{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/10/jobs and economy/video-blackburn-slams-schumer-for-holding-government-hostage-to-ram-through-reckless-new-spending", "VIDEO: Blackburn Slams Schumer for Holding Government Hostage to Ram Through Reckless New Spending", "2025-10-01", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "TN", "Marsha Blackburn", "B001243", "www.blackburn.senate.gov", "blackburn", "https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/news/cc8c80c1-d564-4bbb-93a4-f1d772346ae0", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor slamming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Democrats for shutting down the government in an attempt to ram through a $1.5 trillion radical left wishlist of new spending instead of working through the regular order appropriations process:\n\nClick here to download Senator Blackburn\u2019s remarks on the Senate floor.\n\nDemocrats Forced a Shutdown Instead of Working to Pass Appropriations Bills Through Regular Order\n\n\u201cToday, Congress should be hard at work for the American people. We should be working through the NDAA and passing our appropriations bills through regular order.\n\nWe can\u2019t do any of this because our colleagues on the other side of the aisle have decided to force a government shutdown.\n\nLast night, all but three voted against a stop-gap funding measure that would keep government open through November 21.\n\nBy keeping spending at current levels, this measure would have provided us the time we need to pass all of our appropriations bills.\n\nEight of the twelve have passed through committee with strong bipartisan support.\n\nThree of them\u2014agriculture, legislative branch, and military construction-veterans affairs\u2014already passed on the floor with wide margins.\n\nBy passing these appropriation bills, we are ensuring that our government moves from a Biden budget to a Trump budget\u2014which is exactly what the American people voted for.\n\nDemocrats Are Holding the Government Hostage to Ram Through a $1.5 Trillion Radical Left Wishlist\n\nInstead of joining us to restore regular order, Democrats are holding the government hostage to ram through $1.5 trillion in additional spending.\n\n$1.5 trillion. With our national debt at $37.5 trillion and climbing, this effort is grossly irresponsible.\n\nIt\u2019s time for Democrats to come to the table and pass the stop-gap measure.\n\nDemocrats Have Voted for Current Spending Levels Five Times Since Last Year\n\nSince last year, they have voted for current spending levels five times\u2014most recently in March.\n\nUnder President Biden, they voted to pass clean CRs like this one 13 times.\n\nLast year in this very chamber, the Senate Minority Leader put it perfectly: \u201cThis is what the American people want to see: both sides working together and governing responsibly\u2026No chaos. No spectacle. No shutdown.\u201d\n\nI know that every Republican agrees. Let\u2019s end the chaos. Let\u2019s end the spectacle. Let\u2019s end the shutdown.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/10/jobs and economy/video-blackburn-slams-schumer-for-holding-government-hostage-to-ram-through-reckless-new-spending"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8082038257271051, "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"}