{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-colleagues-hold-roundtable-on-dems-harmful-child-care-proposals/", "Scott, Colleagues Hold Roundtable on Dems\u2019 Harmful Child Care Proposals", "2021-12-01", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), along with Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), held a roundtable with child care providers from around the country to hear their concerns about the negative impact the Democrats\u2019 reckless spending bill would have on child care workers and families.\n\nClick to watch Sen. Scott\u2019s remarks\n\nSenator Scott\u2019s remarks, as delivered:\n\nThank you, Senator Burr, for holding this really important roundtable discussion. Let me just say to each and every witness, thank you all for being here and providing your expertise as it relates to what we\u2019re facing in the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d plan.\n\nIn so many cases, for the parents of the 12 million kids [under age] five, it\u2019s really a \u201cBuild Back Broker\u201d plan, honestly.\n\nIf you literally think about what [the Democrats\u2019] own folks are saying about their plan, it\u2019s devastating to families. I think about the liberal People\u2019s Policy Project that calculates that this plan would increase the cost of having a single child\u2014one child\u2014in daycare from $15,800 to over $28,000.\n\nThere\u2019s no way that this government will provide families with enough subsidies to make up for the cost that the Build Back Broker plan is actually going to increase. I can\u2019t think of anything less logical, anything less commonsense, than this plan as it relates to child care.\n\nI\u2019d also say that, for more than 30 years, there\u2019s been a bipartisan coalition here in Washington that has included faith-based child care as a part of the remedies available for families. Fifty-three percent of families use the faith-based option. This new plan eliminates that option for more than half of Americans who want to dictate and determine where their child goes to child care.\n\nI don\u2019t understand what [the Democrats] don\u2019t understand about this proposal and its increased cost, its reduction in options, and its negative impact on families all across America.\n\nAnd every time I talk with a child care provider, their suggestions to making child care more affordable seem commonsense, as if they\u2019re in the business of doing it every single day! Why [would we] not take a step back and listen to folks like you all, who are experts on the ground on helping us deal with what is, in fact, an ever-increasing problem for Americans across this nation?\n\nHow do I find the right place for my child? Why isn\u2019t that the focus? Why are we focusing on changing the facility, changing the employees, changing the profits, changing the approach, and making it all more expensive and out of reach for the average American family?\n\nI can\u2019t imagine having two kids in child care. If one is $28,000 almost $30,000, [then] two kids? The median income in this country\u2014median, Senator Burr\u2014is under $40,000. How [do] you go to work and take care of your family with the Build Back Broker plan? It just won\u2019t work.\n\nI think we ought not politicize this issue, because to me this is not an issue of Left versus Right. This is an issue of American families looking for ways to make decisions in their households, and [this plan would] take away options by making it unaffordable.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-colleagues-hold-roundtable-on-dems-harmful-child-care-proposals/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9125218968838453, "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"}