{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20130913010351/http://www.sanders.senate.gov:80/newsroom/news/?id=c4d5e9a2-c0aa-4026-abf3-c86cf680f868", "Sen. Sanders Airs Concerns on Syria", "2013-09-08", "2013", "2013-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 8 \u2013 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) this afternoon reiterated his concerns about U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war.\u00a0\nIn an interview on MSNBC, Sanders made three points.\nFirst, he said that more than 9 out of 10 calls and emails to his office in the past week were against unilateral U.S. action against Syria. \u201cThe calls that are coming into my office are overwhelmingly against getting involved in a bloody and complicated civil war in Syria,\u201d Sanders told anchor Alex Witt.\nSecond, at a time when the U.S. faces major domestic crises in terms of high unemployment, low wages, massive income and wealth inequality and the planetary threat of global warming, he feared very much that U.S. involvement in Syria would make it even harder for the U.S. government to address the enormous problems facing the American middle class. \u201cThe American people are profoundly disgusted with the fact that the United States Congress continues to ignore the enormously serious problems facing the middle class of this country,\u201d Sanders said.\nThird, the senator worried that the \u201csurgical strike\u201d against Syria advocated by President Barack Obama could turn into a much deeper engagement and a push for \u201cregime change.\u201d He noted that a resolution passed last week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee contained language that could become a basis for broader U.S. involvement. If that occurred, the U.S. involvement could take years, cost billions of dollars and possibly involve U.S. troops.\u00a0\nTo watch the interview, click here.", 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://web.archive.org/web/20130913010351/http://www.sanders.senate.gov:80/newsroom/news/?id=c4d5e9a2-c0aa-4026-abf3-c86cf680f868"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3943370431661606, "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"}