{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/video?ContentRecord_id=8f5442ef-cfd9-41e2-b325-8ea5f976d9c7", "October 11: Enzi responds to constituent concerns about funding the government, closure of national parks, debt ceiling", "2013-10-11", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Michael Enzi", "E000285", "www.enzi.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 With the federal government partially shut down for the first time in 17 years, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., sat down to address questions and comments Wyoming constituents posted for him on Facebook and Twitter concerning funding the federal government (0:20), the closure of national parks (1:53), and the debt ceiling (3:50) in a new video. \u00a0\r\nFunding the government (0:20)\r\n\u201cThis shutdown that we\u2019re going through is 100 percent preventable. There isn\u2019t a single vote that is supposed to solve the whole thing. The way it\u2019s supposed to work is we\u2019re supposed to pass each of the spending bills and there are 12 of them required every year before October 1. If we bring them to the floor and have an open amendment process, they\u2019ll pass. Harry Reid chose not to let us have any amendments on the one he brought up and he only brought up one. Then he expected us to go ahead and pass it even though we had no input on it. That\u2019s not how the system is supposed to work.\r\n\u201cWe need to stop dealing making and start legislating. Then we wouldn\u2019t have these partial shutdowns or total shutdowns of some agencies. I\u2019d like to have a chance to vote on those funding bills\u2026 Then we don\u2019t need a continuing resolution to keep government going.\u201d\r\nClosure of national parks (1:53)\r\nEnzi said the House has sent over bills to fund the parks and other functions of government, but the Senate majority refuses to even get together to talk about those options.\r\n\"We have to be judicious in what we\u2019re doing. We have to take a look at it and not keep spending money,\u201d said Enzi, who offered a request Wednesday in the Senate to fund the parks only to have it rejected by the majority.\r\nDebt ceiling (3:50)\r\n\u201cAll the times that the debt ceiling has been raised, there has been something that puts us at least on a partial path to cutting back spending. The president said he isn\u2019t going to negotiate pretty flat out.\r\n\u201cThe Wyoming people understand that you can\u2019t keep spending more money than you take in. The Wyoming people know this is unsustainable. It\u2019s not a problem of income, it\u2019s a problem of outgo. We are spending more money than we take in.\r\n\u201cThe (Senate majority) leadership is saying \u2018No, it has to be our way or no way,\u2019 and they just want\u00a0another year to try and solve the problem before we\u2019ll talk about it and another $1 trillion in debt. The Wyoming people I know won\u2019t stand for that and I won\u2019t either.\u201d \u00a0\r\nSenator Enzi records \u201cCollecting Common Sense from Wyoming for Washington\u201d videos every other week when the Senate is in session. He encourages Wyoming residents to continue sharing their thoughts, ideas and questions. For individual responses, constituents should email him through his web page \u2013 www.enzi.senate.gov.\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/video?ContentRecord_id=8f5442ef-cfd9-41e2-b325-8ea5f976d9c7"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6890112310647964, "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"}