{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://nolan.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/mesabi-daily-news-lawmakers-especially-rep-nolan-great-job-on-getting-white", "Mesabi Daily News: Lawmakers, especially Rep. Nolan, great job on getting White House chief of staff here", "2015-12-21", "2015", "2015-12", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Rick Nolan", "N000127", "nolan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "We are extremely pleased that Minnesotas federal lawmakers  especially 8th District U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan  and the governor have worked to get the attention of the White House regarding the iron ore and steel crisis that is devastating the Iron Range.\nGov. Mark Dayton and Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken all deserve credit, along with Rep. Nolan, for working hard to repeatedly deliver the message with a sense of urgency that the very foundation of the nation  its ore and steel industries  are being unfairly hammered by illegally subsidized steel imports.\nNolans efforts have been relentless. He even went so far as to spend time with President Obamas Chief of Staff Denis McDonough at a White House Christmas party on Dec. 7 to personally impress upon the presidents top advisor just how dire is the situation.\nMcDonough took what he heard that night from Nolan to the president and Obama directed him to travel to the Range and get some first-hand information on the situation.\nMcDonough called the congressman the next day to tell him he would be visiting Minnesotas Iron Range.\nThe chief of staffs journey to the Range was confirmed by those Minnesota elected officials this week, and McDonough will venture to the Range next Tuesday for a meeting at Mesabi Range College with all stakeholders in the areas distressed mining industry.\nThis is a major development for the area. We need help from the Obama administration  and we need it very soon. And it is imperative that message is impressed upon McDonough with respectful passion and the utmost urgency.\nThe chief of staff needs to hear exactly what is at stake  the very survival of the Iron Range, which is of vital importance to the future of the State of Minnesota and the overall United States.\nThe cheaters are winning in global trade of steel and steel products. The aggressive infusion of illegally subsidized steel has been out of control.\nAnd it doesnt really matter how many rulings come down against these trade cheats, they just keep on winning because the International Trade Commission process is glacially slow in enforcing what is right and just.\nThis has all got to stop  and stop as soon as possible.\nPresident Obama, just like Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush before him, can take executive action to impose tariffs on the steel products of the cheaters.\nWe believe it should have already been done. But what matters at this point is that it is now expeditiously implemented.\nThe president has the tool to do so  Section 201 of the 1974 Trade Act. And it is our hope that McDonough will gather insight from his Iron Range visit on just how troubling is the issue, how much hardship it is bringing to workers, families and communities, and how even the countrys national security is being threatened.\nIt is way past time that a clear and unequivocal message is sent to the cheaters  your days of winning are over.", 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://nolan.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/mesabi-daily-news-lawmakers-especially-rep-nolan-great-job-on-getting-white"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9296170901507139, "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"}