{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/phosphate-added-critical-minerals-list-following-lawmaker-advocacy", "Phosphate added to critical minerals list following lawmaker advocacy", "2025-11-06", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "MS", "Cindy Hyde-Smith", "H001079", "www.hydesmith.senate.gov", "hydesmith", "https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/newsroom", "scraper", "By Hinds Today\n\nU.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has expressed support for the Trump administration and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum following the decision to add phosphate to the 2025 Critical Minerals List. Phosphate is an important fertilizer ingredient for Mississippi\u2019s agricultural sector.\n\nEarlier this year, Hyde-Smith and other lawmakers urged Secretary Burgum to include phosphate on the list after it was left off a draft version released by the U.S. Geological Survey in the summer. The final list, which will be published in the Federal Register on Friday, now includes both phosphate and potash.\n\n\u201cExpensive fertilizer costs are a significant factor in the economic headwinds hitting Mississippi\u2019s agricultural sector. Having both phosphate and potash on the Critical Minerals List should help stabilize supply chains and begin to reduce our dependence on foreign sources,\u201d Hyde-Smith said. \u201cThis is smart and commonsense policy, and I praise the President and Secretary Burgum for ensuring these key fertilizer components made the list.\u201d\n\nIn September, Hyde-Smith joined 18 other Senators and 49 House members in calling for both minerals\u2019 inclusion. They argued that listing these minerals would encourage domestic production, strengthen supply chains, decrease reliance on countries such as China, lower input prices for farmers, and help protect American food security.\n\n\u201cPhosphate, like potash, is indispensable to global food production and U.S. agriculture. It has no substitutes in farming, and disruptions in supply have immediate and far-reaching consequences for American producers, food prices, and national security,\u201d wrote lawmakers in their September letter. \u201cFarmers across the country are already experiencing the impacts of market volatility and supply pressures tied to phosphate availability.\u201d\n\nHyde-Smith serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee where she has opposed policies she believes negatively affect fertilizer availability or affordability for Mississippi farmers.\n\nThe Critical Minerals List identifies minerals with vulnerable supply chains that are essential to national security and economic interests of the United States. It guides federal efforts aimed at increasing domestic production to lessen reliance on imports.", 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/phosphate-added-critical-minerals-list-following-lawmaker-advocacy"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.078357920050621, "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"}