{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hill.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=10266", "RELEASE:\u00a0HOUSE PASSES HILL'S\u00a0MAIN STREET CAPITAL ACCESS ACT", "2026-07-22", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "House", "AR", "J. French Hill", "H001072", "hill.house.gov", "hill", "https://hill.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed H.R. 6955, Rep. French Hill's (AR-02) Main Street Capital Access Act, by a vote of 270-155-1. As Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Hill led the effort to pass the bill alongside Financial Institutions Subcommittee Chairman Andy Barr (KY-06). The bipartisan bill revitalizes local bank formation and ensures community lenders can focus on serving families, small businesses, and local economies, making life more affordable for Americans and empowering Main Street.\n\nRep. Hill said, \u201cAs a former community banker in central Arkansas, I know how important our Main Street banks are to our local economy. From growing cities like Conway to our smallest rural towns, community banks drive economic growth. Whether a young couple wants to open a coffee shop in downtown Little Rock, a local manufacturer is looking to expand in Jacksonville, or a farmer in White County needs a loan for a new combine, it's our local banks that step up.\n\n\u201cYet for decades, Washington has forced these local banks to operate under rules written for the nation's largest institutions, stifling local lending, accelerating industry consolidation, and making big banks even bigger. This bill fixes that. It right-sizes regulations for our community banks, freeing them up to lend so entrepreneurs can invest, businesses can grow, and families can build wealth. It will spur new bank formation, increase competition, remove barriers to lending, and benefit communities from coast to coast.\"\n\nWatch Chairman Hill's floor remarks here.\n\nClick here for bill text.\n\nClick here for a section-by-section.\n\nClick here for a one-pager.\n\nFurther Background:", 1, "2026-07-23T07:31:02Z", "2026-07-23T07:32:26Z"]], "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://hill.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=10266"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.507176086306572, "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"}