{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://herrerabeutler.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=342324", "U.S. House of Representatives Approves Jaime Herrera Beutler\u2019s \u201cForest Roads\u201d Initiative", "2013-07-11", "2013", "2013-07", "Republican", "House", "WA", "Jaime Herrera Beutler", "H001056", "herrerabeutler.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "U.S. House of Representatives Approves Jaime Herrera Beutler\u2019s \u201cForest Roads\u201d Initiative \r\n   \r\n    \r\n      Included in Farm Bill, \u201cForest Roads\u201d provision would help protect 110,000 jobs in Washington state \r\n      \r\n  \r\n    \r\n      f \r\n      t \r\n      #\r\n      e\r\n      \r\n      \r\n    \r\n    \r\n      \r\n        WASHINGTON, DC,\r\n        July 11, 2013\r\n      \r\n       \r\n    \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n    \r\n      \r\n      \r\n      Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Jaime Herrera Beutler\u2019s \u201cForest Roads\u201d legislation, a pro-jobs initiative she has championed since coming to Congress that would protect the nation\u2019s forest roads from costly and unnecessary regulatory burdens and lawsuits.\u00a0 The provision codifies 40 years of Clean Water Act treatment of forest roads and was included as an amendment offered by Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler to the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM Bill).\u00a0 The amendment was approved unopposed. In 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court directed the EPA to require dirt and rock runoff from private forest logging roads be permitted the same as an industrial parking lot.\u00a0 While the decision was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court, private forest owners were still at risk for future regulations and frivolous lawsuits without a legislative fix.\u00a0 Jaime has partnered with Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) and a strong bipartisan group of her House and Senate colleagues to push this bill that would help protect the 110,000 jobs supported by working forests in Washington state alone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  Read more about this bill here. \u201cOur working forests are so critical to the livelihoods and communities of Southwest Washington, so I\u2019m very pleased that our \u2018forest roads\u2019 initiative was approved in the House today,\u201d said Jaime.\u00a0 \u201cFor nearly 40 years the EPA has used sound science and a common sense approach when it comes to forest roads regulations\u2014and my bill allows this approach to continue.\u00a0 We are getting closer and closer to putting this job-saving solution into law once and for all.\u201d\u00a0 \r\n    \r\n  \r\n  \r\n  \r\n    \r\n      f \r\n      t \r\n      #\r\n      e", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://herrerabeutler.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=342324"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.817110925912857, "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"}