{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mcguire.house.gov/media/press-releases/virginias-congressional-republicans-call-immediate-end-government-shutdown-new", "Virginia\u2019s Congressional Republicans Call for Immediate End to Government Shutdown in New Op-ed", "2025-10-16", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "House", "VA", "John J. McGuire III", "M001239", "mcguire.house.gov", "mcguire", "https://mcguire.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "VIRGINIA \u2014 Today, Representatives Ben Cline (VA-06), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), John McGuire (VA-05), Jen Kiggans (VA-02), and Rob Wittman (VA-01) joined together in an op-ed published in The Hill to highlight the serious impacts being felt across Virginia and call on Senate Democrats to end the government shutdown.\n\nRead the full piece here.\n\nKEY EXCERPTS:\n\n\u201cEvery single Republican member of Virginia\u2019s House delegation voted to fund the government, keep it open, and ensure that essential services for our constituents continued without interruption. We passed a clean, short-term continuing resolution \u2014 the same kind of measure that has been used routinely with bipartisan support for years.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen the government shuts down, Virginia doesn\u2019t just read about it \u2014 we live it. Nearly 150,000 federal employees call Virginia home. We host the Pentagon, Langley Air Force Base, the Navy\u2019s Atlantic fleet, and a dense network of defense contractors and federal agencies.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe have heard for years that shutdowns are dangerous, disruptive, and damaging to the economy, particularly here in the Commonwealth. But when the opportunity came to prevent one, Senate Democrats chose to manufacture a crisis instead, hoping they could use it as a tool to advance a political agenda.\u201d", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "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://mcguire.house.gov/media/press-releases/virginias-congressional-republicans-call-immediate-end-government-shutdown-new"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0182838886976242, "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"}