{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=FE286C45-2D76-433C-A735-9F65C0B6CEF4", "Thune on Fox and Friends: Biden Administration\u2019s Lack of Coherent Energy Strategy Jeopardizes our Energy Security and National Security", "2022-10-06", "2022", "2022-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "Click here to watch the interview.\n\nSIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2014 U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Fox and Friends to discuss the Biden administration\u2019s lack of a coherent energy strategy and how the president has been willing to sacrifice our national security, economic security, and energy security for political gain.\n\nOn the Biden administration\u2019s hostility to American-made energy:\n\n\u201cWe were at a point where we were literally energy independent; we were actually exporting energy. We\u2019ve now, again, become dependent upon OPEC and other countries because of this administration\u2019s resistance and outright assault on American energy production.\n\n\u201cThis is the price that America pays when we aren\u2019t willing to make the investment and have policies that support the encouragement of American energy production.\u201d\n\nOn our country\u2019s national security being weakened by a lack of a coherent energy strategy:\n\n\u201cI think [Democrats], Brian, they will sacrifice our economic security, our energy security, our national security to get a political win in November. I think they\u2019re that desperate, and that\u2019s what I think you\u2019re seeing in full display right now.\n\n\u201cIn fact, pulling down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the lowest point since 1984, a reserve that\u2019s there for emergencies, and using it for a political purpose is outrageous.\u201d\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cBy not having an energy policy, not committing to an all-the-above American energy plan, we have now a dependence upon foreign sources, including dictators like Venezuela and in places in the Middle East.\n\n\u201cThis is insanity, and I hope the American people rise up and say enough, already. Because [Democrats are] putting not only our energy security at risk, [but] our national security at risk.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:34:28Z"]], "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=FE286C45-2D76-433C-A735-9F65C0B6CEF4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2812740169465542, "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"}