{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://westerman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/westerman-applauds-final-passage-one-big-beautiful-bill", "WESTERMAN APPLAUDS FINAL PASSAGE OF THE ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL", "2025-07-03", "2025", "2025-07", "Republican", "House", "AR", "Bruce Westerman", "W000821", "westerman.house.gov", "westerman", "https://westerman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, sending the final version of the reconciliation package to the President\u2019s desk to be signed into law. Congressman Bruce Westerman (AR-04) released the following statement:\n\n\u201cIn November, the American people voted to put America first. Today, Congress delivered on that promise. After months of tireless work, bicameral conversations, and late-night committee markups, House and Senate Republicans have passed a reconciliation package that unleashes American energy, provides lower tax rates for all Americans, secures our borders, strengthens our nation\u2019s military capabilities, and roots out government waste, fraud, and abuse.\u201d\n\n\u201cEffective policymaking focuses on real dinner-table issues that concern everyday Americans: gas prices, grocery bills, job opportunities, and children\u2019s futures. In the Natural State, workers, family farms, and small businesses are critical for our state\u2019s economic prosperity. This reconciliation package delivers historic tax breaks to ensure that these individuals and families can afford to keep food on their table, invest in their children\u2019s future, and keep the legacy of their family alive for years to come. House and Senate Republicans have secured a monumental win and delivered on their promise to the American people. I look forward to seeing this piece of legislation make its way to the President\u2019s desk to be signed into law.\u201d\n\nBackground on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act:\n\nProvides tax relief and economic growth:\n\nSaves taxpayers billions by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, eradicating wasteful programs, and cutting obstructive federal red tape that has held back building American progress.\n\nMakes the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent \u2013 protecting the average taxpayer from a 22 percent tax hike.\n\nSaves the average Arkansas family $1,280 \u2013 the equivalent of seven weeks of groceries.\n\nDelivers on President Trump\u2019s priorities of no tax on tips, overtime pay, and car loan interest, and provides additional tax relief for seniors.\n\nExpands and makes permanent the 199A small business deduction to 20 percent\u2013 creating over one million new Main Street small business jobs and generating billions in economic growth for American small businesses.\n\nEnds Biden-era tax breaks and special interest giveaways to the wealthy, big corporations, and China.\n\nUnleashes American energy:\n\nUnleashes American energy dominance by ensuring affordable energy and creating jobs in energy sectors across the country.\n\nIncreases domestic mining activities and decreases American dependence on China for critical minerals and rare earth elements.\n\nSaves the American taxpayer billions of dollars in future wildfire suppression, disaster response, and deferred maintenance costs by stewarding our public lands and water.\n\nReverses policies that stifled economic development, locked up American resources, and granted unprecedented power to federal bureaucrats.\n\nPrevents federal waste, fraud, and abuse:\n\nStrengthens taxpayer-funded programs to enforce work requirements and eliminates access to these programs for non-citizens.\n\nCreates Medicaid accountability by requiring able-bodied adults to work and requires cost-sharing for those above the federal poverty line.\n\nProtects Medicaid for vulnerable Americans for whom the program was designed.\n\nInvests in our military:\n\nAllocates funds to enhance U.S. munitions production and replenish stocks.\n\nAllocates funds for upgrading and modernizing military aircraft.\n\nAllocates funds to enhance U.S. military readiness and infrastructure.\n\nAllocates for funding which is aimed at improving servicemember quality of life.\n\nSecures the border:\n\nExpands border security through completion of the primary wall across the southern border and river barriers.\n\nAllocates funds to hire additional Border Patrol agents.\n\nModernizes border security technology heavily relied upon by Border Patrol agents.", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "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://westerman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/westerman-applauds-final-passage-one-big-beautiful-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4712309930473566, "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"}