{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-amendment-trades-dhs-green-funding-for-ice-detention", "Cotton Amendment Trades DHS \u201cGreen\u201d Funding for ICE Detention", "2022-08-06", "2022", "2022-08", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: James Arnold or Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353\n\nAugust 6, 2022\n\nCotton Amendment Trades DHS \u201cGreen\u201d Funding for ICE Detention\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) introduced an amendment to the upcoming budget reconciliation bill that would cut $500 million currently allocated by the bill to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for \u201csustainability and environmental programs.\u201d The amendment then directs $400 million to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detaining single, adult criminal aliens.\n\nAmendment text may be found here.\n\n\u201cThis bill funnels $500 million to DHS for something completely unrelated to its mission: doing the bidding of environmental activists. My amendment would take the Democrats\u2019 green bucks and give it instead to our officers at ICE so they can get the illegal-immigration crisis under control,\u201d said Cotton.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:59:24Z"]], "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.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-amendment-trades-dhs-green-funding-for-ice-detention"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5890540089458227, "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"}