{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/09/10/icymi-daines-op-ed-in-fox-news-americas-national-parks-are-at-a-crossroads-heres-how-congress-can-protect-them/", "ICYMI: Daines Op-Ed in Fox News: America\u2019s National Parks Are at a Crossroads. Here\u2019s How Congress Can Protect Them", "2025-09-10", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "U.S. SENATE \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines co-wrote an opinion piece with Senator Angus King (I-Maine) that was published by Fox News this morning.\n\nAmerica\u2019s National Parks Are at a Crossroads. Here\u2019s How Congress Can Protect Them\n\nSenators Steve Daines, Angus King\n\nFox News\n\nSeptember 10th, 2025\n\nFrom Acadia\u2019s rocky Atlantic coastline to Glacier\u2019s snowcapped valleys, our national parks are America\u2019s crown jewels, admired at home and abroad. Our parks represent more than natural beauty, however. They embody our history, our freedoms and our future. It\u2019s our responsibility to ensure they remain a critical part of these shared values\u2026\n\n\u2026 All of these places, large and small, tell the story of America: where families gather to camp and fish, where veterans reflect at historic battlefields and where local economies thrive on outdoor recreation and tourism. In recent years, we\u2019ve made progress toward maintaining the national parks to make them safer, more modern and better equipped to handle hundreds of millions of visitors each year \u2014 all thanks to the Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), a federal program dedicated to repairing and restoring our parks. But the LRF is set to expire Sept. 30, 2025, and there is much more work to be done to honor the heritage and history the parks represent, especially ahead of America\u2019s 250th anniversary. That is why we introduced the America the Beautiful Act to reauthorize the LRF. It continues the vision Congress advanced with the Great American Outdoors Act and builds on the strong bipartisan consensus that preserving our parks and public lands is a duty we all share \u2014 and a natural investment\u2026\n\n\u2026As we approach America\u2019s 250th birthday, Congress has the chance to reaffirm a bipartisan promise by passing the America the Beautiful Act: to protect the lands, history and freedoms that unite us as a nation. Let\u2019s not let this opportunity pass.\n\nRead the full piece on Fox News HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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.daines.senate.gov/2025/09/10/icymi-daines-op-ed-in-fox-news-americas-national-parks-are-at-a-crossroads-heres-how-congress-can-protect-them/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8940021507441998, "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"}