{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=F471515F-0ECA-4795-930E-0A91A9678612", "Thune: Schumer Shutdown Day Three", "2025-10-03", "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 two weeks since our first vote on a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open.\n\n\u201cThis shutdown could have been avoided well before it began.\n\n\u201cBut because Democrats have not budged from their partisan demands, the shutdown is now entering its third day.\n\n\u201cMr. President, there\u2019s a lot we could be doing right now.\n\n\u201cWe could be considering bipartisan appropriations bills through regular order.\n\n\u201cGoing to conference on the three appropriations bills we passed in August.\n\n\u201cOr passing the bipartisan annual defense bill.\n\n\u201cBut instead we\u2019re stuck in a shutdown mess of Democrats\u2019 making.\n\n\u201cAnd the American people are suffering as a result.\n\n\u201cMr. President, Republicans remain united around a clean, nonpartisan funding extension.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s passed the House of Representatives.\n\n\u201cAnd it\u2019s currently sitting here in the Senate ready to be voted on.\n\n\u201cIt has no new Republican policies.\n\n\u201cNo partisan policy riders.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s straightforward, simple, and clean.\n\n\u201cAll it does is reopen the government through November the 21st to give us more time to pass appropriations bills here on the floor.\n\n\u201cWe have a number of bipartisan bills waiting for floor consideration right now.\n\n\u201cThe only thing standing in the way of reopening the government and getting back to doing the important work is Democrats\u2019 $1.5 trillion in partisan spending demands.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s right \u2013 $1.5 trillion.\n\n\u201cTheir partisan proposal demands more money \u2013 think about this \u2013 more money than our defense budget just to keep the government open for four weeks.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s not a credible proposal \u2013 it\u2019s a far-left wish list.\n\n\u201cAnd it\u2019s not how we\u2019re going to do things around here.\n\n\u201cMr. President, we can end this shutdown in just a few hours.\n\n\u201cWe need to take one roll call vote \u2013 just one roll call vote \u2013 on the House-passed, clean continuing resolution.\n\n\u201cThe president of the United States says that he\u2019s ready to sign it.\n\n\u201cWe just need a handful of Democrats to agree.\n\n\u201cNow, once we get the government back open, then we can talk about the issues that Democrats are raising.\n\n\u201cBut we can\u2019t do that while they\u2019re holding the federal government hostage to their partisan demands.\n\n\u201cMr. President, whatever Democrats are saying publicly, I think privately they are all well aware of the problems with their current position.\n\n\u201cThe senior senator from Massachusetts has said, and I quote, \u2018Hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can\u2019t win their fights through elections, can\u2019t win their fights in Congress, can\u2019t win their fights for the presidency, and can\u2019t win their fights in the courts.\u2019\n\n\u201cThe Democrat leader called shutdowns, and I quote, \u2018a politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.\u2019\n\n\u201cMr. President, this shutdown needs to end sooner rather than later.\n\n\u201cAnd there\u2019s only one way out of it.\n\n\u201cDemocrats need to vote for the clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution sitting right there.\n\n\u201cAll it takes is one roll call vote, the government\u2019s back open.\n\n\u201cAnd Mr. President, we need to get this government back open \u2013 which we can do very, very quickly.\n\n\u201cAnd then we can talk about whatever we need to talk about.\n\n\u201cJust a few years ago the Democrat leader had this to say, and I quote again: \u2018We\u2019re allowed to come here and disagree over policy. In fact, our system of government was designed to allow for progress despite our large and sometimes raucous differences. But when one side \u2026 throws a temper tantrum and uses the basic functioning of our government as leverage in a policy argument, our system of government breaks down.\u2019\n\n\u201cWell, Mr. President, let\u2019s hope the Democrat leader decides to heed his own words \u2013 and that Democrats\u2019 temper tantrum ends sooner rather than later.\n\n\u201cMr. President, later today, [in] a couple hours, Democrats will have another opportunity to vote for the clean continuing resolution.\n\n\u201cAnd we\u2019ll see if they\u2019re still committed to their shutdown politics.\n\n\u201cRepublicans remain ready to reopen the government and to get back to doing the American people\u2019s business.\n\n\u201cHow much longer this shutdown lasts depends entirely on Democrats.\n\n\u201cThe choice is theirs.\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=F471515F-0ECA-4795-930E-0A91A9678612"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8258670568466187, "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"}