{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=3FDB6B27-7920-438A-9822-55A734C1320E", ": News August 28", "2013-08-28", "2013", "2013-08", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News August 28\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tWednesday, August 28, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSenator Sanders\r\nVermont Yankee to Close\u00a0Entergy Corp. announced Tuesday that it will close Vermont's only nuclear power plant next year. \u201cThe closure will allow Vermont to focus on leading the nation toward safer and more economical sources of sustainable and renewable energy,\u201d Sen. Bernie Sanders said in the\u00a0Brattleboro Reformer\u00a0and\u00a0Bennington Banner, on\u00a0WPTZ-TV\u00a0and in\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor. \u201cI am delighted that Entergy will shut down the \u2026 plant which has had so many problems in recent years,\u201d Sanders said in the\u00a0National Journal\u00a0and\u00a0Burlington Free Press.\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0VIDEO\r\nReactor Shutdown\u00a0A member of the Senate energy and environment committees, Sen. Sanders said Entergy \u201cmust go through a decommissioning process as soon as possible.\u201d He and Sen. Patrick Leahy said they would push the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require the job to be done promptly,\u00a0The Associated Press,\u00a0Rutland Herald,\u00a0The Washington Post,\u00a0The Commons Online\u00a0and\u00a0VermontBiz.com\u00a0reported.\u00a0The congressional delegation in 2011 wrote to the NRC expressing concerns about a slow shutdown process that gives a utility up to 60 years to complete remediation of a site, the\u00a0Brattleboro Reformer\u00a0reported.LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK,\u00a0LINK\u00a0\r\nMarch on Washington\u00a0As a 22-year-old college\u00a0student, Sen. Sanders rode a bus to D.C. to see the \"I Have a Dream\" speech,\u00a0MSNBC\u00a0reported on Tuesday. The network made a message from the senator with a link to a video of his reflections on the 50th\u00a0anniversary its \u201cTweet of the Day.\u201d Sanders participation in the march half a century ago was noted in reports by Jamie Dupree on\u00a0WDBO-AM\u00a0in Orlando, Fla., and\u00a0WHIO-AM\u00a0in Dayton, Ohio.VIDEO,\u00a0AUDIO,\u00a0AUDIO\u00a0\r\nTropical Storm Irene\u00a0With today marking the second anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene, \u201cVermont\u2019s congressional delegation continues to brag to their Washington colleagues about how everyone pulled together for their community and for their state,\u201d the\u00a0Brattleboro Reformer\u00a0said in an editorial.\u00a0\u201cWhat we witnessed in the days after the disaster struck was Vermont at its best with an outpouring of help for storm victims,\u201d said Sens.\u00a0 Leahy and Sanders and Rep. Welch.\u00a0LINK\r\nYouth Unemployment\u00a0The Labor Department\u2019s annual report pegs unemployment of youth at 16.3 percent, little changed from the year before. The rate for African Americans and Hispanics is even worse at 28 percent and 18 percent respectively. A recent report from the Center for American Progress found there are more than 10 million young Americans between 16 and 24 who are either out of work or underemployed, with an additional 5.5 million both out-of-work and out-of-school. Sen. Sanders is focusing on this issue with his amendment to the immigration reform bill that recently passed the Senate and is awaiting action in the House, according to\u00a0The Huffington Post.\u00a0LINK\r\nWorld\r\nU.S., Allies Prepare to Act as Syria Intelligence Mounts\u00a0Positions hardened in the international standoff over Syria, as U.S. officials said privately that a flood of previously undisclosed intelligence, including satellite images and intercepted communications, erased any last administration doubts that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons against its own people. French, U.K. and U.S. military officials talked Tuesday about coordinating their response to the alleged attacks,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nUK Wants UN to Condemn Syria\u00a0Britain says it will put forward a resolution Wednesday to the U.N. Security Council condemning the Syrian government for the alleged chemical attack that has killed hundreds of civilians. A statement from Prime Minister David Cameron's office said Britain would seek a measure `'authorizing necessary measures to protect civilians\" in Syria under Chapter 7 of the U.N. charter. Military force is one of the options that can be authorized under that section. The resolution will be presented to the U.N. Security Council in New York later Wednesday, officials said.\u00a0LINK\r\nSyria Strike Expected\u00a0Western powers have notified the Syrian opposition to expect a military strike against President Bashar al-Assad's forces within days, according to a\u00a0Reutersreport.\u00a0LINK\r\nBiden: \u2018No Doubt\u2019 on Chemical Weapons\u00a0Vice President Joe Biden has said there is \"no doubt\" that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons,\u00a0BBC News\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nFrance 'Ready to Punish' Syria\u00a0President Francois Hollande of France said the European nation stands \"ready to punish those who took the heinous decision to gas innocents\" in Syria,\u00a0The Associated Press\u00a0reported. Hollande spoke with Presidnet Barack Obama on Sunday and told him France, like Britain would support him in a targeted military intervention.