{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=ABC23C3E-0380-49CD-BA9C-88F25A71D206", "Sanders Reacts to President?s Speech on Syria", "2013-09-10", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Sanders Reacts to President\u2019s Speech on Syria\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tTuesday, September 10, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tWASHINGTON, Sept. 10 \u2013 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement tonight after President Barack Obama delivered a national address on Syria\u2019s chemical weapons:\r\n\u201cThere is a reason why the vast majority of Americans disapprove of the work that Congress is doing. Vermonters and the American people want President Obama and Congress to focus on the major crises facing the collapsing middle class \u2013 high unemployment, low wages, growing wealth and income inequality, the high cost of college, global warming and many other issues.\r\n\u201cI believe that the American people share the president\u2019s concerns about chemical weapons in Syria and the brutal Assad dictatorship. But, in overwhelming numbers, Vermonters are telling me they want those issues addressed diplomatically by the UN and the international community \u2013 not by unilateral military action on the part of the U.S.\r\n\u201cI am pleased to see that the president and his administration are now working with Russia, France, the UK, China and the United Nations to remove chemical weapons from Syria \u2013 without involving the United States in the bloody and complicated Syrian civil war. This is a good step forward.\u201d", 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=ABC23C3E-0380-49CD-BA9C-88F25A71D206"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7332831155508757, "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"}