Bernie Sanders Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Budget Committee: Sen. Bernie Sanders was named to a committee to try and create a long-term budget plan by Dec. 13 and prevent another government shutdown. “It’s important to have Sen. Sanders on that committee to make certain they make the right choices going forward and we don’t end up in this mess all over again in January,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin told WPTZ-TV on Saturday. “I look forward to working with my Democratic and Republican colleagues to end the absurdity of sequestration and to develop a budget which works for all Americans,” Sanders said in a report posted byvtdigger.org. Sanders in the South: Sen. Sanders visit Saturday to St. Helenas Island resulted in something rare in the conservative Lowcountry: a self-described socialist receiving a standing ovation. Sanders told more than 150 people at the S.C. Progressive Network fall retreat that white, working-class people in the South have a tendency to vote against themselves. The longest-serving independent in Congress visited South Carolina after stops in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi in an effort to unite progressives and working- and middle-class conservatives, The Beufort Gazette, The Associated Press and Raw Story reported. Obama Wins Standoff with Congress: President Obama trounced the Republicans last week with a strategy of holding firm and winning an argument, not by finding common ground. Obama has proved better at the messy business of helping hold together his own partys congressional caucus than President Bill Clinton did. “For all the talk of Obamas distaste for schmoozing, he was the one who finally passed a health care law by holding together every single Senate Democrat, from Bernie Sanders on the left to Ben Nelson on the right,” according to The New York Times. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/102013
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:12:50 +0000
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