{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-to-discuss-potential-options-to-end-the-democrat-government-shutdown/", "ICYMI: Tuberville\u00a0Joins\u00a0Kudlow\u00a0to\u00a0Discuss Potential Options to End the Democrat Government Shutdown", "2025-10-29", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Fox Business\u2019s Kudlow to discuss the Democrats holding Americans hostage by refusing to reopen the federal government. In the interview, Sen. Tuberville mentioned that if Democrats won\u2019t come to their senses and vote \u201cyes\u201d on the CR, Republicans may need to consider going around the filibuster.\n\nRead excerpts from his interview below or watch on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cSenator, just last one on the shutdown, which is kind of boring, but it\u2019s not boring. The air traffic controllers will not be paid as of today. I think they miss a paycheck. There, let\u2019s see, November 1st, the food stamps program will not be paid out. That\u2019s another one. The federal employees, union, 800,000 of them, which is a liberal union. They always give money and vote for Democrats. They\u2019re saying that the Republican CR should be voted, and then we should open up the government again. I just wanna ask you, I mean, is this in reaching some kind of head, some kind of crescendo? You\u2019ve got all this stuff coming around. What\u2019s happening? I know another vote went down today, the 13th vote if I\u2019m not mistaken. It just seems like more and more people are getting crankier and angrier about this.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. I get a lot of Left-wing media questions here in the Capitol, and it\u2019s all about, \u2018What are we gonna do?\u2019 Wait a minute. The Democrats have voted 13 times to shut the government down. 13 times not to pay our veterans, not to pay our troops, and to cut SNAP cards. I mean, this is the Democrats. And so, we\u2019re gonna have to probably, Larry, at the end of the day, if they continue to say, \u2018Listen, this is all about politics, we don\u2019t care about the American people, we\u2019re not gonna pass anything.\u2019 We\u2019re gonna have to bust the filibuster. That\u2019s what\u2019s gonna have to happen. And I hate to say that. I\u2019m not one to do that, but at the end of the day, if we ever lose the Senate, they\u2019re gonna do it anyway. And so we better start thinking down the road, but the Democrats could care less about this country or the people in this country. They wanna shut it down. They wanna keep it shut down because it\u2019s politics all the way with Chuck Schumer. He is bound and determined to not let AOC get in this race to beat him for the New York Senate seat, but I hope that happens.\u201d\n\nKUDLOW: \u201cWell, we\u2019ll see. Senator Tommy Tuberville. Thank you, sir. We appreciate your wisdom, as always.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.\n\n###", 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.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-kudlow-to-discuss-potential-options-to-end-the-democrat-government-shutdown/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3568901922553778, "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"}