{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-senate-republicans-just-voted-to-shut-down-the-government", "Van Hollen: \u201cSenate Republicans Just Voted to Shut Down the Government\u201d", "2025-09-30", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "MD", "Chris Van Hollen", "V000128", "www.vanhollen.senate.gov", "vanhollen", "https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following video on Republicans\u2019 vote to shut down the government:\n\nA transcript of the video follows:\n\n\u201cSenate Republicans just voted to shut down the government. They voted against our proposal to keep the government open without giving Donald Trump a blank check for his lawless activity, and our proposal, which would prevent huge spikes in health care costs for Americans. Because when Republicans passed their so-called \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019 \u2013 which was beautiful if you're a billionaire but really stunk if you're anyone else \u2013 they made big cuts in Medicaid, and they did not turn off this ticking time bomb that's going to explode on people's health care and increase costs ultimately for everybody in America.\n\n\u201cSo what they did in their \u2018Big Beautiful Bill\u2019 was they extended tax credits for the richest in America \u2013 for Elon Musk and other people across the country. The tax benefit they did not extend was for working Americans to help them better afford their health care. That's a tax benefit that they're letting die. We want to turn off that ticking time bomb. So we\u2019re saying to Donald Trump, \u2018let\u2019s keep the government open, but you don\u2019t get a blank check for your lawless activity.\u2019\n\n\u201cI mean, think about what he's been doing since he was sworn in. He has actually been shutting down parts of the government every day. He brought in Elon Musk. They took a chainsaw to important government services. So they've been shutting down the parts of the government they don't like and simply funding the parts they do like.\n\n\u201cThat is a lawless president, and I'm not signing up for that. So, we want to keep the government open. We're not going to give Donald Trump a blank check. And we want to focus on what he claimed he was going to focus on, which was bringing down prices \u2013 including bringing down the price of health care and certainly preventing this big spike in health care costs that we're going to see very shortly if we don't do something about it.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-senate-republicans-just-voted-to-shut-down-the-government"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5874879900366068, "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"}