Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Community Health Centers Community health centers are expanding throughout the country as a result of an $11 billion provision added by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Affordable Care Act that passed in 2010, The Nation’s John Nichols told Ed Schultz in a radio interview broadcast on Tuesday. “Bernie Sanders, as part of the negotiations on the Affordable Care Act, included significant funding for public health centers across the country,” Nichols said. Social Security: Rep. Peter DeFazio told The Thom Hartmann Program on Tuesday that he and Sen. Bernie Sanders are working to raise the cap on income subject to the payroll tax to strengthen the retirement program for generations to come. Benefits End Saturday for Long-Term Jobless: An estimated 1.3 million long-term unemployed workers are expected to be affected when extended benefits expire on Saturday. Senate Democrats have vowed to make the issue a top priority when they return to Washington in January. Lawmakers have extended the program 11 times, never allowing it to lapse — until now, The Washington Post reported. NSA Reform: A measure that President Obama is considering as a way to curb the National Security Agency’s mass storage of phone data is facing resistance from the intelligence community, privacy advocates, the phone industry and some lawmakers. Obama last week suggested that he was open to the idea of requiring phone companies to store the records and allowing the government to search them under strict guidelines. Currently, the agency stores those records itself, The Washington Post reported. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/122613
Posted on: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:09:26 +0000
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