{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://feenstra.house.gov/media/press-releases/feenstra-helps-introduce-legislation-deliver-financial-relief-iowa-farmers", "Feenstra Helps Introduce Legislation to Deliver Financial Relief for Iowa Farmers", "2024-10-29", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "House", "IA", "Randy Feenstra", "F000446", "feenstra.house.gov", "feenstra", "https://feenstra.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "HULL, IOWA \u2013 Last week, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce legislation \u2013 led by U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MS) \u2013 to help deliver financial relief to American farmers facing low commodity prices and high input costs this crop year.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and Vice President Harris approved trillions of dollars in reckless government spending that sent inflation skyrocketing and have completely failed to open new export markets for our producers. This one-two punch helped cause interest rates and input costs to rise significantly while a lack of demand for American-made agricultural products across the globe has exacerbated our low commodity prices,\u201d said Rep. Feenstra. \u201cIt\u2019s why I\u2019m glad to support the FARM Act, which will deliver financial relief to our farmers and producers in the face of high operating costs and unrelenting inflation. We must pass this legislation in conjunction with the Farm Bill \u2013 which includes an increase in reference prices for commodities like corn and soybeans \u2013 to provide certainty and support for our farm families.\u201d\n\nThis legislation \u2013 dubbed the FARM Act \u2013 specifically directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make emergency assistance payments to farm producers to alleviate the financial imbalance between high input costs and low commodity prices.", 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://feenstra.house.gov/media/press-releases/feenstra-helps-introduce-legislation-deliver-financial-relief-iowa-farmers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6354830004274845, "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"}