{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/news/press-releases/thune-joins-sean-hannity-on-fox-news-7/", "Thune Joins Sean Hannity on Fox News", "2026-07-28", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "Click here to watch the interview.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) joined Sean Hannity on Fox News.\n\nOn radical far-left policies:\n\n\u201cThis is a Democrat Party that has really lost its identity. They have moved so far left \u2026 You\u2019ve got \u2026 people who are openly out there espousing and endorsing socialism, which is why you have the Democrat Socialists of America now.\u201d\n\nOn the SAVE America Act:\n\n\u201c[The SAVE America Act] was the pending business in the Senate for over two weeks, late February, early March. We had five votes on it. We voted on photo ID. We voted on photo ID and citizenship to register. We voted on the entire SAVE Act \u2026 two different times. And we also voted on no boys in girls\u2019 sports. So we\u2019ve had five votes, portions of or all of the SAVE America Act.\n\n\u201cThe problem we have is we have no Democrats. The Democrats block voted against it, in spite of the fact that there are at least a dozen Democrats \u2013 and I have the quotes \u2013 who have come out publicly and said they\u2019re for photo ID, but when they actually got a chance to put up or shut up on the floor of the Senate, they all voted no.\u201d\n\nOn Senate Republicans\u2019 agenda:\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to do Russia sanctions, and that\u2019s a tribute to Lindsey Graham, who we all are going to \u2026 commemorate \u2026 I think we\u2019ll get that done. I think we\u2019ve got to fund the government, and I think we\u2019re on a path to do that.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s a package of nominations, it\u2019s about 74 noms that the president\u2019s put forward that we\u2019ve now, we\u2019re moving in a block \u2026 We will probably have a vote on the Clarity Act, which is the digital assets bill, legislation that\u2019s in front of the Senate. We\u2019ll see if the Democrats give us the votes to get on that. There\u2019s also a possibility on NIL legislation. I had a couple of conversations over the weekend with people like Ted Cruz, Eric Schmitt [who] have been working on that issue, and that\u2019s the college sports issue. A lot of people are interested in that.\u201d", 1, "2026-07-29T07:41:48Z", "2026-07-29T07:42:57Z"]], "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-sean-hannity-on-fox-news-7/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8464129641652107, "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"}