{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/100616", "News October 6", "2016-10-06", "2016", "2016-10", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News October 6\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\tThursday, October 6, 2016\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tWells Fargo Letter Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and their colleagues urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a new letter to \"thoroughly investigate the culpability of senior executives\" at Wells Fargo\u00a0 in the fake account scandal that shocked America. The 14 U.S. Senators warned Lynch on Monday that Wells Fargo is a \"critical test\" of the DOJ's recent push to pursue bad behavior of individual executives, CNN reported.\r\nTax Breaks Sanders isn't just blaming Donald Trump for not paying taxes for decades. He's pointing out the corrupt tax system that allows the wealthy to dodge taxes so easily, and proposing a bill to fix it, The Young Turks reported.\u00a0\r\nWorld\r\nMatthew Hits Haiti Emergency teams in Haiti struggled Wednesday to reach hurricane-ravaged areas cut off by washed-out bridges and mudslides after Hurricane Matthew roared over the nation\u2019s western tip and began a devastating \u00adisland-hopping path that arcs toward the U.S. coast, The Washington Post reported.\r\nNational\u00a0\r\nMega-Donors Just 10 mega-donor individuals and couples contributed nearly 20 percent of the $1.1 billion raised by super PACs by the end of August, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal campaign finance reports. The total exceeds the $853 million that super PACs collected in the entire 2012 cycle.\r\nVermont\r\nDomestic Violence Victim Support Vermont will receive more than $9 million in federal funding to support victims of domestic violence and other violent crime in some of the state\u2019s most underserved areas, Sen. Patrick Leahy announced Tuesday in Middlebury. Raising a cap on the Crime Victims Fund, which Leahy pushed as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has led to a threefold annual increase in the funding available for such programs, VTDigger reported.", 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/100616"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 9.2057129368186, "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"}