The Week in Review Are Republicans listening to warnings from scientists about global warming? While many in Congress write off climate change as a hoax, it turns out some leading Republican figures are beginning to take the problem seriously. Big Oil and Wall Street speculators used turmoil in Iraq as a bogus excuse to raise oil and gas prices. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday introduced legislation to stop runaway speculation. A Senate and House conference committee met Tuesday to try to thrash out differences in legislation to reform health care services for veterans. Sanders chairs the Senate veterans committee. As Congress broke for a Fourth of July recess, however, he voiced frustration with members of Congress who are willing to send troops into war but balk at paying for the health care that was promised to those who fought our wars. He spoke about that and other issues on Friday during his weekly radio and Internet appearance on The Thom Hartmann Program. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-062714
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:05:01 +0000
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