{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399790", "Foxx-Gomez GREAT Act Sent to White House for Signature", "2019-12-17", "2019", "2019-12", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Virginia Foxx", "F000450", "foxx.house.gov", "foxx", "https://foxx.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a Senate-amended update to H.R. 150, the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act. Sponsored by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R \u2013 N.C.) and Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D \u2013 Los Angeles), the GREAT Act will streamline the federal grant reporting process by mandating the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop a standardized, government-wide reporting system for federal grant recipients. By replacing outdated, disconnected grant documents with searchable open data, the GREAT Act will increase transparency from grantmaking agencies, reduce compliance costs for grant recipients, and improve congressional oversight of grants awarded by the executive branch.\n\n\u201cAs a former researcher, librarian and college president, I have been grant-writing for all of my professional life,\u201d said Rep. Virginia Foxx. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe that the same challenges I faced at the beginning of my career are the same ones faced by federal grant recipients today. The grant reporting process is riddled with antiquated reporting methods that hinder efficiency for grant recipients and transparency for taxpayers. Now that the bill has been sent to President Trump\u2019s desk, the GREAT Act will bring federal grant reporting into the 21st century with searchable documents and open data.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe federal government spends an enormous part of its yearly budget \u2014 over $600 billion \u2014 on grants issued to state and local governments, agencies, small-businesses, and non-profit organizations,\u201d said Rep. Jimmy Gomez. \u201cThese federal dollars touch almost every aspect of American society, highlighting the need to streamline the grant reporting process and make it as transparent as possible to the public. By leveraging technology, the GREAT Act will make the grant reporting process more equitable, efficient, and accessible. I\u2019m proud to have worked across the aisle with Rep. Virginia Foxx to make government work better for the people.\u201d\n\nThe GREAT Act first passed the House this Congress on January 17th and was subsequently amended and passed by unanimous consent in the U.S. Senate on October 21st. Monday\u2019s passage in the House sends the final text of the bill to President Trump\u2019s desk for his signature.\n\nSupporters of the GREAT Act include:\n\nBipartisan Policy Center Action (BPC Action)\n\nAmerican Association of Law Libraries (AALL)\n\nAmerican Library Association (ALA)\n\nAssociation of Government Accountants (AGA)\n\nAssociation of Research Libraries (ARL)\n\nData Coalition\n\nDemand Progress\n\nGovernment Accountability Project (GAP)\n\nGovernment Information Watch\n\nGrant Professionals Association (GPA)\n\nNational Grants Management Association (NGMA)\n\nNational Taxpayers Union (NTU)\n\nNative American Finance Officers Association (NAFOA)\n\nProject On Government Oversight (POGO)\n\nR Street Institute, Senior Executives Association (SEA)\n\nScholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)\n\n###\n\nU.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx represents North Carolina\u2019s 5th Congressional District and is the Senior Republican of the House Committee on Education and Labor.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-27T23:45:33Z"]], "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://foxx.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399790"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.904108164831996, "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"}