Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): IBM: “Clearly this is a very frightening situation,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday on Vermont PBS in response to reports that IBM may sell off its Vermont operations that employ some 4,000 workers. State officials have worked to make IBM and a company rumored to be buying its microelectronics division aware that Vermont wants to keep the business in the state. Vermonts congressional delegation efforts go back decades. Sanders played a role in securing for the IBM campus a $3 million solar test center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Burlington Free Press reported. Health Centers: The Department of Health and Human Services announced $100 million in funding for 150 new community health centers. Sen. Bernie Sanders has launched an early effort to renew and boost health center funding through 2020, Roll Call reported Corporate Welfare: A brewing debate in Congress over the Export-Import Bank – a government agency providing taxpayer subsidized loans to multinational corporations – goes back 15 years ago when then Rep. Sanders tried to construct a left-right coalition to reform the bank. A few libertarians voiced free-market criticism of the bank, but the impetus for reform was primarily among the left. Sanders’ 2002 amendment proposing to restrict the bank’s subsidies garnered only 22 Republican votes but had 111 mostly progressive backers who, like Sanders, saw the Ex-Im Bank as egregious corporate welfare, David SIrota wrote for Salon. Time to Act on VA: The Congressional Budget Office released a new, lower score for a House bill to overhaul the Veterans Affairs Department. “Wars are expensive and taking care of the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend us is a cost of war,” Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Sanders said in The Hill. “Congress has been discussing the serious problems at the VA for months. Strong legislation to address the emergency and take care of our veterans must be passed now. It’s time for action.” Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/071114
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:39:06 +0000
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