Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Sanders: Put Americans Back to Work: “The middle class of America is collapsing … poverty is up and the rich are doing phenomenally well. What do you do? What you do is say that in America we are going to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. By doing that were going to create millions of jobs,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday on The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News. West Must Stand Up to Putin: Western leaders have resisted the use of military force to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin in check in advance of a referendum Sunday in Crimea, which is expected to secede from Ukraine and be annexed by Russia. “The entire world has got to stand up to Putin. Weve got to deal with sanctions,” Sen. Sanders said in a Fox News interview. Freezing Russian assets is one possibility he suggested. “There are a number of things that you could do. But this is what you dont do. You dont go to war. You dont sacrifice lives of young people in this country as we did in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Talks on Crimea Crisis Break Down: Talks between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over this weekends referendum on Crimea joining Russia broke down after five hours Friday, as Western leaders warned that sanctions were looming, The Wall Street Journal reported. At the White House, President Barack Obama said there would be consequences if Russia continues to violate Ukraines sovereignty. U.S. and European Union officials say actions to impose sanctions will begin Monday unless there is evidence of a pullback by Moscow. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/031514
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 11:07:20 +0000
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