{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sablan.house.gov/islands%E2%80%99-army-corps-waiver-upped", "Islands Army Corps waiver upped", "2020-08-03", "2020", "2020-08", "Democrat", "House", "MP", "Gregorio Sablan", "S001177", "sablan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Islands' Army Corps waiver upped                                           \n              Aug 2, 2020      \t\t        \t    \n      \t            \n                    \n                                            \n          \n        \n        \n            \n    \n  \n    \n    \n    Cost-share waivers for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' projects in the Marianas will keep pace with inflation under a provision in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020 which passed the House by unanimous consent. The original Marianas waiver was set in 1986 at $200,000, but I was able to increase that to $455,000 in WRDA 2014, arguing the waiver needed to account for inflation. The inflation adjustment was renewed in WRDA 2018 totalling $484,000. Now, WRDA 2020 would mandate an annual adjustment, so the Marianas, American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands, and Native American Tribes would get a bigger waiver of the local cost-share every year. WRDA authorizes the Army Corps to carry out water resources development projects and studies, and provides policy direction for the Corps' civil works missions including navigation, flood and storm damage reduction, shoreline protection, and ecosystem restoration.", 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://sablan.house.gov/islands%E2%80%99-army-corps-waiver-upped"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.518437173217535, "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"}