\u00a0LINK\r\nIsrael Readies for Syrian Retaliation\u00a0Israelis streamed into distribution centers for gas masks on Tuesday in preparation for possible retaliatory attacks from Syria amid allegations of chemical weapons use,\u00a0USA Today\u00a0reported. \"The time has come to make a joint effort to take out all the chemical weapons from Syria,\" Israeli President Shimon Peres said. \"They cannot remain there, whether in the hands of Assad or the hands of other people.\"\u00a0LINK\r\nNational\r\nMarch on Washington\u00a0Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech,\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0reported. In fact, the full name of the event was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Fifty years later, the income inequality gulf \"hasn't changed much.\"\u00a0LINK\r\nNew Census Numbers Show Recession\u2019s Effect on Families\u00a0The portion of American households made up of married couples with children under 18 fell to 20 percent from 40 percent from 1970 to 2012, the Census Bureau said Tuesday as it detailed other fundamental changes in family life. The share of people living alone, meanwhile, rose 10 percentage points, to 27 percent. The analysis also found that the recession profoundly affected American families from 2005 to 2011, resulting in a 15 percent decline in homeownership among households with children and a 33 percent increase in households where at least one parent was unemployed,\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nBoehner Wants Showdown on Debt Limit\u00a0Speaker John Boehner is gearing up for \u201ca whale of a fight\u201d with President Obama over raising the federal debt ceiling, even though Obama has repeatedly said he has no plans to negotiate with Congressional Republicans over the nation\u2019s debt limit and wants it lifted without a political showdown,\u00a0The New York Timesreported. Boehner said he planned to use the need to raise the debt ceiling to gain political leverage and demand \u201ccuts and reforms that are greater than the increase in the debt limit.\u201dLINK\r\nGOP Targets Begich on Carbon Tax\u00a0The National Republican Senatorial Committee Wednesday will launch a robo-call campaign in Alaska targeting Sen. Mark Begich for his support of a carbon tax. NRSC plans to call nearly 70,000 households about what it calls the Alaska Democrat\u2019s \u201csteadfast support for the costly carbon tax,\u201d according to a script of the calls provided to\u00a0Politico. The claims are based on Begich\u2019s support for a non-binding amendment to this year\u2019s budget resolution by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse that would have called for any revenue generated by a carbon tax to be \u201creturned to the American people in the form of federal deficit reduction, reduced federal tax rates, cost savings or other direct benefits.\u201d\r\nLINK\r\nUSPS\u00a0A coalition of magazine, newspaper, printing, and direct-marketing groups warns that the U.S. Postal Service may decide next week to request that postal rates be raised significantly\u2014perhaps by as much as 10 percent\u2014under the claim of \"exigent\" circumstances,National Journal\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nFacebook Reports Surveillance Requests\u00a0Facebook said Tuesday it has received 11,000 to 12,000 requests for personal data from the United States government in the first half of 2013, the \"vast majority\" tied to investigations of crimes,\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0reported. In response, Facebook honored 79 percent of requests with data.\u00a0LINK\r\nVermont\r\nIrene Recovery\u00a0Two years ago, Dot\u2019s diner was practically wiped out when Tropical Storm Irene poured down on interior New England, causing massive flooding, killing dozens of people in the region and forever altering the landscape. The Wilmington eatery was to be held up as an example of Vermont\u2019s resilience and spirit on Wednesday as the state marks the second anniversary of the deadly storm and celebrates milestones in its recovery,\u00a0AP\u00a0reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nVernon Worried About Plant Closing\u00a0By early afternoon Tuesday, Nesbitt\u2019s Portside Tavern in Vernon, Vt., was crammed with workers from the nearby Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Hours earlier, the workers had been told the plant would close next year, an announcement few expected. Released early for the day, they stopped at the restaurant and pub on the banks of the Connecticut River to sip beers and talk about the future. Don Rosinski, a Vernon resident who does not work at the plant, said that the closure would have huge ripple effects. Everybody in the small town knows someone who works at Vermont Yankee. \u201cJust in my neighborhood alone, there are six families,\u201d Rosinski told\u00a0The Boston Globe. \u201cOne just sent their third kid to college. 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