{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/stansbury-leger-fernandez-explain-what-inflation-reduction-act-means-new", "Stansbury, Leger Fern\u00e1ndez Explain what the Inflation Reduction Act Means for New Mexicans", "2022-08-12", "2022", "2022-08", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "VIDEO: Clickhere to view a recording of the press conference.\n\nWASHINGTON\u2014 Today,U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) andTeresa Leger Fern\u00e1ndez (N.M.-03)hosted a virtual press conference celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.\n\nRep. Stansbury highlighted the landmark benefits headed to New Mexico from the legislation, including the largest ever investment in climate, the creation of good-paying jobs in the clean energy sector, and decreased costs for prescription drugs and health care.\n\n\u201cI returned to Washington last night to work on passing the Inflation Reduction Act, because this bill is absolutely crucial to the future of our communities,\u201dsaid Rep. Stansbury.\"This bill makes the largest single investment in climate action that has ever been seen in the United States and frankly, the planet. This bill is going to help us cut carbon by 40% by 2030. It makes game-changing investments in good paying jobs that will help us to tackle the climate crisis, and it\u2019s going to help us lower healthcare costs and prescription drug costs for every New Mexican.\u201d\n\n\"I've talked to New Mexicans across our beautiful state. I\u2019ve talked to veterans, seniors, farmers, ranchers, business owners, Tribal communities, and our wonderful young families that we need to take us into the future. And what we're doing is placing people over profit, people over politics, and we're going to keep building on the progress this bill represents,\u201dsaid Rep. Leger Fern\u00e1ndez. \"The Inflation Reduction Act is going to help battle inflation and lower costs for our gente, for our Nuevo Mexicanos.\"\n\nTheInflation Reduction Act (H.R. 5376)will invest in local energy generation and industry, reduce carbon emissions by nearly 40% by 2030, and make a historic down payment on deficit reduction to fight inflation. The package will also extend the expanded Affordable Care Act program for another three years and allow Medicare to negotiate the cost of prescription drugs and lower prices throughout the market.\n\nIn New Mexico, the Inflation Reduction Act is expected to save New Mexican families with employer-based health insurance an average of $3,490 per year, additionally capping prescription drug costs at $2,000 for seniors and community members with coverage through Medicare.\n\nThe Inflation Reduction Act:\n\nEnacts historic deficit reduction to fight inflation\n\nLowers energy costs, increases cleaner production, and reduces carbon emissions by roughly 40% by 2030\n\nAllows Medicare to negotiate drug prices and caps out-of-pocket costs to $2,000\n\nLowers ACA health care premiums for millions of Americans\n\nMakes the biggest corporations and ultra-wealthy pay their fair share\n\nThere are no new taxes on families making $400,000 or less and no new taxes on small businesses \u2013 we are closing tax loopholes and enforcing the tax code.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:59:24Z"]], "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://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/stansbury-leger-fernandez-explain-what-inflation-reduction-act-means-new"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.819551017135382, "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"}