{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/10/video-release-sen-johnson-urges-bipartisan-action-to-advance-the-shutdown-fairness-act-and-ensure-workers-are-paid", "***VIDEO RELEASE*** Sen. Johnson Urges Bipartisan Action to Advance the Shutdown Fairness Act and Ensure Workers Are Paid", "2025-10-23", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) spoke on the Senate floor to discuss his Shutdown Fairness Act, which ensures that all federal employees reporting to work during a shutdown receive pay and allowances on a regular basis during a lapse in appropriations. He called for renewed bipartisan cooperation to demonstrate that the Senate can work as intended.\n\n\u201cI come from the private sector. You don't get a whole lot accomplished arguing all the time. It's all about finding areas of agreement. I\u2019ve got a product, you want to buy it, and we\u2019ll haggle over the price,\u201d Sen. Johnson began.\n\n\u201cThere are more than 2 million federal employees who are now being forced to work because they're termed excepted \u2014 but that means they're essential. They're protecting our nation. They're protecting our safety and security. They're writing Social Security checks. To see that they get their paycheck, so they don't have to work DoorDash, and so they don't have to go to food banks, so they're not under that stress,\u201d Sen. Johnson said. \u201cI am asking in good faith. Let's figure out how to get that done.\u201d\n\n\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be wonderful to actually see this process work in the Senate? [\u2026] Let\u2019s sit down in good faith, let\u2019s hammer out the amendments, and let\u2019s get this thing passed next week,\u201d Sen. Johnson concluded.\n\nWatch the full video here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2025/10/video-release-sen-johnson-urges-bipartisan-action-to-advance-the-shutdown-fairness-act-and-ensure-workers-are-paid"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.323144977912307, "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"}