{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-sens-paul-schatz-reintroduce-reset-act/", "Sens. Paul & Schatz Reintroduce RESET Act", "2017-06-02", "2017", "2017-06", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Last week, U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) reintroduced the Reclassification to Ensure Smarter and Equal Treatment (RESET) Act. This bipartisan legislation would reclassify s pecific low-level, non- violent drug possession felonies as misdemeanors, eliminate the distinction between crack and powder cocaine for sentencing, and ensure that food products containing drugs are weighed fairly.\n\n\u201cThe RESET Act more closely aligns punishment with the severity of the offense, making it possible for someone to get a second chance after a non-violent, youthful mistake, instead of a lifetime punishment,\u201d said Sen. Paul. \u201cOur legislation will bring much-needed reform to our criminal justice system by ending the worst sentencing injustices for non-violent offenses.\u201d\n\n\u201cToday, our flawed criminal justice system imposes strict punishments for non-violent, low-level crimes, creating a destructive cycle of recidivism that impacts those in our most vulnerable communities,\u201d said Sen. Schatz. \u201cOur bill makes commonsense changes that will make sure punishments for low-level crimes are fair and our resources are directed toward violent criminals.\u201d\n\nYou can read S. 1252, the RESET Act, HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T21:48:30Z"]], "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.paul.senate.gov/news-sens-paul-schatz-reintroduce-reset-act/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9780712425708771, "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"}