{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://buchanan.house.gov/2025/12/buchanan-applauds-trump-administration-s-reversal-of-biden-s-fuel-efficiency-standards", "Buchanan Applauds Trump Administration\u2019s Reversal of Biden\u2019s Fuel Efficiency Standards", "2025-12-03", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "FL", "Vern Buchanan", "B001260", "buchanan.house.gov", "buchanan", "https://buchanan.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Joined President Trump for Announcement, Showcased Full Expensing in Working Families Tax Cuts\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Today, Congressman Vern Buchanan, Vice Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, joined President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office to announce new fuel efficiency standards that prevent severe price hikes that Biden\u2019s unrealistic 50-mpg standard would have triggered across the automotive market.\n\nBuchanan thanked President Trump for his leadership to return fuel efficiency standards to reasonable levels and highlighted how Republicans\u2019 Working Families Tax Cuts permanently restore full expensing for vehicles used for business purposes.\n\nClick here or the image above to view Buchanan\u2019s remarks.\n\nBuchanan delivered the following remarks:\n\n\u201cThank you, Mr. President, for your leadership. The thing I\u2019ve admire most: you\u2019ve been in business, you\u2019ve been in the battles over the years and you\u2019re helping lead us out. Most people that are up here have no idea about business or small business, which makes a big difference.\n\n\u201cI would just say, in terms of the tax stuff we\u2019re talking about, one of the things that gets missed\u2014I\u2019m in Florida, the Sarasota region\u2014is the ability to deduct. Most people who have a small business ... they\u2019ll buy a new or used truck. They can take that deduction\u2014let\u2019s say they\u2019re in a 20 percent tax bracket\u2014the vehicle is [$60,000], they can take 20 percent of the 60 grand and get a $12,000 write off. They can pay their payments for the first year. That\u2019s a powerful tool we don\u2019t talk about, I don\u2019t know why.\n\n\u201cBut at the end of the day, because of what you\u2019ve put in place\u2014full expensing\u2014that\u2019s the tool that one would use. You can just think about all the people in Florida and in general places. They\u2019re buying old vans or new vans, they\u2019re buying trucks, mainly trucks, and they\u2019re getting a deduction, and they don\u2019t even have a payment for a year. One of the best things for Florida. Expensing is a powerful tool. They can just write the whole asset off in the first year, take that deduction and put $12,000 in their pocket.\n\n\u201cLet me mention one other thing. They got into the EV vehicles\u2014electric cars\u2014and I\u2019m talking to dealers that come in and talk to me. Basically, they couldn\u2019t sell one, they couldn\u2019t give one away, and when these companies got them because of whatever, political pressure under the Biden administration, they ended up realizing that they\u2019ve got no market. The guy says, \u2019The cars have been sitting there a year, I can\u2019t get rid of it.\u2019 ... Thanks for what you\u2019re doing here today. It\u2019s big, it\u2019s huge. It\u2019ll make a big difference. $12,000 on a $60,000 vehicle, upfront, day one. Thank you.\u201d\n\nWatch the full announcement here.\n\nBuchanan is a respected leader in Florida\u2019s business community and has created thousands of jobs over the course of his career. He previously chaired both the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee.\n\n---\n\nBY THE NUMBERS\n\nIf President Trump did nothing, Americans would automatically see cost increases in excess of $100 billion.\n\nThe Biden standards would have raised the average cost of a new car by about $1,000, relative to the cost under the reset standards.\n\nAfter soaring by 22% under 4 years of Biden, new and used car prices have fallen -0.5% so far under President Trump.\n\nThese efforts are also helping to boost domestic auto production: after declining -5.1% under the Biden administration, total motor vehicle and parts factory output has surged +13.3% so far under President Trump.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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://buchanan.house.gov/2025/12/buchanan-applauds-trump-administration-s-reversal-of-biden-s-fuel-efficiency-standards"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.807877328246832, "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"}