Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Senate Passes Bill to Avert Shutdown: The Senate voted 54-44 Friday to approve a bill that would fund the federal government and avert a partial shutdown. The legislation now returns to the House of Representatives. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Republicans are wrong to threaten a partial government shutdown because they cant get their way, WCAX-TV, WPTZ-TV, The Associated Press and Burlington Free Press reported. Sanders said on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and in The Wall Street Journal that a shutdown would damage the nations credibility around the world. GOP Blackmail: In a Senate floor speech on Friday, Sen. Sanders condemned “right-wing extremists” in the House who would “make us look like fools” by pushing the United States into to a damaging government shutdown, National Public Radio, The Raw Story and Mediaite reported. House Republicans showed “contempt for the democratic process,” Sanders told Mara Schiavocampo on MSNBC. Republicans are saying You dont give us what we want, even though we dont have the White House, we dont have the Senate, were going to shut down the government. I think its anti-democratic. Sanders told Bloomberg TV’s Peter Cook that the threats amounted to “blackmail.” Playground Bullies: It is likely that “something will be worked out by legislators before the government hits crisis mode, but this is no way to run a country, and only one party is to blame,” according to an editorial in the Brattleboro Reformer. As Sen. Sanders noted, a threatened government shutdown will cause a loss of jobs and income for thousands of Americans and hurt seniors, veterans, college students and others. Low-Wage Federal Workers: A group of senators and congressmen have called on President Barack Obama to sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal government contractors, according to a video on Truthout. We have got to get a handle on raising wages throughout this country so that workers do not depend upon starvation wages, Sen. Sanders said. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/092813
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 12:50:20 +0000
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