{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clayhiggins.house.gov/2022/09/15/higgins-slams-democrat-attacks-oil-and-gas-industry/", "Higgins Slams Democrat Attacks on the Oil and Gas Industry", "2022-09-15", "2022", "2022-09", "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) responded to Democrat attacks on the oil and gas industry during a House Oversight Committee hearing this week. Congressman Higgins slammed lawsuits aimed at blocking new energy infrastructure development and emphasized that oil and gas production in the United States is amongst the cleanest in the world.\n\nKey Excerpts from Congressman Higgins\u2019 remarks:\n\n\u201cEvery energy project in Louisiana has got to set aside a large percentage of its projected budget to defend against lawsuits. Every pipeline, every LNG plant, every petrochemical expansion, every one of them.\u201d\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cFor a small company to have to set aside $1 million, $2 million because of the toxic legal environment in Louisiana. Because Democrats and climate activists love to sue petrochemical projects and energy projects, including LNG plants which represent the hope of the entire world to reduce emissions. Nowhere is it done more clean than in the United States of America.\u201d\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s where you get your energy from; it\u2019s where you get your petrochemical products from. Everything you use, everything you\u2019re wearing: your clothes, your shoes, your glasses, your phone, your iPad, the vehicle you got here in, the plane you flew here on. All of that requires petrochemical products and the energy that\u2019s drawn out of Louisiana.\u201d\n\n\u201cSo, yeah we have pipelines. That\u2019s the safest means by which to transport energy product. It\u2019s safer than rail; it\u2019s safer than vehicle; it\u2019s safer than by water.\u201d\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cThe entire world has reduced emissions because of LNG projects out of Louisiana. But an energy company cannot come into Louisiana without getting sued by the Left.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "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/2022/09/15/higgins-slams-democrat-attacks-oil-and-gas-industry/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4709229581058025, "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"}