{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-rejects-chaos-votes-to-prevent-government-shutdown/", "Fetterman Rejects Chaos, Votes to Prevent Government Shutdown", "2025-03-14", "2025", "2025-03", "Democrat", "Senate", "PA", "John Fetterman", "F000479", "www.fetterman.senate.gov", "fetterman", "https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/press-release/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, by a vote of 54-46, the United States Senate passed H.R. 1968, The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act for Fiscal Year 2025, along party lines. U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) voted to invoke cloture, meeting the 60 votes necessary to end debate on the Continuing Resolution (CR) and move to final passage.\n\nSenator Fetterman released the following statement in response:\n\n\u201cMy YES vote on cloture IS NOT an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.\n\n\u201cMy YES vote on cloture IS 100% about refusing to shut our government down.\n\n\u201cI refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos or risk a recession.\n\n\u201cI will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.\n\nSenator Fetterman joined 9 Democratic colleagues in supporting the cloture motion, which broke the filibuster to proceed to final passage and prevent a government shutdown. He voted against the final passage of the CR.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T17:53:31Z"]], "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.fetterman.senate.gov/fetterman-rejects-chaos-votes-to-prevent-government-shutdown/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7984281983226538, "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"}