{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-johnson-introduce-bill-eliminate-government-shutdowns", "Johnson & Johnson Introduce Bill to Eliminate Government Shutdowns", "2025-09-23", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "House", "SD", "Dusty Johnson", "J000301", "dustyjohnson.house.gov", "dustyjohnson", "https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the Eliminate Shutdowns Act to ensure there will never again be a government shutdown. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) is leading this bill in the Senate. Congress routinely faces a government shutdown in the event the funding process is not completed by September 30. Government shutdowns do not serve the American people, cost billions of dollars, and harm the U.S. economy.\n\n\u201cShutdowns are stupid, and everyone knows it,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cI was sent to Congress to make sure the government serves South Dakotans \u2013 it can\u2019t possibly serve South Dakota if it is closed. Almost every other country does not face the threat of a government shutdown. The Eliminate Shutdowns Act will keep the government open, so it can work for you, while encouraging Congress to pass new funding packages.\u201d\n\nThe Eliminate Shutdowns Act:\n\nTriggers an automatic 14-day continuing resolution in the event of a lapse in appropriations.\n\nIf Congress fails to pass appropriations or a Continuing Resolution \u201cCR\u201d by the end of the first 14-day auto-CR, then appropriations and funding continues for another 14 days, and so on and so on.\n\nThe auto-CR ends if Congress passes an appropriations bill or CR.\n\nThe bill ensures entitlements and other mandatory programs provided budget authority in the preceding appropriations Act continue to be funded at the rate necessary to maintain program levels under current law or the preceding appropriations Act.\n\nThe Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would continue to have apportionment authority during an auto-CR period.\n\nDuring an auto-CR period, an agency head is authorized, with OMB approval, to transfer no more than five percent from one appropriation account to another appropriation account.\n\nThe agency head must notify the congressional appropriations committee of any transfer of funds.\n\nThe transfer can only be from a lower priority account to a higher priority account.\n\nU.S. Representative Bryan Steil (R-WI) is an original cosponsor.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-johnson-introduce-bill-eliminate-government-shutdowns"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8315159939229488, "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"}