{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=278dd8c1-3a83-4f4e-972c-13f9cd72bd86", "Enzi talk about White House visit, funding government", "2013-10-14", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 As the federal government shutdown enters its second week, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., spoke on the Senate floor Sunday about the recent Republican meeting at the White House, the dangers of passing an all-inclusive spending bill, and the importance of passing individual appropriation bills.\r\nWhite House visit (0:00)\r\n\u201cWe went to the White House the other day\u2026I was very disappointed at the end because the end speech was \u2018give me what I want for the shutdown in government, give me what I want for the debt limit increase, and then we can talk\u2019. The reason we are talking is because we have the government shutdown and this looming debt ceiling problem.\u201d\r\nPiecemeal approach to funding government (0:43)\r\n\u201cThe appropriation process has twelve separate budgets, twelve separate spending bills. It\u2019s so we can do it piecemeal, so we can look at them with some depth, and maybe get some clarity out of the spending that we are doing.\u201d\r\n\u201cWhen we windup doing an omnibus bill\u2026We won\u2019t be able to look at any details; we won\u2019t be able to make any amendments to it; we won\u2019t be able to say what is effective and what isn\u2019t. We will just keep doing what we\u2019ve been doing, which is running up the national debt. We can\u2019t afford to keep doing that.\u201d\r\nAmendments to spending bills (1:24)\r\n\u201cWe could have the government running, people could be paid, but we need to do it through the regular process. We need to do twelve spending bills and do them over a period of at least a week each and have amendments to it.\u201d\r\n\u201cThe reason we have 100 people here and 435 people over there, is so we have 535 opinions on what could be unintended consequences, or what is important, or what isn\u2019t important. And if they are denied the right for amendments, they are being denied the right to voice for their constituents. It\u2019s not for us, it\u2019s for our constituents, and that\u2019s why amendments are important.\"\r\nClick here to download the audio/video.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=278dd8c1-3a83-4f4e-972c-13f9cd72bd86"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.386725042015314, "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"}