{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=0B13E185-F3D4-4C9A-A97C-13017C6B716A", "Senate Passes Thune Amendment to Protect Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses", "2022-08-07", "2022", "2022-08", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed his amendment to the Democrats\u2019 reckless tax-and-spending spree that would protect small- and medium-sized businesses from a brand-new $35 billion tax increase.\n\n\u201cAt the last minute, Senate Democrats attempted to sneak yet another tax hike on American job creators into their reckless tax-and-spending spree, but fortunately, common sense prevailed,\u201d said Thune. \u201cThe adoption of my amendment will protect small- and medium-sized businesses, many of which are trying to recover from the pandemic and survive a rocky economy, from this onerous tax hike.\u201d\n\nThe Democrats\u2019 latest reckless tax-and-spending spree, introduced and made public for the first time Saturday, includes a change that would require separate businesses of any size held by funds or partnerships to combine their otherwise unrelated income to determine if they meet an aggregate $1 billion income threshold \u2013 subjecting each respective company to the new tax even if its own income is far too low. Without successful passage of Thune\u2019s amendment, more than 18,000 small- and medium-sized businesses in the United States that employ 11.7 million workers would risk being subjected to $35 billion in tax hikes. This amendment is offset by extending the cap for one year on the state and local tax deduction.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:26:22Z"]], "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.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=0B13E185-F3D4-4C9A-A97C-13017C6B716A"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.59177603200078, "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"}