{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fulcher.house.gov/2025/05/15/id-e4bdc7a7-31f6-48b6-8edf-fd566f568620/", "Fulcher on Energy & Commerce Passage of Reconciliation Text", "2025-05-15", "2025", "2025-05", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Russ Fulcher", "F000469", "fulcher.house.gov", "fulcher", "https://fulcher.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "CONTACT: Christiann\u00e9 Allen, Christianne.Allen@mail.house.gov\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Congressman Russ Fulcher (Idaho-01) issued the following statement after the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a full committee markup and successfully passed its portion of the House reconciliation bill.\n\nEnergy and Commerce is the oldest standing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is responsible for energy, environment, telecommunications, healthcare, and other aspects of commerce.\n\n\u201cAfter over 26 hours fighting for policies that put Americans first, my colleagues and I on Energy and Commerce have successfully advanced our portion of the House\u2019s reconciliation bill to codify President Trump\u2019s policy agenda into law,\u201d said Congressman Fulcher.\n\n\u201cThis legislation takes important steps to strengthen America\u2019s leadership on the world stage by supporting rapid technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence, it reauthorizes spectrum auction authority to support the growing commercial applications in communications technologies, it reinforces our national security and lowers costs for Americans by increasing U.S. energy production, it recoups billions of dollars in unspent failed environmental programs, and it preserves the original intent of Medicaid by implementing common-sense guardrails to ensure it remains available for our nation\u2019s most vulnerable for generations to come,\u201d Congressman Fulcher added. \u201cWhile I believe additional reforms will be needed, the committee\u2019s actions this week deliver several policy wins and put important government programs on a viable fiscal path long-term.\u201d\n\nBill Background:\n\nThe legislation generates revenue and implements savings across federal agencies, in total reducing the federal deficit by an estimated $900 billion. Provisions include:\n\nCommunications and Technology:\n\nReauthorizes the FCC\u2019s spectrum auction authority for 10 years, which is estimated to raise tens of billions in revenue to the Treasury;\n\nModernizes the Department of Commerce to update IT systems and integrate beneficial AI tools, while guarding against a patchwork of state AI laws from undermining innovation.\n\nEnergy and Environment:\n\nEliminates Green New Deal-style giveaways and slush funds;\n\nExpedites the U.S. Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export process;\n\nSupports vehicle consumer choice by ending Biden-era electric vehicle mandates;\n\nBegins to refill the dangerously low Strategic Petroleum Reserve and brings certainty to the permitting process for North American cross-border energy infrastructure.\n\nHealthcare:\n\nImplements guardrails to keep out ineligible Medicaid beneficiaries and removes deceased beneficiaries who divert resources away from those who need care;\n\nEnsures that Medicaid only pays for American citizens and legal immigrants by strengthening citizenship verifications to determine eligibility, saving tens of billions of dollars;\n\nIncreases personal accountability to help lift Americans out of poverty by establishing work requirements for able-bodied working age adults who do not have dependent children or elderly parents in their care;\n\nBans the use of Medicaid for \u201cgender reassignment\u201d surgeries for minors and prohibits Medicaid from funding big abortion providers.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:49:36Z"]], "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://fulcher.house.gov/2025/05/15/id-e4bdc7a7-31f6-48b6-8edf-fd566f568620/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9503788314759731, "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"}