Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Sanders Focuses on Middle Class: Sen. Bernie Sanders said in the Burlington Free Press and USA Today online that if he runs for president he will focus on “why the middle class is disappearing, why we are the only country in the industrialized world not to have health care for all people and yet we spend so much more per capita than other countries. What are we doing about climate change?” Sanders will visit the Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Saturday for a town hall meeting on the economy and preserving America’s middle class, WCAX-TV, WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H., The Associated Press reported. Primary Care Crisis: Sen. Sanders is holding a hearing today on what he calls the health care access crisis in America. His point is to highlight doctor shortages and opportunities to increase the number of providers around the country. Witnesses will testify about the need for improved access to primary care for the thousands of Americans who line up at free pop-up clinics around the country, many times camping out for days to receive basic health services from volunteer providers, WFFF-TV and WVNY-TV reported. House Considers Billionaire-Friendly Budget: The House on Thursday is set to vote on a billionaire-friendly budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman. “[T]he issue is not more tax breaks for corporations or the wealthy,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday in a radio interview on The Ed Shultz Show. “The issue is a very simple issue: do we turn our backs on fellow Americans who are hurting or do we support those families? And I think the answer is pretty clear to the American people what we should do.” Civil Rights Law: President Obama will join former presidents at the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, to mark a half century since Johnsons landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. The civil rights debate now extends to issues like attempting to establish a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented people in the United States. This is unfinished business for Obama. “On civil rights, he has struggled with the immigration bill that would take 12 million people out of the shadows and give them rights they dont have,” Sen. Sanders told Reuters. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/040914
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:50:09 +0000
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