{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-courtney-celebrates-31-million-federal-grant-protect-children-lead", "Rep. Courtney Celebrates $3.1 Million Federal Grant to Protect Children from Lead Paint", "2024-10-08", "2024", "2024-10", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "Joe Courtney", "C001069", "courtney.house.gov", "courtney", "https://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "NORWICH, CT -- Today, Rep. Joe Courtney celebrated a $3.1 million federal grant he helped secure for the City of Norwich to remove lead paint from low-income homes with children. The announcement comes after Rep. Courtney led the effort with Sens. Blumenthal and Murphy in August 2024 urging the agency to deliver these critical funds to the City.\n\nThe funding was awarded through the U.S. Housing and Urban Development\u2019s Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Grant Program. The City will utilize funding to remove lead paint hazards from at least 85 properties with a specific focus on homes with children in the Norwich area. Many of the residents of these homes will be low-to-moderate income families with at-risk children under the age of six.\n\n\u201cMy office and I were pleased to lead the federal effort to advocate on their behalf and bring the federal funding home to ensure less children are exposed to the serious dangers of lead paint,\u201d Courtney said. \u201cThe federal funding award is a clear testament to the outstanding work executed by the City of Norwich, Wayne Sharkey, and his team, and the hours and hours they spent on this application to continue their live-saving work.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Office of Community Development\u2019s staff is excited to be able to continue our ongoing work in preventing Lead Poisoning in Children here in Norwich. We want to thank Joe Courtney and his entire team for assisting us in securing these much needed funds for our Community,\u201d Wayne Sharkey, the City of Norwich\u2019s Lead Program Manager, said.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "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://courtney.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-courtney-celebrates-31-million-federal-grant-protect-children-lead"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.982669647783041, "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"}