{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-not-one-democrat-voted-for-voter-id/", "Senator Marshall: Not One Democrat Voted for Voter ID", "2026-08-09", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Roger Marshall", "M001198", "www.marshall.senate.gov", "marshall", "https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senator Marshall Joins Fox News, The Big Weekend Show\n\nWashington \u2013 U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Joey Jones, Tomi Lahren, Joe Concha, and Anita Vogel on Fox News\u2019 The Big Weekend Show to discuss how all Senate Democrats voted against voter ID this week and progress on the SAVE America Act, the work that the Senate did complete including confirming a new Attorney General, how Dr. Fauci can be held accountable for his crimes, and the Protect College Sports Act.\n\nClick HERE to download the full video.\n\nOn what the Senate accomplished before recess:\n\n\u201cYou know, I\u2019m sure there will be \u2014 and the great thing is we have a president that\u2019s going to keep pushing us and pushing us and pushing us for more. But I think we do need to stop and celebrate sometimes as well. We got 70 nominations done last week \u2014 and that\u2019s because of a process that John Thune got across the plate for us. We got our Attorney General taken care of as well, the government is funded till December. In a world where there\u2019s lots of uncertainty, we took a few things off the table. And I\u2019m so glad we got every Democrat on record that they voted against voter ID. So, it\u2019s a start \u2014 of course we know we have more work to do.\u201d\n\nOn getting the SAVE America Act and voter ID passed:\n\n\u201cWell, Joey, I would say it\u2019s a really uphill battle, and only with President Trump at the helm is there even a chance of doing that. But I want to at least set the record straight here \u2014 yesterday, all 52 Republicans voted in favor of voter ID. And there\u2019s some version of the SAVE Act that we can get with at least 50 votes as well. And you and I both know that we should be talking about the Democrats right now \u2014 we cannot get one Democrat to vote in favor of voter ID, let alone proof of citizenship or doing anything with mail-in ballots. They\u2019re the problem. So, I don\u2019t understand \u2014 you know \u2014 why we want to pick on the Republicans. Why there\u2019s this Republican violence right now. The big issue here is why can\u2019t we get through? You know, should we do something where we flip the habits of the Senate, where it takes 60 votes to do something?\u201d\n\n\u201cI think I agree with everything you said there. But again, all 52 Republicans voted yesterday in favor of voter ID, and I think there\u2019s versions of everything else in the SAVE America Act that they would vote for as well, but not enough that we would flip the filibuster. And, even to your point: I\u2019m willing to do it, but I don\u2019t only think a third of the United States Senate is willing to do it.\u201d\n\nOn whether Leader Thune has lost the support of senators:\n\n\u201cNo, he\u2019s not. I think the Senator Thune has the backing of all 53 Republicans right now in Congress. Let\u2019s think about what he\u2019s accomplished right now: he gave us the biggest tax cut, the biggest spending cut, in American history. He gave us a new path forward where we\u2019re able to confirm more of the President\u2019s nominees at a time as well. Look, it\u2019s not perfect \u2014 the Republican senators \u2014 each of us have our own mind. We\u2019re not lemmings, we\u2019re not Democrats where when Chuck Schumer says \u2018Jump\u2019, we say \u2018How high?\u2019 We\u2019re going to fight through this and work through the arguments with each other. But Thune is doing a great job \u2014 one of the best leaders I\u2019ve ever met and a great listener as well.\u201d\n\nOn whether he supports the criminal prosecution of Dr. Fauci:\n\n\u201c110%. And as soon as that diary came out, I wrote to the Attorney General \u2014 acting Attorney General then \u2014 and said please appoint a special counsel where you can investigate and then prosecute Anthony Fauci on this 20 years where he was working to invent this gain of function. Even President Obama asked him to stop doing it, and he kept doing it. Finally, he offloaded it out of the entire country. We need to investigate the cover-up, we need to investigate the auto pen. Is the auto pen even legitimate? And then just follow the money as well. So, absolutely, positively, and I would love to see our new Attorney General just do just that.\u201d\n\nOn whether Senator Mitch McConnell should step down:\n\n\u201cWell, number one, I\u2019m afraid you\u2019re going to turn that seat over to a Democrat, possibly very temporarily if you go through that process. But the good news is, Mitch McConnell spoke to several senators this past week \u2014 he was dismissed from the hospital, he\u2019s now at home recovering. So, let\u2019s hope and pray that he\u2019s better and he can come back when this break is over in September.\u201d\n\nOn the Protect College Sports Act:\n\n\u201cYeah, I think the reason we didn\u2019t go ahead and vote on is because we don\u2019t have the votes yet. I think the biggest issue is what we\u2019re concerned about is if a state has said, \u2018look, boys cannot compete in girls\u2019 sports,\u2019 we want to make sure there\u2019s no federal preemption that would oversee that as well. So, we need to insert that particular amendment \u2014 Josh Hawley\u2019s got the amendment to do that. I think if we get beyond it, we can get it across the finish line. And look, I participated in college athletics, so many of us did. That\u2019s how we got to go through college was on that scholarship. So, we got to fix this system or otherwise, everyone that\u2019s in these Olympic type of sports will never get a chance to have a sports scholarship.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-10T06:13:07Z", "2026-08-10T06:14:46Z"]], "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.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-not-one-democrat-voted-for-voter-id/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8469198364764452, "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"}