Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Budget Conference: Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray kicked off the next phase of budget negotiations with a bipartisan breakfast Thursday morning. The two lawmakers will lead a budget conference committee tasked with reconciling differences between the Republican and Democratic spending plans. Sen. Sanders was appointed to the conference committee, ABC News, The Washington Post, Politico, Real Clear Politics and Bangor Daily News reported. Sen. Sanders said on WAMC-FM that any new budget negotiations must not include draconian cuts. Democrats in the South: Southern Democrats are seizing on the widespread dissatisfaction with Republican lawmakers. Sen. Sanders is touring southern states this week. Ahead of an important Senate vote to reopen the government, Sanders video conferenced with a town-hall meeting in Jackson, Misss. If you dont get involved in the conservative states, theyll never be battleground states in the future, Sanders told the audience, according to the Jackson Free Press. The Playboy Interview: Like Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmy Carter and Steve Jobs before him, Sen. Bernie Sanders sat down for a Playboy Interview. Out on Thursday, the topics raised by noted economics writer Jonathan Tasini ranged from health care to the gaping wealth and income gap in America. Chained-CPI: The 2014 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is scheduled to be released soon by the Department of Labor. Although the precise COLA adjustment will depend on Septembers inflation numbers, it will reportedly only be about 1.5 percent. Sen. Sanders is one outspoken champion of an honest COLA measure that would better reflect inflation for Social Security recipients, Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson wrote in The Huffington Post. Continue reading here:sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/101813
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:06:38 +0000
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