{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/mayor-percy-bland-recaps-trip-washington-dc", "Mayor Percy Bland recaps trip to Washington DC", "2025-11-24", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "MS", "Cindy Hyde-Smith", "H001079", "www.hydesmith.senate.gov", "hydesmith", "https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/newsroom", "scraper", "Bland said routine meetings like this are essential to the continued economic growth and infrastructural development of Meridian.\n\nVIDEO\n\nBy Zack Rogers\n\nMERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - Mayor Bland made an annual trip to the nation\u2019s capital this past week, alongside a few of Meridian\u2019s city councilmen.\n\nHe says the focus was to engage with legislative officials and federal agencies to secure resources and funding for the Queen City and its infrastructure.\n\n\u201cWe met with the entire delegation. We met with Senator Wicker, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Congressman Bennie Thompson, and our local congressman, Michael Guest. We also met with a congressman from the Gulf Coast, in regard to some of the major projects that we have on the table right now that\u2019s in legislation. And it deals, again, with our water and sewer projects, our consent decree,\u201d said Bland. \u201cWe also have a big cops grant, which is a two-million-dollar public safety grant, and we have some other major improvements that we\u2019re doing inside and around the city to our medical district that we specifically met with them about.\n\nBland says routine meetings like this are essential to utilize federal funding and ensure continued economic and infrastructural growth in and around Meridian.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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/mayor-percy-bland-recaps-trip-washington-dc"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5140259638428688, "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"}