{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-on-sham-vote-on-tax-bill", "Crapo on Sham Vote on Tax Bill", "2024-08-01", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered remarks on the Democrats\u2019 blatant attempt to score political points by scheduling a vote on a tax bill less than twenty-four hours before the August state-work period. Crapo reiterated that Senate Republicans continue to have concerns with the policy, urged his colleagues to separately pass the bipartisan provisions in the bill, and reaffirmed his willingness to negotiate a child tax credit solution that a majority of Republicans can support.\n\nExcerpts of Senator Crapo\u2019s remarks are below, a copy of his full remarks can be found here, and video can be found here.\n\nTo watch Crapo\u2019s full remarks, click HERE or the image above.\n\n\u201cIn today\u2019s attempt to score political points, Democrats are moving to a bill, H.R. 7024, that has been languishing for six months in the hopes of fabricating a narrative that Republicans don\u2019t support small businesses, children or alleviating poverty. However, if my Democrat colleagues were serious about delivering relief to small businesses and working families, they would have worked with Senate Republicans in earnest on a solution that would gain broad support among our members.\n\n\u201cFor those who accuse Republicans of not caring about children, I would remind my colleagues that it was Republicans who created the child tax credit. It was intended to provide tax relief to working families. Yet more than $30 billion of the cost to expand the child tax credit in this bill\u2014about 91 percent\u2014would go to individuals who pay no federal income tax. That isn\u2019t tax relief \u2013 it\u2019s a subsidy.\n\n\u201cWhile Senate Republicans have also been accused of playing politics, the timing of today\u2019s vote\u2014coupled with the lack of meaningful engagement since January to reach a compromise\u2014confirms that the strategy was always a take-it-or-leave-it proposition in the Senate.\n\n\u201cIf my Democrat colleagues want to show that they are serious about supporting small businesses, providing disaster tax relief, alleviating double taxation on activity between the U.S. and Taiwan, and eliminating fraud in the ERTC program\u2014all bipartisan\u2014then I call on them to separately pass Senator Young and Senator Hassan\u2019s bipartisan American Innovation and Jobs Act that would reinstate R&D expensing; the bipartisan Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2024; the bipartisan and bicameral U.S.-Taiwan Expedited Double Tax Relief Act; and Senator Tillis\u2019 bill to end the ERTC program.\n\n\u201cOn the child tax credit, it bears repeating that Republicans doubled the credit amount from $1,000 to $2,000 in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and provided additional help to low-income families by lowering the phase-in floor and increasing the refundability of the credit. If Democrats are serious about helping these working families, I am ready to push for an extension of those changes beyond 2025.\n\n\u201cI have maintained a willingness to negotiate a bill that provides meaningful tax relief to Americans now\u2014a bill that a majority of Republicans in this chamber can support\u2014but today\u2019s senseless show vote further demonstrates that Democrats are not serious about doing so.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:36:13Z"]], "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-on-sham-vote-on-tax-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8771787397563457, "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"}