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| https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=190BE0CB-1E34-49FF-9FBF-21DD7A906043 | News September 1 | 2013-09-01 | 2013 | 2013-09 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News September 1 Sunday, September 1, 2013 Senator Sanders Obama Asks Congress to Back Strike on Syria In an about face, President Obama announced on Saturday at the White House that he would seek approval from Congress to attack Syria. That stopped the clock for at least a week on what had loomed as an imminent attack. Sen. Bernie Sanders called the apparent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime “inhumane and a violation of international law,” but added, “I need to hear more from the president as to why he believes it is in the best interests of the United States to intervene in Syria’s bloody and complicated civil war,” the Burlington Free Press, Valley News, WCAX-TV and WPTZ-TV reported. LINK, LINK, VIDEO, VIDEO Senate Harry Reid said Saturday he’d try to bring the Senate back early for a vote, meaning it will say yes first and add to the drama in the House, according to The Daily Beast. Obama might lose a very small number of Senate Democrats and maybe independent Sanders, but he should get several Senate Republicans who aren’t up for reelection this year and in hiding from the tea party, the article asserted. LINK World Mandela Discharged from Hospital South Africa’s president says Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the hospital in the capital, Pretoria. President Jacob Zuma said in a statement Sunday that former President Mandela remains in critical condition and was sent to his Johannesburg home early Sunday, where he would continue to get intensive care. LINK National Media Consolidation In a deal that could heighten the competition in radio against Clear Channel Communications, long the industry’s dominant player, Cumulus Media has agreed to buy Dial Global, a syndicator of sports, talk and music programming to thousands of stations, for $260 million, The New York Times reported. LINK Behind the Times “Claremont has been touted as an up-and-coming city and yet failed to understand that it might have been important to commemorate the March on Washington. The city of Claremont does not even celebrate Martin Luther King, which makes it way behind the times,” Levi Sanders of Grafton, N.H., wrote in a letter to the editor of the Valley News.LINK Vermont Health Care On Tuesday, the PR campaign for “Vermont Health Connect” gets under way in earnest with an advertising blitz aimed at building a brand identity for the website from which one-sixth of Vermonters will soon be required to purchase their health insurance, theVermont Press Bureau reported. LINK USPS The U.S. Postal Service is going to be offering a special pictorial postmark to mark the 250th anniversary of the Vermont town of Ryegate. On Sept. 7, Postmaster Patricia Crocker and her staff will stamp letters and postcards with the unique postmark documenting the occasion, The Associated Press reported. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |