{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carter-votes-bipartisan-government-funding-legislation", "Congressman Carter Votes for Bipartisan Government Funding Legislation", "2024-03-06", "2024", "2024-03", "Democrat", "House", "LA", "Troy A. Carter", "C001125", "troycarter.house.gov", "troycarter", "https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-L.A.) voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, a package of six domestic funding bills focused on helping American families. The investments in the bill will help families with the cost of living, create and sustain good-paying jobs, and help people in need.\n\n\u201cI was proud to vote for this bipartisan government funding package that invests in the programs and services that Louisianians rely on while addressing some of our nation\u2019s biggest challenges,\u201d said Rep. Carter. \u201cThese funding bills are making government work for people and will keep our government open. It will help Americans with the high cost of living, create good paying jobs, protect women\u2019s rights, honor our commitments to our veterans, and confront the climate crisis.\u201d\n\nThis first government package invests in America\u2019s future and delivers for the American people by:\n\nHelping with the high cost of living, creating and sustaining tens of thousands of good paying jobs, fighting inflation, and providing full funding for key lifelines such as food assistance and more affordable housing and homeownership.\n\nProtecting women\u2019s rights by blocking attempts to limit women\u2019s access to reproductive health care, including abortion, and by increasing funding for gender-based violence prevention and prosecution programs.\n\nConfronting the climate crisis, fighting climate change, and ensuring America\u2019s energy independence with robust, transformative investments in deploying clean energy technologies in communities across the country, and providing funding for cutting-edge scientific and climate-related research.\n\nHonoring our commitments to our veterans by ensuring they receive the care and benefits that they have earned and investing in veterans\u2019 health care, including targeted investments that advance women's health, mental health, and homelessness assistance.\n\nBackground\n\nHouse Democrats were successful in removing harmful extreme House Republican policies from these bills that attempted to make abortion illegal everywhere, slash efforts to fight climate change, and threaten our national security. Instead, these final bipartisan 2024 funding bills will help keep our communities safe, fight inflation, and boost our economy.\n\nThis package includes the following funding bills: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies; Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies; Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies; and Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies.\n\nA detailed summary of the legislation is available here.\n\nThe remaining six appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024 are expected to be released in the\n\ncoming days and be voted on ahead of their expiration on March 22.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T20:32:04Z"]], "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://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carter-votes-bipartisan-government-funding-legislation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.465626060962677, "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"}