{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-delivers-new-jersey-stakeholder-comments-to-white-house-for-upcoming-conference-on-hunger-nutrition-and-health", "Booker Delivers New Jersey Stakeholder Comments to White House for Upcoming Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health", "2022-07-18", "2022", "2022-07", "Democrat", "Senate", "NJ", "Cory A. Booker", "B001288", "www.booker.senate.gov", "booker", "https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press", "scraper", "Newark, N.J. \u2014 More than 60 New Jersey anti-hunger advocates, state and local officials, medical professionals, direct service providers, family farmers, agricultural stakeholders, and people who have personally experienced the impact of hunger, food insecurity, or diet-related illness submitted comments to U.S. Senator Cory Booker\u2019s (D-NJ) office on the critical need to make healthy food accessible to all.\n\nThe comments came in response to Booker\u2019s call for feedback ahead of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health in September and have been forwarded to the White House. They underscored the disproportionate harm hunger and diet-related diseases inflict on Black and Brown and low-income communities across the state, and proposed ideas that touched on improving access to fresh fruits and vegetables, expanding federal assistance programs, supporting locally grown produce, eliminating food waste, and more.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m grateful to everyone who wrote in for highlighting the urgency of these issues and for their work every day to remove barriers to accessing healthy, affordable food,\u201d Booker said. \u201cI look forward to working with the White House to develop comprehensive solutions so that all people \u2014 from rural communities to cities like the one I call home \u2014 have equitable access to nutritious food options.\u201d\n\nBooker secured funding to convene the conference in the Fiscal Year 2022 government funding bill. The conference aims to create a national strategy to improve access to affordable, nutritious food for all Americans.\n\nThe comments will inform Booker\u2019s work as a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:49:02Z"]], "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.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-delivers-new-jersey-stakeholder-comments-to-white-house-for-upcoming-conference-on-hunger-nutrition-and-health"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8709989488124847, "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"}