{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-bill-to-lower-costs-of-eggs", "Cotton Introduces Bill to Lower Costs of Eggs", "2025-12-10", "2025", "2025-12", "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: Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353\n\nDecember 10, 2025\n\nCotton Introduces Bill to Lower Costs of Eggs\n\nWashington, DC \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced legislation to allow hatcheries to use pasteurized eggs in egg products, like cake mixes, salad dressings, and other grocery products. The Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025 will combat high egg prices for Arkansas consumers by cutting bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to discard hundreds of millions of useable eggs each year.\n\n\u201cArkansas consumers have paid higher egg prices and faced egg shortages because of bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to throw out hundreds of millions of useable eggs each year. My bill will cut these excessive regulations and lower egg prices,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\nText of the bill can be found here.\n\nThe Lowering Egg Prices Act of 2025 would:\n\nAllow broiler chicken farms to sell pasteurized eggs for purposes of producing liquid egg products.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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-introduces-bill-to-lower-costs-of-eggs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3286781031638384, "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"}