{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-u-s-senator-katie-britt-joins-the-faulkner-focus-on-fox-news/", "ICYMI: U.S. Senator Katie Britt Joins The Faulkner Focus on Fox News", "2025-11-04", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Katie Boyd Britt", "B001319", "www.britt.senate.gov", "britt", "https://www.britt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u2018The time for Democrats to act like adults is now\u2019\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined The Faulkner Focus on Fox News to discuss the ongoing government shutdown. Today marks 35 days of the current government shutdown, tying the record for the longest in history. Americans nationwide are suffering and Senator Britt called for Senate Democrats to quit playing politics at the expense of hardworking Americans.\n\nOn the hypocrisy of Democrats who have voted against opening the government 14 times in a row:\n\n\u201cWell, first off, Harris, it\u2019s absolutely ridiculous that we\u2019re in this position. I mean, you just heard and played Chuck Schumer talk about all of the damage that\u2019s being done across America because he is demanding a ransom payment \u2026 that is absolutely despicable. If you take his words and what he is saying is happening to America, he and the Democrats could have made sure that none of this happened long ago with the CR that we\u2019ve given them, a clean CR, allowing them to open the government, allowing WIC to be funded, allowing no SNAP benefits to [lapse] \u2026 it would have allowed [the] military to be paid \u2026 They have chosen to put their own political advantage over the people that they serve.\u201d\n\nOn her role in negotiating a possible path to ending the shutdown:\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve been proud to take a lead in talking about actually doing appropriations bills. We are in this position because they are not passed \u2026 Chuck Schumer never put one appropriations bill on the floor. That\u2019s because he wanted to hoard all the power himself and not let the process play out. Unlike that, [Republicans] actually have passed three appropriations bills prior to the August state work period. Look, when we\u2019re looking at how to move forward, if we\u2019re able to move \u2026 that three bill package forward, it would fund SNAP, it would fund our veterans, it would fund our Capitol Police. It would actually allow these things to function for the remainder of the year and get us back moving. So that\u2019s one pathway forward to \u2026 break this logjam and tell Democrats we\u2019re done with their ridiculousness.\u201d\n\nOn consequences of shutdowns on Americans nationwide:\n\n\u201cLook, we can\u2019t go another week. The Democrats need to do the right thing and open back up the government. They know real people are paying the price. Harris, there is nowhere that I went across the state of Alabama where people didn\u2019t tell me a story about not being able to make ends meet, not being able to feed their family, not being able to pay their bills. So, Democrats need to realize there are real consequences, detrimental consequences, for hardworking Americans and Americans who need assistance because of their political games. So, we have to open it up, and it needs to be now.\u201d\n\nOn her recent conversation with Chuck Schumer to resolve Democrats\u2019 shutdown:\n\n\u201c[W]hat we\u2019re talking about with Chuck is these appropriations bills and saying, \u2018Look, we\u2019ve got to do our job for the American people. We cannot drag our feet and allow them to pay the price.\u2019 The time for Democrats to act like adults is now \u2026 I think that we had a fruitful conversation \u2026 those conversations are ultimately what breaks a logjam and allows our government to function.\u201d\n\nYou can watch the full segment here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-u-s-senator-katie-britt-joins-the-faulkner-focus-on-fox-news/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6298459377139807, "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"}