{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=AD8FAA7E-2197-4CC4-95BB-B78050A5C7BB", "Klobuchar Recognizes Family from Byron as 2025 Angels in Adoption", "2025-09-15", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "MN", "Amy Klobuchar", "K000367", "www.klobuchar.senate.gov", "klobuchar", "https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Co-Chair of the Congressional Adoption Caucus, spoke at the annual Angels in Adoption celebration hosted by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute in Washington DC and recognized Tamara and Jeramy Lawson of Byron, Minnesota as this year\u2019s Angels in Adoption Minnesota honorees, alongside their adopted sons Jiang Li and Liam.\n\nThe Lawsons planned to adopt their son Jiang Li, a five-year-old boy with physical disabilities, from China but the pandemic stalled the adoption. After years of waiting, the Lawsons were finally approved to travel to China to complete Jiang Li\u2019s adoption and were able to bring him home. By the time the new family was united, Jiang Li was already nine years old.\n\n\u201cEvery child deserves a loving home, a nurturing family and a bright future,\u201d said Klobuchar. \u201cTamara and Jeramy Lawson waited years to be united with their son Jiang Li, and as he strived to become more independent they provided him with the support he needed \u2013 including adaptive equipment purchased with a grant from Children\u2019s Home Adoption Support Fund. Since then, their son has gone from being 20% independent to about 80% independent. If that doesn\u2019t show the power of a loving family, I don\u2019t know what does.\u201d\n\nIn her role as Co-Chair of the Congressional Adoption Caucus, Klobuchar has been a leader in the fight to give every child a permanent home. To date, Senator Klobuchar\u2019s office has assisted more than 1,500 Minnesota families with their adoption cases.\n\nIn response to China\u2019s pause on adoption cases during the pandemic and the country\u2019s subsequent decision to end its intercountry adoption program, Klobuchar has advocated for the completion of pending adoption cases for the hundreds of children and American families matched prior to the pandemic. Many of these children have special health care needs, and some will soon age out of care systems without the support of a permanent family.\n\nIn March, Klobuchar led a letter with her Adoption Caucus Co-Chairs, Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), and Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), as well as Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), urging President Trump to act in the best interest of these children and press the Chinese government to finalize pending adoptions cases. This letter was signed by more than 100 members of Congress.\n\nPhotos of the Lawsons and Klobuchar at the Angels in Adoption annual celebration can be found here and here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=AD8FAA7E-2197-4CC4-95BB-B78050A5C7BB"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.5012290570884943, "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"}