{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/spartz-calls-senate-lower-costs-farmers-and-consumers-not-protect-big-ag", "Spartz Calls on Senate to Lower Costs for Farmers and Consumers - Not Protect Big Ag", "2026-08-03", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "House", "IN", "Victoria Spartz", "S000929", "spartz.house.gov", "spartz", "https://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (IN-05) sent a letter to the Senate Agriculture Committee urging senators to include her bipartisan Farm Bill affordability amendment in the final legislation.\n\nRep. Spartz\u2019s amendment would exempt large farm tractors, combines, and sprayers from burdensome EPA emissions regulations that have increased equipment costs, caused costly repair delays, created fire hazards, and driven up grocery prices. The amendment would make farm machinery more affordable, help protect small family farms from bankruptcy and consolidation, and lower costs for American consumers.\n\n\u201cAmerican farmers are being crushed by rising input costs while families continue to pay more at the grocery store,\u201d Rep. Spartz said. \u201cCongress should be removing unnecessary burdens \u2014 not adding them. The Senate now has a choice: stand with American farmers and consumers by lowering costs, or stand with Big Ag and the special interests that benefit from regulations driving consolidation and higher costs.\u201d\n\nRep. Spartz\u2019s amendment passed the House on a bipartisan basis and is the only Farm Bill provision specifically aimed at reducing farmers\u2019 input costs. It has also been endorsed by the Indiana Farm Bureau and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).", 1, "2026-08-04T07:35:49Z", "2026-08-04T07:37:27Z"]], "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://spartz.house.gov/media/press-releases/spartz-calls-senate-lower-costs-farmers-and-consumers-not-protect-big-ag"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.3169401101768017, "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"}