{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-votes-lower-prescription-drug-prices", "Congressman Cohen Votes to Lower Prescription Drug Prices", "2019-12-12", "2019", "2019-12", "Democrat", "House", "TN", "Steve Cohen", "C001068", "cohen.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON  Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today voted for, and the House passedH.R. 3, theElijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act,a comprehensive bill that preventsAmericans from having to pay more for their medicines than what Big Pharma charges for the same drugs in other countries.\nThe vote on passage was 230 to 192.\nCongressman Cohen made the following statement:\nThe House is keeping its for the people' promise to America, today voting on a comprehensive plan to lower prescription drug prices and reform an industry knownfor unexplainable price hikeson life-saving medicationswhile industry CEOs make billionsof dollars.This bill literally puts money back in the pockets of consumers, and is a major step in the right direction.\nThe Lower Drug Costs Now Act:\n \nGives Medicare the power to negotiate directly with the drug companies, and creates powerful new tools to force drug companies to the table to agree to real price reductions, while ensuring seniors never lose access to the prescriptions they need.\n \n \nMakes the lower drug prices negotiated by Medicare available to Americans with private insurance, not just Medicare beneficiaries.\n\t\nStops drug companies ripping off Americans while charging other countries less for the same drugs, limiting the maximum price for any negotiated drug to be in line with the average price in countries like ours, where drug companies charge less for the same drugs  and admit they still make a profit.\n\t\nCreates a new, $2,000 out-of-pocket limit on prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries, and reverses years of unfair price hikes above inflation across thousands of drugs in Medicare.\n\t\nReinvests the hundreds of billions of dollars in savings in the most transformational improvement to Medicare since its creation delivering vision, dental and hearing benefits  and turbocharging the search for new cures.\n \nAdditionally, H.R. 3's expansion of Medicare coverage for dental, vision and hearing services represents a significant out-of-pocket savings for seniors.\n \n99percentof Medicare beneficiaries in TN-09 (105,000 people) are estimated to gain dental benefits;\n\t81percentof Medicare beneficiaries in TN-09 (86,000 people) are estimated to obtain vision benefits;\n\t87percentof Medicare beneficiaries in TN-09 (92,500 people) are estimated to secure hearing benefits.\n \nCongressman Cohen is a member of the Congressional Medicare for All Caucus and isco-leadingthe Diabetes PreventionSemipostalAct (H.R. 4914), which would raise revenue and direct it to research on diabetes, a diseasethatin Memphis is above the national average.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://cohen.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-cohen-votes-lower-prescription-drug-prices"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5911147929728031, "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"}