{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-risch-daines-caution-biden-admin-that-one-sided-dam-breaching-effort-doomed-to-fail", "Crapo, Risch, Daines Caution Biden Admin that One-Sided Dam Breaching Effort Doomed to Fail", "2023-11-21", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Steve Daines (R-Montana) today sent a letter to President Biden voicing severe concerns regarding the Administration\u2019s efforts to breach the lower Snake River dams.\n\nThe effort, outlined in September in the \u201cMemorandum on Restoring Healthy and Abundant Salmon, Steelhead, and Other Native Fish Populations in the Columbia River Basin,\u201d highlighted the goal of salmon restoration. However, the memo ignores Congressional authority over the dams, scientific data that supports the current state of the dams, the views of regional partners, and the affects it will have on constituents.\n\n\u201cCongress \u2013 and Congress alone \u2013 can change the authorized purposes of federal dams and determine their future. Recent history has shown repeatedly that Congress is unwilling to drastically alter the operations of the Columbia River system or remove the lower Snake River dams,\u201d the Senators wrote. \u201c. . . Recent salmon return numbers underscore that the policies implemented by past administrations\u2014Democrat and Republican\u2014are working.\u201d\n\n\u201cRather than focusing attention on controversial proposals that won\u2019t be implemented by Congress or plans that have buy-in from only a limited portion of those who rely on the river system, we urge you to return to efforts that build on regional consensus, are grounded in science, and can be supported and implemented by Congress,\u201d the Senators continued.\n\nRead the full letter here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "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.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-risch-daines-caution-biden-admin-that-one-sided-dam-breaching-effort-doomed-to-fail"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1189370416104794, "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"}