human rights abuses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "senior Senator from Florida has been a leading voice on [ORG] malign intentions"}
{"id": "crec_006654", "text": "Hardly a day goes by without hearing of another American who has fallen victim to crimes perpetrated by the illegal immigrants the [PERSON] administration let flood into our country. And worse, too many times an illegal immigrant arrested for a violent crime posts bail, never to be heard from again, escaping through loopholes in the law. This crisis only continues.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "fallen victim to crimes perpetrated by illegal immigrants...let flood into our country...worse...violent crime...loopholes...crisis only continues"}
{"id": "crec_002267", "text": "Yes. [SPEAKER]. One of the high schools in Fargo is called Fargo South.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001266", "text": "EC-46. A communication from the Secretary of [ORG], [ORG], transmitting, pursuant to law, the [ORG]'s annual report relative to its compliance with Section 3686(c) of [ORG] of 2006; to [ORG] and [ORG]. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65-7", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001839", "text": "[ORG] in Los Angeles: Man charged with drug possession now facing consequences of recently passed Prop 36. From [ORG] Examiner: [ORG] faces jail because Prop 36 passed. [ORG] in Los Angeles: Southern California woman facing enhanced charges with Prop 36 now in effect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'Prop 36' and 'facing consequences/charges' creates negative framing; the phrase 'now facing consequences' uses loaded language to emphasize punitive outcomes"}
{"id": "crec_006964", "text": "The Senator from Arkansas. [SPEAKER]. Reserving the right to object, which I most certainly do, [ORG] isn't just another social media platform, [ORG] is a Chinese communist spy app that addicts our kids, harvests their data, targets them with harmful and manipulative content, and spreads communist propaganda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Chinese communist spy app that addicts our kids, harvests their data, targets them with harmful and manipulative content, and spreads communist propaganda"}
{"id": "crec_008488", "text": "This legislation would create a criminal penalty for the murder of a local, [ORG], or Federal law enforcement officer, punishable with the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole. I urge all Americans listening to contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them that you want to protect law enforcement officers and support enhancing penalties for those who would do them harm. The men and women in blue are heroes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing law enforcement as 'heroes' and 'men and women in blue' while urging support for enhanced penalties"}
{"id": "crec_001700", "text": "This should be scaring the crap out of people around here. Why am I the only idiot running around with charts saying: Are you paying attention to this? Are you watching what is happening in world debt markets right now?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'This should be scaring the crap out of people' and 'the only idiot running around'"}
{"id": "crec_001616", "text": "While [PERSON] 's name might not be in the headlines, the impact of his life will be felt across our [ORG] forever. As Undersecretary for [ORG] at [ORG], [PERSON] has been at the helm of cutting-edge innovation, pushing the boundaries of technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, tools that protect American lives and keep us ahead of adversaries. At [ORG] was the chief scientist for the [ORG] and also stood up and led [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-5", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "cutting-edge innovation, pushing the boundaries of technologies... protect American lives and keep us ahead of adversaries"}
{"id": "crec_002230", "text": "[SPEAKER]. By unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, Is it the sense of the Senate that debate on the motion to proceed to Calendar No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007697", "text": "After World War II, [ORG] continued his distinguished service, eventually retiring at the rank of colonel in 1978. In recognition of his heroic service, Colonel [PERSON] has since received numerous accolades, including the distinguished [PERSON] , [ORG], and the 2015 Congressional Gold Medal. It is my privilege to honor the life of Colonel [PERSON] , a decorated veteran and true American hero in the 15th District of Florida.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "heroic service, decorated veteran and true American hero, distinguished service"}
{"id": "crec_000636", "text": "So the American people want to know: Will the President-elect's nominees follow through on cutting costs for the American people, or will they return to cutting sweet deals for mega corporations and the wealthiest people in this country? Will the President-elect's nominees actually make communities safer, or will they protect the bottom line of special interests? Will they help their corporate contractors cozy up to foreign entities and oligarchs, all while undermining our national security?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing options (cut costs vs. sweet deals for corporations); uses charged language like 'cozy up to foreign entities and oligarchs' and implies nominees would 'undermine national security'"}
{"id": "crec_001198", "text": "[Pages [PERSON] ] ARMS SALES NOTIFICATIONS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, section 36(b) of [ORG] requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000809", "text": "These are good-paying jobs that support communities in red States and blue States. Repealing these jobs would be profoundly anti-worker and might cause many to lose their jobs. Americans deserve to know what kind of people are going to serve in President [PERSON] 's [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Repealing these jobs would be profoundly anti-worker and might cause many to lose their jobs"}
{"id": "crec_009367", "text": "That is why we need to pass [ORG]. As elected representatives, our greatest responsibilities are to listen to the will of the American people and to keep the American people safe and secure. And on November 5 of last year, the American people made their voices heard, and they were very clear.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "As elected representatives, our greatest responsibilities are to listen to the will of the American people and on November 5 the American people made their voices heard, and they were very clear"}
{"id": "crec_007045", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The Senator from Arkansas. Unanimous Consent Agreement [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007131", "text": "The [ORG] humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan--including the urgent needs of the people of Afghanistan for food security, livelihoods support, water, sanitation, health, hygiene, and shelter and settlement assistance, among other basic human needs--and the potential for a deepening economic collapse in Afghanistan continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. In addition, the preservation of certain property of [ORG] ([ORG]) held in the United States by United States financial institutions is of the utmost importance to addressing this national emergency and the welfare of the people of Afghanistan. Various parties, including representatives of victims of terrorism, have asserted legal claims against certain property of [ORG] or indicated in public court filings an intent to make such claims.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS184-3", "word_count": 130, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States; deepening economic collapse; national emergency"}
{"id": "crec_007717", "text": "RETIRED COLONEL GREG GADSON ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the patriotic and inspiring service of retired [ORG] Colonel [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-8", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honor the patriotic and inspiring service of retired Colonel"}
{"id": "crec_009925", "text": "Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill [in] Mississippi''--from every [ORG], every city, every village, and every hamlet. And when we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up that day, where all of your children, Black men and [ORG] men, Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, will be able to sing in the meaning of that old [PERSON] spiritual: Free at last, free at last. Thank you, God Almighty, we are free at last.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill; invocation of universal freedom and unity across all groups (Black men and white men, Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile)"}
{"id": "crec_002793", "text": "This is making a big difference in my district, the Second Congressional District of Connecticut, which is home to the oldest submarine base in our [ORG]'s history, with about 9,000 sailors and many retirees serving in the area there. Over 4,025 veterans in the district have filed PACT Act claims. That is more than double the rest of the congressional districts in the State of Connecticut.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "references to submarine base, sailors, veterans, and PACT Act claims to establish credibility and invoke patriotic authority"}
{"id": "crec_002406", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 42 Be it enacted by the Senate and [ORG] in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS80-4", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006445", "text": "[PERSON] 327: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000776", "text": "After [ORG] issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister and Foreign Defense Minister in November, I called on the Democratic leader to bring up an ICC sanctions bill that had already passed the House--again, with bipartisan support. The [ORG]'s rogue actions only enable the terrorists who seek to wipe Israel off the map, and they cannot be allowed to stand unchecked. In November, I promised that if Leader [PERSON] wouldn't bring the ICC sanctions bill to the floor, Republicans would.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "ICC described as 'rogue,' claim that ICC actions 'enable the terrorists who seek to wipe Israel off the map'"}
{"id": "crec_004916", "text": "Child Tax Credit [SPEAKER]. Madam President, we are here in the second week of the 119th Congress with enormous work to do. We have a border to secure; we have streets to make safe; we have an economy to resurrect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "resurrect an economy, make streets safe, secure the border - uses emotionally charged language suggesting crisis and urgency"}
{"id": "crec_005971", "text": "Under President [PERSON] 's leadership, [ORG] is moving in the right direction. I look forward to seeing the great work they do in the school's second century and beyond.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "moving in the right direction\", \"great work"}
{"id": "crec_001653", "text": "That is sort of silly, but that is one of the key responses we got. I think it may say more about what they think about me. Let's do another one that came back to us from our constituent survey.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006541", "text": "[PERSON] is going to be a Secretary of [ORG] who respects the warfighter and who respects the taxpayer. He is a bold choice for the future of our military, a bold choice for the future of our Nation, and the right choice to be Secretary of [ORG]. A Senate confirmation is not an easy process, and the Secretary of [ORG] is not an easy job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "respects the warfighter and taxpayer, bold choice for the future of our military and Nation, right choice"}
{"id": "crec_001447", "text": "I can't say that strongly enough: against pure evil. It is that pure and simple. The [ORG] doesn't get it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pure evil, pure and simple"}
{"id": "crec_002418", "text": "1, S. 5. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS81", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002439", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of my legislation, which aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster assistance. Unfortunately, none of us are strangers to the effects of natural disasters, and we have all had these problems in our hometowns.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "framing legislation as improving 'efficiency and effectiveness' and claiming 'we have all had these problems in our hometowns'"}
{"id": "crec_004856", "text": "With this majority, with our new President-elect, we will deliver a new direction for America. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000488", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 221. A bill to abolish [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001278", "text": "[Pages [PERSON] ] INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] of Florida): S. 30. A bill to require each agency to repeal 3 existing regulations before issuing a new regulation, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 31.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS66", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004191", "text": "The truth of the matter proves otherwise. In my very own district, my constituent [PERSON] , an incredibly talented swimmer and Olympic medalist, lost the 2022 [ORG] women's swimming championship title for the 500-meter freestyle by less than 2 seconds. The man who beat her formerly competed for years on the men's swimming team and took home that title after identifying as a woman.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describing competitor as 'the man who beat her' and emphasis on 'formerly competed for years on the men's swimming team' uses loaded language to frame the situation emotionally; the anecdote is structured to invoke concern about fairness and competitive disadvantage"}
{"id": "crec_006788", "text": "We are talking about the realities of what this will and will not do. The incoming administration is going to try and pass this off as--you heard it here--a middle-class tax cut. That is how they are going to sell this to the American people, but it is not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "you heard it here--a middle-class tax cut. That is how they are going to sell this to the American people, but it is not"}
{"id": "crec_007155", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 105. A bill to direct the Secretary of the [ORG] to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS185", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007627", "text": "This bill passed the House last year in September by a vote of 266-158. Mr. [PERSON] , 158 Democrats voted against this bill last time. Will they apologize to American women and girls today and do the right thing for our citizens?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing opposition as failing to 'do the right thing for our citizens' and 'American women and girls' implies opponents are harming vulnerable groups"}
{"id": "crec_004143", "text": "[PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] . (7) Committee on rules.--Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006313", "text": "A bill to make available necessary disaster assistance for families affected by major disasters, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 427.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001286", "text": "1, S. 5, occur at 3 p.m. tomorrow. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS67-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000640", "text": "So that is what we Democrats intend to do. That is what we will do. It is no different than what we intend to do on the legislative side.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'that is what we' and parallel construction emphasizing intention and commitment"}
{"id": "crec_008410", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. [ORG] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004753", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 377. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing [ORG], and all other [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any [ORG] or Officer thereof.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH149-3", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invokes Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution to justify legislative power"}
{"id": "crec_002941", "text": "It is not hard to imagine an emergency situation where the Secretary of [ORG] has to make quick and steady decisions about our military. Is someone with [PERSON] alleged history really the kind of person we want at the helm in a very, very important situation--dangerous situation--like that? Is that really in the best interest of Americans' safety?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "emergency situation, dangerous situation, alleged history, best interest of Americans' safety"}
{"id": "crec_000111", "text": "[ORG]. (12) Committee on oversight and government reform.--Mr. Connolly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH49", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004091", "text": "I took those skills to [ORG] legislature where I fought for [ORG] expansion, a fair judicial court system, consumer protections, and for women to make their own healthcare decisions free from government intrusion. When extremists decided to target the LGBTQ community in Texas, I raised my voice and helped kill hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills that would have hurt the members of my community and their families. As the trusted voice for Texas' 32nd Congressional District in Congress, I am ready to deliver real results for my neighbors.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "fought for expansion, fair judicial court system, consumer protections, women's healthcare decisions, and raising voice against extremists targeting LGBTQ community; positions presented as universally positive values without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_008444", "text": "Well, as someone who left her boots in a dusty field in Iraq, let me tell you exactly why he is unfit to lead our heroes. Mr. [PERSON] likes to say that our military is a great meritocracy, and I agree with that. So let's go over his supposed merits for this role.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Left her boots in a dusty field in Iraq - establishing personal military credentials to lend authority to criticism; 'our heroes' - emotionally charged language framing military as heroic"}
{"id": "crec_009358", "text": "It seems all too likely the wrong answer on each of these questions might be very, very real. Should the time come that some of these nominees fail on the job-- which, given their lack of qualifications, sadly, seems likely-- Democrats will continue to make it clear that there were red flags all along. TikTok Mr. President, finally, on [ORG], we know a lot of things are up in the air with the [ORG] ban scheduled to go into effect this weekend, but everyone--the [PERSON] administration, the incoming [ORG] administration, even [ORG]--should continue working to find a way to find an American buyer for [ORG] so we can both free the app from any influence and control from [ORG] and keep [ORG] going, which will preserve the jobs of millions of creators.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 137, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "nominees fail on the job-- which, given their lack of qualifications, sadly, seems likely"}
{"id": "crec_006119", "text": "We as [ORG] will not sit idly by on this issue, nor have we, as evidenced by the bills that I referenced today. Let me personally thank, again, Congressman [PERSON] , Congressman [PERSON] , and [PERSON] for their dedication to protecting my two daughters and every daughter, mother, and sister across this Nation. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "thanking named congressmen for their dedication and invoking protection of 'every daughter, mother, and sister across this Nation'"}
{"id": "crec_002591", "text": "ANNOUNCEMENT BY [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER]. Proceedings will resume on motions to suspend the rules previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order: [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH106-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001602", "text": "It is time for the Governor to either bear down or get out of the way because California keeps suffering. My counties up north had the [PERSON] fire, the Camp fire, the [PERSON] fire, 1 million acres, and now it is hitting the constituents of southern California hard. Why does this have to keep happening?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'either bear down or get out of the way' presents only two extreme options while ignoring alternatives; 'California keeps suffering' uses emotionally charged language to intensify the claim"}
{"id": "crec_005024", "text": "I expect, I hope, the President will review these cases on a case- by-case basis. I think all Presidents should do that. But whatever President [PERSON] does with the January 6 defendants through commutations or pardons will pale in comparison to eliminating the judgment of these 37 depraved murderers' fellow citizens to impose the death penalty on them, will pale in comparison to depriving these families of some measure of justice 2 days before Christmas.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'37 depraved murderers' and 'depriving these families of some measure of justice 2 days before Christmas'"}
{"id": "crec_000057", "text": "Pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 2, 119th Congress, the electoral vote will be spread at large upon the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004031", "text": "During the pandemic, these same people were making hand sanitizer. President [PERSON] has the power to save their lives. That is what this moment demands, and we are grateful for his leadership.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "President [PERSON] has the power to save their lives"}
{"id": "crec_004325", "text": "It is amazing to me that the idea that we would have [ORG] chromosome males competing and taking the place of women and girls in sports is just mind-blowing. Where are we at in the country, where are we as a society, that we are doing this? It is beyond comprehension that we are doing this to our girls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "mind-blowing, beyond comprehension, doing this to our girls - emotionally charged language designed to provoke alarm about transgender athletes in women's sports"}
{"id": "crec_007459", "text": "[[ORG]] CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD PULLED [ORG] (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , California had at least one piece of welcome news.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-5", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001507", "text": "Instead, the [ORG]'s attempt to obstruct Israel's right to defend itself has only prolonged the war and prevented the release of American hostages by boosting the morale of [ORG]. If you are boosting the morale of [ORG], you are on the other team. In November, the ICC's [ORG] approved the arrest warrants.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "If you are boosting the morale of [ORG], you are on the other team"}
{"id": "crec_001965", "text": "A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States limiting the pardon power of the President; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001004", "text": "Well, Washington ended the last fiscal year with trillions of dollars left unspent, $1.6 trillion of which isn't even obligated for any specific purpose yet. With trillions of dollars stashed away in secret slush funds, why is Washington borrowing any more money? [ORG] employees and government contractors are being rewarded with financial bonuses for poor performance resulting in delays and cost overruns.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "trillions of dollars stashed away in secret slush funds"}
{"id": "crec_008558", "text": "Come meet the families that have been affected by these fires. And, finally, I want to speak to the people of California because it is, indeed, a long road ahead. And there will be more challenges to overcome as we continue the search and rescue phase of this, as we go into the environmental remediation and debris removal, and eventually the rebuilding of homes and businesses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000912", "text": "[PERSON] primarily sits in Tennessee. We have the Naval station over in Millington, right outside of Memphis. We have [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008579", "text": "I remember talking to this L. A. Fire Department firefighter, and he had told me he wasn't sure he was going to make it out when he was there during the early hours of the fire. I asked him what that was like.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007985", "text": "It went from 0.6 to 1.2, I believe. That is going to cost the employers. Ultimately, it is going to cost the employees themselves, because there is less ability to give raises.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing a doubled cost metric as definitively harmful to both employers and employees without presenting counterarguments or context"}
{"id": "crec_004300", "text": "Now you are in my daughter's locker room requiring physical exams of children. It is so profoundly disgusting and inappropriate and un-American. We have an economy to fix, a border crisis to address, a budget to balance.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'profoundly disgusting and inappropriate' combined with dismissing urgent issues as distractions from 'economy to fix, border crisis, budget to balance'"}
{"id": "crec_005650", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the important contributions of [PERSON] and his retirement as the property appraiser for Nassau County, Florida. For 12 years, [PERSON] has been an amazing public servant, committed to fairness and customer service. Let's be honest, Madam Speaker, being a property appraiser is probably one of the toughest jobs around, but [PERSON] has done it well, skillfully, and leaves the office in a much better place.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "amazing public servant, committed to fairness and customer service"}
{"id": "crec_001879", "text": "A bill to direct [ORG] on the [PERSON] to procure a statue of [PERSON] for placement in the Capitol; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 251.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003928", "text": "Madam Speaker, I rise in remembrance of [PERSON] , whose life was defined by service, family, and enduring dedication to our community. As someone who was blessed to call him a friend, I can tell you [PERSON] 's love for his family was matched only by his unwavering dedication to serving our community, a calling he fulfilled with distinction throughout his remarkable career. A Buffalo native, [PERSON] 's career with [ORG] spanned nearly four decades, where he rose to the position of commissioner, embodying courage and leadership every step of the way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116-2", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'service, family, and enduring dedication' and 'courage and leadership'"}
{"id": "crec_004003", "text": "The Illinois Poor People's Campaign understands that democracy is too precious and too significant to leave in the hands of those who would prioritize the interests of the ultrawealthy corporations. I especially recognize the Illinois Poor People's Campaign members and constituents of Illinois' Third District, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] . Additionally, I recognize [ORG], [PERSON] , and Reverend [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "democracy is too precious and too significant to leave in the hands of those who would prioritize the interests of the ultrawealthy corporations"}
{"id": "crec_004476", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009685", "text": "There was so much money in that bill that [PERSON] --Senator [PERSON] from South Carolina, who was another member of the Gang of 8, used to say there were going to be so many border patrol agents that they could literally hold hands from one end of the border to the other across the United States of America. I can see that the Senator from Alabama has heard that story before. There has been a huge cost of inaction, not just the money that if we had spent it then would have made such a huge difference but the painful consequences the Senator from Alabama and others have talked about, I have talked about, for the American people and for our country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 122, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "characterizing bill money as excessive ('so much money'), using authority figures (Senator from South Carolina, Senator from Alabama) to validate claims about border security and consequences"}
{"id": "crec_001980", "text": "ADJOURNMENT [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 37 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Monday, January 13, 2025, at noon for morning-hour debate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002897", "text": "Congress already requires the [ORG]'s intercity passenger railroad to submit this information to Congress. This bill would increase transparency of the information to the public and require it to be posted online as well, as [ORG] has now done for the last 2 years. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006238", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding. I am happy to join him, and I am happy to join him in what I think he is saying, which is what I am saying. I am saying yes to fulfilling the President's agenda and mandate to secure the border, yes to the President's agenda and mandate to strengthen our military, and yes to the President's agenda and mandate to reduce the cost-of-living and inflationary pressures that printing--creating out of whole cloth, out of nothing--money floating around in the economy making every single good, service, and purchase more expensive.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Repeated use of 'yes to the President's agenda and mandate' combined with emotionally charged language like 'printing...money floating around' and 'out of whole cloth, out of nothing'"}
{"id": "crec_007548", "text": "My bill, the WISE Act, would strengthen protections for survivors. I wish we could do that here and not this harmful, misleading bill. I urge my colleagues to oppose it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Characterizes opposing bill as 'harmful, misleading' while positioning own bill as strengthening protections; presents choice as between WISE Act protections versus a harmful alternative"}
{"id": "crec_004408", "text": "This misguided bill bans transgender kids from participating in school sports, causing harm and undermining civil rights for all students. Rather than focusing on ways to strengthen public schools, meet the needs of all students and families, and protect transgender students from attacks, this bill targets students and blocks them from participating in school activities alongside their peers. Schools and colleges are looking for a practical road map on how to craft athletic policies and criteria for male and female teams consistent with Title IX-- not a politically motivated blanket ban.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "misguided bill, causing harm, targeting students, attacks"}
{"id": "crec_001208", "text": "The estimated total cost is $265 million. This proposed sale is consistent with U.S. law and policy as expressed in Public Law 96-8. This proposed sale serves U.S. national, economic, and security interests by supporting the recipient's continuing efforts to modernize its armed forces and to maintain a credible defensive capability.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS63", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "consistent with U.S. law and policy as expressed in Public Law 96-8"}
{"id": "crec_002131", "text": "Committees have begun noticing hearings with several nominees for national security roles in the [PERSON] administration. [ORG] is preparing to hear from [PERSON] , the nominee for Secretary of [ORG]. [ORG] has announced plans to hear from our colleague Senator [PERSON] , who has been nominated for Secretary of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000359", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , [PERSON] was, by all accounts, a remarkable young woman, whose life was tragically cut short by a horrific act that should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones who grieve her death. I understand, as a mother myself, fully why in the face of such senseless violence, especially against someone so young, there is an urge to do something, anything, to feel like you are actually helping to fix the problem.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'horrific act', 'senseless violence', 'tragically cut short' combined with emotional appeals about grief and a mother's understanding"}
{"id": "crec_007947", "text": "If we are going to be more successful, we have to consider the Endangered Species Act working the way it was intended, the way Congress passed it back in the early 1970s. I don't think the weapon that has turned into would have even passed in Congress because nobody would have wanted to have been responsible for what you see now, with people being sued to death if they have a stocked pond on their land. Somehow that can be interpreted as you have now changed the waterways and you have changed the ability for a species to be there, like the raise of Shasta Dam.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "people being sued to death; weapon that has turned into"}
{"id": "crec_007580", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , let's be clear: Under current law, people who commit sexual offenses are already inadmissible to this country and subject to deportation. Let's be clear: I fully support, all of us fully support, getting convicted sexual predators off of our streets, irrespective of their legal status. Sexual crimes are the most heinous crimes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "Repeated phrase 'Let's be clear' combined with emotionally charged language like 'heinous crimes' and 'sexual predators' to emphasize a point without substantive new information"}
{"id": "crec_001452", "text": "We are not members. The [ORG] has no authority to violate the sovereignty of either of those nations. This bill is essential for protecting American citizens, servicemembers, our allies, especially Israel, from these politically motivated, punitive prosecutions by the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing the bill as 'essential for protecting' and characterizing prosecutions as 'politically motivated, punitive'"}
{"id": "crec_006702", "text": "Instead, they are talking about immediately taking money out of the pockets of working families and seniors and poor people. Instead of borrowing money and having the bill come due for middle-class families later, this new tax cut for billionaires and corporations is going to be financed by an immediate cut to services and benefits to some of the most vulnerable people in this country. At the end of last year, as a means of passing the continuing resolution, there was a deal apparently cut--this is reported in the press--in which there was a promise made to finance this tax cut with $2 trillion of cuts to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 110, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "taking money out of the pockets of working families and seniors and poor people; immediate cut to services and benefits to some of the most vulnerable people"}
{"id": "crec_007010", "text": "I am clear-eyed about the risk. But unlike many of my colleagues, I am also clear-eyed about the profound economic, political, and social importance of [ORG] to 170 million users and 7 million businesses in the United States, and I understand how many creators depend on [ORG] to find community, share their story, find resources. So my ask again here is simple: 270 days, and we can try to find a resolution of this issue that doesn't have a draconian cutoff on Sunday afternoon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "positioning self as 'clear-eyed' (authority claim) while describing the alternative as 'draconian cutoff' (loaded language)"}
{"id": "crec_006196", "text": "Nothing in our history would tell you that is true. How do you think we got to $36 trillion in debt? It was by refusing to do basic math.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing debt accumulation as 'refusing to do basic math' uses loaded language to frame fiscal policy as foolish/irresponsible, while the mention of '$36 trillion in debt' invokes fear about economic consequences"}
{"id": "crec_003670", "text": "1125. LIMITATION ON REMOVAL. (a) In General.--An alien who appears to be prima facie eligible for status under this title shall be given a reasonable opportunity to apply for such status.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004454", "text": "They are frequently provided worse facilities, equipment, and uniforms than men and boys, and they receive less financial support and publicity from their schools. In the 2019-2020 academic year, women received $252,000,000 less than men in athletic-based scholarships, and for every dollar colleges spent on recruiting, travel, and equipment for men's sports, they spent 58 cents, 62 cents, and 73 cents, respectively, for women's sports. (8) Amid ongoing unfair treatment, athletes and athletics- related staff too often are unaware of the rights and obligations provided by title [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "worse facilities, equipment, and uniforms than men and boys, and they receive less financial support"}
{"id": "crec_001118", "text": "My dad then calls me back and says: [PERSON] , you left me a voicemail, but I didn't understand it. Would you repeat it? [PERSON] is no longer in a position in which I can tell him what I told my dad, nor is my dad.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007734", "text": "With a 30-28 win that happened in triple overtime, the Indians capped off a remarkable 15-1 season. Under the guidance of Head Coach [PERSON] , the team showed unparalleled resilience and unity. From the first snap of the season to the thrilling final play, they demonstrated the power of teamwork and perseverance.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'unparalleled resilience and unity' and 'power of teamwork and perseverance'"}
{"id": "crec_000080", "text": "There was no objection. The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH48", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000378", "text": "None of this would have taken place if this person was detained and deported for a simple property crime. Enough. It is [ORG] primary responsibility to protect its citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Implies a tragic outcome could have been prevented by detention/deportation, and presents protection as a binary choice between deportation policy and citizen safety"}
{"id": "crec_008451", "text": "This was pitiful--yet predictable--from a guy who has said that we women do not belong in combat, who has dared to claim that the military is lowering its standard so that we, the poor, fragile, fairer sex--and, God forbid, us moms--can serve. Well, the only standards being lowered today are the ones for Secretary of [ORG]. Our female servicemembers have earned the jobs that they are in, unlike Mr. [PERSON] who won't even say whether he would refuse an unlawful order.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "attacks on character ('pitiful,' 'poor, fragile, fairer sex') and misrepresents opponent's position on military standards while questioning his integrity"}
{"id": "crec_001982", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United States Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH91-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009391", "text": "It is unfair to the families who have sacrificed and saved to send their own children to college. It is unfair to the students who worked multiple jobs during college to avoid accruing large amounts of debt. And it is unfair to all the graduates who have worked hard and paid off their loans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repetition of 'unfair' combined with emotionally charged descriptions of sacrifice, hard work, and burden to trigger resentment"}
{"id": "crec_008466", "text": "[PERSON] 's killer easily crossed our southern border with millions of others; and when he committed several crimes and was arrested, a [PERSON] administration-led ICE made no effort to deport him. Had he been appropriately prosecuted for his previous crimes, the [PERSON] family would have celebrated [ORG]'s birthday instead of mourning an empty chair. On February 22, 2024, it would have been an ordinary day for their family instead of the worst day of their lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "killer easily crossed our southern border with millions of others; worst day of their lives"}
{"id": "crec_000367", "text": "People deserve to have their day in court and are innocent until proven guilty. That seems to be something that the majority has forgotten or doesn't seem to care about unless the alleged criminal is the President-elect. The upcoming administration is poised to bring back their no-priority immigration enforcement priority guidelines in which a convicted murderer would be the same priority for deportation as an undocumented mom who has been living in this country for 20 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "contrasting treatment of 'alleged criminal is the President-elect' versus others to suggest inconsistent application of due process principles; comparing convicted murderer with undocumented mom to create false equivalency about immigration enforcement priorities"}
{"id": "crec_001431", "text": "They have failed miserably in their responsibility to get Americans home. When, in fact, there have been cease-fires and when, in fact, hostages have been released, Americans have not been released. It is shameful.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "failed miserably, shameful, Americans have not been released"}
{"id": "crec_005781", "text": "CONGRATULATING GREG SEIDENBERGER ON HIS RETIREMENT (Ms. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) Ms. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , today I rise to honor Guadalupe County Commissioner [PERSON] on his well-deserved retirement after a lifetime of extraordinary service to both our country and our community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-9", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "lifetime of extraordinary service to both our country and our community"}
{"id": "crec_007938", "text": "Since the [ORG] regulates so much of this, then what is the [ORG] doing to ensure, since they have a lot of fires in L.A. and have the Santa Anna winds every year, that they are doing everything they can to make sure it is not vulnerable? Are we doing everything we can to help streamline permits to build up the infrastructure even more? They aren't.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Emphasizes recurring fires and winds as a threat, then presents a binary choice: either streamline permits to build infrastructure or accept vulnerability"}
{"id": "crec_000377", "text": "He was not detained and deported, as he should have been as a criminal illegal alien, because Minneapolis is a sanctuary city. He then made his way to a small town of 5,600 people, Prairie du [PERSON] , my hometown, where he brutally raped a mother and savagely beat her daughter over a period of days and was finally arrested for domestic battery, strangulation, suffocation, physical abuse to a child, disorderly conduct, and two counts of second-degree sexual assault. None of this needed to happen if the law was adhered to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "brutal rape, savagely beat, strangulation, suffocation combined with sanctuary city criticism and 'law was adhered to' appeals to authority"}
{"id": "crec_007122", "text": "The JASSM-ER is designed to kill hard, medium-hardened, soft, and area-type targets. The extended range over the baseline was obtained by going from a turbo jet to a turbo-fan engine and by reconfiguring the fuel tanks for added capacity. a.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009012", "text": "Significant malicious cyber-enabled activities continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. To address this continuing national emergency and protect against the growing and evolving threat of malicious cyber-enabled activities against the United States and United States allies and partners, including the increasing threats by foreign actors of unauthorized access to critical infrastructure, ransomware, and cyber-enabled intrusions and sanctions evasion, section 9 of the Executive Order I have issued updates the criteria to be used by the Secretary of the [ORG] in designating a person for sanctions for engaging in specified malicious cyber-enabled activities and related conduct. I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224-3", "word_count": 121, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States; growing and evolving threat of malicious cyber-enabled activities"}
{"id": "crec_000938", "text": "We are no longer paying for the study on the Russian wine industry that Americans used to pay for. We are no longer funding the [ORG] puppets that we once paid for. We have been able to put sunshine on those things, and those things have stopped.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "puppets that we once paid for"}
{"id": "crec_000608", "text": "[Pages [PERSON] ] NATIONAL SECURITY [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I rise today to talk about the threats to America's security and our Republican effort to fight back. On New Year's Day, 14 Americans were killed in a heartbreaking, deadly act of terrorism.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threats to America's security, 14 Americans were killed in a heartbreaking, deadly act of terrorism"}
{"id": "crec_003839", "text": "[ORG] OF APPROPRIATIONS. There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the Secretary of [ORG] and the Secretary of [ORG] to carry out the provisions of this subtitle. TITLE III--ELECTRONIC VERIFICATION OF EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007884", "text": "That is why the management of it is important. That is why the management of these forested lands and grasslands are important. It is because these have an effect, too.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003914", "text": "Research by [ORG] shows that terrorist groups end through targeted intelligence operations or through a negotiated political settlement. In fact, I feel the war in Gaza will act as a recruitment tool for [ORG] and will create a new generation of fighters who will seek revenge. After over a year of fighting, [ORG] is weakened but has not been eliminated nor have the remaining Israeli hostages been released.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "will act as a recruitment tool and will create a new generation of fighters who will seek revenge; weakened but has not been eliminated"}
{"id": "crec_009905", "text": "And we will win like never before. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "repeated structure of 'we will' statements emphasizing national resilience and strength"}
{"id": "crec_006530", "text": "He was very clear in the hearing yesterday, the incoming administration is going to refocus the Pentagon on American strength and on hard power--not a woke agenda, which is what we have seen for the last 4 years. To me, this is very welcome news, and I believe it is welcome news to Americans all across this country who are worried about the security of our [ORG] and the strength of our Nation. We have a significant problem in the military today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "contrasting 'American strength and hard power' against 'woke agenda'; claiming 'Americans all across this country' welcome this view; presenting only two opposing positions"}
{"id": "crec_008335", "text": "[PERSON] also clearly laid out the philosophy he will bring to the job. He spoke about peace through strength, restoring American leadership, and advancing America's interests. Our colleague is ready to step into the leadership void that the [PERSON] administration has too often left on the world stage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "peace through strength, restoring American leadership, advancing America's interests"}
{"id": "crec_005665", "text": "I invite any Republican in Congress who is entertaining these demands to visit my district, see the devastation for yourself, and look the victims in the eye when you tell them they don't deserve help from their country because you disagree with certain policies passed by their [ORG]. This is the United States of America. We help our citizens when they fall victim to a natural disaster, regardless of their political party or opinions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "appealing to American values/authority ('This is the United States of America. We help our citizens') and loaded language ('devastation,' 'victims,' 'look them in the eye')"}
{"id": "crec_001704", "text": "A couple of our economists basically say we are going to borrow about 7 percent of the entire economy this year. If we don't start to stabilize that and roll it down, you hit this interest spiral into the ground. I am going to show you a couple of charts here, that should scare the crap out of you, of how much of the taxes we take in from hardworking people is just paying interest.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "charts that 'should scare the crap out of you' combined with citation of 'economists' to support alarming debt claims"}
{"id": "crec_000042", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 11 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 11 votes for Vice President. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008582", "text": "Over the past week, we have seen firefighters--exhausted and yet unyielding--waging war to save communities and lives and property. And in the last few days, we have seen some hopeful signs as the level of containment--particularly of the Eaton fire--has increased; more slowly, the containment of the Palisades fire. But we are not out of the woods.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "waging war to save communities and lives and property"}
{"id": "crec_009067", "text": "A bill to amend title 41, United States Code, to prohibit [ORG] from entering into contracts with an entity that discriminates against firearm or ammunition industries, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . A bill to require each enterprise to include on [ORG] a disclaimer to increase awareness of the direct and guaranteed home loan programs of [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 125, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006472", "text": "ISRAEL [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, the Jewish people have faced many libels and many libels over their history--in their case, for millennia. Today, the Jewish State faces the dirty libel--can you believe it?--of committing genocide, all while defending themselves from [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-5", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "use of 'dirty libel' and 'can you believe it?' to characterize genocide accusations as false and outrageous, combined with framing Israel as under threat from [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_004404", "text": "28 and S. 9. If you have questions about this letter, please contact [PERSON] and [PERSON] . Sincerely, [ORG], joined by: national organizations [ORG], [ORG] (AAUW), [ORG], [PERSON] , Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, Callisto, [ORG], Clearinghouse on Women's Issues, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities, End Rape on Campus, [PERSON] , Family Values @ Work, [ORG], Girls for [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], interACT: Advocates for [ORG], Know Your IX, a project of Advocates for [ORG], Ms. Foundation for [ORG]), [ORG], [ORG], Power to Decide, [ORG] (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America), [ORG] (SVPA), [PERSON] , Stop Sexual Assault in Schools, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], YWCA USA.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 164, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009372", "text": "We are so close to the finish line, so close to delivering results for the American people, for the voters who sent us here, and for [PERSON] and her family. So now, to my fellow Senators, let's do right by the American people. Let's heed their call, help keep them safe, and pass this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["bandwagon", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "We are so close to the finish line... let's do right by the American people"}
{"id": "crec_001051", "text": "That is over a 2-week pay period. Those families had to float those costs from one paycheck to the next paycheck. You know and I know that a lot of families live paycheck to paycheck, so that put a financial burden on those families with kids with special needs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "families live paycheck to paycheck, put a financial burden on those families"}
{"id": "crec_008535", "text": "The economy is in bad shape, job numbers are down, inflation is sky high. Our enemies are on the move abroad and in the interior of our country, but the American people chose President [PERSON] and the Republicans for such a time like this. They gave us a mandate to deliver them from the past 4 years of hell that this administration has caused.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "enemies are on the move abroad and in the interior of our country; 4 years of hell; mandate to deliver them"}
{"id": "crec_008873", "text": "Now, I also have a fantastic director of constituent services in Anchorage, [PERSON] , who has completed more than 3,600 of these cases herself. She is amazing. But here is what [PERSON] said about [PERSON] : [PERSON] is at the helm of the ship.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "She is amazing"}
{"id": "crec_004963", "text": "There is much more to do. We have years of decline of the American family to reverse. We have years of neglect of the American worker to undo.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "years of decline and neglect invoke emotional concern about deteriorating conditions requiring urgent reversal"}
{"id": "crec_005719", "text": "This is Shasta Dam in northern California which we are trying to get filled right now but is going to be less useful for people as more of this water is dumped out to the delta. What does that mean for southern California? Well, for example, let's take a look at this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "'dumped out to the delta' - characterizes water allocation with negative framing"}
{"id": "crec_000504", "text": "A bill to prohibit certain telework employees from receiving certain annual adjustments to pay schedules, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 237.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002702", "text": "Where? At [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] , I congratulate Ms. [PERSON] on her retirement and thank her for the 46.5 amazing years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009346", "text": "This agreement would not have been possible without months of steadfast diplomacy by the United States and our allies in the region and could not have happened and would not have happened until the threats of [ORG] and other Iranian proxies like [ORG] were radically reduced, which, thankfully, they have been. I want to thank President [PERSON] and everyone in his administration who persistently negotiated for a year to make this agreement possible. I thank and honor all the families of the hostages, especially those who live in New York, for their courage and perseverance and boundless grace amid so much grief.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "credit to President and administration's persistent negotiation; emphasis on US diplomacy and allies in region"}
{"id": "crec_001145", "text": "4. A determination has been made that Greece can provide the same degree of protection for the sensitive technology being released as [ORG]. This sale is necessary in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives outlined in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "A determination has been made that Greece can provide the same degree of protection and the sale furthers U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives - appeals to official authority and institutional decision-making"}
{"id": "crec_009822", "text": "Please, mentor every flaw. You are the God in whom we trust who lives and reigns forever and ever. Amen.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000873", "text": "Turning to our Federal workforce. Our Federal workforce does, by and large, great work. They do important work on behalf of the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'great work' and 'important work' are vague praise without specific examples or evidence"}
{"id": "crec_003037", "text": "I know all too well, Americans still too often struggle to afford lifesaving prescription drugs, and sometimes are even forced to choose between medicine and rent. It's wrong. The Inflation Reduction Act also takes historic steps to change that, capping total out-of-pocket costs for seniors on [ORG] at $2,000 a year; slashing insulin for seniors to $35 a month, down from as much as $400; and finally giving [ORG] the power to negotiate lower drug prices across the board.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "forced to choose between medicine and rent; lifesaving prescription drugs"}
{"id": "crec_000823", "text": "In my home [ORG], the [PERSON] administration issued a midnight rule that limits agriculture production and oil and gas leasing in Wyoming on public lands. He did this over the objections of the people of Wyoming. This is one more insult from this outgoing administration to the families and the workers in my home [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "midnight rule, insult, outgoing administration to the families and workers"}
{"id": "crec_002228", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. Cloture Motion Pursuant to rule [ORG], the [ORG] lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which [SPEAKER] will state.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000818", "text": "The victory was decisive. Starting this week, Republicans are going to begin to deliver on the mandate. You just heard the minority leader in the Senate talk about what Republicans are going to do to help the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Republicans are going to begin to deliver on the mandate; Republicans are going to do to help the American people"}
{"id": "crec_006550", "text": "Republicans aren't going to trade American lives for amnesty. We will make the law that puts the safety of the American people first. That is what Americans voted for in November: safety, security, for our communities, for our citizens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "Republicans aren't going to trade American lives for amnesty...That is what Americans voted for in November"}
{"id": "crec_002890", "text": "General Leave [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that Members have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the Record on H.R. 192.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006079", "text": "LAYING A FOUNDATION FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , today I rise to say thank you to President [PERSON] and his team for their relentless perseverance and leadership in securing a needed agreement between Israel and [ORG] that includes the release of 33 hostages, who have endured unimaginable suffering.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-4", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "gratitude to President and his team for 'relentless perseverance and leadership' in securing agreement; 'unimaginable suffering' describing hostages"}
{"id": "crec_004575", "text": "Can you imagine that happening? What happens if we have another pandemic? What happens if we have a war?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated questions about hypothetical catastrophic scenarios (pandemic, war) designed to evoke anxiety about potential future dangers"}
{"id": "crec_000820", "text": "These aren't policies the American people voted for. It seems that the lameduck President is working overtime to undermine the American values and the demands and the wishes of the American people. The outgoing President has actually had his administration sign contracts with government unions so government workers have the right to stay home from work, maybe pretending that they are working, while still getting paid for a job that they are supposed to be doing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "lameduck President, undermine the American values, government workers...pretending that they are working"}
{"id": "crec_008609", "text": "People aren't sick. Things have improved dramatically. She walked out to show me a sewer lid and a pump on it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000421", "text": "The fact that there is sympathy or condolences, I agree with the gentleman, is not enough. We need real public policy changes that will be effective and that will be constitutional. That is what the discussion is about today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003956", "text": "It is coming from all edges. Taxing people out of this is part of their goal. Of course, the power grid of my home [ORG], California, is already struggling to deliver electricity to meet existing energy demands, with the currently frequent blackouts and energy shortages.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "coming from all edges, taxing people out of this, power grid struggling, frequent blackouts and energy shortages"}
{"id": "crec_008408", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000909", "text": "I will tell you, we were able to get so much done over the last 6 years. Much of it was done by working with colleagues across the aisle, by taking these great ideas from Tennessee, bringing them here, and saying: How do we distill this so that it becomes a policy that is going to positively impact and make better the lives of Tennesseans and all Americans? In Tennessee, we have a lot of veterans, and there are two provisions that I was able to shepherd through and get signed into law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "phrases like 'great ideas', 'positively impact', and 'make better the lives' without specific details about actual accomplishments"}
{"id": "crec_008855", "text": "And she gets on the elevator, and, boy, oh, boy, it was the elevator pitch: Commissioner [PERSON] , I understand you are looking for a special assistant. The elevator is going up, all these people are listening: I believe I have the qualities, the hard work, the ethics, the commitment to excellence to be your special assistant. I would like to come by your office and interview.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004990", "text": "It is an ancient truth that some crimes are so evil that the scales of justice can never balance so long as the perpetrator lives. Every day that men like [PERSON] and [PERSON] draw breath at the expense of American taxpayers is a day that justice is denied. There is no forgiveness in this world for what they did, and there is no redemption.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "crimes are so evil...justice denied...no forgiveness...no redemption"}
{"id": "crec_007398", "text": "[ORG]. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held by a [ORG] court to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provisions to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS194-7", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008000", "text": "I, like many others, recognize that that in and of itself was a beginning. The real beginning, however, has to go back to the [ORG] legislation that recognizes [PERSON] as the bill introduced first by Congressman [PERSON] of Michigan just days after the assassination of Dr. [PERSON] . Unfortunately, it would take 15 years of those protests, perseverance, attempts, tenacity, and pure resolve by civil rights leaders and others across this Nation for the holiday to become recognized, and then finally signed into law by President [PERSON] in 1983.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "references to civil rights leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, and the establishment of a national holiday as symbols of national progress and unity"}
