{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.curtis.senate.gov/press-releases/curtis-joins-dave-ramsey-to-discuss-timeshare-transparency-act", "CURTIS JOINS DAVE RAMSEY TO DISCUSS TIMESHARE TRANSPARENCY ACT", "2025-12-19", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "UT", "John R. Curtis", "C001114", "www.curtis.senate.gov", "curtis", "https://www.curtis.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Click here or the image above to watch the interview\n\nDuring the interview, the two highlighted years of consumer complaints and financial data showing the vast majority of timeshare buyers regret their purchases but are locked into long-term contracts with escalating fees and little to no ability to exit. Ramsey concluded the interview calling on his listeners to urge their Representatives and Senators to support the TTA.\n\nCurtis on the TTA:\n\nIt\u2019s pretty simple: first, you should know what you\u2019re buying\u2014there should be transparency; second, you should know if there\u2019s going to be radical changes to what you\u2019ve bought; and third, you should be able to change your mind within an agreed upon period of time. And then, let\u2019s face it, if 85% of the people regret getting into it, there needs to be some way for them to get out of it.\n\nOn the 14-day penalty-free cancellation period:\n\nRamsey: From my understanding, a 14-day penalty free cancelation period will cut their sales by 70%\u2014you\u2019ll probably put them out of business.\n\nCurtis: If any business is dependent upon getting people to do something they don\u2019t want to do, then they perhaps should go out of business. Now, my goal is not to put them out of business, my goal is just to make it so people can trust what they\u2019re getting into.\n\n. . .\n\nMany of the people that get into these are seniors\u2014they\u2019re away from their normal support structure when they get into these very, very high-pressure sales techniques, then they maybe make a bad decision, and then they don\u2019t have a window to change that decision. That\u2019s just wrong.\n\nOn the timeshare re-sale market:\n\nRamsey: There\u2019s no backing out, and there\u2019s no way to sell the stupid thing, because nobody wants to buy them. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them for sale on eBay for $1\n\nCurtis: Yes, and the reason is, they now come with the liability of these monthly or annually fees that are so exorbitant, far greater than any amount of money that you could spend to have a really great vacation\u2014that\u2019s why they\u2019re worthless.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.curtis.senate.gov/press-releases/curtis-joins-dave-ramsey-to-discuss-timeshare-transparency-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3484708033502102, "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"}