{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/hickenlooper-rejects-trumps-latest-blm-nominee/", "Hickenlooper Rejects Trump\u2019s Latest BLM Nominee", "2025-12-04", "2025", "2025-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "CO", "John W. Hickenlooper", "H000273", "www.hickenlooper.senate.gov", "hickenlooper", "https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press/page/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper released the following statement regarding his opposition to President Trump\u2019s nomination of former U.S. Representative Steve Pearce to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM):\n\n\u201cAmericans deserve a BLM director who will be a true steward of the millions of acres under the agency\u2019s care.\n\n\u201cSteve Pearce is NOT that person. While in Congress, he attacked environmental protections and fought to sell off public land.\n\n\u201cHis nomination is proof that the Trump administration still views our public lands as assets for sale.\n\n\u201cOn behalf of Colorado, I will vote NO because our public lands are NOT for sale.\u201d\n\nPearce marked his time in Congress working to undermine environmental protections, open public lands for oil and gas operations, and sell public lands.\n\nHickenlooper is a former geologist and one of the only scientists in the Senate. He has been outspoken against Trump administration cuts to public lands and led an effort against the admin\u2019s plans to overturn the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s (BLM) Public Lands Rule. In March, he introduced legislation to reinstate the thousands of National Park Service and Forest Service workers the Trump administration illegally fired.\n\nHickenlooper also helped lead the fight against Senator Mike Lee\u2019s proposal to sell off more than three million acres of public lands. Hickenlooper first sounded the alarm back in April when he voted against the Republican budget resolution and introduced an amendment with colleagues to protect public lands from being sold to pay for Republicans\u2019 tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.\n\nIn May, Hickenlooper held a press conference in Estes Park with Congressman Neguse, public lands advocates, and local elected officials to call out the Trump administration\u2019s threats to Colorado\u2019s national parks and public lands, including Rocky Mountain National Park.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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-rejects-trumps-latest-blm-nominee/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1325671803206205, "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"}