{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/12/08/2025/duckworth-hosts-town-hall-in-carbondale", "Duckworth Hosts Town Hall in Carbondale", "2025-12-06", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "IL", "Tammy Duckworth", "D000622", "www.duckworth.senate.gov", "duckworth", "https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "[CARBONDALE, IL] \u2013 U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today hosted a town hall meeting in Carbondale to answer constituents\u2019 questions and hear their concerns directly. During today\u2019s town hall meeting, constituents asked her about the profound negative impacts Republicans\u2019 \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d and will have on Southern Illinois, the impending health insurance cost increases facing middle-class Americans if Republicans continue refusing to act and how the Trump Administration has put our servicemembers at risk and left our Veterans behind. Today\u2019s town hall was moderated by Jackson County Board member Tamiko Mueller. Photos of the Senator\u2019s town hall are available on her website.\n\n\u201cFamilies are on the brink of a health care crisis caused by Republicans who keep voting to help their billionaire buddies instead of the American people,\u201d Duckworth said. \u201cThanks to Republicans\u2019 so-called \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019 that will force rural hospitals to shut down, nursing homes to close and thousands of Illinoisans to lose coverage\u2014and their refusal to extend ACA credits and keep health care costs down for millions of Americans\u2014Illinoisans are understandably upset, scared and angry. The most patriotic thing you can do is show up and speak truth to power\u2014that\u2019s democracy at work.\u201d\n\nDuckworth has hosted a series of town halls and telephone town halls this year to hear directly from her constituents how the Trump Administration is negatively impacting their lives and the lives of their families and communities, hearing from Illinoisans in McHenry County, Rockford and throughout Chicagoland.\n\n-30-", 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.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/12/08/2025/duckworth-hosts-town-hall-in-carbondale"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 32.43372496217489, "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"}