{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-kelly-speaks-with-arizona-community-health-centers-about-protecting-affordable-accessible-health-care/", "ICYMI: Kelly Speaks\u00a0with Arizona Community Health Centers\u00a0about\u00a0Protecting\u00a0Affordable,\u00a0Accessible\u00a0Health\u00a0Care", "2026-08-07", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "AZ", "Mark Kelly", "K000377", "www.kelly.senate.gov", "markkelly", "https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "In case you missed it, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly joined the Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers (AACHC) for a conversation in celebration of National Health Center Week. He discussed the essential role community health centers play in keeping Arizonans healthy in the face of harmful cuts to Medicaid and SNAP included in Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d\n\nSen. Kelly speaks to members of the Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers.\n\nWatch the full conversation here. See key excerpts below:\n\nOn why community health centers are more critical than ever after Republicanpassed cuts to Medicaid\u2026\n\n\u201cIn the richest country in the world, and at the richest time for this country, hardworking people should be able to take their kids to a doctor, they should be able to get a prescription medication and get preventive care before a manageable health problem becomes a crisis. That\u2019s what community health centers do every day.\n\n\u201cOver the past year and a half, as we work to fight against cuts to Medicaid and SNAP that were included in Donald Trump\u2019s bill\u2014I don\u2019t like calling it the \u2018Big, Beautiful Bill\u2014I asked Arizonans to share with me what those cuts would mean to them and their families. I traveled all over the state, and I heard from kids, I heard from parents, and seniors who told me some heartbreaking stories about the impact that these cuts had on them and had on their lives. And I took these stories back to Washington and shared them on the Senate floor and I talked with my Republican and Democratic colleagues about the people I met because I wanted them to understand that this wasn\u2019t about a budget line, it was about real people.\n\n\u201cWe put up a pretty good fight, but as everyone knows, my Republican colleagues, they passed these cuts in the biggest tax break for billionaires I\u2019ve ever seen, and this tax break for billionaires were on the backs of hardworking Americans.\u201d\n\nOn the impact of Republican cuts on rural hospitals and maternity care\u2026\n\n\u201cI worry about the impact these Medicaid cuts are going to have\u2014not only on community health centers, on hospitals that have specialized services. I\u2019ve heard from hospital CEOs how they might have to get rid of their OB/GYN clinic in a rural area. What are the options that these women have? It\u2019s like drive three hours for delivery, that might work in some cases but not for pregnancies that are not going right.\n\n\u201cMillions of Americans are about to lose their health care safety net and food benefits at the same time. It\u2019s because Donald Trump and Republicans in the House and the Senate wanted to give a big tax cut\u201470 percent of it goes to millionaires and billionaires. That\u2019s why this happened. They prioritized a handful of rich people over millions of Americans that were having a hard time affording their lives, it\u2019s wrong.\u201d", 1, "2026-08-08T05:41:38Z", "2026-08-08T05:43:24Z"]], "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.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-kelly-speaks-with-arizona-community-health-centers-about-protecting-affordable-accessible-health-care/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4467008877545595, "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"}