{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://downing.house.gov/media/press-releases/downing-statement-end-government-shutdown", "Downing Statement on End of the Government Shutdown", "2025-11-12", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "House", "MT", "Troy Downing", "D000634", "downing.house.gov", "downing", "https://downing.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Today, Congressman Troy Downing (MT-02) released a statement following a vote in the United States House of Representatives to reopen the federal government and end the 42 day-long government shutdown.\n\n\u201cAfter more than 42 days, Congress has finally reopened the government. With the Senate\u2019s amendments to our clean CR passed, Americans across the country who have been deprived of nutritional assistance, critical programs, or their paychecks will no longer face the hardship and uncertainty brought on by this shutdown. This is a good thing.\n\n\u201cIf we want to prevent something like this from happening in the future, we cannot forget how we got here. Democrats voted for more than 6 weeks\u2014that\u2019s 42 days or 1008 hours\u2014to keep our government closed while Americans suffered. And for what? We are functionally very near where we would have been had we passed the House\u2019s September CR.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud that I cast my vote to keep the government open then and now. Let this saga be a stark reminder of the consequences of brinksmanship and the real damage that\u2019s done when one side of the aisle puts politics before people. Now, it\u2019s time for Congress to pass our remaining appropriations bills and return to regular order.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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://downing.house.gov/media/press-releases/downing-statement-end-government-shutdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7961660157889128, "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"}