{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/video-capito-calls-for-an-end-to-the-schumer-shutdown-on-cnns-inside-politics", "VIDEO: Capito Calls for an End to the Schumer Shutdown on CNN\u2019s Inside Politics", "2025-10-09", "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 Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of Senate Republican leadership, joined CNN\u2019s Dana Bash on Inside Politics to discuss the government shutdown.\n\nHIGHLIGHTS:\n\nON DEMOCRATS KEEPING THE GOVERNMENT CLOSED: \u201cThe simple thing here is to reopen the government\u2026To me, that\u2019s the simplest way, and would\u2019ve been on October 1st, to not worry about who\u2019s going to miss a paycheck\u2026other people are getting entangled into this, our troops and others, through no fault of their own. Our leader, Senator Thune, has said we will begin negotiations on this matter as soon as you reopen the government\u2026So it\u2019s just a political exercise. Chuck Schumer said that today, \u2018every day gets better for us.\u2019 Who\u2019s us? The Democrat Party, not our troops, our border patrol agents, and those who depend on services from our country.\u201d\n\nON FINDING A SOLUTION FOR ACA PREMIUM SUBSIDIES: \u201cWhat I say to [West Virginians] is what I\u2019ve been saying to the Democrats, and many of us have, including Senator Thune\u2026we will negotiate on this. The president has talked about wanting to find a solution. Dr. Oz has been with me at our policy lunches to talk about trying to find solutions for this\u2026We know that there needs to be reforms and that\u2019s the issue they refuse to actually talk about and consider. I want to protect my West Virginia small business owners and beauticians and barbers and small mom and pop shops. This is incredibly important to me that they get healthcare\u2026Let\u2019s open the government and enter into negotiations.\u201d\n\nON REPUBLICANS GIVING DEMOCRATS A SIMPLE PATH TO REOPEN THE GOVERNMENT: \u201cThis is a very simple fix. The House passed a simple fix, no-strings-attached at all, to open the government for seven weeks. Chuck Schumer is on record saying, \u2018every day gets better for us.\u2019 Who\u2019s he talking about? He\u2019s talking about his political future and his political party. This shouldn\u2019t be a party thing. I voted during the Biden administration consistently on this very same bill, as did they\u2026It\u2019s gamesmanship for their party because we\u2019re offering a simple solution, of which three of their Democrat members agree with.\u201d\n\nON PROTECTING THE FILIBUSTER: \u201cMany of us signed a letter under President Trump\u2019s first administration saying we would not break the filibuster. Remember, the Democrats did that too, and you want to talk about lack of trust, then they turned around and voted to break the filibuster. I\u2019m not going to vote to break the filibuster, and I don\u2019t believe the votes are there to do that. It sounds like an easy fix, but we\u2019re talking about setting generations of policy, good policy, and minority rights aside and I\u2019m not going to be party to that.\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/video-capito-calls-for-an-end-to-the-schumer-shutdown-on-cnns-inside-politics"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0403553023934364, "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"}