{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-thune-and-rounds-request-biden-approve-major-disaster-declaration", "Johnson, Thune, and Rounds Request Biden to Approve Major Disaster Declaration Requests of Tribes in South Dakota", "2023-01-27", "2023", "2023-01", "Republican", "House", "SD", "Dusty Johnson", "J000301", "dustyjohnson.house.gov", "dustyjohnson", "https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) sent two letters of support to President Joe Biden regarding the major disaster declaration requests from the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (RST). If the president approves each tribes\u2019 declaration request, it would expedite recovery efforts from significant weather events that occurred from December 12 to December 26, 2022.\n\n\u201cAs you are aware, the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 allows federally recognized Native American tribes to directly request an emergency declaration from the President through a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Regional Administrator,\u201d wrote the delegation.\n\n\u201cAs the disaster declaration request indicates, tribal officials responded to the storms using resources immediately available to them,\u201d the delegation continued. \u201cThe emergency operations conducted by the tribe reduced the storms' impact and accelerated the recovery of tribal communities. Despite these efforts, a number of tribal members remained trapped in their homes and were unable to access necessary supplies.\u201d\n\nThe delegation wrote in strong support of the tribes\u2019 declaration requests, which were in response to extreme blizzard conditions affecting the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the Rosebud Indian Reservation. These areas received up to three feet of snow with drifts up to 20 feet high. As a result, hundreds of families in tribal communities were unable to access critical supplies, including medications and propane and firewood to heat homes. In addition to snowfall, wind chill temperatures dropped to -50\u00b0F in some tribal communities.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:08:17Z"]], "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://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-thune-and-rounds-request-biden-approve-major-disaster-declaration"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7567440625280142, "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"}