{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://curbelo.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1796", "Curbelo Talks Tax Relief for South Florida Families with NBC 6 and Local 10", "2017-12-11", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "FL", "Carlos Curbelo", "C001107", "curbelo.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "As Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate head to a conference committee this week to negotiate the final tax reform legislation, Representative Carlos Curbelo (FL-26), South Florida\u2019s only Member of Congress on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, joined NBC 6\u2019s \u201cImpact with Jackie Nespral\u201d and Local 10\u2019s \u201cThis Week in South Florida\u201d to discuss tax reform and other issues in national and local headlines.\r\nPartial transcripts of both interviews are available below. The full interview with NBC 6\u2019s \u201cImpact with Jackie Nespral\u201d can be watched here, and the full interview with Local 10\u2019s \u201cThis Week in South Florida\u201d can be watched here.\r\n\u00a0\r\nCurbelo Joins NBC 6 Impact to Discuss Tax Reform, the Need for a DACA Fix, etc.\r\nNBC 6\u2019s \u201cImpact with Jackie Nespral\u201d\r\nMiami, Florida\r\nDecember 10, 2017\r\nhttps://youtu.be/JXbTpfuMOio\r\nRepresentative Carlos Curbelo: \u201cThis is a big week because those negotiations start. The bills are similar, but there are some key differences, so I do think that this is going to get done within the next two weeks, and every American should be able to kick off 2018 with a higher pay check, so that should be good news.\u201d\r\n\u2026\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ve done things \u2013 especially in the House bill \u2013 that are only for low- and middle-income earners. For example, we double the standard deduction. It used to be $12,000 \u2013 or it is under existing law \u2013 we make it $24,000 for a married couple. So we protect those early dollars. In our bill we have a $300 per parent tax credit. We have a new $300 tax credit for people taking care of, for example, an elderly parent at home. We expand the child tax credit from $1000 to $1600, making that first $1000 refundable. These are all provisions that help middle-income Americans, so the accusations that are out there \u2013 most of them coming from the far left \u2013 quite frankly, are wrong.\u201d\r\n\u00a0\r\nCurbelo Joins Local 10's This Week in South Florida to Discuss Tax Reform, DACA, and More\r\nLocal 10\u2019s \u201cThis Week in South Florida\u201d\r\nMiami, Florida\r\nDecember 10, 2017\r\nhttps://youtu.be/171M63HZSCA\u00a0\u00a0\r\nRepresentative Carlos Curbelo: \u201cThe House bill does have a lot more permanent relief for middle-income and even lower-income families long-term, permanently. The Senate has different budget rules so they had to put these gimmicks in the bill, quite frankly.\r\n\u201cWe in conference are insisting on the House position to make the relief for middle-income families permanent. We do that with our child tax credit expansion\u2026 Our\u2019s is $1600, but its permanent. The Senate\u2019s is $2000. By the way, Senator Rubio has been adamant about this and I think he is going to win. I think $2000 is going to be in the final bill. It\u2019s not going to be fully refundable, the way he would like, but it will be in the final bill.\r\n\u201cI will say this about the provisions on the individual side of the code \u2013 the relief for middle-income families and for all American families \u2013 the Bush Tax Cuts were supposed to be temporary, and all of those provisions for non-wealthy Americans were made permanent by President Obama, a Republican House and a Democratic Senate. So although they are technically temporary, the tradition and the history has been that those provisions that broadly help Americans usually end up being permanent, even if they are technically temporary in the initial bill.\u201d", 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://curbelo.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1796"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.2674421779811382, "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"}