{"id": "crec_003920", "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------- House of Representatives The House met at 10 a.m. and was called to order by [SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003059", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . [PERSON] . 4.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS89", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004601", "text": "Yet, if we had just done an egalitarian tax policy, say we want to maximize productivity across the society because we are smart enough to know what the breakthrough is tomorrow. That breakthrough tomorrow is the thing that raises all boats, I guess that is the saying, and makes us productive. What do you get in a society that is more productive?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "raises all boats"}
{"id": "crec_006556", "text": "[ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I have to say, I think the remarks I planned today are so pertinent to what is taking place in our world as we are hearing about the [ORG] effect actually bringing forward a deal with Israel, [ORG], and the hostages because my remarks today are centered on [ORG], [ORG] for [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009820", "text": "We, blessed citizens of this one Nation under God, humbled by our claim that in God we trust, gather, indeed, this inauguration day to pray for our President [PERSON] , his family, his advisers, his [ORG], his aspirations, his Vice President, for the large blessings upon [PERSON] , for our men and women in uniform, for each other whose hopes are stoked this new year, this inauguration day. We cannot err in relying upon that prayer from the Bible upon which our President will soon place his hand in oath. As we make our own the supplications of [PERSON] for wisdom, as he began his governance, God of our fathers, in Your wisdom, You set man to govern Your creatures, to govern in holiness and justice, to render justice with integrity, give our leader wisdom, for he is Your servant, aware of his own weakness and brevity of life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 151, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "blessed citizens of this one Nation under God, humbled by our claim that in God we trust, and repeated religious appeals invoking divine authority and wisdom"}
{"id": "crec_006657", "text": "She was 21 years old, she was from [ORG], and she had just graduated from [ORG] in Nebraska with a 4.0 [ORG]. She had her bachelor's degree in criminal investigations. She was headed home after celebrating this really important milestone with her family and her friends.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005926", "text": "To date, the United States has signed double taxation agreements with over 60 countries, including the People's Republic of China. It does not have one with Taiwan. The scope and severity of the threat from [ORG] is crystallized in the Taiwan Strait, which is under constant harassment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "scope and severity of the threat...constant harassment"}
{"id": "crec_003938", "text": "After his 1996 election to the 39th District in the State senate, Mr. [PERSON] went on to be re-elected 10 times. Mr. [PERSON] earned his undergraduate degree in history at [ORG] in 1978 and moved to Atlanta to study African-American history shortly thereafter. There he wrote his thesis on the sit-in movement at [ORG], where he later taught history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004036", "text": "SUPPORTING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND PUERTO RICO [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentleman from Puerto Rico (Mr. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002486", "text": "The yeas and nays were ordered. [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009275", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the end, add the following: [ORG]. ___. CLARIFICATION WITH [ORG] TO CERTAIN ALIENS WHO CAME TO [ORG] AND ALIENS WHO ARE 16 YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-3", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003481", "text": "[Pages [PERSON] ] SA 2. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. ___.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-4", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002779", "text": "[PERSON] . 30: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-41", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008996", "text": "While he suffered brain damage as a result of his seizures, [ORG] is working hard in physical, occupational, and speech therapy sessions to regain his strength and abilities. This type of perseverance deserves to be celebrated and cheered for, just as [ORG] has always cheered on his Bobcats. Between [ORG]'s courage and his incredible support system--his parents [ORG] and [PERSON] and four siblings--he is bound for great things and serves as an inspiration to all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-2", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "perseverance deserves to be celebrated and cheered for, courage and incredible support system, inspiration to all"}
{"id": "crec_007667", "text": "Making guests in our country inadmissible to and removable from the United States because they have committed a sex offense or domestic violence offense should be something that even open-border Democrats can agree with us on. Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act is a straightforward, commonsense bill that I urge my colleagues to support, and I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing immigrants as 'guests in our country' and 'Illegal Aliens'; framing support as issue that 'even open-border Democrats can agree with us on' creates false dichotomy between reasonable position and opposing view"}
{"id": "crec_002973", "text": "Why? In practice, this would overwhelm ICE detention facilities and make America less safe. Let me tell you some of the numbers of this what appears to be simple bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "would overwhelm ICE detention facilities and make America less safe"}
{"id": "crec_006571", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. S. 5 [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, you will see for the next hour a whole group of Republicans coming to the floor to be able to talk about one issue: our need for border security and safer communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["flag_waving", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "whole group of Republicans coming to the floor to talk about one issue"}
{"id": "crec_007445", "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------- House of Representatives The House met at 9 a.m. and was called to order by the Speaker.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004536", "text": "How many of you understand we borrow $70,000 a second? The math will tell you almost 100 percent of that borrowing from today through the next decade is interest and healthcare, but we don't want to tell people that. Of the $2.3 trillion that my math says we are going to borrow this year--and [ORG] is going to publish something in the next day or so, and we will see how close my math got to what their prediction is--half of it is interest.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "framing of '$70,000 a second' borrowing and '100 percent of that borrowing...is interest and healthcare' with assertion that 'we don't want to tell people that' suggests hidden crisis and manipulative withholding of truth"}
{"id": "crec_007097", "text": "[PERSON] I congratulate them on this recognition and thank them for their dedication to public service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS182-2", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006246", "text": "All we are paying for is interest on the debt. We don't get any new government programs, and we don't get any new and better military programs. We don't get anything for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repetition of 'we don't get' emphasizes futility; 'all we are paying for' uses loaded framing to characterize debt as wasteful"}
{"id": "crec_001858", "text": "In some parts of the [ORG], you had to have a low-flow device for your shower head, and then they would punish you if you used too much water when you took a shower, if you didn't take a 5-minute shower. All the while, we are sending staggering amounts of water into the ocean, and we are failing to build the storage that would actually catch the water and preserve it for when we need it. Another example, relevant to the situation in L.A., [ORG] actually rejected the building of a desalination plant just a couple of years ago.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["whataboutism", "strawman"], "evidence": "Criticizing water restrictions by pointing to separate water management failures (ocean discharge, desalination rejection) rather than addressing the actual logic of conservation measures"}
{"id": "crec_004224", "text": "It requires her to answer an adult's humiliating questions. It will accelerate our national crisis of sexual assault on young women and girls. It puts a target on the back of every girl, every young woman who chooses to play sports, from T-ball to competitive collegiate athletes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "accelerate our national crisis of sexual assault on young women and girls; puts a target on the back of every girl"}
{"id": "crec_008139", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] -[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 520.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007019", "text": "That is why, when my bill was killed here in December to pass a law which said that parents can just say: Erase all that information you are gathering about my daughter--and it is the third Congress in a row that happened. Yes, [ORG] should be stopped, and so should Facebook, and so should [PERSON] --so should all of them. But just don't raise it in a [ORG] context.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "raising concern about data privacy while dismissing it by saying 'just don't raise it in a [ORG] context' - deflects from the main issue and presents a false choice between addressing the problem or not raising it at all"}
{"id": "crec_006542", "text": "Yesterday, [PERSON] gave strong answers to tough questions. He is confident, and he is knowledgeable. He is ready to lead [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "strong answers to tough questions, confident, knowledgeable, ready to lead"}
{"id": "crec_009785", "text": "24 intended to be proposed to S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. AMENDMENT NO. 35 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the name of the Senator from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ) was added as a cosponsor of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002286", "text": "But what a program and what a great group of guys that created. One of the things that I wanted to throw out there is--by the way, this poster, this is what I texted to President [PERSON] about 30 seconds after the game. [ORG] posted this image on their X or their Twitter feed, so I forwarded it to President [PERSON] and said: Does this mean we get to come to [ORG]?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006946", "text": "I am the original author of the only [ORG] online protection for children today: [ORG]. And I have authored legislation to update and modernize those protections. My Children and [ORG] to lift it up to age 16, that was blocked here on the Senate floor just 1 month ago in December.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claiming to be the 'original author of the only [ORG] online protection for children today' and referencing self-authored legislation"}
{"id": "crec_001485", "text": "We can't address them because of the way this majority is bringing this bill to the floor. Zero amendments are allowed because Republicans brought it up under a closed rule-- again, another wasted opportunity. Mr. [PERSON] , we can do better.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presenting only two options (current process vs. unspecified alternative 'we can do better') and using charged language like 'wasted opportunity' and 'zero amendments'"}
{"id": "crec_000758", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Spirit of God, descend on our hearts, for apart from You, life is sound and fury signifying nothing. Lord, make our lawmakers great enough for these momentous times.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Spirit of God, descend on our hearts\" and \"make our lawmakers great enough for these momentous times"}
{"id": "crec_006462", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-8", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008876", "text": "She calls [PERSON] our hero: She is our conscience. She is the gatekeeper of decorum. She is all about kindness and respect.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing someone as 'our hero,' 'our conscience,' 'gatekeeper of decorum' using abstract positive virtues without substantive detail"}
{"id": "crec_005701", "text": "In response, they put out a statement insisting that all was well and that the operations at [PERSON] and [PERSON] were doing just fine. Now, 4 years later, wouldn't you know it, [ORG] is declaring bankruptcy, threatening the health and safety of thousands of Rhode Islanders who rely on [PERSON] and [PERSON] and the livelihoods of the hundreds of healthcare workers who work in those hospitals. The executives at [ORG] [ORG], who sucked all the money out of those hospitals, are long gone, counting their millions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "threatening the health and safety of thousands; executives who sucked all the money out"}
{"id": "crec_002253", "text": "I also want to acknowledge [PERSON] . He is a freshman running back who won the Jerry Rice Award as the freshman of the year and obviously just had an incredible year. It is a very prestigious award.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "won the Jerry Rice Award as the freshman of the year and obviously just had an incredible year. It is a very prestigious award"}
{"id": "crec_005728", "text": "Finally, in 2022, it was removed from the list. Interestingly, when we talk about the weaponization of [ORG], a study that was just released revealed that the snail darter isn't an actual distinct species but is actually just another population of one called the stargazing darter. This raises concern about a specie's identification when really what it is being used for is a weapon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "questioning species identification and describing conservation protections as 'weaponization' with negative framing"}
{"id": "crec_001636", "text": "[ORG] and then my [ORG] economists actually worked through some math saying what would happen because we have all these expiring provisions of [PERSON] , the 2017 tax reform. If you extend them all--the individual, the passthroughs, the small businesses, the subchapter [ORG], the partnerships--if you extend those tax provisions over 10 years, it is about $4.6 trillion of revenue that would have come in because of the increased taxes because of the expired provisions. What is this body able to do to find policies to offset that spending?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005790", "text": "Across the country, skills gaps are plaguing employers and barring workers from filling millions of open job opportunities. That is why today I was proud to introduce the bipartisan Skills Investment Act. This commonsense legislation allows workers at any point in their career to contribute to [PERSON] lifelong learning accounts, which are tax-advantaged savings opportunities that will allow Americans to pursue new job skills and better career prospects.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-3", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "commonsense legislation"}
{"id": "crec_002876", "text": "The impact of these efforts is just starting--and the full effects will be felt over the next decade--but there is no question that our nation today is the best-positioned on earth to win the competition for the 2lst century. We've laid a foundation of possibilities that will make life a little easier for millions of Americans and can propel America forward for decades. Today, we hand the incoming [ORG] the world's strongest economy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "best-positioned on earth to win the competition, world's strongest economy, propel America forward"}
{"id": "crec_006058", "text": "[PERSON] is a senior [ORG] art student at Canton McKinley High School. This year, he was awarded a Gold Key, two [PERSON] , and an honorable mention in the regional scholastic art competition. [PERSON] 's beginnings in art started in kindergarten, where he used his creative skills to make unique constructions out of [ORG] blocks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-4", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008012", "text": "Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., would go on to travel for over 6 million miles, speaking over 2,500 times to launch his nonviolent protest movement that spanned the Nation. It began to grow, and it began to unfurl, and it found its way, reaching and touching the hearts of a lot of people who never even gave a thought about civil rights, but when they thought about their own selves, their own families, and their own desire to live and grow up in a country that many of whom had fought for overseas and defended with their lives, people then realized that this was not just about [PERSON] or [PERSON] , but it was, in fact, about the moral consciousness of our Nation. After that successful boycott, Dr. [PERSON] was arrested again, this time in Birmingham.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 138, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "many of whom had fought for overseas and defended with their lives; Dr. [PERSON] traveled 6 million miles speaking 2,500 times to launch his nonviolent protest movement"}
{"id": "crec_002112", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Lord of life, thank You for the opportunity to honor the life and legacy of the 39th President of the United States. Lord, Your mercies are new to us every day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006597", "text": "It is the cause of every mother, every father, every brother, every sister--of a young girl who simply wants to go to school and then go out for a run in her neighborhood and feel safe. I know, at its core, this is truly a bipartisan issue. We all want to keep our communities safe--all Republicans and Democrats.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "a young girl who simply wants to go to school and then go out for a run in her neighborhood and feel safe"}
{"id": "crec_000315", "text": "I would urge our colleagues to take a much more serious approach here. The murder of [PERSON] was an unspeakable and appalling crime, a heinous act, and no parent, no family should ever have to bear such a calamity. We must take clear steps to make sure that people who commit crimes like this are punished to the full extent of the law.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "unspeakable and appalling crime, heinous act, calamity - emotionally charged language paired with emphasis on severe punishment to evoke fear of crime"}
{"id": "crec_002700", "text": "She started work on June 29, 1978, at 18 years old. At that time, a Big Mac was 90 cents, and since, she has become a beloved fixture in the community. Nearly half a century, she has not just served meals; she has built strong community relationships with her customers and coworkers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001597", "text": "Lillian was a proud [ORG], and I have no doubt that the Lord welcomed her with open arms and a smile on His face. She will truly be missed. I think the first thing she heard was, well done, thy good and faithful servant, when she closed her eyes for the last time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH77", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "proud [ORG]...Lord welcomed her with open arms...well done, thy good and faithful servant"}
{"id": "crec_004380", "text": "No. It is disgusting. Is it protecting girls to empower adult men to ask your daughter to inspect what is in her pants while you are not around?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'disgusting' and 'inspect what is in her pants' evoke emotional distress about child safety"}
{"id": "crec_007009", "text": "They have no information. And I have read the reports and news articles. I have tracked the court case closely.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001828", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I wish to recognize retiring [ORG] Chief [PERSON] for his years of service in the [ORG] area. [PERSON] devoted career of service to the [ORG] community and his country has spanned over four decades, including the last 9 years as chief of [ORG]. Chief [ORG]'s longstanding commitment to public safety goes back to the age of 18 when he first joined the fire service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "devoted career of service to the [ORG] community and his country has spanned over four decades"}
{"id": "crec_006566", "text": "Instead, supporting and enabling terrorism against Israel is [ORG]'s main purpose. I want to say that again: [ORG]'s support for these terrorist groups is not just at the fringes. It is with their leadership.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repetition of '[ORG]'s support for these terrorist groups' with emphasis 'I want to say that again'; use of 'terrorist' and 'enabling terrorism' as loaded language to characterize the organization"}
{"id": "crec_009660", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. [ORG]--Amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003949", "text": "This bill would ensure that Americans can select vehicles based on their individual needs and financial situations without undue government interference. My home State of California is once again leading on the wrong things. The agency called [ORG] is intending to ban the sale of gas and diesel-powered cars, trucks, and SUVs by 2035, only 10 model years from now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'undue government interference' and 'leading on the wrong things' combined with urgency framing 'only 10 model years from now'"}
{"id": "crec_004972", "text": "That is an absolute disgrace, and it alone would blacken the legacy of any Presidency. There should be a Senate resolution condemning every single one of these commutations and the release of every single terrorist. Unfortunately, Senate Democrats would block every single resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'absolute disgrace', 'blacken the legacy', 'every single terrorist', 'would block every single resolution'"}
{"id": "crec_006498", "text": "Clearly, more information is needed about [PERSON] 's background. But when Democrats asked to make Mr. [PERSON] 's full FBI background documents available to all members of the committee, the Republican chair said no. Why?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Presents a simplified version of a procedural decision as evidence of wrongdoing ('the Republican chair said no. Why?'), implying improper motives without addressing legitimate reasons for document handling procedures."}
{"id": "crec_008048", "text": "Perhaps the easiest thing, the most obvious thing is to assure that [ORG] does not stand in the way. That is why I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and both [ORG] of Congress to move on this legislation as quickly as possible. This will be an important first step towards rebuilding Los Angeles and towards restoring some common sense in California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to move quickly; restoring common sense"}
{"id": "crec_004153", "text": "Misguided policies erase what has been built for female athletes all this time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "Misguided policies erase"}
{"id": "crec_007688", "text": "Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 17, H.R. 30; Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "Framing immigrants as 'Illegal Aliens' in conjunction with violence prevention creates an emotionally charged association between immigration status and violent crime"}
{"id": "crec_001152", "text": "Enclosure. transmittal No. 25-0B Report of Enhancement or [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS61", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004415", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004863", "text": "[[ORG] [SPEAKER]. If the Senator-elect will now present himself at the desk, the [ORG] will administer the oath of office. The Senator, escorted by [SPEAKER], advanced to the desk of [SPEAKER]; the oath prescribed by law was administered by [SPEAKER]; and he subscribed to the oath in the Official Oath Book.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-3", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000170", "text": "But we would run down. There was about 2.2 miles to get down there, so that was kind of our warmup run, and then we would do our workouts on the airport runway. We would all line up at one end of the runway, and Coach [PERSON] would be down at the other end of the runway.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006505", "text": "Where do they stand? Where do they stand? The hearings glaringly show that [PERSON] and his nominees are on the side of the very powerful and that we Democrats who are asking the questions are on the side of working people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "repetition", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "dividing into two opposing sides ('on the side of the very powerful' vs 'on the side of working people') with repetition of 'Where do they stand?' and implicit bandwagon through 'we Democrats'"}
{"id": "crec_004059", "text": "These values have guided us for 112 years and will continue to light our way forward. Let me add that I associate myself with every word that [PERSON] said with respect to what we are rightly naming. When we think about this bill being proposed, it is really the child predator empowerment act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "calling the bill the 'child predator empowerment act' uses inflammatory language to attack the proposal rather than describe it factually"}
{"id": "crec_006666", "text": "It was about inflation. It was about the amount that people were paying. That is what the last election was about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007086", "text": "The majority leader. Order of Business [SPEAKER]. Madam President, filing cloture does not signal an end to our amendment process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006856", "text": "That is why we need to make sure we put money back in the pockets of hard- working [ORG], which is why any package--any package--should include the bipartisan plan to eliminate income tax on tips for service and hospitality workers. By ending income tax on tips and adding guardrails to prevent the ultrawealthy and CEOs from exploiting loopholes, we can make sure that [ORG] keep more of their hard-earned money. We also need to provide a broad-based tax cut for working families and the middle class and make sure that families making less than $400,000 a year don't see a tax hike.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "hard-working [ORG], hard-earned money, working families and the middle class"}
{"id": "crec_006833", "text": "Good. Come for it. We are ready for this discussion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009815", "text": "The past several years have been trying at times for many, many Americans and also for the nations of the free world that we humbly strive to lead. In November, Americans chose again to steer this Nation toward greatness--the secure, safe, and prosperous future that our [ORG] envisioned for all of us. And today, we celebrate not only their decision to do so but also the simple right and wisdom of a free people to make their own choice so that their [ORG] might endure.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "toward greatness...secure, safe, and prosperous future...free people...their [ORG] might endure"}
{"id": "crec_004055", "text": "Over the decades, this organization has tackled some of the most pressing challenges facing our community. [ORG] provided books to underserved Black communities in the segregated South. [ORG] became the first sorority to establish employment counseling and career development for Black women.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH121", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "tackled some of the most pressing challenges facing our community; emphasis on historical accomplishments without specific current details or evidence"}
{"id": "crec_005248", "text": "302. SUBMISSION OF BIOMETRIC AND BIOGRAPHIC DATA; [ORG]. (a) Submission of [PERSON] and [PERSON] Data.--The Secretary may not grant an alien adjustment of status under this division, on either a conditional or permanent basis, unless the alien submits biometric and biographic data, in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004084", "text": "It will take years to salvage the Los Angeles neighborhoods, and some will never be rebuilt. Meanwhile, other regions across our [ORG] can welcome fire refugees. The growing freshwater fights between communities and States that attend to life in the West are hastening.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "will take years to salvage, some will never be rebuilt, growing freshwater fights, hastening"}
{"id": "crec_004271", "text": "However, I stand today because Congress needs to make it clear that [ORG] cannot and will not be weaponized to perpetuate a lie that men can become women. This bill simply affirms common sense and reflects reality. Men and women are uniquely created by God, and no amount of testosterone therapy can reverse biological design.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "loaded language in 'weaponized,' 'perpetuate a lie'; appeal to authority via 'God'; false dichotomy presenting complex biological/medical reality as simple binary"}
{"id": "crec_008950", "text": "If it is transcribed, the transcript shall be made available for inspection by the witness or the witness's counsel under [ORG] supervision. The witness shall sign a copy of the transcript and may request changes to it, which shall be handled in accordance with the procedure set forth in subsection (E). If the witness fails to sign a copy, the staff shall note that fact on the transcript.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001139", "text": "The estimated total cost is $130 million. This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by improving the security of a NATO Ally that continues to be a force for political and economic stability in Europe. The proposed sale will improve Greece's capability to deter current and future threats, support coalition operations, and increase interoperability with the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by improving the security of a NATO Ally"}
{"id": "crec_006913", "text": "Eighty-five percent, to repeat, of H-1B visas were awarded to entry level and junior guest workers, and they are paid 20 to 40 percent less than American workers in similar occupations. Let me just give you a few examples as to how unfair [ORG] is. In Dallas, [ORG], H-1B software developers are making $44,000 less than American workers doing the exact same job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repetition of '85 percent, to repeat' combined with loaded language characterizing H-1B program as 'unfair' while presenting wage gap statistics"}
{"id": "crec_009485", "text": "(c) Vice [ORG] Chairman shall appoint a Vice Chair of the [ORG] and of each subcommittee. If the Chairman of the [ORG] or subcommittee is not present at any meeting of the [ORG] or subcommittee, as the case may be, the Vice Chair shall preside. If the Vice Chair is not present, the ranking majority member who is present shall preside at that meeting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006982", "text": "When I was Governor of Nebraska, I was the first Governor to ban [ORG] on [ORG] devices because of the threat it posed. Why did I do that? Well, because [PERSON] said that he wants to replace us as the world leader.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "ban [ORG] on [ORG] devices because of the threat it posed"}
{"id": "crec_006955", "text": "The [ORG] ban not only threatens to shut down a platform critical for 170 million Americans, but also, 7 million American businesses use [ORG]. They use it as part of their business. All of that will shut down on Sunday, 4 days from now--just shut down--7 million businesses who use it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threats of shutdown, repeated 'shut down,' emphasizes immediacy ('Sunday, 4 days from now') and scale (170 million Americans, 7 million businesses)"}
{"id": "crec_006487", "text": "So Senator [PERSON] 's amendment would require ICE to detain illegal immigrants accused of a crime that resulted in death or serious bodily injury. Every Member of the Senate should be able to agree that illegal immigrants who commit a crime that kills or seriously injures another person should, at the very least, be detained. In the coming days, the Senate will have a serious debate about this and other amendments and about [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing detention of illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes as something 'Every Member of the Senate should be able to agree' on, presenting complex immigration policy as a binary choice between supporting detention or opposing public safety"}
{"id": "crec_008424", "text": "I don't doubt that the climate is changing. I don't doubt humans have an impact on it. But to say this is the end-all and be-all of all of our policies, to the detriment of our economy, job creation, and so many other important issues, just strikes me as misguided.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "strawman"], "evidence": "presents climate action as requiring policies 'to the detriment of our economy, job creation' - falsely suggesting these must be in direct opposition rather than compatible"}
{"id": "crec_001475", "text": "This is a moment to reaffirm our commitment to human rights, to international law, and to the partnerships that have defined American leadership, and this bill fails that test. By sanctioning officials of the [ORG] and anyone who has done business with them, this bill would have a chilling effect on America's work to support human rights and rule of law around the world. It would hamper the [ORG]'s efforts to prosecute serious atrocities that have wrecked lives and destabilized countries in many places around the world, from Ukraine to Uganda to Darfur.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "reaffirm our commitment to human rights, to international law, and to the partnerships that have defined American leadership"}
{"id": "crec_000390", "text": "According to an Athens-[ORG] report, this illegal alien went on to shoplift in Georgia just weeks after his encounter with law enforcement in New York. Clearly, this illegal alien had a pattern of criminal history, one that started when he accepted [PERSON] invitation to illegally enter our country. He should never have been allowed to reside in the United States illegally, and ICE should have immediately issued a detainer after he committed these crimes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'illegal alien' in dehumanizing context; emphasis on criminal pattern to suggest threat to public safety"}
{"id": "crec_008818", "text": "So, yes, due process is dramatically changed, with a huge impact on children. And my colleague mentioned that we don't want children to be targeted for gangs. Amen to that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "children...targeted for gangs"}
{"id": "crec_009420", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006762", "text": "I had a solution to a math problem that I thought they were going to like. Instead, what they said is, no, it has got to be 21 percent and these individuals are going to be weighted to the wealthy and they are going to be temporary. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "characterizes opponent's position as dismissive ('no, it has got to be') and misrepresents their reasoning to make it seem arbitrary rather than substantively argued"}
{"id": "crec_005611", "text": "[PERSON] 's is a one-stop destination for all floral arrangements, special gifts, tuxedos, event supplies, and much more. Back in September, [PERSON] 's celebrated their 45th anniversary where [PERSON] , the original owner, shared captivating stories about the humble beginnings of this business. It is now owned by [PERSON] , and [PERSON] 's Flowers will continue to make special occasions even more special.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-5", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006851", "text": "Madam President, I thank Senator [PERSON] . As it is my first time addressing you from the Senate floor since I began my second term, I would like to start by saying how grateful I am that [ORG] have put their trust in me to serve another 6 years in [ORG]. People in my [ORG] know that above all else, I am a [ORG] first before any political party or ideology, and my track record is clear.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "grateful...trust...serve...track record is clear"}
{"id": "crec_002198", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001542", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I was necessarily absent today and missed one vote on [ORG]. Had I been present, I would have voted the below, consistent with my [ORG] vote in the 118th Congress on June 4, 2024: YEA on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004835", "text": "On the global stage, he restored faith in America as a world power, a global leader, and a responsive ally that would not tolerate the post- World War II global order to be undermined by autocrats like [PERSON] . He defended Ukraine, boosted competition with China, and strengthened alliances in the South Pacific. He oversaw the expansion of NATO and its bolstering of defenses of its Baltic members.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "restored faith in America as a world power, a global leader, and a responsive ally"}
{"id": "crec_007561", "text": "Indiana: [ORG], [ORG] (ICESAHT), [ORG], ASSIST Indiana, Inc., [ORG], [ORG], [ORG]. Iowa: [ORG], EMBARC Iowa. Kansas: [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007899", "text": "I think we have an opportunity in this [PERSON] administration coming up to resume some of the work that President [PERSON] led during his first term to talk about a possible raise of Shasta Dam. This dam was actually designed to be much taller when it was built back in the late 1930s, and it would be pretty simple to add 18 more feet to that. That is the plan that is being looked at.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004912", "text": "I am grateful for their cosponsorship and their courage to say now is the time for results. I have been encouraged by other Members of [ORG] who have said: This is a bill I would like to see cross the finish line. Last week, we had 84 Senators who voted to advance it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "84 Senators who voted to advance it"}
{"id": "crec_005340", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 18. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009352", "text": "Unfortunately, without more changes to address deficiencies in the bill, I will be voting no. We Democrats want to see our broken immigration system fixed. We worked with Republicans last year on the strongest immigration bill in a decade.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'strongest immigration bill in a decade'"}
{"id": "crec_001400", "text": "They deserve safety. However, turning a blind eye to what is happening in Gaza and saying that all these civilian casualties are somehow okay, in my opinion, does not make Israel more safe. It makes Israel less safe, less secure.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presenting only two options (turning a blind eye vs. opposing civilian casualties) while implying that acknowledging Israeli security concerns means accepting casualties; 'turning a blind eye' is loaded framing"}
{"id": "crec_001292", "text": "CONGRESSIONAL RECORD United States of America American eagle (seal) PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 119th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g.,1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface Indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (seal) recycle Printed on recycled paper. Vol.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH-FrontMatter-4", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008793", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Objection is heard. The Senator from Oregon.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007485", "text": "The [ORG] recognizes the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. [PERSON] ). General Leave [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material on H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006153", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , that is not happening now. You can lay policies such as this right at the feet of our poorest border, as well as bad energy policies and other things causing inflation. With that, this is a very important thing we are working on this week, so we can assure the women of this country that we are behind them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "laying policies 'at the feet of our poorest border' uses loaded framing; 'we can assure the women of this country that we are behind them' appeals to authority/reassurance"}
{"id": "crec_006805", "text": "[ORG], the [ORG] premium support. To the Senator from Massachusetts that would mean--and for a family in Vermont--a lot of them will pay 300, 400, 500 bucks more each month. That is on top of the high grocery bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pay 300, 400, 500 bucks more each month...on top of the high grocery bill"}
{"id": "crec_005060", "text": "[PERSON] [ORG]: 1. The [PERSON] 412 is a commercial helicopter with integrated commercial off-the-shelf mission equipment. This sale will not involve the release of sensitive technology.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008689", "text": "So I went back to a number of different years prior to the pandemic. I went back to 1998. Again, that was the first year we actually had a budget surplus since 1969.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009471", "text": "I have attached that letter to this notice. It has been my honor to be a Member of this [PERSON] and to serve the people of the great State of Florida and the constituents of the 6th District of Florida. I will forever be grateful for the opportunity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-6", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "great State of Florida and the constituents of the 6th District of Florida"}
{"id": "crec_004581", "text": "We can do this. We can do this together. One point I wanted to make for our brothers and sisters on the left, I have done multiple presentations here showing that if you do all their tax hikes for $400,000 and up, you get about a point and a half of GDP.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["repetition", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "We can do this. We can do this together. One point I wanted to make for our brothers and sisters on the left"}
{"id": "crec_004799", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-8", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002150", "text": "Look, I have no problem against those who are fortunate enough to have a lot of money. God bless them. But they need to pay their fair share.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing wealthy people as needing to 'pay their fair share' implies they currently don't, while 'fortunate enough' and 'God bless them' create a false choice between accepting wealth inequality or demanding wealth redistribution"}
{"id": "crec_000508", "text": "A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for the preemption of certain [ORG] overtime laws for agricultural employees; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 17.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005599", "text": "I saw the violence with my own eyes, and the scenes we witnessed will haunt this institution forever. We need a clear accounting of what happened and a clear accountability to ensure this never happens again. Unfortunately, under this incoming President, it appears we will get neither.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-4", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "scenes we witnessed will haunt this institution forever; stark contrast between what speaker claims to need and pessimistic framing about incoming President"}
{"id": "crec_000449", "text": "That is what we should be working on today. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008878", "text": "[PERSON] , another great member of my team, our Kenai regional director on the Kenai Peninsula. Covers [PERSON] as well. [PERSON] does a great job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005628", "text": "HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF BRENDA LOVELADY SPAHN [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] recognizes the gentlewoman from Alabama (Ms. [PERSON] ) for 5 minutes. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008857", "text": "So she made that. Came in, interviewed, and I am like, I am hiring her--none of these gung ho, high-falutin lawyers; I am going to put my trust in this young Alaskan. And, boy, oh, boy, I am so glad I did.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Dismissing 'gung ho, high-falutin lawyers' while praising 'young Alaskan' establishes personal authority and uses loaded language to frame the choice"}
{"id": "crec_008853", "text": "So I needed a special assistant. And I was looking at all these resumes and these lawyers and stuff, and here, for the young pages, this is the value of what they call an elevator speech. You have heard of an elevator speech, right?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001450", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005956", "text": "This is a good bill which delivers an overdue solution to an issue which has strong bipartisan support. I appreciate the discussions that we have been having here today. This strengthens ties that we have with a trusted ally, as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "good bill, overdue solution, strong bipartisan support, trusted ally"}
{"id": "crec_001119", "text": "So on behalf of all of us and communicated to [PERSON] and all of his comrades, we today again say: We love you. We respect you. We thank you for your service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "We love you. We respect you. We thank you for your service."}
{"id": "crec_008998", "text": "TRIBUTE TO HARRY DENDY [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, it is my pleasure to recognize [PERSON] as he retires from the sales committee of [ORG]. Each year, hundreds of young agriculture enthusiasts gather at the [ORG] fairgrounds in [PERSON] , MS, to show their livestock at this sale.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007138", "text": "EC-71. A communication from the [ORG] and President of [ORG], transmitting, pursuant to law, a report relative to a transaction involving U.S. exports to Azerbaijan; to [ORG], and [ORG]. EC-72.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS184-7", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000877", "text": "I think the child tax credit is very important, and we can talk about the appropriate levels of all of these various programs, including those included in the Tax Code. But we have to start somewhere, and we have to start soon. Little things do add up.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003973", "text": "It is our lifeblood. When I built my team in the District, it was important for me to find someone who knew agriculture and would fight for the farmers, ranchers, and agricultural producers of Kansas. [PERSON] was the perfect choice.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "agriculture as 'lifeblood' and positioning someone as 'perfect choice' for farmers without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_006715", "text": "So whom are you for? Are you for the very richest 1 percent and 0.1 percent of Americans who have so much money they don't know what to do with it or are you for working families? Because this [ORG] budget is the betrayal of working families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing choice as either supporting the richest 1% or working families with no middle ground; 'betrayal' is loaded language characterizing the budget negatively"}
{"id": "crec_003542", "text": "[ORG]. The Secretary of [ORG] shall ensure that the appropriate amount of border security technology is piloted, tested, and deployed along the northern and southern borders of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS95-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008945", "text": "[PERSON] in witnesses. In any hearings conducted by the [ORG], the [PERSON] or the [ORG]'s designee may swear in each witness prior to their testimony. [ORG] depositions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000485", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 218. A bill to authorize [ORG] enforcement of immigration laws, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007978", "text": "I hope we can somehow get them back to where they were. Maybe it will be with more resilient homes next time made out of different materials. That is good.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008549", "text": "This is what we do for each other. There is a reason it is called mutual aid. And I also want to thank every one of my colleagues who, in 2023, helped me to secure seven C-130 air tankers for California.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "This is what we do for each other. There is a reason it is called mutual aid."}
{"id": "crec_009017", "text": "[[ORG]] MEASURES REFERRED The following bills were read the first and the second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: H.R. 33. An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224-5", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004950", "text": "They don't qualify for those tax expenditures. But yet they are paying significant sums in payroll taxes every single year. This proposal delivers significant tax relief to them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004424", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , it saddens me to hear that my colleagues, who I respect and enjoy working with on most things, are totally not recognizing the fact that the American people, parents, grandparents, and teachers, don't stand with them and organizations that are reported today aren't speaking for the benefit of girls and women. It is absolutely heart-wrenching to see daughters and sisters lose races. The strides women have made across all corners of the sports world deserve to be celebrated and protected.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "absolutely heart-wrenching to see daughters and sisters lose races"}
{"id": "crec_005276", "text": "RULEMAKING. (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish in [ORG] interim final rules implementing this division, which shall allow eligible individuals to immediately apply for relief under this division. Notwithstanding section 553 of title 5, United States Code, the regulation shall be effective, on an interim basis, immediately upon publication, but may be subject to change and revision after public notice and opportunity for a period of public comment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000943", "text": "We just continue to be able to lease empty office space and maintain empty office space. That should not be a partisan issue. That should be an issue everybody in this body looks at and says: There is something that we could do to be able to make this better.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "There is something that we could do to be able to make this better"}
{"id": "crec_000229", "text": "I have engaged with [ORG] and called for action in upcoming Senate confirmation hearings, but we must do more. I urge my colleagues to act now to protect Bangladesh's religious minorities. The world is watching, and we cannot let history repeat itself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH51-7", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "calling for action in Senate confirmation hearings (appeal to authority of institutional process) and 'we cannot let history repeat itself' (appeal to fear of negative historical outcomes)"}
{"id": "crec_009408", "text": "It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people. In keeping with my oath and duty to Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the States have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex. Mr. President, in response to this, I issue the following statement: The Equal Rights Amendment is literally a century in the making, and over the years, generations of Americans have done their part to move it forward.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "references to 'oath and duty to Constitution and country' and 'will of the American people' combined with invocation of constitutional authority and state ratification"}
{"id": "crec_004164", "text": "There was no objection. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006750", "text": "[SPEAKER]. That was the stunning thing: Whom are you for? Are you working for Americans, are you for American families, or are you for the wealthiest of the wealthy?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Whom are you for? Are you working for Americans, are you for American families, or are you for the wealthiest of the wealthy?"}
{"id": "crec_006350", "text": "A bill to prevent allocations of [ORG] at [ORG] for countries that are perpetrators of genocide or state sponsors of terrorism, and to prevent United States tax dollars from directly going to the [ORG] or other terrorists or terrorist-harboring nations; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 463.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006906", "text": "That is not what America is supposed to be about. In truth, there are a number of reasons why we are living in a nation today where the wealth of the billionaire class is exploding while the working class of our country struggles to keep their heads above water. There are many causes as to why, despite a huge increase in worker productivity, real weekly wages for the average American worker are less today than they were 50 years ago--real weekly wages are less than they were 50 years ago--and why, during that period, there was a $50 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent to the top 1 percent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "loaded language in 'wealth of the billionaire class is exploding' and 'struggles to keep their heads above water'; appeal to fear with '$50 trillion transfer of wealth'; repetition of 'real weekly wages are less today than they were 50 years ago'"}
{"id": "crec_006746", "text": "And it was fully paid for. This bill got 357 votes in the House. We can't get that for a Mother's Day resolution in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "357 votes in the House - using high voting numbers to establish credibility and legitimacy; 'fully paid for' uses loaded language to frame the bill positively"}
{"id": "crec_001718", "text": "So let's actually get a little more dystopian, and part of this is to make an impact. What if we went to 9 percent interest? It has happened.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "dystopian scenario of 9 percent interest rates presented as alarming possibility"}
{"id": "crec_005871", "text": "This legislation has strong bipartisan support. Last Congress, we took action in authorizing and establishing the first steps in a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Taiwan. As we continue to grow our economic relationship together, a tax treaty represents the logical next move.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "strong bipartisan support and logical next move suggest consensus and inevitability"}
{"id": "crec_004213", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent to include in the record the text of the amendment immediately prior to the vote on the motion to recommit. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from North Carolina?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004369", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , what I would like to know is, what does this bill have to do with lowering costs, the economy, or making our communities safer?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001722", "text": "We don't have a choice. Open up your brain, Mr. [PERSON] , hire a computer brain. Hire some kid who is a data analyst scientist and start walking through the facts of what is going on.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "We don't have a choice"}
{"id": "crec_001025", "text": "reducing duplication and improving performance More than $200 billion in financial benefits could be achieved by implementing the thousands of outstanding recommendations made by Congress' nonpartisan watchdog agency, [ORG]. We may not agree with every suggestion, but [ORG] always puts taxpayers' best interest first. [ORG] principles For every $1 billion Washington spends.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Congress' nonpartisan watchdog agency, [ORG] always puts taxpayers' best interest first"}
{"id": "crec_005783", "text": "I wish Commissioner [PERSON] a joyful retirement. Again, I congratulate him.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-9", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005035", "text": "Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS136-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003954", "text": "There is a very, very limited charging infrastructure. The fact that the [PERSON] administration has put aside billions for charging stations and only built about seven or eight in the whole country over the last 3 years shows that it is very impractical. EVs are an unviable option for many.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing billions in charging infrastructure spending as resulting in only 'seven or eight' stations while claiming EVs are 'unviable' misrepresents the actual progress and conflates slow rollout with fundamental impracticality"}
{"id": "crec_008764", "text": "So, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment so I can offer my amendment No. 73; that there be up to 15 minutes for debate on the amendment; and that upon the use or yielding back of time, the Senate vote on the amendment without further intervening action or debate. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001020", "text": "This includes a nearly 8,000 percent mark-up for a soap dispenser than the shelf price and $1,220 for a coffee cup. remove ineligible recipients of federal employees health benefits [ORG] Benefits program is spending almost $1 billion a year paying the bills of individuals who aren't even eligible for the coverage. Over 12 years, the program covered more than $100,000 in claims for just two ineligible enrollees.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "nearly 8,000 percent mark-up, $1 billion a year, ineligible recipients covering $100,000 in claims - uses extreme numbers and wasteful spending framing to trigger concern about government mismanagement"}
{"id": "crec_001511", "text": "I love my country, and I truly believe that at our core, Americans do want global peace. For this reason, I staunchly oppose these efforts to undermine the international order merely because the agents of that order are taking legal action against one of our allies. Many of our closest allies are intimately involved with the funding and proceedings of the [ORG], meaning they would be exposed to the sanctions created by this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I love my country, and I truly believe that at our core, Americans do want global peace"}
{"id": "crec_006885", "text": ". . It will take all of us, the Administration, the private sector, Congress working together to protect our democracy, ensure robust transparency and safeguards, and ultimately keep the vision of our founders alive in the 21st century.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'protect our democracy', 'vision of our founders', 'keep the vision alive' - appeals to abstract ideals and founding principles without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_006146", "text": "What are we going to do to make it right? These two innocent women lost their lives due to these violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants who are protected by these sanctuary policies. Tomorrow, hopefully, we will take up [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act, introduced by my colleague [PERSON] from South Carolina.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "innocent women lost their lives due to these violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants who are protected by these sanctuary policies"}
{"id": "crec_003002", "text": "I am proud of my law, and I am proud that [ORG] took action under my law. But they have also done the same kind of action against American companies and fined them for doing the very same thing to children in our country online. So it is not just a [ORG] issue; it is American companies that actually set the example for how young people in our country get abused.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "But they have also done the same kind of action against American companies...So it is not just a [ORG] issue; it is American companies that actually set the example"}
{"id": "crec_001326", "text": "END HUNGER NOW (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , criminals are stealing SNAP benefits from hungry families, leaving them without enough money to buy food.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "criminals are stealing SNAP benefits from hungry families, leaving them without enough money to buy food"}
{"id": "crec_006347", "text": "A bill to withhold bilateral, multilateral, and humanitarian non-defense foreign assistance with respect to which of the President has declared a disaster under the [PERSON] Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 460.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002696", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, and Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois): H. Res. 35. A resolution recognizing the 112th Anniversary of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004278", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank Chairman [PERSON] for yielding the time, and I thank Congressman [PERSON] for introducing this important legislation. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of [ORG] and would like to clarify a comment from the gentleman on the other side of the aisle that as majority leader of [ORG], we easily overrode the Governor's veto of our [ORG] law protecting women in sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001107", "text": "But the good news is, we are not just talking about it; we are actually going to get something started. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007823", "text": "They are then weaker; they are more prone to have insects come and drill and kill the trees and just make it a tinderbox. Over here, this is managed land. If you look at old photographs from before we started putting all the fires out [ORG] style 100 years ago, forested lands were a lot more--had a lot more open space in it, meadow areas, and a lot more gaps between the trees because there was more of a natural effect of natural fire going through and taking out a lot of the lower brush, the pine needles and all that, and the big trees with their thicker bark stand and go on.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 114, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "reference to 'old photographs' and historical forest management practices to establish credibility; 'tinderbox' and 'weaker' used to negatively characterize unmanaged forests"}
{"id": "crec_006908", "text": "All of those reasons, and more, are issues that we have to deal with. Today, I want to focus on one more reason as to why the working class of this country is struggling, and that has to do with the H-1B guest worker program. [PERSON] , the wealthiest man in the world, with a net worth of nearly $430 billion, and other multibillionaires in the high-tech industry claim that [ORG] guest worker program is vital to our economy because of the scarcity of highly skilled engineers and other technology workers in the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "the wealthiest man in the world, with a net worth of nearly $430 billion, and other multibillionaires...claim that...guest worker program is vital"}
