{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://levin.house.gov/press-release/levin-floor-statement-gop-tax-bill", "Levin Floor Statement on GOP Tax Bill", "2017-12-19", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "MI", "Sander Levin", "L000263", "levin.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 19, 2017 Contact: Nick Gwyn, (202) 225-4961\nLevin Floor Statement on GOP Tax Bill\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C.  Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor during consideration of the conference agreement on HR 1.\n(Remarks as delivered)\nIn all of my 35 years in Congress, this is one of the most deceitful bills I have ever seen.\nIt is deceitful when Republicans say the bill is focused on the middle class, while its really aimed at making the very wealthy even wealthier and forcing millions of middle class families to pay higher taxes.\nIt is deceitful when they say it makes the tax code simpler, even as the legislation creates complicated new loopholes, while allowing existing ones, such as carried interest, to continue.\nIt is deceitful when the bill will increase the outsourcing of American jobs by providing a lower tax rate on foreign investment compared to investing here.\nIt is deceitful about the debt. Republicans say dont worry about the expiring tax provisions, but extending them would raise the bills already devastating effect on the deficit to $2.3 trillion.\nRepublicans are rushing this bill, but even in their haste, they are too late. The majority of the American people already say this bill is a deceitful sham.\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://levin.house.gov/press-release/levin-floor-statement-gop-tax-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8990103378891945, "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"}