{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=3FF0961E-0D3B-4775-86B3-25FEAAFC50A8", "Thune: Schumer Shutdown Day Seven", "2025-10-07", "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", "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, it\u2019s been one week since Democrats shut down the government.\n\n\u201cOne week since Democrats put their far-left base before the American people.\n\n\u201cOver the past week, the Senate has taken votes on two different continuing resolutions.\n\n\u201cOne, offered by Republicans, is a clean funding extension \u2013 something that we do routinely around here.\n\n\u201cIt adds no Republican policies.\n\n\u201cIt has no partisan policy riders.\n\n\u201cIt just extends current funding levels through November the 21st so that we can make more progress on full-year appropriations.\n\n\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 proposal, on the other hand, shows their lack of seriousness.\n\n\u201cTheir resolution would fund the government until October 3 in exchange for $1.5 trillion in new partisan spending.\n\n\u201cYes, you heard that right, Mr. President.\n\n\u201c$1.5 trillion in new partisan spending to fund the government through the end of the month.\n\n\u201cJust the end of the month.\n\n\u201cFour weeks for $1.5 trillion.\n\n\u201cAnd then there\u2019s the fact that their plan makes noncitizens eligible for federal health care programs.\n\n\u201cStrips away commonsense work requirements for able-bodied adults to be eligible for Medicaid.\n\n\u201cAnd repeals the transformative $50 billion rural health fund that Republicans enacted in July to support and bolster rural hospitals.\n\n\u201cWhy Democrats think that threatening health care in rural America is a winning proposition is beyond me.\n\n\u201cBut apparently they really do think so, because we\u2019re still in this shutdown one week later.\n\n\u201cAnd Democrats are digging in their heels on their partisan demands.\n\n\u201cNow, Mr. President, needless to say, Democrats\u2019 partisan, $1.5 trillion bill has zero chance of becoming law.\n\n\u201cThere is only one viable path out of the mess that the Democrats have created.\n\n\u201cWe need to pass the clean, nonpartisan CR that\u2019s already passed the House of Representatives.\n\n\u201cAnd that President Trump is ready to sign today \u2013 right now.\n\n\u201cAnd it is only a handful of votes away from passing here in the United States Senate.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re not asking Democrats to support any Republican policies.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re just asking them to reopen the government.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s that simple.\n\n\u201cAnd if just a handful of Senate Democrats would join Republicans and the three Democrat senators who already support the bill, we could end this shutdown in a matter of hours and get back to \u2026 doing the work that the American people sent us here to do.\n\n\u201cMr. President, Democrats may be earning some praise from the far-left base, but I doubt that hardworking Americans have many kind words.\n\n\u201cRight now, federal workers \u2013 including our troops, Border Patrol, air traffic controllers \u2013 are working without pay.\n\n\u201cThe National Flood Insurance Program has lapsed, putting households at risk during hurricane season.\n\n\u201cTelehealth and hospital-at-home programs have expired, taking away services that Americans depend upon, especially in rural areas.\n\n\u201cAmericans seeking services or benefits from the federal government are facing delays.\n\n\u201cAnd the longer Democrats refuse to support a clean funding extension, the worse things will get.\n\n\u201cSome federal workers will soon be missing a paycheck.\n\n\u201cWIC is almost out of money and may soon be unable to deliver resources to American families.\n\n\u201cAnd federally funded programs will continue to run through their reserve funds and be forced to curtail or cancel their activities.\n\n\u201cMr. President, before I close, I also want to point out that Senate Democrats, at the same time, are blocking progress on bipartisan full-year funding legislation with their shutdown strategy.\n\n\u201cWe have a number of bipartisan bills that are waiting for consideration on the Senate floor right now.\n\n\u201cBipartisan bills that contain priorities from \u2026 members of both sides of the aisle and from every corner of the country.\n\n\u201cBills that we could be considering this week if we weren\u2019t stuck in this shutdown.\n\n\u201cMr. President, Democrats\u2019 shutdown is helping no one.\n\n\u201cAnd I hope that when we vote next to reopen the government, my Democrat colleagues will join us to support our clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution \u2013 something that they have done 13 times, as recently as when they were in the majority here in the Senate and President Biden was in the White House.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had a few Democrats join us already.\n\n\u201cWe just need a handful more, and we can reopen the government and get back to working for the American people.\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=3FF0961E-0D3B-4775-86B3-25FEAAFC50A8"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8171999361366034, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": 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