{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.roberts.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=d347e19c-7240-4445-b293-67f089acdf5d", "Senator Roberts Calls for Flight Restrictions  from Ebola Infected West Africa", "2014-10-14", "2014", "2014-10", "Republican", "House", "KS", "Pat Roberts", "R000307", "www.roberts.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "TOPEKA, KS\u00a0\u2013 U.S.\u00a0Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan) today called for the President to finally take a proactive leadership role in battling the Ebola crisis and for an immediate travel ban from the countries in West Africa currently ravaged by the deadly virus.\r\n\u201cI have no confidence in how the Obama Administration is managing the Ebola crisis, and neither do the people of Kansas,\u201d Senator Roberts said. \u201cWe are facing a potential national health emergency that could overwhelm our health care system, threaten the economy, and place national security at risk if not handled properly.\r\n\u201cI call on the President to actually lead on this issue, take emergency action and protect American lives before we have an epidemic here at home. \u00a0We cannot afford to be reactive or \u2018lead from behind\u2019 with a deadly and easily spread threat like Ebola.\u201d\r\nInfectious disease experts have said stopping the spread of Ebola is the only way to control an outbreak.\u00a0 Therefore, Senator Roberts has called for a complete and immediate travel ban from the infected West African nations. All individuals attempting to enter the United States who have traveled to the affected area within the last 30 days must quarantine outside the country, and the effort to protect American lives from this deadly disease should be swift, transparent, and fully coordinated within our national security apparatus\r\nSenator Roberts continued, \u201cThere are now more than 8,000 cases of Ebola spreading through West Africa and 4,000 deaths. The cases of Ebola in the United States came to our shores on a plane from Liberia. West Africa is the source of this potential pandemic, and we should fight this virus there, at its source, not on our borders or in our airports. The President has failed to secure our borders, and he is now failing to lead during this crisis.\r\n\u201cFrom the crisis in the Middle East with ISIS, to the standoff in Ukraine with Russia, and now to the spread of Ebola from West Africa to our own shores, this Administration has consistently been two steps behind and asleep at the wheel. We cannot afford the risk of President Obama\u2019s inaction and failure to lead. American\u2019s are frightened, and they deserve better.\u201d", 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.roberts.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=d347e19c-7240-4445-b293-67f089acdf5d"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9360089898109436, "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"}