{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sewell.house.gov/2025/7/rep-sewell-introduces-amendments-to-president-trump-s-budget-bill-to-expand-access-to-health-care-protect-public-school-funding", "Rep. Sewell Introduces Amendments to President Trump\u2019s Budget Bill to Expand Access to Health Care, Protect Public School Funding", "2025-07-02", "2025", "2025-07", "Democrat", "House", "AL", "Terri A. Sewell", "S001185", "sewell.house.gov", "sewell", "https://sewell.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington D.C. \u2013 On Tuesday night, during debate in the House Rules Committee, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) introduced three amendments to the Senate-passed version of President Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d to expand access to health care and protect funding for public schools. All three amendments were unanimously rejected by Rules Committee Republicans.\n\nWatch it on YouTube here.\n\nRep. Sewell\u2019s first amendment would have provided a temporary health care option to the more than 100,000 Alabamians caught in the coverage gap by extending the Affordable Care Act\u2019s premium tax credits to uninsured individuals in non-Medicaid expansion states. The amendment would have also extended ACA premium tax credits to Americans who would lose their health care coverage as a result of the budget bill. Republicans on the Rules Committee unanimously rejected the amendment.\n\nRep. Sewell\u2019s second amendment would have stricken any provision of the bill limiting state-directed Medicaid payments. In doing so, it would protect funding for labor and delivery units in hospitals serving patients in rural and underserved communities. Republicans on the Rules Committee unanimously rejected the amendment.\n\nRep. Sewell\u2019s third amendment would have eliminated the bill\u2019s harmful private school voucher scheme which diverts up to $5 billion annually from our nation\u2019s public schools to reward wealthy families. Republicans on the Rules Committee unanimously rejected the amendment.\n\nThe Senate-passed version of President Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d includes the largest cut to health care and SNAP in American history, threatening to kick more than 190,000 Alabamians off their health care and jeopardizing food assistance for more than 750,000 Alabamians.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:40:33Z"]], "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://sewell.house.gov/2025/7/rep-sewell-introduces-amendments-to-president-trump-s-budget-bill-to-expand-access-to-health-care-protect-public-school-funding"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.983196310698986, "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"}