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Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Veterans: The Senate will consider a proposal to restore $6 billion in cuts to working-age military retiree pensions, The Hill and Salem Radio Network on KUIK-AM in Portland, Ore. reported. The proposal is part of an omnibus veterans’ bill introduced Thursday by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders. “The American people have spoken very loudly and very clearly. They have told the Congress to restore those cuts to military retirees and we have listened,” Sanders said.
Obama to Meet Pope: A decision to visit Pope Francis at the Vatican in late March provides President Obama with an opportunity to highlight the problem of economic inequality. “Clearly, the pope and the president have their differences,” but widening inequality clearly troubles both of them, Sen. Sanders said in an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post. “It is a moral issue, and once we begin to look at those issues from a moral perspective, it demands political solutions.”
Minimum Wage: President Barack Obama told his Cabinet this month he would not resign himself to "waiting for legislation" from a gridlocked Congress in order to push his agenda, The president could move the ball forward by announcing a few dramatic actions at his State of the Union address this month. Sen. Sanders and other progressive leaders have urged the president to issue an executive order that would ensure that taxpayer dollars go only to federal contractors that pay their employees a living wage, Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote for The Washington Post online.
Food Banks Prepare for Food Stamp Cuts: Even greater demands on food banks are expected as Congress prepares to cut billions of dollars more from the food stamp program. About 47 million Americans receive food stamps. A compromise farm bill is expected to cut about $9 billion from food stamps over 10 years. House Republicans had wanted to trim financing by $40 billion over the same period, and a bipartisan Senate bill sought a $4 billion cut. But House members, most of them Republicans, may be unwilling to pass a bill that includes anything less than the $40 billion cut. And senators, especially Democrats, may see the compromise measure as going too far. President Obama has threatened to veto any bill that cuts too deeply, The New York Times reported.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/012214
Veterans: The Senate will consider a proposal to restore $6 billion in cuts to working-age military retiree pensions, The Hill and Salem Radio Network on KUIK-AM in Portland, Ore. reported. The proposal is part of an omnibus veterans’ bill introduced Thursday by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders. “The American people have spoken very loudly and very clearly. They have told the Congress to restore those cuts to military retirees and we have listened,” Sanders said.
Obama to Meet Pope: A decision to visit Pope Francis at the Vatican in late March provides President Obama with an opportunity to highlight the problem of economic inequality. “Clearly, the pope and the president have their differences,” but widening inequality clearly troubles both of them, Sen. Sanders said in an interview Tuesday with The Washington Post. “It is a moral issue, and once we begin to look at those issues from a moral perspective, it demands political solutions.”
Minimum Wage: President Barack Obama told his Cabinet this month he would not resign himself to "waiting for legislation" from a gridlocked Congress in order to push his agenda, The president could move the ball forward by announcing a few dramatic actions at his State of the Union address this month. Sen. Sanders and other progressive leaders have urged the president to issue an executive order that would ensure that taxpayer dollars go only to federal contractors that pay their employees a living wage, Katrina vanden Heuvel wrote for The Washington Post online.
Food Banks Prepare for Food Stamp Cuts: Even greater demands on food banks are expected as Congress prepares to cut billions of dollars more from the food stamp program. About 47 million Americans receive food stamps. A compromise farm bill is expected to cut about $9 billion from food stamps over 10 years. House Republicans had wanted to trim financing by $40 billion over the same period, and a bipartisan Senate bill sought a $4 billion cut. But House members, most of them Republicans, may be unwilling to pass a bill that includes anything less than the $40 billion cut. And senators, especially Democrats, may see the compromise measure as going too far. President Obama has threatened to veto any bill that cuts too deeply, The New York Times reported.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/012214
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End: An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency’s program to collect bulk phone call records has provided only “minimal” benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal and should be shut down. The findings are laid out in a 238-page report, scheduled for release by Thursday and obtained by The New York Times, that represent t...he first major public statement by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which Congress made an independent agency in 2007 and only recently became fully operational.
Senate to Take Up Major Overhaul of Veterans Benefits: Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders told reporters Wednesday that a massive veterans’ bill would improve education, health and employment benefits for former troops. The legislation also would restore the cost-of-living adjustment reduction for military retirees set by the Bipartisan Budget Act, The Washington Post reported online.
Income Inequality: The richest 85 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the planet’s population, according to a new study cited by Sen. Sanders during an interview Wednesday on The Ed Schultz Show. "What we need to do in Congress and we need to it all over this world is say, 'Wait a second - this world, this planet, doesn’t belong to just a few people.’ The wealth of this world has got to be enjoyed by everybody, and we need policies to make that happen," Sanders said.
Net Neutrality: A swift response to reclassify broadband Internet as a telecommunications service can preserve a free internet after a federal court struck down key net neutrality regulations this month, The (Madison, Wis.) Capital Times reported. Sen. Sanders called the court’s ruling "a blow to consumers and small businesses alike," and added that without regulatory safeguards, "corporations are able to prioritize the information available to users, it stifles ideas and expression, as well as commerce and innovation.”
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Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End: An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency’s program to collect bulk phone call records has provided only “minimal” benefits in counterterrorism efforts, is illegal and should be shut down. The findings are laid out in a 238-page report, scheduled for release by Thursday and obtained by The New York Times, that represent t...he first major public statement by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which Congress made an independent agency in 2007 and only recently became fully operational.
Senate to Take Up Major Overhaul of Veterans Benefits: Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders told reporters Wednesday that a massive veterans’ bill would improve education, health and employment benefits for former troops. The legislation also would restore the cost-of-living adjustment reduction for military retirees set by the Bipartisan Budget Act, The Washington Post reported online.
Income Inequality: The richest 85 people in the world own more wealth than the bottom half of the planet’s population, according to a new study cited by Sen. Sanders during an interview Wednesday on The Ed Schultz Show. "What we need to do in Congress and we need to it all over this world is say, 'Wait a second - this world, this planet, doesn’t belong to just a few people.’ The wealth of this world has got to be enjoyed by everybody, and we need policies to make that happen," Sanders said.
Net Neutrality: A swift response to reclassify broadband Internet as a telecommunications service can preserve a free internet after a federal court struck down key net neutrality regulations this month, The (Madison, Wis.) Capital Times reported. Sen. Sanders called the court’s ruling "a blow to consumers and small businesses alike," and added that without regulatory safeguards, "corporations are able to prioritize the information available to users, it stifles ideas and expression, as well as commerce and innovation.”
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