{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carter-votes-no-big-ugly-bill", "Congressman Carter Votes NO on the \u201cBig Ugly Bill\u201d", "2025-07-03", "2025", "2025-07", "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-LA) released the following statement after voting NO on H.R. 1, Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Ugly Bill:\u201d\n\n\u201cLet me be clear: this bill is not just ugly\u2014it\u2019s catastrophic and down right cruel. Now that Republican majorities in both chambers have passed this legislation, the devastating consequences for Louisianians and Americans across the country will become real in the months ahead.\n\n\u201cH.R. 1 represents the largest cuts to health care and nutrition assistance in American history. It rips away coverage from 17 million Americans, slashes $1 trillion from health care\u2014with $900 billion from Medicaid alone\u2014and drives up out-of-pocket costs for millions more. It strips support from our hospitals and nursing homes, threatening to close 1 in 4 long-term care facilities, and it puts SNAP at risk for 40 million people\u2014including children, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities.\n\n\u201cOn top of that, this bill increases energy costs by $400 per household, cedes hundreds of billions in clean energy investments and jobs to countries like China, and undermines our ability to compete in a global economy.\n\n\u201cAnd for what? To hand $1.3 trillion in tax breaks to people making over $500,000\u2014a staggering wealth transfer from working families to billionaires like Elon Musk and Republican megadonors.\n\n\u201cRepublicans are calling this a win for the American people. That\u2019s a lie. This is a full-blown assault on veterans, students, workers, the elderly, and every family that relies on a fair shot to get ahead. It\u2019s a betrayal of our values and a dark day for economic justice.\n\n\u201cFamilies in Louisiana and across the country will feel the real harm of these extreme cuts. I will continue fighting to protect our communities from the fallout of this bill and working to restore the critical programs it dismantles. Our focus now must be on holding those who supported this legislation accountable and standing up for the everyday Americans this \u201cBig Ugly Bill\u201d leaves behind.\u201d\n\n###", 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://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-carter-votes-no-big-ugly-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8211322128772736, "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"}