{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/u-s-senator-katie-britt-champions-senator-jon-husteds-ratepayer-protection-act-continues-call-to-codify-president-trumps-ratepayer-protection-pledge/", "U.S. Senator Katie Britt Champions Senator Jon Husted\u2019s Ratepayer Protection Act, Continues Call to Codify President Trump\u2019s Ratepayer Protection Pledge", "2026-09-24", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Katie Boyd Britt", "B001319", "www.britt.senate.gov", "britt", "https://www.britt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is continuing her push to codify President Trump\u2019s Ratepayer Protection Pledge. This week, she cosponsored Senator Jon Husted\u2019s (R-Ohio) Ratepayer Protection Act to lower energy prices for Alabamians and ensure families and small businesses aren\u2019t left paying for the energy infrastructure needed to support new data centers.\n\n\u201cNo family, business, or ratepayer in Alabama should subsidize data centers. President Trump took a bold first step in announcing a Ratepayer Protection Pledge to not only ensure America continues to beat China in the AI race, but also, importantly, to protect consumers. This legislation already passed the House of Representatives with a resounding bipartisan vote, and the Senate must act urgently so we can get this to the President\u2019s desk and signed into law,\u201d said Senator Britt.\n\nThe Ratepayer Protection Act would require state utility commissions to consider establishing separate rate standards for large electricity users\u2014such as data centers\u2014when considering integrating them onto the grid. It ensures those customers, not families or small businesses, pay for the power generation, transmission lines, and other infrastructure needed to serve their facilities. Without those protections, utilities can shift those costs onto ratepayers through higher monthly electricity bills.\n\nIn March of 2026, Senator Britt joined President Trump at a White House roundtable to discuss the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. Since then, she has been a leader in calling for Congress to codify President Trump\u2019s pledge. The Ratepayer Protection Act would codify key elements of that pledge.\n\nThe Senator has discussed energy affordability with other members of the Trump Administration, including Energy Secretary Chris Wright. In a Senate Appropriations hearing earlier this year, she noted, \u201cWe have to keep that compute power advantage. That is critically important \u2026 But in the larger conversation, as we have talked about this, we want to make sure that that advantage and the cost of that doesn\u2019t actually fall on families\u2019 power bills.\u201d\n\nMedia coverage of Senator Britt\u2019s efforts can be viewed below:\n\nBritt: Congress should turn Trump\u2019s data center pledge into law\n\nKatie Britt backs Trump\u2019s Ratepayer Protection Pledge in national data center conflict\n\nBritt talks data center accountability, defends Trump admin ratepayer pledge\n\nKatie Britt backs data centers but supports Trump effort to \u2018protect ratepayers\u2019\n\nBritt stakes out middle ground on Alabama data centers, rejects moratorium and \u2018every corner\u2019 approach\n\nBritt wants to find a middle way on data centers\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-25T10:04:52Z", "2026-09-25T10:05:46Z"]], "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.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/u-s-senator-katie-britt-champions-senator-jon-husteds-ratepayer-protection-act-continues-call-to-codify-president-trumps-ratepayer-protection-pledge/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8739850018173456, "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"}