{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=190BE0CB-1E34-49FF-9FBF-21DD7A906043", "News September 1", "2013-09-01", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News September 1\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tSunday, September 1, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSenator Sanders Obama Asks Congress to Back Strike on Syria\u00a0In an about face, President Obama announced on Saturday at the White House that he would seek approval from Congress to attack Syria. That stopped the clock for at least a week on what had loomed as an imminent attack. Sen. Bernie Sanders called the apparent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime \u201cinhumane and a violation of international law,\u201d but added, \u201cI need to hear more from the president as to why he believes it is in the best interests of the United States to intervene in Syria\u2019s bloody and complicated civil war,\u201d the\u00a0Burlington Free Press,\u00a0Valley News,\u00a0WCAX-TV\u00a0and\u00a0WPTZ-TV\u00a0reported. \u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0VIDEO,\u00a0VIDEO\r\nSenate\u00a0Harry Reid said Saturday he\u2019d try to bring the Senate back early for a vote, meaning it will say yes first and add to the drama in the House, according to\u00a0The Daily Beast. Obama might lose a very small number of Senate Democrats and maybe independent Sanders, but he should get several Senate Republicans who aren\u2019t up for reelection this year and in hiding from the tea party, the article asserted.\u00a0LINK\r\nWorld Mandela Discharged from Hospital\u00a0South Africa\u2019s president says Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the hospital in the capital, Pretoria. President Jacob Zuma said in a statement Sunday that former President Mandela remains in critical condition and was sent to his Johannesburg home early Sunday, where he would continue to get intensive care. LINK\r\nNational Media Consolidation\u00a0In a deal that could heighten the competition in radio against Clear Channel Communications, long the industry\u2019s dominant player, Cumulus Media has agreed to buy Dial Global, a syndicator of sports, talk and music programming to thousands of stations, for $260 million,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0reported. LINK\r\nBehind the Times\u00a0\u201cClaremont has been touted as an up-and-coming city and yet failed to understand that it might have been important to commemorate the March on Washington. The city of Claremont does not even celebrate Martin Luther King, which makes it way behind the times,\u201d Levi Sanders of Grafton, N.H., wrote in a letter to the editor of the\u00a0Valley News.LINK\r\nVermont  Health Care\u00a0On Tuesday, the PR campaign for \u201cVermont Health Connect\u201d gets under way in earnest with an advertising blitz aimed at building a brand identity for the website from which one-sixth of Vermonters will soon be required to purchase their health insurance, theVermont Press Bureau\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nUSPS\u00a0The U.S. Postal Service is going to be offering a special pictorial postmark to mark the 250th anniversary of the Vermont town of Ryegate. On Sept. 7, Postmaster Patricia Crocker and her staff will stamp letters and postcards with the unique postmark documenting the occasion,\u00a0The Associated Press\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK", 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": ["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=190BE0CB-1E34-49FF-9FBF-21DD7A906043"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7691311184316874, "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"}