{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-harris-responds-usda-report-showing-increase-household-hunger-due", "Chairman Harris Responds to USDA Report Showing Increase in Household Hunger Due To The Costly Food Inflation of the Biden Administration", "2023-11-21", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "MD", "Andy Harris", "H001052", "harris.house.gov", "harris", "https://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013Congressman Andy Harris M.D. (MD-01), Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies released the following statement in response to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service's (ERS) report showing food insecurity increased significantly in the 2021-2022 period.\n\nKey Stats In The Report Show:\n\n17 million households were food insecure at some point during 2021-2022, including 6.8 million households that reported very low food security.\n\nFrom 2021 to 2022 there were significant increases in food insecurity and very low food security for nearly all subgroups of households described in this report.\n\nIn 2022, the typical food-secure household spent 15 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition.\n\nThis latest report shows the food insecurity rate is right back to where it was during the Obama-Biden Administration after trending down during the Trump Administration.\n\nIn his response to this report, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack called for more government funding while refusing to acknowledge the costly affects food inflation is having on American families.\n\nStatement From Congressman Harris:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "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://harris.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-harris-responds-usda-report-showing-increase-household-hunger-due"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5260931104421616, "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"}