{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warnock-secures-over-62-million-in-federal-funding-for-georgia-airports/", "Warnock Secures Over $62 Million in Federal Funding for Georgia Airports", "2025-09-18", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "GA", "Raphael G. Warnock", "W000790", "www.warnock.senate.gov", "warnock", "https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will receive $10,631,004 to reconstruct runway safety areas\n\nSpalding County will receive $8,585,737 to help construct a new Griffin-Spaulding airport\n\nAdditional communities receiving federal funding include Albany, Americus, Augusta, Brunswick, Dawson, DeKalb County, Floyd County, Greensboro, Louisville, Macon, Rome, Savannah, and Spaulding County\n\nSenator Warnock: \u201cI\u2019m proud to secure these federal funds, which will go towards essential upgrades at airports across Georgia, making travel safer, easier, and more efficient for Georgians and visitors to our state\u201d\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013\u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) announced he secured new federal investments to upgrade Georgia\u2019s airports. These awards were made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Senator\u2019s Congressionally Directed Spending items.\n\nSenator Warnock announced airports in Savannah, Brunswick, Macon, Atlanta, Augusta, Spaulding County, DeKalb County, and Floyd County will receive a total of $62,078,524 for infrastructure upgrades, including runway extensions, safety features, and reconstruction of pavement.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud to secure these federal funds, which will go towards essential upgrades at airports across Georgia, making travel safer, easier, and more efficient for Georgians and visitors to our state,\u201d said Senator Reverend Warnock.\n\nMore information on these federal grants can be found below:\n\nA longtime champion for Georgia\u2019s aviation industry, last year Senator Warnock secured provisions in the FAA Reauthorization law that will help transform the aviation industry, including provisions to bolster the aviation workforce pipeline and invest in our aviation economy. In June 2025, Senators Warnock and Ossoff announced more than $14 million in federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to upgrade and help maintain Georgia\u2019s regional airports, which followed the announcement of $13 million in federal funding in May 2025. In 2023, Senator Warnock visited Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport to review progress on federally funded projects, including the construction of a security checkpoint expansion. In April 2023, Senator Warnock met with local aviation workers and leaders at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Chamblee, Georgia to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing workers on the frontlines of the aviation industry; following his visit, the Senator introduced the AIRWAYS Act to strengthen the aviation workforce by recruiting and training future industry workers from all zip codes. Additionally, in 2022 Senators Warnock and Ossoff secured $13.5 million to update nine airports across Georgia, including Augusta Regional Airport and Columbus Airport.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warnock-secures-over-62-million-in-federal-funding-for-georgia-airports/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4981960412114859, "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"}