{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/hickenlooper-questions-trumps-space-academy-announcement/", "Hickenlooper Questions Trump\u2019s Space Academy Announcement", "2026-08-28", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "CO", "John W. Hickenlooper", "H000273", "www.hickenlooper.senate.gov", "hickenlooper", "https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press/page/", "scraper", "Hickenlooper: \u201cTrump\u2019s proposed plan is duplicative, costly, and unserious.\u201d\n\nOURAY \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper raised questions about President Trump\u2019s new plan to create a U.S. Space Academy. President Trump announced plans to establish the academy earlier today at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.\n\n\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s proposed plan is duplicative, costly, and unserious.\n\nEstablishing a dedicated service academy for space may sound good on paper, but our nation already has an exceptional institution that trains tomorrow\u2019s Space Force leaders: it\u2019s called the U.S. Air Force Academy.\n\nTo duplicate that effort at a time when our national deficit is soaring, is reckless and makes a dire situation even worse.\n\nColorado Springs is already the epicenter of our national security and space efforts. This unnecessary proposal is yet another example of the president seeking to distract from his illegal war in Iran and the economic pain it has caused everyday Americans.\u201d\n\nHickenlooper has consistently fought to protect Colorado\u2019s role as the backbone of the nation\u2019s space defense architecture. He denounced the Trump administration\u2019s irresponsible and wasteful decision to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama and joined a statement with the entire Colorado congressional delegation rebuking the relocation.\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-29T11:31:28Z", "2026-08-29T11:32:37Z"]], "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.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/hickenlooper-questions-trumps-space-academy-announcement/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.018164912238717, "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"}