{"id": "crec_008791", "text": "Mr. President, reserving my right to object, we have repeatedly confirmed with ICE that all existing consent decrees would continue to apply. This amendment addresses something the bill doesn't do. And as I have said, [ORG] would protect kids.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "we have repeatedly confirmed with ICE"}
{"id": "crec_004339", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today as a queer woman, once the only girl on my peewee football team, and a graduate from a women's college in strong opposition to H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008648", "text": "He said he will fire top researchers by the hundreds and pause infectious disease research for years--a threat far beyond vaccines, I would say. And let's not downplay the fact that, as Secretary, he would have one of the biggest megaphones in the world to spread anti-vaccine misinformation. Maybe you are someone who thinks: So what if we have more whooping cough, or: A lot of people had measles, but they lived.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "threat of firing researchers and pausing disease research, followed by strawman characterization of opposing views ('So what if we have more whooping cough')"}
{"id": "crec_004567", "text": "That is blue. We call that nondefense discretionary. Everything a Member of Congress votes on is borrowed money.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004279", "text": "Since the passage of [ORG] in 1972, female participation at the high school and collegiate level has risen dramatically. Competitive sports are very important to the students and families in Indiana's Eighth District and all athletes around this great country. The [PERSON] administration's recent attempt to rewrite and reimagine [ORG] is threatening to erase more than 50 years of progress and women's rights and equal opportunities for all female athletes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "threatening to erase more than 50 years of progress and women's rights; emphasis on 'this great country' and historical achievement"}
{"id": "crec_008641", "text": "They tried to revoke the emergency authorization for kids' COVID vaccines. They sued against measles vaccine requirements, even amid measles outbreaks. And it is not just [ORG], [ORG]'s nonprofit that should raise alarm here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing vaccine opposition during outbreaks as something that 'should raise alarm' combined with 'They tried to revoke' and 'They sued' uses fear-inducing framing about disease risk"}
{"id": "crec_007982", "text": "We are not a democracy; we are a Republic. We elect these people that are supposed to be thinking about that stuff. Certainly, I come down here and rant about this on the floor and whenever I can in committee, and others always want to talk about something else, like the mass inflow of illegal immigrants that cost California so much money.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "presenting choice between discussing one issue versus 'mass inflow of illegal immigrants' as mutually exclusive; deflecting from democracy/republic discussion by introducing unrelated immigration topic"}
{"id": "crec_007805", "text": "What are we doing to treat the lands and have the conditions that we need to be more successful? You are not going to prevent fire completely. You are going to have it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002254", "text": "He rushed for more than 1,000 yards and scored 14 touchdowns during the year. Also, I want to recognize wide receiver [PERSON] , a tremendous young receiver. He tied the record on Monday for the most single-season touchdowns in [ORG] history, which is the conference that the [PERSON] play in, and he had a total of 17 touchdowns.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006304", "text": "A bill to require the head of an agency to issue and sign any rule issued by that agency, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana): H.R. 419.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009702", "text": "And I know that the proponents of the bill say they are going to fix that problem. But just so you understand, [ORG] says this bill is going to cost $27 billion a year. That is their number.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "citing [ORG]'s cost estimate as 'their number' to emphasize a large financial burden while invoking external authority to validate the claim"}
{"id": "crec_005758", "text": "This allows people to take risks because even if people were to fail, there is something there to catch them and help them and their families through this. Congress has not acted since 1971. Some will say: No, no, wait a minute.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "people to take risks because even if people were to fail, there is something there to catch them - implies danger/failure without safety net"}
{"id": "crec_006047", "text": "I was proud to vote in favor of this legislation introduced by my good friend, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. [PERSON] ), who is empowering law enforcement to do their job.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "appeals to authority through reference to 'good friend' and position; uses vague glittering generality 'empowering law enforcement to do their job'"}
{"id": "crec_008992", "text": "Yesterday, I voted against the [PERSON] amendment, which would expand the category of offenses under which individuals are detained following an arrest only, not a conviction or even an indictment. While I appreciate the seriousness of those crimes, this would continue to take resources from detention and deportation of those who pose the greatest threat to our communities and who are actually convicted. I also voted for an amendment proposed by Senator [PERSON] that would strike the section of the underlying bill that allows States attorneys general to sue [ORG] when they disagree with any of the thousands of complex immigration enforcement decisions ICE and [ORG] make every day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "expanding detention categories would divert resources from 'those who pose the greatest threat to our communities' - presents a false choice between two detention policies while using fear language about threats"}
{"id": "crec_000616", "text": "The New Orleans terrorist appears to have been radicalized while here in America. Over the past 4 years, over 300 individuals on [ORG]--our own [ORG] Terror Watchlist--have crossed into our country boldly and illegally. Those 300, they are just the ones that we know about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "terrorist appears to have been radicalized...300 individuals...crossed into our country boldly and illegally...just the ones that we know about"}
{"id": "crec_000759", "text": "Deliver them from pride and prejudice as they seek to live worthy of Your great Name. Transform common days into transfiguring and redemptive moments because of the power of Your presence and the wisdom of Your words. Cleanse the fountains of our hearts from all that defiles and make us fit vessels for Your honor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Transform common days into transfiguring and redemptive moments"}
{"id": "crec_008649", "text": "I realize some people probably think like that because they have never seen the reality of these terrible diseases because vaccines have been so effective. A nurse recently shared online what whooping cough can do to a baby, what she has watched families go through herself. I will warn you: It was soul crushing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "soul crushing"}
{"id": "crec_004033", "text": "Celebrating Haitian Independence Day [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, this weekend in my district, the Massachusetts Seventh, community members came together to celebrate [ORG]. There was much soup joumou, freedom soup, that was consumed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002141", "text": "The images of homes, schools, places of worship burning are terrifying and almost surreal. I have been briefed on the latest efforts by [ORG] officials to contain these fires. Sadly, there is a lot of work left to do before this crisis is over.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "images of homes, schools, places of worship burning are terrifying and almost surreal"}
{"id": "crec_009892", "text": "Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease-free. The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'end the chronic disease epidemic', 'keep our children safe', 'growing nation', 'new and beautiful horizons', 'manifest destiny', 'plant the stars and stripes'"}
{"id": "crec_006590", "text": "First and foremost, I want to say that I strongly support this measure. With this bill, the Senate will be taking a bold step for the safety and prosperity of American citizens after 4 years of mismanagement and decline and, ultimately, chaos at the border. [ORG] is the answer to a loud and clear call made at the ballot box by the American people to unite us as a country, to put America first, and to address the tragic lawlessness that we see on our southern border.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "put America first, tragic lawlessness, mismanagement and decline and ultimately chaos at the border"}
{"id": "crec_003034", "text": "And the best way to grow our economy is to grow the backbone of our nation: the middle class. That's what my Investing in America agenda has done, through landmark laws that shore up our infrastructure, our manufacturing base, and our people. Together, these are some of the most significant investments in America since the New Deal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "grow the backbone of our nation: the middle class and most significant investments in America since the New Deal"}
{"id": "crec_003946", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] was also a commercial shrimp fisherman and captain of his shrimp boat, [PERSON] , which was named after his daughter. Mr. [PERSON] married his high school sweetheart, the late [PERSON] , with whom he shared three children: [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] . Madam Speaker, today we honor his life and hold his family in our thoughts and prayers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004266", "text": "A transgender child who joins a sports team does so for the same reason that any other child does. They want to stay active, feed their hunger for competition, and form friendships with children their age. This typical experience, however, has been stifled by politicians who want to exercise authority on transgender students by prohibiting them from participating on sports teams with their peers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "\"}\n```\n\nWait, let me reconsider - \"appeal_to_emotion\" is not in my allowed list.\n\n```json\n{\"labels\": [\"strawman\"], \"evidence\": \"'politicians who want to exercise authority on transgender students by prohibiting them'"}
{"id": "crec_006744", "text": "There is a better path. Let me give you an example. Democrats are going to work with Republicans to do tax reform that will be fair.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "work with Republicans to do tax reform that will be fair"}
{"id": "crec_000305", "text": "It seems to me passing strange, Mr. [PERSON] , that our friends are taking this position when they do not even believe that the criminal justice system can be trusted when a jury unanimously convicts someone who has had the best legal representation money can buy in [ORG] on 34 different felony criminal counts after an extended criminal trial with all due process protections, including cross- examination and the right to counsel being afforded. If the criminal justice process cannot be trusted to identify a truly guilty person even when that person has been arrested, charged, indicted, prosecuted, represented at every stage, given an opportunity to cross-examine all witnesses, and to testify personally, and then is unanimously convicted by a jury of his peers beyond a reasonable doubt, how can the criminal justice process be trusted to identify a truly guilty person just with an arrest and no indictment, no prosecution, no cross-examination, no neutral adjudication by an impartial judge, no fact-finding, and no criminal conviction by a 12-person jury beyond a reasonable doubt? Mandatory detention has always been reserved for people who are convicted of crimes and actually commit crimes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 194, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents a false choice between trusting the criminal justice system completely (with full conviction) or not at all; uses loaded language like 'passing strange' and 'truly guilty person' to frame the argument emotionally"}
{"id": "crec_007974", "text": "It doesn't matter the euphemism. You need to be sure that Federal taxpayers are going to see at the end of the day the wise use of that so we are not back here in 40 years doing the same thing over again. That is so hard-hearted and cold.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing a fiscal concern as 'hard-hearted and cold' uses emotionally charged language; presenting only two options: either accept the spending or be 'hard-hearted'"}
{"id": "crec_002316", "text": "19) honoring the life and legacy of President [PERSON] and commending President [PERSON] for his life-long career of public service, humanitarian leadership, diplomacy, and courageous advocacy. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring the life and legacy...humanitarian leadership, diplomacy, and courageous advocacy"}
{"id": "crec_002976", "text": "They could also dramatically reduce legal immigration to our country. Because of the way it is drafted, [ORG], under any administration, could be blocked from issuing any visas to nationals from a certain country, like India or China. Perhaps some of my colleagues think they are pretty good policy goals, but they have nothing to do with the tragic murder of this young woman.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Misrepresents the stated purpose of a policy by claiming it could 'dramatically reduce legal immigration' and then contrasts this with a specific tragic case, creating a false choice between the policy's potential side effects and addressing a particular tragedy"}
{"id": "crec_008920", "text": "Reporting measures and matters. No measure, matter or recommendation shall be reported from the [ORG] unless a majority of the Committee Members are actually present, and the vote of the [ORG] to report a measure or matter shall require the concurrence of a majority of those Members who are actually present at the time the vote is taken. ([PERSON] , [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009610", "text": "LEGISLATIVE SESSION LAKEN RILEY ACT--Resumed [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will resume consideration of S. 5, which [SPEAKER] will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 5) to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000288", "text": "During his first term, President [PERSON] proved that the President on his own authority can secure our borders. President [PERSON] proved that a President determined to undermine and make a mockery of our immigration laws can willfully open those borders to the most violent criminals, terrorists, gangs, and cartels on this planet and use the Democrats' sanctuary laws to protect them. This national nightmare will end at noon on Inauguration Day, but what of future Presidents?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing immigration policy as 'national nightmare' involving 'most violent criminals, terrorists, gangs, and cartels' presents extreme language; presents only two options (secure borders vs. opening to criminals); uses fear-based language about threats"}
{"id": "crec_000413", "text": "Do you know what? Condolences aren't going to do it. I say it to my friend on the other side of the aisle, the ranking member.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007611", "text": "Deporting domestic violence offenders and aliens who commit sexual assault should not be a partisan issue. I hope that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will join us in supporting H.R. 30.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "framing deportation policy as a non-partisan issue that 'should not be' divisive, and referencing official legislative action (H.R. 30) to lend authority"}
{"id": "crec_004482", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , due to a death in the family, I needed to attend to the funeral proceedings and was unable to vote on the House floor. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 10, passage of H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001834", "text": "I join the [ORG] community in wishing him the very best in retirement. Optimism for California [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , near the beginning of last year, I rose on the floor of this House to say a few words about my home [ORG] of California and how it was on potentially a path back to sanity, and how that opportunity lay ahead of us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "wishing him the very best in retirement, path back to sanity, opportunity lay ahead of us"}
{"id": "crec_008138", "text": "[PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to require the Inspector General to submit a report on the [ORG] subaward reporting system, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001811", "text": "We have nothing to do with what they do, but I can tell you this: We have suffered because two Senators would not vote to pass legislation that could have made a difference in the lives of the American people as well as in the lives of specific people who have suffered great injustices, great injustices, grave injustices, lives lost. I believe that [PERSON] in Policing Act would save lives. Voters would receive a better path to getting their votes into the process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated emphasis on 'suffered,' 'great injustices,' 'grave injustices,' 'lives lost' to evoke emotional concern about consequences of not passing legislation"}
{"id": "crec_006789", "text": "It is a handout to the wealthiest folks who are making more than $2.8 million a year. The economic analysis makes it clear that this tax scam will drive up the debt and leave working families behind. We all know the way to grow the economy is to invest in the working class, to lower taxes for working families, and to bring industry and innovation back to our communities across the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "use of 'tax scam' and 'handout' as loaded language; presents only two opposing options (help wealthy vs. help working families) as the way forward"}
{"id": "crec_008164", "text": "A bill to provide a private right of action against the maker of any component of a ghost gun, and any person who facilitated a sale of the ghost gun, for injury or death resulting from the use of the ghost gun; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] York: H.R. 545.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007101", "text": "On behalf of all Tennesseans, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to the Grand Ole Opry as it celebrates 100 years of incredible music, legendary performances, and musical heritage. Here is to 100 more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "heartfelt congratulations to the Grand Ole Opry as it celebrates 100 years of incredible music, legendary performances, and musical heritage"}
{"id": "crec_009522", "text": "Subcommittee Chair shall set dates for hearings and meetings of their respective subcommittees after consultation with the Chairman and other subcommittee chairs with a view toward avoiding simultaneous scheduling of [ORG] and subcommittee meetings or hearings whenever possible. (b) Consideration by Committee.--Each bill, resolution, or other matter favorably reported by a subcommittee shall automatically be placed upon the agenda of the [ORG]. Any such matter reported by a subcommittee shall not be considered by the [ORG] unless it has been delivered to the offices of all members of [ORG] at least 48 hours before the meeting, unless the Chairman determines that the matter is of such urgency that it should be given early consideration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 116, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001368", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on this measure. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Florida?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008947", "text": "Committee deposition notices shall specify a time and place for examination, and the name of the [ORG] Member or Members or staff officer or officers who will take the deposition. Unless otherwise specified, the deposition shall be in private. The [ORG] shall not initiate procedures leading to criminal or civil enforcement proceedings for a witness' failure to appear or produce unless the deposition notice was accompanied by a [ORG] subpoena.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009342", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. Recognition of the Minority Leader The Democratic leader is recognized. [ORG] [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002165", "text": "Now, people are getting insulin, and [ORG] recipients, for $35. I don't think it would have happened without this guy sitting right here next to me. He figured out the ways to get it done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "crediting a specific person ('this guy') with figuring out 'ways to get it done' on insulin pricing without explaining the mechanism"}
{"id": "crec_002825", "text": "He says, well, we have plenty of water. Presently, this is Shasta Dam in northern California, and it is dumping water right now. It is dumping water out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006970", "text": "So let me be crystal clear. There will be no extensions, no concessions, and no compromises for [ORG]. [ORG] and the Chinese communists had plenty of time to make a deal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'no extensions, no compromises' combined with equating [ORG] with 'Chinese communists'"}
{"id": "crec_003614", "text": "206. RULEMAKING. (a) Initial Publication.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish regulations implementing this title in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006947", "text": "We had it out of committee. We could not get it passed. And I repeatedly sent letters to [ORG] and [ORG] urging them to investigate and impose penalties on [ORG] for putting their younger users at risk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "repeatedly sent letters to [ORG] and [ORG] urging them to investigate and impose penalties"}
{"id": "crec_004572", "text": "Here is the point I was just trying to make a couple of moments ago. If we went back to a 5 percent interest rate, it is just shy of $9 trillion over 10 years. Just the interest rate move is double everything we are talking about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002494", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Missouri? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004315", "text": "That is insane. Educational institutions have a responsibility to protect the women and girls who attend them, and this legislation ensures that they will be able to do just that. Let me be clear: Allowing biological men to compete in women's sports hurts women.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Describing the situation as 'insane' and stating the legislation 'ensures' protection implies danger/threat, while 'biological men...hurts women' uses emotionally charged framing to appeal to protective instincts and fear of harm."}
{"id": "crec_001747", "text": "I am not saying that she was walking through the valley of the shadow of death. What I am saying is that I knew that if she could walk through the valley of death and fear no evil, then surely she could walk through [ORG] and fear no evil. As she moved forward, I was taken to a point in my life when a song meant something to me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "religious metaphor 'valley of the shadow of death' and 'fear no evil' used to elevate and sanctify the subject"}
{"id": "crec_006061", "text": "HIGH-SPEED RAIL PROJECT HAS BEEN A SYMBOL OF FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , Governor [PERSON] 's High-Speed Rail project has been a symbol of fiscal mismanagement, and now [ORG] here in D.C., known as [ORG], is stepping in to examine the situation, as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-5", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "High-Speed Rail project has been a symbol of fiscal mismanagement"}
{"id": "crec_009466", "text": "Hear us from Your Heaven, forgive us our sin, and heal our land. God bless America. Amen.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "God bless America - invocation of national patriotism and divine blessing for the country"}
{"id": "crec_002500", "text": "I have spoken with many [ORG] employees, and they feel like they have their hands tied because of rules that are in place that prevent them from being able to fund investments in resilience and infrastructure. As we are seeing more extreme weather because of climate change, we need to step up and spend taxpayer dollars more efficiently and better. That means that we have to change this law because the current law prevents [ORG] from reimbursing utilities for hazard mitigation as they make temporary disaster repairs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "more extreme weather because of climate change; hands tied by rules preventing resilience and infrastructure funding"}
{"id": "crec_006940", "text": "That is what we were elected to do. I yield the floor. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001342", "text": "COMMUNICATION FROM [SPEAKER] OF THE HOUSE [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from [SPEAKER] of [ORG] of [SPEAKER], [ORG], Washington, DC, January 8, 2025. Hon. [PERSON] , Speaker, [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-4", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000571", "text": "It is no wonder, then, that only 16 percent of Russians say religion is very important to them, and only 7 percent attend church weekly. It is also no wonder that most Ukrainians chose to celebrate Christmas with the West on the 25th, even while under rocket fire from Russia. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-5", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Ukrainians celebrating Christmas 'with the West' and 'under rocket fire from Russia' implies Western alignment is morally superior and Russia is barbaric"}
{"id": "crec_008575", "text": "Baby, I got to go, the fire's made it to my yard.'' [PERSON] is a hero. [PERSON] is well known in Pasadena for his daily trash pickups in the foothills.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "[PERSON] is a hero"}
{"id": "crec_005974", "text": "ANNOUNCEMENT BY [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER]. Proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order: Motions to suspend the rules and pass: [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH168-4", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001404", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank my friend from Florida, the chairman, for his support on this legislation. I thank him for his statesmanship on this particular issue, which is critically important for not just our friendship with our ally, Israel, but also our own national security, the protection of our own men and women in uniform. Let's be clear about what is happening at the so-called [ORG] right now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "praising 'statesmanship' and invoking 'our ally, Israel' and 'our own men and women in uniform' to establish authority and patriotic legitimacy"}
{"id": "crec_001940", "text": "A bill to amend titles [PERSON] and XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of peripheral artery disease screening tests furnished to at-risk beneficiaries under the [ORG] and [ORG] programs without the imposition of cost-sharing requirements, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 308.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008656", "text": "What do we think is going to happen? How many outright lies are we going to tolerate? How many deaths before we realize this nonsense is dangerous?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "How many deaths before we realize this nonsense is dangerous"}
{"id": "crec_007078", "text": "I will remind you, our States' attorneys general are roughly equally divided between the parties, and attorneys general can now and today sue against what they believe is manifest injustice in the Federal immigration system. This provision would encourage them to sue down to individual detention and release decisions. I think it improves the bill to remove that section and focus on its critical public safety provisions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004556", "text": "Great. How do we explain to people that there are no free options anymore? We have the moral obligation to not make the world debt markets nervous.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Framing complex economic policy as having 'no free options anymore' and invoking 'moral obligation' to appease 'debt markets' presents a false choice while using emotionally charged language to constrain perceived alternatives."}
{"id": "crec_006932", "text": "And the reason they told us not to worry is that that job loss would be more than offset by the many good-paying, white-collar information technology jobs that would be created in the United States. Yes, they said, you lose blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but not to worry. We will create zillions of good-paying, white-collar information technology jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "doubt"], "evidence": "presents a false choice between job loss and job creation, while casting doubt on the promised alternative outcomes with 'yes, they said' and 'not to worry'"}
{"id": "crec_000777", "text": "And we will soon fulfill that promise and have a vote to support our ally Israel. Senators can also expect to vote on another commonsense measure this month. As thousands of pro-life Americans come to Washington for the 52nd annual March for Life, we will take up the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-8", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "support our ally Israel and pro-life Americans... March for Life"}
{"id": "crec_000954", "text": "It sounds like quick and fast evacuations are smart and are being advised. So please be super careful as we move through this tragedy. You know, Americans are resilient people, but the Californians and [ORG] are being asked for a lot right now, so it is really tough.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Americans are resilient people"}
{"id": "crec_008675", "text": "This can't go on. This is an outrage. This is a tragedy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "outrage, tragedy - emotionally charged language without specific factual context"}
{"id": "crec_004257", "text": "Congress needs to get back to our jobs, lowering costs for everyday families and working on issues that address the vast majority of us. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. [PERSON] ), a new member of the [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "get back to our jobs, lowering costs for everyday families and working on issues that address the vast majority of us"}
{"id": "crec_001369", "text": "There was no objection. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000766", "text": "He asked me if I would go along with him. I said the work of the Senate didn't allow me to do it at that particular time. So, obviously, I regretted that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007739", "text": "Have we ever said that those families should be punished for their [ORG]'s political choices? Absolutely not. I am appalled and, frankly, sickened at the calls for conditioning aid for these families, these American families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "appalled and, frankly, sickened at the calls for conditioning aid"}
{"id": "crec_005694", "text": "Never before in our history has [ORG] imposed conditions on disaster aid for its own citizens. This is just more than unprecedented. To deny our fellow Americans the help they need after losing loved ones, their homes, and their businesses in their darkest hour because of political differences, it is not just cruel; it is immoral.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "losing loved ones, their homes, and their businesses in their darkest hour; cruel; immoral"}
{"id": "crec_001640", "text": "The facts are on our side. Those folks that run around here and say we need to extend tax policy, protect the border, actually do all these things, you can't create an additional fiscal rathole and expect you are going to throw this back onto the world debt markets. The reason I want you to think about this is I am going to show you a couple of charts in a little while where interest rates were on U.S. sovereigns way back when.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "'fiscal rathole' and 'throw this back onto the world debt markets'"}
{"id": "crec_007021", "text": "And it was bipartisan. It was bipartisan. You want to talk about lobbyists.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "\"It was bipartisan. It was bipartisan.\" - repeating the same phrase twice for emphasis"}
{"id": "crec_009664", "text": "What this amendment would do is introduce new carve-outs that don't already exist. We have a crisis in this Nation. Our border has been overrun, and every city across this country is paying the price.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "border has been overrun, every city across this country is paying the price, crisis in this Nation"}
{"id": "crec_009953", "text": "Hon. [PERSON] , Governor of the State of Florida, Tallahassee, FL. Dear Governor [PERSON] : This is to advise you that I hereby resign as U.S.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002250", "text": "I just want to take a minute now to recognize and congratulate the players and the coaches who are so vital to this success. Quarterback [PERSON] just had an incredible game. He had an incredible year, but he really showed his mettle in this final game.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006502", "text": "Americans need to hear these nominees answer for [PERSON] harmful policies. And if some of these nominees are severely unqualified--and many of them are--these hearings are essential for exposing that. Even if they get confirmed in the end, the information must come out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "harmful policies and severely unqualified framing nominees negatively while information must come out implies potential danger"}
{"id": "crec_000906", "text": "With that, I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Tennessee.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001410", "text": "I appreciate the support of the 42 Democrats last summer. I look forward to a larger amount of support from Democrats when we vote on this today. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["bandwagon"], "evidence": "appreciation of past Democratic support combined with expectation of increased support, suggesting a growing trend that others should join"}
{"id": "crec_004310", "text": "My colleagues know that I am 35 years old, and I love talking about my period. I think it is important we talk about it. We shouldn't be making young girls answer these questions to people they don't even trust.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000243", "text": "Although we came from different parties, Mayor [PERSON] was a good friend and was always willing to work together for the good of his community. He had a passion for educating youth so that they would become thoughtful, engaged citizens. He helped to create jobs, improved the lives of Carlsbad families, and protected critical industries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "become thoughtful, engaged citizens; helped to create jobs, improved the lives; protected critical industries"}
{"id": "crec_004869", "text": "Pending: [PERSON] (for [ORG]) amendment No. 8, to include crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury to the list of offenses that, if committed by an inadmissible alien, require mandatory detention. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007710", "text": "HONORING COUNCILWOMAN SHIRLEY McCRACKEN ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the life and legacy of [PERSON] , a beloved servant, neighbor, and good friend.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-6", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring...beloved servant, neighbor, and good friend - ceremonial tribute to a respected community member"}
{"id": "crec_007527", "text": "[SPEAKER] Carolina. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of H.R. 30, [ORG] by Illegal Aliens Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "use of term 'Illegal Aliens' which is emotionally charged language; the framing emphasizes negative categorization of a group of people"}
{"id": "crec_009688", "text": "These criminal syndicates have perfected their worldwide smuggling operations. They have trained people how to exploit our asylum system, and they have weaponized social media to enable thousands of people to travel all over the globe to present themselves at the southern border of the United States or to come through the southern border. And the result of that paralysis has been, at times, an overwhelmed southern border.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "criminal syndicates, weaponized social media, paralysis, overwhelmed southern border"}
{"id": "crec_008578", "text": "I spoke with [PERSON] at one of the shelters on the West Side. She stayed a couple of nights in a motel but could no longer afford it, and her asthma was making it hard to breathe. One firefighter, [PERSON] , had been battling the blazes in the Palisades since the first night.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009082", "text": "53 intended to be proposed to S. 5, supra. AMENDMENT NO. 54 At the request of Mr. [PERSON] , the names of the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. [PERSON] ), the Senator from Nevada (Ms. [PERSON] ), the Senator from Arizona (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from Arizona (Mr. [PERSON] ) were added as cosponsors of amendment No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004087", "text": "For example, advancing freshwater settlement for our Great Lakes region will require standing up the Great Lakes Authority and infusing it with the ability to relieve bonded indebtedness of struggling freshwater communities. They must be able to financially reinvest to upgrade their freshwater systems in places like Flint, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Youngstown, Milwaukee, Kenosha, Chicago, and so many more. Freshwater is life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'Freshwater is life' and emphasis on named American communities as appeals to universal values and regional pride"}
{"id": "crec_001492", "text": "23. Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002218", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Iowa.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009350", "text": "I urge the [PERSON] administration and incoming [ORG] administration to work together with all parties at the negotiating table to ensure the deal is implemented and followed through in its entirety. S. 5 Mr. President, next, this morning, the Senate is scheduled to hold a cloture vote on [ORG]. A week ago, I joined with the majority of my Democratic colleagues in voting yes to bring this bill to the floor on the motion to proceed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009916", "text": "Bless President [PERSON] and Vice President [PERSON] with the strength and courage to choose the right and the good. Unite us around our foundational [ORG] values of life and liberty, of service and sacrifice, and especially of faith and morality, which [PERSON] called the indispensable supports of American prosperity. Guide our schools and college campuses, which have been experiencing such unrest, to inspire the next generation, to pair progress with purpose, knowledge with wisdom, and truth with virtue.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invocation of foundational values (life, liberty, faith, morality), appeal to historical figure's authority, and abstract virtuous concepts (progress, purpose, wisdom, virtue)"}
{"id": "crec_006845", "text": "CEOs are taking a larger and larger share for themselves of the resources of American corporations, leaving less and less to pay their workers, and that is the difference: rocketing upward and more or less flat. They want to make this worse through their reconciliation. If you want to add another backdrop to what is going on here, this is the share of America's revenue that is contributed by corporations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "CEOs 'taking a larger and larger share for themselves,' 'leaving less and less' to workers; 'rocketing upward' contrasted with 'flat'; 'They want to make this worse'"}
{"id": "crec_004787", "text": "I wish both [ORG] and Senate a productive session as they work to better the lives of Iowans through [ORG] law. By the way, I can say to my colleagues here: Congress could learn a lesson not only from the Iowa Legislature but from most [ORG] legislatures in the balancing of the budget because the Federal budget needs that sort of discipline. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress could learn a lesson...from the Iowa Legislature...in the balancing of the budget"}
{"id": "crec_001868", "text": "Perhaps someday, in the not too distant future, we can start leading the Nation in the right ways again. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "leading the Nation in the right ways again"}
{"id": "crec_001701", "text": "Does this make anybody nervous? Some of the articles are basically saying bond markets around the world are getting nervous loaning to sovereigns because they keep borrowing like crazy. What is going on in China where they are borrowing like crazy?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Does this make anybody nervous? / bond markets around the world are getting nervous"}
{"id": "crec_004957", "text": "Pregnancy is costly. [ORG] bills are outrageous, and working families who are expecting children should be able to claim tax relief on the same basis as families with older kids. This plan would provide major generational tax relief for working families with children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "bills are outrageous; major generational tax relief"}
{"id": "crec_003955", "text": "The mandate would not only increase the cost of living for individuals and families but reduce transportation options for many rural residents and even urban residents that maybe have a car that is already paid for that they would soon see they wouldn't have the ability to keep. Additionally, part of the mandate is quietly eliminating fueling stations, making fuel more expensive, and making fuel harder to produce. In my home [ORG] of California and the country, when they ban the pipeline coming from Canada, it makes fuel harder to get.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH117", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "would increase cost of living, reduce transportation options, quietly eliminating fueling stations, making fuel more expensive and harder to produce"}
{"id": "crec_005786", "text": "At [ORG], Pastor [PERSON] has been a beacon of hope, faith, and justice in our district for decades. His tireless work has gone beyond his pastoral role. He has always been a leader for social change in our community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'beacon of hope, faith, and justice' and 'leader for social change' - use of vague, emotionally appealing phrases without specific evidence"}
{"id": "crec_007486", "text": "30. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Florida?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000669", "text": "It is an ideological obsession they have. You are not going to change their minds. So what you need to do--what the free world needs to do--is to contain them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Describes opponents as having an 'ideological obsession' and frames containment as necessary for 'the free world,' using emotionally charged language to suggest an existential threat that requires defensive action."}
{"id": "crec_004586", "text": "Yet, these things decide if my 2\\1/2\\ year old has a future. It also decides if your retirement becomes a miserable disaster. I hear a little person up in the balcony.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "these things decide if my 2½ year old has a future... if your retirement becomes a miserable disaster"}
{"id": "crec_004283", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000922", "text": "We all know about the economy, taxes, inflation, affordability--another of the top issues for the American people. And they want us to hold this government accountable for what they have done to push inflation forward. It means that we need to make permanent the 2017 [PERSON] tax cuts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "use of 'we all know' to establish consensus and 'hold this government accountable for what they have done to push inflation forward' employs charged framing"}
{"id": "crec_006103", "text": "Americans are evacuating their homes, watching their communities burn, and the Speaker and [ORG] and some of my Republican colleagues in Congress want to punish Americans for not voting their way in November? This is morally bankrupt. Californians obviously need this help now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-4", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Americans are evacuating their homes, watching their communities burn; morally bankrupt"}
{"id": "crec_001852", "text": "In fact, when it comes to the forests, it is worse than neglect. The [ORG] and, frankly, [ORG] have put up unnecessary hurdles to doing proper forest management, to clearing vegetation, to doing prescribed burns, which has turned many of our forests and areas adjoining residential areas in many cases into tinderboxes and caused fires that have in many cases become truly catastrophic, community-destroying events, and we have seen it happen, sadly, time and time again. The perversity of it all is that these restrictions on being able to manage our forests--which have decimated the timber industry, by the way--are imposed in the name of the environment, but nothing could be worse for the environment than a catastrophic wildfire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 121, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Organizations have created 'unnecessary hurdles,' forests turned into 'tinderboxes,' fires become 'truly catastrophic, community-destroying events,' and 'nothing could be worse for the environment than a catastrophic wildfire'"}
{"id": "crec_006169", "text": "I have joked before about a couple of things. I have four boys. I wasn't blessed with a girl.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009651", "text": "Democrats are loyal, above all, to our Constitution and to our democratic principles, and today we practiced what we preached: the democratic transfer of power. I hope that today's inauguration shows the world that the chaos of 4 years ago was an unfortunate aberration and not the norm. It is now time to look to the future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Democrats are loyal, above all, to our Constitution and to our democratic principles; the democratic transfer of power; the chaos of 4 years ago was an unfortunate aberration"}
{"id": "crec_008808", "text": "It is past time to do that--having a commonsense, targeted approach that, no, does not fix everything. I hear my colleague's frustration with regard to regular order of last year. I would like to echo that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001328", "text": "Sadly, the law expired at the end of last year. We won a hard-fought extension in the continuing resolution to ensure that no families fall through the cracks, but this is one of the provisions billionaire [PERSON] ordered the Republicans to take out of the bill, and families are now left on the hook. The stories are heartbreaking, Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-6", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "families fall through the cracks, families are now left on the hook, stories are heartbreaking"}
{"id": "crec_002210", "text": "That type of leadership is what every Member of this body should strive for. As is already the case under current law for various types of criminal activities, our bill would require [ORG] to detain illegal aliens who commit theft-related offenses and would mandate that these illegal aliens are detained until their removal from the United States before they get the opportunity to commit further, graver crimes. I want to be very clear.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "detain illegal aliens until their removal...before they get the opportunity to commit further, graver crimes"}
{"id": "crec_006677", "text": "House Republicans are saying that you have to pay for these tax cuts, right? You reduce revenue to the government. In order to pay for it, you have to find savings.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003876", "text": "274E. Requirements for the electronic verification of employment eligibility.''. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002353", "text": "As we are in Washington this week, we will be submitting this letter to [ORG] in [PERSON] 's honor. Like all of you, we were both lucky enough to call [PERSON] a friend and saw firsthand how she met people where they are to get big things done for our state. She governed with strength, calm, and grace, always seeking solutions over soundbites.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "governed with strength, calm, and grace, always seeking solutions over soundbites"}
{"id": "crec_006113", "text": "There was no objection. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002930", "text": "These hearings, in a very real way, are the opening salvo for holding the [ORG] administration accountable to the public. So, today, I want to talk a little bit about how Senate Democrats will approach these hearings to uphold our promise to stand up for America's working and middle class. These hearings will be the very first real opportunity to see the [PERSON] administration's view on who they will fight for--working people or the special interests?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing hearings as 'opening salvo' and presenting a false choice between 'working people or the special interests'"}
{"id": "crec_002943", "text": "Let's hope we get real answers and real documentation before anyone votes for Mr. [PERSON] for Secretary of [ORG]. [PERSON] Mr. President, on [PERSON] , today, the Senate will vote on the motion to proceed on [ORG]. The Senate invoked cloture on this bill last week with a strong bipartisan vote.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "The Senate invoked cloture on this bill last week with a strong bipartisan vote"}
{"id": "crec_001281", "text": "A bill to address the plea agreements for certain individuals detained at Guantanamo, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 35. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create an above the line deduction for certain homeowners insurance premiums; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS66", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009832", "text": "And may our hearts be inclined to Your voice. We know that America can never be great again if we turn our backs on You. We ask for Your help.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invoking divine authority ('Your voice', 'Your help') combined with vague aspirational language ('great again')"}
{"id": "crec_005066", "text": "PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE REPORT TO [ORG] TO THE PROPOSED RESCISSION OF CUBA'S DESIGNATION AS A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM--PM 3 [SPEAKER] laid before the Senate the following message from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying report; which was referred to [ORG]: To [ORG]: I transmit herewith a report to the Congress with respect to the proposed recission of Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. [PERSON] , Jr. [ORG], January 14, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-4", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006937", "text": "Madam President, I will be asking for a rollcall vote on this amendment, and I hope very much we can get it to the floor. In my view, the time has come for the American people to know which side their Senators stand on this issue. In order to accomplish that goal, I very much appreciated the statement Majority Leader [PERSON] gave on the floor of the Senate last November about the need for more amendment votes in the Senate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "invoking 'the American people' and Majority Leader's statement to support the amendment push; appeals to democratic values and leadership authority"}
{"id": "crec_006754", "text": "It was when people were coming to me and saying 28 percent, 27 percent, 26 percent. The biggest corporations were saying it publicly. I was reading it in the newspaper.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "biggest corporations were saying it publicly...reading it in the newspaper"}
{"id": "crec_001978", "text": "A resolution recognizing the 125th anniversary of organized [PERSON] immigration to the United States; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Wisconsin, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] of Mississippi, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of California, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 234, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000257", "text": "Having served as president of [ORG] and dean of [ORG], Dr. [PERSON] is bringing decades of experience to [ORG]. Dr. [PERSON] was born in Mexico, where he discovered his passion for public health and service and spent 6 years as Mexico's secretary of health. I am excited to see Dr. [PERSON] bring his leadership and experience as he serves the Bruin community and keeps [ORG] as a top public university in the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "extensive credentials listed (president, dean, secretary of health) and vague positive language ('leadership and experience,' 'top public university')"}
{"id": "crec_009353", "text": "While I do not support this particular bill, I stand ready to work with both sides to pass smart, effective, tough, and commonsense legislation to secure our borders and reform our immigration system. Cabinet Nominations Mr. President, on [ORG] nominations, and Mr. [PERSON] , if one thing is clear from this week's [ORG] hearings, it is that [PERSON] is not building a [ORG] to serve the American people; he is building a [ORG] to serve the special, big, powerful interests. The American people deserve to know if the President-elect's nominees will bring costs down and protect America or cut sweetheart deals for the most well-off Americans while making America less safe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 111, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "building a cabinet to serve special, big, powerful interests; sweetheart deals for the most well-off Americans while making America less safe"}
{"id": "crec_004166", "text": "More than 50 years ago, this country made a promise to women and girls across America. That promise, [ORG], said women and girls would have equal opportunities, both in the classroom and in athletics. For years, America has kept her promise.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "made a promise to women and girls across America...America has kept her promise"}
{"id": "crec_003455", "text": "274E. Requirements for the electronic verification of employment eligibility.''. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004230", "text": "When seen through the results of lost opportunities, it becomes clear that something valuable has been stolen. When men are allowed to compete in women's sports, not only are women no longer safe but they also lose scholarships, championships, and opportunities to build self-esteem that lasts a lifetime. [PERSON] men also lose when they embrace this ideology of unfairness and call it admirable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "women are no longer safe; something valuable has been stolen"}
{"id": "crec_005451", "text": "Restoration of State option to determine residency for purposes of higher education benefits. TITLE II--AMERICAN PROMISE ACT OF 2025 Sec. 201.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004852", "text": "Due to Senate Democrat obstruction, President [PERSON] had only five nominees confirmed in January during his first term. We saw obstruction for the sake of obstruction. Americans now have chosen a new direction.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Democrats described as engaging in 'obstruction for the sake of obstruction' creates a negative framing; implies threat to governance and suggests Americans had to reject this through voting"}
{"id": "crec_007057", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009445", "text": "AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED AND PROPOSED SA 93. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] 75 submitted by Mr. [PERSON] and intended to be proposed to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table. [ORG] 94.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243-3", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007727", "text": "HONORING MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY BOBCAT RODEO TEAM ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in honor of [ORG] rodeo team as they prepare to participate in the 2025 Presidential inaugural parade.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honoring Montana State University Bobcat Rodeo Team as they prepare to participate in the 2025 Presidential inaugural parade"}
{"id": "crec_000796", "text": "It is obscene enough that Republicans want to make tax cuts for the ultrarich their first agenda item, but it gets worse when you remember they already cut taxes for those same people just a few years ago, and we all saw what a disaster it was. The last time [PERSON] and Republicans cut taxes for the rich, they claimed it would trickle down to the working people, to the middle class. It most certainly did not.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "obscene enough that Republicans want to make tax cuts for the ultrarich their first agenda item, but it gets worse"}
{"id": "crec_007875", "text": "It was because of a fish situation they had in the delta. The crazy thing is that the fish that they are trying to save actually had come in in a heavier population than normal, so in the process of pumping moving water, they trapped a little higher number of fish than normal, too, because there were more fish to begin with. So with that, they said you have already exceeded the quota of fish you can take for this year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "presents a simplified, distorted version of environmental regulations by framing them as absurdly trapping fish due to higher populations, misrepresenting how quotas and environmental protections actually function"}
{"id": "crec_004898", "text": "It is progress on making sure that we begin to have a more secure border and that our streets and communities are safer. But today is a new day in [ORG], and people's tunes have changed. While I am hearing from many of my colleagues across the aisle that they want to vote yes on this bill, that illegal aliens who commit crimes should be sent back to their country not released onto American streets, I am optimistic, but I want to caution my colleagues: Don't revert back to your partisan tribe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 94, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "illegal aliens who commit crimes should be sent back...not released onto American streets; many colleagues across the aisle want to vote yes"}
{"id": "crec_004889", "text": "Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats, and the outgoing [PERSON] administration alike must act in the best interest of the country--not in their party's best interest, not in pursuit of some partisan agenda, but in the best interest of the country. And it is far from America's best interest to have President [PERSON] sitting alone at the White House--maybe with the Vice President--and no [ORG] there to support him in his efforts. President [PERSON] should remember that people around the country and around the world will be watching very closely his final days in office.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "people around the country and around the world will be watching very closely his final days in office"}
{"id": "crec_006148", "text": "We are overcrowded and overrun with crime, gangs, and broken services, as I mentioned. Governor [PERSON] 's policies are draining our resources and compromising public safety. His priorities are illegal aliens and all sorts of benefits for them, which we keep seeing on and on, again and again, as the [ORG] is running a deficit and spending on things like high-speed rail instead of helping on fire safety and having our water supply renewed for all those good reasons.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "overcrowded and overrun with crime, gangs, and broken services; draining resources and compromising public safety; on and on, again and again"}
{"id": "crec_001655", "text": "You will hear Member after Member and people on television, the talking hosts, on conservative talk radio, if we just didn't spend that money. Okay, we actually did this thing called research where we looked up the actual facts of the math. It is about $2.7 billion for the entire year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "characterizes opponents' argument as simply 'if we just didn't spend that money' then presents own research as the authoritative counter-position"}
{"id": "crec_000323", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to encourage my colleagues to support [ORG]. Mr. [PERSON] , I think it is important that we record into history exactly what happened to this young lady. This young lady didn't have a care in the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "didn't have a care in the world - emotionally charged characterization to evoke sympathy"}
{"id": "crec_008503", "text": "Under President [PERSON] , we saw record levels of low unemployment for all Americans, especially among [ORG] and Hispanic Americans. Inflation, which is ultimately a tax on the paychecks of hard-working Americans, was also at record lows. We had the most secure border in history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'record levels of low unemployment' and 'most secure border in history' are vague superlatives; 'inflation...ultimately a tax on the paychecks' uses loaded framing"}
{"id": "crec_005020", "text": "And one of them that I offered the resolution on, [PERSON] , murdered a correctional officer while he was in prison for life. Giving these 37 depraved murderers life in prison without the possibility of parole doesn't solve the problem; it creates 37 new potential problems--open hunting season on correctional officers at every facility where they are incarcerated. Again, that is why we have the death penalty for the murder of a correctional officer--because otherwise there is nothing for these depraved men to lose.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "37 depraved murderers, open hunting season on correctional officers, nothing for these depraved men to lose"}
{"id": "crec_004795", "text": "Plus, foreign production can be far less environmentally friendly than producing oil and gas here at home. One of the best things that we can do for our national security is to ensure that we have a stable, reliable, and affordable domestic energy supply. Fortunately, the [PERSON] administration is being supplanted by the [PERSON] administration, and I know that President [PERSON] is committed to reversing President [PERSON] 's anti-conventional energy policies and unleashing American energy production.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-8", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing domestic energy production as inherently better for 'national security' and 'environmental' standards while presenting foreign production as categorically inferior, combined with authority appeal to the incoming president's commitment"}
