{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ID=8E11BEF8-E37C-4FE4-9725-6E2CB1F9D16F", "Nebraska Delegation Echoes Governor\u2019s Request for Major Disaster Declaration Following Summer Storms", "2024-09-05", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "NE", "Deb Fischer", "F000463", "www.fischer.senate.gov", "fischer", "https://www.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and U.S. Representatives Mike Flood (NE-01), Don Bacon (NE-02), and Adrian Smith (NE-03) sent a letter to President Joe Biden in support of Governor Jim Pillen\u2019s (R-Neb.) request for a major disaster declaration for areas impacted by severe storms from July 31 to August 1, 2024.\n\nDuring that time period, severe thunderstorms, high winds, and heavy rain caused extensive damage across the state. Overall, the storms inflicted over $34.6 million in damage to public infrastructure in impacted counties.\n\nSpecifically, Governor Pillen\u2019s request follows storms that affected Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Saunders, and Sarpy counties.\n\nA copy of the delegation\u2019s letter to President Biden is below and a signed copy is available here.\n\nPresident Joe Biden\n\nThe White House\n\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW\n\nWashington, D.C. 20500\n\nDear Mr. President:\n\nWe write in support of Governor Jim Pillen's request for a major disaster declaration, which followed the storms occurring on July 31 and August 1, 2024, for the Nebraska counties of Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Saunders, and Sarpy.\n\nSevere thunderstorms, straight-line winds, and heavy rain caused extensive damage across the state. Overall, the storms inflicted over $34.6 million in damages to Nebraska's electrical distribution infrastructure, businesses, and homes.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "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.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ID=8E11BEF8-E37C-4FE4-9725-6E2CB1F9D16F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.728983897715807, "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"}