{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-votes-to-avoid-harmful-government-shutdown-pledges-continued-work-to-prevent-health-care-price-spikes", "Golden votes to avoid harmful government shutdown, pledges continued work to prevent health care price spikes", "2025-09-19", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "House", "ME", "Jared F. Golden", "G000592", "golden.house.gov", "golden", "https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) today voted in favor of a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep government funded until November 21, preventing a government shutdown on October 1, when the current funding law expires.\n\nUnlike many previous stopgap funding bills, the CR contains no major changes to federal policies, programs or current spending levels. The bill passed the House 217-212.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of important work to be done in Congress, none of which will be any easier if Mainers are suffering the harms of a government shutdown,\u201d Golden said. \u201cAt the top of my mind are critical conversations around the need to prevent health care price spikes and lost coverage for millions of Americans.\n\n\u201cWith the Republican trifecta, there's no path forward on health care without GOP support. That\u2019s why I remain focused on my bipartisan effort to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that make coverage affordable for Mainers,\u201d Golden said. \u201cThis clean, short-term CR will keep the lights on and give us more time to set policies and funding levels for the future.\u201d\n\nA federal government shutdown would have immediate effects on Mainers, particularly the more than 11,000 federal employees who would be either furloughed or forced to work without pay. Acadia National Park would likely be forced to close, jeopardizing the shoulder season for small businesses and workers, while federal food assistance, housing assistance, small business support and other programs could be paused.\n\nA shutdown also would give President Donald Trump and the executive branch extraordinary leeway in determining which aspects of government are \u201cessential,\u201d and which can be shuttered.\n\nMeanwhile, Mainers are facing massive health care cuts as a result of the partisan reconciliation bill enacted by Republicans this summer. The most immediate concern is spiking premiums on track to hit tens of thousands of Mainers who buy health insurance on the state\u2019s individual marketplace, coverME.gov, when enhanced premium tax credits expire in January.\n\nRoughly 85 percent of Mainers who buy coverage on the marketplace use tax credits to help afford their coverage. If Congress does not act, those Mainers face a $180 average monthly premium increase in January, with rural Mainers aged 60-64 facing the sharpest increase.\n\nGolden is leading efforts to extend the tax credits through 2026.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-votes-to-avoid-harmful-government-shutdown-pledges-continued-work-to-prevent-health-care-price-spikes"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.09272007830441, "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"}