{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=d770becf-386f-4f8e-a626-3de9d55b2a88", "COCHRAN EXTOLS BOONEVILLE COUPLE FOR WORK TO PROMOTE ADOPTION", "2014-09-16", "2014", "2014-09", "Republican", "House", "MS", "Thad Cochran", "C000567", "www.cochran.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "PHOTO (available below):\u00a0 Jason and Nicole Russell of Booneville meet Senator Thad Cochran, who nominated the couple as Mississippi\u2019s 2014 Angels in Adoption.\u00a0 They met the Senator with their adopted children Kason and Breanna, infant daughter Madelyn, and parents Bobby and Estelle Russell.\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today praised the work of Jason and Nicole Russell of Booneville for their work to improve the lives of Mississippi children through foster care and adoption programs.\r\nThe Russells were nominated by Cochran as Mississippi\u2019s 2014 \u201cAngels in Adoption,\u201d a program sponsored by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) to advocate eliminating barriers to adoption and to increase awareness about children in need of permanent, safe, and loving homes.\r\n\u201cJason and Nicole Russell are outstanding representatives for the benefits of adoption, foster care and families.\u00a0 They inspire us by demonstrating a deep commitment to children in need,\u201d Cochran said.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m pleased that their efforts over the past 10 years are being recognized by the Angels in Adoption program,\u201d Cochran said.\r\nWhile in Washington this week, the Russells will be honored for their work and attend a gala sponsored by CCAI.\u00a0 They met Cochran with their adopted son and daughter, Kason and Breanna, and infant daughter Madelyn.\r\nNicole and Jason, a computer programmer at BancorpSouth in Tupelo, became licensed as foster parents in 2004 when they were newlyweds.\u00a0 Since then, they have broadened their involvement from fostering a child to promoting foster care, adoption and restoring families.\r\nOver the years, the Russells have fostered several children, worked closely with birth relatives, and provided shared parenting with the birth families when possible.\u00a0 As foster parents, they have encouraged the goal of reunification and worked with officials to reunify children with their birth family when possible.\u00a0 In addition, they work to inform the public of the need for foster/adoptive homes for children in care of the Mississippi Department of Human Services.\r\nThe nonprofit, nonpartisan CCAI advocates for increased awareness about children in need of a stable home environment, and supports eliminating barriers to adoption.\u00a0 CCAI, which does not receive government funding, was established in 2001 as an outgrowth of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption.\u00a0 Cochran and Senator Roger Wicker, along with Congressman Alan Nunnelee, are members of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption for the 113th Congress.\r\nCochran is an original cosponsor of The Adoption Information Act (S.1539), which would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prepare, distribute, and update annually pamphlets that list all the adoption centers in each state along with associated contact information.\u00a0 Family planning organizations that receive federal funding would be required to provide HHS with their plans to issue adoption promotion literature to all their clients. Introduced in September 2013, the measure has been referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.\r\nLINKS:  \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mississippi Department of Health/Adoption Information:\u00a0 http://www.mdhs.state.ms.us/fcs_adoptall.html\u00a0\u00a0   \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Angels in Adoption:\u00a0 http://www.angelsinadoption.org/   \u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute:\u00a0 http://www.ccainstitute.org\r\n###", 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.cochran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=d770becf-386f-4f8e-a626-3de9d55b2a88"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6699503175914288, "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"}