Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Spying on Congress: Central Intelligence Agency employees improperly searched computers used by Senate staffers probing the agencys interrogation techniques, the director acknowledged last week. In January, the National Security Agency refused to directly answer Sen. Bernie Sanders when he asked if it was spying on members of Congress. “The people’s control of their own government … is jeopardized if the machinery of the state is monitoring the private communications of the people who are supposed to be controlling it,” the Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire, said in an editorial. VA Compromise: “Our politicians must stop thinking of compromise as a dirty word … Happily, weve seen at least one recent indication that the two parties can work together: the passage of a compromise agreement drafted by Sen. Sanders and Rep. Jeff Miller … will make the VA more accountable and help to recruit more doctors, nurses and health care professionals,” Douglas Schoen and Jessica Tarlov wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Times. Affordable Housing Draws Middle Class: The country’s fastest-growing cities are now those where housing is more affordable than average. Among people who have moved long distances, the number of those who cite housing as their primary motivation for doing so has more than doubled since 2007. Oklahoma City, for example, has become the 12th-fastest-growing city last year. Other affordable cities that have jumped in the growth rankings include several in Texas, including El Paso and San Antonio, as well as Columbus, Ohio, and Little Rock, Arkansas, according to The New York Times. Food Labels: Ben & Jerry’s support of the nation’s first law requiring labeling of foods made with GMO pits the ice-cream maker against the world’s biggest food companies, including its own corporate parent. Unilever has openly opposed state efforts to legislate GMO labeling, throwing money into campaigns to defeat an initiative in California. But it has quietly allowed Ben & Jerry’s to assert itself as a vocal proponent of such laws, especially in Vermont, Bloomberg reported. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/080414
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:37:06 +0000
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