Senate
Republicans on Thursday derailed legislation to expand health care, education
and job-training benefits for the nation’s 22 million veterans. “I have a hard
time understanding how anyone could vote for tax breaks for billionaires, for
millionaires, for large corporations and then say we don't have the resources to
protect our veterans,” Bernie told the Senate before his legislation was
sidetracked on a mostly party-line vote. As chairman of the Senate Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs, Bernie’s bill was backed by more than two dozen veterans’
service organizations. “I don’t know how anyone who voted ‘no’ today can look a
veteran in the eye and justify that vote,” said American Legion Commander Daniel
Dellinger. Bernie isn’t giving up. Just three more Republican votes are needed
to pass the bill. CNN's Chris Cuomo called what happened "outrageous."
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Comcastic? |
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At
a time when fewer and fewer corporations control the flow of information and
news, Comcast wants to take over Time Warner Cable. If federal regulators
approve the deal, just one corporation would provide cable and Internet service
for about one in three American households. More than 8,000 people already have
sent Bernie emails critical of the mega-merger. Are you concerned about a
handful of corporations controlling what we see, hear and read? Do you think
this merger should be approved? |
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A Major
Victory for the People |
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President
Obama will send a budget to Capitol Hill next week that drops his controversial
proposal to cut Social Security benefits. Republicans and even some prominent
Democrats in Congress had backed the cuts. So did Wall Street CEOs. So did TV
pundits and major newspapers. But in poll after poll, big majorities of the
American public strongly opposed the proposal. Bernie credits that grassroots
opposition for Obama’s retreat. “It amounts to a major, major victory for the
people of this country,” he said. “When people stand together on an issue,”
Sanders said, “we can win.” |
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