{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases/amodei-reacts-wildfire-response-and-drought-resiliency-act", "AMODEI REACTS TO WILDFIRE RESPONSE AND DROUGHT RESILIENCY ACT", "2022-07-29", "2022", "2022-07", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Mark E. Amodei", "A000369", "amodei.house.gov", "amodei", "https://amodei.house.gov/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representative Mark Amodei (NV-02) today issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 5118, the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act:\n\n\u201cThe shamelessness continues \u2013 only this majority party leadership in the House could fake a title like this and fill it with nature\u2019s worst nightmares. I vote no.\u201d\n\nH.R. 5118 BACKGROUND:\n\nFails to include any provisions to streamline the NEPA process to expedite forest management activities.\n\nBlocks access to up to 58 million acres of roadless areas across the nation, making them even more susceptible to wildfires.\n\nIncludes so-called \u201cEnvironmental Justice\u201d provisions that would only make the regulatory arena worse and open federal land management agencies up to frivolous litigation from environmental groups.\n\nAuthorizes more than $4 billion in new federal funding, channeling money toward unnecessary research, studies and environmental restoration projects that don\u2019t deliver water to communities now.\n\nCreates a federal water monitoring program that could be weaponized by potential litigants against farmers and ranchers to further curtail their access to water.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:49:02Z"]], "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-reacts-wildfire-response-and-drought-resiliency-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6260298434644938, "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"}