{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=78e4c379-f673-4069-8f0c-5c441ce7156a", "Senate majority refuses government funding bill", "2013-10-01", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Last night the Senate majority voted 54 to 46 to reject a House-approved funding resolution that would have prevented a shutdown of \u00a0the U.S. government for the first time in 17 years.\r\nThe House bill would have funded the government until Dec. 15 and delayed the individual mandate in the president\u2019s health care law for one year.\u00a0 It also included U.S. Senators Mike Enzi\u2019s, R-Wyo., and David Vitter\u2019s, R-La., amendment that would require all members of Congress, staff, the president, vice president, and political appointees to get their insurance through the new government exchanges.\r\nThe Senate majority doubled down again this morning and rejected an offer from the House to establish a bicameral conference committee to reconcile differences between the two chambers\u2019 short-term spending bills.\r\nYesterday, Senators Enzi, Vitter, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., called on the House and the Senate to pass a continuing resolution including their amendment to ensure that Washington falls under the same laws as the rest of America.\r\n\u201cWe are trying every step that we can to fix it so that Congress has to live under the laws like everyone else,\u201d Enzi said. \u201cWe thought it might be a good idea if we included the president, the vice-president, and the appointees of the president.\u00a0 They ought to feel the same pain as America. I can\u2019t believe the president wouldn\u2019t want to be under a law that has his name on it.\u201d\r\nThe federal government will remain partially shut down until an agreement can be worked out.\u00a0 Enzi plans to focus on ending the shutdown, but will continue to support defunding the president\u2019s health care law and he will not support overspending.\u00a0\r\n\u201cIt is Congress\u2019 constitutional responsibility to control what we spend taxpayer\u2019s money on and paying to implement a destructive, unaffordable program like Obamacare is not something I can support.\u00a0We have alternatives that will work better,\u201d Enzi said.\r\nEnzi said the shutdown would have been avoided if the Senate majority would have allowed individual appropriations bills to go through the proper committees and amendments to be considered on the floor.", 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=78e4c379-f673-4069-8f0c-5c441ce7156a"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0320940054953098, "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"}