Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Obama Presses for Stripped Down Fiscal Plan: President Obama sharply curtailed his ambitions for legislation to avert the year-end “fiscal cliff” on Friday, urging Congress to adopt a stopgap measure to keep benefits flowing to unemployed workers and prevent taxes from rising on income under $250,000 a year, The Washington Post reported. The plan should also “lay the groundwork” for action next year to spur economic growth and rein in the national debt, Obama said at a White House news conference.
House Caucus in Chaos: “The Republican caucus is in chaos,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday after a humiliating setback for House Speaker John Boehner. Facing a conservative revolt within his caucus, the speaker on Thursday night cancelled a vote on his own plan to extend Bush-era tax cuts for all incomes up to $1 million. Sanders commented during his weekly national radio and Internet appearance on The... Thom Hartmann Program.
Social Security: The reaction of liberal lawmakers to President Obama’s plan to squeeze savings from Social Security benefits was swift and strong: Sen. Tom Harkin called it “a bad deal,” Sen. Sherrod Brown said, “I don’t like it,” and Sen. Sanders declared it “a significant benefit cut,” Congressional Quarterly reported.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Obama Presses for Stripped Down Fiscal Plan: President Obama sharply curtailed his ambitions for legislation to avert the year-end “fiscal cliff” on Friday, urging Congress to adopt a stopgap measure to keep benefits flowing to unemployed workers and prevent taxes from rising on income under $250,000 a year, The Washington Post reported. The plan should also “lay the groundwork” for action next year to spur economic growth and rein in the national debt, Obama said at a White House news conference.
House Caucus in Chaos: “The Republican caucus is in chaos,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday after a humiliating setback for House Speaker John Boehner. Facing a conservative revolt within his caucus, the speaker on Thursday night cancelled a vote on his own plan to extend Bush-era tax cuts for all incomes up to $1 million. Sanders commented during his weekly national radio and Internet appearance on The... Thom Hartmann Program.
Social Security: The reaction of liberal lawmakers to President Obama’s plan to squeeze savings from Social Security benefits was swift and strong: Sen. Tom Harkin called it “a bad deal,” Sen. Sherrod Brown said, “I don’t like it,” and Sen. Sanders declared it “a significant benefit cut,” Congressional Quarterly reported.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Obama Presses for Stripped Down Fiscal Plan: President Obama sharply curtailed his ambitions for legislation to avert the year-end “fiscal cliff” on Friday, urging Congress to adopt a stopgap measure to keep benefits flowing to unemployed workers and prevent taxes from rising on income under $250,000 a year, The Washington Post reported. The plan should also “lay the groundwork” for action next year to spur economic growth and rein in the national debt, Obama said at a White House news conference.
House Caucus in Chaos: “The Republican caucus is in chaos,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday after a humiliating setback for House Speaker John Boehner. Facing a conservative revolt within his caucus, the speaker on Thursday night cancelled a vote on his own plan to extend Bush-era tax cuts for all incomes up to $1 million. Sanders commented during his weekly national radio and Internet appearance on The... Thom Hartmann Program.
Social Security: The reaction of liberal lawmakers to President Obama’s plan to squeeze savings from Social Security benefits was swift and strong: Sen. Tom Harkin called it “a bad deal,” Sen. Sherrod Brown said, “I don’t like it,” and Sen. Sanders declared it “a significant benefit cut,” Congressional Quarterly reported.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
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