{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.curtis.senate.gov/press-releases/icymi-curtis-talks-algorithms-immigration-healthcare", "ICYMI: CURTIS TALKS ALGORITHMS, IMMIGRATION, HEALTHCARE", "2025-12-08", "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\nOn the Algorithm Accountability Act:\n\nThe goal is to get [social media companies] to be accountable. A lot of what happens with social media is very, very good. My daughters will tell you, they like things showing up that they want to buy. That\u2019s not harmful necessarily, but it can be. If you make an automobile and have a bad product, we hold you liable. If you make a medicine and it\u2019s a bad product, we hold you liable. Why don\u2019t we have that same philosophy with our social media companies? Without that, there are no guardrails, right? There\u2019s nothing holding them back. We know some very, very bad things happen with these algorithms.\n\nOn immigration:\n\nGoing back to the Biden Administration, we were told it was compassionate to have an open border. It wasn\u2019t. And now what\u2019s happening in our cities also feels like it\u2019s not compassionate. . . . If I were mayor, the very first thing I would do is sit down with ICE and I\u2019d say, \u201cI want the bad guys out of my city, and I want my citizens to feel safe.\u201d Let\u2019s do that. . . . We\u2019ve got to get rid of the bad guys and be compassionate the same time. We can do it.\n\nOn current debate over Obamacare Enhanced Premium Tax Credits:\n\nThis is not really a serious effort just to extend them for three years\u2014something that has not been working, and was meant to be temporary from the beginning\u2014this is not a good vote. We know we need a minimum premium for people, even if it\u2019s a couple of bucks. We know we need a cap on income. This is not a serious effort. We know there\u2019s flaws with these and we\u2019re not willing to change those flaws, sadly. There are a lot of Republicans and Democrats talking about both two things: one, how do we actually lower the cost, not just of insurance, but of healthcare; and then what do we do in the interim while we\u2019re waiting to do that. Those are two questions that we\u2019re not having thoughtful conversation about.", 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/icymi-curtis-talks-algorithms-immigration-healthcare"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.646585064008832, "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"}