{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-hosts-annual-meeting-with-missouri-farmers-at-state-fair/", "Hawley Hosts Annual Meeting with Missouri Farmers at State Fair", "2025-08-15", "2025", "2025-08", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "The Senior Senator Honored the Late Kit Bond & Touted Cancelation of the Grain Belt Express\n\nThis week, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) attended the annual Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, meeting with commodity groups and hosting an advisory council meeting with state farmers. Representatives Bob Onder (Mo.-03), Jason Smith (Mo.-08), Mark Alford (Mo.-04), and Eric Burlison (Mo.-07) also attended Senator Hawley\u2019s annual meeting.\n\n\u201cAg is not the past. Ag is not only the present. Ag is the future,\u201d Senator Hawley said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have a sovereign country if you can\u2019t feed your country. And [Missouri farmers] feed this country better than anybody else anywhere in the world.\u201d\n\nAt his meeting, the Senator spoke alongside Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins. There, he presented awards recognizing farmers and ranchers across the state, including the \u201cSenator Kit Bond Memorial Farmer of the Year Award.\u201d\n\nSenator Hawley honored Linda Bond and her late husband, Christopher \u201cKit\u201d Bond\u2014who represented Missouri as its former United States Senator and Governor\u2014for their decades of service to the Show Me State. The Senator presented Mrs. Bond with a framed copy of his Senate-passed resolution that recognized Mr. Bond\u2014who recently passed away on May 13, 2025\u2014as a lion of rural Missouri.\n\nSenator Hawley went on to answer questions from farmers and constituents on a range of state-specific topics. Senator Hawley specifically condemned the green-energy boondoggle the Biden Administration attempted to force on Missourians in the form of the Grain Belt Express.\n\n\u201cAs if they hadn\u2019t taken enough from you,\u201d Senator Hawley said to his constituents gathered, criticizing Democrats\u2019 obsession with Green New Deal policies. \u201cThis is $5 billion dollars. [The Grain Belt Express] doesn\u2019t meet the criteria for the loan. It\u2019s an outrage; it\u2019s an insult to the people of my state.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:02:47Z"]], "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-hosts-annual-meeting-with-missouri-farmers-at-state-fair/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8988338522613049, "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"}