{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/10/31/daines-joins-kbzk-in-studio-for-halloween-special-segment/", "Daines Joins KBZK In-Studio For Halloween Special Segment", "2025-10-31", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "U.S. SENATE \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined KBZK in studio for a special Halloween segment and gave the latest updates on the Schumer Shutdown.\n\nWatch the full interview HERE.\n\nDaines on the Schumer Shutdown:\n\nThis will be the longest shutdown in American history. It looks like the Democrats want to keep it shut down into the next week. There\u2019s a big election on Tuesday in New York for that mayor race, there\u2019s a New Jersey governor\u2019s race. There\u2019s Virginia\u2019s governor\u2019s race. We\u2019re told they\u2019re going to keep it shut down at least through Tuesday because they want to stir up their folks to get out and vote, unfortunately, because there\u2019s real people getting hurt. As you mentioned here earlier in the news stories, 77,000 Montanans loose their SNAP benefits starting this weekend. It\u2019s about 40 million Americans lose their SNAP benefits. So, this is should not be about political gamesmanship. This should be about coming back together again. And I\u2019m cautiously hopeful that because of some talks that just began yesterday, maybe we\u2019ll get a handful of Democrats to join us. We need five democrats to join us. The democrats have voted against a clean CR, that means temporary funding bill, 14 times. [A clean CR is] something they did 11 times when Joe Biden was President. I think they\u2019re angry with President Trump. Don\u2019t express that anger by shutting the government down. Let\u2019s get deal done and move forward\u2026we\u2019re going to see air traffic delays. Our troops aren\u2019t going to be getting paid. Your TSA agents, air traffic controllers. This is political gamesmanship. It shouldn\u2019t happen. Don\u2019t take the government hostage as part of the negotiations here to try and get an outcome because you\u2019re upset about the elections last year.\n\nDaines explained his Halloween Bobcats Jersey:\n\nGood to be back in my hometown. Happy Halloween- go Cats! 41 is the legacy uniform of the Bobcats. We [Montana] were the 41st state admitted to the union. In fact, our birthday\u2019s coming up- November 8th. The 136th year, since 1889. every year the Cats assign a Montanan who gets to wear this jersey and Paul Brott, of Billings West High, defensive end is it wearing this year. So, I thought it would be the right jersey to wear.\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.daines.senate.gov/2025/10/31/daines-joins-kbzk-in-studio-for-halloween-special-segment/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.8855799939483404, "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"}