Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Stopping Corporate Welfare: All the welfare that the U.S. government provides to real, live human beings pales in comparison to the billions and billions in handouts to corporations and big-business, The Thom Hartmann Program and Think Progress reported, such as approximately $52 billion to Big Oil. Sen. Sanders and Rep. Keith Ellision have proposed legislation to end this corporate welfare at taxpayer expense. At a time when fossil fuel companies are racking up record profits, it is time to end the absurdity of American taxpayers providing massive subsidies to these hugely profitable fossil fuel corporations,” Sanders said. The ABLE Act: A bicameral group in Congress is lobbying for the passage of the The Achieving a Better Life Experience Act by the end of the year, The Hill reported. The bill aims to provide the disability community with the chance to provide and save for themselves through tax-free savings accounts, and it has earned bipartisan support in Congress, ranging from Sen. Sanders to Sen. Mark Rubio in the Senate. Protect Local Farms: Vermont lawmakers criticized FDA’s produce safety and preventive controls regulations for threatening to “disrupt Vermont’s small, local and diversified farmers and food hubs with large fees and expensive testing and booking requirements,” in a Nov. 22 statement, Food Chemical News reported. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy, along with Rep. Welch have urged the FDA to rewrite the Food Safety Modernization Act. American Anxiety: American workers are living with unprecedented economic anxiety, four years into a recovery that has left so many of them stuck in place. More than six in 10 workers in a recent Washington Post-Miller Center poll worry that they will lose their jobs to the economy, surpassing concerns in more than a dozen surveys dating to the 1970s. Nearly one in three say they worry “a lot” about losing their jobs, also a record high, according to the joint survey, which explores Americans’ changing definition of success and their confidence in the country’s future, The Washington Post reported. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/112613
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:22:11 +0000
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