Cleveland.com Article RatingHouse approves Democrats' 'Inflation Reduction Act' in party-line vote; both sides aim to campaign on it
Aug 13, 2022 View Original Article
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| "Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Shontel Brown described the legislation as the largest investment in clean energy EVER." | Positive | 48% Conservative |
| "It would extend subsidies for an estimated 259,000 Ohioans who access their health care through the Affordable Care Act for three years, permanently fund a trust fund that subsidizes medical care for coal miners with black lung disease, impose a 1" | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Republicans said it would worsen inflation, raise taxes and obstruct pharmaceutical research." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In FoxNews interview, Champaign County GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said the bill would increase taxes, cause inflation, and its IRS funding would be used to raise taxes on Middle America and harass small business owners and middle class families." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Zanesville's Troy Balderson said the bill would raise taxes on businesses in the midst of a recession and forces us into a socialist drug pricing scheme, leading to fewer life saving cures higher cost and less hope.You caot spin your way out of inflation, but that's exactly what this bill tries to do with $745 billion in new spending, argued Miami County's Warren Davidson." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Several Ohio Republicans denounced the bill on the House of Representatives floor, with Bowling Green's Bob Latta saying it will increase taxes on families, block iovative medical cures, promote irresponsible spending on green New Deal carve outs and jeopardize the electrical grid." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Shontel Brown described the legislation as the largest investment in clean energy EVER." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "The U.S. Senate approved the legislation last week with backing from Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and opposition from Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The U.S. Senate approved the legislation last week with backing from Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and opposition from Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "President Joe Biden said he looks forward to signing it." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "I ran for President promising to make government work for working families again, and that is what this bill does -- period, said a statement from Biden, who will dispatch his cabinet secretaries throughout the country in August to promote the bill as a Democratic Party triumph over special interests to benefit the working-class and improve the economy." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "A letter that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent to IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig instructed that any resources from the bill, including any new persoel or auditors that are hired -- shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold that are audited relative to historical levels." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "We are going to rebuild the middle class, Ryan said on the House floor." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Columbus Republican Rep. Mike Carey said on the House of Representatives floor that the amount of new IRS agents who would be hired under the bill is greater than the population of Ohio cities including Parma, and said the bill should have been named the Audit America Act." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "A statement from Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur said the legislatoin would lower health care and energy costs without raising a single pey on the middle class by requiring the highest earners to pay their fair share." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Working and middle class families will pay the price of Democrats' overspending, said Gibbs." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Seniors will pay less for prescription drugs, families will pay less for healthcare, and we'll lower energy costs and create good-paying jobs right here at home, said Kaptur." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth, a Kentucky Democrat, disputed GOP claims that the bill would result in the hiring of 87,000 IRS agents, saying that Republicans are making it up to scare people." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Niles-area Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who is seeking the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Portman's retirement, said the bill will help the exhausted majority of the people in this country, Democrats, Republicans, independents, versus the extremists, and said it would reduce the deficit, help seniors with prescription drug costs, increase production of natural gas, and double down on finally having an industrial policy in this country to outcompete China." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Niles-area Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who is seeking the U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Portman's retirement, said the bill will help the exhausted majority of the people in this country, Democrats, Republicans, independents, versus the extremists, and said it would reduce the deficit, help seniors with prescription drug costs, increase production of natural gas, and double down on finally having an industrial policy in this country to outcompete China." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "We're going to empower Medicare to negotiate drug prices, Brown said on Twitter." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Marietta's Bill Johnson said a methane emissions reduction program it contains could be more accurately described as a tax on American natural gas producers like those in his congressional district." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "A Twitter statement from Holmes County Republican Rep. Bob Gibbs said the bill will worsen inflation." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In FoxNews interview, Champaign County GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said the bill would increase taxes, cause inflation, and its IRS funding would be used to raise taxes on Middle America and harass small business owners and middle class families." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Zanesville's Troy Balderson said the bill would raise taxes on businesses in the midst of a recession and forces us into a socialist drug pricing scheme, leading to fewer life saving cures higher cost and less hope.You caot spin your way out of inflation, but that's exactly what this bill tries to do with $745 billion in new spending, argued Miami County's Warren Davidson." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Zanesville's Troy Balderson said the bill would raise taxes on businesses in the midst of a recession and forces us into a socialist drug pricing scheme, leading to fewer life saving cures higher cost and less hope.You caot spin your way out of inflation, but that's exactly what this bill tries to do with $745 billion in new spending, argued Miami County's Warren Davidson." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "The way you send a message to all the ridiculous things the Democrats and the Biden administration have done is ... on November 8th, said Jordan." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The way you send a message to all the ridiculous things the Democrats and the Biden administration have done is ... on November 8th, said Jordan." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
74% :Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Shontel Brown described the legislation as "the largest investment in clean energy EVER.50% : It would extend subsidies for an estimated 259,000 Ohioans who access their health care through the Affordable Care Act for three years, permanently fund a trust fund that subsidizes medical care for coal miners with black lung disease, impose a 1% excise tax on corporate stock buybacks, and require companies with over $1 billion in profits to pay a minimum tax instead of using loopholes to avoid paying the statutory 21% rate.
36% : Republicans said it would worsen inflation, raise taxes and obstruct pharmaceutical research.
27% : In FoxNews interview, Champaign County GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said the bill would increase taxes, cause inflation, and its IRS funding would be used to "raise taxes on Middle America" and harass small business owners and middle class families.
26% : Zanesville's Troy Balderson said the bill would raise taxes on businesses in the midst of a recession and "forces us into a socialist drug pricing scheme, leading to fewer life saving cures higher cost and less hope.""You cannot spin your way out of inflation, but that's exactly what this bill tries to do with $745 billion in new spending," argued Miami County's Warren Davidson.
24% :Several Ohio Republicans denounced the bill on the House of Representatives floor, with Bowling Green's Bob Latta saying it will increase taxes on families, block innovative medical cures, promote irresponsible spending on green New Deal carve outs and jeopardize the electrical grid.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.