{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mann.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mann-pulls-curtain-biden-harris-fantasy-small-business-boom-farm-killer", "Rep. Mann Pulls Curtain on Biden-Harris Fantasy \u201cSmall Business Boom\u201d, Farm Killer Tax", "2024-09-18", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "House", "KS", "Tracey Mann", "M000871", "mann.house.gov", "mann", "https://mann.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Tracey Mann (KS-01), member of the House Small Business Committee, pulled back the curtain on the Biden-Harris Small Business Administration\u2019s (SBA) fantasy \u201csmall business boom\u201d during a hearing with the Small Business Administrator. During his questioning, Rep. Mann also blasted the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s fourth budget proposal in row that would eliminate stepped-up basis and impose massive \u201cmarked-to-market\u201d capital gains tax hikes on family-owned businesses and farms.\n\nIn March 2024, Rep. Mann introduced legislation to preserve stepped-up basis and push against, the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s farm killer tax. Rep. Mann has continued to fight against burdensome and overreaching regulations from the Biden-Harris Administration on American small business owners. He has also held the agency accountable for weaponizing its power by acting as an arm for the Biden-Harris campaign rather than empowering America\u2019s small businesses.\n\nExcerpt\n\nMann: Do you support this farm and business-killing tax that the Biden-Harris Administration continues to promote?\n\nGuzman: We are not in agreement in terms of what it did, and so I can\u2019t give you any of my recommendations.\n\nMann: Do you support stepped-up basis? Are you for the concept of having a stepped-up basis to be able to pass farmland or small businesses from one generation to the next with a step up or an increase in the tax base?\n\nGuzman: I\u2019m for a balanced tax code that benefits our small businesses more than our large.\n\nMann: Which is code-speak for you\u2019re not for preserving stepped-up basis which is why I\u2019m having this conversation and why for every year for the last four years we\u2019ve gone to battle with the Administration when the budget is released to make sure we keep stepped-up basis. It\u2019s remarkable how out of touch it seems like we are when we say we\u2019re for small businesses, yet the number one estate tax provision that helps them, this Administration continues to year after year propose doing away with. It makes no sense to me.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://mann.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-mann-pulls-curtain-biden-harris-fantasy-small-business-boom-farm-killer"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.710596054792404, "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"}