Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Long-term Jobless Benefits: to End Hundreds of Vermonters and more than 1.3 million Americans will lose long-term jobless benefits on Dec. 28 as Congress recessed for the year without taking action to extend them, the Burlington Free Press reported. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy both expressed disappointment that the budget deal they both supported did not include language to extend long-term unemployment benefits for an additional three months. NSA Reforms: President Barack Obama’s independent review group this week suggested a plethora of reforms to the nation’s far-reaching intelligence gathering programs. Sen. Sanders said of the “out-of-control” National Security Agency Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, “We need some very strong legislation to rein them in.” Voting Rights: Republicans worried about losing elections are erecting legal roadblocks that prevent people from voting in many states. “Our Republican friends are too cowardly, in many respects, to have fair elections and the only way they’re going to win is if they deny lower income people, people of color, older people from the right to vote by making it harder and harder,” Sen. Sanders said Friday on MSNBC. Defense Bill: The Senate passed a comprehensive defense bill in an 84-15 vote on Thursday, CBS News reported online. “The time is long overdue for us to take a hard look at the waste, at the cost overruns, at the financial mismanagement that have plagued the Department of Defense for decades,” Sen. Bernie said on WCAX-TV. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/122113
Posted on: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 14:49:18 +0000
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