{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://roby.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/roby-joins-ivanka-trump-house-and-senate-leaders-push-child-tax-credit", "Roby Joins Ivanka Trump, House and Senate Leaders to Push Child Tax Credit Expansion", "2017-10-25", "2017", "2017-10", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Martha Roby", "R000591", "roby.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-Ala.) today joined Ivanka Trump and leaders from the House and Senate to promote a plan to expand the child tax credit to help working families.\n\u201cExpanding the child tax credit is the right thing to do,\u201d Roby said at a news conference promoting the proposal. \u201cFor the people I represent, this can make a big difference. For that mom working a retail job or the dad driving the truck or the parent working two or three jobs so the other one can stay home \u2013 having a couple thousand dollars in your pocket is a big deal.\n\u201cI promise you parents know how to spend that money better than the government does.\u201d\nIvanka Trump, who has championed policies to help working families in the Trump Administration, said the child tax credit expansion is key to the President\u2019s commitment to ensuring tax reform benefits middle class Americans.\n\u201cWe need to make our businesses competitive, we need to simplify and democratize our tax code, we need to drive wage growth, and we need to give opportunity to all Americans,\u201d she said. \u201cOver the years, as wages have stagnated, the costs of raising a family have grown. It is a priority of this Administration and a legislative priority to ensure American families can thrive, and that we deliver real and meaningful tax relief to middle income Americans.\u201d \nUnder the tax reform framework from House and Senate Republicans and the White House, the child tax credit would be significantly increased and made available to more middle and lower income Americans. Details of the tax reform proposal are still being crafted. More specifics about the current blueprint are available here.\nWatch the full news conference including comments from Rep. Roby and Ivanka Trump\u00a0here.\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://roby.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/roby-joins-ivanka-trump-house-and-senate-leaders-push-child-tax-credit"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.605526078492403, "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"}