{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/farm-assistance-national-security-issue", "Farm Assistance is a \u201cNational Security Issue\u201d", "2025-10-29", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "MS", "Cindy Hyde-Smith", "H001079", "www.hydesmith.senate.gov", "hydesmith", "https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/newsroom", "scraper", "Chad Smith\n\nIt\u2019s a tough time for production agriculture in the U.S., especially in grain farming. Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith said things are heading in the wrong direction.\n\n\"Well, you don\u2019t have to talk to many farmers to quickly understand that we\u2019re headed in a dark direction there, particularly on the row crop side of things. We all know it\u2019s the input costs, the interest rates are through the roof, the crop prices aren\u2019t what they need to be, and farm bankruptcies are soaring. There are many reasons for that, but this is a serious, serious thing. You are going to see producers literally go out of business if we don\u2019t give them a bridge, a landline, right now.\u201d\n\nThe reason farmers need a bridge is that the One Big Beautiful Bill\u2019s programs don\u2019t start until next year.\n\n\u201cFarmers can\u2019t wait that long. They will not be able to meet their financial obligations, their current debt, and also while they\u2019re trying to secure financing for next year\u2019s crop without a bridge, and we\u2019re going to have to get there. Last year, I would say a part of working on that, and we were successful, but I mean, it is like it was work. It was Major. It was a challenge. And that\u2019s one of the times that you hit the Senate floor, and you\u2019re going to the leaders, and then you have to run over to the House side and say, \u2018This is not the way this is going to end. We have got to get this supplemental out the door.\u2019 And we were able to do that, but it was touch-and-go. I mean, it\u2019s one of those times when, you know, I\u2019m so guilty of diving in neck deep, but there was so much anxiety with that because so much was at stake.\u201d\n\nShe calls the farm crisis a national security issue.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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.hydesmith.senate.gov/farm-assistance-national-security-issue"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9631151333451271, "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"}