{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://aderholt.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/aderholt-applauds-administrations-decision-protect-north-alabama-jobs", "Aderholt Applauds Administration's Decision to Protect North Alabama Jobs", "2011-12-29", "2011", "2011-12", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Robert B. Aderholt", "A000055", "aderholt.house.gov", "aderholt", "https://aderholt.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 29, 2011\n\nCONTACT: Anne Marie Malecha, anne_marie.malecha@mail.house.gov or 202.841.0796\n\nAderholt Applauds Administration\u2019s Decision to Protect North Alabama Jobs\n\nChanges to GSP Trade Provision Ensure Manufacturing Jobs Can Remain in the U.S.\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04), today released the following statement after the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced a common-sense policy fix to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP):\n\n\u201cThe changes to GSP announced today, bring great news for jobs in the state of Alabama,\u201d said Aderholt. \u201cAmerican sleeping bag manufacturers like Exxel Outdoors, who have struggled with the uncertainty of whether they can continue to afford to do business within the United States, no longer face that fear.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor months Americans have been looking to Washington to allow businesses to retain and create jobs through deregulation and balanced trade agreements that level the playing field for American businesses to compete. Fixing GSP is a great way to start.\"\n\n\"GSP is not just some abstract trade law that affects companies overseas, but an important trade policy that affects jobs right here in North Alabama and allows for companies like Exxel to return good paying jobs back to the United States.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn today's global economy, trade is important to economic growth and success. However, a loophole in GSP has been hurting American sleeping bag manufactures, until today. GSP was designed to be a mutually beneficial trade program between the US and friendly developing nations, and was specifically intended to not harm U.S. domestic manufacturing.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T21:13:05Z"]], "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": ["https://aderholt.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/aderholt-applauds-administrations-decision-protect-north-alabama-jobs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8994989804923534, "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"}