{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-biden-administration-playing-politics-central-washingtons", "Newhouse: Biden Administration is Playing Politics with Central Washington's Future", "2022-09-30", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "House", "WA", "Dan Newhouse", "N000189", "newhouse.house.gov", "newhouse", "https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "To say I'm deeply disappointed by the Biden Administration\u2019s report on \u201cRebuilding Interior Columbia Basin Salmon and Steelhead\u201d is an understatement. While the report claims to support efforts to \u201censure a reliable, affordable, and carbon-free energy supply,\u201d it also explicitly calls for the removal of the four Lower Snake River dams. Let me be clear: there is no clean energy future in Washington State and throughout the Pacific Northwest without these hydroelectric dams.\n\nThe White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), who failed to take input from the men and women who would be most impacted by its recommendations in their draft report back in July, have once again ignored the input and the voices of the majority of stakeholders across the Columbia Basin and the Pacific Northwest. The release of this report, and the Biden Administration\u2019s process in compiling it, is a signal to Central Washington that the Biden Administration is playing politics with its energy future while ignoring recent data showing Spring and Summer chinook returns at higher levels than they have been in years. Factors like ocean conditions, predation, and others need to be considered and would be considered if this was a serious rulemaking process with an official public comment period, Congressional input, and coordination with other federal agencies who would be severely impacted by the outcomes this report suggests.\n\nThe silver lining here is that this is not a serious rulemaking process. Indeed, in their final report, NOAA acknowledges that the greatest threats to our salmon population are ocean and climate conditions, acknowledges that the report lacks \u201cprecise measures or quantitative estimates of the magnitude of biological benefit expected\u201d from these recommended actions, and acknowledges that it has yet to identify \u201cwhat factors are responsible for [the] low survival rates [of juvenile salmon and steelhead].\u201d To make such drastic recommendations on the basis of such uncertainty is ludicrous, yet par for the course for this administration.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "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://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-biden-administration-playing-politics-central-washingtons"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.788782024756074, "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"}