{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-applauds-president-trump-for-expanding-ratepayer-protection-pledge/", "Senator Marshall Applauds President Trump for Expanding Ratepayer Protection Pledge", "2026-07-24", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Roger Marshall", "M001198", "www.marshall.senate.gov", "marshall", "https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington \u2013 U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) today applauded President Donald J. Trump for expanding the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a landmark initiative ensuring that the nation\u2019s largest technology companies\u2014not hardworking American families\u2014pay the cost of the electricity and grid infrastructure needed to power new AI data centers.\n\nEarlier this year, Senator Marshall joined Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) in introducing a Senate concurrent resolution expressing that the Ratepayer Protection Pledge would protect households, small businesses, schools, hospitals, and farms from subsidizing the electricity and grid infrastructure needed for new AI data centers. The resolution also encouraged additional AI companies and data center operators to adopt the pledge\u2014an effort advanced by today\u2019s announcement.\n\n\u201cThe Ratepayer Protection Pledge Resolution affirms a basic idea: that Kansans shouldn\u2019t have to pay higher utility bills so that big tech companies can power their data centers,\u201d said Senator Marshall. \u201cI\u2019ve heard from Kansans who are concerned that infrastructure costs for data centers could be pushed onto households, small businesses, schools, hospitals, and farms across the state. Kansans work hard for their money, and they should not need to worry that their utility rates will rise thanks to the growth of data centers.\u201d\n\nPresident Trump\u2019s Expanded Ratepayer Protection Pledge:\n\nProtects American families from higher utility bills by ensuring the cost of powering new AI data centers is paid by the companies building them\u2014not households, farms, schools, hospitals, or small businesses.\n\nNow covers approximately 80% of the electricity delivered to American homes and businesses, following the addition of nearly 200 new utilities, developers, state governments, and other stakeholders.\n\nRequires participating companies to negotiate separate rate structures with utilities and state governments and pay for the power generation and grid infrastructure needed to support their data centers, whether they ultimately use that electricity or not.\n\nStrengthens grid reliability by encouraging participating companies to coordinate with grid operators and make backup generation resources available during emergencies to help prevent blackouts and power shortages.\n\nCreates jobs and invests in local communities by encouraging AI companies and hyperscalers to hire and train workers where they build and operate data centers.\n\nSupports America\u2019s AI leadership by enabling the rapid buildout of the infrastructure needed to compete with China while ensuring the costs of that expansion are not shifted onto American consumers.\n\nAdvances President Trump\u2019s America First energy agenda by expanding domestic energy infrastructure, promoting private-sector investment, protecting ratepayers, and keeping electricity affordable for hardworking American families.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-25T07:13:44Z", "2026-07-25T07:15:09Z"]], "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.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-applauds-president-trump-for-expanding-ratepayer-protection-pledge/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8405949231237173, "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"}