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| https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=15C45336-DAB3-4F7D-BB3D-B2557A867736 | : News August 31 | 2013-08-31 | 2013 | 2013-08 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News August 31 Saturday, August 31, 2013 Senator Sanders VA Faulted for Lax Oversight of Veterans’ Financial Advisers A bipartisan group of senior senators said Friday they are "deeply troubled" by the findings of a new Government Accountability Office report that criticizes the Department of Veterans Affairs for lax enforcement of its rules on accrediting private financial planners, attorneys, insurance agents and others who assist veterans in filing for VA benefits, The Washington Post online, Military Times, The Reno Dispatch and The Tampa Tribunereported. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and ranking member Sen. Richard Burr signed a letter sent to Secretary Eric Shinseki. LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK Vermont Veterans Home Workers Thank Sanders “The nurses and caregivers at the Vermont Veterans’ Home would like to thank Sen. Sanders for his leadership fighting for a federal commitment to high quality health care for our nation’s veterans, Harry (Jamie) Percey wrote in a letter to the editor of the Bennington Banner. LINK College Costs In a letter to the editor of The Caledonian-Record, Sharon Baker differed with Sen. Sanders’ on student loan debt. LINK World U.N. Inspectors Leave Syria United Nations weapons inspectors left Syria for Lebanon on Saturday as the Obama administration made an aggressive and coordinated push to justify a military intervention on the grounds that American credibility was at stake, The New York Times reported. LINK Kerry Outlines Chemical Attack Evidence Secretary of State John Kerry outlined evidence Friday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used poison gas against its citizens, The New York Times reported. Kerry said more than 1,400 people were killed in the attack, 400 of whom were children. “The question is … what are we and the world going to do about it?” he said. LINK Consulting Congress The White House has provided a series of briefings for key lawmakers to combat complaints that Congress is not being consulted on a potential U.S. strike in Syria. More than 160 House members - Democrats and Republicans – signed letters this week urging the president to "receive authorization from Congress" before striking Syria. Elliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, told CBS News that "there's clearly a precedent where the president can act and then come to Congress later on, or come to Congress certainly within 60 days." Experts Warn of Unintended Consequences Middle East experts fear the U.S. plan overlooks the potential to worsen the violence in Syria and intensify a fight for regional influence between Iran and Saudi Arabia, according to The New York Times. LINK National White House Need Not Disclose Visitors White House visitor logs for the president and most of his staff are not public information, according to a Friday federal appeals court ruling reported by The Associated Press. LINK Vermont Wind Power The state says Green Mountain Power could be fined $54,000 for violating sound standards at its Lowell wind project. But the state agency that represents ratepayers says that instead of a fine, GMP should use the money to look into additional sound monitoring at the site where the problems were serious enough to justify a fine of $9,000 for each of the six violations, Vermont Public Radio reported. LINK Nuclear Power The loss of a nuclear power plant that once provided Vermont with one-third of its electricity won’t affect the region’s power supply, according to ISO New England, which operates the region’s high-voltage power grid and administers its wholesale electricity market in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, The Keene Sentinel reported. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |