{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://scalise.house.gov/press-release/scalise-going-be-generational-achievement", "Scalise: 'This is going to be a generational achievement'", "2017-12-11", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Steve Scalise", "S001176", "scalise.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014\u00a0House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's\u00a0Fox & Friends\u00a0this morning to discuss the future of the\u00a0Tax Cuts and Jobs Act\u00a0as it\u00a0heads to a conference committee this week.  \n\t\u00a0\n\nClick\u00a0here\u00a0or on the image above to view Scalise's full interview.\u00a0\n\n\tOn the continued work of the tax reform conference committee...\n \"We\u2019re in a conference committee [right now]. The House and Senate passed two different versions of roughly the same bill that's going to ultimately reduce taxes for families, get the economy moving, and create jobs. The conferees, both in the House and Senate, have been meeting through the weekend, combing through a lot of the final details where there\u2019s disagreement. Hopefully, in the next few days, we\u2019ll see the final framework; get a bill well before Christmas on the President's desk.\"\n \nOn repealing the individual mandate with this bill...\n \"We\u2019ve passed it in the House many times. The Senate had trouble in the past. The Senate did pass the repeal of the individual mandate in their version of the bill, and we want to keep it. We want to keep it in the final product. That's going to help a lot of families; [it will] improve this healthcare system that's just devolving under Obamacare.People are seeing massive,\u00a0double-digit increases. Let's get this in the final product of the bill, signed by President Trump.\"\n \nOn cutting taxes for Americans at all income levels...\n \"In our bill, no matter what tax rate you pay, if you are paying taxes, your tax rate is going to go down and you\u2019re going to see families, on average, get $1,200 more back in their pocket.\n\t\t...\n\t\t\"This bill pushes a lot more tax relief to middle-class families. It works on making our country competitive again. We have the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, and...that has meant the erosion of the middle class [and] really good $60k, $80k, $100,000 jobs leaving America, going to Ireland, Canada, and other places. In our bill, we bring those jobs back, and we make our country competitive.\"\n \nOn President Trump's commitment to helping pass tax reform...\n\"President Trump has been incredibly helpful every step of the way. The day we released the bill in the house, the President had us over to the White House and fully embraced the idea of cutting taxes for families. Look, he campaigned on this. He said, \u2018I'm going to cut tax rates across the board\u2019, and he\u2019s following through on yet another campaign promise. He has been great to work with, and when this gets signed by President Trump, this is going to be a generational achievement.\n\t\"We still talk about the \u201886 tax cuts under Reagan. You\u2019re going to be talking about these Trump tax cuts and how it got our economy moving again. It's going to be something that families are going to really look back on a year from now, five years from now as a great achievement.\"\n\t\u00a0\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://scalise.house.gov/press-release/scalise-going-be-generational-achievement"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7332179229706526, "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"}