{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-concludes-mission-to-un-climate-conference-cop28", "Schatz Concludes Mission To UN Climate Conference, COP28", "2023-12-11", "2023", "2023-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "HI", "Brian Schatz", "S001194", "www.schatz.senate.gov", "schatz", "https://www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "DUBAI \u2013 U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai\u2018i), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, concluded a mission to the annual United Nations climate conference, COP28, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Schatz touted the progress made since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, including the creation of hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs and lower energy prices for Hawai\u2018i families.\n\nSchatz was part of a Senate delegation which was led by U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and also included U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass).\n\n\u201cOur message to the world at COP28 was simple: America took the biggest climate action in human history, and it\u2019s working,\u201d said Senator Schatz. \u201cThe Inflation Reduction Act is proof that climate action is good for the economy and good for the planet. We proved the doubters wrong and sincerely hope that governments across the world will follow suit.\u201d\n\nThe Senators were briefed by U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry as well as State Department officials, and met with foreign delegations including from Ukraine, Japan, South Korea, and the Pacific Islands Forum, among others. They also participated in various events highlighting the United States\u2019 work on tackling the climate crisis; how other nations can replicate the success of the IRA to spur economic and climate progress of their own; and solutions to various global challenges related to climate, including deforestation.\n\nPhotos of Schatz and the Senate delegation are available here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "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.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-releases/schatz-concludes-mission-to-un-climate-conference-cop28"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7778030596673489, "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"}