{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-miller-leads-house-delegation-fight-protect-coal-against", "Congresswoman Miller Leads House Delegation in Fight to Protect Coal Against Damaging Build Back Better Provisions", "2021-12-17", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "House", "WV", "Carol D. Miller", "M001205", "miller.house.gov", "miller", "https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) led a letter with West Virginia Reps. David McKinley (R-WV) and Alex Mooney (R-WV) calling on Congressional Leaders to exclude damaging anti-coal provisions in the final version of Democrats' social spending package, the Build Back Better Act.\n\n\"In West Virginia, the mining and coal-fired power generation industries supported 33,000 jobs in 2019. Combined, these two industries provided about $14 billion in economic activity. Also, several companies that produce federal coal are reinvesting and creating jobs in West Virginia,\" the letter reads. \"As America works to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, now is not the time to unfairly target our coal industry and take away much needed employment in local communities that rely on coal jobs as a primary economic driver. Particularly in states like West Virginia, these harmful provisions will be felt most acutely.\"\n\nClick here to read the full letter.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-miller-leads-house-delegation-fight-protect-coal-against"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0221169106662273, "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"}