{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://donovan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/effort-preserve-salt-deduction-donovan-and-king-vote-against-sending", "In Effort to Preserve SALT Deduction, Donovan and King Vote Against Sending Bill to Conference", "2017-12-04", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "NY", "Daniel Donovan", "D000625", "donovan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, DC\u2014December 4, 2017\u2026.Congressman Dan Donovan (NY-11) and Congressman Peter King (NY-2), in another effort to preserve the state and local tax deduction, voted against sending the tax reform proposal to a conference committee. Because the House and Senate passed different tax reform bills, a conference committee of negotiators from both chambers is necessary to settle on identical legislation. The lawmakers tonight voted against creating such a conference committee because the state and local tax deduction solutions they proposed have not been accepted by Congressional leaders.\nCongressman Donovan said, \u201cFor weeks, I and my Republican colleagues in the New York delegation have been advocating for our solution to the state and local tax deduction issue. Our proposal delivers on the promise of middle class tax cuts for\u00a0all\u00a0Americans, not just folks in some states. Our constituents have to put food on the table and save for their kids\u2019 college tuition just like families in other parts of the country \u2013 they shouldn\u2019t foot the bill for everybody else\u2019s tax relief. That\u2019s why I voted against advancing this legislation as it currently stands.\u201d\nCongressman King said, \u201cThe House and Senate tax bills would each devastate New York and Long Island. Having a House and Senate conference on two bad bills will almost definitely result in a bill that is just as bad or maybe worse. That is why I voted NO on agreeing to a Conference Committee. Preventing a Conference would kill both bills and allow the entire process to start over to provide real tax relief across the board.\u201d\nLast month, Donovan and King proposed maintaining the state and local tax deduction for families earning less than $400,000 per year, and phasing it out for higher earners over four years so states have time to prepare.\nAccording to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, four states \u2013 New York, New Jersey, California, and Maryland \u2013 would pay $16 billion more in taxes while the other 46 states receive a $100-billion tax cut under the House bill. Donovan and his colleagues in the New York delegation have been\u00a0vocal\u00a0advocates for\u00a0preserving\u00a0the deduction on which large proportions of their constituencies rely.\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://donovan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/effort-preserve-salt-deduction-donovan-and-king-vote-against-sending"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8462099358439445, "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"}