{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=121e00db-82b0-4766-94d3-5585a4703224", "Heller Statement on Panel Recommendations for National Security Agency", "2013-12-18", "2013", "2013-12", "Republican", "House", "NV", "Dean Heller", "H001041", "www.heller.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "(Washington, D.C.) \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) responded to the five-member Review Group\u2019s recommendations that the National Security Agency (NSA) end its massive collection of Americans\u2019 telephone call records saying:\r\n\u201cJust two days after a federal judge found the bulk data collection programs to be unconstitutional, the NSA has yet again come under much-deserved scrutiny. Many of my Senate colleagues from both sides of the aisle agree that these programs do not live up to the privacy expectations of many law-abiding Americans. This Administration should heed the panel\u2019s recommendations and end this program once and for all,\u201d said Senator Dean Heller.\r\nBackground\r\nSenator Heller joined chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-VT), as an original Republican cosponsor to the USA Freedom Act. This legislation would, among other things, rein in the NSA\u2019s bulk data collection program.\r\nSenator Heller also partnered with Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to introduce legislation that will bring greater transparency to these programs and allow companies that have been served a subpoena to share basic information with their customers.\u00a0\r\nYou can read more of Senator Heller\u2019s thoughts on the latest revelations about the NSA surveillance practices in this op-ed that he penned for the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November of 2013.\r\n###", 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://www.heller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=121e00db-82b0-4766-94d3-5585a4703224"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8130506612360477, "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"}