{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-nancy-mace-reintroduces-government-shutdown-prevention-act-ahead-budget", "Rep. Nancy Mace Reintroduces Government Shutdown Prevention Act Ahead Of Budget Deadline", "2025-09-17", "2025", "2025-09", "Republican", "House", "SC", "Nancy Mace", "M000194", "mace.house.gov", "mace", "https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "(Washington, D.C., September 17, 2025) \u2013 Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC-01) introduced the Government Shutdown Prevention Act of 2025 to end Washington\u2019s cycle of shutdown brinkmanship by removing shutdown threats as leverage and forcing Congress to budget responsibly, without punishing taxpayers, servicemembers, or federal workers.\n\nAs Congress nears the September 30 deadline to pass FY2026 appropriations, the bill offers a long-term solution to stop the waste, chaos, and last-minute spending sprees accompanying shutdown threats.\n\nUnder Rep. Mace\u2019s legislation, if Congress misses its deadlines, automatic continuing resolutions would keep the government running at 94% of the previous year\u2019s funding level. Every 90 days lawmakers fail to act, funding would decrease by an additional 1%, tightening spending until Congress completes its work.\n\n\u201cShutdowns cost billions, reward dysfunction, and push Congress into passing bloated omnibus packages at the last minute,\u201d said Congresswoman Mace. \u201cThis bill flips the script and protects taxpayers, cuts spending, and forces Congress to finally do its job.\u201d\n\nUnlike temporary stopgap measures pushing the budget crisis down the road, Rep. Mace\u2019s Government Shutdown Prevention Act restores fiscal discipline and delivers certainty for businesses, federal workers, and military families, while ensuring lawmakers face consequences for failing to govern.\n\n\u201cThis bill is about ending reckless spending by ending reckless behavior,\u201d Mace added. \u201cIt makes Congress live within its means, just like every American family has to.\u201d\n\n###", 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://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-nancy-mace-reintroduces-government-shutdown-prevention-act-ahead-budget"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7149688899517059, "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"}