{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2021/08/27/higgins-again-calls-biden-support-supplemental-disaster-relief/", "Higgins Again Calls on Biden to Support Supplemental Disaster Relief", "2021-08-27", "2021", "2021-08", "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), on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Laura\u2019s landfall, again called on President Biden to support Louisiana\u2019s request for supplemental disaster relief.\n\n\u201cToday, August 27, 2021, marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Laura\u2019s landfall in Southwest Louisiana. Hurricane Laura caused widespread devastation throughout Louisiana and was soon followed by three additional federally declared natural disasters,\u201d wrote Congressman Higgins. \u201cAs we reach this somber milestone, repeated calls from Louisiana\u2019s Governor, congressional delegation, and local elected officials for supplemental disaster relief have gone unanswered by your administration.\u201d\n\n\u201cOnce again, I ask you to issue a formal request to Congress for supplemental disaster relief and use your executive authority to streamline access to existing resources,\u201d continued Congressman Higgins.\n\n\u201cMy office has stressed the importance of this matter repeatedly, in direct communications with your office and publicly on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives,\u201d wrote Congressman Higgins. \u201cIn the last year, we have seen Democratic leadership put forth trillions of dollars in new spending on every imaginable federal program. However, we have seen no effort from Democratic leadership to move forward on much-needed supplemental disaster funding. This discrepancy is baffling.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:11:17Z"]], "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/2021/08/27/higgins-again-calls-biden-support-supplemental-disaster-relief/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.904720276594162, "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"}