{"id": "crec_004840", "text": "He is confident, he is knowledgeable, and he should be confirmed quickly. We have a significant problem in our military with morale and with recruitment, and [PERSON] is the right person to address those issues of military readiness. The incoming administration is ready to act--ready to act and deliver on the historic mandate that President [PERSON] won in November.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "He is confident, he is knowledgeable...the right person to address those issues; incoming administration is ready to act and deliver on the historic mandate"}
{"id": "crec_002597", "text": "The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for: [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH106-4", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000692", "text": "16) to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009169", "text": "Well, when it comes to the environment, liberal politicians want to control what car we drive, what kind of stove we cook on, how long we can take in the shower. Yet they neglect our forests. They put up roadblocks to forest management tools that work.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizes liberal environmental positions as wanting to 'control what car we drive, what kind of stove we cook on' while claiming they 'neglect our forests' - presents a false choice between environmental regulations and forest management"}
{"id": "crec_000350", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The time of the gentleman has expired. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009354", "text": "Yesterday, I met with [PERSON] , the President-elect's nominee for CIA Director. I raised my concerns about some of his positions and challenged him to be rock-ribbed when it comes to the integrity of the CIA, a place where facts, not lies, must prevail for the security of America. I also told Mr. [PERSON] about my very grave concerns regarding the nomination of [ORG] for Director of [ORG] because I believe her tenure could be colossally disruptive to our intelligence Agencies, where so many thousands work so hard, and many risk their lives to protect us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "rock-ribbed when it comes to the integrity of the CIA, a place where facts, not lies, must prevail for the security of America"}
{"id": "crec_001529", "text": "[Pages [ORG] MEMBERS TO CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH74-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008697", "text": "He was spending too much. But if you take his 2014 levels, inflate them by population growth since then and inflation, using today's [ORG], [ORG], and interest, we would be spending $6.2 trillion this year. Pretty reasonable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "using selective metrics (2014 baseline with specific adjustments) to reframe spending as 'pretty reasonable' despite initial acknowledgment of overspending"}
{"id": "crec_008035", "text": "This was all known, by the way, at the time that this sort of use case for [ORG] was part of its potential. I wrote a letter, at the time, supporting the request for more launches, and we specifically cited the use in fighting wildfires as one reason why this is important. Nevertheless, at the time, just a couple of months ago, with this very clear bipartisan proposal supported by the military to allow SpaceX to do more launches, [ORG] rejected it and tried to stop SpaceX from increasing its launches, increasing its capacity to support our national security, to improve connectivity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'supported by the military' and 'national security' appeal to authority; 'rejected it and tried to stop' uses loaded framing of regulatory action"}
{"id": "crec_006891", "text": "He argued that many of the policies they would implement would be disastrous. But the fact of the matter is the American people have chosen. They did that on November 5 when they went to the polls and they gave President [PERSON] a substantial majority and even a mandate for a new direction in the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["bandwagon", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "American people have chosen... gave President a substantial majority and mandate"}
{"id": "crec_004809", "text": "Mr. President, now on the noms tomorrow, Mr. [PERSON] is not the only nominee testifying this week who must answer for a disturbing record. The number of people with disturbing records who have been nominated-- some of them are good nominees, but the number with disturbing records and histories--I don't think I can remember a time in history when we have had that many. Tomorrow, we will hear from a large collection of nominees, but let's focus on two: [PERSON] to serve as Director of OMB and [PERSON] to serve as Secretary of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'disturbing record' and 'disturbing records and histories' combined with claim that 'I don't think I can remember a time in history when we have had that many'"}
{"id": "crec_005658", "text": "In Altadena and northern Pasadena, the fire took our neighbors' lives and destroyed the structures that provided stability to countless families' hopes, dreams, and memories. The fire has destroyed over 7,000 structures; left 20,000 people homeless; forced numerous health centers to close; and burned schools, businesses, and community institutions to the ground. This is just one of six serious fires across Los Angeles, including the more than 23,000-acre Palisades fire.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH154-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "Emotionally charged phrases like 'took our neighbors' lives,' 'destroyed the structures that provided stability,' 'hopes, dreams, and memories' combined with repetitive destruction descriptions designed to evoke emotional response"}
{"id": "crec_009588", "text": "A bill to provide funding to [ORG] and local law enforcement agencies to combat auto theft and stolen automobile trafficking, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000591", "text": "RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS36-3", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000890", "text": "Children born in America to immigrant parents from all corners of the world and from all social conditions have been an enormous benefit to our country and, indeed, to my [ORG]. More than 47 million people living in the United States were born in another country, and another 16 million American children were born here to immigrant parents. Currently, more than 25 percent of all American children live in a household where at least one of their parents is an immigrant.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'enormous benefit to our country' - vague positive assertion without specific evidence or details"}
{"id": "crec_005994", "text": "This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 423, nays 1, not voting 9, as follows: [Roll No. 15] YEAS--423 [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) Cherfilus-[PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] [ORG] [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG] (PA) [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (ME) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TN) [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TX) Greene (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MD) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (OK) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (AR) [PERSON] (OR) [PERSON] (CO) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (SD) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (VA) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (PA) Leger [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (WV) [ORG] [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (WI) [PERSON] (WV) [PERSON] (IA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (KY) [PERSON] (VA) [ORG], [PERSON] , [PERSON] Sherrill [PERSON] (MO) [PERSON] (NE) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] Swalwell [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [ORG] [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] Velazquez [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG][ORG]) [PERSON] NAYS--1 [PERSON] NOT VOTING--9 [PERSON] (OH) Waltz Announcement by [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER] (during the vote).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170", "word_count": 574, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004640", "text": "Members are reminded to direct their remarks to the [ORG] and not to a perceived viewing audience.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008465", "text": "For 18 minutes, [PERSON] --that young woman in the prime of her life, with boundless potential--fought for her life against an assailant who never should have been in this country to begin with. The [PERSON] administration's open border policies served the criminal's depravity more than [PERSON] 's and her family's. In fact, they served the criminal every bit as much as they failed [PERSON] and her family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "graphic imagery of victim 'fought for her life,' characterization of immigration policy as enabling criminality, false choice between border policy and victim safety"}
{"id": "crec_006123", "text": "We are very proud of those, but we have so many other innovative things taking place: autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, defense technology, and more. This is why I sought a seat on [ORG], one of the best and most powerful committees on [ORG]. From my seat there, I will help advance the interests of our [ORG], particularly in energy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "innovative things taking place, one of the best and most powerful committees, advance the interests of our [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_004630", "text": "Every dime of foreign aid, if you said for the last 4 years and took 4 years of borrowing, it would cover 8 days, 8.2 days of debt. Those of you who get up in front of these mikes and say that if we got rid of foreign aid, we will balance the budget, even when I do the average of the last 4 years, it is just a little over 8 days of borrowing. It is hard when you get up in front of an audience at home and tell them the truth when it is not the same thing they heard 10 minutes earlier on a talk radio show or on a cable television show.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 117, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents' claims about foreign aid as false while setting up a misleading comparison (8 days of borrowing); implying bad faith by contrasting 'the truth' against what audiences hear elsewhere"}
{"id": "crec_006093", "text": "That is more than 30,000 football fields. Think about it. The pain, the suffering, the social, and the economic losses--from homes to businesses to churches and synagogues--have changed people's way of life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pain, the suffering, the social, and the economic losses--from homes to businesses to churches and synagogues--have changed people's way of life"}
{"id": "crec_001795", "text": "I believe that it was from the year 1967, and I think it was up to last year. That is a trillion dollars. Assuming that my numbers are a little bit off--maybe I didn't get the years exactly right--a trillion dollars is still a trillion dollars, and it was lost.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "repetition of 'a trillion dollars' and 'lost' to emphasize magnitude; 'lost' carries loaded negative connotation implying waste or mismanagement"}
{"id": "crec_005903", "text": "That is an issue that has long impaired our mutual investment opportunities, including the ability of the United States to shore up the semiconductor supply chain and fully capitalize on the potential of our partnership with Taiwan. Mr. [PERSON] , I don't need to remind my colleagues of the security challenges that we faced during the pandemic, when we dealt with the overwhelming supply chain issues, especially for semiconductor chips. That shortage led to sky-high prices for everyday items, and it impacted critical industries in healthcare, defense, and the technology sector.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "security challenges...overwhelming supply chain issues...sky-high prices...impacted critical industries in healthcare, defense"}
{"id": "crec_000968", "text": "Taxpayer dollars should never go to organizations that hate America or our values. It is pretty simple when you put it like that. To those who say that there is no alternative, that government is and always will be wasteful, I say look to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "organizations that hate America or our values; framing government waste as inevitable then presenting single alternative"}
{"id": "crec_004138", "text": "ELECTING MEMBERS TO CERTAIN STANDING COMMITTEES OF [ORG] [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , by direction of [ORG], I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004012", "text": "Since 2003, $2.7 trillion in improper payments have been made by Federal agencies. The DOGE Caucus will work tirelessly to address this issue, streamline operations, and ensure the government is working more effectively and efficiently for all Americans. I look forward to collaborating with my colleagues and advancing President [PERSON] 's agenda to rein in wasteful spending while we work efficiently to provide services and protect taxpayer dollars.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH120-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Loaded language: '$2.7 trillion in improper payments' frames the issue with charged language; Appeal to authority: invoking 'President [PERSON]'s agenda'; Glittering generalities: 'work tirelessly,' 'more effectively and efficiently,' 'protect taxpayer dollars' are vague positive terms without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_004373", "text": "28 is an assault on the safety of the trans community and our children. It puts hate and division over unity, and it undermines equality in this country. It has to stop.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing measure 28 as an 'assault' on safety and claiming it 'puts hate and division' uses inflammatory language to evoke fear and emotional response rather than substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_000835", "text": "[PERSON] spent $50 million to elect soft-on-crime prosecutors, including the partisan New York City district attorney [PERSON] . [PERSON] rewarded Soros for funding the lawyers who launched the legal attacks against his political opponent, President [PERSON] . In his final days in office now, [PERSON] is making America less safe, less prosperous, and more vulnerable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "soft-on-crime prosecutors, making America less safe, less prosperous, and more vulnerable"}
{"id": "crec_008086", "text": "PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], public bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 470. A bill to provide that the Secretary of [ORG] shall not issue an interim or final rule or Secretarial Amendment that includes an area or bottom closure in the South Atlantic for species managed under the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region until the South Atlantic Great Red Snapper Count study is complete and the data related to that study is integrated into the stock assessment; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 171, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004301", "text": "My request to my colleagues is to focus. Stop bullying children. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003992", "text": "Under the guidance of Head Coach [PERSON] , [PERSON] has competed at the highest levels, including representing the United States at [ORG] in Spain. Introduced to golf by her father, [PERSON] , she credits him with shaping her mental game, proving that family support is invaluable. Academically, [PERSON] shines as well, maintaining a stellar 4.377 [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "family support is invaluable"}
{"id": "crec_007437", "text": "Georgians served with Americans in the global war on terrorism. Sadly, Georgia faces a threat to its freedom. In October, a scheming dictator, backed by war criminal [PERSON] , [ORG], and the Iranian regime, rigged an election.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "scheming dictator, war criminal, rigged an election, threat to its freedom"}
{"id": "crec_001926", "text": "A bill to expand the seniors farmers' market program to include maple syrup; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 294.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008479", "text": "In fact, we have lost 85 in the time that I have been a U.S. Senator, since 2015. This includes deaths related to law enforcement assaults, gunfire, vehicular pursuits, and duty-related illnesses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing police deaths with emotionally charged terms like 'assaults' and listing specific causes to emphasize loss and tragedy"}
{"id": "crec_009044", "text": "The legacy she has built will continue to inspire future generations, enriching the cultural fabric of Kansas and beyond. As she celebrates this milestone, I take this moment to express my deep gratitude for the work she has done. It is individuals like [PERSON] who truly make our country great.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "legacy will continue to inspire future generations, enriching the cultural fabric; individuals like [PERSON] who truly make our country great"}
{"id": "crec_005889", "text": "At some point, America must wake up to what is happening. We cannot rely on an adversary to supply us with needed goods, and then they make the decision of what they will send us and what they will not send us. Our ally is Taiwan, and we need to have a stronger tie with them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "America must wake up to what is happening; adversary making decisions about what they send us"}
{"id": "crec_000864", "text": "Texans have been suffering under open borders and high prices for the last 4 years. Those who run businesses are facing burdensome regulations from the out-of-control regulatory regime. On top of this, as I mentioned, if Republicans fail to act swiftly to extend the expiring tax cuts, 62 percent of taxpayers will experience a tax increase--62 percent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "repetition"], "evidence": "Texans have been suffering under open borders and high prices; burdensome regulations; if Republicans fail to act swiftly...62 percent of taxpayers will experience a tax increase--62 percent (repeated for emphasis)"}
{"id": "crec_002994", "text": ". . I was able to participate in the creator rewards program.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006954", "text": "In fact, on Monday, [ORG]--a China social media app--became the No. 1 most downloaded app on the [ORG] app store. Is that the outcome that the law's supporters were seeking or thought about?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing a Chinese social media app becoming #1 as potentially problematic, combined with rhetorical questioning that casts doubt on the law's effectiveness"}
{"id": "crec_009179", "text": "We have seen massive mismanagement. Anybody watching the interviews with the Governor of California, the fire chief in California, the mayor of L.A. will say there has been massive mismanagement, gross incompetence by the elected leadership in California. This needs to change to protect the people who live there from the terrible mistakes in judgments of these elected officials.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "massive mismanagement, gross incompetence, terrible mistakes in judgments, needs to change to protect the people"}
{"id": "crec_006740", "text": "President-elect [ORG] often says tariffs won't affect Americans; it will hurt China and Mexico. But once the election was over, he acknowledged that he can't guarantee American families won't be affected by costs of tariffs. I am going to guarantee this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting 'won't affect Americans' with 'can't guarantee American families won't be affected' to suggest only two outcomes, combined with 'I am going to guarantee this' implying a clear solution without acknowledging complexity"}
{"id": "crec_006726", "text": "In 2017, during the first [ORG] administration, after the failed effort to take health insurance away from more than 20 million people and deprive all Americans of being protected from discrimination by insurance companies if they had preexisting conditions--and thank goodness that reconciliation effort failed when three Republicans joined Democrats to block that effort-- the [ORG] administration colleagues turned to the idea of tax reform. Democrats were very willing to work on deficit-neutral, pro-growth tax reform. But instead, Republicans chose: We don't want to have a committee process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "failed effort to take health insurance away from more than 20 million people and deprive all Americans of being protected from discrimination"}
{"id": "crec_002002", "text": ". . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing [ORG], and all other [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any [ORG] or Officer thereof.''", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-25", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004499", "text": "I am a proud resident of Florida's Space Coast, the launchpad for America's journey to the stars since the early days of [ORG]. This is not just our past. It is our future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "proud resident of Florida's Space Coast, the launchpad for America's journey to the stars"}
{"id": "crec_005063", "text": "4. All defense articles and services listed in this transmittal have been authorized for release and export to the Republic of Zambia.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009614", "text": "Mr. President, today, we have a new President. So I say congratulations to President [PERSON] . As we turn a new page from one administration to another, we can put a contentious campaign and all the negative rhetoric behind us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "turning a new page from one administration to another, putting contentious campaign behind us - appeals to unity and fresh beginnings"}
{"id": "crec_005589", "text": "CONGRESSIONAL RECORD United States of America American eagle (seal) PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 119th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g.,1407 is 2:07 p.m. Matter set in this typeface Indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (seal) recycle Printed on recycled paper. Vol.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH-FrontMatter-2", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006015", "text": "In addition, the preservation of certain property of [ORG] ([ORG]) held in the United States by United States financial institutions is of the utmost importance to addressing this national emergency and the welfare of the people of Afghanistan. Various parties, including representatives of victims of terrorism, have asserted legal claims against certain property of [ORG] or indicated in public court filings an intent to make such claims. This property is blocked under Executive Order 14064.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-5", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "national emergency and the welfare of the people of Afghanistan"}
{"id": "crec_004860", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS--Continued CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION [SPEAKER]. The [PERSON] lays before the Senate the certificate of election for [ORG]. The certificate, the [ORG] is advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001346", "text": "), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order in order to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13219 of June 26, 2001 (Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans), as amended by Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003 (Termination of Emergencies With Respect to Yugoslavia and [ORG] 13219 of June 26, 2001), and expanded in scope by Executive Order 14033 of June 8, 2021 ([ORG] the United States of Certain Persons Contributing to the Destabilizing Situation in the Western Balkans). The order is intended to provide additional prongs for targeting persons for designation under Executive Order 14033 and deter individuals from attempting to evade United States sanctions. This includes amendments to: add attempt as a basis for designation throughout the order; add a prong for leadership of membership in a sanctioned entity; add a prong for ownership or control of a sanctioned person; and add a prong for being a spouse or adult child of a sanctioned person.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-5", "word_count": 192, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008568", "text": "When I drove through Altadena just a few days ago, the destruction was complete--entire city blocks razed. Homes, small businesses, schools gone in just a few minutes like some post-apocalyptic scene. Driving around that area at night in which small fires still dotted the landscape amidst the rubble, it was hard to recognize what I was seeing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "destruction was complete, entire city blocks razed, post-apocalyptic scene, small fires still dotted the landscape"}
{"id": "crec_009161", "text": "3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. (a) Presentation Authorized.--The Speaker of [ORG] and [SPEAKER] of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a single gold medal of appropriate design in honor of wildland firefighters, collectively, in recognition of their strength, resiliency, sacrifice, and service to protect the forests, grasslands, and communities of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "strength, resiliency, sacrifice, and service to protect the forests, grasslands, and communities"}
{"id": "crec_007999", "text": "Well, that dream, despite the bullet of a lone assassin on April 4, 1968, did very much grow, thrive, and replicate itself as a dream not just for a race of people or group of people but as a dream for an entire Nation. I remember in 1980, as a young member of [ORG], petitioning the council to join with other local governments around the [ORG] to push for the establishment of a [PERSON] , Jr., holiday in our respective towns, cities, and hamlets. For years, every January 15, I, along with so many others, would drive from Baltimore to Washington to join civil rights leaders and recording artists like [PERSON] , The Last Poets, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , Congressman [PERSON] , and thousands of others, and we would rally right here on the steps of this Capitol, in the cold, in January, on the 15th of each year, again, to petition for the establishment of a [PERSON] , Jr., holiday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 168, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "references to the Capitol steps, national dream, and collective civic action to establish a national holiday"}
{"id": "crec_004710", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 386. A bill to require the United States Governor of, and [ORG] Director at, [ORG] to oppose an increase in the weight of the Chinese renminbi in [ORG] basket of the Fund, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003901", "text": "[SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG] . . .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009771", "text": "The result was announced--yeas 99, nays 0, as follows: [[ORG] Vote No. 8 Ex.] YEAS--99 [PERSON] Rochester [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] The nomination was confirmed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-3", "word_count": 123, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000369", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , imagine how much money a sweeping mandatory detention proposal like this will cost [ORG] at a time when Republicans are talking a big game about cutting budgets, but not this one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["whataboutism", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Republicans are talking a big game about cutting budgets, but not this one - uses contradiction to deflect and loaded term 'talking a big game'"}
{"id": "crec_002851", "text": "FOREST MISMANAGEMENT IN CALIFORNIA (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I am showing you what a managed forest looks like here and an unmanaged forest looks like here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006483", "text": "This bill would help reduce the chances of another tragedy like this one by requiring that illegal immigrants be detained when they are charged with theft-related crimes like the one for which [PERSON] 's killer was cited less than 5 months before he killed her. If this bill had been law then, [PERSON] might well be alive today. I hope to see this bill become law, and I hope that my Democrat colleagues are as committed to making it law as we are on this side of the aisle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-7", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing of tragedy and death to motivate support; 'killer,' 'killed her' used to emotionally charge the argument about immigration detention policy"}
{"id": "crec_007364", "text": "(c) Harm Defined.--For purposes of this section, a [ORG] or its residents shall be considered to have been harmed if such [ORG] or its residents experience harm, including financial harm in excess of $100.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS191", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005455", "text": "Determination of continuous presence and residence. Sec. 305.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001743", "text": "I rise in the name of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Today, as I rise, I am going to give two important reasons why Vice President [PERSON] presided over a Republican certification process earlier this week. Stated differently, I am going to give two important reasons why Democrats did not get the most electoral votes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["flag_waving", "repetition"], "evidence": "government of the people, by the people, and for the people; repeated emphasis on 'reasons why' and framing of electoral outcome"}
{"id": "crec_004183", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 3\\1/2\\ minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. [PERSON] ), the sponsor of this legislation. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , Scripture reminds us that, at the beginning of time, God created mankind as males and females, and He blessed them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Scripture reminds us that, at the beginning of time, God created mankind as males and females"}
{"id": "crec_004240", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. [PERSON] ) for the purpose of a colloquy. [SPEAKER]. Certainly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000420", "text": "Speeches don't do it. It sounds like an absolute echo of what you hear from our colleagues whenever there is an explosion of gun violence in any of our communities. We hear thoughts and prayers, lots of words, but no action.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "explosion of gun violence, thoughts and prayers with no action - characterizes speech as insufficient and ineffective in face of crisis"}
{"id": "crec_003969", "text": "Kansans stayed up through the night to make sure livestock had a chance of surviving or to guarantee that their equipment was ready to go by sunrise the next morning. Why on Earth would anyone do this, Madam Speaker? It is a special calling that many families in my district have answered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "special calling that many families in my district have answered"}
{"id": "crec_000435", "text": "How can you go back to a district and say that? In Texas, by the way, good news. With [ORG], you now have standing to sue [ORG] when they don't do this, when they don't enforce the laws on the books.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "emphasis on 'standing to sue' and 'enforce the laws on the books' - framing legal action as empowering while using 'good news' to positively frame the message"}
{"id": "crec_002224", "text": "No American should be harmed by those who shouldn't be here in the first place. [ORG] will empower the President and his administration to remove the dangerous criminals that currently roam our streets and threaten our citizens' safety. I would like to thank my colleague Senator [PERSON] for taking the lead on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "dangerous criminals that currently roam our streets and threaten our citizens' safety"}
{"id": "crec_009059", "text": "A bill to end the use of taxpayer funds for entities that perform, provide referrals for, or provide funding for, abortions, and for other purposes; to [ORG], [ORG], and Pensions. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 126. A bill to increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 4.3 percent, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000374", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006226", "text": "I said there are people out there who are saying that I don't believe in the dynamic impact of tax policy. That is false. I very much believe in the dynamic impact of tax policy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "attributing a claim about not believing in dynamic impact to critics, then refuting it rather than addressing what critics actually said"}
{"id": "crec_000649", "text": "We have our work cut out for us to help clean up the mess that President [PERSON] and Senate Democrats have left us from the last 4 years. I believe our first and most urgent task is to confirm President [PERSON] 's nominees for his [ORG]. The President won the election, and he is entitled to his team, absent extraordinary circumstances.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"The President won the election, and he is entitled to his team\" and \"mess that President [PERSON] and Senate Democrats have left us\""}
{"id": "crec_001457", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I remind my friends across the aisle that Americans are being held and tortured.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Americans are being held and tortured"}
{"id": "crec_001943", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal certain credits; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 311.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006544", "text": "He is going to champion American servicemembers and restore American military readiness. [PERSON] is going to bring the Pentagon back to what its mission should be: lethality, accountability, transparency, merit. The focus is going to be on military readiness, not social experiments and partisan policies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing military priorities as 'lethality' over 'social experiments and partisan policies' presents a false choice and uses loaded language to characterize certain military policies negatively"}
{"id": "crec_009794", "text": "Former Speakers of [ORG], the Honorable [PERSON] ; the Honorable [PERSON] , accompanied by Mrs. [PERSON] ; and the Honorable [PERSON] , accompanied by Ambassador [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] entered the Great Rotunda. Members of [ORG] [ORG], led by Majority Whip, the Honorable [PERSON] and Democratic Whip, the Honorable [PERSON] , entered the Great Rotunda. The Chair of [ORG], the Honorable Jared Polis, the Vice Chair of [ORG], the Honorable Kevin Stitt, and the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Honorable Muriel Bowser, entered the Great Rotunda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009045", "text": "Once again, congratulations, [ORG], on reaching this incredible milestone. Your contributions to the aviation industry and to our [ORG] will never be forgotten. I now ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing [PERSON] for all that she has accomplished, as well as in wishing her a happy 100th birthday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS224", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "incredible milestone, contributions...will never be forgotten, recognizing accomplishments"}
{"id": "crec_009095", "text": "It is about protecting the people, protecting our clean air. And as long as America lacks proper forest management, then we are going to continue to see terrible costly tragedies like what we are seeing today in California and we saw this past summer in Wyoming. With better forest management, we can lessen the damage of forest fires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "terrible costly tragedies like what we are seeing today in California and we saw this past summer in Wyoming"}
{"id": "crec_007442", "text": "I deeply appreciate the firefighters, first responders, and local leaders who have been working tirelessly to battle these fires. I was proud to join bipartisan Members of the California delegation in urging President [PERSON] to grant a major disaster declaration for our [ORG]. These funds are urgently needed to help families that have lost everything in the wake of these wildfires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH189-7", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "deeply appreciate the firefighters, first responders, and local leaders who have been working tirelessly"}
{"id": "crec_008929", "text": "[ORG] postal facilities. The [ORG] will not consider any legislation that would name a postal facility for a living person with the exception of bills naming facilities after former Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States, former Members of Congress over 70 years of age, former [ORG] or local elected officials over 70 years of age, former judges over 70 years of age, or wounded veterans. The [ORG] will not consider legislation that would name a postal facility unless it has the support of both Senators in the delegation of the state in which the facility is located.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 100, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002804", "text": "[PERSON] care impacts every congressional district across the country, regardless of whether it is red or blue or urban or rural. Our Members come from all over the country and have vastly different backgrounds and experiences. However, we all share one thing in common, and that is the commitment to finding solutions that aim to improve the lives of children in care.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-2", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "commitment to finding solutions that aim to improve the lives of children in care"}
{"id": "crec_001296", "text": "Gird up the first responders, the firefighters, the emergency medical personnel, and the rescue teams with Your strength. Be their shield and defender, that they may be effective agents in saving the imperiled. Arm their hands for the battle before them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH65-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "military metaphors like 'Gird up', 'Arm their hands for the battle' applied to first responders to evoke heroism and patriotic duty"}
{"id": "crec_009252", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 81. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007816", "text": "We want you to not just come in and help repair and clean up, which we will do, but, also, we want you to try to stop the damage that is being done to our forests. We actually want you to do something. There will be an opportunity, I think perhaps as early as next week, to vote on [PERSON] Fix Our Forests Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Want you to 'stop the damage' and 'do something' uses loaded language to create urgency; invoking a named act appeals to authority of legislation"}
{"id": "crec_001085", "text": "Then, with the taxation and IRS reform, we could rescind the $80 billion for IRS funding under the [ORG] act as well. Certainly, simplifying tax laws would be a great opportunity as well. Those are just a few.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "simplifying tax laws would be a great opportunity"}
{"id": "crec_002691", "text": "Res. 3. Concurrent resolution expressing support for the Geneva Consensus Declaration on [ORG] Family and urging that the United States rejoin this historic declaration; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "expressing support for...historic declaration and urging that the United States rejoin"}
{"id": "crec_004559", "text": "It is a fancy way of saying, we actually want a little higher interest for the risk. One of my predictions for 2025 is [ORG], which is the last of the three big rating services. I think we are going to get downgraded if we do this stuff without even an attempt to pay for some of it, offset some of it, modernize our costs in how we deliver services.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "we are going to get downgraded if we do this stuff without even an attempt to pay for some of it"}
{"id": "crec_000696", "text": "CONSTITUTING THE MINORITY PARTY'S [ORG] FOR THE ONE HUNDRED NINETEENTH CONGRESS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of [ORG]. 17, which was submitted earlier today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-4", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004711", "text": "By Ms. [PERSON] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 387. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to submit to Congress a report on available assistance to agricultural producers in the State of Texas that have suffered economic losses due to the failure of Mexico to deliver water; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000167", "text": "It was north of town, and it was a fairly low spot. So, oftentimes, the track was wet. To do our conditioning, particularly early in the season, we would run city blocks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002853", "text": "He said: We have done all this acreage. We have done all this work. He actually overstated the figure by five times.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-2", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004913", "text": "So each one of my colleagues is left with one simple question this week: What will you choose to protect--open borders or American families? To me, that is a pretty simple choice. It is time to fulfill the responsibility we have to the American people to protect the citizens of this country from criminals who would do them harm.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing choices ('open borders or American families') while framing immigration enforcement as protecting against 'criminals who would do them harm'"}
{"id": "crec_005065", "text": "EXECUTIVE MESSAGE REFERRED As in executive session [SPEAKER] laid before the Senate a message from the President of the United States submitting a treaty which was referred to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000433", "text": "[PERSON] from Texas, mother [PERSON] , and many others, were innocent women who were horrifically killed by illegal aliens, and their families are going to be mourning their loss of life for the rest of their lives. Violent criminals like the ones who committed this heinous act and others continue to pour over our border daily, which is why we desperately need to pass this act today. This legislation will protect American communities by requiring [ORG] to issue detainers, mandatory detention for those who are here illegally who also commit theft.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "innocent women who were horrifically killed by illegal aliens...Violent criminals...continue to pour over our border daily"}
{"id": "crec_006435", "text": "38: Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona and Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia. H.R. 45: Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006037", "text": "[PERSON] 's accolades speak for themselves. He is a member of five halls of fame, including [ORG], [ORG], BGA Hall of Fame, [ORG], [ORG], and being named Tennessee's [PERSON] of the Year 12 times. [PERSON] has now returned to [PERSON] as the lead play-by-play announcer for UT football and men's basketball games.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-5", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "member of five halls of fame and named Tennessee's [PERSON] of the Year 12 times"}
{"id": "crec_009904", "text": "We will be prosperous. We will be proud. We will be strong.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "prosperous, proud, strong - abstract positive values without specific policy details or evidence"}
{"id": "crec_007528", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , common sense dictates that if an illegal alien is in our country and commits a sex offense or domestic violence, they should be deported immediately. Common sense dictates that if an alien is at the border and has committed these kinds of egregious crimes in their past, they should not be allowed to take one step onto American soil. Anything short of this standard is a complete and utter failure to protect American women and girls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "focuses on sex offenses and domestic violence to invoke fear; uses 'complete and utter failure to protect American women and girls' with emotionally charged language; presents only two options (immediate deportation or failure to protect)"}
{"id": "crec_008146", "text": "A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to make certain adjustments to the royalty rates for leases for oil and gas extraction on Federal land, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008369", "text": "The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007421", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution ([PERSON] . 27) was agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS196-2", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008719", "text": "This is the metric. We talk about all kinds of things. That is the metric.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000697", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution ([PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-4", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004779", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, Dr. [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, speak to our lawmakers and fill them with bright memories, holy commitments, and deep resolve. May their bright memories remind them of the way You have guided and protected this Nation throughout the seasons of its history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-2", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of 'Lord God of hosts' and 'bright memories' of nation's history to inspire lawmakers"}
{"id": "crec_007002", "text": "Let's send a clear signal to Beijing that America's national security is going to take priority. Let's stand strong. Let's remember, we passed this law for a reason, and it is to keep Americans safe, and, therefore, I object.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "America's national security...keep Americans safe"}
{"id": "crec_009770", "text": "There is a sufficient second. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The legislative clerk called the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS251-3", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002030", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 251. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: The constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, specifically clause 1 and clause 18.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH92-9", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005768", "text": "Be merciful to those, O Lord, who remain fearful in the surround of danger. Be merciful to those who feel helpless and hopeless before the great power of fire and wind. Be merciful to those who have lost hearth and home, who seek refuge for their bodies and their souls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "fearful in the surround of danger, helpless and hopeless, great power of fire and wind, lost hearth and home"}
{"id": "crec_007687", "text": "A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. Stated for: [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I was unable to vote today as the last vote timed out.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002652", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Ms. [PERSON] ): H.R. 340. A bill to direct the Secretary of [ORG] carry out activities to streamline regulatory oversight of human cell and tissue products, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004644", "text": "Depositions may continue from day to day. 2. Consultation with the ranking minority member shall include three days' notice before any deposition is taken.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000012", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 3 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 3 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008455", "text": "I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough, trained and proficient in my warrior tasks. Our troops follow these words every day as we ask them to do the hardest thing imaginable. We ask them to leave their families, to potentially never hold their spouses' hands again, to maybe never get to see their babies take their first steps.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing military service as requiring extreme sacrifice ('never hold their spouses' hands again', 'never get to see their babies take their first steps') combined with self-description as 'disciplined' and 'warrior' to establish credibility"}
{"id": "crec_003965", "text": "When you answer the call to feed, fuel, and clothe the world, you are required to show up, even when the temperatures are far below freezing. My congressional district is one of the top agricultural producing districts in the country. It is home to more than 60,000 farms along with farmers, ranchers, feedlot managers, dairies, nutritionists, veterinarians, ethanol producers, ag lenders, and agribusiness owners who bring the agricultural ecosystem to life.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH118-2", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "phrases like 'call to feed, fuel, and clothe the world' and 'show up, even when the temperatures are far below freezing' use vague, emotionally appealing language about duty; listing numerous agricultural roles and 'top producing districts' uses patriotic framing of local agricultural contribution"}
{"id": "crec_001536", "text": "[SPEAKER] read the title of the bill. [SPEAKER]. The question is on the passage of the bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002697", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 36. A resolution amending the Rules of [ORG] to establish [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH109-5", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007741", "text": "Look at where the money has gone in the past decade.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-6", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006911", "text": "The cheaper it is to hire guest workers, the more money the multibillionaire owners of large corporations make. In other words, this program is not only grossly unfair to American workers; in many ways, it is unfair to foreign workers as well. According to [ORG], between 2022 and 2023, the top 30 companies using the [ORG] laid off 85,000 American workers while simultaneously bringing in over 34,000 guest workers from abroad.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterization of 'multibillionaire owners' making 'more money' combined with the statistic about layoffs paired with guest worker hiring to suggest corporate exploitation and threat to American workers"}
{"id": "crec_000168", "text": "A block would be like the equivalent of about a 400 repeat, and we would run a series of those. We would do our long warmup runs, and we would run city blocks. The other thing we would do is we would go down to the airport south of town.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007132", "text": "This property is blocked under Executive Order 14064. Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14064 with respect to the widespread humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and the potential for a deepening economic collapse in Afghanistan. [PERSON] , Jr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS184-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Executive Order 14064 cited as legal authority; 'humanitarian crisis' and 'deepening economic collapse' invoke fear of deteriorating conditions"}
{"id": "crec_009696", "text": "When a brutal crime is committed, as in the case of [PERSON] , we should respond. We have to respond. And we should stand with her family--as the Senator from Alabama has done--and her community and ensure that something like that never happens again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "emphasis on 'brutal crime' and repeated urgency ('we should respond. We have to respond') creates emotional appeal; 'stand with her family...as the Senator from Alabama has done' encourages alignment with authority/group action"}
{"id": "crec_006760", "text": "It was one of these handwritten things. I thought it was a typo because the companies were only asking for 28 percent. Then I looked further in this massive bill, and I realized that all the individual tax cuts were tiny, temporary, and expiring rather than being big and permanent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "calling the bill 'massive' and describing tax cuts as 'tiny' uses evaluative language to frame the tax policy negatively"}
{"id": "crec_008511", "text": "Liberal DAs and politicians didn't do anything to stop it. It was absolute anarchy--total chaos orchestrated by leftwing politicians, the media, and antifa thugs. Meanwhile, the media tried to manufacture a scandal because President [PERSON] held up a Bible in front of a historic church, while the rioters burning the city of DC were ignored.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "describing situation as 'absolute anarchy--total chaos' while dismissing media coverage of Bible photo as 'manufactured scandal' creates loaded framing; 'whataboutism' by pivoting to rioters to deflect from Bible incident criticism; 'false_dichotomy' by presenting only two opposing narratives with no middle ground"}
{"id": "crec_000647", "text": "The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006221", "text": "The American people expect us to be adults. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. You cannot just go straight to the dessert of going home to your constituents and saying, I cut your taxes, aren't you proud?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "You cannot have your cake and eat it too...You cannot just go straight to the dessert"}
{"id": "crec_007807", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentleman for allowing me to join this Special Order today and discuss this horrid and tragic situation in Southern California, truly a national emergency. Note that I call this a national emergency.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'horrid and tragic situation' and 'national emergency' used to amplify severity and urgency"}
{"id": "crec_002622", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas. Committee on [ORG]' Affairs: Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] -[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Virginia, Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000474", "text": "EC-4. A letter from the [PERSON] Deputy Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting [ORG]: DDTC 24- 108; to [ORG]. EC-5.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001321", "text": "His groundbreaking work celebrated the diverse stories of the borderland, intertwining the heritage of indigenous, Mexican, Spanish, Anglo, and Fort Bliss communities through music, dance, and drama. His passion turned [ORG]! El Paso into an iconic tradition that has captivated audiences, inspired pride in our shared history, and has united our community.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-4", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "groundbreaking work, iconic tradition, inspired pride in our shared history, united our community"}
{"id": "crec_004076", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , we are all watching the ferocious Palisades, Eaton, Altadena, and [ORG] fires expand along California's beautiful Coast. I can recall my many trips there. Surely we all love the Tournament of Roses Parade and the magic of Hollywood.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "ferocious fires, California's beautiful Coast, Tournament of Roses Parade and the magic of Hollywood"}
{"id": "crec_002614", "text": "It was only fitting to reach this milestone in the gymnasium that bears his name. That feat is not just about winning basketball games. Coach [PERSON] has helped countless young men and women develop over nearly half a century, helping to ensure their athletic, academic, and personal success.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-4", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "helped countless young men and women develop... athletic, academic, and personal success"}
{"id": "crec_009576", "text": "PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], public bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows: By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a deduction for certain amounts received as a bonus; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH231", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001187", "text": "This proposed sale will support the foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a major ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in the Indo-Pacific region. The proposed sale will improve Japan's capability to meet current and future threats by defending its homeland and U.S. personnel stationed there. Japan will have no difficulty absorbing these articles and services into its armed forces.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invokes 'foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States' and describes ally as 'force for political stability and economic progress'"}
{"id": "crec_005879", "text": "There is a solution, which is the legislation before us today. Specifically, this bill reduces the withholding of taxes and lays the groundwork for [ORG] to finalize the details of a permanent arrangement, based on the model income tax treaty that we have with scores of other countries, to mitigate double taxation, prevent abuse, allow for dispute resolution, and exchange key tax information that will help revenue authorities in both jurisdictions. This bill would ensure that our [ORG] can take full advantage of the historic investments that we have made under the [PERSON] -[PERSON] administration, like the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "historic investments, bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act"}
{"id": "crec_007042", "text": "They could have found a buyer and written a contract that way-- absolutely. They didn't have to make this a ban. And with regard to my colleague from Massachusetts' other point, I did offer a proof point based upon data here in the United States about how [ORG] pushes a Chinese [ORG] agenda to push their propaganda.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing organizational actions as pushing 'Chinese agenda' and 'propaganda' uses loaded language to frame the organization negatively while appealing to fear about foreign influence"}
{"id": "crec_007471", "text": "He is a longtime supporter of the Brainerd Lakes Area Walk to End Alzheimer's and works as a member of the [PERSON] service organization. Additionally, every Thanksgiving, he volunteers to serve meals at the local legion. As [PERSON] enters retirement, I hope he finds time to enjoy everything he loves about [ORG], which includes his loving family, his fellow members of The District cover band, [ORG], and the tight-knit community he helped shape.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001613", "text": "Their equipment helps pave the roads, build the bridges, and support the energy projects that power not just our [ORG], but the entire country. They are not just part of the Texas story. They will help them write it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-4", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "pave the roads, build the bridges, power the entire country, write the Texas story"}
{"id": "crec_002363", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 44. A bill to direct [ORG] on the [PERSON] to procure a statue of [PERSON] for placement in the United States Capitol; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 45.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008406", "text": "How did it happen? President [PERSON] did it. With [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] on America's team, we are going to do it again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "we are going to do it again"}
{"id": "crec_000190", "text": "We acknowledge and thank all of the [ORG] staff who stayed late into the night to restore order and clean the wreckage left behind by the rioters. They did their job without fanfare, without complaint, and away from the spotlight. They join our first responders as the unsung heroes of our democracy--every one.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "unsung heroes of our democracy, without fanfare, without complaint"}
{"id": "crec_000827", "text": "This is vindictive and an illegal violation of U.S. law. [PERSON] and Democrats let more than 10 million illegal immigrants cross our border illegally into our country. Among them, we know, were over 300 individuals on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "describes actions as 'vindictive and illegal violation,' presents choice between [PERSON]/Democrats' border policy and security threats, uses inflammatory language about 'illegal immigrants' and security watchlist individuals to provoke fear"}
{"id": "crec_000043", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote from the State of Texas seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 40 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 40 votes for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006136", "text": "This legislation, which I am proud to cosponsor, sends a clear message: Female athletes deserve fair competition, secure locker rooms, and a safe and level playing field. Thanks to House Republicans, the days of biological men competing in women's sports are over. This legislation is about restoring common sense.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Female athletes deserve fair competition, secure locker rooms, and a safe and level playing field"}
{"id": "crec_008112", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 494. A bill to amend the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 to make improvements to [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG], and Technology.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001491", "text": "This is an unacceptable attack against our greatest ally, and the United States must make it clear that those who participate in these illegitimate prosecutions from the [ORG] are subject to the strongest possible sanctions. America needs leadership, and this is where we need it. Mr. [PERSON] , I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand with Israel and to vote for H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "unacceptable attack against our greatest ally, America needs leadership, stand with Israel"}
{"id": "crec_006473", "text": "Remember, [ORG] has pledged to destroy the Jewish people in their homeland. Now, that happens to be real genocide. Israel's accusers cite large civilian casualty numbers traced to [ORG]'s self-reporting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS159-5", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pledged to destroy the Jewish people in their homeland; real genocide"}
{"id": "crec_001930", "text": "A bill to prohibit the availability of Federal funds to institutions of higher education that conduct painful biomedical research on dogs and cats; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 298.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002947", "text": "They unlawfully broke into the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power. What they did is a serious crime. There is no gray area here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "use of emotionally charged terms like 'unlawfully broke into' and 'serious crime' to characterize actions without presenting counterarguments"}
{"id": "crec_001480", "text": "The legislative bodies of these countries could also be sanctioned for appropriating funds for the ICC. By some interpretations, interparliamentary travel to Europe could become a sanctionable activity. Did anybody think this through?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "doubt"], "evidence": "interparliamentary travel to Europe could become a sanctionable activity...Did anybody think this through?"}
