{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=0D9CA1DA-935D-4E7C-8F14-5F06B17745CB", "Thune Joins Harris Faulkner on Fox News", "2025-10-14", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "Clickhere to watch the video.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Harris Faulkner on Fox News.\n\nOn the Gaza peace deal:\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s historic \u2026 it is really an epic development, Harris. You think about thousands of years of history and the warring that\u2019s been going on in that region and more recently \u2026 the terrible attacks from a couple of years ago \u2026\n\n\u201cWhat the president has been able to achieve here is nothing short of remarkable, and he builds on the success of the Abraham Accords from his first term in office. But this truly is historic. [President Trump]deserves a tremendous amount of credit, and his team, who worked diligently and successfully to broker this deal.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201c[Democrats] don\u2019t want to give [President Trump] credit for anything. This is historic \u2013 an achievement \u2026 that will mark his administration \u2026 It\u2019s something that is achieved when you try to make sure that your policy is one of peace through strength, Harris. That\u2019s the policy of this administration. It\u2019s been on display. And one of the reasons this was possible is because of the action the president took in Iran, and that enabled a lot of this to happen \u2026\n\n\u201cThe president, and his team, is intent on ensuring that they are trying to bring about peaceful outcomes in some of these war-torn areas of the world and to save lives. And this is going to save hundreds and thousands of lives in that area.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 shutdown hypocrisy:\n\n\u201cThere is nothing to negotiate. This is a straightforward proposition, something that [Democrats] did 13 times when Biden was in the White House and when they had the majority in the Senate, there was a continuing resolution to keep the government funded. That\u2019s all this is. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else \u2026\n\n\u201cThey should take this, get the government opened up again, and then we can talk about all these other issues they want to talk about. But this is an indefensible position \u2026 they are in a tough, tough spot. And I don\u2019t know how you\u2019re going to walk down to the floor tonight and know that there are five Democrats who can open up the government today, and vote against it again. They cannot defend that position.\u201d\n\nOn the consequences of Democrats\u2019 shutdown:\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re only stuck as long as a handful of Democrats decide they want to follow the leader and play politics rather than do the right thing on behalf of the American people and open up the government \u2026\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to vote again today. We have 55 of 100 United States senators voting to reopen the government. We need five more Democrats. It takes 60 to do most things in the United States Senate, and all we need is five Democrats. But their leadership is intent on pacifying and trying to appease this far-left base. [Democrats have] got this big rally coming up next Saturday, which everybody thinks they want to get behind them before they do anything to open up the government \u2026\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s really straightforward \u2026 This is the legislation right here. It\u2019s 24 pages long. It is clean, it is nonpartisan. It has no policy riders, no partisan gimmicks. This is a straightforward way to open up the government. It has passed the House. It is sitting at the desk in the Senate. We can pick it up and pass it today, the president will sign it into law today, the government opens up \u2026\n\n\u201cAll these questions about who gets paid, who doesn\u2019t get paid, which agencies and departments are going to be prioritized, those all go by the wayside. It is that straightforward. [Republicans] are trying to open up the government. The Democrats are not. They are playing politics. It needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.\u201d", 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.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=0D9CA1DA-935D-4E7C-8F14-5F06B17745CB"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0997170358896255, "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"}