{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fulcher.house.gov/2024/09/25/id-2480b9a8-7c50-4fef-9ad4-a07dc2887d5c/", "Fulcher, Risch, Crapo Demand Update on Elkhorn Fire Investigation", "2024-09-25", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "House", "ID", "Russ Fulcher", "F000469", "fulcher.house.gov", "fulcher", "https://fulcher.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nCONTACT: Christiann\u00e9 Allen, christianne.allen@mail.house.gov\n\nCONTACT: Marisa Melton, marisa.melton@mail.house.gov\n\nFulcher, Risch, Crapo Demand Update on Elkhorn Fire Investigation.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo and Representative Russ Fulcher today sent a letter to U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Randy Moore demanding an update on the investigation to determine the origin of the Elkhorn Fire.\n\n\u201cThis investigation, which was originally meant to take only a few weeks, has been ongoing for well over a year now[. . .],\u201d wrote the lawmakers. \u201cFor victims of wildfire, life does not move on after the fire burns out. Losses must be documented, insurance claims filed, and to the extent possible, infrastructure that was destroyed must be rebuilt. Property and business owners have been unable to file insurance claims \u2013 their recovery held hostage by the ongoing, and unusually long, USFS investigation.\u201d\n\nThe full letter can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://fulcher.house.gov/2024/09/25/id-2480b9a8-7c50-4fef-9ad4-a07dc2887d5c/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0431306436657906, "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"}