{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-boebert-fighting-every-colorado-rural-hospital-eastern-plains", "REP. BOEBERT: FIGHTING FOR EVERY COLORADO RURAL HOSPITAL ON THE EASTERN PLAINS", "2026-09-14", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Lauren Boebert", "B000825", "boebert.house.gov", "boebert", "https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) published an op-ed in Colorado Politics highlighting her extensive record fighting for rural hospitals.\n\nRep. Boebert wrote, \u201cI worked with my colleagues for years long before President Trump\u2019s reelection to plan what became the One Big Beautiful Bill so we would have a plan ready to go.\u201d That bill, she wrote, created the Rural Health Transformation Program $50 billion over five years, $10 billion a year from fiscal year 2026 through 2030.\n\n\u201cColorado\u2019s first-year award is about $200.1 million,\u201d she wrote, with \u201calmost $160 million in the first year\u201d going out as competitive grants to rural providers. First-year grants include $44 million for telehealth, $23.4 million to recruit and keep rural clinicians, $48.9 million for hospitals, clinics and EMS, $40 million for new care models, and $4.8 million for chronic-disease prevention.\n\nThe Truth Is Democrats Have Been Cutting Healthcare\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to be reminded that for the past decade Democrats and socialists have blamed President Donald Trump for everything,\u201d she wrote. Democrat leaders, she wrote, \u201chave spent two years cutting healthcare while running sanctuary policies that make fraud and crime harder to stop.\u201d\n\n\u201cSo, when Democrats talk about cuts, they happened here in Denver. Those are state choices, not slogans,\u201d she wrote. Sanctuary rules that block cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, she wrote, \u201cmake it easier for illegal presence\u201d and \u201cbenefit fraud, identity theft, cartels and repeat offenders who drain dollars that should go to hospitals, nurses and families who play by the rules.\u201d\n\nRepublicans Focused on Cutting Fraud to Protect Rural Hospitals\n\n\u201cCutting fraud, waste and abuse puts real money into rural hospitals,\u201d she wrote. Republicans are getting crime and fraud out of government programs and sending resources back to farmers, ranchers, seniors, children, and rural hospitals on the Eastern Plains. \u201cSecure communities and honest books protect care close to home,\u201d she wrote.\n\nShe also cited the Rural Hospital Technical Assistance Program Act (H.R. 4713), her yes vote on the Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2493), and her role as an original cosponsor of the Rural Hospital Revitalization Act of 2026 (H.R. 9005).\n\nRead the op-ed in Colorado Politics:", 1, "2026-09-15T09:50:21Z", "2026-09-15T09:52:05Z"]], "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://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-boebert-fighting-every-colorado-rural-hospital-eastern-plains"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8521401323378086, "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"}