{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://pallone.house.gov/press-release/pallone-decries-republican-bill-leaves-critical-american-indian-programs-unfunded", "Pallone Decries Republican Bill that Leaves Critical American Indian Programs Unfunded", "2013-10-16", "2013", "2013-10", "Democrat", "House", "NJ", "Frank Pallone", "P000034", "pallone.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Says GOP Relentless Effort to Repeal Health Care Reform also Means Repeal of Reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act\nWashington, DC \u2013 Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) denounced the resolution H.J. RES. 80\u00a0- American Indian and Alaska Native, Health, Education, And Safety Act on Saturday, October 12, 2013 that House Republican leadership brought up for debate without proposing full funding of all critical American Indian programs or the entire federal government.\u00a0 On Monday evening Pallone voted against the measure.\u00a0 Pallone condemned the House Republican\u2019s hypocrisy towards American Indian healthcare, citing their unrelenting efforts to repeal or defund the Affordable Care Act, which includes the reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.\u00a0\nPallone\u2019s full statement follows:\n\u201cThe Republican position is clear.\u00a0 Either affordable health care for millions of Americans goes or we will keep the government shutdown.\u00a0 In an effort to avert the public\u2019s attention from this extreme and destructive hostage-taking, they have been putting forward a series of piecemeal, two month, sequestration level, funding bills.\u00a0\n\u201cHowever, today\u2019s piecemeal bill reaches a new level of hypocrisy.\u00a0 The irony here would only be lost on a Republican Party as intransigent and dominated by the Tea Party as the one we have here in the House.\n\u201cThe Affordable Care Act, which the Republicans are demanding be eliminated in exchange for allowing the government to reopen, includes the permanent reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.\u00a0 As the author of the reauthorization of Indian Health Care Improvement Act, I know the challenges that the reauthorization faced and just how long it took for us to finally get it into law\u2014a decade, in case you are wondering.\u00a0\n\u201cIf we yield to Republican hostage-taking and throw out the Affordable Care Act, we throw out the reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.\u00a0 This will be devastating to Indian Country.\n\u201cFurthermore, this Republican bill provides funding for only a relatively small number of programs that support tribes.\u00a0 While not taking away from the importance of these programs, there are many more programs that go unfunded.\u00a0 To name just a few, this bill does not fund food distribution on Indian reservations, child nutrition programs, Fish and Wildlife Service support, and the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians.\u00a0\n\u201cThis bill also continues the damaging sequester cuts that the National Congress of American Indians have said, \u201cpose particular hardship for Indian Country and the surrounding communities who rely on tribes as employers.\u201d\u00a0 But while I support repealing sequestration, the Democrats have done their part.\u00a0 We have said let\u2019s keep the government open while we negotiate and work out our differences.\n\u201cIt is time for us to stop this nonsense.\u00a0 If you truly do believe in the sacred trust responsibility our government has to tribes, than let\u2019s have a vote on a clean CR and re-open the government.\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": ["http://pallone.house.gov/press-release/pallone-decries-republican-bill-leaves-critical-american-indian-programs-unfunded"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.597170252352953, "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"}