{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-delivers-floor-speech-urging-support-his-amendment-increase-tariffs-china/", "Hawley Delivers Floor Speech Urging Support for His Amendment to Increase Tariffs on China", "2023-06-02", "2023", "2023-06", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "This evening U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks ahead of the Senate\u2019s vote on his amendment, as part of the debt ceiling deal, to raise tariffs on imports from China until the United States\u2019 unsustainable trade deficit with China comes into balance.\n\n\u201cIn the last 20 years in the state of Missouri, we have lost 60,000 jobs to the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2014that number nationwide is almost 4 million,\u201d said Senator Hawley. \u201cWe can talk about budget reforms, and we can talk about savings here and there, but until we do the work of bringing back productive capacity to this nation and good-paying, blue-collar jobs you can raise a family on, we will not put our economy on the basis that we need to address the economic challenges that we face.\u201d\n\nIn May, Senator Hawley introduced the Raising Tariffs on Imports from China Act which would require the President to impose an additional tariff of 25% on all goods imported from China if a bilateral deficit is recorded during the preceding calendar year.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:15:57Z"]], "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.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-delivers-floor-speech-urging-support-his-amendment-increase-tariffs-china/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.585903111845255, "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"}