{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://roby.house.gov/roby-news/alabama-republicans-unanimous-support-%E2%80%98keep-your-health-plan-act%E2%80%99", "Alabama Republicans unanimous in support of \u2018Keep Your Health Plan Act\u2019", "2013-11-15", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Martha Roby", "R000591", "roby.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "On Friday afternoon, the U.S. House passed the Keep Your Health Plan Act, allowing individuals to keep their private health insurance plans even if those plans don\u2019t meet the ObamaCare coverage requirements. Every Republican in Alabama\u2019s congressional delegation voted in favor of the bill, which ultimately passed with bipartisan support by a 261-157 vote. \u201cAmerica is over six weeks into the ObamaCare rollout and things are just a mess,\u201d Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, said on the House floor prior to the vote. \u201cFamilies are being forced into different and oftentimes more expensive plans\u2026 One person contacted me and said their premiums went up $200 a month. Another family contacted me and their policy premiums are going up $740 per month. The president promised from the beginning, quote, \u2018If you like your health care plan, you\u2019ll be able to keep your health care plan, period,\u2019 closed quote. But that\u2019s turned out not to be the case and he knew it all along.\u201d Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Vestavia Hills, called ObamaCare \u201cone of the biggest political fiascos that I have ever seen.\u201d \u201cThe President made a promise to the American people,\u201d Rep. Martha Roby, R-Montgomery, added. \u201cAnd now the House of Representatives has moved to provide legislative reassurance that if Americans like their health care plans, they will truly be able to keep them.\u201d Support for the GOP\u2019s bill was so overwhelming that even some Democrats \u2014 39 to be exact \u2014 were eager to go on record voting in favor of it. But President Obama had already issued a veto threat before the vote, meaning the legislation is very unlikely to become law. The president has proposed a \u201cfix\u201d that would allow only individuals whose health insurance was cancelled this year to re-enroll in their plans next year. But the GOP\u2019s bill, sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton, R-MI, allows insurers to continue offering the same plans that were available before ObamaCare rules went into effect. Upton\u2019s bill is also not only limited to a single year. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, was the only member of the Alabama delegation to vote against Upton\u2019s bill.\nTo read this article on the publication's website, click here.", 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://roby.house.gov/roby-news/alabama-republicans-unanimous-support-%E2%80%98keep-your-health-plan-act%E2%80%99"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.5985748507082462, "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"}