{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.speaker.gov/general/tax-cut-radio-tour-continues-wi-fl-and-ca", "Tax Cut Radio Tour Continues: WI, FL, and CA", "2017-12-13", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "www.speaker.gov", null, null, "legacy", "This morning, Speaker Ryan joined radio shows in Wisconsin, Florida, and California to discuss how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will improve people\u2019s lives across the country. Listen and check out the excerpts below.\nMilwaukee, WI \u2013 1130 WISN\nSpeaker Ryan: \u201cWe\u2019re on track for bringing it through the system next week to get it done by Christmas, which was our goal and pledge all along so that we start the New Year, with a new tax system, with a big middle class tax cut and a tax cut for businesses to make us globally competitive to get faster economic growth and more jobs.\u201d\nSpeaker Ryan on how this will help families taking the bigger standard deduction: \u201cIn my district, the average household is going to get a $2,000 tax cut. I just looked at [Rep.] Sensenbrenner\u2019s district, the average household there is going to get a $2,700 tax cut. I\u2019m looking at [Rep.] Grothman\u2019s district here, the average median family of four in his district is going to get a $2,100 tax cut.\u201d\n\tSouth Florida \u2013 610 WIOD\nSpeaker Ryan: \u201cThis week we\u2019re reconciling the differences between the House and Senate, the Conference Committee, they are on track for doing that. So that next week we bring the bill to the floor, to the Senate and to the House, and get it done before Christmas. That\u2019s the plan we\u2019ve had and that\u2019s the timeline we\u2019re on. . . .This is the biggest rewrite of our tax code since Reagan \u201986 and I would say it\u2019s far more ambitious, far more sweeping, and far more pro-growth than the Reagan \u201986 reforms.\u201d\nSacramento, CA \u2013 650 KSTE\nSpeaker Ryan: \u201cIn [California\u2019s] 4th district, if people take the bigger standard deduction, which means 90 percent of Americans can fill out their taxes on a postcard, that average median household in that district gets about a $3,800 tax cut. Up in Rep. Denham\u2019s district, the 10th district, people who take that big standard deduction, that average family of four in that district gets a $1,600 tax cut. The point we\u2019re trying to make here is that we\u2019re trying to clean stuff out of the tax code, lower taxes across the board, dramatically increase the Child Tax Credit, double the standard deduction and then lower rates on businesses so they can be more globally competitive.\u201d", 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.speaker.gov/general/tax-cut-radio-tour-continues-wi-fl-and-ca"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4826459810137749, "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"}