{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=105&itemid=1234", "Paulsen Talks Tax Reform for Politico's Morning Tax", "2013-05-03", "2013", "2013-05", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Erik Paulsen", "P000594", "paulsen.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Morning Tax\u00a0 \r\n\r\n\tBy Lauren French | 5/2/13 6:01 AM EDT\r\n\r\n\tWith help from Alysha Love\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tPAULSEN: SUMMER WILL BE FILLED WITH DISCUSSION DRAFTS, HEARINGS. Rep. Erik Paulsen is ready. Ready for more meetings, discussion drafts and hearings if the process could push lawmakers toward a true comprehensive scrub of the tax code \u2014 and he\u2019s about to get this wish with the Ways and Means Committee slated to begin meetings next week. \u201cI think these meetings are going to be opportunities to show where there is consensus, but there is still going to be differences of opinion, so it will be helpful to show everyone where those differences of opinions might be. It has been a helpful process for all of us to learn what is important to different members or constituencies. We need to come together and see where we can add some consensus and just move forward,\u201d Paulsen told Morning Tax from a snowy Minnesota.\r\n\r\n\t\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tAs lawmakers spend the summer in and out of D.C., Paulsen, who joined the retirement and pensions reform group, said there will be continued efforts to better understand the code \u2014 and how to reform it. \u201cThe chairman has been very clear that we\u2019re going to produce a bill this year, a tax reform measure. I would not be surprised if additional discussion drafts were released that were products of the workings groups because those discussion drafts have allowed us to build a good basis upon some needed reforms. We\u2019ll easily fill the summer months with additional hearings and some of the working groups actually are likely to continue to meet on their own,\u201d he said.\r\n\r\n\t####", 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://paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=105&itemid=1234"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8615157566964626, "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"}