{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/risch-crapo-join-daines-to-call-on-biden-admin-to-collaborate-with-states-on-forest-management", "Crapo, Risch Join Daines to Call on Biden Admin to Collaborate with States on Forest Management", "2022-10-13", "2022", "2022-10", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington,D.C.--U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) joined Senator Steve Daines (R-Montana) to send a letter to the Biden Administration urging the development and implementation of a transparent and swift process to allocate funds promised to States for implementing effective forest management projects under the Good Neighbor Authority (GNA).\n\n\u201cWe write to ask that you do all in your power to follow through on your commitment to working with state and local governments to improve our forest health and address the wildfire crisis. By mid-summer, your Department was in receipt of $160 million to award grants to States and Tribes for implementing projects under the Good Neighbor Authority (GNA), a time-tested mechanism for achieving this very outcome, but had not yet acted to allocate all of these funds. We urge you to establish a transparent process for distributing GNA funds directly to States and Tribes expeditiously and in a manner that maximizes taxpayers\u2019 return on investment,\u201d the Senators wrote.\n\n\u201cThe delayed distribution of GNA funds has not come without consequences\u2014states have now missed the window of opportunity to utilize these GNA funds to mitigate the risk and severity of the wildfires currently burning across the West. We cannot afford to miss the next window of opportunity,\u201d the Senators continued.\n\nRead the full letter the Senators sent to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack HERE.\n\nSenators John Barasso (R-Wyoming) and Diane Feinstein (D-California) joined in sending the letter.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:20:33Z"]], "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/risch-crapo-join-daines-to-call-on-biden-admin-to-collaborate-with-states-on-forest-management"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9350879117846489, "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"}