{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&itemid=1936", "Paulsen Urges Further Delay of Medical Device Tax", "2017-12-12", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Erik Paulsen", "P000594", "paulsen.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 Congressman Erik Paulsen (MN-03) released the following statement regarding the introduction of a five-year delay to the medical device tax. This legislation, H.R. 4617, would repeal the 2.3 percent excise tax included in President Obama\u2019s health care law that applies to the sale of medical device products.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cIf we want to protect and create more high-paying jobs and if we want to ensure more life-improving and life-saving technologies are available to help patients, we cannot allow the medical device tax to start up again,\u201d said Congressman Paulsen.\u00a0\u201cThis tax should be eliminated and fully repealed, but short of that, we should at least suspend this onerous tax for another five years.\u201d\u00a0\r\n\r\n\tCongressman Paulsen is the chief author of legislation to permanently repeal the medical device tax. In the 114th Congress, Congressman Paulsen helped pass a two-year suspension of the medical device tax with bipartisan support. Unless action is taken, the medical device tax will go back into effect on January 1, 2018. This year, Congressman Paulsen introduced the Protect Medical Innovation Act to permanently repeal the medical device tax. This legislation has broad bipartisan support with 260 cosponsors.\r\n\r\n\tCongressman Paulsen, a champion of small business and advocate of free enterprise, entrepreneurship, and innovation, serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, the bicameral Joint Economic Committee, and is co-chair of the Congressional Medical Technology Caucus.\r\n\r\n\tFor more information on Congressman Paulsen\u2019s work in Congress visit\u00a0paulsen.house.gov.\u00a0\r\n\r\n\t###", 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://paulsen.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&itemid=1936"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6781231388449669, "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"}