{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=F2E3FB09-3B0F-4026-BF4B-E5223BF20B1C", "Heller on Senate Tax Relief Bill: We are at a Pivotal Point", "2017-11-29", "2017", "2017-11", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Dean Heller", "H001041", "www.heller.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV), a member of the tax-writing U.S. Senate Finance Committee, today joined his colleagues, Americans for Prosperity, and grassroots leaders to highlight the positive impact tax relief will have on American families and the economy. Heller specifically focused on the urgency to pass tax cuts for families living in Nevada. \u201cWe are at a pivotal point here in Washington, D.C\u2026 In Nevada, median household income today is $7,000 lower than it was 10 years ago. Think about that. For the average family, that\u2019s $7,000 less in purchasing power than they had 10 years ago,\u201d said Heller. \u201cThere are more Nevadans living paycheck to paycheck today than most other states. These are some of the reasons, and important reasons to me, why tax reform needs to happen.\u201d Heller continued, \u201cAs I was growing up in the state of Nevada, I had five brothers and sisters and my dad was an auto mechanic and my mother was a school cook\u2026they told their children that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you\u2019d be able to succeed. I do believe that the average American after the last 10 years doesn\u2019t believe that that\u2019s true anymore. And that is the goal behind this initiative, that\u2019s the goal behind this tax reform \u2013 to give the kind of relief that the middle-class has been asking for, begging for, for the last generation. And we are going to provide that for them.\u201d This week, the Senate is prepared to debate the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which includes an amendment Heller filed with Tim Scott (R-SC) that would increase the child tax credit to $2,000. Heller voted in support of the tax relief bill when it was passed out of the Senate Finance Committee two weeks ago. Watch Heller\u2019s remarks\u00a0HERE, or click the image below.\r\nClick\u00a0HERE\u00a0or the above image to watch.\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=F2E3FB09-3B0F-4026-BF4B-E5223BF20B1C"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8364003151655197, "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"}