{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-highlights-bitcoins-potential-at-bitcoin-2024-conference/", "Scott Highlights Bitcoin\u2019s Potential at \u2018Bitcoin 2024\u2019 Conference", "2024-07-26", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "The Bitcoin 2024 Conference is the largest Bitcoin conference in the world with more than 20,000 attendees.\n\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2014 U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, today joined fellow Senate Banking Committee member Senator Cynthis Lummis (R-Wyo.) on a panel entitled \u201cFor Love of Country & Bitcoin,\u201d at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. During the panel, Senator Scott hailed Bitcoin and blockchain technology\u2019s potential to democratize the financial world and improve financial inclusion and called for a fair regulatory environment for the industry that encourages innovation in the United States, not overseas.\n\nClick here or on the image above to watch Senator Scott\u2019s panel.\n\n\u201cThe ability to bring resources and opportunities and access to the marketplace, to the people who need it most, that\u2019s what Bitcoin is about. That\u2019s what this is about \u2013 giving the average American a chance to make their own decisions at home. No matter where you live, if you\u2019re at the mountain top or with me in the valleys low, having a chance to democratize our financial footprint is an absolutely essential part of achieving the American Dream,\u201d said Senator Scott. \u201cWe need a regulatory environment that understands that freedom and liberty are inseparable.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"]], "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.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-highlights-bitcoins-potential-at-bitcoin-2024-conference/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.783824060112238, "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"}