{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-on-mornings-with-maria-cr-is-democrat-wish-list/", "ICYMI: Tuberville\u00a0on \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d: CR is Democrat Wish List", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d on FOX Business to discuss the Democrat wish list Continuing Resolution (CR) and his meeting with RFK Jr., President Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Senator Tuberville also discussed the need for transparency from the Biden administration about recent drone sightings.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below, and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cCongressional leaders releasing the 1,500 pages plus of the stopgap funding bill ahead of the shutdown deadline this Friday. The bill would extend government funding through mid-March, and provide roughly $110 billion in disaster relief and aid for farmers, but some Republicans are slamming the legislation, saying it\u2019s not the clean CR that they were anticipating. They\u2019re calling out the so-called \u2018Christmas tree ornaments\u2019 throughout this, including duty-free Haitian apparel imports. Wait a minute\u2014duty-free Haitian apparel imports? Lithium-ion battery legislation? Moving the jurisdiction of RFK Stadium back to Washington D.C.? Senator, it feels like same-old, same-old in terms of jamming stuff in a bill and not really thinking at all about wasteful spending.\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cMerry Christmas, American taxpayer\u2014we\u2019re going to buy you a new corvette. Now you can\u2019t pay for it for 100 years, but we\u2019re going to buy you a corvette. It\u2019s absolutely ridiculous what we\u2019re doing here. We should get a clean CR. Mike Johnson promised that. The two things that we really need though is we need help for American farmers because the Farm Bill\u2019s been kicked down the road for two years. Maria, we\u2019re going to lose 50,000 farms in the next probably six months\u201450,000 more and we [already] lost 150,000 in the last three or four years. And then, of course, the disaster aid for North Carolina. The Biden administration absolutely has dropped the ball on this, but to go out building stadiums in D.C.? They can\u2019t even cut the grass in the medians up here. It\u2019s a disaster.\u201d\n\nBARTIROMO: \u201cUnbelievable. What are your thoughts about President Trump\u2019s nominees? I know, Senator, you met with RFK Jr. yesterday. He\u2019s President-elect Trump\u2019s pick to lead Health and Human Services. After your meeting, you posted this on X: \u2018Our meeting reaffirmed what I already knew: RFK Jr. is the right man to make sure our food is safe, bring transparency to vaccines and health care, and Make America Healthy Again.\u2019 You also met with Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, Linda McMahon, and others. Are you expecting to vote \u2018yes\u2019 to all of President Trump\u2019s nominees?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYes, all of the above.\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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-on-mornings-with-maria-cr-is-democrat-wish-list/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9064530022442341, "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"}