{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hankjohnson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-johnson-highlights-new-report-showing-gop-tax-plan-raises-taxes", "Rep. Johnson highlights new report showing GOP Tax Plan raises taxes on families, eliminates state and local tax deduction", "2017-10-06", "2017", "2017-10", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "Hank Johnson", "J000288", "hankjohnson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) highlighted a new report showing the Ryan-McConnell tax framework unveiled by Republicans last week would dramatically increase the tax burdens of many families living in Georgia\u2019s Fourth District -- many by an average of $9,158 through the elimination of the state and local tax deduction alone.\u00a0\nMore than 44 million American households claim the state and local tax deduction each year.\n\u201cReal tax reform doesn\u2019t raise taxes on hard-working families while handing hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest one percent, but that\u2019s exactly what the Ryan-McConnell tax plan would do,\u201d said Rep. Johnson. \u201cI call upon all my Georgia Republican Congressional colleagues to join me in opposing this inexplicable provision to raise taxes on working people.\u00a0 Families in my district shouldn\u2019t be paying more in taxes so Republicans can add trillions to the deficit giving tax breaks to billionaires.\u201d\nAn additional analysis by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center found that 80 percent of the individual tax cuts in the Ryan-McConnell tax framework would go to the wealthiest one percent of Americans. Tens of millions of middle class families could pay more in taxes under the GOP framework.\n\u201cThe Ryan-McConnell tax plan relies on the same tired, trickle-down tax agenda that Republicans have used for decades,\u201d said Rep. Johnson.\u00a0 \u201cI will fight for the people of Georgia\u2019s Fourth and stand firm in demanding real tax reform that puts the middle class first, with not one penny in tax cuts for the top 1 percent.\u201d\n\u00a0\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://hankjohnson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-johnson-highlights-new-report-showing-gop-tax-plan-raises-taxes"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6739750970155001, "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"}