{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/122614", "News December 26", "2014-12-26", "2014", "2014-12", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News December 26\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, December 26, 2014\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSenator Sanders\u00a0\r\nNational\r\nNSA Admits Privacy Violations\u00a0The National Security Agency has released heavily redacted accounts of its employees\u2019 violations against Americans\u2019 privacy after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the agency was required to file the reports with the Intelligence Oversight Board, The Wall Street Journal reported. LINK\r\nPhoenix VA Long before that the Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix manipulated waiting lists to hide that veterans were facing long delays to see doctors, senior department officials in Washington were aware of serious problems. The documents in the case of the Phoenix hospital director Sharon Helman, who contested her firing, provided new details of how much officials knew about the medical center, including patient backlogs, shortages of medical personnel and clinic space, and long waiting lists, The New York Times reported. LINK\r\nFemale Veterans Thousands of female veterans are struggling to get health-care treatment and compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the grounds that they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual trauma in the military. The veterans and their advocates call it \u201cthe second battle\u201d \u2014 with a bureaucracy they say is stuck in the past, The Washington Post reported. LINK\r\nVermont\r\nVeterans\u2019 Home The union representing Vermont state employees says the state is being cruel to put out word of layoffs at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington at Christmastime. Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding said layoff notices have not gone out yet, but the Vermont State Employees Association has to be notified 35 days before reductions take effect. He said about six workers will lose their jobs due to a declining population at the home, AP reported. LINK", 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/122614"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9935011621564627, "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"}