{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/100716", "News October 7", "2016-10-07", "2016", "2016-10", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News October 7\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\tFriday, October 7, 2016\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tObamacare As health-insurance premiums rise and problems with the law become more acute, Democrats have become increasingly comfortable criticizing President Obama\u2019s landmark health care law, TIME reported. Throughout the Democratic primary, Clinton and Sanders often clashed on health care policy, with the Vermont Senator arguing for a single-payer system and Clinton advocating a more moderate approach that involved \u201cbuilding\u201d on Obamacare and improving it.\r\nTax Loopholes Sanders plans to introduce a bill in the new Congress next year that will address some of the very loopholes that allow people in the real-estate industry to take such great advantage of the tax code. While the bill hasn\u2019t been fully written yet, Sanders\u2019s office outlined four areas the bill plans to address, The Nation reported.\r\nWorld\r\nSecretary General The Security Council on Thursday formally recommended Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations. The envoys representing the 15 members of the Council, including the five veto-wielding permanent members, decided by acclamation in a closed-door session to send Mr. Guterres\u2019s name to the General Assembly for final approval, The New York Times reported.\r\nNational\r\nHurricane Matthew Taking aim at Central Florida\u2019s Atlantic coast, Hurricane Matthew intensified Thursday into a Category 4 storm with winds of at least 140 miles per hour and strengthening. The storm was blamed for the deaths of more than 280 people in Haiti, The New York Times reported.\r\nVermont\r\nField Testing Narcotics In response to warnings from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration about the dangers of field testing potent narcotics, Colchester police have suspended the practice on powder or crystalline substances. Other police agencies said they are taking more precautions because of the risk but stopped short of requiring lab tests and potentially delaying investigations, 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/100716"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.4554310366511345, "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"}