{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://ellison.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-ellison-statement-on-republican-tax-extender-and-omnibus-legisation", "Rep. Ellison Statement on Republican Tax-Extender and Omnibus legisation", "2015-12-18", "2015", "2015-12", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Keith Ellison", "E000288", "ellison.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON\u00e2\u20ac\u201dRep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives passed the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tax Extender\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill and Omnibus funding bill.\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our nation faces crumbling infrastructure, a rental-housing crisis, and millions of people struggling with low wages. I voted against the Omnibus today, and the tax extender bill yesterday, because they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go far enough in addressing these critical issues.\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The tax extenders bill would double down on the Republican plan to shrink the size of government by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153starving the beast.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d By passing massive tax cuts for multi-national corporations, this bill will add more than $2 trillion to the national debt over the next two decades.\u00a0\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This Omnibus funding bill does not provide anywhere near the funding levels we need to provide housing, health care, education and basic medical research for Americans. While this spending bill removes some of the harm from the partisan riders included in the original draft, it fails to ensure that no American lives in grinding poverty, that everyone has access to quality education and that our roads, bridges and subway systems are safe and reliable.\u00a0\nIn addition, the spending bill repealed a forty-year ban on companies exporting crude oil. Lifting the ban will cost thousands of American refinery jobs and could lead to as many as 7,000 new oil wells every year. This repeal will give the oil industry an extra $20 billion a year while they ship jobs overseas, endanger our natural resources and wildlife, and add more carbon to the atmosphere.\u00a0\nWhile I support some of the investments that are proven to help working families to succeed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c such as making the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit permanent \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the price demanded by Republicans for corporate tax giveaways was too high. When we slash federal funds that could be available for childcare, prenatal care and early childhood nutrition, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just harm people, we reduce the benefits our society could reap from investing in working families.\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asked to vote on a budget, I put the needs of working families first. Neither the tax bill nor the spending bill met that test for me and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I opposed them both.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d", 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": ["http://ellison.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-ellison-statement-on-republican-tax-extender-and-omnibus-legisation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7078719101846218, "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"}