{"id": "crec_001558", "text": "Although her presence will be missed in Congress, I look forward to seeing the incredible impact she will have in her new role as Governor of Puerto Rico.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "incredible impact"}
{"id": "crec_004457", "text": "To read the complete bill text go to: http://democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/download/fair-play- for-women-act-bill-text ========================= END NOTE ========================= [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit. The question is on the motion to recommit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008797", "text": "And now, under this bill, that adult has to be locked up--no flexibility on the front end--even though it turns out that they did not steal the tool; they had nothing in their bag that they had with them. The officer thought they did; they didn't. They never get charged.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "that adult has to be locked up--no flexibility on the front end"}
{"id": "crec_004273", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , just another reminder that this bill is a blanket ban that treats every age student in every sport the same. I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000286", "text": "In this case, the murderer was paroled into this country through a shocking abuse of this power by the [PERSON] administration. He was repeatedly arrested for theft and other crimes in sanctuary jurisdictions and each time released back onto our streets. Just months before [PERSON] murder, this murderer was arrested for theft, but he was released.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "murderer was paroled...shocking abuse of this power...released back onto our streets"}
{"id": "crec_002482", "text": "I look forward to the Senate taking up this bill, given how important it is with the massive natural disasters that we are seeing. I certainly hope that we in Congress fund the IT infrastructure so that we can get this done and get this done quickly. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "massive natural disasters that we are seeing"}
{"id": "crec_004929", "text": "And that was, I might emphasize, for all earners. That drop was even higher, more steep and more devastating, for America's working people and for America's working families. The fact of the matter is there is no such thing as a family wage any longer, not in this economy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "more steep and more devastating, for America's working people"}
{"id": "crec_008530", "text": "It is time to get this war over with. The Senate needs to support President [PERSON] and exert maximum pressure on Iran and other terrorist organizations wreaking havoc on the Middle East and the West. We also need to join President [PERSON] 's commitment on shrinking [ORG] through strong congressional action.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Support for President's authority ('The Senate needs to support President'), fear-inducing language ('terrorist organizations wreaking havoc'), and loaded terms ('terrorist organizations', 'wreaking havoc')"}
{"id": "crec_005058", "text": "The purchaser typically requires offsets. Any offset agreement will be defined in negotiations between the purchaser and the contractor. Implementation of this proposed sale will not require the assignment of any additional [ORG] or contractor representatives to Zambia.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002594", "text": "AMTRAK EXECUTIVE BONUS DISCLOSURE ACT [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 192) to amend title 49, United States Code, to require [ORG] to include information on base pay and bonus compensation of certain [ORG] executives, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH106-4", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007709", "text": "Outside of her bark and her bite, she was a comforting presence for officers in tense situations and offered a sense of security when things got difficult. Yakima County is safer because of Zuza, and I thank Deputy Ward for his commitment to her handling and to the safety of our communities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-5", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006782", "text": "So I am going to start off by holding up this report that says that almost 60 percent of the benefit of extending the Republican tax policies will go to the top 0.1 percent of the wealthiest in America-- 0.1 percent of the wealthiest in America--and I am not talking about the other 99.9 percent. Now let's define how much money people who are in the top 0.1 percent in America are making. They are doing very well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "holding up this report... 60 percent of the benefit... will go to the top 0.1 percent... I am not talking about the other 99.9 percent"}
{"id": "crec_005361", "text": "SA 45. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 46.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000544", "text": "175: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Alabama, and Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland. H.R. 176: Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008799", "text": "They have to be locked up under this bill. So we are not just talking about an impact in this bill on immigrant children. We are talking about an impact on citizen children.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "They have to be locked up under this bill...impact on citizen children"}
{"id": "crec_000263", "text": "Dr. [PERSON] was a renowned professor at [ORG] with an impressive 35-year teaching career at the school. He taught math and coached tennis at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta, [ORG], and [ORG]. Dr. [PERSON] was an All-American tennis player during his time at Georgia Tech and earned a spot in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004609", "text": "Remember, today's worker pays for today's beneficiary. Even when we do the adjustments for net immigration, you pick up a couple more decades. Think about that, living in a society with more deaths than births in 8 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "living in a society with more deaths than births in 8 years"}
{"id": "crec_006161", "text": "Never in a million years did I think that one day I would need to take the floor of [ORG] to defend their right to compete in athletic competitions without unfair competition from biological males or to denounce acts of violence perpetrated against them as wrong and deserving of punishment, but here I stand. Just yesterday, we passed H.R. 28, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "unfair competition from biological males and acts of violence perpetrated against them"}
{"id": "crec_002450", "text": "[SPEAKER]. In the opinion of the [ORG], two-thirds being in the affirmative, the ayes have it. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008551", "text": "Because a recovery isn't just a California fight. We are truly in this together as Americans. Whether it is wildfires across the Western United States or tornados in the Midwest, ice storms in Texas, or hurricanes in the Southeast, [PERSON] does not distinguish between red States and blue States and neither should our disaster response efforts or our recovery efforts.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "We are truly in this together as Americans; does not distinguish between red States and blue States"}
{"id": "crec_006021", "text": "PROVIDING FOR ATTENDANCE OF THE HOUSE AT THE INAUGURAL CEREMONIES OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. [SPEAKER] read the resolution, as follows: [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001678", "text": "I think they are somewhere now in the $900 billion range of the $36 trillion in debt we have. Remember, about $28 trillion, $29 trillion of that is what we sell off to the market. The other we borrow internally.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing large debt figures with dramatic framing like '$900 billion range' and '$36 trillion in debt' to evoke concern about scale"}
{"id": "crec_006893", "text": "I have been amazed to listen on television and hear in-person for the last--however it has been--hour, Democratic colleagues who came to the floor to speak, but they didn't talk about the pending business, [ORG]. This young woman was killed by an illegal immigrant who should not have been in the country. I asked [PERSON] , who is the nominee for Attorney General, this morning during her confirmation hearing, I said: If President [PERSON] and [PERSON] had secured the border, do you think [PERSON] would still be alive?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "This young woman was killed by an illegal immigrant who should not have been in the country"}
{"id": "crec_006143", "text": "The taxpayers are footing the bill for an ever-expanding list of unbelievable benefits that are being given to illegal immigrants. From healthcare to education, sex changes, homes, the whole works, California is pouring resources into supporting those here illegally while our own citizens, as we mentioned, are struggling with many things in burning communities, as well as the more day-to-day stuff: overcrowded schools, strained healthcare systems, and increasing public safety concerns with gangs, crime, and on and on. We have sanctuary policies statewide, not just in cities, like we see around the country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "taxpayers footing the bill for unbelievable benefits; implies either support illegal immigrants or support citizens (false choice); crime, gangs, and public safety concerns create fear association"}
{"id": "crec_003051", "text": "MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT A message from the President of the United States was communicated to the Senate by Mrs. [PERSON] , one of his secretaries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001729", "text": "Why is that harder? I still can't get my head around why that is harder. Once again, the single chart that makes people most angry, and it is already 1 year out of date, the numbers right now are much worse, [ORG] predicts that deficits of $115 trillion over 2024 to 2054, [ORG], [ORG], $124 trillion deficit, the rest of the budget has a $9 trillion surplus.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "makes people most angry... numbers right now are much worse... $115 trillion... $124 trillion deficit"}
{"id": "crec_009950", "text": "Hon. [PERSON] , Vice President of the United States, Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS258", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003687", "text": "1129. DISCLOSURES AND [ORG]. (a) In General.--The Secretary may not disclose or use information provided in an application for certified agricultural worker status or adjustment of status under this title (including information provided during administrative or judicial review) for the purpose of immigration enforcement.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001348", "text": "ILLEGITIMATE COURT COUNTERACTION ACT [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , pursuant to House Resolution 5, I call up the bill (H.R. 23) to impose sanctions with respect to [ORG] engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "ILLEGITIMATE COURT COUNTERACTION ACT; 'protected person' framing; invocation of House Resolution 5 as authoritative basis"}
{"id": "crec_006918", "text": "Become a scientist. Become an engineer. Become a mathematician,'' whatever, and then we bring in people from abroad to fill the jobs they were educated to do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "The rhetorical setup contrasts education efforts with jobs being filled by foreigners, using 'whatever' dismissively and implying waste/unfairness to create concern about jobs and resources"}
{"id": "crec_009669", "text": "Do you think the drug cartels, all of a sudden, say: Hey, I am going to leave them alone. No, that is not what happens. What happens is each and every one of those kids becomes a greater target.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "drug cartels targeting kids, characterizing them as 'greater target' to evoke fear of harm"}
{"id": "crec_007531", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004891", "text": "The American people elected President [PERSON] as the next leader of our country. Now, it is time for the Senate to do our job by making sure that the President has the team he needs to do that job, and I intend to do everything I can to see that his nominees are confirmed on a timely basis. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006567", "text": "They are supporting and enabling terrorism against Israel, and we need to realize this. This is why President [PERSON] canceled U.S. funding to the agency during his first administration, and it is why President [PERSON] 's decision in 2021 to restore that funding--over $730 million that year-- was a huge mistake. After the October 7 attack, I led the charge in introducing legislation to defund [ORG], and, in March of last year, President [PERSON] finally signed into law a 1-year ban on that funding.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "President [PERSON] canceled U.S. funding...President [PERSON] finally signed into law; 'supporting and enabling terrorism'"}
{"id": "crec_000535", "text": "26: Mrs. [PERSON] . H.R. 27: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Kentucky.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008981", "text": "She was an institution of congressional oversight. During nearly three decades in the Senate, [PERSON] drove some of the [ORG]'s most significant investigations and, thereafter, was a force behind the [PERSON] Center for Oversight and Democracy for a decade. There, she relentlessly promoted bipartisan, fact-based oversight.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS222-2", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "relentlessly promoted bipartisan, fact-based oversight"}
{"id": "crec_000839", "text": "[PERSON] shelf life has expired. It is time for him to go. In our first days in office, Republicans have started to get America back on track.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "'shelf life has expired' - dehumanizing metaphor; 'Republicans have started to get America back on track' - assumes collective action and positive inevitability"}
{"id": "crec_008038", "text": "They were in an area that had been identified as having an elevated fire risk. As a very important project, these wooden poles, 100 years old in a high-risk area, they were replacing them with steel and with more fire-resistant materials. As [ORG] explained, the goal of the project was to improve fire safety for the Pacific Palisades area by replacing those wooden poles with steel.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002206", "text": "Had that been the case, [PERSON] 's family and [PERSON] herself would have faced a very different reality. They would be celebrating a birthday, not approaching the 1- year anniversary of her murder. [ORG] will help prevent other families from experiencing this unimaginable heartache.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting 'celebrating a birthday' with 'approaching the 1-year anniversary of her murder' and describing 'unimaginable heartache' to evoke emotional distress"}
{"id": "crec_001749", "text": "Don't be afraid of the dark. Then, near the last stanza, the words are: Walk on, walk on through the winds of life. I am paraphrasing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005789", "text": "UPLIFTING AND EMPOWERING OUR SKILLED WORKFORCE ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise to recognize the uplifting and empowering of our skilled workforce.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "uplifting and empowering of our skilled workforce"}
{"id": "crec_007039", "text": "That is inaccurate. The law that was passed, as my colleague pointed out, was about foreign adversaries and required [ORG] to be sold to an American owner. If it had been sold, [ORG] could continue to be in operation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "Misrepresents the opposing argument by clarifying what the law actually required rather than addressing what was claimed against it"}
{"id": "crec_005729", "text": "This is what the snail darter actually looks like because it doesn't exist as its own. This is what they are doing in southern California. I just showed you the picture of the fires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claims the snail darter 'doesn't exist as its own' and suggests deception about California fires"}
{"id": "crec_005011", "text": "[SPEAKER]. If the Senator from Arkansas wants to police the use of pardon power, I urge him to instead support my resolution urging President-elect [PERSON] not to pardon crimes committed during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Even our former Senate colleague Vice President-elect [ORG] said this week: If you committed violence on [January 6], obviously you shouldn't be pardoned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Even our former Senate colleague Vice President-elect [ORG] said this week: If you committed violence on [January 6], obviously you shouldn't be pardoned."}
{"id": "crec_004561", "text": "We just want a good dopamine hit on social media, but don't give a damn about the math. The fact of the matter is most of the industrialized world today has a better credit rating. You see it not by the credit rating services but by the way they can sell their debt cheaper than the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "don't give a damn about the math, better credit rating, sell their debt cheaper"}
{"id": "crec_008366", "text": "Should the time come that some of these nominees fail on the job, the hearings we are holding right now will come back to haunt our Republican colleagues because the warnings will have been there from the start. By asking tough questions, by getting nominees on the record, by establishing that many of these individuals are unfit, these hearings will have been the canary in the coal mine that warns everyone that some of these nominees are too great a risk. So Democrats will continue to uphold our responsibility to scrutinize each nominee on the issues Americans care about.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "warnings will have been there from the start; canary in the coal mine; too great a risk"}
{"id": "crec_006055", "text": "In 2016, [PERSON] worked for President [PERSON] , helping to secure a historic victory. In 2020, she served as an elector to our electoral college, helping to assign our States' nine votes to President [PERSON] . [PERSON] 's personality was infectious.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "worked for President, historic victory, served as elector, infectious personality"}
{"id": "crec_007685", "text": "This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 274, nays 145, not voting 15, as follows: [Roll No. 17] YEAS--274 [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (CO) [PERSON] , [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (ME) [PERSON] ([ORG]) Gonzales, [PERSON] , [PERSON] (TN) Greene (GA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MD) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (OK) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (AR) [PERSON] (CO) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (SD) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (VA) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] (NV) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (WV) [ORG] (AL) [PERSON] (NC) [PERSON] (UT) [PERSON] (WV) [PERSON] (IA) [PERSON] (NY) [PERSON] (AL) [PERSON] (KY) [PERSON] , [PERSON] (MO) [PERSON] (NE) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] Swalwell [PERSON] (PA) [ORG] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] NAYS--145 [PERSON] (LA) [PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) Cherfilus-[PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] (PA) [PERSON] [ORG] (PA) [PERSON] [ORG], [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] , Al ([ORG]) [PERSON] (OR) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (GA) [PERSON] (IL) [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] (PA) Leger [PERSON] (WI) [PERSON] Sanchez [PERSON] (VA) [PERSON] , [PERSON] (WA) [PERSON] (CA) [PERSON] (MS) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] Velazquez [PERSON] (GA) NOT VOTING--15 [PERSON] (OH) [PERSON] (FL) Announcement by [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER] (during the vote).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 576, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004859", "text": "Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Illinois.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002143", "text": "Extreme weather events will continue to happen regularly and will get worse if we don't tackle the climate crisis head-on. We pray for the people of Southern California, and we thank all of our brave first responders working without rest to keep people safe. [PERSON] Mr. President, on today's vote, this afternoon, the Senate is going to hold its first procedural vote on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Extreme weather events will continue to happen regularly and will get worse if we don't tackle the climate crisis head-on"}
{"id": "crec_006407", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH186-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution"}
{"id": "crec_004177", "text": "It opens the door to inspection, not protection, of women and girls in sports. Will students have to undergo exams to prove they are a girl? We are already seeing examples of harassment and questioning of girls who may not conform to stereotypical feminine roles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Opens the door to inspection...harassment and questioning of girls who may not conform to stereotypical feminine roles"}
{"id": "crec_000893", "text": "What happened to crime during that period as the percentage of immigrants in the United States doubled? During this time, the crime rate in this country--as measured by crimes committed per 100,000 people--had fallen by 60 percent. So, again, as the portion of our population that is immigrant has more than doubled, the crime rate in our country has fallen by more than 60 percent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007105", "text": "He most recently began volunteering with the baseball team at [ORG]. Heath has helped hundreds of young people learn life lessons through participating in sports. Despite the huge time commitment that comes with being a coach, Heath finds all the long hours worthwhile.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS183-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002576", "text": "She prayed for [PERSON] . I don't know if it did any good, Mr. [PERSON] . I know it doesn't have anything to do about the bill, but I just think America needs to know about these things.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008389", "text": "Cabinet Nominations [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, I come to the floor today having been in a number of hearings involving President [PERSON] 's nominees overseeing American energy dominance. I tell you, President [PERSON] 's energy nominees show that this administration that is coming in, the [PERSON] - [PERSON] administration, is serious about unleashing affordable, available, reliable American energy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "unleashing affordable, available, reliable American energy and American energy dominance"}
{"id": "crec_004829", "text": "We passed [ORG] to support working families and businesses and address the public health crisis. This law deployed vaccines to millions of Americans and normalcy returned. In 2020, the world economy was in shambles due to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'normalcy returned' and 'world economy was in shambles' use emotionally charged framing to contrast outcomes"}
{"id": "crec_008118", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Washington, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Connecticut, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of California, Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Illinois, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 500.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006095", "text": "[ORG] WILDFIRES ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , my name is [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002613", "text": "For 45 years, Coach [PERSON] has led the Elk County Catholic High School basketball teams, beginning as the girls' head coach before taking over the boys' program in 1983. Earlier this year, Coach [PERSON] made history after celebrating his thousandth career win. Few basketball fans have witnessed this moment in Pennsylvania, as [PERSON] is believed to be just the third scholastic basketball head coach in [ORG] history to achieve this accomplishment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH108-4", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004819", "text": "It is like putting a fox in the henhouse. If you believe in clean energy, you couldn't have a worse nominee. If confirmed, will Mr. [PERSON] fight to lower costs for American consumers or will he fight to help the bottom line of polluters and oil companies?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing outcomes without middle ground ('fight to lower costs' vs 'fight to help polluters'); uses loaded metaphor 'fox in the henhouse' and charged language 'polluters and oil companies'"}
{"id": "crec_008616", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from Washington.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009187", "text": "203. Categorical exclusion for high-priority hazard trees. [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 8, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006023", "text": "HONORING FORMER MINNESOTA SENATE MAJORITY LEADER [PERSON] DZIEDZIC ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the late former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172-2", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001784", "text": "Family reunification issues. This country has a history of keeping families together. We have strayed away from that history.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "appeals to national history and tradition ('this country has a history') combined with emotionally charged framing ('strayed away') about family values"}
{"id": "crec_001929", "text": "A bill to address the plea agreements for certain individuals detained at [ORG], Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 297.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001752", "text": "I was reminded of all that she did. She worked hard. She worked long hours.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001663", "text": "For the 2024 fiscal year, which has ended already, we spent $12.9 billion on the [ORG], or maybe it is in this fiscal year that is what we have appropriated. $12.9 billion is a lot of money. Let's just get rid of it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "$12.9 billion is a lot of money. Let's just get rid of it."}
{"id": "crec_004951", "text": "It allows them to claim tax relief for every child who they are raising as they go out there and they work their jobs. And I would just say to you, this is how it was meant to be. The child tax credit as it was proposed in its current form by that [ORG] in the 1990s, as it was proposed in the Contract with America back in 1994 was supposed to be credited against payroll taxes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "appeal to historical authority through references to 1990s proposals and Contract with America; 'this is how it was meant to be' invokes an idealized past standard"}
{"id": "crec_007960", "text": "The crops in San Joaquin Valley that I showed you are so important to people all across the whole country. There are people in my neighborhood that need it. Again, there is plenty of water.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "repetition"], "evidence": "emphasizing crops are 'so important to people all across the whole country' without specifics; repeating 'water' availability as vague reassurance"}
{"id": "crec_009356", "text": "Candidly, Mr. President, the truth is that many of the President- elect's nominees are just not fit for the job, not just Ms. [PERSON] . As we continue with hearings next week on important issues like [ORG] Ambassador, Secretary of [ORG], and Secretary of the [ORG], Democrats will continue to hold the President-elect's nominees' feet to the fire to show the American people who [PERSON] nominees are really fighting for.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "nominees are 'just not fit for the job' and Democrats will 'hold feet to the fire' to expose who nominees are 'really fighting for'"}
{"id": "crec_004473", "text": "The result of the vote was announced as above recorded. Stated for: [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , during Roll Call Vote No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH139", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000381", "text": "[SPEAKER] Carolina. Madam Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 29, [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007030", "text": "I voted for his legislation in December. I had my own online safety legislation. The difference is that [ORG] is influenced and controlled by [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["strawman", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Dismissing opponent's legislation by claiming their organization is 'influenced and controlled' rather than addressing the actual policy differences"}
{"id": "crec_007173", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 52. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007730", "text": "CELEBRATING GOODYEAR BLIMP CENTENNIAL ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , today, I rise to celebrate the birthday of a very important fixture of Ohio's 13th Congressional District, the country, and the world: the Goodyear Blimp.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-4", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001060", "text": "We have got to be able to get our spending under control. It is a risk to our country. We have got to get this under control, and we can do it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "It is a risk to our country; repeated emphasis on 'get our spending under control' and 'get this under control'"}
{"id": "crec_008954", "text": "Supplemental, Minority, and additional views. A Member of the [ORG] who gives notice of an intention to file supplemental, Minority, or additional views at the time of final [ORG] approval of a measure or matter shall be entitled to not less than 3 calendar days excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays in which the Senate is not in session, in which to file such views, in writing, with the chief clerk of the [ORG]. Such views shall then be included in the [ORG] report and printed in the same volume, as a part thereof, and their inclusion shall be noted on the cover of the report.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000799", "text": "According to one study by economists at [ORG], the richest 400 families paid a lower tax rate than the bottom half of U.S. households in 2018. The richest 400 families paid a lower rate than the bottom half of U.S. households in 2018--paid a lesser amount, I believe. There is nothing--nothing--pro-worker about cutting taxes for the wealthiest people in America, but that is precisely what Republicans are preparing to do as one of their first orders of business.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "repetition of 'paid a lower rate' and 'nothing--nothing--pro-worker'; loaded language 'nothing pro-worker'; false dichotomy framing tax cuts as either pro-worker or anti-worker with no middle ground"}
{"id": "crec_001674", "text": "You get your paycheck. You look at your paycheck. Here is what went to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing of tax deduction as money 'going to' an organization, creating negative emotional association"}
{"id": "crec_001479", "text": "As drafted, the leaders of these countries would be sanctioned for providing material assistance to the ICC. That is truly nuts. It doesn't make any sense to me.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "truly nuts"}
{"id": "crec_002504", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to speak in favor of H.R.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002124", "text": "May [PERSON] bless you, and may God protect you. I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006628", "text": "Republicans are working on legislation which will help accomplish all of these things and improve the security of our border, just like the American people expect. It will be too little, too late for the family of [PERSON] , though. Of course, she should still be with us today.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Reference to a deceased person's family and 'too little, too late' creates emotional distress; framing border security as responding to tragedy uses emotionally charged language to drive urgency"}
{"id": "crec_004531", "text": "Last Thursday, I think I took 38 minutes here, and the two concepts I was trying to walk through were, one, the demographics of the United States being the primary driver of U.S. debt--it is not that complicated, but it seems to really bother people--and the second thing was this concept called interest fragility. That is a big word. What it basically means is that when you have $36 trillion in debt, $28 trillion to $29 trillion publicly financed, and when, over a year, you are going to refinance almost $10 trillion, bring maybe $2 trillion to $2.3 trillion new issuances to market, that little movement in interest rates could be a boatload of cash.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 115, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002349", "text": "MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE At 2:08 p.m., a message from [ORG], delivered by Mrs. [PERSON] , one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has passed the following bill, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate: H.R. 23. An act to impose sanctions with respect to [ORG] engaged in any effort to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any protected person of the United States and its allies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77-4", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001924", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] of [ORG]; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] 292.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008898", "text": "I yield the floor. [SPEAKER]. The Senator from South Dakota.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004801", "text": "[ORG] NOMINATIONS [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, today, the Senate began holding hearings for the President-elect's nominees to serve in his [ORG]. This morning, [ORG] heard testimony from [PERSON] to serve as Secretary of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000145", "text": "The Republican coalition is broad and strong and growing. Now the work begins on delivering on our agenda. Mr. President, Republicans are ready to go.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-7", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "broad and strong and growing coalition; Republicans are ready to go"}
{"id": "crec_006772", "text": "Everyday folks. So you will have a compounding effect on everyday folks where they will not get tax relief. They may see their taxes increase.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "compounding effect on everyday folks where they will not get tax relief...may see their taxes increase"}
{"id": "crec_006843", "text": "Madam President, I would make the point to my friend from Massachusetts that when Democrats used reconciliation, we used the reconciliation process to do the Inflation Reduction Act and help everyone. The Inflation Reduction Act meant green jobs to red States, and it meant less pollution for everyone. The Republicans are teeing up to use reconciliation to help big CEOs, billionaires, and big corporations that are already doing amazingly well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasts Democrats helping 'everyone' with Republicans helping only 'big CEOs, billionaires, and big corporations,' presenting only two opposing outcomes without acknowledging other possibilities"}
{"id": "crec_005880", "text": "Because of that law, new chip fabs are under construction in places like Ohio and operational and producing chips in Arizona, but these factories are enormously complicated and expensive. Even with the billions of dollars in investments from [ORG], the math simply might not pencil out for a project if the company will be subject to double taxation as soon as they turn a profit. From major chip companies to small businesses in southern California and across the country, it is clear that mitigating double taxation between the U.S. and Taiwan is crucial.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001721", "text": "The deal is the deal is the deal when we sell a bond. As far as healthcare, once again, there is an army of lobbyists, once again, outside these walls, who will beat the absolutely living blank out of us when we ask them to modernize and actually use technology. Even our brothers and sisters here are often defending not the last decade, but the business models from the decade before that within healthcare.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'the deal is the deal is the deal' repetition; 'army of lobbyists' and 'beat the absolutely living blank out of us' conveys threat and fear of opposition"}
{"id": "crec_007029", "text": "But, more importantly, on this issue, the Senator is correct that [ORG] is not alone in causing harm for American kids. I agree with him. Other apps can result in eating disorders or depression or mental illness.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "eating disorders or depression or mental illness - emotionally charged terms used to describe potential harms without nuance or evidence"}
{"id": "crec_001390", "text": "Food is not getting in. Water is not getting in. Medicine is not getting in.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "repeated structure 'is not getting in' creates emphasis and urgency about humanitarian crisis"}
{"id": "crec_004377", "text": "[PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , never did I think that my first debate of this new Congress would be debating a Republican bill that empowers pedophiles and predators.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing a bill as one that 'empowers pedophiles and predators' uses inflammatory language designed to evoke strong negative emotions and fear"}
{"id": "crec_004949", "text": "So the challenge is: How do we deliver real and meaningful tax relief to these working-class families who are paying significant amounts of money in payroll taxes but yet don't qualify for those income tax deductions and benefits that higher earners get, like the home mortgage deduction, for instance. That only kicks in if you are at a certain level of income. For many working-class families, they don't qualify for those deductions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing tax system as unfairly excluding 'working-class families' while 'higher earners' receive benefits, using emotionally charged framing to present a particular policy perspective"}
{"id": "crec_001099", "text": "Additionally, the bill prohibits an [ORG] from issuing a major rule unless the [ORG] has repealed three or more rules and the cost of the new major rule is less than or equal to the cost of the rule that is being repealed. This would make Agencies think twice before promulgating new regulations, and because Agencies are addicted to the power that comes from regulating Americans, it could have the added benefit of stripping many regulations from the books altogether and freeing Americans from the bonds of overregulation. The second bill is called [ORG], which builds on [ORG] ruling in the [PERSON] case and the tearing down of the [ORG] deference that we have lived with for decades.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 126, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Agencies are addicted to the power that comes from regulating Americans; freeing Americans from the bonds of overregulation"}
{"id": "crec_004178", "text": "Will they be subject to demands for medical tests and private information? That is intrusive, offensive, and unacceptable, especially from a party of limited government. I want to be very clear: There are real problems harming women and girls in sports, but transgender students are not why.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing medical tests as 'intrusive, offensive, and unacceptable' uses loaded language; setting up a false dichotomy between acknowledging problems in sports and excluding transgender students misrepresents opposing arguments"}
{"id": "crec_001758", "text": "Who can deny that? Who can deny that they came here at the urging of the President of the United States of America and that their behavior was nothing near exemplary? Their behavior was shameful.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "their behavior was shameful, nothing near exemplary"}
{"id": "crec_009473", "text": "Hon. [PERSON] , Governor, [ORG] of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida. Dear Governor [PERSON] , I hereby submit notice of my irrevocable resignation as United States Representative of the 6th District of Florida, effective January 20th, 2025, in order to serve as President-Elect [PERSON] [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH225-6", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001403", "text": "Let me translate what was just said: It is not a priority for the people's House to do everything possible to get our people home, to include getting in the way of those who are getting in our way. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. [PERSON] ), the genesis of and the lead sponsor of this legislation. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "getting in the way of those who are getting in our way"}
{"id": "crec_005199", "text": "Removal of conditional basis of permanent resident status. [ORG]. 105.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008427", "text": "An analysis from [ORG] estimates that 40 percent of customers will be directly impacted by a rule with a net cost increase, since they will be required to buy a new electric water heater. The [ORG] notes that the households affected are largely low income and senior citizens on a fixed income, who are more likely to choose a cost-effective water heater that will now be banned under the rule. Of course, if people want to buy a more expensive water heater with their own money, I have no objection to that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "40 percent of customers will be directly impacted by a rule with a net cost increase; households affected are largely low income and senior citizens on a fixed income"}
{"id": "crec_004612", "text": "If we are going to keep growing, we have got to thread a needle here while jogging. We have got to manage the debt. We have got to convince the debt markets we are serious, so don't raise our interest rate because if interest rates go up a bunch, it is almost too late because we are carrying so much, our demographics are against us.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "if interest rates go up a bunch, it is almost too late because we are carrying so much, our demographics are against us"}
{"id": "crec_001517", "text": "Last Congress alone, I chaired four congressional hearings on how they are absolutely infiltrated by antisemitic personnel who on a daily basis go after Israel with such cruelty. Israel needs the ability to defend itself--and they need friends and partners who will stand beside them. It is long-past time the United States held international organizations accountable for their antisemitism and their corruption.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "absolutely infiltrated by antisemitic personnel who on a daily basis go after Israel with such cruelty"}
{"id": "crec_007824", "text": "You had lots of fire back then too, before man intervening, but there was a balance of nature of that. We started with the [ORG] program and put out all fires, which is good, but we stopped doing the management in between that nature would do, thinning forests, removing brush because up until the first few decades of the [ORG] program and putting out the fires program we were still managing the forests. We were utilizing those wood products.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000852", "text": "At a time when President [PERSON] asked NATO to up their investment in their own defense to up to 5 percent of GDP, we stand about 2.7 percent of [ORG] here at home. Clearly, we need to rightsize our spending and our debt and reprioritize what it is we are trying to do here. National security, I believe, is the preeminent responsibility of [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "President [PERSON] asked NATO to up their investment... National security, I believe, is the preeminent responsibility"}
{"id": "crec_009402", "text": "So we have our work cut out for us. But one great place to start would be to end the [PERSON] administration's reckless student loan socialism. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "reckless student loan socialism"}
{"id": "crec_001620", "text": "She operated a newspaper distributorship providing local news to Pleasant [PERSON] , California, residents from 1977 to 2009. [ORG] also received numerous accolades for her contributions to the community, including being selected as former Congressman [PERSON] delegate at the 1986 [ORG]. Outside of her work as a small business owner, [ORG] loved music, travel, and giving back to her community and family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008016", "text": "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence that they, in fact, were signing a promissory note to which all Americans would one day fall heir. This note was a promise that all men and women would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, even before the Republic was born, it had already compromised the moral principles articulated in that Declaration of Independence and in that preamble to the Constitution and in all the other pronouncements that it used to justify its revolution against the king's tyranny by having subjected human beings, my own ancestors, to bondage of the flesh as well as bondage of the spirit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 124, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "magnificent words in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence; promissory note; unalienable rights; moral principles; bondage of the flesh and spirit"}
{"id": "crec_002839", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: Holy God, You who never change, nor change Your mind, accompany us into this day. [PERSON] steady light onto our proceedings and reveal Your unwavering wisdom. Illumine every good and perfect gift that You offer us this day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH97-4", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003626", "text": "The Secretary shall also create a procedure for accepting applications filed by qualified designated entities with the consent of the applicant. (B) Farm service agency [ORG] Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of [ORG], shall establish a process for the filing of applications under this section at [ORG] offices throughout the United States. (4) Evidence of application filing.--As soon as practicable after receiving an application for certified agricultural worker status, the Secretary shall provide the applicant with a document acknowledging the receipt of such application.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 87, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005062", "text": "3. A determination has been made that the Republic of Zambia can provide substantially the same degree of protection for the sensitive technology being released as [ORG]. This sale is necessary in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives outlined in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "A determination has been made that the Republic of Zambia can provide substantially the same degree of protection...in furtherance of the U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives"}
{"id": "crec_007562", "text": "Kentucky: [ORG], ZeroV. Louisiana: [ORG] Sexual Assault. Maine: Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Preble Street.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000997", "text": "[ORG] Just three California gravy trains are on track to burn through billions of dollars: The California High-Speed Train is costing about $ 1.8 million a day to build and won't be completed for another decade. The current cost estimate to complete the project is $128 billion--nearly $100 billion more than the original price tag! President [PERSON] previously canceled federal funding for the project, but President [PERSON] restored the money.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "calling transit projects 'gravy trains' and 'burn through billions' uses emotionally charged language to suggest wasteful spending; the focus on massive cost overruns and incompletion is designed to generate concern about government mismanagement"}
{"id": "crec_008618", "text": "But Republicans have been ignoring the policies we already have on the books to push for a bill that, in its current form, is more extreme, expensive, and broad than it first appears. I am very concerned that without serious amendments, this bill is rife with unintended consequences and powers that could be abused. As written, it will drastically undermine civil liberties in this country.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "rife with unintended consequences and powers that could be abused; drastically undermine civil liberties"}
{"id": "crec_000678", "text": "For the past 4 years, the [PERSON] administration has put the wistful dreams of climate activists ahead of the interests of ordinary Americans, particularly those in my home [ORG] of Texas. And he is certainly not letting the door hit him on the way out. Today--I think that was actually yesterday--President [PERSON] announced one last nail in the coffin by issuing a permanent ban on oil and gas leasing in certain Federal waters preventing new drilling.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "put the wistful dreams of climate activists ahead of the interests of ordinary Americans; one last nail in the coffin"}
{"id": "crec_004446", "text": "The material previously referred to by Ms. [PERSON] is as follows: Ms. [PERSON] North Carolina moves to recommit the bill H.R. 28 to [ORG] and the [ORG] with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith with the following amendment: Strike all after the enacting clause, and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000536", "text": "H.R. 29: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007967", "text": "We have to get it done before March, otherwise the counties are going to be upside down on that fund that they need to get through that year. Wouldn't we rather have the receipts come from the forest? Wouldn't you rather have people doing the work, to produce the timber and wood products and paper products that you need from America and not have to have these good folks come hat in hand and beg for another taxpayer fund?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two options (forest receipts vs. begging for taxpayer funds) and uses fear language about counties being 'upside down' and needing to 'beg'"}
{"id": "crec_004492", "text": "Now, most seniors will never pay more than $2,000 a year for their medicine. As of January 1, for those already enrolled in an eligible [ORG] plan, the cap is automatic. Once folks have paid $2,000 out of pocket for prescriptions in a year, they won't pay a dime more.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "\"most seniors will never pay more than $2,000 a year\" - uses vague positive framing without specifics about who is excluded or conditions that apply"}
{"id": "crec_005686", "text": "The shock and humiliation of that moment stayed with me, and it fuels my resolve that no child should ever be made to feel ashamed of being authentically who they are. Our students already face incredible pressures and challenges. Instead of making their lives harder by policing their identities and questioning their worth, we should be supporting them, fostering environments where they can grow, thrive, and succeed as their true, authentic selves.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-3", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "shock and humiliation...no child should ever be made to feel ashamed...Instead of making their lives harder by policing their identities"}
{"id": "crec_005072", "text": "3024(w)), is being submitted separately by the Director of [ORG]. The Agreement has been negotiated in accordance with the Act and other applicable law. In my judgment, it meets all applicable statutory requirements and will advance the nonproliferation and other foreign policy interests of the United States of America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS138-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009280", "text": "[ORG] 80. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: At the appropriate place, insert the following: [ORG]. __.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS232-5", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004909", "text": "They are the very groups that actually wanted to abolish ICE. I am hopeful that my colleagues will listen to the verdict the American people delivered on November 5, rather than the propaganda of these radical interest groups. The time to act is now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "Appeals to 'the verdict the American people delivered' as authority; uses 'radical interest groups' and 'propaganda' as loaded language; characterizes opposing groups' positions in extreme terms"}
{"id": "crec_004814", "text": "If you rely on programs like [ORG] or nutrition assistance, Mr. [PERSON] would put those services in danger. On the other hand, if you are among the wealthiest of Americans in this country, Mr. [PERSON] is a wave of good news. He is a staunch advocate of tax cuts for the ultrarich and deregulation for America's mega corporations, even if that means adding trillions to the deficit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing outcomes: programs 'in danger' versus tax cuts for the wealthy; frames complex policy as binary choice between helping poor or rich"}
{"id": "crec_001712", "text": "He is 2\\1/2\\ years old and the cutest kid you ever met. Our little girl is brilliant and very loud. The math basically says my kids and your kids will be part of the first generation of Americans to actually be poor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "first generation of Americans to actually be poor"}
{"id": "crec_008111", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 493. A bill to increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 4.3 percent, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005197", "text": "Permanent resident status on a conditional basis for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children. [ORG]. 103.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141-2", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007008", "text": "I don't think it is giving up secrets to say: I didn't hear any secrets. I didn't hear them because there weren't any. And they made that filing in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "I didn't hear any secrets. I didn't hear them because there weren't any."}
{"id": "crec_006045", "text": "Last week, I voted on my first bill, [ORG]. Illegal aliens are robbing, sexually assaulting, and murdering American citizens. This bill detains illegal immigrants who commit additional crimes, like theft, until they get deported.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH172", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Illegal aliens are robbing, sexually assaulting, and murdering American citizens"}
{"id": "crec_009459", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 150. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] and the Secretary of [ORG] to implement a strategy to combat the efforts of transnational criminal organizations to recruit individuals in the United States via social media platforms and other online services and assess their use of such platforms and services for illicit activities; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 151.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS243", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002795", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , on January 1, [ORG] announced that a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap is going to be initiated for seniors on the [ORG] part D program. Fifty-three million seniors across the country use part D and because of the copayment structure, many of them pay in excess of $2,000 out of pocket. Starting on January 1, because of the Inflation Reduction Act and the prescription drug reforms that took place as a result of that, there will be a hard cap that no one will have to pay more than $2,000 during a calendar year for prescription drug coverage for people who suffer from chronic illnesses, such as MS and other cancers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH95-4", "word_count": 117, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "prescription drug reforms that took place as a result of that, there will be a hard cap that no one will have to pay more than $2,000"}
{"id": "crec_000393", "text": "That is a big problem. The sanctuary policy hampered the Athens-[ORG] and [ORG] from recognizing and acting upon an ICE detainer, which could have prevented [PERSON] 's murder. Time and time again, communities and families throughout our Nation have been devastated by heinous crimes committed by illegal aliens.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "communities and families throughout our Nation have been devastated by heinous crimes committed by illegal aliens"}
{"id": "crec_001851", "text": "After we do manage to get the fire under control, there are going to be a lot of questions that need answering. Indeed, even though we don't know the specific cause of each fire, we can already identify the failures that we know have contributed to these conflagrations, these catastrophic events that have hit our communities time and time again. Our politicians have obsessed over things like banning lawnmowers, banning leaf blowers, all the while neglecting our forests and leaving our communities vulnerable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Misrepresents politicians' positions by claiming they 'obsessed over banning lawnmowers, banning leaf blowers' while neglecting forests; uses emotionally charged language like 'conflagrations' and 'catastrophic events'"}
{"id": "crec_006808", "text": "The Senator from Massachusetts. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, we are in a climate emergency.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing climate situation as an 'emergency' uses emotionally charged language to emphasize urgency and severity"}
{"id": "crec_000885", "text": "This is our responsibility. It is not always going to be fun. It is not necessarily always going to be popular, but I believe that, if we explain to the American people the necessity of doing what I have been talking about here, they will understand it, and they will respect it and accept it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "appeals to collective responsibility and respect for the American people's understanding; frames speaker as having legitimate authority to explain necessity to the public"}
{"id": "crec_004546", "text": "There are things we could do in the tax policy that is coming to fix the things that create the productivity boost, the things we can do in regulatory reform, in modernization, the adoption of technology as a regulator. You get people here that go around saying, oh, we are going to deregulate. [PERSON] , but how about doing smart regulation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["strawman", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizes opposing view as 'we are going to deregulate' then presents 'smart regulation' as the alternative, misrepresenting the actual debate"}
{"id": "crec_001083", "text": "Our grant oversight is just pitiful in the spending of money. With the NGO research grants, we don't know who is spending it and where it is going. Then we are funding billions of dollars on gain-of-function research and teaching China how to develop weapons against Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "pitiful oversight, billions of dollars on gain-of-function research and teaching China how to develop weapons against Americans"}
{"id": "crec_009864", "text": "It is all about common sense. (Applause.) First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "declaring a national emergency positions the speaker as authoritative decision-maker, while 'common sense' is vague appeal to universal agreement without substantive argument"}
{"id": "crec_000637", "text": "Will they spend time settling scores for President-elect [ORG], or will they actually help keep America safer? Will the President-elect's nominees keep their promises to serve America, or are they just going to serve the swamp? We remember what happened during the first [ORG] administration.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two opposing outcomes ('settling scores' vs 'keeping America safer'; 'serve America' vs 'serve the swamp'); uses loaded terms like 'swamp' and appeals to fear through references to past administration problems"}
{"id": "crec_000833", "text": "They include murderers, child abusers, fraudsters, con artists, and corrupt public officials. This ugly action was a disregard for the victims, for their families, and for the facts, and a slap in the face of every law-abiding citizen. This abuse of power undermines our justice system and the power of the Presidency.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'murderers, child abusers, fraudsters' paired with 'slap in the face' and 'undermines our justice system'"}
{"id": "crec_006775", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Will the Senator yield for one more question? [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006512", "text": "So today's hearing with Mr. [PERSON] is a reminder to the American people that [PERSON] does not intend to keep his promises to working people. If [PERSON] were serious about being proworker, he would not have turned to the godfather of the ultraright to oversee White House policy. And on [PERSON] , the tragic fires in California are another warning that the climate crisis continues to grow in strength.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "godfather of the ultraright (name-calling), tragic fires...climate crisis continues to grow (appeal to fear), does not intend to keep his promises (loaded language)"}
{"id": "crec_008041", "text": "Consider just a decision from just 2 years ago, when the commission blocked a desalination plant in Huntington Beach that would have increased L.A.'s water supply. The commission denied a permit for [ORG] proposed $1.4 billion desalination plant in Huntington Beach. Of course, we have all seen how the lack of a sufficient water supply is one of the things that allowed the fires in L.A. to grow unchecked.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "linking the permit denial to fire growth by suggesting lack of water supply 'allowed the fires in L.A. to grow unchecked' without establishing causal connection"}
{"id": "crec_004303", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in support of H.R. 28 to prohibit federally funded schools from allowing men to compete in women's sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002084", "text": "23: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007700", "text": "Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Texas? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006147", "text": "This crucial bill aims to close the loopholes that would allow violent offenders to slip through the cracks and continue to pose a threat to our country. It is high time we prioritize the safety and security of our citizens and the needs of our people, particularly women, who would be and have been the victims of these violent crimes. In my home [ORG], California's approach is not sustainable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "violent offenders to slip through the cracks and continue to pose a threat to our country; safety and security of our citizens"}
{"id": "crec_009842", "text": "From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. During every single day of the [PERSON] administration, I will--very simply--put America first.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world...will be the envy of every nation...put America first"}
