{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ezell.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1963", "Ezell: Democrat-Led Shutdown Finally Ends After Hurting Mississippi Families and Businesses", "2025-11-12", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "House", "MS", "Mike Ezell", "E000235", "ezell.house.gov", "ezell", "https://ezell.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Congressman Mike Ezell (MS-04) released the following statement after voting to end the Democrat-led government shutdown:\n\n\u201cAfter more than 40 days of unnecessary pain and uncertainty, Senate Democrats have finally agreed to reopen the government \u2014 something Republicans, President Trump, and millions of hardworking Americans have been demanding for weeks. I was happy to vote to reopen the government after the Democrats\u2019 deranged shutdown that hurt Mississippi families, businesses, and federal workers lasted nearly 43 days.\n\nThis shutdown came at a steep cost for Mississippi. Our state\u2019s economy lost an estimated $82 million each week, nearly 26,000 federal workers went without pay, and more than 357,000 Mississippians \u2014 including 139,000 children \u2014 faced disruptions to SNAP benefits.\n\nRepublicans passed a clean funding bill back in September to keep the government open and give time for responsible, bipartisan budget negotiations. Yet, Democrats chose politics over people \u2014 and nothing has changed because of their obstruction except the damage they caused.\n\nNow that this Democrat-led shutdown is finally over, it\u2019s time to return to regular order, finish our appropriations bills, and restore stability for American families. That\u2019s what House Republicans have been fighting for from the start.\u201d", 1, "2026-04-07T15:46:19Z", "2026-04-07T20:18:39Z"]], "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://ezell.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1963"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8704978972673416, "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"}