{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/progressive-caucus-slams-republican-houses-failure-protect-americans", "Progressive Caucus Slams Republican House\u2019s Failure to Protect Americans\u2019 Healthcare", "2025-12-17", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Ilhan Omar", "O000173", "omar.house.gov", "omar", "https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Deputy Chair Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) issued the following statement in response to House Republicans\u2019 failure to protect healthcare for millions of Americans:\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s vote on House Republicans\u2019 warmed-over partisan policies was a disgrace. It did nothing to protect the 22 million Americans who will see their monthly premiums double on average. Their cruelty and incompetence will make health insurance so unaffordable that millions will face no choice but to go without any coverage at all.\n\n\u201cSpeaker Johnson has failed the American people and members of his own conference, whose constituents are demanding the relief that every House Democrat has supported: a simple three-year extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits. But that vote cannot wait until January, after the credits expire, for a Democratic discharge petition to be considered. Americans will face this financial cliff in a matter of days.\n\n\u201cWe demand that Speaker Johnson keep the House in session to schedule a vote to pass a clean, three-year extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits to provide ordinary Americans with the healthcare they need. If Johnson could move heaven and earth to deliver tax cuts to the richest and most powerful donors to Trump and the Republican Party, he can keep the House open to pass tax credits that protect millions of Americans\u2019 healthcare and which now has support from the majority of Congress.\n\n\u201cThe Progressive Caucus will not stop fighting for affordable healthcare, and more importantly, insurance will move us away from a privatized for-profit system. The real solution to this crisis is a truly universal system, like Medicare for All, that provides healthcare as a human right to all Americans.\u201d\n\n###\n\nThe Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) is made up of nearly 100 members standing up for progressive ideals in Washington and throughout the country. Since 1991, the CPC has advocated for progressive policies that prioritize working Americans over corporate interests. The CPC champions policies including comprehensive immigration reform, good-paying jobs, fair trade, universal health care, debt-free college, climate action, and a just foreign policy. The caucus is the leading voice calling for bold and sweeping solutions to the urgent crises facing this nation, including ending America\u2019s broken for-profit health care system, raising American wages, eliminating political corruption, supporting the labor movement, and taking action to protect the planet for generations to come.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/progressive-caucus-slams-republican-houses-failure-protect-americans"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7424498908221722, "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"}