{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=F8DD3010-F97D-4431-BE03-0F1043F9F79D", "Thune Joins Fox News\u2019s \u2018Cavuto LIVE\u2019 to Discuss Judge Amy Coney Barrett and COVID-19 Relief Negotiations", "2020-10-25", "2020", "2020-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Fox News\u2019s \u201cCavuto LIVE\u201d to discuss his strong support for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett ahead of her upcoming confirmation vote in the Senate. Thune also discussed the importance of passing a targeted COVID-19 relief bill, like the one the Senate voted on earlier this week. He urged Democrats to work with Republicans in good faith to arrive at a compromise bill that both parties can support and that can actually make it to the president\u2019s desk.\n\nThune also spoke on the Senate floor today about Democrats\u2019 continued delay tactics on the Barrett nomination and urged his Democrat colleagues to ditch their all-or-nothing approach to COVID-19 relief.\n\nOn Democrats protesting Judge Barrett\u2019s confirmation vote:\n\n\u201cUnfortunately, the Democrats have really politicized the court by their tactics \u2013 not showing up at the Judiciary Committee where her nomination was reported out, not showing up yesterday on the floor when it was called up. They\u2019re doing everything they can to protest this. But the truth of the matter is that a lot of the Democrats look at the courts as an auxiliary legislature where they can try and get policy outcomes and results that they can\u2019t get through the two political branches of our government. And that\u2019s not what the court is about. And Judge Barrett represents what we believe the court should be about \u2013 and that is a constitutionalist and somebody who is going to, in an impartial way, apply the law and the Constitution.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn the last 30 years, the Democrats have consistently changed the rules, going back to the Bork nomination, all the judges they tried to block when George Bush was president of the United States. That\u2019s kind of permanently changed the atmospherics around here when it comes to processing judicial nominations. But that can\u2019t stop us from carrying out our constitutional responsibility of advice and consent here in the Senate, and we\u2019re going to carry that out today, tomorrow, and on Monday.\u201d\n\nOn Judge Barrett\u2019s qualifications:\n\n\u201cEverybody that meets her, Neil, including her opponents, the Democrats, can\u2019t help but walk away impressed with her qualifications. There is no question about that. The Democrats are obviously very dug in on this over what they feel are process issues, and obviously ideology issues, but she has demonstrated that she is not somebody who is going to bring an ideology to the bench. She\u2019s somebody who is going to take the law, the Constitution, the facts, and as they are written, and apply them in an impartial way. And that\u2019s exactly what we want to see in a justice on the Supreme Court.\u201d\n\nOn COVID-19 relief negotiations:\n\n\u201c[M]y view on that, Neil, is it\u2019s not a question of if, it\u2019s a question of when. We know we have to deal with it. We just think it ought to be targeted, it ought to be fiscally responsible. It shouldn\u2019t be this all-or-nothing approach that Nancy Pelosi is proposing \u2013 which is you do it \u2018my way or the highway,\u2019 and it\u2019s way too much money, it\u2019s spending money on things that are unrelated to the coronavirus. We believe we need to do more to help businesses out there, and we\u2019ve actually voted in the Senate now several times on legislation that would do just that \u2013 that would provide unemployment insurance, help for businesses, help for schools that are continuing to open up safely, supporting resources for vaccines and therapeutics and testing, money for the post office, money for farmers.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-06-28T00:34:36Z"]], "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=F8DD3010-F97D-4431-BE03-0F1043F9F79D"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7845018990337849, "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"}