{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2021/06/16/higgins-announces-additional-415m-hurricane-recovery-efforts/", "Higgins Announces Additional $41.5M for Hurricane Recovery Efforts", "2021-06-16", "2021", "2021-06", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Clay Higgins", "H001077", "clayhiggins.house.gov", "clayhiggins", "https://clayhiggins.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) announced today that FEMA is awarding an additional $41,523,929.59 for Hurricane Laura recovery efforts in South Louisiana.\n\nThe grants include:\n\n$27,104,090.24 to the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness for emergency protective measures. The reimbursement is made at a 90% federal cost-share.\n\n$7,413,813.43 to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety (State Police) for emergency protective measures. The reimbursement is made at a 90% federal cost-share.\n\n$4,469,235.68 to the Jefferson Davis Parish Police Jury for debris removal operations. The reimbursement is made at a 90% federal cost-share.\n\n$1,511,221.47 to the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals for management costs. The reimbursement is made at a 100% federal cost-share.\n\n$1,025,568.77 to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections for emergency protective measures. The reimbursement is made at a 90% federal cost-share.\n\nAll funding will be delivered to the State of Louisiana. The state is responsible for disbursing the funds to each sub-recipient.\n\nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cWe continue to work with our federal partners to ensure applications for public assistance are being processed in a timely manner. This latest round of reimbursements brings the total amount of federal disaster relief to over $1.3 billion in response to Hurricanes Laura and Delta. My office continues to push for supplemental, long-term recovery resources at the federal level. We will not stop fighting for Southwest Louisiana.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:57:00Z"]], "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://clayhiggins.house.gov/2021/06/16/higgins-announces-additional-415m-hurricane-recovery-efforts/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7676260322332382, "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"}