"The Week in Review:" from Senator Sanders, "Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday laid out detailed tax reform proposals in letters to the Senate Finance Committee. They offered to keep senators’ submissions secret for 50 years. Sanders declined. The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, will drive up what it costs students and their parents to borrow money for college. While President Obama was speaking at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., about helping the middle class, his White House aides were corralling votes for the student loan deal that mirrored a bill already passed by House Republicans. One reason the minimum wage should be increased is to prod Wal-Mart into paying its workers enough so the workers don’t have to rely on food stamps and Medicaid, Sanders argued in an interview on Wednesday. The Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on Wednesday approved a package of bills to improve benefits, including one to keep better track of efforts by the VA to eliminate an unacceptable backlog of cases." Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=3DE5BF18-81F9-4F11-9447-FFB3AA5F9FB5
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:27:10 +0000
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