{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-bill-to-rename-avon-post-office-in-honor-of-minnesota-national-guardsman-kort-m-plantenberg-passes-house", "Emmer Bill to Rename Avon Post Office in Honor of Minnesota National Guardsman Kort M. Plantenberg Passes House", "2022-12-14", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Tom Emmer", "E000294", "emmer.house.gov", "emmer", "https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014 Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) applauded the passage of his legislation to rename the Avon Post Office in honor of Army National Guard Warrant Officer Candidate Kort M. Plantenberg.\n\nIn 2019, Plantenberg lost his life alongside fellow Guardsmen Chief Warrant Officer 2 James A. Rogers Jr. and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charles P. Nord when their helicopter experienced a mid-flight mechanical failure near St. Cloud.\n\nEmmer said, \u201cKort, James, and Charles gave their lives in service to Minnesotans, and we will never forget their sacrifice. We are proud that Kort\u2019s hometown will have a permanent reminder of his service.\u201d\n\nPlantenberg was born in St. Cloud in 1991 and raised in Avon. He was a graduate of Albany Area High School and the University of Minnesota\u2013Duluth.\n\nBackground:\n\nEmmer introduced legislation to rename the Avon Post Office in Plantenberg\u2019s honor in December 2021, two years after the accident. The bill was co-sponsored by every member of the Minnesota delegation, including the late Representative Jim Hagedorn (MN-01) and Representatives Angie Craig (MN-02), Dean Phillips (MN-03), Betty McCollum (MN-04), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Michelle Fischbach (MN-07), and Pete Stauber (MN-08).\n\nRepresentative Fischbach\u2019s legislation to honor Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rogers and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Nord with Post Offices in her district recently passed on the House floor.\n\nYou can watch Congressman Emmer speak on the House floor in support of the legislation here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-bill-to-rename-avon-post-office-in-honor-of-minnesota-national-guardsman-kort-m-plantenberg-passes-house"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6212762091308832, "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"}