{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=208CC5D4-943F-4990-89C9-8742E31F5A57", "Barr Applauds Massive Investment from Apple into Corning Plant in Harrodsburg", "2025-08-06", "2025", "2025-08", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Andy Barr", "B001282", "barr.house.gov", "barr", "https://barr.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Harrodsburg, KY\u2014 U.S. Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY-06) celebrated the investment announced by President Donald Trump and Apple CEO Tim Cook today that all glass for Apple iPhones and Apple Watches will be manufactured in the Corning plant in the Harrodsburg, Kentucky, located in the Sixth District.\n\n\u201cApple\u2019s investment secured by President Trump is a major boost for Corning\u2019s Harrodsburg plant, where hundreds of Kentuckians produce glass for iPhone and Apple Watches,\u201d said Congressman Barr. \u201cNow, our KY plant will produce all of the glass for these products. Thanks to President Trump\u2019s tough trade policies and the Made in America tax credit in the Big Beautiful Bill that I supported, we are Making Manufacturing American Again!\u201d\n\n\u201cCorning is a storied American company, and we\u2019re thrilled to work together to build the largest and most advanced production line ever created for smartphone glass,\u201d said Tim Cook, Apple\u2019s CEO in a release announcing the investment. \u201cThanks to the power of American manufacturing, any customer anywhere in the world who buys a new iPhone or Apple Watch will be holding precision glass made right here in Kentucky. We\u2019re grateful to the President and his administration for their support for American manufacturing, and we\u2019re excited for the innovation this investment will unlock.\u201d\n\n\u201cApple is an amazing partner for American manufacturers like us, and together, we\u2019ve innovated and pushed the boundaries of what\u2019s possible,\u201d said Wendell Weeks, Corning\u2019s CEO in a release announcing the investment. \u201cWe developed and made the glass for the very first iPhone in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 18 years ago. With this new multibillion-dollar commitment from Apple and the lighting of our most advanced manufacturing platform, we are hiring more people and bringing 100 percent of Apple\u2019s cover glass needs for iPhone and Apple Watch to the original home of the innovation.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:57:50Z"]], "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://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=208CC5D4-943F-4990-89C9-8742E31F5A57"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1233009863644838, "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"}