Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Unemployment: Negotiations to extend emergency benefits for the long-term jobless deadlocked in the Senate on Tuesday leaving more than 1.4 million people without federal unemployment aid at least until late January, when lawmakers are likely to resume consideration of the legislation. “Not only is it awfully cruel to push these people aside and ignore their needs, it impacts the entire economy, Sen. Bernie Sanders told Alex Wagner on MSNBC. NSA: The National Security Agency asserted that the government is not spying on lawmakers, but Gen. Keith Alexander said in a letter to Sen. Sanders that the agency can make no guarantee that members of Congress have not had their “telephone metadata” caught up in broad government sweeps, according to the CNN, USA Today online, Time magazine online, the Burlington Free Press, Brattleboro Reformer, The Huffington Post, The Hill, Slate and The Blaze and WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla. “Translation: Yes, we are spying on you,” radio host Bill Press said. Members of Congress “are under the same microscope as everyone else, according to an editorial in the Springfield, Mass., Republican. Climate Change: Senators on Tuesday unveiled a congressional task force to more aggressively fight climate change, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Sens. Sanders and Barbara Boxer have unveiled comprehensive legislation to impose fees on carbon pollution with rebates for consumers, according to KPCC-FM in Los Angeles. One of the first efforts from members of the climate group will be a letter from Sanders and Sen. Brian Schatz asking major television networks to stop ignoring global warming, WFFF-TV and WVNY-TV reported. Sunday news shows devoted all of eight minutes in 2012 to coverage of climate change issues, which is a decrease from nine minutes the year before,” Sanders told The Hill and National Journal, citing analysis from Media Matters for America. Obama and Global Warming: Senate Democrats will meet with President Obama Wednesday night to discuss 2014 priorities, and climate change may be on the docket, according to Politico. “There is a growing concern among many of us that the planetary crisis, global warming, has not been emphasized and dealt with as strongly and effectively as it might, so I would not be surprised if that issue came up,” said Sen. Sanders, who will be attending the Wednesday meeting. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/011514
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:38:03 +0000
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