{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://thompson.house.gov/press-release/house-acts-government-funding-bill", "House Acts on Government Funding Bill", "2014-12-12", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "PA", "Glenn Thompson", "T000467", "thompson.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Glenn 'GT' Thompson (PA-5) today voted to support H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015, which passed the House by a margin of 219-206.\u00a0 \u00a0\n\tH.R. 83 includes funding through the end of the Fiscal Year, September 30, 2015, for 11 of the 12 annual spending bills. Funding for the primary agencies that are responsible for carrying out the president's executive actions on immigration will expire on February 27, 2015.\n\t\"This package is important to keep the government open, while also instituting thoughtful spending reductions and reining in bureaucratic and regulatory overreach,\" stated Rep. Thompson. \u201cThe legislation provides short-term funding for the Department of Homeland Security that would expire before the President's executive actions on immigration take effect, giving Congress the ability to address this important matter without the threat of a broader government shutdown.\u201d\n\tH.R. 83 also forces the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u2019 (USACE) to withdraw the interpretive rule (IR) that was issued in conjunction with the EPA\u2019s proposed \u201cWaters of the United States\u201d (WOTUS) rule, which would dramatically expand federal authority over water and land uses.\n\t\u201cProvisions forcing the withdrawal of the Interpretive Rule are a positive start, but the House and Senate must keep pressure on the EPA and Army Corps to address the blatant flaws with the underlying WOTUS proposal. I believe these ends will be achieved in the coming year,\u201d Rep. Thompson added.\n\tH.R 83 also strikes an unprecedented bipartisan compromise on reforming multi-employer pension agreements that will ensure the longevity of severely distressed pension plans that have been at risk of bankrupting the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and placing the retirements of 10 million workers at risk.\n\t\u201cKeeping retirement plans stable into the future will prevent workers from losing everything. This bipartisan agreement includes reforms that will protect taxpayers and provide trustees with flexibility and the appropriate tools to save troubled plans. Doing nothing, which I\u2019m thankful we avoided, would simply lead to systemic collapse,\u201d said Rep. Thompson, a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which brokered the agreement.\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://thompson.house.gov/press-release/house-acts-government-funding-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6643231026828289, "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"}