{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=65B0B24B-7F12-4F39-8ED6-721048881EF0", "News September 8", "2013-09-08", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News September 8\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 8, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSenator Sanders\r\nAmericans Oppose U.S. Force in Syria\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders reports there is 10-1 opposition to authorizing the use of force in Syria in an online survey of constituents. Calls to his offices are even more overwhelming, according to an editorial\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0in the\u00a0The(Madison, Wis.)\u00a0Capital Times.\u00a0LINK\r\nVermont Delegation Split on Syria\u00a0Sen. Patrick Leahy, the country's most senior senator, appears set to support U.S. intervention. Sen. Sanders has voiced reservations while Rep. Peter Welch remains on the fence,\u00a0WCAX-TV\u00a0reported\u00a0on Saturday.\u00a0LINK,\u00a0VIDEO\r\nHealth Care\u00a0\u201cA new and affordable way for many Vermonters to purchase insurance is the key provision of the Affordable Care Act. I was proud to be involved in the passage of this law when I worked as the health policy adviser for Sen. Sanders,\u201d David Reynolds,\u00a0deputy director of health reform in the Vermont Agency of Administration, wrote for the\u00a0Rutland Herald\u00a0and\u00a0Times Argus.\u00a0LINK\r\nWorld\r\nKerry Meets Arab Leaders on Syria\u00a0Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting Arab League leaders in Paris as part of a European tour to gather support for intervention in Syria. Kerry said the number of nations prepared to take military action was now in \"double digits\", but the list has not been made public. France strongly supports intervention in response to the use of chemical weapons in Damascus last month, but it wants to wait for a report by UN weapons experts before taking action,\u00a0BBC\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nNational Uphill Battle for Syria Votes\u00a0After a frenetic week of wall-to-wall intelligence briefings, dozens of phone calls and hours of hearings with senior members of President Obama\u2019s war council, more and more lawmakers, Republican and Democrat, are lining up to vote against the president. Officials are guardedly optimistic about the Senate, but the blows keep coming.\u00a0On Saturday, Senator Mark Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas, perhaps the most endangered incumbent up for re-election, came out against the authorization to use force,\u00a0The New York Timesreported.\u00a0LINK\r\nWhite House Showed Gruesome Videos to Senators\u00a0Videos the Obama administration showed earlier this week to a select group of senators in closed-door briefings to make the case that a limited military attack on Syria would be justified were obtained byNBC News\u00a0on Saturday. The footage of bodies writhing on the floor, people with their dilated eyes watery and dazed, and children seemingly gasping for air, sometimes with other, inert bodies nearby, are just some of the gruesome images that the administration says are consistent with exposure to nerve agents.\u00a0LINK\r\nProtesters at Baldwin Speech on Syria\u00a0Sen. Tammy Baldwin was silenced for nearly two minutes by protesters voicing opposition to U.S. military action in Syria during her speech\u00a0Saturday\u00a0at Fighting Bob Fest, the annual gathering of progressives. The fracas began after Baldwin remained vague. \"There are no good options in Syria,\" Baldwin said. Baldwin promised the crowd that she had heard their feedback and that she will continue to ask tough questions as the debate continues,\u00a0The Capital Times\u00a0reported.\r\nVermont\r\nCovered Bridge Reopens\u00a0The Taftsville Covered Bridge, the second-longest in Vermont and one of the oldest, reopened\u00a0Saturdayafter undergoing an extensive rebuilding, costing $2.5 million, to repair damage caused by Tropical Storm Irene. Rep. Welch, who once lived in nearby Hartland Four Corners, said he used to include the bridge in his regular runs through the neighborhood, the\u00a0Rutland Herald\u00a0reported.", 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=65B0B24B-7F12-4F39-8ED6-721048881EF0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.698541920632124, "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"}