{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=BF4B0DC3-703B-4AFC-A39F-FECB328F6DCC", "News September 16", "2013-09-16", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News September 16\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\tMonday, September 16, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSenator Sanders\r\nSummers Out of Running for the Fed\u00a0Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers withdrew on Sunday from consideration to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke amid fierce opposition from within the Democratic Party over Summers\u2019 role in deregulating Wall Street. \u201cI applaud Larry Summers for withdrawing his name from consideration,\u201d Sen. Bernie Sanders said late Sunday. ''The truth is that it was unlikely he would have been confirmed by the Senate,'' Sanders added in\u00a0The New York Times,\u00a0The Washington Postand\u00a0Reuters\u00a0and online in\u00a0The Wall Street Journal.\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK\r\nSanders: Stand Up to Wall Street\u00a0\u201cWhat the American people want now is a Fed chairman prepared to stand up to the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, not a Wall Street insider whose deregulation efforts helped pave the way for a horrendous financial crisis and the worst economic downturn in the country since the Great Depression,\u201d Sen. Sanders said in reports by the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0and\u00a0McClatchy.\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK\r\nSummers Faced Growing Opposition\u00a0Along with independent Sen. Sanders, Montana Sen. Jon Tester, a member of the Banking Committee, last week became the third Democrat to declare opposition to Summers\u2019 nomination,\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0reported. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another committee member, reportedly told the administration that she had \"serious concerns\" about the prospect of a Summers nomination.\u00a0 In August, Warren worked with Sanders on a letter that raised a series of questions for whoever is nominated to chair the Fed, John Nichols blogged for\u00a0The Nation.\u00a0LINK\r\nHouse Plans Cuts for Seniors, Children\u00a0Sen. Sanders said the Senate must call the bluff of the House Republicans demanding deeper cuts on programs designed to help working families,ABC 22\u00a0and\u00a0Fox 44\u00a0reported. Under a proposal set for a House vote this week, \u201cmore Americans will lose their jobs ... more children will be thrown off of Head Start... more Americans will be unable to afford to send their kids to child care,\" Sanders said on\u00a0WPTZ-TV.VIDEO,\u00a0VIDEO\u00a0\r\nWorld\r\nSyria\u00a0The Russian-American deal to destroy Syria\u2019s chemical weapons arsenal gives President Obama some breathing space after a politically damaging few weeks. But the list of things that could still go wrong is extensive and daunting, according to\u00a0The New York Times.\u00a0LINK\r\nNational Food Stamp Cuts\u00a0The House this week is expected to weigh a Republican measure to scale back the food stamps program The House GOP bill would cut spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by about $40 billion over 10 years, according to congressional aides from both parties. That is twice the amount that House Republicans aimed to cut as part of a bill scuttled in June amid moves by House conservatives looking to make broader changes,The Wall Street Journal\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nVermont  Vermont to Aid Colorado Flood Recovery\u00a0Three top officials from the Vermont Agency of Transportation are headed west to help guide Colorado\u2019s road and bridge repair following last week\u2019s deadly and destructive flooding. Gov. Peter Shumlin announced Sunday that Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado asked for Vermont to share the expertise it gained in rebuilding roads and bridges following Tropical Storm Irene,\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=BF4B0DC3-703B-4AFC-A39F-FECB328F6DCC"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.678799744695425, "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"}