{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cunningham.house.gov/media/press-releases/cunningham-presses-trump-administration-official-disruption-caused-seismic", "Cunningham Presses Trump Administration Official on the Disruption Caused by Seismic Airgun Blasting", "2019-03-07", "2019", "2019-03", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "Joe Cunningham", "C001122", "cunningham.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.  Today, at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing examining the threats on the North Atlantic Right Whale, Rep. Joe Cunningham pressed Trump Administration official Chris Oliver on the disruption to marine life caused by seismic airgun blasting. Cunningham used an airhorn to demonstrate how loud seismic airgun blasting is, noting that the sound from a seismic airgun blast is 16,000 times louder, repeated every 10 seconds over a period of months. After the demonstration, Mr. Oliver agreed that it was impactful on marine species. You can watch the exchange here.\nI'm a former ocean engineer, but it doesn't take an expert to know that seismic airgun blasting is an incredibly disruptive process for marine life that depend on sound to communicate and navigate, said Rep. Joe Cunningham. Let me be perfectly clear, South Carolinians do not want offshore drilling off our coast, and we do not want its disruptive precursor, seismic airgun blasting.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://cunningham.house.gov/media/press-releases/cunningham-presses-trump-administration-official-disruption-caused-seismic"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3605481944978237, "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"}