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By: The Associated Press Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is holding five town meetings around the state over the long Labor Day weekend to talk about the $3.5 trillion federal budget proposal. “If passed, this bill will be the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor since FDR and the

By: Margot Sanger-Kats; The Washington Post Tens of millions of older Americans who cannot afford dental care — with severe consequences for their overall health, what they eat and even when they smile — may soon get help as Democrats maneuver to add dental benefits to Medicare for the first time in its history. The proposal, part of the large

By: Burgess Everett; Politico “The truth is we need more,” the Vermont senator said in an interview, adding this is “the minimum of what we should be spending.”   Bernie Sanders is shifting into a new phase of his legacy-defining work on Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending plan: Protecting it from members of his own party and selling it to the

By: John Nichols; The Nation Bernie Sanders does not want to be mistaken for an optimist. “I’m a glass-half-empty kind of guy,” he grumbles, as he works his way through the stacks of budget documents that are strewn across the desk in his spartan office on the third floor of a 123-year-old red-brick building on the north end of downtown

By: Mike DeBonis; The Washington Post He may have made a boldface impression on recent American politics, but after 30 years in Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders has struggled with the criticism that his legislative impact has been written in fine print — an amendment here, a symbolic vote there and many, many speeches. But not, perhaps, for long: Sanders, just

By: Grace Benninghoff; VT Digger Wednesday’s Senate passage of a $3.5 trillion spending plan is seen by congressional experts as further evidence of Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ shift from “rebel with a cause” outsider to leading Democratic deal-maker. “If 10 years ago somebody would have said to you that Bernie Sanders was a team player, you would have been