{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/watch-hickenlooper-video-statement-on-increasing-energy-prices/", "WATCH: Hickenlooper Video Statement on Increasing Energy Prices", "2026-09-24", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "CO", "John W. Hickenlooper", "H000273", "www.hickenlooper.senate.gov", "hickenlooper", "https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press/page/", "scraper", "In just the first six months of 2026, Colorado families spent an additional $71 on electricity than they did in the first half of 2024\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper called out President Trump and MAGA Republicans for how their broken agenda has increased energy prices and fueled a cost-of-living emergency.\n\n\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s costly war has sent gas prices climbing and diesel prices to record highs. But so far, Trump refuses to address this crisis. In fact, he\u2019s making it worse,\u201d said Hickenlooper. \u201cLast summer, Trump and MAGA Republicans passed their disastrous budget bill and zeroed out a program that helped lower-income families and communities harness solar energy to lower their energy bills.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe administration fired all of the federal workers who ran a different program that helps 6 million low-income households heat and cool their homes, including about 85,800 households in Colorado. And they\u2019ve canceled millions in federal contracts for clean energy projects \u2013 many of them already underway \u2013 and wasted taxpayer money in the process.\n\n\u201cAmericans deserve relief, not higher costs. Our fight isn\u2019t over. We won\u2019t stop working to actually bring down costs and help Colorado families.\u201d\n\nWatch his full video HERE.\n\nBefore the war, the national average for diesel was $3.72 per gallon. This week, it\u2019s over $6.50 per gallon, marking a nearly 75% increase. A farmer using 1,000 gallons of diesel during a harvest is paying roughly $2,800 more just to do the same work.\n\nIn total, Coloradans have spent an additional $2 billion on gas since the beginning of the war. Colorado families have spent an additional $80 on electricity in 2025 under President Trump than they did in 2024. And, in just the first six months of 2026, they spent $71 more on electricity than they did in the first half of 2024.\n\nHickenlooper has been vocal in his opposition to President Trump\u2019s cost-of-living emergency fueled by the president\u2019s war with Iran. Hickenlooper has introduced a War Powers Resolution to direct President Trump to terminate U.S. military hostilities against Iran and has voted repeatedly to end the president\u2019s war.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-25T10:04:52Z", "2026-09-25T10:05:46Z"]], "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/watch-hickenlooper-video-statement-on-increasing-energy-prices/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7414259016513824, "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"}