{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bacon.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=554", "BACON FIGHTS RACIAL INEQUALITY WITH LEGISLATION", "2020-10-13", "2020", "2020-10", "Republican", "House", "NE", "Don Bacon", "B001298", "bacon.house.gov", "bacon", "https://bacon.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Omaha, Neb. \u2013 During this Congressional session, Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) was approached by constituents in his district to research and find legislation that would address racial inequality and injustices. In addition to identifying bills to support, Rep. Bacon took the initiative to introduce some of his own.\n\nRep. Bacon introduced H.R. 3536, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which amends the United States Code to criminalize lynching and enhance sentencing under existing federal hate crime statutes. It mirrors the language of S. 488, introduced by Sen. Kamala Harris in the Senate, and passed with bipartisan support on February 14, 2019.\n\n\u201cThe entire language of my bill was then amended into H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act which passed the House earlier this year with a 410-4 vote,\u201d said Rep. Bacon. \u201cOmaha has a gruesome history with the lynching\u2019s of Will Brown and George Smith, who were both murdered at the hands of angry lawless mobs in Omaha. This is the closest any anti-lynching legislation has ever come to becoming law. As the 116th Congress comes to an end, I urge the Senate to bring this bill to a vote.\u201d\n\nIn June, Rep. Bacon joined Rep. Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) to introduce H.R. 7155, bipartisan legislation to form the National Commission on Modernizing Military Installation Designations, which will make recommendations to rename military bases named after Confederate leaders.\n\n\u201cWith the recent events of racial violence and racism within our country, we need to start acknowledging our history in order to create a better future,\u201d said Rep. Bacon. \u201cWe owe this to ourselves, our military, our veterans, and to every American who will answer the call. Now is the time to embrace our values, \u2018that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.\u2019 It\u2019s only right that our installations bear the names of military heroes who represent the best ideals of our Republic.\u201d\n\nRep. Bacon has also been a strong supporter of economic opportunity zones and has worked with the Department of Housing and Urban Development to push for more mixed-income housing developments in North Omaha. In 2019, Omaha was one of four cities nationwide to receive $25 million under HUD\u2019s \"Choice Neighborhoods\" grant program.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-28T00:34:36Z"]], "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://bacon.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=554"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8072038181126118, "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"}