{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-introduces-bill-to-put-arkansas-students-first", "Cotton Introduces Bill to Put Arkansas Students First", "2025-12-16", "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 16, 2025\n\nCotton Introduces Bill to Put Arkansas Students First\n\nWashington, DC \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the Put American Students First Act which would prevent noncitizens from being eligible for in-state college tuition.\n\n\u201cArkansas taxpayers shouldn\u2019t be subsidizing noncitizens\u2019 college tuition. My bill will put our students first by ensuring that only Americans are eligible for in-state tuition,\u201d said Senator Cotton.\n\nText of the bill can be found here.\n\nThe Put American Students First Act would:\n\nPrevent noncitizens from being eligible for in-state college tuition prices.\n\nEmpower the Secretary of Education to withhold funding from any state that violates this provision.\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-put-arkansas-students-first"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0041960049420595, "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"}