{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2026/09/30/daines-celebrates-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-hyde-amendment-every-life-born-and-unborn-is-valued/", "Daines Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Hyde Amendment: \u201cEvery Life, Born and Unborn, is Valued\u201d", "2026-09-30", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "Sponsors Resolution Commemorating Hyde Amendment\u2019s Legacy\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Americans United for Life at their September 30th rally celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment. Originally enacted in 1976, this amendment has saved the lives of millions of unborn children and protected taxpayers from violating their conscience by funding elective abortions.\n\nDaines today also joined Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) in introducing a resolution to recognize the Hyde Amendment\u2019s legacy over the past 50 years. Read the resolution HERE.\n\nWatch Daines\u2019 full remarks at the Americans United for Life rally HERE:\n\nRead Daines\u2019 remarks as prepared for delivery:\n\nToday marks the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment-one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our nation\u2019s history that defends the unborn and taxpayer conscience.\n\nThe Hyde Amendment protects the constitutional right to religious liberty and affirms that federal funds cannot be used to fund abortions.\n\nA majority of Americans support this.\n\nAnd yet, pro-abortion advocates attempt to undermine Hyde daily.\n\nIn their own 2024-2025 report, Planned Parenthood reported that they received $832 million in federal funds through Medicaid and Title X.\n\nThis Medicaid funding was temporarily blocked for one year thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts and Jobs act, which I was proud to support.\n\nBut one year has passed, and Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood has resumed again.\n\nI will work with my colleagues in Congress to reinstate this ban and make it permanent.\n\nWe also need to educate the next generation about how dangerous the abortion pill is, for both babies and for the women who take it. This is the left\u2019s next battleground, and we can\u2019t let them win.\n\nThe grassroots movement, from our AUL doorknockers to the church ministries to the pregnancy clinics, is critically important.\n\nThank you to everyone here- you are true examples of what it means to fight for what\u2019s right, even when it\u2019s not easy.\n\nAnd most importantly, we need your prayers.\n\nPrayer is the most powerful tool that we have on our side.\n\nI\u2019ll close with Jeremiah 1:5: \u201cBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart.\u201d\n\nI\u2019m hopeful that one day, by the grace of God, abortion will be unthinkable and every preborn child will be protected by law.\n\n###", 1, "2026-10-01T11:23:28Z", "2026-10-01T11:25:15Z"]], "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.daines.senate.gov/2026/09/30/daines-celebrates-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-hyde-amendment-every-life-born-and-unborn-is-valued/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7630457878112793, "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"}