NEWS: Sanders, Braun, Murray, Welch, King and Hassan Send Bipartisan Letter to Yellen and McDonough on VA Travel Reimbursements for Medical Care

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former Chair and current member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), alongside their colleagues Sens. Patty…

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NEWS: Sanders, Braun, Murray, Welch, King, and Hassan Send Bipartisan Letter to Yellen and McDonough on VA Travel Reimbursements for Medical Care

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former Chair and current member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), alongside their colleagues Sens. Patty…

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Some Good News to Share

A few years ago, I secured federal funding to initiate a new program here in Vermont that takes a different approach to criminal justice. The goal of this program, done in collaboration between Community College of Vermont and the Department of Corrections, is to provide educational and job training opportunities to people while they are serving their sentences so that, when they leave prison, they have the opportunity to get decent jobs and become productive members of society. This will provide new opportunities for inmates and, if successful, will save substantial sums of money for taxpayers.

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Addressing the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemic and Protecting Our Children’s Health

In Vermont and across America today, we have a type-2 diabetes epidemic and we have an obesity epidemic. They are directly related and both epidemics are getting worse. Let’s be clear. This epidemic is not only endangering the health and wellbeing of thousands of Vermonters and tens of millions of Americans, it is also enormously expensive.

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