{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3206", "Congressman Valadao Joins Bipartisan Delegation to Prevent Soaring Healthcare Premiums", "2025-09-05", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "House", "CA", "David G. Valadao", "V000129", "valadao.house.gov", "valadao", "https://valadao.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) joined Congresswoman Jen Kiggans (VA-02), Congressman Tom Suozzi (NY-03), and a delegation of 11 members in introducing the Premium Tax Credit Extension Act. The Enhanced Premium Tax Credit is set to expire at the end of 2025, and this bipartisan bill would extend it for one year to protect families, seniors, and small business owners across the country from massive healthcare premium increases.\n\nThousands of residents in California\u2019s 22nd Congressional District rely on the Enhanced Premium Tax Credit to afford their monthly health insurance premiums. If this credit expires, a family of four in CA-22 earning $64,000 per year will see a 292% increase in their annual premiums. This legislation is a critical first step in working toward a more permanent solution to address the enhanced marketplace subsidies.\n\n\u201cToo many hardworking families across California are already struggling with healthcare costs, and the last thing they need is a sudden spike in their health insurance premiums,\u201d said Congressman Valadao. \u201cBy introducing a clean, one-year extension for the Enhanced Premium Tax Credit, we can protect families from these higher costs while Congress works toward a more permanent solution.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs a nurse practitioner, military spouse, and Mom, I understand firsthand how critical affordable health care is for working families,\u201d said Congresswoman Kiggans. \u201cIn Congress, I\u2019ve made it my mission to ensure Virginians\u2014especially our seniors, small business owners, and middle-class families\u2014aren\u2019t blindsided by skyrocketing costs they can\u2019t afford. While the enhanced premium tax credit created during the pandemic was meant to be temporary, we should not let it expire without a plan in place. My legislation will protect hardworking Virginians from facing health insurance bills they can\u2019t afford, thus losing much-needed access to care. We can\u2019t pull the rug out from under hardworking families\u2014we must give Americans more time to plan. This is the last thing Virginians need and it's unacceptable.\u201d\n\n\u201cNew Yorkers, including 17,000 of my constituents, rely on the ACA\u2019s enhanced premium tax credits to afford their health insurance,\u201d said Congressman Tom Suozzi. \"At a time when the cost of living is skyrocketing and Americans are concerned about being able to afford basic necessities, we cannot allow them to face thousands of dollars of health insurance premium increases if these tax credits expire. This is too important to wait until the last second to think about solutions. I will always work across the aisle to find a middle ground that solves the problems Americans are worried about.\u201d\n\nAdditional co-sponsors include: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Jared Golden (ME-02), Jeff Hurd (CO-03), Rob Bresnahan (PA-08), Young Kim (CA-40), Carlos Gimenez (FL-28), Tom Kean (NJ-07), Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Don Davis (NC-01), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03).\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Premium Tax Credit was created under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 to improve the affordability of health insurance purchased through the ACA marketplaces. In 2021, the American Rescue Plan (ARPA) temporarily expanded the credit by removing the income cap and increasing subsidies for eligible households during the COVID-19 pandemic. These enhancements, in effect for 2021 and 2022, reduced premium costs for low-income consumers and also extended eligibility to many middle-income households. Marketplace enrollment increased in California and nationally during this period.\n\nThe Enhanced Premium Tax Credit is scheduled to expire at the end of 2025, and if not extended, monthly premiums for marketplace enrollees are expected to rise exponentially. This could reduce coverage rates for enrollees in California and across the nation.\n\nRead the full text of the bill here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T15:07:37Z"]], "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://valadao.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3206"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.888011883944273, "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"}