{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-statement-president-trump-s-attack-national-monuments", "McCollum Statement on President Trumps Attack on National Monuments", "2017-12-04", "2017", "2017-12", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Betty McCollum", "M001143", "mccollum.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee and Democratic co-chair of the Congressional Native American Caucus, released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to divide and dramatically shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments:\n\u201cPresident Donald Trump has put Native American sacred sites and some of our nation\u2019s most iconic places in the crosshairs of corporations who want to drill and mine on America\u2019s public lands. Once again, President Trump is putting extractive industries before the best interests of the American people.\n\u201cI am particularly outraged by the elimination of the Bears Ears National Monument. This monument was established with the support of the Zuni, Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Navajo, and Hopi tribal nations, who petitioned our government to protect more than 100,000 cultural artifacts, sacred sites, and traditional tribal practices by creating this Monument. It is simply unconscionable to open these places that mean so much to our Native American brothers and sisters to oil drilling and uranium mining.\n\u201cThe preservation of places like Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante is the reason the Antiquities Act was established by Congress. President Trump\u2019s decision to strip protections from more than two million acres of public lands is not just wrong \u2014 it is almost certainly illegal. I strongly support efforts to challenge President Trump\u2019s abuse of power in court. Americans must keep working to safeguard our public lands and save America\u2019s treasures.\u201d", 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://mccollum.house.gov/media/press-releases/mccollum-statement-president-trump-s-attack-national-monuments"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5484467148780823, "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"}