{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/icymi-dr-rand-paul-stands-fourth-amendment-demands-surveillance-reform-0", "ICYMI: Dr. Rand Paul Stands Up for the Fourth Amendment, Demands Surveillance Reform", "2017-12-13", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  \r\nDecember 13, 2017  \r\nContact: Press@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343  \r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n  WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Earlier this week, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) at The George Washington University to call for protecting Americans\u2019 civil liberties and restraining government overreach by reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).\r\n\r\nYou can watch Dr. Paul\u2019s opening remarks at the event HERE.\r\n\r\nIn October, Sens. Paul and Wyden introduced S. 1997, the USA Rights Act, which reforms Section 702 of FISA to end warrantless backdoor searches of Americans' calls, emails, texts, and other communications that are routinely swept up under a program designed to spy on foreign targets.\u00a0\r\n\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.paul.senate.gov/news/icymi-dr-rand-paul-stands-fourth-amendment-demands-surveillance-reform-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4797549229115248, "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"}