{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/sen-brown-announces-nearly-990000-in-new-federal-resources-to-train-pediatric-specialists-in-columbus", "Sen. Brown Announces Nearly $990,000 in New Federal Resources to Train Pediatric Specialists in Columbus", "2014-12-04", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Sherrod Brown", "B000944", "www.brown.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Thursday, December 4, 2014\n            \n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital in Columbus was awarded $988,674 in funding through the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program. Sen. Brown authored the Children\u2019s Hospitals Education and Research Act of 1998, which created the CHGME program, while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. The CHGME program ensures continued medical training for professionals treating children and has provided funding to seven Ohio children\u2019s hospitals over the years.\r\n\u201cThis is excellent news for Columbus families and their children,\u201d Brown said. \u201cChildren\u2019s healthcare requires doctors and hospitals that specialize in pediatrics. This federal support will ensure that Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital has the resources necessary to train doctors and equip them with the tools to treat children.\u201d\r\nBrown has been a longtime champion of CHGME. In April 2014, he led 28 Senators in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee seeking continued CHGME funding for Fiscal Year 2015, as he has done the past several years. In February 2013, he wrote the President to urge full funding of the program in light of the President\u2019s budget request which would have reduced funding by 66 percent. CHGME was funded at $265 million in Fiscal Year 2014; the new law reauthorizes funding at $300 million per year.\r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tPress Contact\n\t\t\t\t\tMeghan Dubyak/Ben Famous (202) 224-3978", 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://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/sen-brown-announces-nearly-990000-in-new-federal-resources-to-train-pediatric-specialists-in-columbus"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3280240818858147, "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"}