{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://balderson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2913", "Balderson Joins President Trump for Announcement to Lower Car Prices and Protect Consumer Choice", "2025-12-03", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Troy Balderson", "B001306", "balderson.house.gov", "balderson", "https://balderson.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=1", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Troy Balderson (OH-12) joined President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in the Oval Office today for the announcement of the \u201cFreedom Means Affordable Cars\u201d initiative, which will boost vehicle affordability for millions of Americans.\n\nThe initiative resets the unworkable corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards that were raised under the Biden Administration in a push to phase out gas-powered vehicles and create a de facto electric vehicle (EV) mandate. If left in place, the Biden-era standards would have raised car prices, increased U.S. reliance on China, and restricted consumer choice.\n\n\u201cAmericans shouldn\u2019t be forced into expensive electric vehicles they can\u2019t afford\u2014yet that\u2019s exactly what the Biden administration tried to do,\u201d said Balderson. \u201cRepublicans in Congress have already made tremendous progress to roll back EV mandates and cut and lower costs for working Americans through the Working Families Tax Cuts. I applaud President Trump and his administration for continuing to right-size regulations and lower costs for the American people.\u201d\n\nUnder the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law in July, Congress eliminated key enforcement mechanisms for Biden\u2019s heightened CAFE standards. Today\u2019s announcement resets those standards to a common-sense level that keeps new vehicle prices within reach while supporting continued improvements in fuel efficiency.\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://balderson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2913"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7887610699981451, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}