{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stanton.house.gov/2022/10/stanton-receives-friend-of-the-farm-bureau-award-for-work-to-protect-water-security-agribusiness-workforce", "Stanton Receives Friend of the Farm Bureau Award for Work to Protect Water Security, Agribusiness Workforce", "2022-10-25", "2022", "2022-10", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Greg Stanton", "S001211", "stanton.house.gov", "stanton", "https://stanton.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Rep. Greg Stanton today held a roundtable with representatives of the Arizona and Maricopa County Farm Bureaus and East Valley agricultural business owners to discuss Congressional action as the industry grapples with historic drought and a labor shortage driven by a broken immigration system.\n\nDuring the meeting, the Arizona Farm Bureau presented Stanton with the \u201cFriend of the Farm Bureau\u201d award, a distinction he has earned twice while serving in Congress.\n\n\u201cArizona farmers and ranchers keep our families fed and contribute more than $23 billion to Arizona\u2019s economy,\u201d Stanton said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard, honest work that feeds Arizona, and that\u2019s why I\u2019ll always be proud to fight for our farmers and Arizona\u2019s agriculture future in Congress.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor the second Congress in a row, we are proud to present Congressman Stanton with American Farm Bureau\u2019s \u201cFriend of Farm Bureau\u201d Award. His voting record on issues including rural broadband expansion, disaster relief for small businesses, and infrastructure funding proves that he will fight to protect agriculture\u2019s future in Arizona. We were grateful for today\u2019s opportunity to thank him for his advocacy and discuss the needs of Arizona\u2019s farmers and ranchers as they face severe drought in the West. We look forward to continuing to work with Congressman Stanton to ensure a bright future for agriculture in Arizona and across the nation,\u201d Philip Bashaw, Arizona Farm Bureau CEO, said.\n\nStanton has worked to mitigate the effects of the historic drought in Arizona. Stanton introduced and successfully legislation to create an Arizona water infrastructure authority, with a focus on small and rural communities. Since authorization of the authority in 2020, more than $24 million in federal funds have been delivered to 16 water projects throughout Arizona.\n\nHe authored, and passed through the House, a bill to provide $500 million to protect water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, and also voted to approve $4 billion in drought relief efforts in the Inflation Reduction Act. In 2019, he led efforts to pass the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act\u2014and helped secure more than $350 million to implement it.\n\nOn the House Judiciary Committee and as the co-chair of the New Democrat Coalition\u2019s Immigration Task Force, Stanton led the House in passing the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act. This legislation makes meaningful reforms to the H-2A agricultural guestworker program and creates a first-of-its-kind, merit-based visa program specifically designed for the nation\u2019s agricultural sector\u2014ensuring we have a stable, legal workforce for our farms and ranches for years to come.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:34:28Z"]], "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://stanton.house.gov/2022/10/stanton-receives-friend-of-the-farm-bureau-award-for-work-to-protect-water-security-agribusiness-workforce"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.4235020391643047, "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"}