{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=eaa79e64-2906-4c74-8393-4de1f5df3fd3", "Enzi: Stop Obamacare, pay our troops, keep government open", "2013-09-30", "2013", "2013-09", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 The Senate had the opportunity today to fund the government, while delaying Obamacare for a year and repealing a tax on medical devices, according to U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. Instead the Senate majority rejected the House-passed amendments to the continuing resolution on a strict party-line vote. \u00a0A partial shutdown of the federal government will begin at midnight if no agreement over funding is reached. The Senate did, however, unanimously pass a bill to ensure our troops are paid in the event of a shutdown. The Senate may take further action tonight on the funding bill.\r\n\u201cOnce again our country is being brought to the brink by a crisis that we\u2019ve seen coming for months. This gridlock is caused in part because of reliance on deal making instead of legislating.\u00a0 Process may not be interesting, but this impending shutdown is the result of process being hijacked to avoid politically uncomfortable votes,\u201d said Enzi.\u00a0\u201cIn the Senate, the majority has prevented Senate committees from working on the 12 individual appropriations bills and the majority leader has stopped amendments from being considered on the floor.\u00a0 The process that allows for debate and all elected members to have their voices heard has been abandoned and in its place is governing by leadership-driven crises. If committees did their work, we would not be debating a continuing resolution.\u00a0 Every agency would know what it has to spend for the whole next year and spending cuts would be more logical.\u201d\u00a0 \r\nAt midnight the continuing resolution that has been funding the federal government expires. Until Congress can agree to a spending plan to continue funding the federal government, federal offices, including Senate offices, will discontinue most services", 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=eaa79e64-2906-4c74-8393-4de1f5df3fd3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9605037048459053, "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"}