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Summers Pulls Out:
Former Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers on Sunday withdrew as a candidate for Federal Reserve chairman to replace Ben Bernanke when his term runs out in January. The former Obama adviser faced mounting opposition in the Senate from, among others, Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I applaud Larry Summers for withdrawing his name from consideration. The truth is that it was unlikely he would have been confirmed by the Senate,” Sanders said in a statement on Sunday. “What the American people want now is a Fed chairman prepared to stand up to the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, not a Wall Street insider whose deregulation efforts helped pave the way for a horrendous financial crisis and the worst economic downturn in the country since the Great Depression. The Fed now must help develop policies which create millions of decent-paying jobs and rebuild the middle class.”
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Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Summers Out of Running for the Fed: Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers withdrew on Sunday from consideration to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke amid fierce opposition from within the Democratic Party over Summers’ role in deregulating Wall Street. “I applaud Larry Summers for withdrawing his name from consideration,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said late Sunday. ''The truth is that it was unlikely he would have been confirmed by the Senate,'' Sanders added in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Reuters and online in The Wall Street Journal.
Summers Faced Growing Opposition: Along with independent Sen. Sanders, Montana Sen. Jon Tester, a member of the Banking Committee, last week became the third Democrat to declare opposition to Summers’ nomination, Bloomberg reported. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, another committee member, reportedly told the administration that she had "serious c...oncerns" about the prospect of a Summers nomination. In August, Warren worked with Sanders on a letter that raised a series of questions for whoever is nominated to chair the Fed, John Nichols blogged for The Nation.
House Plans Cuts for Seniors, Children: Sen. Sanders said the Senate must call the bluff of the House Republicans demanding deeper cuts on programs designed to help working families, ABC 22 and Fox 44 reported. Under a proposal set for a House vote this week, “more Americans will lose their jobs ... more children will be thrown off of Head Start... more Americans will be unable to afford to send their kids to child care," Sanders said on WPTZ-TV.
Syria: The Russian-American deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal gives President Obama some breathing space after a politically damaging few weeks. But the list of things that could still go wrong is extensive and daunting, according to The New York Times.
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