{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=743", "Hern crowns Buttigieg a \"Friend of Fossil Fuels\"", "2022-12-13", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "OK", "Kevin Hern", "H001082", "hern.house.gov", "hern", "https://hern.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) announced this morning that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has won his 2022 Friend of Fossil Fuels Award.\n\nThis award is given to individuals who preach a green agenda but are climate hypocrites in real life. While Friends of Fossil Fuels wage a war on traditional energy, they\u2019re really helping the industry every time they take a private flight.\n\nSecretary Buttigieg has championed Green New Deal initiatives and has advocated for the federal workforce to transition to electric vehicles. All the while, he\u2019s taken at least 18 private flights using taxpayer-funded jets. Buttigieg previously faced scandal after publicly saying he rode a bike to work in Washington, DC, to save the environment only for cameras to catch him putting his bike in the trunk of a large, gas-guzzling SUV that followed him the whole trip.\n\n\u201cRules for thee, but not for me \u2013 it\u2019s the mantra of the left,\u201d said Rep. Hern. \u201cThey want middle- and working-class Americans to feel bad for putting gas in their cars to get to work, but they\u2019ll still fly private. The hypocrisy is infuriating for millions of Americans struggling to heat their homes as a result of Biden\u2019s war on energy.\u201d\n\nRep. Hern previously gave the Friend of Fossil Fuels Award to Biden Climate Czar John Kerry.\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://hern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=743"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6999501492828131, "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"}