{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/leahy-reax-on-the-closed-door-gop-tax-plan-and-the-frantic-rush-to-pass-it-without-hearings-", "Leahy REAX On The Closed-Door GOP Tax Plan And The Frantic Rush To Pass It Without Hearings", "2017-11-02", "2017", "2017-11", "Democrat", "House", "VT", "Patrick Leahy", "L000174", "www.leahy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "11.02.17\n\t\t\t Leahy REAX On The Closed-Door GOP Tax Plan And The Frantic Rush To Pass It Without Hearings  \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\u201cRepublicans are repeating the same mistakes they made with health care.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same old playbook: jam through a bill, cobbled together in a back room, that sticks it to hard-working Americans.\u00a0\r\n\u201cRepublicans are desperately seeking a \u2018win\u2019 in Congress, but this one would only come at great cost to the American people.\r\n\u201cWhat House Republican leaders released is a hugely complex bill, with hundreds of pages of fine print, written behind closed doors.\u00a0 House leaders, at President Trump\u2019s tweeted insistence, plan to ram it through in one week -- next week -- with no hearings and little chance for meaningful review, analysis or debate.\u00a0 For generations to come, the selective tax cuts contemplated by Republicans in Congress and by the President would touch every corner of our complex economy and would hurt millions of families, while helping giant corporations.\u00a0\r\n\u201cVermonters with medical expenses, student loans or state tax payments are not the only ones with crucial stakes in this debate.\u00a0 These are serious pocketbook policy decisions that should not be rushed at hyper speed through a hyper-partisan process.\r\n\u201cI want a bipartisan tax reform bill that puts the emphasis on helping working Vermonters and small businesses, not the already flush bank deposits of large corporations.\u00a0 But based on what I\u2019ve seen so far, that is not the direction the House is going.\u00a0 We need to slow down and look carefully, prudently and seriously at this hastily produced bill before putting it on a partisan fast track to the President\u2019s desk.\u00a0 \u201d\u00a0\u00a0\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t Press Contact \n\t\t\t\tDavid Carle: 202-224-3693\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 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.leahy.senate.gov/press/leahy-reax-on-the-closed-door-gop-tax-plan-and-the-frantic-rush-to-pass-it-without-hearings-"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1633871365338564, "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"}