Delegation Fights for Home Heating Help
President Obama wants to cut $2.5 billion from a $5 billion home heating aid program in his 2012 budget proposal that will be sent to Capitol Hill on Monday, The Associated Press reported. The proposal reportedly would cut the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to its 2008 level of about $2.5 billion. The Vermont congressional delegation planned a rare joint
Mubarak to Step Down
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looked likely to step down on Thursday after more than two weeks of protests against his 30-year rule, Reuters reported. Sen. Bernie Sanders said the development was due to the “extraordinary uprising” by hundreds of thousands of Egyptian demonstrators “who took to the streets to say that after 30 years of autocratic rule they want democracy.”
Credit Card Rip-Offs
As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke came to testify on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke out about the need for the Fed to limit how much banks may charge their credit card customers. Sanders also said the country’s largest four financial institutions, which now issue two-thirds of the credit cards in America and hold half the mortgages,
Release: Sanders Supports Shumlin on Health Care Reform
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) applauded a proposal that Gov. Peter Shumlin presented to Vermont lawmakers today to move the state toward a single-payer health care system. “I applaud the governor for presenting his health care proposal to the Legislature and I look forward to working with him. With 50 million Americans uninsured and the cost of
Release: Sanders Named to Joint Economic Committee
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been appointed to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, a select panel made up of members from both houses of Congress. The committee is composed of 10 members each from the Senate and the House of Representatives. It was established by the Employment Act of 1946 to make a continuing study
