{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://desjarlais.house.gov/media-center?ID=077A0B83-558D-43D9-AAA3-9328EA571016", "Reps. DesJarlais and Roe Introduce Legislation Disapproving of IRS Actions to Change Impasse Within Affordable Care Act", "2012-06-19", "2012", "2012-06", "Republican", "House", "TN", "Scott DesJarlais", "D000616", "desjarlais.house.gov", "desjarlais", "https://desjarlais.house.gov/media-center", "scraper", "Representatives Scott DesJarlais, M.D. (TN-04) and Phil Roe, M.D. (TN-01) introduced H.J.RES.112: Disapproving the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service relating to the health insurance premium tax credits. This legislation, pursuant to the Congressional Review Act, would prevent the enactment of a May IRS rule that substantially alters the Affordable Care Act\u2019s (ACA) ability to offer premium assistance tax credits through federally run insurance exchanges. As written, the ACA only allows these tax credits to be issued in state-based exchanges \u2013 not exchanges run by the federal government.\n\n\u201cThis is yet another glaring example of how the Democrats approach of \u2018we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it\u2019 led to a substantially flawed piece of legislation,\u201d said Rep. DesJarlais. \u201cKnowingly passing imperfect legislation and then relying on the executive branch to unilaterally fix to these errors down the road sets a terrible precedent. Our Constitution is clear in stating that Congress has the sole power to enact legislation. Clearly, the actions taken by the IRS in promulgating this rule blatantly violate our separation of powers.\u201d\n\n\u201cSince the president\u2019s health care bill became law two years ago, only major problems have arisen including its failure to address the cost crisis in our health care system, the debate over the bill\u2019s constitutionality and contradictions in its language,\u201d said Roe. \u201cThat is why I, along with my colleague Dr. DesJarlais, introduced a Resolution to amend contradictory language pertaining to the health insurance premium tax credits. A proposed rule relating to the federal health insurance premium tax credits, included in the president\u2019s health care law, contradicts the explicit statutory language describing individuals\u2019 eligibility for receipt of these tax credits. This only adds to the confusion surrounding the law, and it is another example that the health care bill was rushed through Congress by Democrats on a partisan basis.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:11:16Z"]], "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://desjarlais.house.gov/media-center?ID=077A0B83-558D-43D9-AAA3-9328EA571016"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1409888975322247, "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"}