Today’s news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): End Big Oil Tax Breaks: As congressional budget negotiators look for ways to lower deficits, Sen. Sanders and Rep. Keith Ellison have introduced a bill that would cut tax subsidies to oil, gas and coal industries. Ellison said the bill would cut tax breaks, close loopholes and end taxpayer-funded fossil fuel research. This is a long shot, despite estimated savings of $100 billion-plus over 10 years, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The fossil fuel lobby helped end some ethanol subsidies. Ethanol blends accounts for about 10 percent of U.S. gasoline sales. The White House 2014 budget proposal calls for eliminating several of the provisions cited in the Sanders-Ellison bill. F-35s: The Air Force announced on Tuesday that it will base F-35 fighter planes with the Vermont Air National Guard at Burlington International Airport. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, Rep. Peter Welch and Gov. Peter Shumlin said the plane is important to the state’s economy, The Associated Press and vtdigger.org reported. “The Air Force decision to base its newest generation of planes in Burlington is a tribute to the Vermont Air National Guard,” Leahy, Sanders and Welch said in a joint statement published in Tuesday’s Burlington Free Press and Air Force Times. The first F-35As are scheduled to arrive in 2020, My Champlain Valley reported. Sanders Congratulates Health Center: Sen. Sanders congratulated members of the Battenkill Valley Health Center Board for their hard work and persistence Tuesday and encouraged the group to execute bold and innovative ideas in the future. The meeting came nearly one month after it was announced that the center was chosen to receive a federal grant in the amount of $775,000 and would become the first federally qualified health center in the county, the Bennington Banner and The Manchester Journal reported. Health Care: Sen. Sanders says states are beginning to see that the Affordable Care Act can work as more Americans sign up for health insurance, Politicus USA reported. Republicans, he said, “have nothing to say... all they can do is play the anti-Obamacare card and hope it fails.” Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/120413
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:39:46 +0000
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