{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/093017", "September 30", "2017-09-30", "2017", "2017-09", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "September 30\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tSaturday, September 30, 2017\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSanders Denounces Republican Budget\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders \u00a0\u2014 the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee \u2014 criticized Republicans for releasing a plan that he said contradicted the president\u2019s promises. \u201cThis budget is the Robin Hood principle in reverse,\u201d Sanders said in a statement. \u201cAt a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the Republican budget takes from the middle class and those in need, and gives huge tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country,\u201d\u00a0VOX\u00a0reported.\u00a0Sanders denounced the blueprint as \u201cone of the most destructive budgets in modern American history,\u201d\u00a0The New York Times,\u00a0WPTZ-TV,\u00a0The Hill\u00a0reported.\r\nSanders Gets Emotional Talking About Jewish Relative\u00a0While speaking on the PBS series,\u00a0Finding Your Roots,\u00a0Sanders showed his more vulnerable side as he talked about a relative who died defying the Nazis in World War II. In the clip, the Jewish senator is visibly moved as he discusses the relative with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates,\u00a0Newsweek,\u00a0\u00a0Jewish News,Los Angeles Daily News\u00a0reported.\r\nSanders To Hold College Fairs\u00a0Sanders is inviting Vermont high school students and their families to join him at two college fairs on\u00a0Saturday, Oct. 7 at Lyndon State College(link is external)\u00a0and\u00a0Saturday, Oct. 14 at Castleton University(link is external). Vermont colleges, universities, and certificate and apprenticeship programs will be on hand to describe the excellent post-secondary educational opportunities that are available right here in our state,\u00a0Vermont Biz,\u00a0and\u00a0Rutland Herald\u00a0reported.\r\nSanders in Atlanta\u00a0Sanders will be in town Saturday for a major fundraiser on behalf of Vincent Fort, one of 13 candidates hoping to become the next mayor of Atlanta,\u00a011-ALIVE-TV\u00a0reported.\r\nMajority Of Dem Voters Support Single-Payer\u00a0Asked in a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday whether they support a single-payer system, in which the federal government would expand Medicare to cover the medical expenses of every American citizen, nearly two in three Democratic voters (65%) said it was a \"good idea.\"\u00a0The left's fight to protect Obamacare, which united a Democratic Party still reeling over its failures in 2016, further elevated the single-payer debate. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his allies have long portrayed it as a moral imperative,\u00a0CNNreported.\u00a0\r\nSenate Dems Call Out FCC Chair\u00a0A group of Senate Democrats called out Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, over his effort to deregulate the broadcast industry, accusing him of easing the path for a media takeover from the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group. Twenty-three Democrats \u2014 as well as Independent Sanders \u2014 led by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) wrote a letter to Pai urging him to hold off on any further changes to media ownership rules until the FCC conducts an analysis of the broadcast market,\u00a0The Hill\u00a0reported.\u00a0\r\nCalifornia is Sanders\u2019 Battleground for Health Care\u00a0The country and California must move toward guaranteed health care for all, regardless of what happens next week when Senate Republicans vote on their final bill of 2017 to dismantle Obamacare and Medicaid, both Sanders and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in separate San Francisco rallies on Friday. \u201cEvery poll that I have seen indicates that more and more Americans support a Medicare-for-all single-payer program,\u201d Sanders said to a rally organized by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United Organizing Committee during its annual convention,\u00a0Salon\u00a0reported.\r\nTeen Running For Governor in VT \u00a0Ethan Sonneborn is a 13-year-old political savant in the making\u2014and a Democratic candidate for Vermont\u2019s governor seat in 2018. Sonneborn almost perfectly channels the ideals and speaking manner of famed Vermonter Sanders, someone he admits is a role model,\u00a0Newsweek\u00a0reported.\r\nFour Reasons Dems Aren\u2019t Facing Rebellions in Primaries\u00a0In 2017, the far edge of Democratic Party politics is represented by \u00a0Sanders, who has no interest in helping primary challenges to incumbent Democrats. As he prepared his single-payer health-care bill, he told The Post that his signature legislation would not be \u201ca litmus test\u201d for Democrats \u2014 that he would not refuse to help colleagues who opposed it. Sanders, who has no plan to actually join the Democratic Party, is creating a wedge inside of it, on the theory that when the party next takes power, it will be confident to put down a marker on the left,\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0reported.\r\nIowa Dems Struggle For Power\u00a0\u00a0In less than a decade, Iowa Democrats have withered, from in-charge to almost irrelevant. Animosity also lingers between some Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders backers, after their clash during the 2016 presidential caucus. It reflects unhealed wounds from 2008, when Obama upset Clinton in Iowa en route to the nomination,\u00a0The Washington Postreported.\r\nDSCC Fundraises Off Single-Payer\u00a0It just got a little harder for Democratic incumbents to distance themselves from efforts to implement a single-payer healthcare system. On Thursday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sent a fundraising email from Sanders, that promoted his single-payer legislation,\u00a0Washington Examiner\u00a0reported.\r\nSunday Shows\u00a0Sanders will appear on ABC\u2019s \u2018This Week\u2019 on Sunday,\u00a0The Associated Press\u00a0reported.\u00a0\r\nRock Star Calls For Universal Health Care\u00a0Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler makes no secret of his political views. After winning the MVP prize in the 2016 NBA Celebrity All-Star game, he said, \u201cthe U.S. has a lot they can learn from Canada: health care, taking care of people,\u201d only to be cut off mid-speech by TV anchor Sage Steele. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about celebrity stuff, not politics,\u201d she said. Butler was talking about politics in a different setting this week when he did an interview with Sanders\u2019s media producer, Armand Aviram,\u00a0Montreal Gazette\u00a0reported.\r\nLarry David Returns\u00a0Larry David says he forgot Paris \u2014 and the rest of\u00a0Curb\u00a0\u2014 while occupying himself in the intervening years by starring in the HBO movie\u00a0Clear History\u00a0(which he co-wrote) and Broadway\u2019s\u00a0Fish in the Dark\u00a0(which he wrote), returning to stand-up, and turning in an amusing impression of Bernie Sanders on\u00a0Saturday Night Live,\u00a0Entertainment Weekly,\u00a0Vulture, and\u00a0NPR\r\nColumn: SandersCare Thrives, TrumpCare Dies\u00a0\u201cAfter seven years of Republican promises to repeal and replace ObamaCare, the single-payer healthcare system proposed for decades by Sanders is gaining steam, while all GOP plans are buried in the graveyard of bad ideas,\u201d Brent Budowsky wrote for\u00a0The Hill.", 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.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/093017"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8794997595250607, "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"}