{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2276", "Trahan Explains How Her Proxy Vote Demonstrates Need for Build Back Better Act", "2021-10-26", "2021", "2021-10", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Lori Trahan", "T000482", "trahan.house.gov", "trahan", "https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "LOWELL, MA \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) joined Alisyn Camerota on CNN Newsroom to discuss the latest on Congress\u2019s efforts to pass President Joe Biden\u2019s Build Back Better Act. During the interview, Trahan detailed how her young daughter\u2019s COVID-19 exposure demonstrates the need to pass the bill\u2019s once-in-a-generation investments in working families, particularly working moms.\n\n\u201cAlisyn, I\u2019m home right now proxy voting because I got that phone call from the school nurse that my seven-year-old, my second grader, was exposed and she couldn\u2019t go to school,\u201d Congresswoman Trahan said. \u201cDo you know how many women get that phone call and because we don\u2019t have a paid family and medical leave policy in our country, they sink under the logistics or the pressure and anxiety of getting that phone call? That\u2019s what\u2019s the problem right now. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to fix. We want women to go back into the workforce. We need to have paid family and medical leave. We need child care to be there for our working families.\u201d\n\nThe Build Back Better Act will be key in achieving a better future for workers and their children through investments that will lower the costs of health care, make family and child care affordable and accessible, and address the climate crisis. During the interview, Trahan cited a provision to create a national paid family and medical leave program, which would ensure that the United States is no longer listed as one of six nations in the world without such program.\n\nIn addition to the long overdue creation of a national paid family and medical leave program, the Build Back Better Act would prove transformative for working families through an extension of the tremendously successful strengthened Child Tax Credit, increased access to quality, affordable child care, home health care for those in need, and much more.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to have an opportunity to create an economy that\u2019s fair for everybody, that people can participate, that women can participate,\u201d Congresswoman Trahan said.\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-06T14:24:52Z", "2026-04-06T15:53:59Z"]], "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://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2276"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3494878076016903, "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"}