{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=AE617CE0-0013-41DD-8A4D-8EC43B376D66", "Thune: Republicans Continue to Deliver for Working Families", "2025-12-02", "2025", "2025-12", "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 spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership:\n\nThune\u2019s remarks below (as delivered):\n\n\u201cGood afternoon, everybody. Welcome back.\n\n\u201cGet ready to buckle up for what should be a very busy last couple of weeks here this year, as we wrap up what has been a historic and very consequential legislative year.\n\n\u201cObviously, as we look at what we have to finish before the end of the year, it starts with a stack of nominees which we will be processing.\n\n\u201cI filed on those last night, and it will be a significant number of people to fill out the president\u2019s administration.\n\n\u201cAs you know, the Democrats have fought and blocked and obstructed and delayed along the way to try and prevent him from getting his team in place.\n\n\u201cIn spite of all that, we will be ahead in terms of the pace of the last two administrations when it comes to the president filling out his administration.\n\n\u201cSecondly, obviously, is the defense authorization bill.\n\n\u201cSenator Wicker, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has been working aggressively with the team on his members of the committee, the full Senate, and the House of Representatives in trying to get to the finish line there.\n\n\u201cAnd they\u2019ve got a lot of good work that\u2019s been done, a few issues outstanding, but I hope we\u2019ll be able to process that in the next couple of weeks as well.\n\n\u201cAnd I will tell you that [is], as you all know, one of the most important pieces of legislation that we do every year, and it fits in very consistently with the president\u2019s peace-through-strength agenda.\n\n\u201cAnd then we\u2019ve got appropriations, and we\u2019re trying to get another appropriations package up on the floor.\n\n\u201cWe processed three bills earlier this year, as you all know.\n\n\u201cWe have another minibus, if you will, of appropriations bills that we\u2019re trying to get consent.\n\n\u201cAnd I\u2019m hoping that we will get to that here soon and be able to proceed forward on the appropriations process.\n\n\u201cBut it has been a very busy and consequential year.\n\n\u201cPassage of the Working Families Tax Cut Act has avoided what would be, at the start of next year for a lot of families in this country, a huge tax increase \u2013 $4.4 trillion overall, 2.6 trillion of which would fall on \u2026 working families in this country.\n\n\u201cAnd that was done as part of the Working Families Tax Cut Act, as were a number of other things that are going to be important to working families, and we\u2019ll get an opportunity to talk about that this next year.\n\n\u201cAnd I guess I would just say finally that, as we proceed, we are going to continue to keep our foot on the gas.\n\n\u201cThis Republican majority is committed to working on an agenda, in partnership with President Trump and the administration and his team, that will make America stronger, safer, and more prosperous.\n\n\u201cAnd so we\u2019re going to continue pushing forward.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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=AE617CE0-0013-41DD-8A4D-8EC43B376D66"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7300521247088909, "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"}