{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/video-capito-joins-bloombergtv", "VIDEO: Capito Joins BloombergTV", "2025-10-29", "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 BloombergTV\u2019s \u201cBalance of Power\u201d to discuss the ongoing shutdown.\n\nHIGHLIGHTS:\n\nON VICE PRESIDENT VANCE AT REPUBLICAN POLICY LUNCH: \u201cIt\u2019s always productive to have the vice president. He wanted to reemphasize that opening the government is the most sensible, easiest, sanest way to begin negotiations after we open the government. He\u2019s very supportive of the position that many of us have taken. I think he feels as strongly about it as we do\u2026It was a comprehensive visit, but it really reinforced to me anyway that we have this country set on a path to really bring more prosperity to the American worker and that\u2019s a very uniting principle for us.\u201d\n\nON SENATOR HAWLEY\u2019S BILL TO FUND SNAP DURING THE SHUTDOWN: \u201cThe simple answer here is that if you reopen the government all of these [funding] issues go away. Now that we\u2019re getting into 29 days, it\u2019s really beginning to wear on the American people. You take my state of West Virginia, 18% of our households have a SNAP benefit. I think of the young, single mother with children, that\u2019s a frightening aspect that she might not have the money to feed her children, or the disabled, or an elderly couple. These are real human problems that honestly, Chuck Schumer can pontificate on the floor about how it\u2019s John Thune\u2019s fault\u2026 I don\u2019t think the American people care whose fault it is. Reopening the government is the simplest, easiest way to proceed. I am on Josh Hawley\u2019s bill because of the heavy impacts on my state\u2026if his bill were to come to the floor, I\u2019m a cosponsor now, I would vote for it.\u201d\n\nON RETURNING TO REGULAR ORDER APPROPRIATIONS: \u201cI want to have President Trump\u2019s priorities in the appropriations process, I want to have my priorities in the appropriations process\u2026I would rather see us go through the appropriations process on the floor, like Senator Thune has brought to the floor, which by the way, Senator Schumer never did the year before, so we can actually do the bipartisan work that we do so well on appropriations. We\u2019ve worked on these bills before and their exceedingly important to make sure that President Trump gets the priorities that he has and that we share with him into the appropriating cycle.\u201d\n\nON THE SHUTDOWN\u2019S IMPACTS: \u201cA shutdown asks people to skip not just one paycheck, now we\u2019re into two paychecks, these are families, these are people that have obligations. It\u2019s such a disservice not just to the air traffic controllers, but to every single federal employee, which in my state are quite a few. Not to mention the troops, the Coast Guard, the TSA agents, all of these folks. Simply open the government, get the money flowing to those that are working and provide the services. Let\u2019s drop the politics of a shutdown. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s working for Senator Schumer.\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-joins-bloombergtv"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9039947763085365, "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"}