{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-schiff-padilla-secure-4-million-for-glassy-winged-sharpshooter-response-activities/", "NEWS: Schiff, Padilla Secure $4 Million for Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Response Activities", "2026-09-29", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "CA", "Adam B. Schiff", "S001150", "www.schiff.senate.gov", "schiff", "https://www.schiff.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla (both D-Calif.) announced that they secured $4 million in emergency federal funding to address the growing threat posed by the invasive glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) in California. In June, Padilla and Schiff, along with U.S. Representatives Mike Thompson (D-Calif.-04) and David Valadao (D-Calif.-22), REQUESTED THIS EMERGENCY FUNDING to support efforts to contain and eradicate the pest, which spreads Pierce\u2019s Disease (PD) and threatens many critical agricultural industries in California, including wine grapes and table grapes.\n\n\u201cCalifornia\u2019s wine industry provides more than a million jobs and is crucial to our national economy,\u201d said Senator Schiff. \u201cThis USDA funding is essential to aid grape growers during this time of need, and I\u2019ll keep fighting for more resources to protect California\u2019s agricultural industries.\u201d\n\n\u201cWith the growing threat of invasive pests like the glassy-winged sharpshooter, we are working to ensure California has access to federal resources to quickly respond and protect our crops,\u201d said Senator Alex Padilla. \u201cOur state\u2019s growers have already felt the impact of these pests. I\u2019m proud to have quickly secured this federal funding with my colleagues to ensure California\u2019s agriculture and wine industries can continue to thrive.\u201d\n\nThis funding will allow the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to expand trace-forward investigations, increase inspections, destroy infested materials, and strengthen trapping and visual surveys at high-risk locations associated with recent GWSS-infested plant shipments. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) works with the CDFA and county agricultural commissioners through a long-standing cooperative program to manage and contain GWSS in California.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-30T10:57:52Z", "2026-09-30T10:59:04Z"]], "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.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-schiff-padilla-secure-4-million-for-glassy-winged-sharpshooter-response-activities/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.9062568210065365, "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"}