{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=13&itemid=1565", "Rep. Grijalva Statement on Government Shutdown: \"Let's Remember All the People Put Out of Work Today and End This Charade\"", "2013-10-01", "2013", "2013-10", "Democrat", "House", "AZ", "Ra\u00fal Grijalva", "G000551", "grijalva.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C.\u2013 Rep. Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva put out the following statement today as the federal government shut down most operations and services around the country.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cAs the federal government closes down today, let\u2019s remember the eight hundred thousand1 federal employees unnecessarily out of a job. Let\u2019s remember the air traffic safety inspectors, National Park Service and public lands employees, Small Business Administration loan processors and many others sent home without a paycheck. Let\u2019s remember the three hundred million dollars a day this is costing our country in lost economic output. That\u2019s where our attention belongs, and that\u2019s where my thoughts are today. Let\u2019s remember all the people put out of work and end this charade.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cThe impacts of this shutdown will worsen as long as Republicans refuse to negotiate. What we\u2019re seeing now is just a taste of what we\u2019ll see in a week or a month. This is happening because a small group of radicals insist on having their way despite the damage to our constituents and our system of government. The fact that Speaker Boehner has allowed them to control the majority of the House of Representatives despite their small numbers speaks volumes.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cI have consistently favored normal funding for our government and have opposed a shutdown from the beginning. The most productive way to move forward would be for a bipartisan, bicameral conference to discuss the entire budgeting process and decide not only how to end this destructive shutdown, but to adequately fund government services and operations for the long term. We cannot continue to starve the federal government and expect miracles at the other end of the rainbow. Austerity has failed and is unpopular. It\u2019s time to start a real recovery based on investments in our future. We\u2019ve tried mindless cuts and finger-pointing at working families. Somehow, those haven\u2019t worked. We should be creating jobs, not shooting ourselves in the foot. That\u2019s not a controversial or partisan position, it\u2019s public common sense, and yet here we are governing by catastrophe because a few people didn\u2019t get their way.\r\n\r\n\t\u201cI challenge my colleagues across the aisle to explain to their constituents why their small businesses can\u2019t get new loans. I\u2019d like to hear the answer as much as they would. So would the millions of Americans whose livelihoods are threatened every day our federal government doesn\u2019t function. If this is the best the Republicans have to offer at this point, they should just say so and let the rest of us fix the mess we\u2019re in.\u201d\r\n\r\n\t1 \u2013 Source: Bloomberg News at http://bit.ly/1c1q8lP.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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": ["http://grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=13&itemid=1565"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7724737990647554, "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"}