{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/100317", "October 3", "2017-10-03", "2017", "2017-10", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "October 3\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\tTuesday, October 3, 2017\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSanders Urges Action on Gun Control\u00a0Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday urged Congress to take action in the aftermath of the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. The Vermont senator in a statement said his thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims. Sanders also thanked the first responders, who he said \"did an outstanding job responding to this tragedy, saving many lives,\u201d\u00a0Burlington Free Press,\u00a0VTDigger,\u00a0The Hill,\u00a0WCAX-TV,\u00a0WPTZ-TV,\u00a0VPR\u00a0and\u00a0Opposing Views\u00a0reported.\r\nVermonter Among Las Vegas Victims\u00a0Vermont native Sandy Casey, a special education teacher, was among the victims in Sunday's mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas. Casey, 35, grew up in Dorset and lived in Redondo Beach, California. Sanders and Sen. Patrick Leahy expressed grief over Casey's death. \"Jane and I are deeply saddened to hear that Vermonter Sandy Casey was among the victims in Vegas,\" Sanders said. \"Our hearts are with her friends and family,\u201d\u00a0Burlington Free Press\u00a0reported.\u00a0\r\nTrump\u2019s Treatment of Puerto Rico\u00a0Sanders said Sunday on CNN that: \"we have a right to be suspect\" that race is part of Trump's treatment of Puerto Rico. \u201cgiven the president's history on race, given the fact that he, a few months ago, told us that there were good people on both sides when neo-Nazis were marching in Charlottesville, yes, I think we have a right to be suspect that he is treating the people of Puerto Rico in a different way than he has treated the people of Texas or Florida,\u201d Sanders said,\u00a0WPTZ\u00a0and\u00a0Real Clear Politics\u00a0reported.\r\nDelegation Opposes GOP Tax Plan\u00a0All three members of Vermont's Congressional delegation say they'll oppose President Trump's tax plan because it favors the richest Americans. The three members of the Vermont\u2019s Congressional delegation, Leahy, Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch, all pointed to a study conducted by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center that shows that 80 percent of the benefits of the plan will go the wealthiest people in this country,\u00a0VPR\u00a0reported.\r\nGenealogy Uncover Sanders\u2019 Family History\u00a0 The prominent Harvard professor once again lures the famous and celebrated to PBS\u2019 \u201dFinding Your Roots,\u201d which shares their ancestry and family stories as uncovered by impressive research and science. Larry David, whom Gates said he\u2019d \u201cbugged\u201d for three years to go under the \u201cRoots\u201d microscope, finally agreed and discovered that he\u2019s related to Sanders, whom David memorably impersonated on \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d\u00a0The Associated Press\u00a0and\u00a0The Salt Lake Tribune\u00a0reported.\u00a0\r\nVermont College Fairs\u00a0Sanders is set to host a series of college fairs in Vermont, for high school students and their parents to learn more about educational opportunities in Vermont and the resources available to help pay for them,\u00a0WCAX-TV\u00a0reported.\r\nColumn: What \u2018Don\u2019t Politicize Tragedy\u2019 Means\u00a0 \u201cIf the shooter belongs to the other side, then suddenly it is finally time to talk about the systemic issues that caused the shooting. It\u2019s a \u2018them\u2019 problem. It\u2019s an other-side problem. Suddenly it\u2019s time to politicize. This summer, when the shooter who wounded a Republican congressman at a Virginia baseball practice turned out to be a \u2026 Sanders supporter, Donald Trump Jr. promptly retweeted a snide comment about \u2018NY elites\u2019 being to blame for the tragedy,\u201d Monica Hesse wrote for\u00a0The Washington Post.\u00a0\r\nColumn: Medicare for All Is Cruel\u00a0\u201cLast week [Sanders] revealed his 96-page plan to walk away from the finally-acknowledged failures of ObamaCare and try yet another ill-considered plan to remake our health care system in the name of \u2018compassion.\u2019 Compassion is a wonderful thing, but what he calls \u2018Medicare for all\u2019 depends on repealing the laws of economics and denying everything we know about basic human nature,\u201d Dr. Ramin Oskoui wrote for\u00a0The Hill.\r\nLetter: Medicare for All Not So Great\u00a0\u201cPeople who want \u2026 Sanders' Medicare for all better think twice. I got my new book, \u2018Medicare Advantage Plan for Seniors for 2018. I don't think they'd like Medicare. I will pay $32 a month more. My prescriptions for generic Tier 2 drugs cost $47, I have a co-pay of $150 per day for the first five days in the hospital, $150 for CT and MRI scans and also have co-pays for lab tests,\u201d Erma Gohn wrote to\u00a0The Morning Call.", 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/100317"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.036542933434248, "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"}