{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases/amodei-pascrell-call-proclamation-october-italian-american-heritage-month", "Amodei, Pascrell Call for Proclamation of October as Italian-American Heritage Month", "2018-10-05", "2018", "2018-10", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Mark E. Amodei", "A000369", "amodei.house.gov", "amodei", "https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Logan Ramsey, 202-225-6155\n\nAmodei, Pascrell Call for Proclamation of October as Italian-American Heritage Month\n\nCo-chairs of Congressional Italian-American Delegation call on President, Congress to designate month in celebration of Italian culture\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\u2013 Today, U.S. Reps. Mark E. Amodei (R-NV-02) and Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), co-chairs of the Congressional Italian-American Delegation, sent a letter to Donald Trump requesting a Presidential Proclamation of October as Italian-American Heritage Month. Amodeiand Pascrell coupled their request with the introduction of a resolution in the House of Representatives to establish October as Italian and Italian-American Heritage Month.\n\n\u201cAmericans of Italian descent play an integral role in America today, not only in the public policy arena, but in all aspects of our culture. This proclamation has the support of the Italian-American community as well as the National Italian-American Foundation,\u201d Reps. Amodeiand Pascrell write Trump. \u201cTherefore, it is our hope that you will also recognize Italian-Americans in this country by issuing a Presidential Message to proclaim October as Italian-American Heritage Month.\u201d\n\nThe Members continue: \u201cOver 5.4 million Italians immigrated to the United States between 1820 and 1992. Today there are over 26 million Americans of Italian descent in the United States, making them the fifth largest ethnic group. Our nation was even named after an Italian, the explorer and geographer Amerigo Vespucci.\u201d\n\nRep. Amodei issued the following statement on the letter: \u201cAs an Italian-American, I have always been extremely proud of my heritage, and equally proud of the significant contributions Italian-Americans have made to our country. My Italian roots run deep. My father\u2019s grandmother is from Ognio, which is 40 miles East of Genoa, his grandfather is from Santa Maria Majorio, which is near the Swiss border, and my mother\u2019s father is a Longero from Southern Italy \u2013 so we\u2019ve pretty much got the country bracketed with relatives. Growing up, I remember many celebrations around this time of year where my family got together to pay tribute to our heritage. With this month being especially significant for Italian-Americans, I\u2019m proud to join Chairman Pascrell in requesting a Presidential Proclamation of October as Italian-American Heritage Month. As co-chair of the Italian-American Caucus, I will continue supporting measures which highlight all that binds our countries together culturally, commercially, and strategically.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:08:35Z"]], "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://amodei.house.gov/news-releases/amodei-pascrell-call-proclamation-october-italian-american-heritage-month"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.826662104576826, "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"}