{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=A9DCDBB8-6CB3-4776-98D4-07035FC9BD0B", "Thune Joins Guy Benson on Fox News Radio", "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", "Clickhere to watch the video.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Guy Benson on Fox News Radio.\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 shutdown hypocrisy:\n\n\u201c[Democrats are] voting against a clean, nonpartisan, \u2026 continuing resolution that has no policy riders, no \u2026 partisan priorities for Republicans. It\u2019s simply a funding resolution. And in lieu of that, they have offered up this gargantuan \u2026 counter proposal \u2026 that has \u2026 $1.5 trillion in new spending, \u2026 [and] free health care for noncitizens.\n\n\u201cIt is \u2026 hard to figure out where [Democrats] are. They\u2019re in search of an identity. They don\u2019t really have a leader. And as a consequence, it\u2019s the tail wagging the dog.\u201d\n\nOn the consequences of Democrats\u2019 shutdown:\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s all these outside left-wing groups and personalities in the state of New York who seem to be influencing the behavior of [Democrats] who ought to know better. And so I\u2019m hoping eventually that the adults will come back and we\u2019ll be able to keep the government funded and avoid all the adverse consequences that come with a shutdown, but at least at the moment, they seem really dug in.\n\n\u201cIt is purely and simply their absolute hatred for the president and \u2026 desire to fight him on everything that he\u2019s trying to get done, even if it includes taking a hostage like the federal government.\u201d\n\nOn the Biden-era FBI targeting Republican senators:\n\n\u201cThat revelation, in and of itself, ought to send chills up every American\u2019s spine, because that is an egregious violation of American liberty, privacy, and I just think that we have to do everything necessary to get to the bottom of it and to hold people accountable. There\u2019s just no two ways around it \u2026 you don\u2019t find many times in American history where something like that\u2019s been done, if ever, and we \u2026 can\u2019t let this go. We have to make sure that there is accountability.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cCongress needs to be involved. There were \u2026 eight United States senators who were among those \u2026 on whom they were snooping. And I think that the Senate Judiciary Committee obviously is \u2026 the forefront of that, the tip of the spear, if you will \u2026 There ought to be oversight of any relevant committee of the Congress that has any sort of jurisdiction over the agency or the way in which it was done \u2026 there\u2019s probably some Commerce Committee jurisdiction there because of the way that they used telecom devices, \u2026 including securing from Verizon, for example, these records.\n\n\u201cThose are all things that just violate so many laws and I think there needs to be the necessary oversight, to include not just the Justice Department, but the Congress as well.\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=A9DCDBB8-6CB3-4776-98D4-07035FC9BD0B"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.018814044073224, "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"}