{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.bluntrochester.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-senator-blunt-rochester-celebrates-21st-century-road-to-housing-passage-on-cnbcs-squawk-box/", "NEWS: Senator Blunt Rochester Celebrates 21st\u00a0Century ROAD to Housing Passage on CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box\u201d", "2026-06-24", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "Senate", "DE", "Lisa Blunt Rochester", "B001303", "www.bluntrochester.senate.gov", "bluntrochester", "https://www.bluntrochester.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Click here to watch the full interview\n\nSenator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today appeared on CNBC\u2019s \u201cSquawk Box.\u201d She celebrated the passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the first comprehensive congressional housing legislation in 3 decades. Five Blunt Rochester bills were included in the final package.\n\nA key excerpt is included below, and the full interview can be found here.\n\nSenator Blunt Rochester: \u201cI am a freshman senator, so in my first term to see something like this is amazing. It\u2019s been about three decades since the Congress, and since Washington has really moved on something this consequential for the American people related to housing.\n\n\u201cYou think back to why this is so significant, and why Democrats and Republicans have come together \u2013 we\u2019ve got about a 4 to 7 million housing units\u2019 shortage in this country, and people are feeling it.\n\nWhether you\u2019re in a rural area, the north of the country, across the country, people are feeling the impacts of the housing affordability crisis that they\u2019re facing, and we came together and said \u2018we got to do something about it. We have to do something now.\u2019\n\n\u201cMy first bill as a senator was a housing bill, and I have five bills in this package. It\u2019s going to affect the American people, and that\u2019s the most important thing.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-25T06:30:03Z", "2026-06-25T07:12:42Z"]], "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://www.bluntrochester.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-senator-blunt-rochester-celebrates-21st-century-road-to-housing-passage-on-cnbcs-squawk-box/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.5933198630809784, "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"}