{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-raja-krishnamoorthi-hails-us-department-energy-announcement", "Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Hails U.S. Department Of Energy Announcement Of Historic Fusion Energy Breakthrough", "2022-12-13", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "House", "IL", "Raja Krishnamoorthi", "K000391", "krishnamoorthi.house.gov", "krishnamoorthi", "https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, co-founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Solar Caucus and a member of the bipartisan Fusion Energy Caucus, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announcing the first ever meaningful net energy gain from a human-controlled fusion ignition and fusion energy reaction in a December 5th experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) National Ignition Facility:\n\n\"For the first time, human beings have succeeded in igniting a human-controlled fusion energy reaction while generating a meaningful net energy gain through this experiment. While an initial breakthrough, the achievement of the scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a potentially momentous step in the long path toward using fusion reactions to provide virtually unlimited, clean, inexpensive energy without emissions and environmental risks. This achievement is a testament to what can be achieved when American ingenuity and resources are deployed against even the most difficult of problems. While enormous work remains, the success of this experiment sends a clear message to every branch of our government for the need to help scale up research and development support for such technologies to set us on a new course toward our clean energy future.\"", 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://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-raja-krishnamoorthi-hails-us-department-energy-announcement"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.453324919566512, "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"}