{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-offers-amendment-to-protect-middle-class-small-businesses-from-supersized-irs", "Crapo Offers Amendment to Protect Middle Class, Small Businesses from Supersized IRS", "2022-08-07", "2022", "2022-08", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) filed an amendment to the Democrats\u2019 misleadingly-named \u201cInflation Reduction Act of 2022\u201d to prevent the IRS from using its massive, $80 billion cash infusion on enforcement actions designed to squeeze more revenue out of American taxpayers who earn less than $400,000 per year.\n\n\u201cMy colleagues claim this massive funding boost will allow the IRS to go after millionaires, billionaires and so-called rich \u2018tax cheats,\u2019 but the reality is a significant portion raised from their IRS funding bloat would come from taxpayers with income below $400,000,\u201d said Crapo. \u201cOtherwise, why would the legislative text say the funding isn\u2019t intended to target taxpayers below that threshold? My colleagues and Americans know the real answer: small business owners, cash-heavy businesses and those who can\u2019t afford legal teams are easy targets for the new IRS agents and their audits. My amendment would ensure the Democrats\u2019 supersized-IRS proposal cannot violate the President\u2019s pledge to not raise taxes on those making less than $400,000.\u201d\n\nSenator Crapo\u2019s amendment would prevent the IRS from using any of the supersized $80 billion of funding for audits on hard-working American taxpayers, including individuals and small businesses, with taxable incomes below $400.000.\n\nThe amendment has teeth, in contrast to the Democrats\u2019 bill containing merely an unenforceable statement of intention to not squeeze more revenue out of the middle class.\n\nSenate Democrats voted the amendment down along party lines, 50-50.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:59:24Z"]], "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://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-offers-amendment-to-protect-middle-class-small-businesses-from-supersized-irs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9667871054261923, "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"}