{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=C0927489-C250-48CF-8664-C225F09596E5", "Senate Passes 2018 Farm Bill With Portman, Brown Provision to Assist Central State University", "2018-12-11", "2018", "2018-12", "Republican", "House", "OH", "Rob Portman", "P000449", "www.portman.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Senators Secured Provision That Would Ensure Central State Receives Increased Funding From USDA That It Was Previously Denied\r\nBill is Set to Pass House, Then Head to President's Desk for Final Signature\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C.  Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that they secured a provision in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, more commonly known as the 2018 Farm Bill, to increase research funding for Central State University. For more than 100 years, Central State University was denied 1890 Land Grant status, meaning it was ineligible for funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its innovative scientific research. Portman and Brown's provision corrects that oversight and increases the amount of formula funding that Central State will be able to receive from USDA, while not jeopardizing the funding of any other 1890 Land Grant. The House is set to pass the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, then it heads to the President's desk for final signature.\r\nCentral State University serves an important role in food and ag research and development in Wilberforce and throughout Ohio, said Portman. Central State deserves to be treated in the same way as other historically black colleges when it comes to accessing federal funding under the Farm Bill, and I was pleased this important amendment was included. \r\nOur amendment is a commonsense fix to a historical oversight, and it will ensure that one of Ohio's great universities gets its fair share of federal education dollars,said Brown. \r\nLearn more about the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, here.\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=C0927489-C250-48CF-8664-C225F09596E5"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5853047370910645, "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"}