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By: Vermont Business Magazine With winter around the corner and heating costs projected to increase this season, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) joined a bipartisan coalition of 40 senators in urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release funds for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) as swiftly and at the highest

By: Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News A coalition of Democratic senators sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, pressing the company for answers over allegations that it “unethically” tracks and monitors its employees to suppress efforts to form a union. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) implored Bezos to explain recent reports that

By: Jacob Jarvis; Newsweek Several senators have suggested lawmakers should be focused on passing a stimulus bill as opposed to facilitating Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. These hearings into President Donald Trump‘s SCOTUS pick will begin Monday, amid a continued impasse over a further relief package to be enacted amid the COVID-19 crisis. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle

MSNBC; Ali Velshi Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont discusses Trump’s taxpayer-funded treatment for COVID and why the United States’ lack of universal healthcare is actually the “radical” exception worldwide. Watch here.

By: Vermont Business Magazine Beginning October 1, 2020, Vermont seniors applying for 3SquaresVT are able to use a simple application and benefit renewal process as part of the new 3SquaresVT IN A SNAP program. The easy to use application is available to individuals and households age 60 or older and persons with disabilities. “3SquaresVT IN A SNAP is an improvement to

MSNBC; The Rachel Maddow Show Senator Bernie Sanders talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump’s efforts to delegitimize the 2020 election should be taken seriously and the nightmare scenario he is most concerned about for Election Night. Watch here.