{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ricketts.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ricketts-releases-statement-on-health-care-votes/", "Ricketts Releases Statement on Health Care Votes", "2025-12-11", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "NE", "Pete Ricketts", "R000618", "www.ricketts.senate.gov", "ricketts", "https://www.ricketts.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/?jsf=jet-engine:press-list&pagenum=", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) released the following statement after voting for a healthcare proposal led by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID):\n\n\u201cFrom the beginning, Obamacare has been broken promise after broken promise. Nebraskans couldn\u2019t keep their doctor. Premiums have more than tripled since 2013. Biden\u2019s COVID bonuses fueled massive waste, fraud, and abuse. Despite the misguided \u201cfixes\u201d, healthcare costs continued to grow. The Democrats\u2019 \u2018plan\u2019 of throwing more money at a broken system will only make these problems worse.\n\n\u201cThe Republican plan gives money to people, not insurance companies. It includes common-sense reforms to lower healthcare costs and combat waste, fraud, and abuse. It builds on the successes of the \u2018Working Families Tax Cuts Act\u2019, which expanded access to health savings accounts. These solutions allow people choice and will improve healthcare access and affordability for Nebraskans.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.ricketts.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ricketts-releases-statement-on-health-care-votes/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.452745869755745, "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"}