{"id": "crec_008757", "text": "This bill as written requires ICE officers to detain individuals who have neither been charged nor convicted of a crime--neither charged nor convicted. Children imprisoned without being charged or convicted of a crime--that is what this bill does. In the current system, children can be, in fact, detained, but it is at discretion on the front end and discretion on the back end to understand the whole of the circumstances.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Repeats 'neither been charged nor convicted' and uses emotionally charged terms like 'imprisoned' and 'children imprisoned' to emphasize severity and create concern about detention practices"}
{"id": "crec_007799", "text": "In the northern part of the [ORG] that I represent and some of my colleagues in surrounding States, we got hit pretty hard in the forested areas, some of the grassland areas, et cetera. As you know right now, southern California, the Los Angeles area, is taking it really badly with the annual Santa Ana winds. It is an extraordinary amount of wind and strength of the winds, driving the fire to a point that hasn't been seen in at least 60 years in that area.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 86, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "got hit pretty hard, taking it really badly, extraordinary amount of wind, hasn't been seen in at least 60 years"}
{"id": "crec_006290", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 405. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude overtime compensation from gross income for purposes of the income tax; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005039", "text": "In 1998, [PERSON] opened [ORG] to support construction projects throughout the [PERSON] community. After graduating from high school, [PERSON] began focusing on a career in grading and excavation. He purchased a used excavator in 1999 and began seeking larger projects.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS137-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006831", "text": "How can families keep them in a nursing home? Medicaid. Do you know another name we have for them?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Implying negative connotations about Medicaid and nursing homes through rhetorical questioning designed to lead audience toward unfavorable conclusion"}
{"id": "crec_007930", "text": "We had grant money waiting to go to help local folks do a thinning and planning around some of the little communities there and make those areas a little more fire safe and make fire spread slower. What happened? After 1\\1/2\\ years' worth of fooling around, fighting permits, the fire broke out anyway and burned the whole place down, and the grant money didn't get used.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "grant money waiting to go help...make those areas a little more fire safe...the fire broke out anyway and burned the whole place down"}
{"id": "crec_008703", "text": "If we do that, we are looking at a spending level of $6 trillion. So, again, we can look at individual expense items. You can take a look at defense, if you don't think we are spending enough on that, if it is too risky a world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "if it is too risky a world"}
{"id": "crec_008856", "text": "Boom, the door opens. I was like, dang, that was impressive. Elevator pitch.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000795", "text": "Let's cut healthcare. Let's cut the ability of a first-time homeowner to buy a home, to pay for it. So instead of working in a bipartisan way to put the needs of working Americans first, Republicans are getting ready to use the reconciliation process to reward the richest Americans and give more tax breaks to America's biggest corporations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "positioning healthcare cuts and housing affordability against tax breaks as mutually exclusive options, using emotionally charged language like 'reward the richest' and 'getting ready to use'"}
{"id": "crec_003912", "text": "At least six newborns have recently died of hypothermia. The number of children killed in Gaza during the war exceeds the total number of children killed in conflicts worldwide over the last 4 years. Thousands of children like [PERSON] are grappling with life- threatening injuries as a direct result of the war.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "graphic enumeration of child deaths and injuries combined with emotionally charged language ('killed,' 'life-threatening') designed to evoke fear and moral outrage"}
{"id": "crec_004866", "text": "The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000587", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000380", "text": "Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. [PERSON] . Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008708", "text": "It has to stop. So I am putting everybody on notice. I am on [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005762", "text": "[ORG] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today with grave concern about the effort in North Carolina to overturn the will of the voters of our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-10", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "rise today with grave concern about the effort...to overturn the will of the voters"}
{"id": "crec_001693", "text": "What is happening in Germany right now? What is happening in Canada? What happened in South Korea?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000769", "text": "He used these gifts to serve others even beyond the borders of the United States. We say goodbye during this time to this man of many talents. We know about his background as a peanut farmer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-6", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "serve others even beyond the borders of the United States"}
{"id": "crec_005919", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , combating the [ORG]'s malign influence across the globe demands strong partnerships and a steady backbone. Our partnership with Taiwan is critical to that goal. In 2023, I led a delegation to Taiwan, where we met with former President [PERSON] and current President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'malign influence' and reference to delegation leadership demonstrating authority and credibility"}
{"id": "crec_004635", "text": "It just turns out, Mr. [PERSON] , that it is hard. We have to do complex things. We are going to have to tell lobbyists and people from home that you have to modernize, join this century, and change your business models.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "characterizing lobbyists' positions as outdated ('join this century') while positioning the speaker's authority to demand change"}
{"id": "crec_000580", "text": "And I do mean his work. President [PERSON] didn't just lend his name or image to [ORG]. He built houses.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-7", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "President [PERSON] didn't just lend his name or image to [ORG]. He built houses."}
{"id": "crec_007905", "text": "We are just losing it out to the Pacific. The poster showed how much water is going out to the ocean that isn't being used for human purposes. Do you know what?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003123", "text": "[SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by Mr. [PERSON] (for Ms. [PERSON] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] )) to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: =========================== NOTE =========================== On page [ORG], January 13, 2025, in the first column, the following appears:SA 14. [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment [ORG] proposed by [SPEAKER] (for herself and Mr. [PERSON] ) to the bill [ORG] . .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 119, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004101", "text": "PRAYER The Chaplain, the Reverend [PERSON] , offered the following prayer: God, our teacher, Lord, and friend, we pray that we would walk where You lead us this day. Open our eyes to see Your guidance, to look at each encounter, regard each situation with Your eyes. Open our ears to Your instruction, to receive every word spoken, every concern voiced, and hear as You would hear.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-3", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009415", "text": "Let them expire, which they will right at the end of this year, and then they are gone for good, all of them. Yes, if Congress simply says do nothing about [ORG] caps, all of it will go away, and that is what we should do. But instead of ensuring that New Yorkers will get [ORG] back, [ORG] wants to impose a whole new round of [ORG] caps.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["repetition", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated use of 'all of it will go away' and 'all of them' combined with emotionally charged framing of caps as something to be eliminated"}
{"id": "crec_006403", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 444. Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect [ORG], Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the [PERSON] and provide for the common [ORG] and general Welfare of the United States; and Article I, Section 8, clause 3: To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH186-42", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8"}
{"id": "crec_000703", "text": "Madam President, I now ask for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule [ORG], I object to my own request. [SPEAKER]. Objection having been heard, the bill will receive its second reading on the next legislative day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-5", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006048", "text": "RECEIVING DISASTER AID SHOULD NOT BE CONDITIONAL ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , some House Republicans are threatening to withhold disaster aid to California unless certain unknown conditions are met.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-2", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threatening to withhold disaster aid to California unless certain unknown conditions are met"}
{"id": "crec_001630", "text": "Okay, great. Do you think you are ever getting a mortgage again? Do you ever think you are getting a car loan again?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004244", "text": "This bill isn't about fairness. The [ORG] stated last month there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes in collegiate sports out of 510,000, less than 0.002 of 1 percent of athletes. The rare cases Republicans cite are outliers, not evidence of a systemic issue.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "strawman"], "evidence": "The [ORG] stated last month there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes in collegiate sports out of 510,000"}
{"id": "crec_004321", "text": "In fact, the bill subjects girls, cisgender and transgender girls, to harm and ridicule, and it strips fairness from players, parents, and school communities. The bill sets up an unfair playing field where any parent can raise a concern that a transgender girl might be playing on a girls' team, and we know this is so very rare. It is unfair to the girls who may be targeted because they grow faster, play harder, or simply may be more talented than their teammates.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "uses emotionally charged language like 'subjects girls to harm and ridicule' and 'strips fairness' while mischaracterizing the bill's mechanics to invoke concern about vulnerable girls being targeted"}
{"id": "crec_008370", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Kentucky.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007619", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The Republican majority has chosen to begin this year with a series of bills intended to fearmonger and demonize immigrants. This legislation not only perpetuates that effort, but it would also have serious consequences for survivors of domestic violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "fearmonger and demonize immigrants"}
{"id": "crec_006140", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , California has had a lot of problems inflicted upon it, partly by nature and partly self-inflicted by governing. As we bring resources and aid to southern California and reflect here on these horrific events happening with the fire down there in the Pacific Palisades and surrounding communities, it is very sobering but also points out the need for leadership and competency in preparing for it. It is really basic stuff.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "problems inflicted upon it, partly by nature and partly self-inflicted by governing; need for leadership and competency"}
{"id": "crec_008893", "text": "Our state holds an estimated 40 billion barrels of oil and roughly 235 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In one field alone, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska reinjects into a reservoir for oil-production purposes as much natural gas each day as Oregon, Washington and California consume. Alaska also has a wealth of metals and other minerals, some of which are essential for our national defense, economy and renewable-energy sector.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Alaska also has a wealth of metals and other minerals, some of which are essential for our national defense, economy and renewable-energy sector"}
{"id": "crec_007612", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1\\1/2\\ minutes to the distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006300", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 415. A bill to amend [ORG] of 1971 to prohibit individuals holding Federal office from directly soliciting contributions to or on behalf of any political committee under such Act, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006705", "text": "So what happened 8 years ago was cruel--a tax cut put on the American public's credit card, 80 percent of the benefits going to the very, very richest, and none of it trickling down. This version that Republicans are talking about passing in a matter of weeks is even more cruel because it is the same balance: the benefit going to the very, very wealthy--President-elect [ORG]'s friends who pay to get in and out of [PERSON] -a-Lago--but financed immediately by cuts that are going to be devastating for the people in this country who get up every day relying on programs like [ORG] and [ORG]. So I agree with my friend from Hawaii.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 112, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "cruel...devastating for the people...relying on programs...financed immediately by cuts"}
{"id": "crec_001894", "text": "A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to require [ORG] to submit to Congress an annual report with respect to the implementation of certain recommendations of [ORG] [ORG] for improving the food and beverage service of [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 266.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006187", "text": "I will save that for another day, notwithstanding the national championships coming up around the country which [ORG] should be playing in. Unfortunately, they are not. Republicans were given the opportunity to have control of [ORG], [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'Republicans were given the opportunity to have control' - deflecting from main point about championships to shift blame to Republicans"}
{"id": "crec_007714", "text": "Since 1959, this remarkable organization has been dedicated to helping older adults age successfully, providing essential services that enhance their quality of life. Senior [ORG], offers a comprehensive range of programs, including in-home care, Meals on Wheels, adult day health services, and [ORG], which provides lifelong learning opportunities. Their care navigators serve as a vital resource, connecting seniors and their families to the support they need.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-7", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'remarkable organization' and 'dedicated to helping older adults age successfully'"}
{"id": "crec_008009", "text": "Now, he was arrested. No one else that did anything else to stop him was arrested, but he was arrested simply for articulating the problem, supporting the efforts of Ms. [PERSON] , and encouraging a community to stand up and to speak for itself.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH213", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "arrested simply for articulating the problem...arrested"}
{"id": "crec_001861", "text": "As the city council, the mayor, were deciding not to fully fund the fire department, they had plenty of time for things like passing a resolution reaffirming Los Angeles as a sanctuary city. It was already a sanctuary city. It is already a sanctuary [ORG], but they decided that was their priority, not to prepare for the risk of wildfire, not to fully fund the fire department, but to pass another resolution making itself a sanctuary city, yet again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "presenting funding the fire department versus passing a sanctuary city resolution as mutually exclusive priorities, implying one necessarily precludes the other"}
{"id": "crec_002177", "text": "What an amazing legacy. [PERSON] bless you, [PERSON] . Good luck.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "What an amazing legacy"}
{"id": "crec_002884", "text": "[[ORG] BY [SPEAKER] [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the [ORG] will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered, or votes objected to under clause 6 of rule XX. The House will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001561", "text": "Let us all remember to thank a law enforcement officer for keeping us safe.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH76-4", "word_count": 14, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "thank a law enforcement officer for keeping us safe"}
{"id": "crec_004149", "text": "[ORG]'S SPORTS ARE UNDER THREAT (Mr. [PERSON] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , we are well aware that women's sports are under threat, and it is high time we actually finish the job and take a stand against the threat against them.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH125", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "women's sports are under threat, take a stand against the threat"}
{"id": "crec_002600", "text": "FEDERAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE COORDINATION ACT [SPEAKER]. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 152) to amend [ORG] of 2018 to develop a study regarding streamlining and consolidating information collection and preliminary damage assessments, and for other purposes, on which the yeas and nays were ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH107", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001596", "text": "She served as president of [ORG] and was given the honor of woman of the year three times by [ORG] for her volunteer spirit. If someone's name was in the paper, Lillian would clip it out and send it to that person just to let them know that she had read about them. I was fortunate enough to receive that many times She always had little ways to show people she cared, and they felt it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH77", "word_count": 81, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003193", "text": "206. RULEMAKING. (a) Initial Publication.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish regulations implementing this title in [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004608", "text": "[ORG] came back yesterday and said, no, the way they are calculating where fertility rates are in the United States, in 8 years the United States will have more deaths than births. Demographics is destiny. You want people like me to figure out the financing of [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], which were all designed systems for population growth.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "in 8 years the United States will have more deaths than births; Demographics is destiny"}
{"id": "crec_002142", "text": "Right now, it is vital that our firefighters and medical workers and first responders have everything they need from [ORG] to combat the flames and rescue people from danger. The Senate just passed, fortunately, a sweeping disaster aid package precisely for these kinds of emergencies, but now we must ensure all necessary disaster aid goes out the door as quickly as possible and is given to the people who need it and need it the most. Finally, the fact that the worst wildfire in Los Angeles's history should happen in the dead of winter is another warning of the dangers of climate change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 105, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Senate just passed a sweeping disaster aid package; characterizing wildfires as 'worst...in history' and linking to climate change as 'dangers' and 'warning'"}
{"id": "crec_006858", "text": "So let's be clear, though. If President-elect [ORG] and Senate Republicans don't work with Democrats, Republican tax proposals--well, they won't help you. They won't help your family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Republican tax proposals won't help you/your family if Republicans don't work with Democrats"}
{"id": "crec_008666", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009655", "text": "And America didn't like what it saw, and that began us on a real road, a real path to greater equality, and we still have a long way to go. But [PERSON] was an amazing man, and it is fitting that his holiday is the only holiday on the calendar named for just one person. We have Mother's Day for the mothers, Father's Day for the fathers, Presidents Day for the Presidents, Veterans Day for the veterans, but only one holiday for one man.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "America on a real path to greater equality; amazing man; fitting that his holiday is the only holiday named for just one person"}
{"id": "crec_006864", "text": "I would hope that they would want to avoid adding trillions of dollars to it, regardless of who is in the White House, even now. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be the case. Instead, my colleagues now--my Republican colleagues--have come up with two options for selling this legislation to the American people-- again, this legislation that will mainly benefit the very wealthy in this country, the billionaires--legislation that is going to add $4 trillion to the deficit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "trillions of dollars to it, add $4 trillion to the deficit, legislation that will mainly benefit the very wealthy"}
{"id": "crec_000792", "text": "Will it be helping working people as [PERSON] promised on the campaign trail? Will it be increasing paychecks or strengthening workers' rights or making healthcare more affordable? Will it be investing in more American manufacturing jobs, like Democrats did 3 years ago?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "rhetorical questions framed as unfulfilled promises with loaded positive terms ('helping working people'), combined with presenting only negative outcomes as the alternative to Democratic policies"}
{"id": "crec_001807", "text": "Do not assume that those Republicans will now do what they have done in the past and oppose moving to 51 votes as they did when there was a Democratic issue on the table. I prognosticate here and now that they will move to use 51 votes if their agenda is stalled, and they will think nothing of it. They will do it with alacrity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["whataboutism", "doubt"], "evidence": "Contrasts past Republican behavior on Democratic issues with predicted future behavior, while casting doubt on Republican consistency and principles"}
{"id": "crec_004433", "text": "[ORG], nonbinary, and intersex youth want to participate in team sports for the same reasons as their cisgender peers: to be part of a team, learn sportsmanship, and challenge themselves. School athletics are very often the centerpiece of communities across the country, and denying transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth the chance to participate only serves to deny them an opportunity to be part of that community, further isolating and stigmatizing these youth. The civil and human rights community is no stranger to the proffering of a bigoted agenda as if it were about equal opportunity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 95, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "denying them an opportunity...further isolating and stigmatizing these youth"}
{"id": "crec_009177", "text": "It is about protecting the people, protecting our clean air. And as long as America lacks proper forest management, then we are going to continue to see terrible costly tragedies like what we are seeing today in California and we saw this past summer in Wyoming. With better forest management, we can lessen the damage of forest fires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "terrible costly tragedies and emphasis on protecting people and clean air paired with preventable fire incidents"}
{"id": "crec_004503", "text": "Members of the California delegation have spoken on the floor about the extraordinary damage, loss of life, and lives that have been disrupted. I was shocked to watch on television the elected leader of this House suggesting that [ORG] assistance to deal with that tragedy would be conditioned. He didn't specify on what, but I would remind that gentleman that $120 billion has gone to Louisiana over the last 20 years, dealing with the tragedies of Katrina in New Orleans and the like, and that is not the total count.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-3", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I would remind that gentleman that $120 billion has gone to Louisiana over the last 20 years"}
{"id": "crec_004184", "text": "All throughout humanity, we have recognized as a species that there are women and there are men, as God created, who are obviously biologically different and, dare I say, scientifically different. Even science agrees with this premise. Yet, our culture and civilization continue to be subjected to the perverse lie that there are more than two genders or that men can be women or women can be men.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "use of 'perverse lie,' 'as God created,' 'science agrees,' and framing complex gender discussions as strictly binary"}
{"id": "crec_008949", "text": "If a witness objects to a question and refuses to testify, the objection shall be noted for the record and the [ORG] Member or Members or staff may proceed with the remainder of the deposition, or may, at that time or at a subsequent time, seek a ruling by telephone or otherwise on the objection from the [ORG]. If the [ORG] overrules the objection, he or she may order and direct the witness to answer the question. (4) The [ORG] shall see that the testimony is transcribed or electronically recorded (which may include audio or audio/video recordings).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000815", "text": "Let's do that first. Then [PERSON] can have his fun. I yield the floor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007007", "text": "They don't have any information. And I sat in the same intelligence briefings that my colleagues did, and I kept waiting to hear that information. I never heard it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["doubt"], "evidence": "I kept waiting to hear that information. I never heard it."}
{"id": "crec_009388", "text": "And I use that in parentheses or with quotations because they really are a slap in the face for the American people and American taxpayers. This past Monday, [ORG] canceled student loans for 150,000 borrowers. This is not really a cancellation of those loans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "slap in the face for the American people and American taxpayers"}
{"id": "crec_007882", "text": "If it is not grown in these areas, then where do you want it to be grown? Where do you want it to come from? A mismanaged water supply means it doesn't happen in California, which means 90-something percent or above of all those crops coming from there will have to come from a foreign country, if at all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents only two options (grown in these areas or imported from foreign countries) while ignoring alternatives; warns of catastrophic dependency on foreign imports if local production fails"}
{"id": "crec_006001", "text": "Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 13, Passage of H.R. 164, YEA on Roll Call No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH170", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009737", "text": "Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the next vote be a 10-minute vote. [SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001104", "text": "This is a public conversation, but there is a lot of private, behind-the-scenes work because the focus is not just what we talk about. It is what we actually get done. There are a lot of areas of government efficiency that need to get done.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "government efficiency that need to get done"}
{"id": "crec_006012", "text": "Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Florida? There was no objection.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-4", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009384", "text": "The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER]. I announce that the Senator from Delaware (Mr. [PERSON] ) and the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. [PERSON] ) are necessarily absent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004793", "text": "Needless to say, that is the last thing that Americans are looking for after the steep increases in gas and electricity bills under the [PERSON] administration. And apart from price, there is the even more concerning prospect of major supply shortages. I am fairly sure Americans don't want to wait in long lines for gas--or face rationing--or wondering whether the lights are actually going to turn on when they hit the light switch.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-8", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "prospect of major supply shortages, wait in long lines, rationing, wondering whether the lights will turn on"}
{"id": "crec_006251", "text": "We are supposed to be after this, and here we stand. As far as I know, with all due respect to everybody in the [ORG], the only plan I have seen is the one we have offered. We stand ready to save our country in any way that we can, but the clock is ticking, Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "the clock is ticking"}
{"id": "crec_008297", "text": "[PERSON] 332: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001843", "text": "Let this serve as a public service announcement to potential thieves in California that crime is illegal once again in our [ORG], and there will be consequences for criminal activity. On top of that, in the wake of the Grants Pass decision on homelessness, we have seen a number of communities actually start to clean up encampments and to reclaim their public spaces. For example, in Stockton, homeless under an overpass were given 72 hours' notice of a clearing and were notified they would be arrested if they refused to leave.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "crime is illegal once again...there will be consequences for criminal activity; homeless...notified they would be arrested"}
{"id": "crec_004340", "text": "28. This bill makes schools less safe for women and girls. It gives every teacher, coach, and parent an opportunity to police who looks feminine enough to play.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "makes schools less safe for women and girls; gives every teacher, coach, and parent an opportunity to police"}
{"id": "crec_000208", "text": "2. Concurrent resolution to provide for the counting on January 6, 2025, of the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS33", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005647", "text": "In 2014, he was elected to [ORG]. For 14 years, he served our residents with dedication and resilience, always focusing on bringing people together. I thank Commissioner [PERSON] for his decades of public service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "dedication and resilience, always focusing on bringing people together"}
{"id": "crec_008865", "text": "She has got a beautiful family with her husband [PERSON] and her two wonderful boys. But it was a risk. She had a great State job, and she is going to, you know, join this guy throwing his hat in the ring.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "beautiful family, wonderful boys, great State job, throwing his hat in the ring - emotionally charged descriptors used to frame a personal decision favorably"}
{"id": "crec_008489", "text": "They deserve our support. We need everyone in our communities to stand up to these people who would not want them in the community, who would not want them to respond to a 9-1-1 call. Can you imagine that?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "would not want them to respond to a 9-1-1 call. Can you imagine that?"}
{"id": "crec_005779", "text": "She was a devoted mother, educator, and wife, an inspiring figure who cherished her church, Victory & Dominion World Outreach Center. To serve as a reminder of her tremendous contributions, her church has renamed its family life center in her honor. On her birthday, family and community members gathered to celebrate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH158-8", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "devoted mother, educator, and wife, an inspiring figure who cherished her church"}
{"id": "crec_005640", "text": "My deepest condolences go out to them and all her loved ones during this difficult time. Rest in peace, [PERSON] . Honoring Dearborn Mayor [PERSON] , Jr. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH153-2", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007722", "text": "MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT A message in writing from the President of the United States was communicated to the House by [PERSON] , one of his secretaries.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005940", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank Chairman [PERSON] for yielding. Mr. [PERSON] , standing up to [ORG] is a no- brainer, and standing up to Communist China means standing with Taiwan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "standing up to Communist China means standing with Taiwan"}
{"id": "crec_009908", "text": "And nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "'we are Americans' and 'our golden age has just begun' appeal to national pride and vague promises of prosperity"}
{"id": "crec_004216", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the chairman for yielding the time. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise in strong support of [ORG], a commonsense bill to ensure female athletes only compete with biological females. Unfortunately, in just 4 years under the [PERSON] administration, [ORG] has been under constant attack, jeopardizing women's safety, athletic opportunities, and chances for success.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "jeopardizing women's safety, athletic opportunities, and chances for success"}
{"id": "crec_000806", "text": "It is deeply troubling, then, to see our Republican colleagues already beginning to shun regular order. Yesterday, the chairman of [ORG] noticed a hearing for Governor [PERSON] to serve as the next Secretary of the [ORG] without minority consent, as has long been the standard practice. Senate Democrats on the committee expressed reasonable objections to proceeding to this hearing because the committee had not yet received basic information on Governor [PERSON] 's background.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "\"deeply troubling\" combined with \"shun regular order\" and implications of improper procedural conduct to suggest danger to institutional norms"}
{"id": "crec_009821", "text": "If wisdom, which comes not from You be not with him, he shall be held in no esteem. Send wisdom from Heaven that she may be with him, that he may know Your designs. Please, God, bless America.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Appeal to divine authority ('Send wisdom from Heaven') combined with patriotic invocation ('God, bless America')"}
{"id": "crec_000187", "text": "Far too many individuals have tried to rewrite the history of January 6, have tried to sweep the truth under the rug and pretend like the day was perfectly fine or even a moment of great patriotism. That is a lie. Plain and simple--a lie.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS32-4", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "rewrite the history, sweep the truth under the rug, pretend like the day was perfectly fine or even a moment of great patriotism"}
{"id": "crec_006007", "text": "[PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of New York. [SPEAKER] (during the reading). Mr. [PERSON] , I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be considered as read.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH171-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000423", "text": "That is our job as legislators. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005396", "text": "1621 et seq.) as such title was in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act. Subtitle B--Limitations on Emergency Authorities SEC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS142-3", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000751", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Ms. [PERSON] (Ranking), Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] . [ORG], Science, and [ORG]: Ms. [PERSON] (Ranking), Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS43", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004658", "text": "10. The chair and ranking minority member shall consult regarding the release of deposition testimony, transcripts, or recordings, and portions thereof. If either objects in writing to a proposed release of a deposition testimony, transcript, or recording, or a portion thereof, the matter shall be promptly referred to the committee for resolution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007569", "text": "Vermont: Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, [ORG], [PERSON] , [ORG], Safeline, Inc. Virginia: Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, Ayuda. Washington: WA State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, [PERSON] , Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, YWCA of [PERSON] . West Virginia: West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006764", "text": "I would be glad to yield. [SPEAKER]. Senator, I came to the floor--or to the [ORG], I came to the floor to listen to the good-faith arguments of colleagues about the [ORG] tax cut.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008936", "text": "The [ORG], with notice to the [ORG] Minority Member of the [ORG], is authorized to subpoena the attendance of witnesses at a hearing or deposition or the production of memoranda, documents, records, or any other materials. A written notice of intent to issue a subpoena shall be provided to the [ORG] Member, or staff officers designated by the [ORG] Member, by the [ORG] or a staff officer designated by the [ORG], immediately upon such authorization, and no subpoena shall be issued for at least 72 hours, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, from delivery, unless the [ORG] Member waives the 72 hour waiting period or unless the [ORG] certifies in writing to the [ORG] Minority Member of the [ORG] that, in the [ORG]'s opinion, it is necessary to issue a subpoena immediately. When [ORG] authorizes subpoenas, subpoenas may be issued upon the signature of the [PERSON] or any other Member of the [ORG] designated by the [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 161, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007088", "text": "Cloture Motion [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I send a cloture motion to the desk for Calendar No. 1, S. 5.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004994", "text": "Madam President, reserving the right to object. [SPEAKER]. The Democratic whip.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001405", "text": "It has taken unprecedented action of issuing arrest warrants for the sitting Prime Minister and former Minister of Defense of our friend and ally, Israel. Let that sink in for a minute. [ORG] is an entity that has no jurisdiction over the people of the United States and should have no authority over our people, no authority over the Prime Minister of Israel, yet it is extending into the people of Israel's business in defending their interests against a violent attack by [ORG], which we define as a terrorist entity.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 93, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "framing ICC as having dangerous overreach with 'no jurisdiction' and 'no authority,' characterizing Hamas as terrorist entity, and defending Israel's sovereignty as protecting 'our friend and ally'"}
{"id": "crec_001881", "text": "A bill to amend title 46, United States Code, to prohibit certain contracts for port operations and management, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 253.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005953", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in support of the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act. The bill, as we have been hearing, would align the tax treatment of income earned in the U.S. by Taiwanese residents and businesses with that of any other foreign national from a country with whom the United States has a tax treaty, preventing the double taxation of Taiwanese residents and businesses engaging in business with Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006737", "text": "Republicans are debating how to ram another $4.6 trillion tax cut through the Senate. I will remind my colleagues that when the Senate Republicans did this in 2017, they were really proud because they thought it would help them in the 2018 midterms. I think it was heavily driven by an electoral strategy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "ram another $4.6 trillion tax cut through the Senate"}
{"id": "crec_000065", "text": "Dear Mr. Speaker: Pursuant to the permission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of the Rules of [ORG], [SPEAKER] received the following message from the Secretary of the Senate on January 6, 2025, at 11:09 a.m.: That the Senate agreed to [ORG]. 2. That the Senate agreed to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-6", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005631", "text": "On a personal note, I am forever grateful for the opportunity I had to partner with Miss [PERSON] on behalf of the women and children of Jefferson County, Alabama, including the $2 million investment that we secured for [ORG] in the fiscal year 2023 from the [ORG] budget. I will always remember the warm, selfless, and kindhearted nature of Miss [PERSON] , and above all, her devotion to serving the most vulnerable members of our community. Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the extraordinary life and legacy of Miss [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH152", "word_count": 98, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "warm, selfless, and kindhearted nature; celebrating the extraordinary life and legacy; devotion to serving the most vulnerable members of our community"}
{"id": "crec_000338", "text": "It is both pernicious and absurd. Where will [ORG] get the resources to detain all these people? Congress has never appropriated, and no administration has ever requested, sufficient resources to detain all noncitizens who fall under the mandatory detention categories.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "characterizing policy as 'pernicious and absurd' and questioning feasibility with 'Where will [ORG] get the resources'"}
{"id": "crec_003945", "text": "After his time at [ORG], Mr. [PERSON] joined [ORG] where he graduated as a [ORG] trooper. He also returned to his hometown and accepted the captain position with the city of Darien. He then won his first sheriff's election to serve the community from 1993 to 1998.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH116", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002877", "text": "The next four years will determine if America builds on that strength, or slides back into the old trickle-down approach that only benefits those at the very top. I believe that the transformative investments we've made are already deeply rooted in our nation, and therefore too costly, politically and economically, to reverse. At this inflection point, I hope that our playbook serves as a model for how to fight for the middle class and give working families a fair shot, forging a stronger, more secure and prosperous America for generations to come.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "builds on that strength, or slides back into the old trickle-down approach"}
{"id": "crec_001477", "text": "The bill we are considering today would undermine that work and rob it of its legitimacy. If passed, this misguided legislation would bluntly curtail our ability to engage the [ORG], to advance our interests in supporting justice and accountability, and, crucially, to share relevant information with our partners and allies. Speaking of our allies, this bill is so absurdly broad that it would sanction our own allies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "would undermine that work and rob it of its legitimacy; would sanction our own allies; misguided legislation"}
{"id": "crec_002321", "text": "Importantly these reforms ensure the electoral votes for President accurately reflect each [ORG]'s election results, including raising the threshold to challenge a [ORG]'s electoral votes from just one Member of the House and one Member of the Senate to one-fifth of each [ORG] and preventing [ORG] legislatures from appointing electoral slates against the will of the voters. The updated law also sets deadlines for States when certifying their election results in an effort to ensure that the peaceful transfer of power is carried out in line with the requirements set forth in the Constitution. Some have noted that while Kansas' electors met as required on December 17, 2024, and the certificate conveying Kansas' electoral votes was received by the Senate in line with the updated law, the [ORG]'s certificate of ascertainment was inadvertently issued 1 day late on December 12 rather than December 11.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76-4", "word_count": 144, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004082", "text": "Thus, allowing massive communities to be built in forests is always dangerous. When I was born, California's population numbered about 10 million people. Today, it has quadrupled to over 42.5 million people, and Los Angeles County's dense population alone now numbers over 10 million people, larger than 80 percent of the States in our Union.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123-2", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "allowing massive communities to be built in forests is always dangerous; quadrupled population figures presented to evoke concern about overcrowding"}
{"id": "crec_002257", "text": "He came back, and this was his first year as head coach, so obviously it was exciting for him to win the title in his first year. There are also some other coaches I want to mention. I specifically want to mention Coach [PERSON] , who is a longtime friend of mine.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000064", "text": "COMMUNICATION FROM [SPEAKER] OF THE HOUSE [SPEAKER] laid before the House the following communication from [SPEAKER] of [ORG] of [SPEAKER], [ORG], Washington, DC, January 6, 2025. Hon. [PERSON] , Speaker, [ORG], Washington, DC.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-6", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000565", "text": "We are ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work. I just emphasized the Iowa delegation putting Iowa first. I do that at the same time we remember the voter mandate of the last election to put America first.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS35-4", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "putting Iowa first... put America first"}
{"id": "crec_007980", "text": "So the people in Altadena would like to have that help, I am sure. They would like to have people that are accountable to bring the leadership that is needed to have that readiness. We assume, as citizens, that things are ready.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "leadership that is needed, readiness, accountability - vague aspirational terms without specific details or solutions"}
{"id": "crec_005351", "text": "SA 34. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 35.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000394", "text": "In fact, this past October, the Peach State faced another unspeakable tragedy. In Habersham County, in my home district, Ms. [PERSON] Rodriguez- [PERSON] was brutally murdered by an illegal alien from Mexico. She was just 25 years old and left behind a young daughter and a loving family.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "unspeakable tragedy, brutally murdered, illegal alien - emotionally charged language paired with crime narrative designed to invoke fear"}
{"id": "crec_009679", "text": "Although our Founders were famously suspicious of overreaching by [ORG], they recognized the obvious national [ORG] the national security and foreign policy imperatives--and the problems that would arise if every [ORG] and county and city were to enforce its own immigration laws. And that is why the Constitution of the United States says that the Congress, working with the President, should administer those laws, and, therefore, logically assigned the responsibility to our national government--not to our [ORG] government, not to our local government--to enforce our immigration law. Throughout our history, the American people have been welcoming to new immigrants--and sometimes less so.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 104, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "invocation of Founders' intent and Constitution as authoritative basis for federal immigration control; characterization of American people as 'welcoming to new immigrants' without substantiation"}
{"id": "crec_004163", "text": "28. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Michigan?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007034", "text": "But I also know this: Third, you don't need intelligence. [ORG]'s own internal documents reveal the threat that it poses to Americans. The [ORG] attorneys general have brought lawsuits to defend their people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "reliance on internal documents and attorneys general actions to establish credibility of threat claim; use of 'threat that it poses to Americans' with charged language"}
{"id": "crec_005910", "text": "Last fall, I had the opportunity to visit Taipei and learn about the robust investments Taiwan is making right there in semiconductor manufacturing. Taiwanese companies are also making large investments right here in the United States. Ending double taxation between our two countries will be beneficial to both the American businesses in Taiwan and the Taiwanese businesses investing in the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007922", "text": "The number is now somewhere around $130 billion. They have spent maybe $15 billion or $20 billion or somewhere in there. Now they are seeking more Federal money, about $6 billion to $8 billion more Federal, of your 50-State taxpayer money, in this boondoggle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "calling the spending a 'boondoggle' and emphasizing taxpayer money being sought to create doubt about the program's value"}
{"id": "crec_003566", "text": "[ORG]. 1302. Mandatory electronic verification for the agricultural industry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS96-2", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001177", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001862", "text": "We will be learning more, I expect, about how it possibly could be that we have fire hydrants that are not working, that water isn't coming out of them, and how we didn't have the necessary personnel on hand despite the high wind conditions. It serves to underline on the one hand the misguided priorities, and on the other, the lack of basic competence. Additionally, Los Angeles and California, more generally, have continued to lead the [ORG] in homelessness.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH85", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "'misguided priorities' and 'lack of basic competence' characterizing officials/leadership"}
{"id": "crec_009392", "text": "Finally, it is unfair to Americans who have forgone a college education because they couldn't afford the cost. And now they have to pick up the tab for those for whom President [PERSON] has canceled their debt. Any family with a mortgage, a car payment, or credit card debt knows there is really no such thing as canceling the debt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing debt cancellation as unfair burden on non-college Americans who must 'pick up the tab' and suggesting debt cannot truly be cancelled"}
{"id": "crec_001220", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS64", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006884", "text": "He went on to stress the importance of Republicans and Democrats working together to protect and reinforce our democracy. We are for that. But here is what he said: I can think of few issues that should both--unite both parties faster than safeguarding our democracy .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "safeguarding our democracy - vague appeal to abstract democratic ideals without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_002362", "text": "A bill to establish [ORG] and to transfer unobligated amounts from the Coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds to such Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern border; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Ms. [PERSON] ): S. 43. A bill to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for a safe harbor from infringement of a method of use patent relating to drugs or biological products; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003055", "text": "SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS The following concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions were read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 20. A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS89", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005741", "text": "We can go back to [PERSON] , who as [PERSON] competed in the Olympics and won the decathlon. As [PERSON] , she stated that if she would have transitioned earlier, she would have won every gold medal. Clearly, that is not fair.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "\"if she would have transitioned earlier, she would have won every gold medal. Clearly, that is not fair\" - misrepresents the statement and uses loaded language to frame the situation as inherently unfair"}
{"id": "crec_009361", "text": "The reason we are all here today is to consider [ORG]. And, really, it is out of a sense of duty, a moral obligation to honor [PERSON] , her life, and her legacy--a life cut far too short at the hands of an illegal alien, who committed the most heinous crime we can possibly imagine, and a legacy that continues and will continue to live on. [PERSON] , as my colleagues know, was an exceptional 22-year-old.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "at the hands of an illegal alien, who committed the most heinous crime we can possibly imagine"}
{"id": "crec_009874", "text": "In other words, you will be able to buy the car of your choice. We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago. And thank you to the autoworkers of our Nation for your inspiring vote of confidence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible and thank you to the autoworkers"}
{"id": "crec_000354", "text": "Republicans want the law enforced. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , in fact, the Democrats got behind a bipartisan border security bill, which beefed up law enforcement at the border, which beefed up judges at the border, and that was tanked by [PERSON] and by Republicans in the House.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["whataboutism", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "Republicans want the law enforced...Democrats got behind a bipartisan border security bill...tanked by Republicans"}
{"id": "crec_005885", "text": "33 would deepen our economic relationship with Taiwan, specifically our semiconductor and chip manufacturing industries, and secure strategic supply chains. America should not have to rely on foreign adversaries like China for our supply chains when we can partner with better allies like Taiwan. If we have learned anything from the pandemic, it is that we cannot rely on people who do not feel the same as we do to supply us with needed products.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "cannot rely on foreign adversaries like China for our supply chains when we can partner with better allies like Taiwan"}
{"id": "crec_006085", "text": "Congress has never put conditions on disaster aid because when [PERSON] strikes, she doesn't ask for your party affiliation before she hurts you. The people who were hurt in the fires in southern California were parents, children, and grandchildren who lost their homes or lost their loved ones. I am asking Republican Members of Congress to please stop using the pain and suffering of disaster victims for their own political purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174-6", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Congress has never put conditions on disaster aid because when [PERSON] strikes, she doesn't ask for your party affiliation before she hurts you"}
{"id": "crec_003046", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mrs. [PERSON] ): S. 76. A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to improve the effectiveness of major rules in accomplishing their regulatory objectives by promoting retrospective review, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mrs. [PERSON] ): S. 77.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-4", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000853", "text": "We will have the opportunity to pass a budget with reconciliation instructions. I am not sure how much the American people care about the process. We care about the process because we have to deal with it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000496", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase and adjust for inflation the above-the-line deduction for teachers; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 229.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008291", "text": "H.R. 221: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] . [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH224-3", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008544", "text": "And over the course of the last week, I have had the opportunity to visit command posts and meet with firefighters, had the opportunity to distribute meals to many of the victims and to see, to tour, to visit the destruction firsthand. Yes, there are survivors, people impacted from communities like the Pacific Palisades--some with names and faces that you will recognize from television and the entertainment industry. But I assure you there are also a lot of other faces and families that you won't recognize from the working-class and diverse communities throughout Los Angeles County.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 96, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "contrasting 'names and faces that you will recognize from television and the entertainment industry' with 'other faces and families that you won't recognize from the working-class and diverse communities' uses emotionally charged framing to emphasize overlooked victims"}
{"id": "crec_001680", "text": "You are not going to pay your interest back to [ORG]? Of course you are. The point of this chart is trying to say accounting accounts for 24 percent of all those tax receipts we take in that aren't [ORG], aren't part of those payroll taxes, 24 percent, is just going to pay interest, and that is this year.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "24 percent of all those tax receipts...is just going to pay interest, and that is this year"}
{"id": "crec_000538", "text": "31: Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] . H.R. 33: Mr. [PERSON] and Mrs. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000891", "text": "How has immigration affected American society? Let's use one example--crime. The statistics are compelling and longstanding that immigration does not increase crime.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 22, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007951", "text": "What I see happening in southern California is they are pushing back on the leadership that has gotten us into this situation. We are going to be there for them. We are going to be there right now as we are, as the firefighters--not me, not us, but we are making sure that things are going to be provided so they can get through this immediate emergency, get the fire out, get people stabilized, and then go forward in the rebuild process.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "We are going to be there for them. We are going to be there right now...making sure that things are going to be provided"}
{"id": "crec_007653", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentlewoman from Wisconsin. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009061", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 129. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the application of the income tax on qualified tips through a deduction allowed to all individual taxpayers, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 102, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004198", "text": "Even conservative Governors in States like Indiana and Utah recognized this and vetoed some of these bills. Just as troubling, the bill's language opens the door to invasive, degrading, and humiliating physical examinations of children, children who simply want to play softball or join a basketball team. Mr. [PERSON] , our communities thrive when every child can be part of a team, learn sportsmanship, and challenge themselves.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "invasive, degrading, and humiliating physical examinations of children"}
{"id": "crec_004880", "text": "And in my view, it must be done. If Democrats are so concerned that the Senate does not yet have her background check, then the President, President [PERSON] , should address those concerns by making sure that his FBI and his [ORG] get the background checks done, because they are still technically in charge until January 20. There is nothing the [PERSON] administration, the incoming [ORG] administration, can do officially to make that happen; it is up to President [PERSON] and his FBI and his [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "presents background check completion as solely dependent on current President's FBI/ORG, ignoring other possible solutions or shared responsibility"}
{"id": "crec_005717", "text": "Again, the Endangered Species Act being manipulated and weaponized against doing the work we need to do is partly at fault. For example, when we talk about water in California, let's look at the delta smelt for a moment. The water supply we should be building in California is impeded because the water has to be shipped out to the Pacific Ocean, supposedly to help the delta smelt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH156", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing ESA as 'manipulated and weaponized' and presenting delta smelt protection as merely 'supposedly' helping the species oversimplifies complex environmental conservation trade-offs"}
{"id": "crec_004523", "text": "The Agreement has been negotiated in accordance with the Act and other applicable law. In my judgment, it meets all applicable statutory requirements and will advance the nonproliferation and other foreign policy interests of the United States of America. The Agreement contains all of the provisions required by subsection 123 a. of the Act.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-2", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "negotiated in accordance with the Act and other applicable law; meets all applicable statutory requirements"}
