{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://pittenger.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pittenger-joins-bipartisan-majority-to-keep-your-health-plan", "Pittenger joins bipartisan majority to "Keep Your Health Plan"", "2013-11-15", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Robert Pittenger", "P000606", "pittenger.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\u00a0\nNovember 15, 2013\n\u00a0\n\u00a0\n CONGRESSMAN PITTENGER JOINS BIPARTISAN MAJORITY TO PASS \u201cKEEP YOUR HEALTH PLAN ACT\u201d \n\u00a0\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Believing that a promise made should be a promise kept, Congressman Robert Pittenger (NC-09) today joined a strong bipartisan majority, including 39 Democrats, in passing the Keep Your Health Plan Act (H.R. 3350). \u00a0This simple, one-page bill provides insurance companies with the legal authority to continue offering existing health plans that don\u2019t meet the minimum standards set by Obamacare.\n\u00a0\n\u201cSo far, 3.5 million Americans have lost their health insurance due to Obamacare, while only 106,000 have been able to sign up for Obamacare policies. \u00a0Millions of hardworking Americans are scrambling to find new coverage and facing sticker shock, all because President Obama put politics above common sense,\u201d said Congressman Pittenger.\n\u00a0\n\u201cUnfortunately, that pattern continues. \u00a0Just hours after announcing that Americans should be allowed to keep their health plans, President Obama actually threatened to veto today\u2019s bipartisan legislation, which provides the legal authority to make the changes he announced to the American people!\n\u00a0\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t a game. \u00a0Real people are losing their full-time jobs due to Obamacare, real people are seeing their much-needed hours cut due to Obamacare, real people are having their health insurance cancelled, and real people are facing unaffordable increases in their health insurance premiums due to Obamacare.\u00a0\n\u00a0\n\u201cHardworking Americans don\u2019t need another apology or press conference. \u00a0They need results.\u201d\n\u00a0\nCongressman Pittenger is a strong supporter of common sense, market-based health care reform. \u00a0In June, he became the first North Carolina Congressman to co-sponsor H.R. 2300, which would provide health insurance for the needy without forcing you to give up your plan, provide coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, and lower costs by modernizing the insurance marketplace and reforming costly abuses of the malpractice system.\n\u00a0\n###", 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://pittenger.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pittenger-joins-bipartisan-majority-to-keep-your-health-plan"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 4.877134226262569, "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"}