{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/122714", "News December 27", "2014-12-27", "2014", "2014-12", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "www.sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News December 27\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, December 27, 2014\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSenator Sanders\u00a0\r\nVeterans\u2019 Home The Vermont Veterans Home is expected to get a federal grant of almost $1 million. Joseph Krawczyk Jr., chairman of the home\u2019s board of trustees, said it was \u201cgreat\u201d to hear from Sen. Sanders that the project was now\u00a0on the VA\u2019s priority list.\u00a0\u201cSen. Sanders\u00a0has always been a great supporter, not just of the veterans home, but of veterans overall throughout the country and we\u2019re really happy he comes from Vermont,\u201d Krawczyk told the Rutland Herald. LINK\r\nWorld\u00a0\r\nN. Korea North Korea called President Barack Obama \"a monkey\" and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy \"The Interview.\" North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an assassination of its leader Kim Jong Un, CBS News reported. LINK\u00a0\r\nNational\r\nThousands Expected at NYPD Funeral Thousands of police officers will gather in Queens, New York today for the funeral of New York City Police Officer Rafael Ramos. He was ambushed along with his partner one week ago. Today he will be laid to rest, with the nation's Vice President attending, CBS News reported. LINK\u00a0\r\nTrade Deal President Obama is preparing a major push on a vast free-trade zone that seeks to enlist Republicans as partners and test his premise that Washington can still find common ground on major initiatives.\r\nIt also will test his willingness to buck his own party in pursuit of a legacy-burnishing achievement. Already, fellow Democrats are accusing him of abandoning past promises on trade and potentially undermining his domestic priority of reducing income inequality, according to The Washington Post. LINK\u00a0\r\nJobs and Crime A couple of years ago, the city of Chicago started a summer jobs program for teenagers attending high schools in some of the city's high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. The program was meant to connect students to work, but officials also hoped that it might curb the kinds of problems like higher crime that arise when there's no work to be found. Research on the program conducted by the University of Chicago Crime Lab suggests that these summer jobs have actually had such an effect, The Washington Post reported. LINK\u00a0\r\nVermont\r\nFuel Prices The Vermont Fuel Dealers Association says it's been getting questions from people who regret they got into a contract for fuel last summer at prices higher than they are now. But the group says a contract is a contract, and that dealers also are locked into contracts, with wholesale prices negotiated last summer, before the recent oil price decline. The state Department of Public Service reports that Vermont's average spot price for oil has dropped from nearly $3.75 per gallon in May to about $3.22 a gallon now, 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/122714"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9427019394934177, "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"}