{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyburn.house.gov/clyburn-statement-on-5th-anniversary-of-the-affordable-care-act/", "Clyburn Statement on 5th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act", "2015-03-24", "2015", "2015-03", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "James E. Clyburn", "C000537", "clyburn.house.gov", "clyburn", "https://clyburn.house.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. House Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn delivered the following statement today on the Capitol steps about the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act:\n\n\u201cSpeaking at an international health care conference in 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: \u201cOf all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.\u201d I profoundly agree with that view. Affordable access to quality health care should not depend on the circumstances of one\u2019s birth.\n\n\u201cMore than five years ago, during House debate on the Affordable Care Act, I labeled it \u201cthe Civil Rights Act of the 21st Century,\u201d and I am pleased and very proud that the law is living up to that moniker.\n\n\u201cUnder the ACA, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against the 129 million Americans who have pre-existing conditions. 105 million Americans no longer have a lifetime limit on their health coverage. No longer can women be penalized by insurance companies simply for being women. Thanks to the ACA, 16 million Americans who were previously uninsured finally have the security of health insurance for their families.\n\n\u201cDespite repeated Republican claims that the ACA would kill jobs, our economy is creating jobs at the fastest rate since the 1990s. So, as we gather to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, I\u2019ve got a message to our Republican friends: The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. Let\u2019s work together to make it better.\u201d\u2019", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T20:12:38Z"]], "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://clyburn.house.gov/clyburn-statement-on-5th-anniversary-of-the-affordable-care-act/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8659090381115675, "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"}