{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://neal.house.gov/2026/09/02/neal-statement-at-full-committee-hearing-on-critical-resources-and-supply-chains/", "Neal Statement at Full Committee Hearing on Critical Resources and Supply Chains", "2026-09-02", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Richard E. Neal", "N000015", "neal.house.gov", "neal", "https://neal.house.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "(As submitted for the record)\n\nPresident Trump has spent his term running the economy into the ground. Despite bold promises to deliver for the people on lower prices and abundant jobs and opportunity, he has brought the opposite. He abandoned his promises to chase a relentless campaign of war, chaos, and self-enrichment. All the American people have been left with are out-of-control prices and jobs that are either too hard to find or can\u2019t keep up with the growing costs of the President\u2019s failures.\n\nWe\u2019re six months into the President\u2019s war of choice in Iran. While he struggles to find a way out of what he once promised was only going to be a four-to-five-week excursion, families are watching him botch every negotiation along the way as their costs soar. Gas is up 38 percent in just 6 months! Back home, he\u2019s throwing American cattle ranchers under the bus with the tariff chaos he created, which has beef prices on track to rise nearly 10% this year. And while he plays nice with China, the greatest trade cheat in the world, he\u2019s reignited feuds with our closest allies, stooping so low that he\u2019s more focused on renaming lakes than answering for the 75,000 manufacturing jobs he\u2019s lost since retaking office.\n\nThe President\u2019s trade agenda is a humiliating failure, and American workers, businesses, and families are paying the price.\n\nYet astonishingly, some in Congress are willing to look at that reality and decide now is the time embolden Trump with new tariff powers. He\u2019s proven that he will abuse whatever trade authority he has. He\u2019s only concerned with pursuing vengeance against our trading partners and improving his bottom line.\n\nThe topic of today\u2019s hearing is critical minerals. What you won\u2019t hear from Republicans is any question about the President\u2019s efforts to leverage these markets to benefit his own pocket. Or about how his family or that of the Commerce secretary stood to benefit from billion-dollar mining deals struck by Trump himself.\n\nEverywhere you look, the stench of Trump\u2019s corruption is there, making his life easier and yours harder. Even more troubling is how my Republican colleagues have allowed themselves to become powerless, looking on as this Committee\u2019s constitutional authority is repeatedly ignored and abused.\n\nTrade policy fueled by grievance and retaliation is no way to govern. It is beyond time that we dust off this nonsense and craft a trade agenda that serves the people.\n\nI yield back.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-26T09:43:57Z", "2026-09-26T09:44:55Z"]], "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://neal.house.gov/2026/09/02/neal-statement-at-full-committee-hearing-on-critical-resources-and-supply-chains/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.919973012059927, "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"}