{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=A33301F5-CE32-445B-910A-910EBF8052C3", "On Fox News, Portman Discusses Outlook for Tax Reform, How Tax Cuts Will Boost Middle Class, Jobs & Wages", "2017-12-15", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Rob Portman", "P000449", "www.portman.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "During an interview on Fox News today, Senator Portman, a conferee on the House-Senate conference committee that is negotiating the final tax reform bill, discussed how tax reform will help the middle class, create jobs, and boost wages for American workers. Portman, who has held six tax reform roundtables in Ohio with local business leaders in recent months, has been vocal on the national stage calling for tax reform, including during recent interviews on CBS This Morning, Fox News, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, and NBCs Meet The Press twice, as well as recently in op-eds in the Akron Beacon Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Delaware Gazette, and Cincinnati Enquirer. The tax reform effort is widely supported by Ohio small businesses, manufacturers, farmers, and other state and local organizations.\r\nExcerpts can be found below and a video can be found here.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPORTMAN ON THE OUTLOOK FOR TAX REFORM:\r\nI feel good about it.I think it will be out tonightor tomorrow, and then we will have avote Tuesday or Wednesday.I think the votes were therelast time in the Senate, andthey will be there this time because the bill, if anything, has improved after theHouse-Senate conference.You will see substantial middle-class tax relief, which is a lotof people are looking for, and in terms of the child tax credit for folks who are on the lower end of the economic ladder.I think it will be a verypopular bill and among ourRepublican colleagues I think we willget the votes. PORTMAN ON SENATOR MARCO RUBIO:\r\nMarco has a passion for making sure that the child tax credit really works for families whoare maybe not paying income tax butpaying payroll taxes, and that'swhat he is insistent on therefundability.I respect that.He is looking out for the verypeople were all trying to help.I think in the end, the bill will beimproved, and we will get thesupport of our Republicancolleagues.I hope some Democrats will takea look at it.After all it is tax cuts for middle class families and it is helping folks at thebottom of the economic ladder,as Marco has insisted.It also makes our businessesand our workers competitive again.We cant have the current situation where jobs and investment are going overseas.\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=A33301F5-CE32-445B-910A-910EBF8052C3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.444490859284997, "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"}