{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davis.house.gov/media/press-releases/representative-danny-k-davis-praises-passage-hr-5376-build-back-better-act", "Representative Danny K. Davis Praises Passage of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act", "2021-11-19", "2021", "2021-11", "Democrat", "House", "IL", "Danny K. Davis", "D000096", "davis.house.gov", "davis", "https://davis.house.gov/media", "scraper", "November 19, 2021\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U. S. Representative Danny K. Davis praised the passage of the Build Back Better Act. Davis said, \u201c\u201cI am honored and humbled to have voted for this once-in-a-generation legislation. I came to Congress to make this type of momentous change. The Build Back Better Act represents a transformative investment in children, families, workers, businesses, and the planet that will improve health and well-being, advance economic and environmental justice, meaningfully address climate change, and grow our economy while asking the wealthiest and most secure to pay their fair share. I am deeply proud that many priorities that I have championed are included in this historic bill.\u201d\n\nIt provides 4 weeks of paid family and medical leave for workers so that they do not face the inhumane choice of caring for loved ones or financial ruin. Lower-income workers and workers of color are much less likely to have any paid leave, yet are more likely to need it due to greater health challenges and less savings to weather caregiving without pay. As Chair of the Subcommittee with jurisdiction over paid leave, I have worked closely with Ways and Means Chairman Neal and advocates to shape this equity-generating, universal benefit.\n\nThe bill enhances the Earned Income Tax Credit to improve the economic well-being of millions of childless workers and noncustodial parents \u2013 with new help for younger workers, foster and homeless youth, and seniors. I\u2019ve fought for these improvements for over a decade via my Responsible Fatherhood Act. These changes will help 17 million adults nationwide and over 600,000 in Illinois.\n\nIt provides $2 billion to train workers with barriers to employment \u2013 including people with records - for careers in the allied health professions. This provision will help Chicago State which has a stellar Health Profession Opportunity Grant program and expand programs like those offered by the Safer Foundation to help people with records become successful healthcare professionals.\n\nIt helps vulnerable students by making Pell non-taxable and removing the lifetime ban on the American Opportunity Tax Credit for past felony drug convictions.\n\nIt incents substantial private investment in solar energy that will reduce electricity costs for tens of millions of low-income individuals while making the air they breathe safer.\n\nIt contains strong labor provisions so that our investments in green energy benefit workers as well as businesses.\n\nIt includes $1 billion for to help justice-involved individuals obtain employment and training services via the Reentry Employment Opportunities Program. It makes sure that people leaving prison have Medicaid coverage to improve health and successful reentry.\n\nIt includes $2.5 billion for public health approaches to reduce community violence and advance trauma interventions, which I have championed via the RISE from Trauma Act.\n\nIt helps restore fairness to the tax code by rolling back the Republicans\u2019 punitive limit on the State and Local Tax deduction to hurt citizens in blue states like Illinois.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "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://davis.house.gov/media/press-releases/representative-danny-k-davis-praises-passage-hr-5376-build-back-better-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.400717068463564, "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"}