{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.speaker.gov/general/tax-cut-radio-tour-ny-il-pa-and-co", "Tax Cut Radio Tour \u2013 NY, IL, PA, and CO", "2017-12-06", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "www.speaker.gov", null, null, "legacy", "This morning, Speaker Ryan embarked on a regional media radio tour to explain how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will help middle-income families and workers across the country. Listen to his interviews below and check out the excerpts.\nRochester, NY \u2013 WHAM 1180\nSpeaker Ryan: \u201cI just went through the numbers in Rep. Tom Reed\u2019s district. Because we double the standard deduction, the average household income earner in the 23rd district gets a $1,463 tax cut. If you look at a family of four at $200,000 . . . if they itemize their deduction they get a $2,000 tax cut, if they don\u2019t, if they take the standard deduction, they get a $6,200 tax cut. . . . so the point we\u2019re trying to make is that by lowering taxes across the board, increasing the child tax credit, doubling the standard deduction and then on top of that, giving people the ability to write off $10,000 of their property tax, which I know you, like us in Wisconsin, have high property taxes, that really helps middle income families.\u201d\nChicago, IL \u2013 AM 560 \nSpeaker Ryan: \u201cThese businesses in our community, these multinationals, they are leaving or they are building overseas instead of in Chicago, instead of in Wisconsin, because of our tax code. We\u2019re reversing that trend. We\u2019re basically saying if you got money stuck overseas, you can\u2019t bring it back, we\u2019re going to remove that barrier, bring your money back, and reinvest it. The tax code tells you it\u2019s smarter to make things overseas, to relocate overseas, we\u2019re reversing that incentive and we\u2019re making it smarter and better to stay in America, stay headquartered here, make things here. That\u2019s what this tax plan does, in addition to a middle-class tax cut.\u201d\nPhiladelphia, PA \u2013 WPHT 1210\nSpeaker Ryan: \u201cIn Rep. Ryan Costello\u2019s district, the 6th district . . . by taking the standard deduction, a family of 4 making the medium household income in that district which is $119,769 will receive an average $4,008 tax cut. . . . Rep. Pat Meehan\u2019s district, medium household income there is a little higher\u2014$136,482. That family will get a $4,858 tax cut. . . . So the point we\u2019re trying to make is, doubling the standard deduction, increasing the child tax credit, lowering your tax rates, and we\u2019re giving people a $10,000 property tax deduction on top of all of that.\u201d\nDenver, CO \u2013 630 KHOW\nSpeaker Ryan: \u201cOur motivation is economic growth. Our motivation is to clear out the tax code, simplify the system. Our motivation is to help people who are struggling paycheck to paycheck, and it\u2019s to get jobs, and make our economy a heck of a lot more 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-ny-il-pa-and-co"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.589934341609478, "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"}