{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://duffy.house.gov/press-release/hunger-homelessness-summit-focuses-on-awareness", "Hunger & Homelessness Summit Focuses on Awareness", "2013-12-23", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Sean Duffy", "D000614", "duffy.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Wausau, WI \u2013 More than 100 registered participants joined\u00a0U.S. Congressman Sean Duffy (WI-07)\u00a0for his first Hunger & Homelessness Summit held in Wausau this past Wednesday. The daylong summit brought together volunteers and representatives from dozens of organizations from across the 7th\u00a0Congressional District. The event included several panel discussions, a keynote address from Steve Berg from the National Alliance to End Homelessness and concluded with a \u201cbright spots\u201d session that challenged participants to implement\u00a0a takeaway from the event. In his opening remarks to the attendees,\u00a0Rep. Duffy\u00a0offered: \u201cMy team and I wanted to do what we could to try to make a difference with those who have fallen on hard times and make sure we can collaborate together on community resources. Also collaborate on the Federal and state side to make sure resources don\u2019t just flow to the urban parts of the country but can actually come to the parts of the country that have real problems but don\u2019t have huge staffs to cut through the red-tape.\u201d Offering his thoughts on the summit, Rep. Duffy said, \u201cWe found that by reaching out to each other and building a coalition within our community we can be more effective in our efforts to serve the neediest in our area.\u201d Rep. Duffy\u2019s office plans to post the entire summit on YouTube. Click\u00a0here\u00a0to watch and check back for updates from the daylong event. ###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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": ["http://duffy.house.gov/press-release/hunger-homelessness-summit-focuses-on-awareness"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5215519815683365, "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"}