{"id": "crec_009175", "text": "In the Senate, I have been working to promote effective forest management practices at every level. So today I have introduced a bill called the Wildfire Prevention Act. My bill allows [ORG] to treat more acres and remove more redtape to better protect our forests and our fellow Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "effective forest management practices, remove more redtape, better protect our forests and our fellow Americans"}
{"id": "crec_005800", "text": "They even beat the odds in the championship game. While ranked fifth, our [ORG] triumphed with a 2-1 victory over the second-ranked team to secure their historic title. From Head Coach [PERSON] to every single player, the [ORG] have displayed remarkable team spirit on their journey to this historic success.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-5", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "historic title, historic success, remarkable team spirit"}
{"id": "crec_004945", "text": "Currently, even families who are paying into the payroll tax system-- that is, families who have a job, workers who have a job, a mom and dad who are paying taxes--they can't begin to claim the child tax relief until they meet a certain threshold of income. My view is this: We ought to allow them to start applying this tax relief against every dollar that they pay into the payroll tax system. Most working-class families pay considerable sums in payroll taxes but relatively little in income taxes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing working families as deserving ('mom and dad who are paying taxes') and using authoritative 'My view is this' to establish credibility while advocating for policy change"}
{"id": "crec_002359", "text": "INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 38. A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to penalize false communications to cause an emergency response, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 39.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007067", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000965", "text": "That is it--not a dollar more. For example, of the $3 billion of the IRA dedicated to the new environmental and climate justice block grant program through the IRA, the EPA announced over the last several months that it would give $50 million to [ORG], $50 million to [ORG], and $100 million to the NDN Collective. [ORG] promotes wildly anti- [ORG] rhetoric.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "promotes wildly anti- [ORG] rhetoric"}
{"id": "crec_000308", "text": "In June of 2023, [ORG] in the United States v. Texas emphatically rejected the alleged standing of States to sue [ORG] to alter the government's immigration arrest policies. This bill attempts a legislative bypass of this constitutional decision in U.S. v. Texas written by [PERSON] Kavanaugh and joined by eight of nine Justices on the [ORG]. In rejecting the States' standing argument, the [ORG] observed, among other things, that lawsuits alleging insufficient arrests or prosecution run against the executive branch's exclusive Article II authority to enforce immigration law, which includes the discretion to determine enforcement priorities in the face of a chronic lack of resources and shifting public safety, public welfare, and foreign policy needs and priorities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 121, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008674", "text": "Wealthy individuals have stocks, and they have other assets that inflate as the dollar devalues. So, again, this harm primarily affects lower income Americans. The men and women who work are harmed by this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "wealthy individuals benefit while 'lower income Americans' and 'men and women who work' are 'harmed' by inflation"}
{"id": "crec_001521", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The question is on passage of the bill. The question was taken; and [SPEAKER] announced that the ayes appeared to have it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000729", "text": "SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS The following concurrent resolutions and Senate resolutions were read, and referred (or acted upon), as indicated: By [SPEAKER]: [PERSON] . 16. A resolution to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, or until their successors are chosen; considered and agreed to.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS42-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005601", "text": "They should go to jail, he said, of Members of Congress who sought to uncover the truth about January 6. Let's recap. The people who broke into the Capitol, and injured 147 officers, and threatened to kill the Vice President should be pardoned, and the elected officials who performed their constitutional duty to investigate the largest mass assault of law enforcement officers and the greatest assault on our democracy should be jailed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-4", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presenting only two extreme opposing positions (pardoning Capitol rioters vs. jailing investigators) while ignoring moderate alternatives; 'largest mass assault of law enforcement officers' and 'greatest assault on our democracy' use emotionally charged language"}
{"id": "crec_007636", "text": "A 39-year-old citizen of Mexico in Federal Way who was convicted of communication with a minor for immoral purposes. A 69-year-old citizen of Mexico in Yakima who was convicted of dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. A 58-year-old citizen of Mexico in Yakima who was convicted of child molestation in the first degree, child molestation in the second degree, and rape of a child in the third degree.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "repeated listing of criminal convictions paired with 'citizen of Mexico' emphasizing nationality in context of serious crimes to create negative association"}
{"id": "crec_001533", "text": "There was no objection. The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH74-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000821", "text": "To make matters worse, this past Monday, [PERSON] banned American energy production on 625 million acres of Federal waters. The Democrat leader says: Well, we need to do things to lower prices for the American people. That is not going to do it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "'banned American energy production' and mischaracterizing the stated rationale as contradictory to the policy's actual effect"}
{"id": "crec_000052", "text": "The VICE PRESIDENT. The state of the vote for President of the United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate, is as follows: The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for President of the United States is 538. Within that whole number, a majority is 270.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004626", "text": "Screw you. Let's do what is right for our brothers and sisters in this country. We are Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Americans and appeals to national identity and fraternity; 'screw you' uses confrontational loaded language"}
{"id": "crec_004506", "text": "Ms. [PERSON] was a longtime organist and choir director for 66 years at [ORG] of St. John the Baptist. At just 16 years old, Ms. [PERSON] became the organist at the cathedral in 1946. She managed several choirs, including [ORG], the SVA Alumnae Chorus, and the cathedral men's choir and women's choir.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-4", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004171", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today in strong opposition to the so-called [ORG] of 2025, a bill that will actually do the opposite and make sports more dangerous for women and girls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "\"so-called [ORG]\" and characterizing bill as doing \"the opposite\" with no middle ground presented"}
{"id": "crec_003057", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 22. A resolution concerning [ORG] policy for eligibility in women's sports; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS89", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001925", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] to require [ORG] to carry out research and development regarding a policy to insure table, wine, and juice grapes against losses due to a freeze event, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] 293.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009063", "text": "A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a tax credit for nurse preceptors; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 132. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules for postponing certain deadlines by reason of disaster; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS225", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003000", "text": "We need time to consider alternative ideas. This legislation does not repeal the original legislation; it merely allows for more time. Let me be clear.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007718", "text": "He recently addressed students at [ORG] in my northwest Ohio district. Colonel [PERSON] 's story is one of unparalleled courage in the face of profound adversity, from humble beginnings to the football fields of West Point and combat in Iraq to his intrepid mission to others after losing both legs in severe injuries sustained in a roadside bomb attack. Despite all that he endured, he easily could have given up in despair.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-8", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Colonel [PERSON]'s story is one of unparalleled courage in the face of profound adversity"}
{"id": "crec_000260", "text": "Since its founding in 1845, [ORG] has been an absolute cornerstone of economic development, business growth, education, and enhancing the quality of life in the Galveston area. The chamber proudly represents over 750 members across diverse sectors, including small businesses, education, research, healthcare, government, nonprofit organizations, and religious groups--truly embodying the spirit of collaboration and progress. As the oldest chamber of commerce in Texas, we are blessed to have this remarkable institution in our community and in my district.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-2", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "absolute cornerstone of economic development, business growth, education, and enhancing the quality of life; spirit of collaboration and progress; blessed to have this remarkable institution"}
{"id": "crec_007550", "text": "We oppose this legislation as it would expand the circumstances under which domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, stalking, and sex offenses would constitute grounds of inadmissibility, as well as expand the definition of domestic violence to be considered for inadmissibility or deportability grounds. These measures would negatively impact immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence, and fail to alleviate the primary barriers to safety and stability experienced by survivors seeking relief under the Immigration and Nationality Act. We are especially troubled that this legislation fails to include waivers that take into account the needs of the victim or their family, and that it will limit the discretion that judges can exercise where the equities warrant, including situations where survivors who are inadvertently caught up in the criminal legal system will be harmed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 133, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "would negatively impact immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence; will harm survivors who are inadvertently caught up in the criminal legal system"}
{"id": "crec_008564", "text": "Entire communities burned to ash. Families brought together in grief. Churches and synagogues have burned down, but their members still gather as one because amidst the darkness and destruction, we have seen rays of hope.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Entire communities burned to ash, Families brought together in grief, Churches and synagogues have burned down"}
{"id": "crec_008151", "text": "A bill to amend the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988, and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mrs. [PERSON] ): H.R. 532.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008340", "text": "His family watched their native Cuba deteriorate under a communist dictatorship, and it was conversations with his grandfather about Cuba's plight that drew Senator [PERSON] into public service. So it is no surprise he is one of the strongest defenders of the rights of the Cuban people. He is also a strong voice for democracy and justice in Venezuela.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "family watched their native Cuba deteriorate under a communist dictatorship; strongest defenders of the rights of the Cuban people; strong voice for democracy and justice"}
{"id": "crec_007588", "text": "Thank God that in 4 days this tragic chapter in our [ORG]'s history will close. Shortly after noon on Monday, President [PERSON] will issue executive orders to protect the American people once again. It is too late for these grieving families but perhaps just in time for yours or mine.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "tragic chapter, protect the American people, grieving families, just in time for yours or mine"}
{"id": "crec_005938", "text": "Now, this is the seventh largest trading partner of the United States. It is a large trading partner of my State of California. I think it is important we end this regime of double taxation, continue strengthening our ties, encouraging more economic investments, and ensuring that we are bolstering our national security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 52, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "strengthening our ties, encouraging more economic investments, and ensuring that we are bolstering our national security"}
{"id": "crec_002501", "text": "This leads to wasted opportunities, more frequent power outages, and higher costs passed on to ratepayers. Commonsense solutions, like H.R. 164, are more critical than ever to keep energy costs low for American families.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH103", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "wasted opportunities, more frequent power outages, higher costs passed on to ratepayers; commonsense solutions"}
{"id": "crec_007729", "text": "I highlight the advocacy of my colleague, [ORG] Congressman [PERSON] , whose support helped get this initiative across the finish line. Heather and I cannot wait to join our fellow Montanans cheering the team on as they take to Pennsylvania Avenue on Monday and make their way toward the White House. Go Cats.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH203-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["flag_waving", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "cheering the team on as they take to Pennsylvania Avenue on Monday and make their way toward the White House. Go Cats."}
{"id": "crec_003908", "text": "I was horrified by the atrocities committed by [ORG] on October 7, but I am encouraged by the reports that indicate that Israel and [ORG] are closer than ever to reaching a cease-fire agreement that would return all remaining hostages held in Gaza to their families. Still, the reality of the matter is whether a cease-fire is reached and whether that cease-fire lasts. We must act now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH115-4", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'horrified by the atrocities' and 'must act now' create emotional urgency without specifying what action is needed"}
{"id": "crec_001235", "text": "5. All defense articles and services listed in this transmittal have been authorized for release and export to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS64", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004857", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007546", "text": "Despite [ORG]'s bipartisan history, we now have to fight tooth and nail to reauthorize it. It was Republicans who let the Violence Against Women Act languish and expire for 3 years. The leader of [ORG] is once again a man who was found liable for sexual misconduct and bragged about grabbing and forcibly kissing women without their consent.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "leader of [ORG] is once again a man who was found liable for sexual misconduct and bragged about grabbing and forcibly kissing women without their consent"}
{"id": "crec_004618", "text": "[ORG] and [ORG] account for $124 trillion of deficit. The rest of the budget has a $9 trillion surplus. Let me walk that through.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001128", "text": "MORNING BUSINESS ARMS SALES NOTIFICATIONS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, section 36(b) of [ORG] requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002480", "text": "Ultimately, this bill holds [ORG] and the government accountable to the American people. By strengthening trust, H.R. 153 is a vital step toward building a more transparent, responsive disaster recovery system.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH101", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "strengthening trust, transparent, responsive, vital step, American people"}
{"id": "crec_006584", "text": "But they are not going to just wander around the country. That is why we believe this Laken [PERSON] Act is so important. It is because we never, ever, ever, ever want to have another American who is murdered by someone illegally present here, especially someone who had already committed multiple crimes before they ever got to that murder.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "repetition"], "evidence": "never, ever, ever, ever want to have another American who is murdered by someone illegally present here"}
{"id": "crec_001668", "text": "We send it on to them. This is both categories in that number of the 21.8, but it is 3 days. Let's actually even add a little bit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002334", "text": "Sincerely, [PERSON] , United States Senator, Vice President-Elect. ____ United States Senate, Washington, DC, January 9, 2025.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS76", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006834", "text": "The poorest children in our country, 50 percent of all children in our country--50 percent--are on SNAP, on food stamps, at some point in their life. That is the poorest children in our country. That is who they are.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["repetition", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "50 percent--50 percent repeated for emphasis; characterization of widespread child poverty to evoke concern"}
{"id": "crec_007773", "text": "Disaster relief through [ORG], started by President [PERSON] , gets food, water, power, and shelter to survivors. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in my [ORG], my home county of Montgomery County received more than $30 million for cleanup and repair. Even so, 3\\1/2\\ years later claims hang in limbo.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-2", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Attribution of disaster relief success to named President; contrast between initial aid delivery and lingering unresolved claims creates emotional weight"}
{"id": "crec_004611", "text": "It turns out, you are going to have to do things that maximize productivity, maximize labor substitution, use that technology, use the supercomputer in your pocket. It is shocking how many people freak out every time I start to talk about using [ORG] and these things. You don't have a choice.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "'It is shocking how many people freak out' and 'You don't have a choice'"}
{"id": "crec_004632", "text": "If you are like I am, you believe this Republic was divinely inspired. If you believe like I do, do you not have a moral obligation to save this country? How about being a dad?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "presents binary choice (either save the country or fail as a parent), implies moral obligation framed as existential necessity"}
{"id": "crec_004211", "text": "It unjustly targets transgender women and girls under the guise of fairness, but exclusion is not fairness, Mr. [PERSON] . Fairness is ensuring that every athlete can participate, grow, and thrive. For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to the committee.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing the policy as 'unjustly targets' and 'exclusion is not fairness' while presenting only two opposing views without acknowledging nuance in the debate"}
{"id": "crec_009848", "text": "For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens, while the pillars of our society lay broken in seemingly incomplete disrepair. We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home, while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events abroad. It fails to protect our magnificent law-abiding American citizens but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals, many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 90, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "radical and corrupt establishment... extract power and wealth... pillars of our society lay broken... cannot manage even a simple crisis... catastrophic events... dangerous criminals... illegally entered"}
{"id": "crec_008999", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] has attended every sale since 1975, making this year's sale on February 6 his 50th. [ORG] consistently raises money for [ORG] scholarships and programs that shape [PERSON] youth to become the [ORG]'s agriculture leaders. The sale and the programs it supports enable youth to develop both the technical knowledge and soft skills that they will need to become professionals working to feed and clothe the world.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS223-3", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000510", "text": "A resolution expressing the sense of [ORG] that [ORG] should be returned to Greece; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 19.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH62-3", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005876", "text": "That hurts businesses of all sizes, as well as individuals who spend time in each market. For example, without a double-tax treaty, workers from the United States who are sent to Taiwan to train for their jobs in a domestic chip facility can be taxed twice on the income they earn on that trip. The U.S. has eliminated this problem through bilateral income tax treaties with more than 60 countries, but not with Taiwan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "workers...can be taxed twice on the income they earn on that trip"}
{"id": "crec_004653", "text": "If a member of the committee chooses to appeal the ruling of the chair, such appeal must be made within three days, in writing, and shall be preserved for committee consideration. The [ORG]'s ruling on appeal shall be filed with [SPEAKER] of the [ORG] and shall be provided to the members and witness no less than three days before the reconvened deposition. A deponent who refuses to answer a question after being directed to answer by the chair may be subject to sanction, except that no sanctions may be imposed if the ruling of the chair is reversed by the committee on appeal.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH146", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009188", "text": "205. Utilizing grazing for wildfire risk reduction. TITLE III--CULTURAL CHANGE IN AGENCIES Sec.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001324", "text": "RECOGNIZING AMERICAN PILOT [PERSON] ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to recognize [PERSON] , a proud American and distinguished commercial and test pilot, who shattered a set of world aviation records in 1988.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-5", "word_count": 69, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "proud American and distinguished... shattered a set of world aviation records"}
{"id": "crec_004393", "text": "H.R. 28 and S. 9's real purpose is not to expand opportunities for women and girls, but to deny transgender, intersex, and nonbinary students of their right under Title IX to equal athletic opportunities. This harms all women and girls.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizes the bills' purpose as 'deny[ing]' rights rather than addressing athletic eligibility criteria; uses emotionally charged framing 'harms all women and girls' to misrepresent the bills' stated intent"}
{"id": "crec_007595", "text": "We expanded access and legal representation for migrants and asylum seekers, many who came seeking peace and solidarity, in search of safety and dignity. Today, as a Representative of California's 12th District, I remain committed to advancing real solutions and making our communities safer. I, too, was a domestic violence advocate for a prosecutor.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 54, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "phrases like 'peace and solidarity,' 'safety and dignity,' and 'real solutions' appeal to vague positive values without specific policy details; 'domestic violence advocate' uses emotionally resonant framing to establish moral authority"}
{"id": "crec_007594", "text": "I have learned through this work that justice is not a principle. It is our responsibility. Later in my career, I led [ORG] started by President [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Later in my career, I led [ORG] started by President [PERSON]"}
{"id": "crec_007861", "text": "Yes, that is a reality. What happened? Let's back up from that a little bit.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000617", "text": "We also know that Iran--the world's No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism--is actively funding anti-Jewish protests on our college campuses. President [PERSON] did nothing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "appeal_to_authority", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "Iran--the world's No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism--is actively funding anti-Jewish protests; President did nothing"}
{"id": "crec_007547", "text": "Last year, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of [ORG]'s enactment. Today, we have to watch our colleagues across the aisle make another cheap attempt to divide us and play gotcha politics. We should work together to eradicate domestic violence.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing opponent actions as 'cheap attempt to divide' while positioning collaboration on domestic violence as the only reasonable path forward"}
{"id": "crec_001412", "text": "Actually, on our side, we welcome debate, and we welcome ways to improve the legislation. I am told that there were negotiations going on to try to actually improve this legislation, and then the Speaker made a unilateral decision to go with the most extreme version. This was not marked up in committee, and there were no amendments to this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing the legislation as 'the most extreme version' and suggesting the Speaker made a 'unilateral decision' to bypass standard legislative processes"}
{"id": "crec_004907", "text": "They have created every farfetched hypothetical that they can dream up but never discuss the real tragedies--like [PERSON] --and how they could have been stopped if we had only done our job. I have refuted their claims in conversations with my colleagues, and we will continue to do so. But what the American people should know is this: These are the same groups that have publicly fought to keep our borders wide open for years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["strawman", "ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents' arguments as 'farfetched hypotheticals' while dismissing them, attacking 'these groups' rather than their arguments, and presenting a false choice between discussing specific incidents and addressing border policy"}
{"id": "crec_001018", "text": "Our tax dollars to the [ORG] are subsidizing threats to our own national security! defenceless spending It's time to declare war on waste at [ORG] (DoD). The Pentagon has never passed an audit and is unable to fully account for its budget.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "name_calling"], "evidence": "subsidizing threats to our own national security, declare war on waste, defenceless spending"}
{"id": "crec_005964", "text": "[SPEAKER]. The question is on passage of the bill. The question was taken; and [SPEAKER] announced that the ayes appeared to have it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009338", "text": "The bill we are considering today may prevent a similar tragedy from affecting another family. [PERSON] 's loved ones have had to suffer the heartbreak of losing their daughter, their sister, their friend--a bright light in their lives. But her mother and stepfather said of this bill: There is no greater gift that could be given to her and our country than to continue her legacy by saving lives through this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "family members' emotional endorsement of the bill; emotionally charged language like 'heartbreak', 'bright light', 'legacy', and 'saving lives'"}
{"id": "crec_000896", "text": "This is not just a relic of the past; it sticks to today. In 2023, 17 percent of new businesses that were started in America during that year were started by immigrants, and another 17 percent were started by the children of immigrants. Fully, 34 percent of new businesses in 2023 were started by immigrants or by the children of immigrants.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009406", "text": "Mr. President, I would like to read into the Record a statement from President [PERSON] , issued this morning on the Equal Rights Amendment. He said as follows: I have supported the Equal Rights Amendment for more than 50 years, and I have long been clear that no one should be discriminated against based on their sex. We, as a nation, must affirm and protect women's full equality once and for all.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Long-standing support claim ('more than 50 years') combined with vague aspirational language ('women's full equality once and for all') without specific policy details"}
{"id": "crec_000691", "text": "[SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will report the resolution by title. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A resolution ([PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS40-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006493", "text": "ISRAEL [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, let me begin by speaking of the recent news of a cease-fire agreement in the Middle East. I have good news.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-2", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001648", "text": "You have to picture two clock faces. I am trying to make some way where you make things with lots of zeros understandable. This is one of my favorite ones.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004922", "text": "Our health has declined. Our hope for the future has eroded. And all the while, this town has plowed ahead with the failed policies of the last 40 years.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "health has declined, hope has eroded, failed policies"}
{"id": "crec_002870", "text": "That theory holds that by cutting taxes for the very wealthy, benefits will trickle down to everyone else. But in truth, not a lot has ever trickled down onto most folks' kitchen tables. Instead, inequality grew and America slid deeper into debt.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH98-5", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["doubt", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "calling the theory into question with 'in truth, not a lot has ever trickled down' and using emotionally charged phrases like 'slid deeper into debt'"}
{"id": "crec_009089", "text": "Nothing could be worse for the environment than massive wildfires. And as a result, our public lands have turned into tinderboxes, and it is because of policies that we have seen come out of this body, this administration, Democrat administrations prior to that. And Wyoming is no stranger to wildfires.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-3", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "Nothing could be worse for the environment than massive wildfires... our public lands have turned into tinderboxes"}
{"id": "crec_005912", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004212", "text": "If the House rules permitted, I would have offered the motion with an important amendment to this bill. Mr. [PERSON] , [ORG] was originally passed to address the structural imbalances between men's and women's sports, disparities that continue to pose an actual threat to women and girls in sports today. My amendment, based on my Fair Play for Women Act, would strengthen [ORG] enforcement and protect all women by increasing accountability, transparency, and training in athletic programs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "claiming amendment is 'based on my Fair Play for Women Act' and describing disparities as 'actual threat to women and girls' uses authoritative framing and emotionally-laden language to strengthen the proposal's credibility"}
{"id": "crec_001001", "text": "It hasn't supported a winning candidate in two decades. This year the program paid out more than $1 million to [ORG] campaign and $380,000 to [ORG] candidate [PERSON] . More than $16.6 million is currently available for funding the future aspirations of fringe candidates destined for failure.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "doubt"], "evidence": "fringe candidates destined for failure"}
{"id": "crec_005761", "text": "I know the Speaker to be a man of good will and integrity. I hope this is something that we can bring up and work on to get this done on behalf of the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I know the Speaker to be a man of good will and integrity"}
{"id": "crec_005480", "text": "1401 et seq. ), an alien granted permanent resident status on a conditional basis shall be considered to have been admitted to the United States, and be present in the United States, as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence. (2) Limitation on application for naturalization.--An alien may not apply for naturalization while the alien is in permanent resident status on a conditional basis.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006185", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I thank my friend from Utah for his remarks and all of the good stuff we have started off with as Republicans in this Congress and his remarks about athletics. I was a walk-on in college. I hope all of us might be able to work together to figure out how to deal with this bit of a mess that the [ORG] is creating with respect to college athletics.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004498", "text": "[[ORG] [ORG] AND [ORG] SPACEFLIGHT INDUSTRY ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today in my first speech on the House floor to applaud the men and women powering America's spaceflight industry.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH141-2", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "applaud the men and women powering America's spaceflight industry"}
{"id": "crec_005738", "text": "Women's sports have flourished, and we have seen amazing accomplishments in basketball, soccer, swimming, and so much more. Athletes like [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , and [PERSON] are now household names, inspiring young girls everywhere. Yet we have been faced with a narrow but loud group of activists and media who think it is acceptable for a 6-foot-4-inch biological male to compete against an average-sized, yet athletic, woman in sports.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH157-2", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents as a 'narrow but loud group of activists' and using 'biological male' framing to present a simplified version of a complex policy debate"}
{"id": "crec_002526", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I urge support for the bill, and I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH104", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006165", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I thank the gentleman from Montana. I appreciate all that we have been able to enact thus far.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005948", "text": "The U.S. is not one of them. In fact, Taiwan is our largest trading partner and ally that isn't covered by a tax treaty. This puts American companies and citizens at a competitive disadvantage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "puts American companies and citizens at a competitive disadvantage"}
{"id": "crec_002358", "text": "Sincerely, [PERSON] , United States Senator. [PERSON] , United States Senator.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS77", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007498", "text": "Just earlier this month, ICE arrested a Dominican national who had been charged with assault to rape, kidnapping, and indecent assault. The illegal alien crossed the border in January 2023 and was placed on alternatives to detention. That is [PERSON] and [PERSON] immigration legacy: more unvetted aliens released into American communities, more criminal aliens on American streets, and more Americans endangered by radical, reckless policies.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "use of terms like 'illegal alien,' 'radical, reckless policies,' and the implication that immigration policies directly cause criminal endangerment without acknowledging complexity or enforcement challenges"}
{"id": "crec_008654", "text": "Do you want to know what [ORG], Jr., would do as Secretary of [ORG]? I want you to look at [ORG]. Before [ORG] had a measles outbreak, he was there--he was there propping up vaccine deniers and falsely blaming deaths on the measles vaccine.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "measles outbreak, propping up vaccine deniers and falsely blaming deaths"}
{"id": "crec_000961", "text": "When it comes to wasteful government spending in the jurisdiction of my committee, which is [ORG]--I am very thrilled, as of yesterday's meeting, to become the new chairman there--look no further than the groundwork we laid last year through the investigations of my committee. We worked on looking at the spending in the massive, bloated, ill-conceived Inflation Reduction Act. The so-called IRA, which was a bill passed with only Democrat votes, authorized billions of dollars in new handouts from EPA to the Democrat-aligned groups.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 89, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "massive, bloated, ill-conceived Inflation Reduction Act; worked on looking at the spending through investigations of my committee"}
{"id": "crec_009616", "text": "Of course, a new President must assemble a [ORG] of people he trusts to carry out his agenda and do that under the Constitution with the advice and consent of the Senate, with the expectation that before the day is out, we will approve the nomination of Senator [PERSON] to be our [ORG]'s 72nd Secretary of [ORG]. I am proud that today we can do that. No one in this body can doubt that [PERSON] is a very intelligent man with a remarkable understanding of America's foreign policy and a very deep commitment to the American dream.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS245-6", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "very intelligent man with a remarkable understanding of America's foreign policy and a very deep commitment to the American dream"}
{"id": "crec_005949", "text": "The bill before us would level the playing field. It would incentivize Taiwan to provide tax benefits to Americans that are similar to those of a tax treaty. Once Taiwan has done so, the United States would provide those same benefits to Taiwan.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "level the playing field"}
{"id": "crec_008044", "text": "Then, finally, there is the issue of housing because it is going to be a major undertaking in order to rebuild these beautiful communities. [ORG] is most assuredly going to stand in the way of that process. It has a long history of denying project after project.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "[ORG] is most assuredly going to stand in the way of that process"}
{"id": "crec_006817", "text": "Why have wind and solar ever be deployed? That is what they are coming for. It is outrageous.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "\"That is what they are coming for\" and \"outrageous\" - creates alarm about unnamed threat while using emotionally charged language without explanation"}
{"id": "crec_008805", "text": "First off, no one's due process is taken with regard to their immigration proceeding that may be moving and the ability to see the criminal proceeding through to the end. At the end of the day, we have to make a decision, and that is the decision that is in front of my colleagues right now. Are we going to protect open border policies or are we going to protect kids?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Are we going to protect open border policies or are we going to protect kids? - presents only two opposing choices while ignoring middle-ground positions; implies choosing anything other than the stated position means failing to protect children"}
{"id": "crec_004002", "text": "Madam Speaker, today, I rise to honor a powerful force in the fight for justice, equality, and true democracy, the Illinois Poor People's Campaign. In one of the wealthiest nations in the world, [ORG] dares to believe that poverty can be eradicated. Their work continues the legacy and vision of the Reverend Dr. [PERSON] , Jr., building a multiracial movement to end poverty, centering the voices of those with lived experiences of poverty, and breaking down barriers to full democratic participation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "phrases like 'fight for justice, equality, and true democracy' and 'powerful force' use inspiring but vague language without specific policy details; references to legacy of MLK and appeal to democratic values invoke patriotic sentiment"}
{"id": "crec_007068", "text": "[SPEAKER] will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007961", "text": "There is plenty of know-how. The loggers, the timber people, so many of them are unemployed and have the know-how that could be managing the forest in a way that is ecologically sound and correct. They are not allowed to do it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "loggers and timber people presented as experts with 'know-how' for 'ecologically sound' forest management, implying their exclusion is unjust"}
{"id": "crec_005000", "text": "But I have long advocated for the abolition of the [ORG] death penalty. And I know he sees it differently. I commend President [PERSON] for his leadership.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004343", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Vermont (Ms. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007467", "text": "May we all be so lucky to reflect on our lives and say: I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. I know [PERSON] 's family can say this of him. My heart is with the children that he loved so very much--Zan, [PERSON] , and [ORG]--and with those who knew him best.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH190-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith"}
{"id": "crec_009411", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER] (Mr. [PERSON] ). Will the Senator withhold his request?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS237-5", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008463", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. S. 5 [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 10, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008368", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003126", "text": "SA 15. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001376", "text": "We will certainly not allow you to be welcomed to American soil. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 23, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000676", "text": "He puts it very poignantly. He says: American investors are going to fund the very military buildup that will result in the death of my marines if China were to invade Taiwan. To me--and I am sure to all of us--that is simply unacceptable.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "American investors funding military buildup that will result in death of marines; characterizing as simply unacceptable"}
{"id": "crec_001604", "text": "We need to build [ORG]. We need to raise the Shasta Dam. We need to not let all the water keep rushing out to the Pacific Ocean through the Delta to supposedly save a smelt that doesn't exist.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH78-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "dismissive characterization of environmental concerns ('supposedly save a smelt that doesn't exist') and presenting choice as binary between dam construction and water loss, ignoring nuanced policy alternatives"}
{"id": "crec_008093", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of South Carolina, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 476. A bill to require the imposition of sanctions with respect to any foreign person that knowingly participates in the construction, maintenance, or repair of a tunnel or bridge that connects the Russian mainland with the Crimean peninsula; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004309", "text": "Let me tell you, Mr. [PERSON] , we have already seen an investigation like this happen at a high school in Utah. Unsurprisingly, they wrongly targeted someone who wasn't trans. If this bill is passed into law, then there are only a few ways to actually enforce it, and that is genital inspections and asking young girls very inappropriate questions about their menstrual cycles.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "strawman"], "evidence": "equating bill enforcement with 'genital inspections' and 'inappropriate questions about menstrual cycles'"}
{"id": "crec_000846", "text": "Today, I send my thoughts to all those who knew, loved, or were inspired by President [PERSON] . Our Nation and world are better off because of his service. May he rest in peace.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "Our Nation and world are better off because of his service"}
{"id": "crec_000764", "text": "There is no doubt President [PERSON] made an impact on scores of Americans. As for this Senator, in 1976, I was on the ballot as a Congressman for Iowa's 3rd Congressional District, and of course [PERSON] was on that same ballot. Now, he and I were bit by different political bugs, but we have a similar foundation--two smalltown boys anchored in our faith.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS45-6", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006089", "text": "As a legislator, I intend to honor the promises I made to my constituents when I asked for their votes: to take seriously the problems we confront, which include a porous border and a massive national debt. I will be a foe to those who would work to turn the people over to the government and a friend to those who will turn the government over to the people. Our common oath, when we begin this service, is to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic; turn the government over to the people"}
{"id": "crec_006670", "text": "It is to cut taxes for the wealthiest international corporations in human history. I am here today with my Senate Democratic colleagues, and I want to make a sort of broader point. As Democrats struggle through, learn about, argue about what went wrong over the last 2 to 4 years politically, one of things that we did not do well enough is stay on the same theme.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 67, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "cut taxes for the wealthiest international corporations in human history"}
{"id": "crec_001126", "text": "1, S. 5, a bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes. [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] of Florida, [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] , [PERSON] . [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005906", "text": "During both of my two visits to Taiwan last year, this issue came up with President [PERSON] in that he said to our delegation: This is a way to improve our economies and our security. He knows and we know that the Taiwanese companies that are investing in semiconductor facilities right here in America and are helping fulfill the objectives of the CHIPS and Science Act need the tax relief and regulation clarity now more than ever. The bipartisan legislation that we are considering today would address this issue by setting a framework for such a treaty, reducing tax withholding rates, and providing clear guidelines for what is taxed, who is taxed, and when it is taxed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 117, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "appeal to President's authority ('he said to our delegation') and vague benefits ('improve our economies and our security')"}
{"id": "crec_005613", "text": "Again, I congratulate [PERSON] 's Flowers as our January small business of the month.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH151-5", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006548", "text": "Those are the type of amendments that Republicans are discussing to strengthen the bill. I know there is some Democrats who are trying to undermine the bill. They want to replace it with thousands of pages of immigration reform.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing Democratic position as wanting to 'undermine the bill' and 'replace it with thousands of pages' without fairly representing their actual policy arguments"}
{"id": "crec_000629", "text": "I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS37-2", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000312", "text": "One of the people released from custody, an undocumented alien, is charged with murdering 19-year-old [PERSON] from Alabama. Why don't we have a bill named after [PERSON] ? Is it because of the inconvenient fact that the undocumented alien who killed him came in under [PERSON] ?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "use of charged language ('undocumented alien,' 'killed'), selective framing to suggest immigration policy caused a death, and implicit suggestion that only two explanations exist for lack of a memorial bill"}
{"id": "crec_008572", "text": "One man, Zaire, was separated from his sister who lived next door. Amidst the chaos, he was able to evacuate his baby and elderly mother. The next day when he returned, he found his sister's car outside her home and found her remains in the rubble.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006230", "text": "Now I want to call on my colleagues and ask them: Well, what is your plan? Because we have a plan, and that plan is to deliver right out of the gate. The President gets sworn in on Monday.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH178", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["bandwagon", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "we have a plan, and that plan is to deliver right out of the gate"}
{"id": "crec_009852", "text": "We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world. And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves, in many cases, to hate our country, despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them. All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "portrayal of public health and education systems as failing ('does not deliver'), children taught 'to be ashamed of themselves, to hate our country' creates negative emotional framing; 'all of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly' invokes patriotic sentiment and promises rapid transformation"}
{"id": "crec_006977", "text": "Without question, [ORG]'s lethal algorithm has cost the lives of many American kids. China also uses [ORG] to amplify its propaganda and suppress information critical of the communist tyranny in Beijing. Compared to other platforms, [ORG] suppresses content related to China's genocide against the [PERSON] people, Tibet, Taiwan, the South China Sea, Hong Kong, Tiananmen Square, and the origins of [PERSON] , among other topics.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "lethal algorithm has cost the lives of many American kids; characterizes platform as suppressing content about sensitive geopolitical issues while implying complicity with China's agenda"}
{"id": "crec_009178", "text": "[ORG] can and will help Californians rebuild. California needs to rebuild with resilience. They need to rebuild with a commitment of preventing a similar fire in the future.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS227-4", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "rebuild with resilience and commitment to preventing fires - vague aspirational language without specific details"}
{"id": "crec_008163", "text": "A bill to direct [ORG], and Explosives to report on firearms trafficking along the I-95 corridor; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] York: H.R. 544.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002446", "text": "This bill will help disaster survivors by taking a step toward streamlining [ORG] fragmented approach to disaster assistance. I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and, hopefully, the Senate will move it through. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield back the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "help disaster survivors by taking a step toward streamlining fragmented approach"}
{"id": "crec_006800", "text": "It is the reconciliation process. By definition, what that means is it will be a Republican-only bill. There will be no discussion among Democrats, where we have some point of views that, by the way, are really beneficial to folks in my [ORG], whether they voted for [PERSON] or they voted for [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 53, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "By definition, what that means is it will be a Republican-only bill. There will be no discussion among Democrats"}
{"id": "crec_006168", "text": "However, protecting women and girls from feeling uncomfortable in their locker rooms, sustaining major sports injuries because of unfair competition, or simply losing out on well- deserved athletic accolades because they are genetically unable to beat a male is not purely political effort. It is simply what is right. This is a line that we must draw, and we know that Americans agree with this.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "phrases like 'feeling uncomfortable,' 'sustaining major sports injuries,' 'losing out,' and 'we know that Americans agree' use emotional language and claim broad agreement to frame a particular position as obviously correct"}
{"id": "crec_001144", "text": "The highest level of classification of defense articles, components, and services included in this potential sale is SECRET. 3. If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge of the specific hardware and software elements, the information could be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce weapon system effectiveness or be used in the development of a system with similar or advanced capabilities.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "If a technologically advanced adversary were to obtain knowledge...could be used to develop countermeasures that might reduce weapon system effectiveness"}
{"id": "crec_007927", "text": "He said raking it. Then they made fun of him for saying raking. Well, there are actually tools called rakes that they use in forestry to move this material.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["whataboutism"], "evidence": "deflecting criticism by pointing to actual rakes used in forestry rather than addressing the original point about the controversial statement"}
{"id": "crec_006892", "text": "They repudiated the failed policies of the [PERSON] administration, starting with what has been happening at the border, which is an unmitigated disaster from a public health and public safety point of view. And it would, indeed, be a threat to democracy if our Democrat colleagues chose to ignore the will of the voters and deny the President his [ORG] or delay it for no good reason and prevent these nominees from going to work to implement the policies that the American people elected President [PERSON] to enact. Unfortunately, this is sort of reflexive, it is kind of what our Democratic colleagues do.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 103, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "ad_hominem"], "evidence": "unmitigated disaster, threat to democracy, reflexive characterization of Democratic colleagues"}
{"id": "crec_008360", "text": "And [PERSON] hold on Senate Republicans, as we have seen throughout the nominations process, is very, very strong. Even so, there are two reasons why holding these hearings is extremely important regardless of outcome. First, they create a contrast between the parties.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "holding these hearings is extremely important regardless of outcome"}
{"id": "crec_006134", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , yesterday, Republicans stood united to pass [ORG] of 2025, reaffirming a simple but critical truth: Men are men, and women are women. It is that simple.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "Republicans stood united to pass...reaffirming a simple but critical truth: Men are men, and women are women. It is that simple."}
{"id": "crec_006518", "text": "What a shock this is, a wealthy oil executive thinks that the solutions to the world's problems are to produce more oil. This is who [PERSON] wants leading America's energy policy. Mr. [PERSON] 's nomination should be an alarm bell for every single American who has gotten a job recently at battery plants, [ORG] factories, and other good-paying clean jobs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-3", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["ad_hominem", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "attacking oil executive's motives ('What a shock... thinks that the solutions') and 'alarm bell for every single American' warning of job loss threat"}
{"id": "crec_007977", "text": "This isn't the rich elite. These are more regular folks. They just want a chance to maybe get back to how they were, and I hope we can help them do that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "'regular folks' and 'rich elite' - contrasting language that frames one group sympathetically while denigrating another"}
{"id": "crec_001219", "text": "[Pages [ORG] SALES NOTIFICATIONS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, section 36(b) of [ORG] requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS64", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007025", "text": "And that is what I have been asking the Senate to do. So I regret that the objection has been raised by my colleagues. But I tell you there is going to be real harm, and my hope is that I can partner with President-elect [ORG] to try to find a resolution of this issue so that we do it with the information that, right now, we do not have to take such an action.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "there is going to be real harm"}
{"id": "crec_005813", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] graduated from [PERSON] in 1970, where he played the position of center on the football team. He joined [ORG] as an assistant coach shortly after his graduation. Soon, Mr. [PERSON] began his 23-year head coaching career.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-3", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001381", "text": "They talk about their bills. They talk about healthcare costs. The farmers in my district talk to me about climate change.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000537", "text": "H.R. 30: Ms. [PERSON] and Mr. [PERSON] of Maryland. [PERSON]", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH63-27", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002981", "text": "Unfortunately, Mr. [PERSON] has pledged that during his second term he will weaponize [ORG] to seek revenge on his political enemies. The President-elect has made it clear that he values one thing above all else in an Attorney General: loyalty. I have no reason to believe President-elect [ORG] has changed his litmus test for Attorney General or his views on how [ORG] should operate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS85-2", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "weaponize [ORG] to seek revenge on his political enemies"}
{"id": "crec_001869", "text": "PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Under clause 2 of rule [ORG], public bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows: By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 241. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for access standards with respect to the provision by [ORG] of hospital care, medical services, or extended care services that are applicable to certain veterans with mental disorders; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 91, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000162", "text": "He knew I wasn't a big fan of track. Track wasn't my favorite sport, but he was sending an important message. That message is: Look, you gave it your best shot.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 31, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004329", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007881", "text": "We are heavy in avocados, and probably in this area, we are talking not far from the fires. Grapes, wine grapes, so much of it comes from our home [ORG]. Americans enjoy these products, like olive oil and table olives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006706", "text": "We have to be down on the floor talking about this every single day. Folks thought it was an inevitability 8 years ago when Republicans made it a priority to steal health insurance from 20 million Americans. And by the skin of our teeth, we were able to save health insurance for 20 million Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Using 'steal health insurance' and 'by the skin of our teeth' creates emotionally charged language and suggests imminent danger requiring constant vigilance"}
{"id": "crec_004722", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 398. A bill to amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to provide cost-recovery authority for [ORG]; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000151", "text": "He was a deeply formative figure for me in my teenage years, setting an example for us players of hard work, determination, and sportsmanship. Together with my dad, also a coach, he founded [ORG], which is my hometown's annual regular-season basketball tournament--the longest running tournament of its kind in South Dakota, started back in the 1960s--an event I played in and still love attending to this day. Among the memories I have of Coach [PERSON] , a lot of them are around that auditorium.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-8", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001429", "text": "What about the President of the United States? We have seven Americans still being held hostage; four deceased, three presumed living. Where is [PERSON] ?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 25, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Deflection to hostage situation ('What about the President...we have seven Americans still being held hostage') combined with emotionally charged language about hostages to evoke concern and urgency"}
{"id": "crec_009443", "text": "Commissioner [PERSON] delivered outside of the Colorado River Basin as well, including with a South-of-Delta drought plan in 2024 that is benefiting water users, addressing their drinking water needs, protecting [PERSON] , and improving the future resilience of the San Joaquin Valley. An invaluable resource to Members of Congress, a trusted partner to water agencies and stakeholders in the West, a dedicated public servant to constituents, and a beloved boss, Commissioner [PERSON] has made a tremendous difference for the present and future quality of life for millions of Americans. Today, I want to thank not only Commissioner [PERSON] for her service, but also wish her and her husband [PERSON] and their three daughters [PERSON] , [ORG], and [ORG] success and happiness in the future as they move back west--and back home--to Nevada.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-17", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-17-pt1-PgS242", "word_count": 133, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "phrases like 'invaluable resource,' 'trusted partner,' 'dedicated public servant,' 'beloved boss,' and 'tremendous difference for the present and future quality of life for millions of Americans' use vague, emotionally positive language without specific evidence"}
