{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ContentRecord_id=3c330ff5-3cb8-490b-87ca-42a2dc7c590f", "Senator Blunt\u2019s Response To Supreme Court\u2019s Decision To Take Up HHS Mandate", "2013-11-26", "2013", "2013-11", "Republican", "House", "MO", "Roy Blunt", "B000575", "www.blunt.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement today in response to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to take up the controversial Health and Human Services\u2019 (HHS) health care mandate, which violates Americans\u2019 religious freedoms:\r\n\u201cBy failing to protect religious freedom, the Senate guaranteed that the courtswould have to act. I'm pleased the Supreme Court has decided to hear thisimportant case. The HHS mandate is an enormous government overreach and it violates Americans' constitutional rights.\u00a0 Employers should not be forced to choose between giving up their business for their faith or giving up their faith for their business.\u201d\r\nToday\u2019s Supreme Court decision comes after new polling showed 59% of  Americans oppose the mandate requiring religious individuals, faith-based  institutions, and businesses cover services that violate their deeply-held  religious beliefs.\u00a0\r\nTo read more about Senator Blunt\u2019s work protecting religious freedom in health care, click here.\u00a0\r\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://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ContentRecord_id=3c330ff5-3cb8-490b-87ca-42a2dc7c590f"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.2307500950992107, "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"}