{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.speaker.gov/general/speaker-ryan-cures-now-final-house-vote", "Speaker Ryan Touts #CuresNow Ahead of Final House Vote", "2016-11-30", "2016", "2016-11", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "www.speaker.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Today, Speaker Ryan discussed the 21st Century Cures Act\u2014legislation introduced by the Energy and Commerce Committee to bring American health care into the 21st century\u2014at a weekly press conference with House Republicans:\n\u201cWe are certainly very excited to bring a final bipartisan version of the 21st Century Cures bill to the House floor today.\u201cThis has been a long time coming. This is going to be a game-changer. It\u2019s going to be a game-changer for patients and for their families. It will fundamentally transform the way that we treat and cure diseases in this country. Cures provides needed funding, but it does so in a responsible way.\u201cI am also pleased, as you just heard, that this legislation includes Tim Murphy\u2019s mental health legislation\u2014mental health reform. Again, something a long time coming. Not only do we need to bring mental illness out of the shadows, we really have to improve how we address it. We need more coordination, more early intervention, and this bill takes a huge step in that right direction.\u201cI just want to thank Fred Upton and Tim Murphy. They have been pushing this for years. And this is the result of their hard work and their collaboration with other people. I want to thank the Republicans and the Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee for making this possible.\u201cThese are ideas that we\u2019ve been working on for years. They did not quit. They did not give up. And this is a result of their hard work.\n\u201cAnd that\u2019s really the driving principle of this legislation: We don\u2019t give up on anybody in the country. Nobody is alone. No matter how rare the disease\u2014no matter how dire the situation\u2014there can always be hope. There should always be hope. And with this legislation, there will be more hope for more families.\u201cWe expect very good bipartisan support today, and then we hope the Senate will act swiftly so we can get this bill to the president\u2019s desk.\u201d", 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.speaker.gov/general/speaker-ryan-cures-now-final-house-vote"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7943380624055862, "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"}