{"id": "crec_001162", "text": "ARMS SALES NOTIFICATIONS [SPEAKER]. Madam President, section 36(b) of [ORG] requires that Congress receive prior notification of certain proposed arms sales as defined by that statute. Upon such notification, the Congress has 30 calendar days during which the sale may be reviewed.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS62-2", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001871", "text": "By [SPEAKER] Carolina (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to prohibit United States recognition of [ORG] or any Government of Georgia that is led by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 77, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008916", "text": "[PERSON] testimony. One Member of the [ORG] shall constitute a quorum for taking sworn or unsworn testimony. ([PERSON] , [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS218-2", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008803", "text": "71; that there be up to 15 minutes for debate on the amendment; and that upon the use or yielding back of time, the Senate vote on the amendment without further intervening action or debate. [SPEAKER]. Is there objection?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001411", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself such time as I may consume. First of all, to the gentleman from Texas, yeah, I don't know how the vote on this will come out. I am sure some Democrats may vote for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 40, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001546", "text": "Had I been present, I would have voted [ORG] on Roll Call No. 7. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH75", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000908", "text": "Let's see what we are going to do with this Congress. While taking that oath to support and to defend the Constitution and to defend our freedoms, I really felt and thought about what an honor it is to represent the people of the great State of Tennessee. Over the last 6 years, I have fought vigorously to bring the voice of the people of Tennessee to this [ORG] to make certain that their thoughts and their wishes and their values were brought forward and that we made the effort to defend faith, family, freedom, hope, and opportunity, not only for Tennesseans but for all Americans.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 106, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "defend faith, family, freedom, hope, and opportunity"}
{"id": "crec_000023", "text": "Madam President, the certificate of the electoral vote of [ORG] seems to be regular in form and authentic, and it appears therefrom that [PERSON] of the State of California received 3 votes for President and [PERSON] of the State of Florida received 1 vote for President and [PERSON] of the State of Minnesota received 3 votes for Vice President and [PERSON] of the State of Ohio received 1 vote for Vice President. Senator [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgH45-10", "word_count": 83, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007949", "text": "Endangered Species Act will be used to try and stop the type of timber management that is needed so badly in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and every other area. One of the counties that I have part of the forest in that is known as [ORG] on the western part of my district and flows into the coastal area, 97 percent of that national forest has burned over about a 20-year or 25-year period. What a stellar track record.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "Endangered Species Act will be used to try and stop the type of timber management that is needed so badly... 97 percent of that national forest has burned"}
{"id": "crec_007705", "text": "During the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, he shared his dream, which was deeply rooted in the American Dream. His speech reminded us of our [ORG]'s promises of freedom, justice, and equality. Mr. [PERSON] , North Carolina State University Professor [PERSON] discovered a recording of this iconic speech.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH202-4", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "American Dream, promises of freedom, justice, and equality"}
{"id": "crec_008621", "text": "That is a huge attack on due process. All you need is to be arrested or charged, regardless of whether that is something as small as shoplifting a candy bar, regardless of whether it may become clear that you are innocent, regardless of whether this happened years or even decades ago, and even regardless of whether you are a child. So let me just underscore that because it is important.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "huge attack on due process, regardless of whether...innocent, charged with shoplifting a candy bar, even if a child"}
{"id": "crec_002567", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. [PERSON] ). [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002366", "text": "A bill to establish a [ORG] grant program to combat the smuggling and trafficking of children and young women; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 49. A bill to impose sanctions with respect to police departments in the People's Republic of China and other persons seeking to establish a Chinese police presence in the United States; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007860", "text": "We found out that, as we have heard time and again, the hydrants ran out of water. There are several pieces to that story. There are some realities, too, such as how much you can push through the fire hydrants for a fire that size.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "as we have heard time and again, the hydrants ran out of water"}
{"id": "crec_002285", "text": "Senator [PERSON] , you are correct to compliment the [ORG]. My gosh, I mean, the two quarterbacks in this game, [PERSON] from [ORG] and [PERSON] from [ORG], played each other in the same game when they were freshmen. Both of them started for their respective teams when they were freshmen, and [ORG] prevailed in that game as well.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007529", "text": "This bill before us today ensures just that. As Republicans, we have been called to clean up [ORG]'s border crisis, and that means not only deporting illegal alien sex offenders and abusers, but we must stop them from coming into our country in the first place. It is common sense that the legislation before us today codifies this standard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "references to 'illegal alien sex offenders and abusers' and 'border crisis' combined with 'As Republicans, we have been called to' invoke fear while appealing to party identity"}
{"id": "crec_009913", "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, Senator [PERSON] will now introduce the benediction clergy. [SPEAKER]. I now call on [PERSON] , Pastor [PERSON] , and Rev.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002266", "text": "Here they are celebrating after the big win in Frisco, [ORG]. We kind of like to refer to Frisco, [ORG], as Fargo South. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007620", "text": "I urge my colleagues to oppose this misguided bill. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 7 minutes to the gentlewoman from South Carolina (Ms. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 24, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "misguided bill"}
{"id": "crec_001374", "text": "It is not that some fighter accidentally walked into a hospital for 5 minutes carrying their machine gun. No, they build hospitals and schools into fortified launching points for attack. In clear violation of the laws of armed conflict, [ORG] deliberately targets civilians.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "build hospitals and schools into fortified launching points for attack, deliberately targets civilians"}
{"id": "crec_002719", "text": "Congress shall have the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers and all [ORG] vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any [ORG] thereof.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH112-11", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004349", "text": "This is asking people to show them what is underneath their underwear. That is what we are talking about. This is the logical conclusion for this bill.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 27, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing the bill as 'asking people to show them what is underneath their underwear' represents an exaggeration and mischaracterization of the bill's actual provisions"}
{"id": "crec_006171", "text": "I reflect on this about my nieces, and they are dynamite athletes and, candidly, can probably beat me in most of their assigned sports, such as tennis and soccer, across the board. That is what motivates me on this. The amount of confidence that you get from sports is key.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-6", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000212", "text": "The message also announced that the House has agreed to [PERSON] . 2, resolving that the Senate be informed that a quorum of [ORG] has assembled; that [PERSON] , a Representative from the State of Louisiana, has been elected speaker; and that [PERSON] , a citizen of the State of Illinois, has been elected [PERSON] of [ORG] of the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress. The message further announced that the Speaker appoints as members of the committee on the part of the House to join a committee on the part of the Senate to notify the President of the United States that a quorum of each House has assembled, and Congress is ready to receive any communication that he may be pleased to make: The gentleman from Louisiana Mr. [PERSON] and the gentleman from New York Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS33", "word_count": 143, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007959", "text": "Instead, it is running out to the ocean. No. We can't build the reservoirs we need to add to the water supply that everybody needs, people need, [PERSON] needs.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 29, "labels": ["repetition"], "evidence": "people need, [PERSON] needs - repeated emphasis on need"}
{"id": "crec_009930", "text": "May each decision made by our President and Vice President reflect the values of justice and peace. As we embark on this new chapter, we also seek Your comfort, O God, for those who feel lost or disheartened. In this time of transition, may Your light shine upon them, reaffirming their belief in a brighter tomorrow.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "values of justice and peace, brighter tomorrow, Your light shine upon them"}
{"id": "crec_008555", "text": "We are the single largest contributor of tax revenue to [ORG] by far. In 2022 alone, California paid $83 billion more to [ORG] than it received. So from additional disaster assistance funding to a serious conversation about disaster insurance that I am eager to continue, we are going to need everyone onboard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "We are the single largest contributor of tax revenue to [ORG] by far...we are going to need everyone onboard"}
{"id": "crec_009782", "text": "A bill to repeal the [ORG] from [ORG]; to [ORG], and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-5", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000964", "text": "We demanded to know who is getting these gold bars that are being thrown off the Titanic and in what amounts. Most importantly, we want a clear paper trail so the bureaucrats at the EPA can't bury wasteful spending on the way out the door. The committee has already uncovered handouts to groups that are anti- American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-police, and anti-border security.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "bureaucrats...bury wasteful spending; groups that are anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-police, and anti-border security"}
{"id": "crec_008847", "text": "Went to college first in Colorado, then in Washington State. Did a semester with [ORG], which she loved, and then came back to Alaska, finished up, and graduated from [ORG] which, very importantly, she did well there. But really, really importantly, she met her husband [PERSON] who is a great guy.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001323", "text": "We honor his life and his immeasurable contribution to our cultural heritage.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH66-4", "word_count": 12, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "immeasurable contribution to our cultural heritage"}
{"id": "crec_002100", "text": "H.R. 175: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH94-4", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003136", "text": "Subtitle B--Optional Earned Residence for Long-Term Workers Sec. 1111. Optional adjustment of status for long-term agricultural workers.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92-2", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005454", "text": "Limitation on removal; application and fee exemption; and other conditions on eligible individuals. [ORG]. 304.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS147-7", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006495", "text": "A cease-fire will reduce violence in Gaza and harm to innocent civilians. It couldn't have happened without steadfast diplomacy and until the potency of [ORG] was radically reduced. We will not rest until every hostage comes home.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS160-2", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'steadfast diplomacy' and 'potency of [ORG] was radically reduced' are vague appeals to positive values without specific detail"}
{"id": "crec_004726", "text": "By [SPEAKER]: [ORG]. A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to require the Secretary of the [ORG] to appear before Congress before the debt limit is reached or extraordinary measures are taken to prevent default; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH148", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008590", "text": "Just like after countless hurricanes struck Florida and the South, we rushed in aid. Just this year, after Hurricane Helene, [ORG] is still on the ground in North Carolina helping those in its destructive path. And we won't leave--we can't--until the job is finished.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 44, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "bandwagon"], "evidence": "establishment of credibility through past disaster relief actions, followed by present commitment framed as inevitable moral obligation ('we can't')"}
{"id": "crec_007426", "text": "[SPEAKER] will read the bill by title for the first time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 6) to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS196", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004855", "text": "The Senate is going to follow the mandate of the American people and confirm President [PERSON] 's strong nominees. We will do it swiftly. We are committed to working around the clock, including nights and weekends, if Democrats choose to deliberately delay.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129", "word_count": 41, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Senate following 'mandate of the American people' invokes popular authority; framing swift confirmation as patriotic duty tied to the will of voters"}
{"id": "crec_001041", "text": "In the government sector, it is going to require people like [ORG], and the Senators here in this room to be able to drive that through our government Agencies to get that efficiency. I want to talk a little bit about what we did, because it was very effective. I mentioned that you measure the steps.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004802", "text": "Few nominees will face the kind of troubling questions that Mr. [PERSON] faced going into today's hearing. He is, by [PERSON] , woefully unfit for a job like Secretary of [ORG]. Unfortunately for Mr. [PERSON] , his testimony thus far has failed to address the disturbing questions that plague his nomination.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS128-2", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "troubling questions, woefully unfit, disturbing questions that plague"}
{"id": "crec_002598", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call No. 8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH106-4", "word_count": 16, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006099", "text": "What is being proposed right now in tying conditions to aid is un- American. It is despicable. It is pathetic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH175-3", "word_count": 20, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "un-American, despicable, pathetic - emotionally charged language used to discredit proposals without substantive argumentation"}
{"id": "crec_006088", "text": "My name is [PERSON] , and I am both a physician and an attorney. As a doctor, I am a trained listener. As a lawyer, I am a trained advocate.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH174", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I am both a physician and an attorney... trained listener... trained advocate"}
{"id": "crec_002378", "text": "A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to instruct [ORG] to report to Congress on social media communications; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER]: S. 67. A bill for a right of action against [ORG] employees for violations of rights secured by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS78-2", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009836", "text": "(Applause.) [PERSON] . Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chief [PERSON] to administer the Presidential oath of office.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 18, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000326", "text": "Every part of our system failed Laken that day, and there is nothing we can do to bring her back. I will tell you what, we can make sure this never happens again. Right now, ICE is unable to detain and deport illegal criminals who commit these minor-level crimes, but [ORG] will fix this and give ICE and our local law enforcement the tools to get these criminals out of our country and make our communities safer.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing immigration enforcement as necessary to prevent tragedies and characterizing undocumented immigrants as 'illegal criminals' who threaten community safety"}
{"id": "crec_003496", "text": "SA 7. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 8.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS92", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005678", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , I rise today to honor the exceptional service of [ORG] El Perro Diablo Detachment 478, based in [ORG], New Mexico. New Mexicans have a long history of stepping up to serve our [ORG], and these marines continue to honor that commitment. For decades, the members of this detachment have provided military funeral honors for our veterans, with several members participating in over 1,000 ceremonies and winning multiple awards at honor guard conferences.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-2", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["flag_waving"], "evidence": "honor the exceptional service, stepping up to serve our country, honor that commitment, military funeral honors for veterans"}
{"id": "crec_008177", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia): [ORG]. 21.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006660", "text": "I have continually called on this body to step up and protect innocent Americans from criminals who are here in our country illegally and pass my bill: [PERSON] 's [PERSON] . A loophole in the law means [PERSON] 's killer escaped justice. But today, we can do something to ensure no other family has to go through the pain and the grief that [PERSON] 's parents, [ORG] and [ORG], still feel from their heartbreaking day.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "protection from criminals, killer escaped justice, heartbreaking day, innocent Americans"}
{"id": "crec_001039", "text": "No. In the private sector, you can't go to your customers and say: Well, I am going to reduce your prices, but I am going to also reduce your service, because your customers will go someplace else. It doesn't work that way.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 42, "labels": ["false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "presents only two options (reduce prices with reduced service OR lose customers) while ignoring other alternatives like efficiency improvements or different service models"}
{"id": "crec_008696", "text": "Let's take a look at Barack [PERSON] 's--President [PERSON] 's--spending levels in 2014. Again, I don't think President [PERSON] was spending too little in 2014. I was here.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000807", "text": "What are Republicans trying to hide by rushing this and other nominees through committee? It is very reasonable to wait a little, get additional background information so both sides can be ready for the hearing. Why the rush?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 38, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "implies Republicans have something 'to hide' and frames delay as the only 'reasonable' approach, creating an artificial binary between rushing and proper vetting"}
{"id": "crec_001666", "text": "I think this is for this fiscal year. The appropriation lineup is $21.8 billion. That gets us 3 days of borrowing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH79", "word_count": 21, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007868", "text": "There are two sets of pumps, a [ORG] set of pumps and a [ORG] set of pumps. The one the State of California governs is running 15 percent of capacity or so right now. Why isn't that running at full blast, topping off San Luis Reservoir, which the San Joaquin Valley and southern California can draw upon?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH206-2", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "presents two pump options as only choices while implying one should be running at 'full blast' without acknowledging legitimate operational reasons for capacity levels"}
{"id": "crec_005794", "text": "Sadly, war criminal [PERSON] , the Iranian regime, and the Cuban Communist dictatorship are working to destabilize West Africa with the terrorist [ORG], a murderous threat to the Kingdom of Morocco, an American partner for 250 years. Records of the deposed [PERSON] dictatorship confirm [PERSON] sent militias for training. Last week, the [PERSON] invited [ORG] terrorists to a summit, threatening our valued NATO ally Turkiye.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH159-4", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear", "name_calling"], "evidence": "war criminal, murderous threat, terrorist, Communist dictatorship - emotionally charged language combined with fear appeals about destabilization and threats to allies"}
{"id": "crec_007178", "text": "SA 59. [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 60.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS187-2", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004890", "text": "Unfortunately, his administration has already been marked by a multitude of failed policies and scandals. President [PERSON] would be wise to note that the handling of the transition at the end of his term can, if mishandled, further tarnish his administration's reputation. History will not be forgiving if his outgoing administration decides to threaten the safety and security of the American people by causing unnecessary delays for [ORG] appointments, particularly his national security [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 74, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "threaten the safety and security of the American people by causing unnecessary delays"}
{"id": "crec_007782", "text": "It makes sense that we would lend a hand to our neighbors to the south. The Oregon fire marshal has sent 21 strike teams and 370 individual firefighters to California to help contain these blazes. We are already hearing stories of their heroism.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-4", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "lend a hand to our neighbors to the south, stories of their heroism"}
{"id": "crec_005083", "text": "MEASURES REFERRED The following bills were read the first and the second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated: H.R. 152. An act to amend the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 to develop a study regarding streamlining and consolidating information collection and preliminary damage assessments, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS139-2", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002184", "text": "[ORG] has been sponsored and is now cosponsored by every Republican in the Senate, and there are also several Democrats who have recently signed on to this legislation and now support it. I was happy to hear the Democratic leader saying that he was going to vote to get on the bill as well. [ORG] presents the Senate a simple choice: Are we willing to allow illegal immigrants to roam free in our country or do we want to save American lives?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 88, "labels": ["bandwagon", "false_dichotomy", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "'every Republican in the Senate' and 'simple choice: Are we willing to allow illegal immigrants to roam free' presents only two extreme options"}
{"id": "crec_007152", "text": "A bill to repeal the Corporate Transparency Act; to [ORG], and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for herself and Ms. [PERSON] ): [ORG]. A bill to require the Secretary of [ORG] to obtain the consent of affected [ORG] and local governments before making an expenditure from [ORG] for a nuclear waste repository, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS185", "word_count": 70, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002583", "text": "It is an important and a good bill. All that [PERSON] said about his father, [PERSON] , a rich Tennessean, and Mrs. [PERSON] is true. They were wonderful people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 30, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "All that [PERSON] said about his father, [PERSON], a rich Tennessean, and Mrs. [PERSON] is true. They were wonderful people."}
{"id": "crec_001023", "text": "Those type of hours aren't unusual for our nation's farmers and ranchers. No one works harder and every single American depends on the fruits of their labors. So nothing bugs me more than when [ORG][ORG]) gives away farm aid to pay for pet projects, like subsidizing cricket farms or teaching pigs to play video games, that do nothing to support agriculture.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["strawman", "flag_waving", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "absurd examples ('cricket farms', 'pigs to play video games') misrepresent actual farm aid uses; 'fruits of their labors' and 'every single American depends' invoke patriotic framing"}
{"id": "crec_001262", "text": "[ORG] 23-029); to [ORG]. EC-41. A communication from the Assistant Secretary, [ORG], [ORG], transmitting, pursuant to section 36(c) of [ORG], the certification of a proposed license for the export of defense articles, including technical data, and defense services to Ukraine in the amount of $50,000,000 or more (Transmittal No.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65-7", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006691", "text": "I just had two hearings with [ORG] and [PERSON] . I know [PERSON] was today. Lots of very exciting and interesting things are happening, and we are going to have to comment on that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004117", "text": "[PERSON] and [PERSON] were both elected to local and county office. [PERSON] had the distinction of being the first woman elected to [ORG], and she later served as a [ORG] senator in our unicameral from 1997 to 2006, where she and I served briefly together. This week, their lifelong dedication, especially to Nebraska's children, will be honored with the 2025 Reflection Award from [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH124-9", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000376", "text": "He made his way to [ORG] where he had warrants issued in Dane County for strangulation, suffocation, false imprisonment, battery, and disorderly conduct. He was not detained and deported, as he should have been, because Dane County is a sanctuary county. He then made his way to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was arrested for simple property crimes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 60, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "describing serious crimes (strangulation, suffocation, false imprisonment) combined with 'should have been detained and deported' to suggest danger from sanctuary county policies"}
{"id": "crec_000450", "text": "Madam Speaker, I agree with my colleague that the riot at the Capitol 4 years ago was an abomination. I have said so repeatedly whenever the subject arises. There is no excuse for it.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001501", "text": "This is about whether you want to delegitimize [ORG], a court, by the way, which many Republicans supported when it went after [PERSON] in Darfur and [PERSON] for kidnapping children. Again, we are entering a very dangerous time when we are bringing legislation to the floor to demagogue issues rather than to be constructive. We have to take a deep breath around here because some of the stuff that has come to this floor is really beneath this institution.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["whataboutism", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "bringing up past court cases against political figures to deflect from current criticism; 'entering a very dangerous time' creates fear of institutional decline"}
{"id": "crec_001272", "text": "By the fall of 1990, the couple officially rebranded as [ORG]. In 1993, after graduating from [ORG], [PERSON] 's son [PERSON] joined the company full time. For nearly a decade, the father-son duo successfully managed the business together until 2002, when [PERSON] took over as president of the company.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005679", "text": "During times when military families are experiencing one of the most difficult moments of their lives, marines step forward with unwavering dedication to ensure our [ORG]'s heroes are laid to rest with the dignity they deserve. Their service to our community is a profound reminder of the values instilled in these marines: honor, courage, and commitment. We must continue to support our veterans and their families, ensuring that they also receive the benefits and recognition that they have earned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH155-2", "word_count": 79, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "marines step forward with unwavering dedication to ensure our heroes are laid to rest with the dignity they deserve; values instilled in these marines: honor, courage, and commitment"}
{"id": "crec_008635", "text": "I do appreciate his time, and I appreciate the opportunity to look for areas of common ground. But as I have said already, I oppose his nomination because, regardless of any other views he holds, his long history of explicitly anti-vaccine activism is utterly disqualifying. And I am not the only one who is worried.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "his long history of explicitly anti-vaccine activism is utterly disqualifying"}
{"id": "crec_004094", "text": "On [ORG] and [ORG], I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to keep our Nation safe and to strengthen our alliances around the world. On [ORG], I will work tirelessly to protect the people's right to vote and to make sure this institution, the people's House, functions in a way that is better for Texans and all of our [ORG]'s citizens. Let me be clear: The work begins right now.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH123", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "keep our Nation safe, strengthen our alliances, protect the people's right to vote, the people's House"}
{"id": "crec_006303", "text": "A bill to prohibit the use of United States contributions to [ORG] to support the [ORG] tool developed by [ORG], and for other purposes; to [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] of Tennessee): H.R. 418.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008490", "text": "Can you imagine our communities if the logical conclusion of these people, who hate law enforcement officers so much that they proudly profess that all cops are bastards, publicly to raise money? We need to increase awareness, and we need to make absolutely certain that every man and woman in blue knows we have their back. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 57, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language", "strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing opponents as people 'who hate law enforcement' and asking 'Can you imagine our communities if' paired with implying danger/disorder"}
{"id": "crec_000650", "text": "It is simply impossible for the new administration to tackle the mountain of work waiting for them without their team of advisers who will lead critical government Agencies. Without the President's [ORG] in place, he cannot get the job done that he was elected to do on November 5. With his [ORG] in place, we can get to work to implement the agenda that Texans and Americans across the country elected a trifecta of Republican leaders to accomplish.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgS38", "word_count": 78, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "It is simply impossible for the new administration to tackle the mountain of work waiting for them without their team of advisers"}
{"id": "crec_009486", "text": "RULE II. REGULAR, ADDITIONAL, AND SPECIAL MEETINGS (a) Regular Meetings.--Regular meetings of the [ORG] shall be held on the last Wednesday of every month to transact its business unless such day is a holiday, or the House is in recess or is adjourned, in which case the Chairman shall determine the regular meeting day of [ORG] that month. A regular meeting of the [ORG] may be dispensed with if, in the judgment of the Chairman, there is no need for the meeting.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgH226", "word_count": 84, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002443", "text": "152 represents a crucial step forward toward achieving a more effective disaster recovery system that prioritizes the needs of Americans and ensures they receive the help in a timely manner. I urge my colleagues to support this bill. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH100", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "crucial step forward toward achieving a more effective disaster recovery system that prioritizes the needs of Americans"}
{"id": "crec_008113", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Arizona, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Louisiana, Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): H.R. 495. A bill to require annual reports on counter illicit cross-border tunnel operations, and for other purposes; to [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH217-3", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004374", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , that is why I oppose this bill, and I urge my colleagues to vote against it. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007593", "text": "I started my career leading [ORG], and I stood shoulder to shoulder with young women and girls who had been trafficked and beaten. I have been in morgues. I have been in the tanks of our county jails, literally on my knees, pleading with law enforcement to let young women out who themselves were victims and who were incarcerated wrongly for standing up for themselves while they fought for their lives.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 75, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "vivid emotional imagery ('trafficked and beaten,' 'morgues,' 'on my knees') combined with personal authority positioning through direct experience with vulnerable populations"}
{"id": "crec_008316", "text": "LEGISLATIVE SESSION LAKEN RILEY ACT--Resumed [SPEAKER]. Under the previous order, the Senate will resume consideration of S. 5, which [SPEAKER] will report. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 5) to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-5", "word_count": 73, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000248", "text": "I thank Major [PERSON] for his dedication and service.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH52-4", "word_count": 9, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006454", "text": "[PERSON] . 23: Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Maine, Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Ms. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mrs. [PERSON] . [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH187-28", "word_count": 43, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002575", "text": "I will never forget that. That was my sweet mama. She loved [PERSON] .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH105", "word_count": 13, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001129", "text": "The provision stipulates that, in the Senate, the notification of proposed sales shall be sent to the chairman of [ORG]. In keeping with the committee's intention to see that relevant information is still available to the full Senate, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the notifications that have been received. If the cover letter references a classified annex, then such an annex is available to all Senators in the office of [ORG], room SD-423.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS60", "word_count": 85, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004894", "text": "[SPEAKER]. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Alabama.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 11, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008524", "text": "Instead, [ORG] was run by a committee of leftwing staffers and special interests who ultimately ran the country into the ground, and the media and the Democrats were complicit. It is truly shameful what they have done to this country in the last 4 years. But now we are finally turning the page.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 55, "labels": ["loaded_language", "ad_hominem", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "leftwing staffers and special interests who ultimately ran the country into the ground; media and the Democrats were complicit; shameful what they have done"}
{"id": "crec_005002", "text": "That is a fact. That is why I serve as lead sponsor of [ORG], bicameral legislation to prohibit the use of the death penalty at the Federal level. I spoke out in July of 2020, when the [PERSON] administration ended a 17-year hiatus on Federal executions.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-5", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "I serve as lead sponsor of [ORG], bicameral legislation to prohibit the use of the death penalty at the Federal level"}
{"id": "crec_008392", "text": "He is a lawyer; he is a veteran; and he is a former star Member of [ORG]. He is going to cut redtape. He is going to balance environmental stewardship with sensible energy production.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "lawyer; veteran; former star Member establishes credentials, while 'sensible energy production' and 'environmental stewardship' are vague positive phrases without specifics"}
{"id": "crec_002946", "text": "Instead of focusing on helping working families or lowering healthcare costs or making life better for the American people, [PERSON] very first priority seems to be pardoning the January 6 rioters. And yesterday, on [ORG] Sunday, the Vice President-elect [PERSON] --feeling the heat that these pardons are not very popular with the American people--said that while those who committed violence should not be pardoned, he implied that those who did not commit violence could deserve to be pardoned. The people who invaded the Capitol on January 6, whether they committed violence or not, should not be pardoned.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS83-8", "word_count": 99, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "framing January 6 Capitol participants as 'rioters' who 'invaded' and emphasizing unpopularity to suggest dangerous consequences of pardons"}
{"id": "crec_004865", "text": "Madam President, I suggest the absence of a quorum. [SPEAKER]. [SPEAKER] will call the roll.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS130-3", "word_count": 15, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004796", "text": "Hopefully, it will be possible to undo much of the damage that President [PERSON] has done and set us up for a secure energy future. But it is worth reflecting on what might have been--and could be again--if we don't have a Congress and a President committed to conventional, as well as renewable, energy development. I hope that future administrations--Democrat, as well as [PERSON] will make American energy security a priority.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS127-8", "word_count": 71, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "'undo much of the damage' and 'secure energy future' framed as at risk without proper leadership"}
{"id": "crec_001336", "text": "[ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Georgia, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Pennsylvania, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] -[PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Ms. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Colorado, Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mrs. [PERSON] . [ORG]: Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Texas, Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-2", "word_count": 122, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007136", "text": "MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME The following bill was read the first time: S. 6. A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS184-6", "word_count": 65, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004605", "text": "No, all the salaries just covered 9 hours of borrowing. There is a scale problem. I know seeing 12 zeroes, when you start talking a trillion, is hard.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH142-3", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000143", "text": "[[ORG] OF THE ELECTION [SPEAKER]. Mr. President, in just a few minutes, Senators will head over to [ORG] to count the electoral votes and certify the election of [PERSON] and [PERSON] as President and Vice President of the United States.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-06", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-06-pt1-PgS31-7", "word_count": 61, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005346", "text": "[SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table. SA 27. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], supra; which was ordered to lie on the table.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS141", "word_count": 50, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000945", "text": "And people will say: Well, yeah, should we do that? Yes is the answer. So the very simple statement is: If we find duplication in government, why don't we highlight it and then eliminate it?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "If we find duplication in government, why don't we highlight it and then eliminate it?"}
{"id": "crec_004836", "text": "But, most importantly, thanks to [PERSON] , [ORG] once again stood for decency, civility, respect, and empathy. I sincerely hope our [ORG] does not lose sight of these values. There is no doubt, when it comes to [ORG]'s words, President [PERSON] 's life has imitated art.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 48, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "stood for decency, civility, respect, and empathy; President's life has imitated art"}
{"id": "crec_007557", "text": "Provinces, [ORG], Futures Without Violence, [ORG], Human Trafficking Legal Center, IAmProSe, [ORG], Japanese American Citizens League, [ORG], [ORG], Just [ORG], [PERSON] in Aging, [ORG] and [ORG] (formerly [ORG]). [PERSON] for [ORG], [ORG], Mujeres [PERSON] , [ORG], [PERSON] to End Sexual Violence, [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] , and [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], National Network to End Domestic Violence, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], Public Advocacy for Kids ([ORG]), [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [PERSON] Interfaith Partnership Against Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse, SAGE Empowerment, Sahiyo U.S., [ORG], South Asian SOAR, [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], [ORG], YWCA USA. State, Territorial, and [PERSON] : [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH191-3", "word_count": 187, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005418", "text": "[ORG] 23. [SPEAKER] submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill [ORG], to require the Secretary of [ORG] to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Beginning on page 3, strike line 9 and all that follows through page 8, line 10.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS145", "word_count": 82, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_005911", "text": "I deeply value our continued partnership with our ally Taiwan, and I know that this bill will go a long way to secure our economic relationship for years to come. As a member of [ORG], ensuring mutually beneficial relationships with our allies is very important to me. Of course, being a West Virginian, I always welcome our friends from Taiwan to come visit our beautiful [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH160-6", "word_count": 68, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "deeply value our continued partnership with our ally Taiwan and secure our economic relationship, being a West Virginian, beautiful [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_001509", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , and still I rise. I rise today as a proud American and a staunch believer in the noble ideals this country was founded upon. This country, which was built on the idea of equality and justice, today is a leader on the world stage that can boast of its commitment and success in spreading these values.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 58, "labels": ["flag_waving", "glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "proud American and a staunch believer in the noble ideals this country was founded upon; country built on the idea of equality and justice; leader on the world stage"}
{"id": "crec_004291", "text": "That is wrong. In fact, the vast majority of Americans agree that men do not belong in women's sports or in women's locker rooms. Ask working-class Americans if [PERSON] should have swum the women's 200-meter freestyle.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 37, "labels": ["bandwagon", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "vast majority of Americans agree; loaded framing of 'men do not belong in women's sports or in women's locker rooms'"}
{"id": "crec_006365", "text": "By [SPEAKER] (for himself, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of West Virginia, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] of Florida, Mr. [PERSON] , Mrs. [PERSON] of Illinois, Ms. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , Mr. [PERSON] , and Mr. [PERSON] ): [PERSON] . 47.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH182-3", "word_count": 39, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001237", "text": "EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED As in executive session [SPEAKER] laid before the Senate messages from the President of the United States submitting sundry nominations which were referred to the appropriate committees. (The messages received today are printed at the end of the Senate proceedings.)", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS65-3", "word_count": 56, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004496", "text": "As [PERSON] and [PERSON] begin this new chapter of their lives, I am not sure if baby [PERSON] will become a [ORG] or maybe a Hokie. My hopes are that he becomes a [ORG]. I am excited to see them both have the opportunity to grow and learn as they raise their newborn son and teach him about the important issues of life that matter most to a child, that matter most to his new family and to his community, and to teach him the faith that he will grow in to become a proud American.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH140-4", "word_count": 97, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "important issues of life that matter most, proud American, teach him the faith"}
{"id": "crec_008889", "text": "But one U.S. state offers all of Greenland's benefits: Alaska. The problem is that the [PERSON] administration has spent its time trying to turn [ORG] into a giant national park rather than recognizing it as a great strategic asset. Greenland would provide the U.S. a gateway to the Arctic.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "characterizing resource management as 'trying to turn [ORG] into a giant national park' versus 'recognizing it as a great strategic asset' presents opposing choices without acknowledging middle-ground approaches"}
{"id": "crec_006579", "text": "[ORG] is pretty simple. It says: If someone is here illegally and they commit a crime in the United States of stealing Americans' stuff, like he did, that he is deported. I don't think it is a radical concept to be able to say that Americans don't want someone to come into the country illegally and take their stuff.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 62, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "characterizing illegal immigration combined with crime as 'stealing Americans' stuff' and framing deportation as a simple, common-sense response to invoke concern about safety and property"}
{"id": "crec_002895", "text": "I very much appreciate the gentleman from North Carolina Representative [PERSON] 's work on this legislation, and I would urge adoption by the House. Mr. [PERSON] , I reserve the balance of my time. [SPEAKER].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH99-4", "word_count": 33, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_001773", "text": "We need to pass the PRO Act. We did not. I will explain why in a moment.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH82", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_003049", "text": "A bill to amend title 31, United States Code, to improve the prevention of improper payments, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG]. By [SPEAKER] (for himself and Mr. [PERSON] ): S. 81. A bill to require a guidance clarity statement on certain agency guidance, and for other purposes; to [ORG] and [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgS88-4", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006780", "text": "The Senator from New Mexico. [SPEAKER]. Madam President, I especially want to start by giving thanks to our colleague from Hawaii for asking us to come together and have a conversation with the American people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_007071", "text": "[PERSON] (FL) [PERSON] ([ORG]) [PERSON] NAYS--25 [PERSON] Rochester [PERSON] NOT VOTING--4 [PERSON] The amendment (No. 14) was agreed to. [SPEAKER] (Mrs. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgS161", "word_count": 118, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004837", "text": "Throughout his time in public service, President [PERSON] inspired hope in so many millions of people, and in his commitment to ensuring that America lived up to her lofty ideals, he left a legacy that will shape history. President [PERSON] , it has been an honor to count myself as your colleague and your friend. On behalf of a grateful nation and the world, I want to say to you-- and to [PERSON] and all of your family who shared you with us for so [PERSON] thanks for making hope and history rhyme.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgS129-2", "word_count": 92, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "inspired hope in so many millions, ensuring that America lived up to her lofty ideals, legacy that will shape history, grateful nation and the world"}
{"id": "crec_009920", "text": "Let us pray for our 47th President. Heavenly Father, we are so grateful that You gave our 45th and now our 47th President a millimeter miracle. We are grateful that You are the one that have called him for such a time as this; that America would begin to dream again.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["flag_waving", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "invocation of divine blessing and calling for the president, combined with nationalist sentiment about America dreaming again"}
{"id": "crec_001433", "text": "The [ORG] has joined the [ORG] in showing a clear bias against Israel. This culminated in the [ORG] seeking arrest warrants of the Prime Minister and other members of his cabinet. The Israelis have been working tirelessly for over a year to rescue hundreds of hostages still held by [ORG] and to defend their own people from further attacks.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 59, "labels": ["loaded_language", "false_dichotomy"], "evidence": "framing criticism of Israel as 'clear bias' while portraying Israeli military actions solely as 'working tirelessly...to rescue hostages and defend their own people'"}
{"id": "crec_002216", "text": "Understand their pain. Hear their pleas for action. They need us to pass [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgS69-6", "word_count": 17, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "They need us to pass [ORG]"}
{"id": "crec_001880", "text": "A bill to amend [ORG] to make mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system, and for other purposes; to [ORG], and in addition to the Committees on [ORG], and [ORG] and [ORG], for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. By [SPEAKER]: H.R. 252.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH87-2", "word_count": 80, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_009853", "text": "(Applause.) My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal and all of these many betrayals that have taken place and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed their freedom. From this moment on, America's decline is over.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-20", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-20-pt1-PgS252-8", "word_count": 49, "labels": ["loaded_language", "glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "horrible betrayal, America's decline, restore faith/wealth/democracy/freedom positioned against implied chaos"}
{"id": "crec_004361", "text": "Because you did nothing, that man walked into the women's locker room at your university and saw me undress down to full nudity. You allowed college women to be traumatized . .", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 32, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "vivid traumatic scenario (man seeing nudity, women traumatized) combined with accusatory 'you did nothing' and 'you allowed' to evoke fear and emotional distress"}
{"id": "crec_004005", "text": "Honoring Pastor [PERSON] [SPEAKER]. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor [PERSON] of [ORG] in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. Born in Texas and later making Chicago her home, [PERSON] 's lifelong commitment to advocacy has left an undeniable mark on our communities and our [ORG].", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH119", "word_count": 51, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_000944", "text": "Let's be more efficient. Starting with the new [ORG] administration, they have launched a new initiative that folks have made fun of, [ORG], [ORG]. And I am fascinated by the number of people that step out and they make fun of this initiative, to say: [ORG]--and then I ask them the simple question: Do you know a way the government could be more efficient?", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 72, "labels": ["strawman", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "characterizing criticism of an initiative as people 'making fun of' it, then asking critics if they have alternatives, which misrepresents their position"}
{"id": "crec_001426", "text": "Yeah, we do disagree on the impact of this bill. I disagree that this bill is going to do anything to get the hostages released. Every time we have seen hostages released, it has been during a cease- fire and not in the middle of intense bombing.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 47, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008831", "text": "I usually try to give a little update about what is going on in our great State because it is always something interesting. And then I encourage people watching on TV: Come on up to Alaska; you are going to have the trip of a lifetime if you do it. So today the Alaskan of the Week is someone very special to me and my wife.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 66, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "'our great State' and 'trip of a lifetime'"}
{"id": "crec_007790", "text": "Just as we have come together to fight these fires, we must come together to bring real relief to families again who have lost everything. In our country's history, [ORG] has never placed restrictions and conditions on emergency disaster aid to our people.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH205-6", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["bandwagon", "flag_waving"], "evidence": "come together to fight these fires, come together to bring real relief; appeal to national unity and historical pride in disaster response"}
{"id": "crec_000333", "text": "God help us. [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 19, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_006057", "text": "RECOGNIZING CHRISTOPHER BROOKS AS OHIO'S 13th [ORG] DISTRICT CHAMPION OF THE WEEK ([SPEAKER] asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.) [SPEAKER]. Mr. [PERSON] , today, I rise to recognize [PERSON] as Ohio's 13th Congressional District champion of the week.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-15", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-15-pt1-PgH173-4", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_004169", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] , kicking girls off sports teams to make way for biological males takes opportunities away from these girls. This means fewer college scholarships and fewer opportunities for girls. It also makes them second-class citizens in their own sports and puts their safety at risk.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-14", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-14-pt1-PgH126", "word_count": 45, "labels": ["appeal_to_fear", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "puts their safety at risk, second-class citizens, kicking girls off"}
{"id": "crec_000397", "text": "Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. [PERSON] . Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. [PERSON] ).", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-07", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-07-pt1-PgH53-4", "word_count": 26, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008606", "text": "As a result of the bills that I introduced with my colleagues and sustained bipartisan funding over the last 13 years, American leadership has provided first-time, sustainable access to clean water to more than 76 million people and access to sanitation to 58 million. I can remember a visit I made years and years ago to Port-au-Prince in Haiti. It is one of the poorest places on Earth, and of course, it is in our hemisphere.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 76, "labels": ["glittering_generalities", "appeal_to_authority"], "evidence": "Emphasis on 'American leadership,' 'bipartisan,' and large numbers (76 million, 58 million) without detailed specifics; positioning oneself as an authority figure responsible for these achievements"}
{"id": "crec_008047", "text": "Crosswalks, bicycle lanes, and infill development near projects, the report states, are all goals of recent statewide legislation, yet [ORG] opposes or delays many of these projects. Mr. [PERSON] , the process of rebuilding and recovery in L.A. is going to be a long and difficult one. There are some things that we know we need to do right off the bat.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgH215", "word_count": 64, "labels": ["strawman"], "evidence": "characterizing [ORG]'s position as opposing or delaying projects that are presented as universally agreed-upon goals of legislation"}
{"id": "crec_001022", "text": "Congress passed a law to fix this problem years ago, but it's still not enacted. Put them to work or send them home for good! stop giving away the farm Your call for budget cutting crusaders asks for individuals willing to work 80+ hours a week.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-08", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-08-pt1-PgS46-3", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["loaded_language", "appeal_to_fear"], "evidence": "stop giving away the farm; Put them to work or send them home for good"}
{"id": "crec_008413", "text": "And thanks to a diligent and careful judge who was able to expose a sweetheart deal that would have exonerated [PERSON] previously, he was convicted of illegally possessing a firearm, and he stood charged with massive tax fraud. President [PERSON] said time and time again: I promise I am not going to pardon him. And then he turned around, and he did.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 63, "labels": ["appeal_to_authority", "loaded_language"], "evidence": "crediting a 'diligent and careful judge' to establish authority, coupled with loaded terms like 'sweetheart deal' and 'turned around' to characterize broken promises negatively"}
{"id": "crec_001473", "text": "Mr. [PERSON] . Mr. [PERSON] , I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. [PERSON] , as I close debate, I want to reiterate my opposition to this misguided legislation.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-09", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-09-pt1-PgH67-6", "word_count": 28, "labels": ["loaded_language"], "evidence": "misguided legislation"}
{"id": "crec_008739", "text": "That is the end of [PERSON] quote. After working in the House and private sector, [PERSON] began working in our office in 2017. It became evident to me early on that one of [PERSON] 's greatest strengths is his ability to quickly build friendships and collaborations.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS198", "word_count": 46, "labels": ["glittering_generalities"], "evidence": "greatest strengths is his ability to quickly build friendships and collaborations"}
{"id": "crec_002826", "text": "It still has a million acre-feet of space left, but it is dumping water because they want to have room at the top to conserve for more weather. Okay. I guess I understand that.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 34, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_008329", "text": "In order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule [ORG], I would object to further proceeding. [SPEAKER]. The objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "senate", "date": "2025-01-16", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-16-pt1-PgS197-6", "word_count": 35, "labels": ["none"], "evidence": ""}
{"id": "crec_002819", "text": "They want to just make it a climate change story. What are we doing to make things more fire resilient in southern California? This is [ORG] just up the hill from Pacific Palisades.", "source": "US Congressional Record (public domain)", "chamber": "house", "date": "2025-01-13", "granule_id": "CREC-2025-01-13-pt1-PgH96-3", "word_count": 36, "labels": ["strawman", "whataboutism"], "evidence": "deflecting from one issue by claiming 'they want to just make it a climate change story' and shifting to 'what are we doing' about fire resilience instead"}