{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-b-1-bomber-visits-grand-forks-in-preparation-for-upcoming-move", "Hoeven: B-1 Bomber Visits Grand Forks In Preparation for Upcoming Move", "2024-10-02", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "John Hoeven", "H001061", "www.hoeven.senate.gov", "hoeven", "https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "Hoeven: B-1 Bomber Visits Grand Forks In Preparation for Upcoming Move\n\nGRAND FORKS, N.D. \u2013 Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after a B-1B Lancer bomber visited Grand Forks Air Force Base in preparation for the upcoming move of the aircraft and related personnel from Ellsworth Air Force Base. Grand Forks Air Force Base is set to begin housing 17 of the aircraft starting next year, and this week\u2019s visit was made to test the base\u2019s fueling systems and facilities to ensure the bomb wing can be adequately accommodated during the temporary relocation.\n\nHoeven serves as a member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, through which he has worked to fund and advance the relocation effort, having made the case for Grand Forks to serve in this role to the head of the Air Force Global Strike Command General Thomas Bussiere and Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. This comes as part of the senator\u2019s long-term efforts to strengthen North Dakota\u2019s role in the nation\u2019s defense, including the unmanned missions in Grand Forks and Fargo and the nuclear missions in Minot.\n\n\u201cThis week\u2019s visit of the B-1B aircraft to Grand Forks is an important step as the Air Force prepares to temporarily move the bomb wing,\u201d said Hoeven. \u201cGrand Forks Air Force Base has the capacity needed to house this and the wide variety of other missions we\u2019ve worked to bring to this region due to our decades-long effort to invest in the base\u2019s facilities, build up our expertise in aviation and unmanned aerial systems in the region and establish the one-of-a-kind Grand Sky business and technology park. Such efforts have enabled us to expand North Dakota\u2019s role in our national defense, whether on the ground, in the air or up into space.\u201d\n\n-###-", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"]], "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.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-b-1-bomber-visits-grand-forks-in-preparation-for-upcoming-move"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0152608156204224, "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"}