{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/news/press-releases/thune-joins-bret-baier-on-fox-news6-17/", "Thune Joins Bret Baier on Fox News", "2026-06-16", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "Click here to watch.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Bret Baier on Fox News.\n\nOn Jay Clayton\u2019s nomination:\n\n\u201cI hope he gets through this week \u2026 The confirmation hearing will happen tomorrow in the Intelligence Committee. They will report him out. We will take him up as soon as we can, but that will take some cooperation from Democrats. If they want to, they can slow-walk it \u2026 They can\u2019t slow it down forever \u2013 we\u2019ll get him on the floor \u2013 but if we want to get him confirmed by the end of the week, we\u2019re going to need a little bit of help. And right now, we\u2019re getting mixed signals about whether or not the Democrats will participate and help with that.\u201d\n\nOn FISA:\n\n\u201cFISA has, in an unprecedented way, gone dark. And the FISA, which is short for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, there is a section there, Section 702, which is the principal tool by which we keep this country safe. It prevents terrorist attacks, it\u2019s helped us in times of war, protects American citizens, and that program right now [has] \u2018gone dark.\u2019\n\n\u201cWhen we say that, it\u2019s no longer authorized by the Congress. And so the Democrats had agreed to passing it with reforms that Republicans had agreed to. It was a bipartisan deal, and then when Pulte was nominated, they completely block voted against even getting on the bill. So right now, in my view, they own this. That was an irresponsible thing to do on a program that\u2019s critical for America\u2019s national security.\u201d\n\nOn Iran:\n\n\u201cI give the president great credit for having the guts and the courage to do the hard thing that no president for the last 50 years has been willing to do, and that is to degrade Iran\u2019s nuclear capability and significantly diminish their military capabilities in the region. How it winds down now is the thing we\u2019re all paying attention to, and in that respect, I think it\u2019s the old Reagan axiom: you trust but you verify. You\u2019ve got to make sure that \u2026 we\u2019ve got a good path forward here.\u201d\n\nOn the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act:\n\n\u201cThe housing bill, carefully negotiated, what we call four corners \u2013 bipartisan, bicameral, Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate. It is an issue that directly gets at the heart of the affordability question for a lot of Americans. It creates additional supply of housing in this country, makes housing more affordable, and so I\u2019m hoping that\u2019s something, too, that we can complete, get on the president\u2019s desk, get signed into law \u2026\u201d", 1, "2026-06-18T06:41:00Z", "2026-06-18T06:43:25Z"]], "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.thune.senate.gov/news/press-releases/thune-joins-bret-baier-on-fox-news6-17/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8374829776585102, "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"}