{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2021/11/23/higgins-delivers-letters-support-lake-charles-recovery-grant-applications/", "Higgins Delivers Letters of Support for Lake Charles\u2019 Recovery Grant Applications", "2021-11-23", "2021", "2021-11", "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) delivered several letters of support this week for the City of Lake Charles\u2019 grant applications for federal recovery and mitigation resources.\n\nThe applications include grants through the Department of Housing & Urban Development\u2019s (HUD) Choice Neighborhood program, the Economic Development Administration\u2019s (EDA) Build Back Better program, FEMA\u2019s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, and FEMA\u2019s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).\n\nRead the letters of support here.\n\nCongressman Higgins has repeatedly encouraged state and local elected officials to pursue federal grant opportunities. He delivered letters in June and August of this year notifying state and local officials of available flood and disaster mitigation grant programs. A full timeline of Congressman Higgins\u2019 actions on hurricane recovery is available here.\n\nCongressman Higgins issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cSince January 2017, my office has directly and officially supported many hundreds of federal funding applications. While it is incumbent upon state and local officials to apply for these funds, my office stands ready to support those applications at the federal level. We continue to do exactly that, and we\u2019re working with the City of Lake Charles to aggressively pursue additional recovery resources in response to an unprecedented year of natural disasters.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "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/2021/11/23/higgins-delivers-letters-support-lake-charles-recovery-grant-applications/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.054560162127018, "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"}