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By: Riley Robinson; VT Digger Fossil fuel companies should pay damages for the emissions they caused, 13 Vermont advocacy groups said in an open letter to the state’s congressional delegation. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has made a similar argument before, and he’s now set to cosponsor draft legislation by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., to establish the Polluters Pay Climate

By: Karoun Demirjian; The Washington Post A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation Tuesday to give Congress a more active role in approving arms sales, authorizing the use of military force and declaring national emergencies, in an across-the-board effort to claw back national security power from the executive branch. The bill aims, for the first time, to define what type

By: Trish Turner; ABC A tri-partisan group of senators on Tuesday introduced legislation designed to claw back national security powers, delineated in the Constitution, from the executive branch that the Senate trio says have been flowing away from Congress after decades of inaction by lawmakers. “The founders envisioned a balance of power between the executive and legislative branches of government

By: Lisa Mascaro & Jonathan Lemire; Associated Press Emerging from a private meeting at the White House, Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that he and President Joe Biden are on the same page as Democrats draft a “transformative” infrastructure package unleashing more than $3.5 trillion in domestic investments on par with the New Deal of the 1930s. Sanders, chairman of

By: Maureen Dowd; The New York Times I want to talk to Bernie about Balenciaga. And Britney. And Dua Lipa, Sha’Carri Richardson and Joe Manchin’s houseboat. And whether he prefers red or white horseradish on his gefilte fish. And the state of capitalism, and the absurd price of a Birkin bag. We settle into a retro yellow booth at Henry’s Diner

By: Laura Litvan; Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s plans for the biggest expansion in social spending in decades is in the hands of the Senate’s only professed democratic socialist, Bernie Sanders, who must unite both fellow progressives and moderate Democrats in the face of a tricky path through a sharply divided Congress. Sanders, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, wants to