{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=723", "Hawai\u2018i Congressional Delegation Urges Governor Ige To Request Emergency Declaration, EPA Intervention In Water Contamination Crisis", "2021-12-07", "2021", "2021-12", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Ed Case", "C001055", "case.house.gov", "case", "https://case.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=23", "scraper", "(Washington, DC) - U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai\u2018i) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawai\u2018i) and U.S. Representatives Ed Case (D-Hawai\u2018i) and Kaiali\u2018i Kahele (D-Hawai\u2018i) called on Governor David Ige to request that President Biden declare an emergency and direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step in and assist with the water contamination crisis on Oahu.\n\n\u201cThe EPA\u2019s direct intervention in your request is essential,\u201d the delegation wrote in their letter to Ige. \u201cWhile the source of the contamination affecting the drinking water is still unknown, it is important that the public have confidence in the process that the Navy and Hawai\u2018i Department of Health (DOH) are using to draw samples from the Navy\u2019s water system to ensure the results show the true extent of the problem that threatens the health and safety of the people of Hawai\u2018i.\n\n\"The EPA has the expertise to validate the techniques and procedures that the Navy and DOH are using to draw their samples, and it can direct them to take corrective actions where appropriate. It can also draw its own samples to compare against as we work to identify, isolate, and fix the source of the contamination affecting the drinking water.\u201d\n\nThe full text of the letter can be found below and is available here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=723"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8944438304752111, "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"}