And this is only the beginning.
Today’s news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
No End in Sight to Government Shutdown: Lawmakers and the White House dug in Tuesday for a long fight as the first federal government shutdown in nearly two decades showed no signs of breaking. The closure, triggered by a congressional fight over President Obama’s health care law, means 800,000 federal workers were off the job on Tuesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders said shutdown effects ranged from cancer patients not getting care they need to FBI agents are not reporting to work. Seventeen out of 30 staffers who work for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders are off the job today, the Burlington Free Press reported.
No Surrender, Sanders Says: The process of closing down large parts of the U.S. government was under way on Tuesday after frantic rounds of late-night political sparring failed to avert the first federal shutdown in nearly two decades. Democrats in Congress hold Republicans to blame for using underhand ...methods to overturn a health care law passed by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court and endorsed by voters at the last presidential election. “If we surrender to hostage-taking tonight,” Sen. Sanders said in The Guardian, “these guys would be back within a couple of weeks without a shadow of a doubt. What we are dealing with tonight is an extraordinary anti-democratic act.”
Hostage Crisis: “People may disagree about the Affordable Care Act, but it is wrong for right-wing Republicans to ignore the results of the last election and hold the American people hostage by threatening to shut down the government unless they get their way,” Sen. Sanders said in the St. Albans Messenger.
Closure Impact: Sen. Sanders said the government closure could be “devastating.” In Vermont, passport offices like one in St. Albans could close, people applying for federally-backed mortgages will face delays, programs to help small businesses and Head Start might shut down, and people applying for Social Security, Medicare and veterans’ benefits will face a significantly slower process, the Bennington Banner reported. The same article said Gov. Peter Shumlin expects only minor disruptions.
Americans are ‘Disgusted’: In an interview with WPTZ-TV, Sanders said “people are angry, they're upset and they're frustrated. They have every reason to be. What people want is for Congress to address the issues that are facing the American people and that's creating jobs and raising the minimum wage, dealing with the affordability of college and they're disgusted by what they're seeing.” Sen. Sanders told WCAX-TV that House Republicans are “holding the American people hostage.”
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
No End in Sight to Government Shutdown: Lawmakers and the White House dug in Tuesday for a long fight as the first federal government shutdown in nearly two decades showed no signs of breaking. The closure, triggered by a congressional fight over President Obama’s health care law, means 800,000 federal workers were off the job on Tuesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders said shutdown effects ranged from cancer patients not getting care they need to FBI agents are not reporting to work. Seventeen out of 30 staffers who work for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders are off the job today, the Burlington Free Press reported.
No Surrender, Sanders Says: The process of closing down large parts of the U.S. government was under way on Tuesday after frantic rounds of late-night political sparring failed to avert the first federal shutdown in nearly two decades. Democrats in Congress hold Republicans to blame for using underhand ...methods to overturn a health care law passed by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court and endorsed by voters at the last presidential election. “If we surrender to hostage-taking tonight,” Sen. Sanders said in The Guardian, “these guys would be back within a couple of weeks without a shadow of a doubt. What we are dealing with tonight is an extraordinary anti-democratic act.”
Hostage Crisis: “People may disagree about the Affordable Care Act, but it is wrong for right-wing Republicans to ignore the results of the last election and hold the American people hostage by threatening to shut down the government unless they get their way,” Sen. Sanders said in the St. Albans Messenger.
Closure Impact: Sen. Sanders said the government closure could be “devastating.” In Vermont, passport offices like one in St. Albans could close, people applying for federally-backed mortgages will face delays, programs to help small businesses and Head Start might shut down, and people applying for Social Security, Medicare and veterans’ benefits will face a significantly slower process, the Bennington Banner reported. The same article said Gov. Peter Shumlin expects only minor disruptions.
Americans are ‘Disgusted’: In an interview with WPTZ-TV, Sanders said “people are angry, they're upset and they're frustrated. They have every reason to be. What people want is for Congress to address the issues that are facing the American people and that's creating jobs and raising the minimum wage, dealing with the affordability of college and they're disgusted by what they're seeing.” Sen. Sanders told WCAX-TV that House Republicans are “holding the American people hostage.”
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
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