{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.capito.senate.gov/news/press-releases/video-capito-joins-fox-news-sunday", "VIDEO: Capito Joins \"FOX News Sunday\"", "2025-10-19", "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 and a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined \"FOX News Sunday\" with Shannon Bream to discuss the Schumer Shutdown and national security issues.\n\nHIGHLIGHTS:\n\nON REPUBLICANS PROTECTING THE FILIBUSTER: \u201cWe\u2019re not going to drop the filibuster. It wouldn\u2019t pass, number one. I signed a letter in 2017 I would not vote to get rid of the filibuster. The simple vote here is to simply open the government. We have a bipartisan measure that has no strings attached to it, except for a seven-week extension of government funding. That\u2019s the easy part here. To say that Republicans are obstructing doesn\u2019t even pass the laugh test, in my opinion.\u201d\n\nON DEMOCRATS PLAYING POLITICS WITH GOVERNMENT FUNDING: \u201cI think it\u2019s very obvious what\u2019s going on here, the politics of this. Senator Schumer has already said, \u2018this is getting better for us every day.\u2019 That\u2019s the game they\u2019re playing and now it\u2019s really impacting a lot of people all across this country.\u201d\n\nON REPUBLICANS OFFERING DEMOCRATS A VOTE ON ACA SUBSIDIES: \u201cJohn Thune tweeted on Friday and he\u2019s said this numerous times in his speeches on the floor, and also to the press, that we\u2019re ready to talk about healthcare, to talk about the system they created, to talk about Obamacare that is now unaffordable, which we knew it would be when we voted against it several years ago. Senator Thune has said numerous times that we will talk about this, but he\u2019s not going to let the government be held hostage and hijacked over an issue.\u201d\n\nON A POTENTIAL DEAL BETWEEN UKRAINE AND RUSSIA: \u201cI think the president is hoping that by getting Putin to the table again that he can reach some kind of agreement. He has reiterated numerous times, no war, stop the killing, we need peace. This is what the president really feels. You can see what he did in the Middle East and I think that gives him good momentum.\u201d\n\nON COMBATTING THE DRUG CARTELS: \u201cI think the basic thing that the president is going after is something that really hits my state quite deeply, and that is the narco-terrorism that goes on, the fentanyl that\u2019s coming into this country and killing people, killing them in droves.\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-fox-news-sunday"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0193097405135632, "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"}