{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=3ED16FE4-2C18-4742-8FF1-C1CD603AA838", "Portman Backs New Opioid Funding, Expresses Disappointment CR Doesnt Include Full Miners Bill", "2016-12-09", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Rob Portman", "P000449", "www.portman.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) today issued the following statement after the Senate passed the Continuing Resolution to fund the government through April 28:\r\n\u201cToday\u2019s vote is an important step forward in the fight against addiction. \u00a0Not only does this measure put us on track to fully fund the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, but it adds another $500 million in funding to help combat the heroin and prescription drug epidemic, consistent with the CURES legislation. \u00a0In just one year, we\u2019ve passed\u00a0important new policy reforms and provided a\u00a0significant boost in funding, and I believe it will make a real\u00a0difference in our efforts to turn the tide of addiction in our country.\r\n\u201cI\u2019m pleased that this legislation includes funding to continue the cleanup work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which is\u00a0critical for jobs, economic development, and the future of southern Ohio. \u00a0This funding will help ensure that we avoid layoffs at this important project.\r\n \u201cLastly, I\u2019m very disappointed that the full Miner\u2019s Protection Act wasn\u2019t included in the measure, and that\u2019s why I voted no on cloture today. More than 22,000 retired miners and their families are counting on Congress to do the right thing, and it is disgraceful that this bill extends health coverage for only four months.\u00a0 Moreover, the bill takes $47 million from the private health trust of one set of mine workers to pay for $45 million in benefits to a different, broader, set of mine workers, and then Washington pockets the remaining $2 million in seized health funds. \u00a0We should keep our promises to retired coal miners, and I intend to keep fighting for them and for the full Miner\u2019s Protection Act until it is signed into law.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\r\n\u00a0\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.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=3ED16FE4-2C18-4742-8FF1-C1CD603AA838"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6194907948374748, "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"}