{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-cassidy-tours-sasol-manufacturing-complex-in-lake-charles-discusses-jobs", "PHOTO: Cassidy Tours Sasol Manufacturing Complex in Lake Charles, Discusses Jobs", "2017-12-08", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Bill Cassidy", "C001075", "www.cassidy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "12.08.17\n\t\t\t PHOTO: Cassidy Tours Sasol Manufacturing Complex in Lake Charles, Discusses Jobs \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\r\nWASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) visited the Sasol petrochemical manufacturing complex in Westlake, Louisiana, today to discuss jobs and economic development.\r\n\u201cSasol is creating thousands of jobs in Southwest Louisiana,\u201d said Cassidy following the visit. \u201cThese are great jobs for Americans, better wages, better benefits. We need more of them and they\u2019re providing them.\u201d\r\n\u201cThis project is going to significantly increase their output,\u201d Cassidy continued. \u201cIt means lots of jobs. It means jobs for the future, because this is not just a project for four weeks or four months, but for years to come.\u201d\r\nAccording to Sasol, its ethane cracker and derivatives project \u201cwill roughly triple the company's chemical production capacity in the U.S.\u201d and \u201ccreate more than 500 full-time, high-paying manufacturing jobs, more than 5,000 construction jobs at peak and thousands of indirect jobs in Louisiana and across the U.S.\u201d\u00a0\r\n\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n  \n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/photo-cassidy-tours-sasol-manufacturing-complex-in-lake-charles-discusses-jobs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9071551505476236, "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"}