{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=27A9A89A-AE80-4054-B55A-87060B6C1AE8", "Thune: Schumer Shutdown Day 36", "2025-11-05", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "Clickhereto watch the video.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:\n\nThune\u2019s remarks below (as delivered):\n\n\u201cMr. President, can this be over now?\n\n\u201cHave the American people suffered enough?\n\n\u201cOr do Democrats need more?\n\n\u201cDemocrats have snarled air traffic. They\u2019ve damaged small businesses. They\u2019ve left federal workers in line at food banks. They\u2019ve jeopardized food assistance \u2013 food assistance, Mr. President \u2013 for 40 million Americans.\n\n\u201cAre they satisfied now?\n\n\u201cOr does the far left want more?\n\n\u201cSurely Democrats have hit enough milestones.\n\n\u201cThe election is over.\n\n\u201cDemocrats now have the extremely dubious honor of being responsible for the longest government shutdown in American history.\n\n\u201cSo, the question is, Mr. President: Can the American people get a break now?\n\n\u201cDemocrats should be embarrassed \u2013 embarrassed \u2013 that federal workers are lining up at food banks and missing bills and in danger of losing homes or cars because Democrats can\u2019t summon enough members to support a clean, nonpartisan funding resolution.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s right, Mr. President.\n\n\u201cA clean, nonpartisan funding bill, sitting right here at the Senate desk.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve not asked Democrats to support a single new Republican policy.\n\n\u201cWe haven\u2019t asked them to support a single partisan policy rider.\n\n\u201cWe simply asked them to extend current funding levels for a few weeks so that we could have time to do bipartisan work on appropriations bills.\n\n\u201cBut Democrats couldn\u2019t take yes for an answer.\n\n\u201cAnd on the subject of appropriations, Mr. President.\n\n\u201cIf any Democrats cherish the faintest hope of still funding the government through a full-year appropriations process \u2013 a process that they\u2019ve \u2026 delayed for five weeks and counting \u2013 they should vote for the clean, nonpartisan CR today.\n\n\u201cMr. President, I realize that Democrats have been under a lot of pressure from their far-left base to keep the shutdown going.\n\n\u201cAnd I assume that it was pressure from Democrats\u2019 far-left base that saw the Democrat leader flip his position on shutdowns 180 degrees in the space of just six months.\n\n\u201cAnd I realize that there are a number of Democrats in the Senate who are not just yielding to pressure from the far left, but are themselves members of the far left, and are happy to continue this shutdown forever if it means somehow sticking it \u2013 they think \u2013 to President Trump.\n\n\u201cBut I\u2019m hoping there are still Democrats out there who can see beyond the political extremism of their leftist base.\n\n\u201cAnd I hope there are some Democrats who can take an honest look at the widespread damage their shutdown is doing, and say \u2018Enough is enough.\u2019\n\n\u201cThanksgiving is rapidly approaching.\n\n\u201cParents are starting to think about what they\u2019re going to put under the tree.\n\n\u201cDo Democrats still want federal employees lining up at food banks at Thanksgiving?\n\n\u201cAt Christmas?\n\n\u201cAnd on the topic of the holidays, it\u2019s an open question whether people will be able to spend it with their families this year if the shutdown continues.\n\n\u201cAir traffic has been snarled for weeks as a result of Democrats\u2019 shutdown, and things are getting worse.\n\n\u201cThe transportation secretary just announced yesterday that the government may be forced to close parts of our airspace if the shutdown continues into next week.\n\n\u201cClose airspace, Mr. President.\n\n\u201cThink about that.\n\n\u201cAnd I could go on.\n\n\u201cI could talk about the unions asking Democrats to end this shutdown and support a clean continuing resolution.\n\n\u201cI could talk about the business organizations making the same request.\n\n\u201cI could read the headlines about Head Start preschools closing and SNAP recipients who are worried about their benefits and National Guard units who aren\u2019t training, and on and on \u2013 every single thing as a result of Democrats\u2019 decision to shut down the government more than five weeks ago.\n\n\u201cBut surely, Mr. President, surely there are at least \u2026 some Democrat senators who can see this for themselves.\n\n\u201cSee this for themselves, and realize it is past time to end this, before the damage gets even worse.\n\n\u201cMr. President, it\u2019s day 36 of Democrats\u2019 shutdown.\n\n\u201cDay 36.\n\n\u201cHow much longer are Democrats going to make the American people suffer?\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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=27A9A89A-AE80-4054-B55A-87060B6C1AE8"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8938589598983526, "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"}