{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3224", "Transcript of DelBene Remarks at Ways & Means Hearing on Climate Crisis and Highlighting Bolt Creek Fire", "2022-09-15", "2022", "2022-09", "Democrat", "House", "WA", "Suzan K. DelBene", "D000617", "delbene.house.gov", "delbene", "https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) participated in a House Ways & Means Committee hearing on the climate crisis and highlighted the impact of the Bolt Creek Fire currently raging in her district that has burnt nearly 10,000 acres in King and Snohomish counties.\n\nWitnesses included:\n\nJodi Sherman, M.D., Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and Founding Director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health\n\nPaul Biddinger, M.D., Chief Preparedness and Continuity Officer, Mass General Brigham and Director of the Center for Disaster Medicine at Mass General\n\nParinda Khatri, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Cherokee Health Systems\n\nElizabeth Schenk, Ph.D. R.N., Executive Director of Environmental Stewardship for Providence\n\nRich Powell, J.D., Chief Executive Officer, ClearPath Inc.\n\nBelow is a full transcript. The video can be found here.\n\nCongresswoman DelBene: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for holding this important hearing and I want to thank all of our witnesses for being here to talk about this important topic as well.\n\nAs we sit in this hearing, parts of my district are burning.\n\nThe Bolt Creek Fire has scorched nearly 10,000 acres across Snohomish and King counties. It\u2019s forced families to evacuate and schools to close.\n\nAdditionally, the fire is smothering the region\u2019s sky with far-reaching smoke and ash.\n\nAir pollution obviously can be hazardous to anyone, but especially children, older adults, and those with existing health conditions like pneumonia and emphysema.\n\nAnd we\u2019ve seen this happen before in my region with the 2015 Goodell Fire and the 2017 Suiattle Fire.\n\nAs the climate crisis intensifies, these devastating wildfires are happening more frequently and with greater intensity.", 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://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3224"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8590519428253174, "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"}