{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-angie-craig-introduces-mccarthy-shutdown-act-stop-member-pay-during", "Rep. Angie Craig Introduces MCCARTHY Shutdown Act to Stop Member Pay During a Government Shutdown", "2023-09-20", "2023", "2023-09", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Angie Craig", "C001119", "craig.house.gov", "craig", "https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Angie Craig introduced the My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums, Handle Your (MCCARTHY) Shutdown Act to withhold pay for Members of Congress in the case of a federal government shutdown.\n\nUnder current law, Members receive regular paychecks during government shutdowns while thousands of federal employees are furloughed without pay.\n\nDuring the 2018-19 government shutdown, more than 800,000 federal employees were furloughed without pay, including 6,000 in Minnesota.\n\n\u201cSpeaker McCarthy and House Republicans are ready to shut down the federal government and put the livelihoods of working families at risk \u2013 while still collecting a paycheck. Today, I\u2019m introducing legislation to block Member pay during a McCarthy shutdown, because it\u2019s ridiculous that we still get paid while folks like TSA workers are asked to work without a paycheck,\u201d said Rep. Craig.\n\nRep. Craig continues to encourage Republican leadership to stop placating its most extreme in the Freedom Caucus and bring forward a proposal that can get support from Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate and avoid a shutdown altogether.\n\nClick here to read Rep. Craig\u2019s MCCARTHY Shutdown Act.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:37:48Z"]], "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://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-angie-craig-introduces-mccarthy-shutdown-act-stop-member-pay-during"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.794542022049427, "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"}