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BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 14 – The Vermont congressional delegation today opposed a White House budget proposal that would nearly cut in half a heating assistance program for seniors and low-income families with children. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said “heat in the winter is not a consumer choice. It’s not a luxury.” Instead of cutting heating assistance, Leahy

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation after weeks of widespread protests and calls for democratic reforms. “After 30 years of autocratic rule, Hosni Mubarak is gone.  That is extraordinary news and a real testament to the incredible courage of millions of people in that country who put

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

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.” 

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,

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