{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ross.house.gov/2021/9/congresswoman-ross-rules-committee-its-hypocritical-claim-be-pro-life-support", "Congresswoman Ross in Rules Committee: \u201cIt\u2019s Hypocritical to Claim to Be Pro-Life, to Support the Texas Abortion Ban, while Opposing Medicaid Expansion\u201d", "2021-09-20", "2021", "2021-09", "Democrat", "House", "NC", "Deborah K. Ross", "R000305", "ross.house.gov", "ross", "https://ross.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today in the House Rules Committee, Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) spoke in support of the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act, federal legislation that will protect the right to access abortion care. This legislation is expected to be on the House floor this week.\n\nCongresswoman Ross said in her remarks, \u201cI also want to highlight a discrepancy between the rhetoric and policy of opponents of reproductive freedom. These opponents claim to be pro-life, to be working to protect families and babies, but almost always, these are the same people who oppose Medicaid expansion \u2013 we see that in Texas and we see that in my state of North Carolina\u2026Prenatal care is one of the many critical forms of health care that Medicaid covers.\n\n\u201cMedicaid also provides postpartum care coverage to new mothers, and the American Rescue Plan gave states the option to extend that coverage from 60 days to 12 months\u2026 If you want to protect babies, particularly in a state like Texas, it\u2019s simply hypocritical to claim to be pro-life, to support the draconian Texas abortion ban, while simultaneously opposing Medicaid expansion.\u201d\n\nTo listen to Rep. Ross\u2019 full remarks, click here.\n\nRoss has been a vocal opponent of Texas\u2019 unconstitutional abortion ban and previously applauded the Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) lawsuit to block the ban.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "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://ross.house.gov/2021/9/congresswoman-ross-rules-committee-its-hypocritical-claim-be-pro-life-support"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.5782790035009384, "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"}