{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/in-case-you-missed-it-video-capito-joins-bloombergtv", "In Case You Missed It: VIDEO: Capito Joins BloombergTV", "2025-10-10", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "WV", "Shelley Moore Capito", "C001047", "www.capito.senate.gov", "capito", "https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "To watch Senator Capito\u2019s interview, click here or on the image above.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of Senate Republican leadership, joined BloombergTV\u2019s \u201cBalance of Power\u201d yesterday to provide an update on the government shutdown.\n\nHIGHLIGHTS:\n\nON REPUBLICANS WORKING TO END THE SHUTDOWN: \u201cI hope so. I\u2019m always an optimist, but unfortunately\u2026Senator Schumer and others are content to try to reap the political benefit they\u2019re seeing from a shutdown. I think we should be working, and we\u2019re going to be working through what would\u2019ve been a week for us to be back in our home districts. I think it\u2019s right and proper that we\u2019d be back here in D.C\u2026Definitely conversations are happening, we all want to see the government opened, and we have a very simple fix to this, just simply open it with a seven-week extension and no-strings-attached. That\u2019s what\u2019s been offered six times and rejected. We\u2019re going to keep moving forward like this because I think it\u2019s the simplest, most understandable, easiest way for us to get back to our business\u2026This nonpayment of our troops and federal employees is another pressure point that comes October the 15th so I\u2019m hoping we do a very simple reopen the government.\u201d\n\nON ACA PREMIUM SUBSIDIES: \u201cIf you look at what Senator Thune has said on the Senate floor numerous times, he has said to the Democrats and to anybody who\u2019s listening, we\u2019re willing to negotiate and look at these subsidies, but we have to have the government open. That\u2019s a simple proposition. What blows back to me is, \u2018there\u2019s no trust.\u2019 I disagree with that. I think our Leader is very trustworthy and is a man of his word and he will do this. He\u2019s told us he will do this\u2026I have 67,000 West Virginians who this is going to impact, so we need to get to the business of opening the government and then getting to the business of trying to find a solution here.\u201d\n\nON THE SHUTDOWN\u2019S IMPACTS ON RURAL AIRPORTS: \u201cWe do have several of these airports in our state. My latest information is that, particularly when we\u2019re looking at the Clarksburg airport because that\u2019s who I most recently talked with, that Secretary Duffy has said there\u2019s going to be funding there to keep these Essential Air Services going. It is critical to rural America, to other places that are not easy to get in and out of and that\u2019s pretty much my whole state. We want to keep that air service going.\u201d\n\n# # #", 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.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/in-case-you-missed-it-video-capito-joins-bloombergtv"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7012241296470165, "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"}