{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2022/10/tillis-senate-republicans-demand-biden-administration-end-its-war-on-u-s-oil-gas", "Tillis, Senate Republicans Demand Biden Administration End Its War on U.S. Oil & Gas", "2022-10-03", "2022", "2022-10", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Thom Tillis", "T000476", "www.tillis.senate.gov", "tillis", "https://www.tillis.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and a group of Republican senators sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland demanding the Biden Administration end its assault on domestic oil and gas production and continue to sell oil and gas leases on federal land and water. The push comes in response to the U.S. Department of Interior\u2019s draft proposal for the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, in which the department hinted that it might cancel future lease sales for the next five years.\n\n\u201cAmerican families are struggling to keep up with rising costs due to inflation, high energy prices, and persistent supply chain issues,\u201d wrote the senators. \u201cIt is our obligation to do everything within our power to help ease these burdens and remove this uncertainty for both Americans and our allies.\u201d\n\n\u201cOne of the most effective ways we can do this is to increase future domestic oil and natural gas production through long-term leasing certainty,\u201dcontinued the senators. \u201cThe Department can help domestic energy production and put American energy consumers first.\u201d\n\nRead the full letter here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:20:33Z"]], "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.tillis.senate.gov/2022/10/tillis-senate-republicans-demand-biden-administration-end-its-war-on-u-s-oil-gas"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8749009575694799, "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"}