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| https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9A19E4A7-FC91-48FB-A151-EE04A50AA48D | : News August 29 | 2013-08-29 | 2013 | 2013-08 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News August 29 Thursday, August 29, 2013 Senator Sanders Decommissioning Vermont Yankee A fight is brewing over the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant's lengthy decommissioning process. Entergy CEO Leo Denault said that if the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees, the plant will be mothballed for up to 60 years while its radioactive components cool down before removal. Sen. Bernie Sanders was among those calling for the decommissioning process to commence as soon as possible, The Associated Press reported. In Seven Days, Sanders said the nuclear power plant’s closure will “allow Vermont to focus on … economical sources of sustainable and renewable energy.” LINK Employee Ownership Sen. Sanders is one of the federal government's strongest proponents for employee ownership, according to a PBS “NewsHour” online report. LINK Youth Jobs A youth jobs provision by Sen. Sanders in a Senate-passed immigration bill counters a provision that would bring about 100,000 foreign college students to the United States every year to fill low-wage jobs, a spokesman told FoxNews.com. “We have got to do everything we can to make sure that young Americans have the jobs they need to pay for a college education and to move up the economic ladder,” Sanders said. LINK Health Care “In about a month, small businesses in Vermont and Vermonters who purchase their own health insurance will begin to enroll in insurance plans offered on Vermont Health Connect. This new and affordable way for many Vermonters to purchase insurance is the key provision of the Affordable Care Act. I was proud to be involved in the passage of this law when I worked as the health policy advisor for Senator Bernie Sanders,” David Reynolds wrote in The Caledonian-Record. LINK Money and Politics Many Vermont politicos believe wealthy conservative Bruce Lisman is plotting a challenge to Gov. Peter Shumlin in 2014, Paul Heintz wrote for Seven Days. Money does not always buy electoral success, Heintz noted, citing another wealthy self-funder who lost in a landslide to Sen. Sanders in 2006. LINK World U.S. Case for Action on Syria To bolster its case for a military strike on Syria to an American public deeply skeptical about being drawn into another conflict, the Obama administration will make public, most likely on Thursday, information that officials say will show proof of a large-scale chemical attack by Syrian forces. The White House faces steep hurdles as it prepares to make the most important public intelligence presentation since 2003 when Secretary of State Colin L. Powell made a dramatic and detailed case for war to the United Nations Security Council using intelligence — later discredited — about Iraq’s weapons programs, The New York Times reported. LINK Congress, White House to Confer on Syria Senior White House and national security officials will conduct a conference call today with congressional leaders, The Associated Pressreported. LINK Russia: Not So Fast Russian officials Wednesday accused Western nations of jumping the gun ahead of a possible strike on Syrian military installments, The Washington Post reported. A British resolution in the United Nations Security Council condemned the Syrian government for using chemical weapons. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov called the resolution premature. LINK Arab League on Syria Leaders of the Arab world on Tuesday blamed the Syrian government for an apparent chemical weapons attack, but declined to back any retaliatory strike, The New York Times reported. LINK Syria and Iran Respond Syria and Iran responded to escalating war rhetoric Wednesday as the United Kingdom spearheaded an international effort to mobilize nations for a military intervention, The Wall Street Journal reported. Iranian Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said publicly, "Any attack on Syria would burn down Israel." LINK National TNationwide Strike Today by Low-Wage Workers Fast-food workers across the United States are expected to stage their largest strike to date on Thursday in an almost year-long campaign to raise wages in the service sector. Employees of McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and others have pledged to walk off their jobs in 50 cities from Boston to Alameda, Calif., organizers say. They are expected to be joined by retail employees at stores owned by Macy's, Sears and Dollar Tree in some cities, Reuters reported. Debt-Limit Battle House Speaker John A. Boehner is promising a “whale of a fight” this fall. But a fight over what? That is the $16.7 trillion question as Congress barrels toward another showdown over the federal debt limit. House Republicans are trying to figure out how to finesse the deadlines looming after lawmakers return to Washington on Sept. 9. Unless Congress acts, the federal government will shut down on Oct. 1 and, according to the Obama administration, the nation will run out of cash to pay its bills in mid-October, according to The Washington Post. LINK King's Unrealized Economic Dream Paying tribute to King's speech, President Barack Obama called on America to come together to address "the great unfinished business" of the original March on Washington – economic justice, CBS News reported. "The men and women who gathered 50 years ago were not there in search of some abstract idea," Mr. Obama said from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where King stood 50 years before him. "They were there seeking jobs as well as justice. Not just the absence of oppression, but the presence of economic opportunity. For what does it profit a man, Dr. King would ask, to sit at an integrated lunch counter if he can't afford the meal?" LINK The Fed A broad coalition of opponents to Larry Summers' potential nomination for the Federal Reserve Chairmanship are gearing up for an aggressive campaign against his would-be Senate confirmation, The Huffington Post reported. Economists, women's groups, high-level donors and online advocates, such as MoveOn.org, CREDO and Democracy for America are joining forces to oppose Summers' nomination for the post. LINK Corporate Welfare More than one-third of the nation's highest paid chief executives were subsidized by American taxpayers according to a new report cited by The Huffington Post. "Financial bailouts offer just one example of how a significant number of America's CEO pay leaders owe much of their good fortune to America's taxpayers," the report said. "Government contracts offer another." LINK Federal Workers and Obamacare Sen. Dean Heller asked the Office of Management and Budget to require all congressional staff to get health care through the new exchanges. The request comes one day after Sens. Michael B. Enzi and David Vitter announced legislation to require senior executive branch officials and all congressional staff to get their health care through the Obamacare exchanges, Roll Call reported. LINK Fort Hood Killer Sentenced to Death Nidal Malik Hasan, a Army psychiatrist who killed 13 and wounded 32 in a 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, was sentenced to death Wednesday, The Washington Post reported. LINK Vermont Irene Recovery The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is going to be in Waterbury to discuss plans to rebuild the Vermont state office complex made unusable by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene. FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate will be joined by Gov. Peter Shumlin and Sen. Patrick Leahy to announce the funding plans to repair the complex, The Associated Press reported. LINK China Trade Trip Vermont’s Jay Peak Resort is financing a nine-day trip to China by Gov. Peter Shumlin, Agency of Commerce & Community Development Secretary Lawrence Miller and Becky Fu, the state’s international trade and foreign investment specialist, The Caledonian-Record reported. Jay Peak co-owner Bill Stenger and project manager Alex MacLean will join the trade delegation. The resort is taking advantage of an investor program that offers green cards to eligible foreigners who invest $500,000 to $1 million in a qualified American business. LINK Veterans’ Memorial Construction began Wednesday on South Burlington’s veterans’ memorial, the Burlington Free Press reported. LINK Teachers’ Pay Increase Burlington School District teachers can expect annual raises averaging 4 percent under a new contract signed Wednesday, the Free Press reported. 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