{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mikerogers.house.gov/press-release/report-washington-house-has-done-its-job", "Report from Washington:  The House Has Done its Job", "2017-11-30", "2017", "2017-11", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Mike Rogers", "R000575", "mikerogers.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "(WASHINGTON, D.C.)\u2014 Washington has been a busy place this year.\u00a0 As folks across East Alabama may have seen in the news, time and time again, legislation passes in the House and either stalls or fails in the Senate.\n\u00a0\nIt makes it tough to get things done around here.\n\u00a0\nA prime example occurred earlier this year. The House kept President Trump\u2019s promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.\u00a0\u00a0\n\u00a0\nUnfortunately, the legislation did not pass in the Senate when they could not get to 50 votes. Vice President Pence was ready to break the tie.\n\u00a0\nThe House also recently passed a bill that would reauthorize the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).\u00a0 This important bill extends funding for CHIP and other programs low-income children rely on. The House passed legislation has not yet reached the Senate Floor.\n\u00a0\nThis summer, the House worked hard to pass legislation that included $1.6 billion in funding to help build the wall on the Southwest border to help fulfill one of President Trump\u2019s top priorities.\n\u00a0\nThe House also passed two bills addressing illegal immigration.\u00a0 The first would help keep Sanctuary Cities from protecting illegal immigrants who\u2019ve committed crimes and the second would impose tougher penalties on illegal immigrant criminals who have come in to the country.\u00a0 These bills have since stalled in the Senate.\n\u00a0\nThe House passed comprehensive tax reform just before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 As of writing, the Senate is working on their version.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope they can pass it so we can get closer to delivering one of the largest tax cuts for hard-working families.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nThe momentum we have created in the House for President Trump\u2019s agenda just has not carried over to the Senate. The House has done its job, now I hope our colleagues in the upper Chamber will begin to put America first.\n\u00a0\nAs always, I want to hear from you on this or any issue.\u00a0\n\u00a0\nPlease sign up for my e-Newsletter by visiting www.mikerogers.house.gov. To stay up to date, you can also like me on Facebook at Congressman Mike D. Rogers,\u00a0\nfollow me on Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram at RepMikeRogersAL, on Tumblr at www.repmikerogersal.tumblr.com and you can also subscribe to my YouTube page at MikeRogersAL03.", 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://mikerogers.house.gov/press-release/report-washington-house-has-done-its-job"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 12.333923950791359, "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"}