{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=1ADF369E-5453-4EA5-AE44-E9AE50177A75", "Dental Care Crisis", "2013-09-12", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Dental Care Crisis\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tThursday, September 12, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tA Senate panel heard today that millions of Americans do not have access to dentists because of skyrocketing costs and inadequate insurance coverage. \u201cWe can and must address the dental crisis in America now,\u201d Sen. Bernie Sanders said at the outset of the hearing by the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, which he chairs. A new report prepared by the Government Accountability Office said Americans spent about $108 billion on dentists in 2011.\r\nListen to a CBS News report on the hearing\r\nRead the GAO report", 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=1ADF369E-5453-4EA5-AE44-E9AE50177A75"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7277210243046284, "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"}